Arjen P. de Vries @arjen@idf.social

Rewarding myself for getting first ECIR paper submitted.

Great new song by Big Thief:
https://bigthief.bandcamp.com/album/two-hands-3

Sorry to the neigbouring offices!!

@christianp I'll be following in your footsteps if you're successful 😉

Cross-posting from Linked-in.
/cc @dpg

Enjoyed giving a lecture on "Bias in Recommendations" at the SIKS Course "Advances in Information Retrieval," where I explained a bit about our challenges in working with implicit feedback (clicks), and was happy to discover Thorsten Joachims' seminal paper on implicit feedback late yesterday evening in preparation of these slides 😉!

Slides:
https://graus.nu/blog/bias-in-recommendations-lecture-siks-course-on-advances-in-ir/

Ref:
https://www.cs.cornell.edu/people/tj/publications/joachims_etal_05a.pdf

#IR researcher in NL or B (or keen on visiting Amsterdam):

Better register soon: https://www.dir2019.nl may run out of capacity, so if you are not quick...

Nice question, how to learn something global in a NN approach.

Interesting detail from answer by Mostafa Deghani: include extra value into embedding to help it learn an (i?)df-like feature.

And @suzan mentions recent paper on Bert rediscovering the NLP pipeline.

#Siks #IR course

University of Wisconsin-Madison's Information School offers three tenure-track positions:

Target areas include:
- Human and social factors of data science, machine learning, AI.
- Interactive information retrieval including text retrieval and data mining of text or multimedia
- Digital archives including electronic records, digital preservation and records in cloud based systems
- Scientometrics including cybermetrics, webometrics and bibliometrics

https://jobs.hr.wisc.edu/en-us/job/503034/professor-information-school

All:
Look at the timeline for an idea what IR bots you can follow!

https://idf.social/web/timelines/public/local

Welcome to @emmagerritse @KoenDercksen @fwijayanto @Ilse @mshasha

On to Tilt Utrecht!

Once you get the hang of it, please consider writing an #introductions toot and pin that to your profile.

I recommend @laura 's intro to Mastodon (link below), and tech savvy ppl may even like to glance over the ActivityPub W3C standard to grasp the full power. I use Pixelfed and Prismo.news as other ActivityPub services.
https://laurakalbag.com/what-is-mastodon-and-why-should-i-use-it

Welcome to the Fediverse Siks PhD students!

Here's a post "stolen" from Facebook (just like Helter Skelter by U2):

Alistair Moffat keynote at SPIRE 2019, courtesy Ric Baeza-Yates

Slides for all lectures at the #Siks #IR course:

https://www.informagus.nl/events/siks-ir-2019.html

Here, you also find the information for the group experiment of this afternoon.