Djoerd Hiemstra @hiemstra@mastodon.utwente.nl

Mini-Conf ran ICLR 2020 online with 6000(!) participants. That is not that mini, if you ask me.

https://github.com/Mini-Conf/Mini-Conf

Great workshop at #EMNLP2020: Insights from Negative Results in NLP:

https://insights-workshop.github.io

Some beautiful things happen now conferences are going online. Read the post by Stephanie Segura Rodas from Peru who is determined to learn more about search, and now can because #ECIR2020 went online.

https://irsg.bcs.org/informer/2020/05/ecir2020-a-view-from-peru/

Strange deal Dutch universities and Elsevier: "Part of the deal is a stipulation that Dutch universities will buy new data analysis methods from Elsevier" 🤔

https://www.dutchnews.nl/news/2020/05/elsevier-and-dutch-universities-reach-agreement-on-open-access/

How to write good reviews for #EMNLP

https://2020.emnlp.org/blog/2020-05-17-write-good-reviews

The Open Search Foundation wants to build a cooperative search engine:

https://opensearchfoundation.org

The effect of the Coronavirus on the publication of research.

https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2020/05/07/scientific-research-on-the-coronavirus-is-being-released-in-a-torrent

Me: Next year's DB course should be more fun.
Duckduckgo: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=fun+with+sql

BERT fine-tuning tutorial

https://mccormickml.com/2019/07/22/BERT-fine-tuning/

The FAIR Open Access Principles

https://www.fairopenaccess.org/the-fair-open-access-principles/

Another #IR reproducibility study that is worth having a look at: Simple Techniques for Cross-Collection Relevance Feedback.

https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/~jimmylin/publications/Yu_etal_ECIR2019.pdf

This list is crazy 😮

https://predatoryjournals.com/publishers/

Casey Fiesler's nice blog post on why #ACM's copyright licenses have very little practical difference, unless you're prepared to pay $1,700.

https://medium.com/@cfiesler/acm-copyright-licenses-which-should-you-choose-and-how-do-you-handle-third-party-material-dbe87be8b57c

Neil Sainsbury's Mastery with SQL seems pretty complete

https://www.masterywithsql.com

Thank you, RU Faculty of Science! 😋

Whoogle Search: Get Google search results, but without any ads, javascript, AMP links, cookies, or IP address tracking.

https://github.com/benbusby/whoogle-search

This should be the most popular toot in the Fediverse: "a poem reads you", that's just brilliant...

https://cybre.space/@lifning/98835409973873638

Nice, released as open access: "Law for Computer Scientists and Other Folk" by Mireille Hildebrandt

http://global.oup.com/academic/product/9780198860877

#SIGIR 2020 will be completely online!

https://twitter.com/vanessa_murdock/status/1253359465681661952

Also on the web site that shall not be named...

https://www.facebook.com/ECIR2021/