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Accepted Workshop @ECIR2019: The 1st Interdisciplinary Workshop on Algorithm Selection and Meta-Learning in Information Retrieval (AMIR)

Our proposal for the “1st Interdisciplinary Workshop on Algorithm Selection and Meta-Learning in Information Retrieval (AMIR)“, to be held at the  41st European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR), was accepted. AMIR will take place on the 14th of April 2019 in Cologne, Germany. The algorithm selection problem describes the challenge Read more…

The Architecture of Mr. DLib’s Scientific Recommender-System API

Our manuscript “The Architecture of Mr. DLib’s Scientific Recommender-System API” got accepted at the “26th Irish Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science” (AICS), and here is the pre-print version (HTML below; PDF on arxiv). The bibliographic BibTeX data is: @InProceedings{Beel2018MDLArch, author = {Beel, Joeran and Collins, Andrew and Aizawa, Read more…

ICANN 2018 Best Paper Award - Implementing Neural Turing Machines

Best-Paper Award for our Publication “Implementing Neural Turing Machines” at the 27th International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks

Update 2019-05-25: Google integrates our Neural Turing Machine implementation in TensorFlow. We received the best-paper award at the 27th International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks (ICANN 2018) for our paper Implementing Neural Turing Machines. Our student, and co-author of the paper, Mark Collier was at ICANN to present our work about implementing Read more…

Screenshot of the Homepage of the 1st Interdisciplinary Workshop on Algorithm Selection and Meta-Learning in Information Retrieval (AMIR)

Proposal for the 1st Interdisciplinary Workshop on Algorithm Selection and Meta-Learning in Information Retrieval (AMIR)

Lars Kotthoff and I have applied to organize the 1st Interdisciplinary Workshop on Algorithm Selection and Meta-Learning in Information Retrieval (AMIR) at the 41st European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR). Let’s cross fingers and hope it will get accepted. In the following, you find the proposal (also available on ResearchGate as PDF). Read more…

Trinity College Dublin seeks to hire a Professor (Chair) in Intelligent Systems

The University of Dublin, Trinity College, invites applications for the position of Professor of Intelligent Systems. The successful candidate will provide strong academic leadership in research, teaching and supervision. The Professor will strengthen the strategic research areas of Artificial Intelligence and Intelligent Content in the School of Computer Science and Read more…

ParsRec: Meta-Learning Recommendations for Bibliographic Reference Parsing (Pre-Print)

We are delighted to announce that our poster “ParsRec: Meta-Learning Recommendations for Bibliographic Reference Parsing” has been accepted at the 12th ACM Recommender Systems Conference (RecSys) for presentation in Vancouver, Canada. The pre-print is available on arXiv, and here in our blog: Abstract Bibliographic reference parsers extract metadata (e.g. author names, Read more…

Click-through rate (CTR) and # of delivered recommendation in JabRef for Mr. DLib’s (MDL) and CORE’s recommendation engine and in total

Mr. DLib’s Living Lab for Scholarly Recommendations (preprint)

We published a manuscript on arXiv about the first living lab for scholarly recommender systems. This lab allows recommender-system researchers to conduct online evaluations of their novel algorithms for scholarly recommendations, i.e., research papers, citations, conferences, research grants etc. Recommendations are delivered through the living lab´s API in platforms such Read more…

DAAD Artificial Intelligence / Machine Learning Tour Through Germany 2018

DAAD Artificial Intelligence / Machine Learning Tour Through Germany for Postdocs from Outside Germany

The German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) organizes the “Postdoctoral Researchers’ Networking AI Tour” 2018 to offer on-site visits to universities, research institutes and companies in the field of artificial intelligence, discussions with experts and numerous networking opportunities. Programme-related costs and a travel allowance are covered by DAAD. We have cooperated Read more…

Trinity College Dublin E3 €60m

Trinity College Dublin announces a €25 million donation from Naughton Family paving the way for a new €60 million E3 Institute

Trinity College Dublin announced plans for a €60 million new E3 Institute in Engineering, Energy and Environment that has been made possible with a major private philanthropic donation by the Naughton family through the Naughton Foundation, established by the founder of the Glen Dimplex Group, Dr Martin Naughton, and his Read more…

Marie Curie Fellowship in Machine Learning etc.

Call for Marie Curie Individual Fellowships: We are open to supervise projects relating to recommender-systems, machine learning, and NLP here at TCD Dublin

The European Union has published the call for Individual Marie Curie Fellowships (MSCA) with the application deadline being 12 September 2018. The goal of the Individual Fellowships is to enhance the creative and innovative potential of experienced researchers. Our group has already one Marie Curie fellow, i.e. a postdoctoral researcher, as part of Read more…

'recommender systems ireland' Google results

Our website ranks #1 for ‘recommender systems ireland’ and ‘recommender systems dublin’ on Google (in Ireland)

We started working at Trinity College Dublin 1.5 years ago and launched our new website only 2 months ago. Yet, Google ranks our website #1 for the search queries ‘recommender systems ireland‘ and ‘recommender systems dublin‘ and, not surprisingly, for the variations ‘ireland recommender systems‘ and ‘dublin recommender systems‘. Of course, this is not to mean that Read more…