NewsREEL Multimedia @ MediaEval Benchmark 2018

Author: Andreas Lommatzsch

The MediaEval Benchmarking is an Initiative for Multimedia Evaluation offering data and challenges in the form of shared tasks. MediaEval focusses on innovative algorithms and methods for exploring and retrieval multi-media data. The provided data typically cover several modalities such as audio-visual (video, audio), textual, and contextual data.

NewsREEL Multimedia (News Recommendation […]

8th Conference of the CLEF Initiative in Dublin

Author: Andreas Lommatzsch

The 8th conference of the CLEF initiative has been held at the Trinity College in Dublin from September 11th till September 14th. The CLEF initiative is a European campaign focusing on evaluation methods in Information Retrieval and related fields.

The News Recommendation Lab (NewsREEL) runs as a CLEF lab the third year. […]

ACM Conference on Recommender Systems 2017

The 11th edition of the ACM Conference on Recommender Systems will take place in Como, Italy, in the time 27-31 August, 2017. The conference features three keynotes, a panel discussion, eleven paper and three industry sessions, three tutorials, and thirteen workshops. On Tuesday, 29 August 11 a.m., Benjamin Kille will present the article “Recommending Personalised […]

International Conference on Web Intelligence

The IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence will take place 23-26 August, 2017, in Leipzig, Germany. The conference is co-located with the 15th German International Conference on Multiagent Systems Technologies (MATES). It features six keynotes, seven paper sessions, seven tutorials, and nine workshops one of which is the International Workshop on News Recommendation and Analytics. […]

NewsReel at the Algorithms & Data Challenges Meetup

Author: Till Plumbaum

We presented our CLEF Newsreel Challenge at the Algorithms with Friends II Meetup in Berlin with around 100 participants. Andreas talked about the challenges and findings of the third year of NewsReel, which focused on offline vs online evaluation and stream recommendations. We got very positive feedback from the crowd and are […]

Algorithms & Data Challenges Meetup

Author: Till Plumbaum

In March I presented the Deutsche Bahn Digital Header Challenge at the Algorithms & Data Challenges meetup.

On July 11th, the next Algorithms & Data Challenges meetup is hosted by Zalando and we are returning to present results. I will present results from the DB Challenge and Andreas Lommatzsch will present […]

ACM Conference on Recommender Systems 2015

Author: Benjamin Kille

In 2015, ACM RecSys took place from 16-20 September in Vienna, Austria. The conference featured two keynotes, five academic sessions, two industry sessions, four tutorials, and ten workshops. More than 450 attendees created a viable atmosphere actively exchanging ideas and engaging in discussions.

Frank Hopfgartner (University of Glasgow), Tobias Heintz (plista GmbH), […]

NewsREEL @ CLEF 2015 in Toulouse

Author: Andreas Lommatzsch

The 2015 conference of the CLEF association was held in Toulouse (France). CLEF is an evaluation campaign stimulating the research on challenging questions in the Information Retrieval and related domains. CLEF focuses on evaluation methodologies and datasets. There are currently seven different labs each offering challenges and datasets.

CC IRML in cooperation […]

Recurrences

The sixth international recurrence plot symposium was held in Grenoble, France, in June 2015. On that occasion our research team presented an approximation of diagonal line based measures in recurrence quantification analysis. Recurrence plot based methods (e.g. recurrence quantification analysis) are modern methods of nonlinear data analysis.

Supporting Complex Search Tasks @ ECIR 2015, Vienna Austria

Author: Erwin Gunadi

We presented our paper titled “Applied Distributed Information Retrieval in Enterprise Search” at the SCST Workshop in Vienna, Austria. The workshop was held as part of ECIR 2015 and dedicated to bring together a diverse group of researchers to discuss and exchange ideas about supporting complex search task. In this workshop, there […]