Tutorials
- Candidate Selection for Large Scale Personalized Search and Recommender Systems (opens in new tab) | morning
Dhruv Arya, LinkedIn; Ganesh Venkataraman, LinkedIn; Aman Grover, LinkedIn; Krishnaram Kenthapadi, LinkedIn - Neural Networks for Information Retrieval (NN4IR) (opens in new tab) | morning + afternoon
Presenters: Tom Kenter, University of Amsterdam; Alexey Borisov, University of Amsterdam; Christophe Van Gysel, University of Amsterdam; Mostafa Dehghani, University of Amsterdam; Maarten de Rijke, University of Amsterdam; Bhaskar Mitra, Microsoft, University College London - A/B Testing at Scale: Accelerating Software Innovation (opens in new tab) | afternoon
Presenters: Alex Deng, Microsoft; Pavel Dmitriev, Microsoft; Somit Gupta, Microsoft; Ron Kohavi, Microsoft; Paul Raff, Microsoft; Lukas Vermeer, Booking.com
Workshops
- CAIR’17: Conversational Approaches to Information Retrieval (opens in new tab)
Organizers: Jaime Arguello, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Lawrence Cavedon, RMIT University; Hideo Joho, University of Tsukuba; Filip Radlinski, Google; Milad Shokouhi, Microsoft - Neu-IR’17: Neural Information Retrieval (opens in new tab)
Organizers: Nick Craswell, Microsoft; W. Bruce Croft, University of Massachusetts, Amherst; Jiafeng Guo, Chinese Academy of Sciences; Bhaskar Mitra, Microsoft; Maarten de Rijke, University of Amsterdam