News

WSDM2016 paper on 'Multileave Gradient Descent for Fast Online Learning to Rank' accepted

Our paper Multileave Gradient Descent for Fast Online Learning to Rank with Anne Schuth, Harrie Oosterhuis, Shimon Whiteson, and Maarten de Rijke was accepted at WSDM2016.

TREC OpenSearch proposal accepted

Our TREC proposal for OpenSearch has been accepted! TREC OpenSearch will be run in the same vein as CLEF LL4IR and use the same infrastructure.

Interview 'VN De Oplossers

Over the summer, an article in which I featured appeared in the Vrij Nederland (Dutch weekly magazine). The article is part of a series in which scientists are asked for solutions to a given problem. I was interviewed on how we can avoid the Google’s of our world becoming too powerful.

Good news from ESF ELIAS

Our Living Labs (LL4IR) initiative received good news from ESF ELIAS, we have been awarded two grants.

SIGIR'15 Full Paper on 'Predicting Search Satisfaction Metrics with Interleaved Comparisons' Accepted

Our paper Predicting Search Satisfaction Metrics with Interleaved Comparisons with Anne Schuth, Katja Hofmann, and Filip Radlinski was accepted as a full paper at SIGIR 2015.