Weeknotes

ACM TOIS paper 'A comparative analysis of interleaving methods for aggregated search' online

Our ACM Transactions on Information Systems paper called A comparative analysis of interleaving methods for aggregated search by Aleksandr Chuklin, Anne Schuth, Ke Zhou and Maarten de Rijke is available now.

Faster self-learning search engine through UvA algorithm

This article describes my work and was written by my colleagues David Graus and Marlies van der Wees (thanks!). It was posted on the uva.nl website on 4 November 2014.

CIKM'14 full paper accepted

Our paper Multileaved Comparisons for Fast Online Evaluation by Anne Schuth, Floor Sietsma, Shimon Whiteson, Damien Lefortier and Maarten de Rijke was accepted as a full paper at CIKM’14.

SIGIR'14 Short Paper Accepted

Our paper Evaluating Intuitiveness of Vertical-Aware Click Models with Aleksandr Chuklin, Ke Zhou, Anne Schuth, Floor Sietsma, and Maarten de Rijke was accepted as a short paper at SIGIR 2014.

Research in Moscow

One week ago, I took off from Amsterdam to settle in Moscow for 3.5 months. I was going to be a research intern at Yandex, the Russian search engine and a major player in international search engine land.