Time Higher Education has published the World University Rankings 2020 and I am very proud that Trinity College Dublin ranks among the top universities. Overall, Trinity College Dublin ranks #164 in the world and #1 in Ireland, before Dublin City Read more…
After a great guest lecture by Conor Gallagher (Zalando) last year, I am delighted to announce that Conor will be giving a presentation in my e-Business I lecture again. The presentation will be on the 19th of November at 10:00 Read more…
On October 1, 2019, I will be giving an invited talk at Huawei’s ‘Planet-Scale Intelligent Cloud Operations Summit’ in The Gibson Hotel Dublin (11:30 o’clock). Abstract: Selecting and configuring the most effective algorithm for a computational problem is a non-trivial Read more…
We welcome Haley, who will be joining us for the 2019/2020 Academic Year. Haley is an Undergraduate Computer Science & Business student here at Trinity College Dublin. She has just completed an international exchange in The University of Sydney Australia Read more…
Laura Tierney joins our group for the next couple of months. Laura is a 4th-year undergraduate student of Mathematics at Trinity College Dublin. She has experience working as a Data Analyst intern and as a Data Quality intern with the Read more…
We are delighted to announce that Dr. Jorge Cardoso will be giving a guest lecture in our machine-learning module, on Wednesday, the 2nd of October at 12:00 o’clock in the Joly Theatre (Hamilton Building). Guests are very welcome to join. Read more…
We were accepted for publication at ComplexRec 2019, the third workshop on Recommendation in Complex Scenarios at the 13th ACM Recommender Systems Conference (RecSys 2019) in Copenhagan, Denmark. Abstract. effectiveness of recommender system algorithms varies in different real-world scenarios. It Read more…
I love Google Scholar, it’s an amazing search engine for academics, and I have done quite a bit of research on Google Scholar, including an analysis of Google Scholar’s ranking algorithm and the effect of citations on ranking, Google Scholar’s Read more…
Our lab is glad to welcome Dr. Avleen Malhi as a visiting postdoc researcher for September 2019 at Trinity College Dublin Ireland. During Avleen’s stay at Trinity College Dublin, her research will be focused on automated machine learning (AutoML) and exploring Siamese neural networks (SNN) for algorithm selection in our recommender-system as-a-service for digital libraries Mr. DLib.
We are pleased to announce that Colin Daly is joining our core group of researchers. Colin is a part-time researcher and will work towards a Ph.D. over a six-year period. Colin has a BSc from University College Cork, an MBA, Read more…
We will present our recommender-system as-a-service Darwin & Goliath at the 7th COSEAL Workshop in Potsdam, Germany. COSEAL is a forum for discussing the most recent advances in the automated configuration and selection of algorithms. It will take place on August Read more…
Abstract. Many recommender-system datasets are pruned, i.e. some data is removed that wouldn’t be removed in a production recommender-system. For instance, the MovieLens dataset contains only data from users who rated 20 or more movies.1 Similarly, some researchers prune data Read more…
I spent the past two weeks at the National Institute of Informatics (NII) in Tokyo, where I am a visiting professor. As always, being in Tokyo was a great experience both on a personal and a professional level. NII is Read more…
Update 2019-08-12: Some numbers presented in this post were incorrect, and we updated them. For the latest full analysis, please refer to extended pre-print of Data Pruning in Recommender Systems Research: Best Practice or Malpractice? Datasets are a key ingredient Read more…
This is the pre-print of our upcoming publication at the 13th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys’19). Joeran Beel, Alan Griffin, and Conor O’Shea. 2019. Darwin & Goliath: A White-Label Recommender-System As-a-Service with Automated Algorithm-Selection. In Proceedings of the 13th Read more…
I am delighted to announce that I was invited to join the editorial board of the International Journal on Digital Libraries (IJDL). I will focus on submissions relating to information retrieval, recommender systems and machine learning in the field of Read more…
Four of our poster and demo submissions got accepted for presentation at the 13th ACM Recommender Systems Conference (RecSys 2019) in Copenhagen in September. The accepted submissions are as follows (pre-prints will follow soon): Darwin & Goliath: A White-Label Recommender-System Read more…
Update 2019-08-14 DAAD published a new website for the IFI programme: www.daad.de/ifi I was invited to join the scientific advisory board for the new IFI programme of the German Academic Exchange Service (Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst – DAAD). The IFI programme Read more…
Our following paper has been accepted at MTSummit 2019 and will be presented at the conference in August. Abstract Memory-augmented neural networks (MANNs) have been shown to outperform other recurrent neural network architectures on a series of artificial sequence learning Read more…
We are delighted to announce a seminar by Prof Theja Tulabandhula from the University of Illinois Chicago. The seminar will start at 10:00 am, Tuesday, 25 of June 2019 in the Small Conference Room in the O’Reilly Institute at Trinity Read more…
Trinity College Dublin has a new website and we are honored that our research about recommender-systems is featured as one of six research projects on TCD’s research page in the #researchMATTERS section.
A few months ago, we — Alan Griffin, Conor O’Shea, and I — started the private beta of our recommender-system as-a-service Darwin & Goliath. Now, we made it to the final round (10 start-ups) of The Ireland Funds Business Plan Read more…
I have been invited to give a talk at the LibTech Workshop at the 48th Annual LIBER Conference. The Library of Trinity College Dublin (TCD) has been cultivating an open innovation research model in partnership with a number of Trinity Read more…
Google integrated our implementation of a Neural Turing Machine (NTM) into its official TensorFlow release 1.14.0. The implementation is based on the work of our student Mark Collier. The work was previously published at the 27th International Conference on Artificial Read more…
The International Journal on Digital Libraries (IJDL) published our manuscript “Choice Overload and Recommendation Effectiveness in Related-Article Recommendations: Analyzing the Sowiport Digital Library”. The paper is freely available as open access via Springer. The paper is an extended version of Read more…