Come and join us to work on algorithmic solutions to challenges in conversational intelligence! We invite applications for two fully-funded, four-year PhD positions on conversational AI. One position is aimed at making neural networks for conversational agents more efficient, and the second is aimed at generating synthetic data for training conversational agents. To find out…
Postdoc/PhD Student Position in Fairness-Aware Learning to Rank for Algorithmic Hiring
Andrew Yates and I are looking for a postdoc or PhD student to join us on the FINDHR project. Algorithmic hiring is on the rise and rapidly becoming necessary in some sectors, yet the systems for algorithmic hiring run the risk of reproducing and amplifying discriminatory biases. FINDHR is an interdisciplinary EU project that seeks…
Two postdoc positions
We have two postdoc positions: A one year postdoc position in information retrieval; see the official announcement. Deadline: June 15, 2022. A three year postdoc position in data management and machine learning in e-commerce, to work with our AIRLab team; see the official announcement. Deadline: June 30, 2022. If you’d like to know more about…
Tutorial at ESSIR 2022
Romain Deffayet and I will be teaching a tutorial at ESSIR 2022, the European Summer School on Information Retrieval, on Tuesday July 19, 09:00-10:30, a few days after SIGIR 2022, giving you enough time to recover and make the transition from Madrid to Lisbon. Our tutorial is entitled User Models and Interactive IR. The tutorial…
SIGIR eCom
SIGIR eCom is a full day hybrid workshop taking place on Friday, July 15, 2022 in conjunction with SIGIR 2022. The SIGIR Workshop on eCommerce serves as a platform for publication and discussion of Information Retrieval and NLP research & their applications in the domain of eCommerce. This workshop will bring together practitioners and researchers…
Publications update
Here’s an update of recent and upcoming publications: Mozhdeh Ariannezhad, Mohamed Yahya, Edgar Meij, Sebastian Schelter, and Maarten de Rijke. Understanding Financial Information Seeking Behavior from User Interactions with Company Filings. In The 2nd Workshop on Financial Technology on the Web (FinWeb). ACM, April 2022. Bibtex, PDF @inproceedings{ariannezhad-2022-understanding, author = {Ariannezhad, Mozhdeh and Yahya, Mohamed…
New publications
Papers about to be published this month: Wanyu Chen, Pengjie Ren, Fei Cai, Fei Sun, and Maarten de Rijke. Multi-interest Diversification for End-to-end Sequential Recommendation. ACM Transactions on Information Systems, 40(1):Article 20, January 2022. Bibtex, PDF @article{chen-2022-multi-interest, author = {Chen, Wanyu and Ren, Pengjie and Cai, Fei and Sun, Fei and de Rijke, Maarten}, date-added…
New publications
Catching up with papers published since the last update, in July 2021: Gabriel Bénédict, Vincent Koops, Daan Odijk, and Maarten de Rijke. sigmoidF1: A Smooth F1 Score Surrogate Loss for Multilabel Classification. arXiv preprint arXiv:2108.10566, August 2021. Bibtex, PDF, URL @article{benedict-2021-sigmoidf1-arxiv, author = {B{\’e}n{\’e}dict, Gabriel and Koops, Vincent and Odijk, Daan and de Rijke, Maarten},…
Materials for tutorial on conversational recommendation
Materials to accompany the RecSys 2021 tutorial on conversational recommendation presented by Chongming Gao, Wenqiang Lei and myself are available now: Slides: Chongming Gao, Wenqiang Lei, Maarten de Rijke. RecSys 2021 Tutorial on Conversational Recommendation: Formulation, Methods, and Evaluation, Fifteenth ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys 2021). PDF Survey: Chongming Gao, Wenqiang Lei, Xiangnan He,…
Three Assistant Professorships in AI at the University of Amsterdam
Come and join us as an assistant professor in AI in Amsterdam. We have three vacancies with deadlines in the next couple of weeks: Assistant professor in medical machine vision and learning – deadline September 15, 2021. See https://www.uva.nl/shared-content/uva/en/vacancies/2021/07/21-546-assistant-professor-in-medical-machine-vision-and-learning.html Assistant professor in experimental methods for AI in logic and language – deadline September 16, 2021….