Awards | ACM SIGIR
Susan Dumais receives SIGIR 2018 Test of Time Award
Susan Dumais, a leading researcher at the intersection of information retrieval and human-computer interaction, and significant contributor to Microsoft’s search technologies, received the SIGIR 2018 (opens in new tab) Test of Time Award for the paper entitled Improving Web Search Ranking…
Awards | SIGIR 2018
Best Short Paper Award at SIGIR 2018
Best Short Paper Award for “Cross Domain Regularization for Neural Ranking Models Using Adversarial Learning” with Daniel Cohen, Katja Hofmann, and W. Bruce Croft, SIGIR 2018.
ICML Conference Analytics
The Microsoft Academic Graph makes it possible to gain analytic insights about any of the entities within it: publications, authors, institutions, topics, journals, and conferences. In this series, we present analytic insights about current conferences, which we hope will help you prepare for attending each event. All…
In the news | The Guardian
‘It’s going to create a revolution’: how AI is transforming the NHS
The tumour is hard to miss on the scan. The size of a golf ball, it sits bold and white on the brain stem, a part of the organ that sends messages back and forth between body and brain. In…
In the news | The New York Times
Silicon Valley’s Giants Take Their Talent Hunt to Cambridge
A boom in artificial intelligence research has drawn the tech industry’s biggest companies and their checkbooks to the storied English city.
Democratizing APIs with Natural Language Interfaces
| Ahmed Awadallah and Ryen W. White
Benefiting from a confluence of factors, such as service-oriented architecture, cloud computing, and Internet-of-Things (IoT), application program interfaces – APIs – are playing an increasingly important role in both the virtual and the physical world. For example, web services, such…
Playing to the Crowd explores and explains how the rise of digital communication platforms has transformed artist-fan relationships into something closer to friendship or family.
Awards | ACM RecSys Challenge 2018
Ranked at RecSys Challlenge 2018
Finished rank #7 (out of 112 participating teams) on the main track and rank #5 (out of 31 participating teams) on the creative track at RecSys Challlenge 2018.
SIGIR Conference Analytics
In this post, we present analytic insights about the conference SIGIR - Special Interest Group on Information Retrieval, taking place in Ann Arbor Michigan, U.S.A. between July 8-12, 2018. We derive insights since 1993 to the latest available year.