Djoerd Hiemstra @djoerd@idf.social

Google has made “substantial” contributions to some of the most notorious climate deniers in Washington despite its insistence that it supports political action on the climate crisis.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/oct/11/google-contributions-climate-change-deniers

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.

Full house for the #Siks #IR Course for PhD students in Utrecht, NL.

Faegheh Hasibi @fhasibi presenting the lecture on Entity Oriented Search now.

Morning program included Claudia Hauff on Learning to Rank and other Machine learning for #IR, and Hinda Haned on FAT* related topics such as algorithmic bias.

We're hiring a PhD Candidate for Transfer Learning for Federated Search!

https://www.ru.nl/english/working-at/vacature/details-vacature/?recid=1064653

"The merits of Universal Language Model Fine-tuning for Small Datasets - a case with Dutch book reviews"

https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.00896

Work by Benjamin van der Burgh @LIACS, evaluating the effectiveness of ULMFiT for small training sets

Data: https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.00896

#NLProc

View from the office: de-googlify internet (ty @djoerd) and Martha's PixelPrivacy poster, subliminal biasing our students against the surveillance economy :-)

On the impact of group size on collaborative search effectiveness http://link.springer.com/10.1007/s10791-018-09350-9

Vacancies!

15 fully-funded PhD Positions on Domain-Specific Search (EU Marie Curie Action project)

http://ifs.tuwien.ac.at/dossier/phd_positions.html

I am hiring for project 6 and 7, addressing transparency and explainability in legal search.

#dossier_project w/ @arjen @leifos

The merits of Universal Language Model Fine-tuning for Small Datasets -- a case with Dutch book reviews. (arXiv:1910.00896v1 [cs.IR]) http://arxiv.org/abs/1910.00896

Come do your PhD with me at Spinque in Utrecht, NL, on the topic of Professional Search:

http://ifs.tuwien.ac.at/dossier/p9.html

Fully funded, with three secondments in Vienna (Allan Hanbury), Milan (Gabriella Pasi) and Tennessee (Diane Kelly).

See the Marie-Curie ITN DOSSIER website for 14 more cool projects, all over Europe, including two in Leiden with Suzan Verberne.
http://ifs.tuwien.ac.at/dossier/phd_positions.html

It is here, my blog post about the #ActivityPubConf

#ActivityPub--It's All Connected

https://blogghoran.se/2019/09/23/activity-pub-its-all-connected/