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Attentive Memory Networks: Efficient Machine Reading for Conversational Search
Tom Kenter, Maarten de Rijke
Recent advances in conversational systems have changed the search paradigm. Traditionally, a user poses a query to a search engine that returns an answer based on its index, possib…
Why People Search for Images using Web Search Engines
Xiaohui Xie, Yiqun Liu, Maarten de Rijke +3
What are the intents or goals behind human interactions with image search engines? Knowing why people search for images is of major concern to Web image search engines because user…
Sensitive and Scalable Online Evaluation with Theoretical Guarantees
Harrie Oosterhuis, Maarten de Rijke
Multileaved comparison methods generalize interleaved comparison methods to provide a scalable approach for comparing ranking systems based on regular user interactions. Such metho…
Balancing Speed and Quality in Online Learning to Rank for Information Retrieval
Harrie Oosterhuis, Maarten de Rijke
In Online Learning to Rank (OLTR) the aim is to find an optimal ranking model by interacting with users. When learning from user behavior, systems must interact with users while si…
Conversational Exploratory Search via Interactive Storytelling
Svitlana Vakulenko, Ilya Markov, Maarten de Rijke
Conversational interfaces are likely to become more efficient, intuitive and engaging way for human-computer interaction than today's text or touch-based interfaces. Current resear…
Towards Learning Reward Functions from User Interactions
Ziming Li, Julia Kiseleva, Maarten de Rijke +1
In the physical world, people have dynamic preferences, e.g., the same situation can lead to satisfaction for some humans and to frustration for others. Personalization is called f…