Honored that our 12-year-old work at Microsoft on incorporating user behavior signals into ranking (with Susan Dumais and Eric Brill) was recognized with SIGIR ToT award. Also, happy to see that 12 years later there is still lots of room for improvement :-) x.com/Jeffy_Sailing/…

Highly recommend the AlphaSignal.ai weekly summary to keep up with the field of ML. They're using AI to identify the top publications and breakthroughs, it's a game-changer.

"Achieving a research-level understanding of most topics is like climbing a mountain." distill.pub/2017/research-…

Google is sharing a lot of good stuff with the community, take a look at all their open source projects: opensource.google.com/projects/

Are you a giver or a taker? youtube.com/watch?v=YyXRYg…

It turns out "Sequence-to-Sequence Models Can Directly Transcribe Foreign Speech" arxiv.org/pdf/1703.08581…

OpenAI trained a char-based language model on reviews and discovered a sentiment neuron in learned representation: blog.openai.com/unsupervised-s…

Ha, Rio Olympics marathon winner Jemima Sumgong tested positive for EPO runnersworld.com/newswire/gold-…

Yet another deep learning library on top of tensorflow, this time by DeepMind: github.com/deepmind/sonnet

.ACM SIGIR 2017 For those keeping count over 1-in-5 papers this year is related to #NeuralIR. Big jump over previous years. 1-in-3 likely in 2018?

So, the Nike Breaking 2-hour marathon attempt will like happen in early May: runnersworld.com/2-hour-maratho…

Google released a sequence-to-sequence neural network library on top of tensorflow: research.googleblog.com/2017/04/introd…

Suck at drawing? Just sketch and Google will try to guess what you meant: techcrunch.com/2017/04/11/goo…

Wow, wow, wow, now we can add and subtract drawing sketches research.googleblog.com/2017/04/teachi…

Congrats to Dr. Denis Savenkov Denis Savenkov on defending PhD on Question Answering w User Generated Content! He will join FB as research scientist

I am humbled to receive an award named in honor of Karen Spärck Jones, whose contributions continue to be relevant to information retrieval researchers and engineers. x.com/bcs_irsg/statu…

Finally managed to quit vim.

Ahmed Hassan Awadallah and I have one open research internship position this summer. If you're interested, please let us know and kindly share your CV!

AI2 is hiring a Product Manager for Semantic Scholar.  please spread the word:  lnkd.in/gxUajAb lnkd.in/gq-DGEg

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