DIR 2021 ½: Week 2

DIR 2021 ½ has teamed up with SEA and we are proud to be organizing DIR 2021 ½ on four consecutive Fridays.

The second week of DIR 2021 ½ will consist of five exciting lightning talks given by different researchers from the Dutch and Belgium IR community.

Ali Vardasbi (University of Amsterdam)
Title: Mixture-Based Correction for Position and Trust Bias in Counterfactual Learning to Rank, CIKM 2021

Sepideh Mesbah (Randstad Groep)
Title: Using RobBERT and eXtreme Multi-Label Classification to Extract Implicit and Explicit Skills From Dutch Job Descriptions, Compjobs 2022.

Hideaki Joko (Radboud University)
Title: Conversational Entity Linking: Problem Definition and Datasets, SIGIR 2021.

Liesbeth Allein (KU Leuven)
TitleTime-aware evidence ranking for fact-checking, Journal of Web Semantics 2021.

Mozhdeh Ariannezhad (University of Amsterdam)
Title: Understanding Multi-channel Customer Behavior in Retail, CIKM 2021.

Hope to see you all this Friday!

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Is anyone counting still counting? These are talks #190, #191, #192, #193, and #194 hosted by SEA.