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Imagine this: you are an educator who teaches a large class and would like to give your students the opportunity to practice as much as they like. So you create questions. But that is cumbersome. Instead, you’d like (or: I’d like) an automatic pipeline that takes in the material you... [Read More]

After quite a few years of not teaching information retrieval, I finally taught an IR MSc course (140 hours study load, 2 lectures a week for 8 weeks; 4 support hours per week) together with my colleague Nava Tintarev earlier this year. While Nava introduced the students to the... [Read More]

Schloss Dagstuhl is a familiar name for many Computer Science researchers. A center founded in the early 1990s that has quickly become one of the world’s premier meeting centers for computer science research. It is also in the middle of nowhere in Germany, which is a pain in terms... [Read More]

It is conference season. Again. Not just in the IR, but also the NLP and ML communities. Time to start reading. ACL 2017 with its nearly 200 full papers and more than 100 short papers was a treasure trove again for inspiring approaches, problems and datasets. There is really... [Read More]

NWO VIDI Awarded The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research has just announced the proposals that will receive funding through the NWO VIDI scheme. I made it onto this list! The VIDI is a personal grant worth 800K € which translates into 2 PhD and 1 postdoc... [Read More]