After a very successful first edition of Neu-IR at SIGIR 2016, we are happy to organize a second version of the workshop at SIGIR 2017. Key facts: the web site for Neu-IR 2017 is online now at http://neu-ir.weebly.com, the deadline for submissions is June 11, 2017 and the workshop itself will take place on Friday…
The Birth of Collective Memories
David Graus, Daan Odijk and I just uploaded a manuscript to arXiv on “The Birth of Collective Memories: Analyzing Emerging Entities in Text Streams.” We study how collective memories are formed online. We do so by tracking entities that emerge in public discourse, that is, in online text streams such as social media and news…
We’re hiring (again): Fully funded PhD position in responsible people search
We have another vacancy for a fully funded four-year PhD position in responsible data science and HR analytics. The starting date is “as soon as possible.” Please visit the UvA vacancies pages for details on how to apply.
We’re hiring: Fully funded PhD student in academic search
We have a vacancy for a fully funded four-year PhD position in academic search. The starting date is “as soon as possible.” Please visit the UvA vacancies pages for details on how to apply.
FAT/WEB: Workshop on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency on the Web
Recent academic and journalistic reviews of online web services have revealed that many systems exhibit subtle biases reflecting historic discrimination. Examples include racial and gender bias in search advertising, image recognition services, sharing economy mechanisms, pricing, and web-based delivery. The list of production systems exhibiting biases continues to grow and may be endemic to the…
Survey on query auto completion online
A survey on query auto completion in information retrieval written by Fei Cai and myself is online now: Fei Cai and Maarten de Rijke. A Survey of Query Auto Completion in Information Retrieval. Foundations and Trends in Information Retrieval, 10(4):273–363, September 2016. Bibtex, PDF @article{cai-survey-2016, author = {Cai, Fei and de Rijke, Maarten}, date-added =…
CIKM 2016 Workshop on Data-Driven Talen Acquisition
The Workshop on Data-Driven Talent Acquisition (DDTA’16) will be co-located with CIKM 2016, held in Indianapolis, USA, on October 28, 2016. Expertise search is a well-established field in information retrieval. In recent years, the increasing availability of data enables accumulation of evidence of talent and expertise from a wide range of domains. The availability of…
Special issue on Neural Information Retrieval
The Information Retrieval Journal has put out a call for contributions to a special issue on neural information retrieval. Topics for this issue include the application of neural network models in IR tasks, including but not limited to: Full text document retrieval, passage retrieval, question answering Web search, paid search, searching social media, entity search…
We’re hiring: 3 PhD positions in Academic Search
As part of a collaborative project between the University of Amsterdam, the VU University Amsterdam, the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, and Elsevier, we are looking to fill three fully funded PhD student positions in the area of academic search. Please visit the University’s vacancy page for details on the project and on…
Algoritmen zijn niet neutraal. En dat is maar goed ook.
David Graus en ik schreven een stukje over neutraliteit en algoritmen voor NRC en NRC.Next onder de titel “Algoritmen zijn niet neutraal. En dat is maar goed ook.” Helaas meende de redactie er een andere titel boven te moeten plakken, een titel die nogal afleidt van onze boodschap. (NRC Handelsblad, 17 juni 2016, pagina 16.)