@suzan

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I am hiring a PhD student in the project LESSEN (https://lessen-project.nl) on conversational agents. It is a 4-year, fully paid position

You will be embedded in Text Mining & Retrieval Leiden at LIACS, Leiden University, supervised by me, and co-supervised by @fhasibi

https://universiteitleiden.nl/en/vacancies/2022/kwartaal-3/22-659phd-candidate-domain-adaptation-for-conversational-agents

#NLProc

Interesting work on personal information management from CMU. (Unfortunately, the prototype app is for Apple only, so I won't be trying it out myself.)

https://www.cs.cmu.edu/news/bento-browser-makes-it-easier-search-mobile-devices

Bento Browser Makes It Easier To Search On Mobile Devices | Carnegie Mellon School of Computer Science

SIGIR 2018 accepted papers list:
http://sigir.org/sigir2018/accepted-papers/
Accepted Papers | SIGIR 2018

SIGIR 2018
The perks of some professors: cartoon alter-egos (here, the Mathematician Ionica Smeets):
What's Not Included in Facebook's 'Download Your Data'

Facebook says users own their data and touts its "download your data" tool. But the download doesn't include everything Facebook knows about you.

We are also looking for a PhD candidate, on a fully funded position:

The PhD candidate will study information retrieval over large and evolving graphs. How can we combine structured queries formulated in a graph query language with ’keyword’ queries, and express ranking functions that take into account the graph structure? What query processing techniques can enable scalable and efficient retrieval systems over evolving graphs?

More information:
http://www.ru.nl/werken/details/details_vacature_0/?recid=601299

details vacature

Vacatures van de Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen.

"But there are seven billion people in the world! I can't possibly stop to consider how ALL of them might interpret something!" "Ah, yes, there's no middle ground between 'taking personal responsibility for the thoughts and feelings of every single person on Earth' and 'covering your eyes and ears and yelling logically correct statements into the void.' That's a very insightful point and not at al...
https://xkcd.com/1984/

arjenpdevries - Help strenghten the IR group at Radboud University and apply to our tenure track position for an

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Assistent Professor
Information Retrieval
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Is the question of modelling relevance what drives your research? Are you not afraid of a bit of prototyping and is ACM SIGIR your academic home?

Arjen P. de Vries, Martha Larson and Eelco Herder are at RU ICIS already. Come and join us!

Vacancy: http://dlvr.it/QPJG85

details vacature

Vacatures van de Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen.

Help strenghten the IR group at Radboud University and apply to our tenure track position for an

* * * * *
Assistent Professor
Information Retrieval
* * * * *

Is the question of modelling relevance what drives your research? Are you not afraid of a bit of prototyping and is ACM SIGIR your academic home?

Arjen P. de Vries, Martha Larson and Eelco Herder are at RU ICIS already. Come and join us!

Vacancy: dlvr.it/QPJG85

#ff #FollowFriday: More Information Retrieval researchers joined the fediverse lately:

@rosswilkinson (structured search,)
@bmitra (neural IR)
@aliannejadi (mobile IR, contextual suggestion)
@Claudia (search as learning,)
@AndrewTrotman (efficiency, ATIRE)
@wesselkraaij (language models, TRECVid)
@TomKenter (word embeddings)
@alansaid (recommender sys)
@fthopf (lifelogging)
@joemon (social media analytics, multimodal interaction)
@[email protected] (IR and knowledge graphs)
@jik (once text genres, Gavagai)