A (very) brief historical line of Information Retrieval #AFIRM2019

At #AFIRM2019 @fabseb60 is taking about training text classifiers — great pointers and lessons for getting started in text classifications

#DeepLearning4Search tutorial continues after the coffee break with #LearningToRank by @xxEmineYilmazxx. #AFIRM2019

Thank you #UCT. Thank you organizers. Thank you presenters. But most importantly, thank you attendees. 🙏 It was a real privilege to be part of #AFIRM2019. Looking forward to continuing all the conversations and collaborations we ignited this week.

Thank you for asking! I have also been thinking about this in the context of ad hoc retrieval evaluation. I have not found anything on doing statistical tests for train/test split involving k-fold cross-validation.

I was a guest in the latest Data Skeptic podcast! We talked about automatic summarization, our work in that area and how a background in Linguistics can help you in NLP! 😃You can find the episode in all your favourite podcast apps, for example here: open.spotify.com/episode/3tuLJj…

With CChu Dania Bilal I am thrilled to announce that the ASIS&T Board unanimously approved the creation of the SIG AI, a forum for discussion about research, development, and use of artificial intelligence in information science and technology. #AIlibraries

ACM SIGIR ACM CHIIR 2026 #CHIIR2023 conference will be at #Austin #Texas, chaired by our beloved UT Austin School of Information - UT Austin faculty Jacek Gwizdka and Soo Young Rieh.

Spread the word! CChu Dania Bilal and I are seeking 5 Self-funded Fellows interested in enhancing their knowledge of AI in #IDEA_AI_Institute for library and information professionals. Application deadline: April 9, 2021. See idea.infosci.utk.edu #AILibraries

Are you interested in topics related to "search as learning"? Join the next #CIIRTalkSeries by Claudia Hauff (Claudia Hauff 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 🇩🇪 🇳🇱) on Friday April 9th at 1 PM EDT. Title: On the support of human learning during search and sensemaking activities More info: ciir.cs.umass.edu/node/580

MSc and PhD scholarships at UCT - exploring effective ways of analysing peering, traffic localisation and interconnection opportunities in Africa. Email [email protected] if interested. Amreesh Phokeer @[email protected] AFRINIC-The Regional Internet Registry for Africa Internet Society Africa Details: josiahchavula.com/improving-afri…

📢 DIR 2021 1/2 Keynote Announcement! 🚨 Maria Maistro from University of Copenhagen (DIKU) will be giving a keynote on "How can we measure reproducibility of IR experiments?". 🌎This is organised with SEA, open to all. Please sign-up here: meetup.com/nl-NL/SEA-Sear…

CHIIR 2023 will be in Austin TX USA 19-23 March 2023 Co-chaired Jacek Gwizdka Soo Young Rieh Hosted at UT Austin School of Information - UT Austin Dates Oct 5 abstracts, 12th full, perspective papers, workshops, tutorials, 26th short papers, demos, DC papers #CHIIR2023 ACM SIGIR ixlab_ut #inperson #remote