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…
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: 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 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 Read more…
Update 12/11/2018: Our paper has been accepted at AICS 2018 and will be presented at the conference in December. We have published a pre-print (now available on Arxiv) which outlines our work comparing different syllabuses for curriculum learning. Neural networks 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, 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. 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 Read more…
“Research-Paper Recommender Systems: A Literature Survey”, our survey on recommender systems for research articles and citations is now available open access on Springer via ReadCube https://rdcu.be/5qT7. This survey is our most cited paper (241 citations according to Google Scholar), and we Read more…
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 Read more…
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 Read more…
Update 2019-05-25: Google integrates our NTM implementation in the official TensorFlow release. Update 2018-10-20: Official publication available at SpringerLink Update: 2018-10-06: Our paper received the best-paper award at ICANN. We have released an open source implementation of a Neural Turing Machine Read more…
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 Read more…
We released a new version of RARD, i.e. RARD II and describe the new release in a preprint published on arXiv. The dataset is available at http://data.mr-dlib.org and the new manuscript is available on arXiv and here in our Blog. The Read more…
From the 19th of June until the 2nd of July 2018, I am in Japan at the National Institute of Informatics (NII). It is my first visit as Visiting Professor at the NII, and I am working with Professor Akiko Aizawa Read more…
After being appointed as a visiting professor at the National Institute of Informatics (NII) a few weeks ago, there is more good news. The NII has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the School of Computer Science and Statistics (SCSS) of Trinity Read more…
I am on the advisory board of Iris.ai, a business start-up in the field of open science, blockchain, and artificial intelligence. Iris.ai was founded in 2015 and since then has released several exciting products that have the potential to revolutionize Read more…
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 Read more…