Weeknotes

Wekelijkse reflecties over werk, technologie (en het leven). Dit zijn mijn weeknotes - korte updates over waar ik over nadenk, aan werk en wat ik leer. Ik schrijf zoal over de spanning tussen technologie en beleid, de uitdagingen van digitale transformatie, en hoe we betekenisvolle verandering kunnen bewerkstelligen. Zoals over maken boven schrijven, de realiteit van hosting in slow motion, gedachten over kunstmatige intelligentie, en waarom email dood is.

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/.

WSDM'13 paper accepted

Our paper Reusing Historical Interaction Data for Faster Online Learning to Rank for IR with Katja Hofmann, Shimon Whiteson and Maarten de Rijke was accepted for publication in WSDM’13.

Bart de Goede defended his master thesis

Bart de Goede just successfully defended his master thesis titled: “Sustainable Questions”. A shortened version got published at the Time Aware Information Access Workshop at SIGIR 2012 in Portland, Oregon. Congratulations Bart!