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Update: a slide deck is now available as well - a presentation about IR in general and the axiomatic approach to neural IR models, given to MSc students as part of the Delft Deep Learning Colloqium 2019. Introduction Traditional retrieval models such as BM25 or language models have... [Read More]

Browsing through the accepted papers of ICLR 2019 (the conference takes place in May 2019, the notifications came out around Christmas 2018) a few works stood out to me as an IR researcher - the list is below. Compared to the previous years, my impression is that the number of... [Read More]

While today’s Web search engines are designed for single-user search, over the years research efforts have shown that complex information needs - which are explorative, open-ended and multi-faceted - can be answered more efficiently and effectively when searching in collaboration. Collaborative search (and sensemaking) research has investigated techniques, algorithms and... [Read More]

Once a year, I try to attend an NLP or ML conference, usually picking the one that is closest in terms of location. In 2016 I was at ACL in Berlin , in 2017 I attended ICLR in Toulon and this year I made the trip to... [Read More]

As part of the NWA FairNews project we have recently been working on the question of how to provide fair access to online news. And of course that question itself leads to a whole lot of other questions, such as when is something actually fair or biased or … and... [Read More]