CHIIR

What an honor that my recent work with Andrés Ferraro is featured as an example for research on Equality, Diversity & Inclusion at Utrecht University’s website. There is also a sneak peek to an upcoming work with Johanna Devaney.

I am very happy that our CHIIR paper Break the Loop: Gender Imbalance in Music Recommenders with Andrés Ferraro and Xavier Serra received a lot of media attention. It will take a while until I can integrate all the media articles (that I am aware of) in my website.

This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article. Music recommendation algorithms are unfair to female artists, but we can change that. Algorithms help lots of people discover new music.

Andrés Ferraro will present our joint paper at CHIIR 2021. In the paper with the title Break the Loop: Gender Imbalance in Music Recommenders, we investigate the imbalance in music recommendations with respect to the artists gender.

As recommender systems play an important role in everyday life, there is an increasing pressure that such systems are fair. Besides …

While CHIIR 2020 had to be cancelled due to the current global situation with Covid-19, the paper accompanying the tutorial on multi-method evaluation (that I would have held there) is published.

Research in the field of information retrieval and recommendation mostly focuses on one single evaluation method and one single quality …

Unfortunately, CHIIR 2020 was cancelled. This is really sad news. I was so much looking forward to holding the tutorial on multi-method evaluation. Meanwhile, you can have a look at https://multimethods.

Are you interested in attending my CHIIR 2020 tutorial on multi-method evaluation (Leveraging multiple methods to answer what you were looking for)? Consider preparing a small (very small!) task for the tutorial.

I am happy to announce that I will give a tutorial with the title ‘‘Leveraging multiple methods to answer what you were looking for’’ at CHIIR 2020. Details will follow.