SIKS course Advances in Information Retrieval

The concept schedule for the new SIKS course “Advances in Information Retrieval” is out, featuring the best IR research in the Netherlands, if I may say so. More information at: http://www.siks.nl/IR-2021.php

Monday 4 October 2021

9:30h.

Welcome / coffee


10:00h – 11:45h.

Lecture 1
(2 x 45 minutes)

Mohammad Aliannejadi and Antonis Krasakis (Univerity of Amsterdam)
Conversational Search

12:00 – 12:45h.

Lecture 2
(45 minutes)

Rolf Jagerman (Google) and Harrie Oosterhuis (Radboud University)
Unbiased Learning to Rank, Part 1

12:45 – 13:45h.

Lunch


13:45 – 16:15h.

Lecture 2
(3 x 40 minutes)

Harrie Oosterhuis (Radboud University) and Rolf Jagerman (Google)
Unbiased Learning to Rank, Part 2

16:30 – 18:00h.

Lecture 3
(2 x 40 minutes)

Christine Bauer (Utrecht University)
Multi-method evaluation

18:30h.

Dinner


Tuesday 5 October 2021

8:30h. – 10:15h.

Lecture 4
(2 x 45 minutes)

Faegheh Hasibi (Radboud University)
Knowledge graphs & semantic search

10:30 – 12:15h.

Lecture 5
(2 x 45 minutes)

Jaap Kamps (University of Amsterdam)
Neural Information Retrieval

12:15 – 13:30h.

Lunch


13:30 – 15:15h.

Lecture 6
(2 x 45 minutes)

David Maxwell (Delft University of Technology)
Interactive Information Retrieval

15:30h.

Closing