As one of the research teams at the Informatics Institute, ILPS, the Information and Language Processing Systems group, has been around since April 1, 2004. During the past 16+ years, I have been fortunate enough enough to welcome, and work with, a large number of extremely talented PhD students, postdocs and staff members at ILPS….
Fully funded PhD position on task-based question answering
Interested in developing conversational systems that support scientific discovery? In question answering algorithms that are able to gather and synthesize complex answers in the task-based setting of a research platform? We have a fully funded PhD position in which you can develop neural models that can retrieve or generate answers from structured and unstructured resources…
New publications
Some new papers that are scheduled to appear this month: Zeynep Akata, Dan Balliet, Maarten de Rijke, Frank Dignum, Virginia Dignum, Guszti Eiben, Antske Fokkens, Davide Grossi, Koen Hindriks, Holger Hoos, Haley Hung, Catholijn Jonker, Christof Monz, Mark Neerincx, Frans Oliehoek, Henri Prakken, Stefan Schlobach, Linda van der Gaag, Frank van Harmelen, Herke van Hoof,…
Fully funded PhD position on explainable de-biasing in learning from interaction data
Modern search, recommendation and conversational systems learn from interactions with their users. Interested in developing new algorithms for learning from interaction data? In making this type of learning explainable? In removing bias from interaction data? And in making the de-biasing process as transparent as possible? We have a fully funded PhD position in which you…
Seven new positions at the assistant, associate and full professor level
We’re looking for new colleagues at the assistant, associate and full professor level. Come and join the Informatics Institute of the University of Amsterdam. Together with our colleagues from the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, the Center for Mathematics and Computer Science (CWI), and the Amsterdam University of Applied Science, we are growing an exciting data science…
New publications
It’s July, it’s the month of SIGIR, so several publications will come out this month: Mariya Hendriksen, Ernst Kuiper, Pim Nauts, Sebastian Schelter, and Maarten de Rijke. Analyzing and Predicting Purchase Intent in E-commerce: Anonymous vs. Identified Customers. In eCOM 2020: The 2020 SIGIIR Workshop on eCommerce. ACM, July 2020. Bibtex, PDF @inproceedings{hendriksen-2020-analyzing, author =…
New publications
Some new papers that are scheduled to come out this month: Maurits Bleeker and Maarten de Rijke. Bidirectional Scene Text Recognition with a Single Decoder. In ECAI 2020: 24th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence, page 2664–2672. IOS Press, June 2020. Bibtex, PDF @inproceedings{bleeker-2020-bidirectional, author = {Bleeker, Maurits and de Rijke, Maarten}, booktitle = {ECAI 2020:…
New publications
Some new papers that are scheduled to come out this month: Rolf Jagerman, Ilya Markov, and Maarten de Rijke. Safe Exploration for Optimizing Contextual Bandits. ACM Transactions on Information Systems, 38(3):Article 24, June 2020. Bibtex, PDF @article{jagerman-2020-safe, author = {Jagerman, Rolf and Markov, Ilya and de Rijke, Maarten}, date-added = {2019-05-31 20:33:35 +0200}, date-modified =…
A new step
Many short-term actions are needed to help us through the current disruptions. As academics, if we can help to support processes that are important to keep society running, we should all step in. Immediately. But we should also look beyond today and continue to set and pursue long-term goals. Like many of us, I am…
Schiet nou toch eens op. De tijd dringt
Vandaag presenteerde de EU haar “white paper” over AI in Europa. Samenvatting van mijn commentaar: Zet veel duidelijker en veel ambitieuzer in op AI-talent — daar staat of valt alles mee. Waarom geeft de EU de hoop over consumentendata op? Is consumentendata nou niet precies waar je het vertrouwen wint of verliest? Beleidsmakers zijn voor…