Djoerd Hiemstra @hiemstra@mastodon.utwente.nl

The unstoppable rise of Sci-Hub:

https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2019/02/19/the-unstoppable-rise-of-sci-hub-how-does-a-new-generation-of-researchers-perceive-sci-hub/

BERT word embedding tutorial by Chris McCormick and Nick Ryan:

http://mccormickml.com/2019/05/14/BERT-word-embeddings-tutorial/

ACM charges 15 dollar for reading Diane Kelly's one page #ICTIR2019 keynote abstract. It even charges me, a "professional member" 10 dollar... 😞

I signed this. The ACM's digital library should have gone full open access a long time ago!

https://www.change.org/p/association-for-computing-machinery-acm-support-open-access

Happy New Year!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xobCI1gkK1M

Merry Christmas from Infomation Modelling and Databases!!

3rd annual ACM FAT Conference on fairness, accountability, and transparency is chaired by Carlos Castillo and
Mireille Hildebrandt

https://fatconference.org/2020/

Poster by @somtoe: Predicting Semantic Labels of Text Regions in Heterogeneous Document Images.

https://djoerdhiemstra.com/2019/predicting-semantic-labels-of-text-regions-in-heterogeneous-document-images/

Hosein Azarbonyad presents approaches for transferring a model for Commitment Detection in Email from one domain to another. #DIR2019

http://ryenwhite.com/papers/AzarbonyadWSDM2019.pdf

Nice idea by Rennings, Moraes, and Hauff: axiomatic datasets constructed specifically to measure what axioms (neural) models adhere to:

https://chauff.github.io/documents/publications/ECIR2019-rennings.pdf #DIR2019

Dietmar Jannach asks the right questions: what should we really measure when researching recommender systems? More Kaggle-style leaderboard chasing? #DIR2019

http://tinyurl.com/dir2019keynote

On my way to DIR lightning edition! http://dir2019.nl

Milan Petkovic awards the Philips MSc thesis award for Data Science and Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare to Jan Trienes. Congrats @jantrienes !

I ditched Google for DuckDuckGo. Here's why you should too:

https://www.wired.co.uk/article/duckduckgo-google-alternative-search-privacy

"Discrimination, Artificial Intelligence and Algorithmic Decision-Making" writen by Frederik Zuiderveen Borgesius for the Anti-discrimination Department of the Council of Europe.

https://rm.coe.int/discrimination-artificial-intelligence-and-algorithmic-decision-making/1680925d73

I wonder how many publications that are eligible for free #OpenAaccess in the Springer Compact agreement (with Austria, Finland, Hungary, Netherlands, Poland, Qatar, Sweden, UK and MPI in Germancy ) are ACTUALLY open access... Anyone keeping scores?

https://www.springer.com/gp/open-access/springer-open-choice/springer-compact

I am shocked by the death of former colleague Arjen Hoekstra who I met at the climate strike of 27 September. Arjen did really important and influential research on water management, and recently received an ERC advanced grant.

https://www.utwente.nl/nieuws/2019/11/178909/in-memoriam-arjen-hoekstra

"Be Paranoid! (Someone is working on your idea right now!)"

https://github.com/lintool/guide/blob/master/paranoid.md

The #Nanquanu Institute does R&D into collective intelligence systems for a more creative, ecologically balanced and fair society.

https://nanquanu.org

Jaap Kamps from his ivory tower: Neural reranking is like using a T-Ford for most of the traveling, and a Ferrari for the last mile... Goal: Ferrari all the way; Means: make models sparse. #SIKS