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…
Our paper “Document Embeddings vs. Keyphrases vs. Terms: An Online Evaluation in Digital Library Recommender Systems” was accepted for publication at the ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries. 1 Introduction Many recommendation algorithms are available to operators of recommender systems in Read more…
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 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 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], 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 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. 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 Read more…
Our paper “A Novel Approach to Recommendation Algorithm Selection using Meta-Learning” was accepted for publication at the 26th Irish Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science (AICS): Introduction The ‘algorithm selection problem’ describes the challenge of finding the most effective algorithm 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, 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 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 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 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 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 Read more…