Milad Shokouhi (Microsoft Research Cambridge) and I put in a bid to host WSDM 2017 in Cambridge, UK. It is official now: WSDM 2017 will be held in Cambridge, UK, in February 2017. Details on deadlines and committees will follow in due course.
“Copeland Dueling Bandits” on arXiv
We have filed a preprint on Copeland dueling bandits on ArXiv: Masrour Zoghi, Zohar Karnin, Shimon Whiteson, and Maarten de Rijke. Copeland dueling bandits. arXiv preprint arXiv:1506.00312, June 2015. Bibtex, PDF, URL @misc{zoghi-copeland-arxiv-2015, author = {Zoghi, Masrour and Karnin, Zohar and Whiteson, Shimon and de Rijke, Maarten}, date-added = {2015-06-02 05:06:52 +0000}, date-modified = {2018-08-07…
ACL 2015 paper online
“Learning to Explain Entity Relationships in Knowledge Graphs,” an upcoming ACL 2015 paper by Nikos Voskarides, Edgar Meij, Manos Tsagkias, Maarten de Rijke and Wouter Weerkamp, is available online now. In the paper we study the problem of explaining relationships between pairs of knowledge graph entities with human-readable descriptions. Our method extracts and enriches sentences…
SIGIR 2015 contributions online
Our contributions to SIGIR 2015 are online now: Aleksandr Chuklin, Ilya Markov, and Maarten de Rijke. An introduction to click models for web search. In SIGIR 2015: 38th international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval, page 1113–1115. ACM, August 2015. Bibtex, PDF @inproceedings{chuklin-introduction-2015, author = {Chuklin, Aleksandr and Markov, Ilya and…
DESI VI paper on semantic search for e-discovery online
“Who is Involved? Semantic Search for E-Discovery,” a synthesis of some of our recent e-discovery related work, by David van Dijk, David Graus, Zhaochun Ren, Hans Henseler and Maarten de Rijke will be presented at the ICAIL 2015 Workshop on Using Machine Learning and Other Advanced Techniques to Address Legal Problems in E-Discovery and Information…
Call for participation – SIGIR 2015 Tutorials on Click Models for Web Search
We’ve published a web site devoted to our upcoming SIGIR 2015 tutorials on click models for web search. Please see http://clickmodels.weebly.com/sigir-2015-tutorials.html for details and the key topics covered in each of the two tutorials.
SIGIR 2015 tutorials on click models
Aleksandr Chuklin, Ilya Markov and I will be teaching an introductory and advanced tutorial on click models for web search at SIGIR 2015, on August 10, 2015. The tutorial is based on a forthcoming book on click models for web search. Participants will have access to the book, slides, as well as code used for…
ICWSM 2015 paper on determining the presence of political parties in social circles online
“Determining the Presence of Political Parties in Social Circles” by Christophe Van Gysel, Bart Goethals and Maarten de Rijke is available online. In the paper, we derive the political climate of the social circles of Twitter users using a weakly-supervised approach. By applying random walks over a sub-sample of Twitter’s social graph we infer a…
CfP: 1st Workshop on User Modeling in Heterogeneous Search Environments (HetUM 2015) in conjunction with CIKM 2015
1st Workshop on User Modeling in Heterogeneous Search Environments (HetUM 2015) in conjunction with CIKM 2015 CALL FOR PAPERS https://sites.google.com/site/hetum2015/ 19 October 2015, Melbourne, Australia IMPORTANT DATES Regular paper submission: 19 June 2015 Special track for re-submissions of CIKM papers: 8 July 2015 Notification of acceptance: 23 July 2015 Camera ready: 7 August 2015 Workshop:…
We’re hiring: 14 vacancies for postdocs/PhD students
We’re hiring: Amsterdam Data Science has 14 vacancies for postdoctoral researchers/PhD candidates. See http://bit.ly/1FHRNof.