Five ECIR 2012 papers
November 26, 2011 09:59 Filed in: Papers
Five
ILPS papers
were accepted for ECIR 2012:
- R. Berendsen, B. Kovachev, E. Nastou, M.de Rijke, W. Weerkamp, “Result Disambiguation in Web People Search”
- M. Bosma, E. Meij, W. Weerkamp, "A Framework for Unsupervised Spam Detection in Social Networking Sites”
- P. Lubell-Doughtie, K. Hofmann, "Learning to Rank from Relevance Feedback for e-Discovery”
- A. Oghina, M. Breuss, M. Tsagkias, M. de Rijke, "Predicting IMDB Movie Ratings Using Social Media”
- M.-H. Peetz, E. Meij, M. de Rijke , W. Weerkamp, "Adaptive Temporal Query Modeling”
CCCT Seminar
November 22, 2011 09:29 Filed in: Events
CCCT
Seminar, November 25, 16-17 (followed by drinks)
The next meeting of the CCCT seminar is devoted to information visualization. As usual, there will be two speakers, from two faculties, who will highlight different angles of the topic at hand.
Marcel Worring from the Informatics Institute will talk about “Multimedia Analytics: Easy Categorization of Large Multimedia Collections.” Bernhard Rieder from Media Studies will talk about “Between Tool and Research Object: Data Visualization in the Humanities”.
Location: Universiteitstheater, Nieuwe Doelenstraat 16, Amsterdam, room 301.
For more information, visit http://ccct.uva.nl
The next meeting of the CCCT seminar is devoted to information visualization. As usual, there will be two speakers, from two faculties, who will highlight different angles of the topic at hand.
Marcel Worring from the Informatics Institute will talk about “Multimedia Analytics: Easy Categorization of Large Multimedia Collections.” Bernhard Rieder from Media Studies will talk about “Between Tool and Research Object: Data Visualization in the Humanities”.
Location: Universiteitstheater, Nieuwe Doelenstraat 16, Amsterdam, room 301.
For more information, visit http://ccct.uva.nl
PhD positions
November 19, 2011 16:58 Filed in: Jobs
The
Information and Language Processing Systems group has
several openings for fully funded PhD positions:
- One
position on the topic of data integration and
exchange, knowledge base integration and schema
mappings; you need an MSc degree in mathematics or
computer science and a demonstrable interest in
database theory and/or database systems. To find
out more, get in touch with Maarten Marx.
- One
position in the general area of information
retrieval, partially funded by the Erasmus Mundus
program; you need an MSc degree in computer science
or artificial intelligence and a demonstrable
interest in algorithms for data-intensive problems.
See this page of
the Erasmus Mundus program for specific details
and this page for
general conditions of the program.
- Two
positions in a project on Semantic Search in
E-Discovery; starting date Q1, 2012; you need an
MSc degree in computer science or artificial
intelligence and demonstrable interest in
information retrieval, computational linguistics
and/or machine learning. To find out more, get in
touch with Maarten de
Rijke.