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Lerot: an Online Learning to Rank Framework

Our demo Lerot: an Online Learning to Rank Framework with Katja Hofmann, Shimon Whiteson and Maarten de Rijke was accepted for publication at the Living Labs for Information Retrieval Evaluation workshop at CIKM’13.
You can download Lerot from Bitbucket.

CIKM'13 paper accepted

Our paper Evaluating Aggregated Search Using Interleaving with Aleksandr Chuklin, Katja Hofmann, Pavel Serdyukov and Maarten de Rijke was accepted for publication as full paper in CIKM’13. I will present the paper on Tuesday afternoon.

ECIR is coming to Amsterdam in 2014

The hosting of the 36th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2014) has been awarded to the University of Amsterdam. Tom Kenter is local chair, Maarten de Rijke general chair. As treasurer, I will be responsible for the finances. The new website has just been launched at http://ecir2014.org/.