On September 23, 2022, at 14.00, Ana Lučić will defend her PhD thesis Explaining Predictions from Machine Learning Models: Algorithms,…
IRLab Is Moving
After three years, IRLab will be leaving the Startup Village at Amsterdam Science Park. Between August 8 and August 19,…
ESSIR 2022 Tutorial on “Neural Approaches for IR”
Materials for the ESSIR 2022 tutorial on “Neural Approaches for IR” by Andrew Yates are available now. The tutorial covers…
ESSIR 2022 Tutorial on “User Models and Interactive IR”
Materials for the ESSIR 2022 tutorial on “User Models and Interactive IR” by Romain Deffayet and Maarten de Rijke are…
SIGIR 2022 Tutorial “Towards Reproducible ML Research in Information Retrieval”
Materials for the SIGIR 2022 tutorial “Towards Reproducible ML Research in Information Retrieval” by Ana Lucic, Maurits Bleeker, Maarten de…
Pre-announcement: Postdoc/PhD student position in fairness-aware learning to rank
Andrew Yates and Maarten de Rijke are looking for a postdoc or PhD student to work with them on fairness-aware…
Pre-announcement: 14 fully funded PhD student, postdoc, and research engineer positions
Come and join us to work on algorithmic solutions to challenges in conversational intelligence! We will soon be looking for 12…
Yifei Yuan Visits the IRLab
From July 2022 onwards, Yifei Yuan will be visiting the IRLab. Yifei is a PhD student from the Chinese University…
Papers Accepted at IJCAI 2022 Workshop on Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI)
We are very proud to have two papers accepted at the XAI workshop at IJCAI this year: Ana Lucic, Sheeraz…
Two Postdoc Positions
We have two postdoc positions: A one year postdoc position in information retrieval; see the official announcement. Deadline: June 15, 2022.…
Search Engines Amsterdam: May 27
This month’s edition if SEA will be virtual and will be devoted to fairness in information retrieval. Two speakers, Asia…
Contributions Accepted at SIGIR 2022
Our contributions accepted at SIGIR 2022 are: Ajinkya Kale, Surya Kallumadi, Tracy Holloway King, Shervin Malmasi, Maarten de Rijke, and…
Paper Accepted at NAACL 2022
We are very proud that What Makes a Good and Useful Summary? Incorporating Users in Automatic Summarization Research by Maartje…
Carsten Eickhoff Spends Sabbatical at the IRLab
We are really excited to announce that Carsten Eickhoff will spend his sabbatical at the IRLab. Carsten is a professor…
Mounia Lalmas Joins the IRLab as Distinguished Research Fellow
We are delighted to announce that Mounia Lalmas, who is a director of research at Spotify and the Head of…