suzan @suzan@idf.social

Periodic reminder of what #Google looks like now in one of the first #browser that was used to surf the web. Compared to the first website from CERN.

#Mozaic

Information Retrieval and Its Sister Disciplines. (arXiv:1912.02346v1 [cs.IR]) http://arxiv.org/abs/1912.02346

I ditched Google for DuckDuckGo. Here's why you should too:

https://www.wired.co.uk/article/duckduckgo-google-alternative-search-privacy

Beyond word embeddings: learning entity and concept representations from large scale knowledge bases http://link.springer.com/10.1007/s10791-018-9340-3

DIR 2019 program.

Unfortunately, the workshop is sold out (!).

http://www.dir2019.nl/program.html

#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...

Universal Transformers: a transformer approach by Mostafa Dehghani and colleagues that also uses a recurrent feedback loop. Very interesting. #SIKS

https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.03819

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.

Slides of @Claudia Hauff's SIKS course presentation "Machine Learning for #IR" available online!

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Jiu5ZkRJVrrFmwtGJg9elClDah-f1eKXCEkQXORrchk/edit?usp=sharing

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

Sebastian Ruder's #NAACL2019 tutorial: The state of transfer learning in #NLP.

http://ruder.io/state-of-transfer-learning-in-nlp/

This is fun! #LaTeX typing game! My PB so far is 36, what's yours?

https://texnique.xyz/

Register now for the #DIR ⚡ lightning ⚡ talk edition. 30 Euro for highlights of last year's Dutch-Belgian Information Retrieval research. #DIR2019

http://www.dir2019.nl/registration.html

Me since the beginning of my PhD thesis

I believe conferences should have a "telepresence chair". #CHI is getting there (and I expect them to)

https://chi2019.acm.org/for-attendees/remote-attendance/