The Open Search Foundation wants to build a cooperative search engine:
Congratulations to Ellen Voorhees (and all other new ACM Fellows).
Very well deserved, Ellen made tremendous contributions to our field!
Federated Search with Searsia https://prismo.news/posts/128
Slides of the #DIR2018 keynote presentations:
Gabriella Pasi:
Modeling credibility
http://www.dir2018.nl/application/files/3615/4297/0350/KEYNOTE_DIR_2018_-_GABRIELLA_PASI.pdf
Ludo Waltman:
Information retrieval and scientometrics https://www.slideshare.net/LudoWaltman/scientific-information-retrieval-challenges-and-opportunities https://t.co/djXv0hs2BP
Lessons from Maarten de Rijke's award lecture: Focus on Safety (preventing information bubbles, mistreatment of subgroups, model drift) and Explicability (explaining of rankings, of fashion recommendations, of retrieved facts, if demoes going wrong). Challenge: evaluation of explanations; if people understand algorithms better, they'll trust them less...
... and get your inspiration from ancient Indian temples, whether in Amsterdam or not. #dir2018
Sptoify announced its new Data Science Challenge
Spotify Sequential Skip Prediction Challenge is a part of #WSDM Cup 2019. The dataset comprises 130M Spotify listening sessions, and the task is to predict if a track is skipped. The challenge is live today, and runs until Jan 4.
https://www.crowdai.org/challenges/spotify-sequential-skip-prediction-challenge
Nobody wants to join?
Don't miss the chance to register for the live version of new Fast.ai's Deep Learning Course :
http://forums.fast.ai/t/fast-ai-live-the-new-version-of-the-international-fellowship/22825
Glad to see that submissions for CHIIR'19 are pouring in. If you are thinking of submitting a demo or resources paper, this is just a wee reminder that there's still time until 21 October to work on your drafts http://sigir.org/chiir2019/calls.html
SIGIR will make all proceedings open access for all time, but this has not yet been completed.
The trick is that you cannot go through the DL, but need the so-called OpenTOC links - those will be providing access for unlimited time, the SIGIR Exec decided.
Eventually, you will find these links for all SIGIR conferences in a consistent way on the http://sigir.org site.
For now, for 2018, use this page for access to the papers: http://sigir.org/sigir2018/toc.html
More details on this workshop (including the registration link) can be found at https://ir.shef.ac.uk/bcs-sheffield-2018/
CfP: Workshop on Ethics, Privacy, Transparency and Bias in Information Retrieval, organised by IR Group of @InfoSchoolSheff http://irsg.bcs.org/informer/2018/08/cfp-workshop-on-ethics-privacy-transparency-and-bias-in-information-retrieval-in-sheffield/
Our paper on personalized context-aware point of interest recommendation has been accepted at ACM TOIS; pre-print available here: http://bit.ly/2LS7P7n
CfP: ACM SIGIR Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval (CHIIR'19) | http://sigir.org/chiir2019/
Things to take note of today: Google's AI principles https://www.blog.google/topics/ai/ai-principles/
Here's Will's own analysis:
http://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2015-08-24/metadata-what-you-found-will-ockenden/6703626
Come and work with us:
Lecturer (Grade 8) in Human Computer Interaction (HCI) at University of Sheffield to work on novel computer interfaces and users' interactions with these interfaces, e.g., in the context of interactive information access, wearable technologies, or gamification.
https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/BKA247/lecturer-in-human-computer-interaction-hci/
Intestested in IR, recsys, and lifelogging.
http://www.hopfgartner.co.uk/