Please note, this is a continuous program until 2022, with student intakes in September every year (and potentially in March). Hence, please feel free to apply at any time, or if the application page is currently closed, wait for a few weeks until applications are open again. If you have Read more…
Victor will be with us from the 1st of May to the end of July 2019. He’s a French Master’s student from the engineering school Polytech Clermont-Ferrand, which is attached to the university Clermont Auvergne. Victor studies Mathematics and Computer Science in the department of mathematics and modelling. Victor chooses Read more…
AMIR 2019 — The 1st Interdisciplinary Workshop on Algorithm Selection and Meta-Learning in Information Retrieval — is over, and it was a full success. We had many interesting presentations and around 20 attendees. The following photos give some impressions.
Update: Read the full manuscript, which was presented at the AutoML workshop, here. Introduction There is an ever-growing number of tools for automating the machine learning pipeline, both commercial and open source. Auto-sklearn [11, 15], Auto Weka [14], ML-Plan [18], and H2O.ai are only some examples. In addition, the auto* Read more…
The school of computer science and statistics appointed me as the Strand Lead for the Intelligent Systems Programme in the MSc in Computer Science course at Trinity College Dublin. I am looking forward to continuing to develop the programme and ensuring the highest quality in teaching, liaising with student representatives, Read more…
The ELITE-S initiative organizes a breakfast seminar to bring together potential applicants and supervisors. Every postdoctoral researcher, who is interested in standardization in the field of recommender systems, machine learning, and artificial intelligence, is sincerely invited to join the breakfast. During the seminar, you will learn more about the 2-year Read more…
I am not usually writing in this blog about my experience with software, but today I make an exception to prevent others from making the same bad experience that I had with Google File Stream, the enterprise version of Google Drive / GDrive. My research group is using Google File Read more…
Aicha is a PhD student of Computer Science at the University of Laghouat in Algeria. She arrives today and will work with us for 1.5 years. Aicha’s research interests include machine learning, natural language processing, and recommender systems. Aicha’s PhD topic is analyzing user engagement behaviour in online social networks Read more…
Ian will be joining us for 6 months starting today. Ian is currently enrolled as a master’s student of Computer and Information Science at the University of Konstanz in the south of Germany. Ian’s research interests include machine learning, natural language processing, information retrieval and recommender systems. Ian is currently Read more…
Update: Deadline extended to July 15th, 2019. ELITE-S provides up to 16 postdoctoral fellowships to work for 2 years in the ADAPT Research Centre at Trinity College Dublin, University College Dublin, or other Irish universities as well as with an industry partner. ELITE-S is a EU Marie Skłodowska-Curie COFUND Action. Read more…
The first beta version of Mr. DLib V2 has been released and is performing very well so far. With our partner JabRef, we have delivered over 70 thousand sets of recommendations (approximately 1,000 per day), or a total of over 450,000 individual recommendations. We have a click through rate (CTR) Read more…
Our lab is glad to welcome Hebatallah Mohamed as a visiting PhD student for three months. Hebatallah is a PhD student at the Department of Computer Science at the University of Roma Tre in Italy. In Rome, she is doing her PhD under the supervision of Prof. Alessandro Micarelli in Read more…
The 26th AIAI Irish Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science (AICS) is over, and it was a full success. This year, AICS celebrated its 30th anniversary and was hosted by Trinity College Dublin’s School of Computer Science and Statistics, the School of Psychology and the Institute of Neuroscience. I had the Read more…
As in previous years, Trinity College Dublin has up to 10 scholarships to award for PhD positions as part of the China Scholarship Council – Trinity College Dublin Joint Scholarship Programme. Each scholarship will include a full fee-waiver from Trinity, and a stipend for living costs (currently €1,200 per month), Read more…
After announcing a guest presentation from Zalando in our e-Business lecture, we are delighted to announce another talk by Zalando, this time in our machine learning lecture. Antoaneta Marinova from Zalando, will give a presentation on 27th November at 15:00 o’clock. Antoaneta is a Data Engineer in the Customer Fashion Profile Read more…
I am delighted to announce that Conor Gallagher from Zalando Ireland will be giving a presentation in my e-Business II lecture on 27th of November at 11:00 o’clock. Conor is Senior Engineer and Team Lead on the Zalando re-platforming project. The presentation is titled “Re-Platforming a €5 billion company, with zero Read more…
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…
Our manuscript “ParsRec: A Novel Meta-Learning Approach to Recommending Bibliographic Reference Parsers” was accepted for publication at the 26th Irish Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science (AICS). It is an extended version of our recently presented poster “ParsRec: Meta-Learning Recommendations for Bibliographic Reference Parsing” at the ACM RecSys conference. The Read more…
A colleague of mine has initiated a new research project to analyse smartphone users’ usage behaviour and personality. He and his team have released an Android app named TYDR: Track Your Daily Routine. With the data from TYDR, they want to research if they can estimate the personality of a smartphone user Read more…
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…
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…
Today, the 12th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems began in Vancouver, Canada. We attend and will present our work on meta-learning reference parsing tools in which we treat reference extraction from scientific articles as a recommendation problem. If you also attend the conference, visit us during the poster session on Thursday. So Read more…
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…
The Irish Research Council (IRC) has published a new call for its “Government of Ireland Postgraduate Scholarship” programme. We are eligible to supervise applicants during their application process and act as PhD supervisor for the 4-year period of the scholarship. Hence, if you are interested in doing a PhD at Read more…
The 3rd call for EU Marie Curie EDGE fellowships has been published. We successfully supported the application of one EDGE fellow a year ago, and we would be happy to support talented candidates this year, too. So, if you are interested in an EDGE fellowship in the field of machine learning, recommender systems or Read more…