Weeknotes

Short SIGIR Paper on Tip-of-the-Tongue Retrieval for Music Accepted!

Our paper When the Music Stops: Tip-of-the-Tongue Retrieval for Music was accepted as a short paper at SIGIR2023! This work was done with Samarth Bhargav (intern at Spotify at the time) and Claudia Hauff. We released a dataset with the paper, a pre-print is available from arXiv.

Joining Spotify

Last week was my last at DPG Media, after a ride of almost 4 years. I’m thankful for the company and the people there (in particular Philippe Remarque, Marten Blankesteijn, Paul Vereijken) that allowed me to do what I did: growing a team focussing on personalization.

ECIR2016 short paper on 'Probabilistic Multileave Gradient Descent' accepted

Our paper Probabilistic Multileave Gradient Descent with Harrie Oosterhuis, Anne Schuth, and Maarten de Rijke was accepted at ECIR2016.

LiLa'16 Tutorial at ECIR'16

ECIR 2016 in Padova will feature LiLa 2016, the first edition of our tutorial on Living Labs for Online Evaluation.

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.