This is the list of talks I gave and posters I presented:
2018
Learning from Samples of Variable Quality
Invited talk, Computer Science Department, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, Scotland. [slides]
2017
Training Deep Neural Networks with Weak Supervision
IPM Data Science Meetup, Institute for Research in Fundamental Sciences, Tehran, Iran. [slides]
Learning to Learn from Weak Supervision by Full Supervision
NIPS2017 workshop on Meta-Learning (MetaLearn 2017), Long Beach, California, United State. [poster]
Training Neural Rankers with Weak Supervsion
The 16th Dutch-Belgian Information Retrieval Workshop, (DIR'17), Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision, Hilversum, The Netherlands. [slides]
Learning to Attend, Copy, and Generate for Session-Based Query Suggestion
International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM'17), Singapore. [slides]
On Search Powered Navigation
The 3rd ACM International Conference on the Theory of Information Retrieval (ICTIR2017), Amsterdam, The Netherlands. [poster]
Share your Model instead of your Data: Privacy Preserving Mimic Learning for Ranking
Neu-IR: Workshop on Neural Information Retrieval, Tokyo, Japan. [poster]
Neural Ranking Models with Weak Supervision
The 40th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR'17), Tokyo, Japan. [slides]
Neural Networks for Information Retrieval
Full-day tutorial at the 40th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR'17), Tokyo, Japan. [website]
Telling how to narrow it down: Effect of Browsing Path Recommendation on Exploratory Search
ACM SIGIR Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval (CHIIR'17), Oslo, Norway. [poster]
SWLM: Neither General, Nore Specific, But Significant
Invited talk, Information Retrieval Group, Universita’ della Svizzera Italiana (University of Lugano), Lugano, Switzerland. [slides]
2016
Inoculating Relevance Feedback against Poison Pills
15th Dutch-Belgian Information Retrieval Workshop, TU Delft's campus, Delft, The Netherlands. [slides]
UvA-ExPoSe at TREC 2016: Contextual Suggestion Track
Text REtrieval Conference (TREC) 2016 at NIST in Gaithersburg, Md. USA. [slides]
Luhn Revisited: Significant Words Language Models
The ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM'16), Indianapolis, Indiana, USA. [slides]
The Healing Power of Poison: Helpful Non-relevant Documents in Feedback
The ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM'16), Indianapolis, Indiana, USA. [poster]
On Horizontal and Vertical Separation in Hierarchical Text Classification
ACM SIGIR International Conference on the Theory of Information Retrieval (ICTIR'16), Newark, Delaware, USA. [slides]
Distributional Semantics for Medical Information Extraction
Conference and Labs of the Evaluation Forum (CLEF'16), Évora, Portugal. [poster]
Two-Way Parsimonious Classification Models for Evolving Hierarchies
Conference and Labs of the Evaluation Forum (CLEF'16), Évora, Portugal. [slides]
Significant Words Representations of Entities
International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR2016), Pisa, Italy. (Best Presentation Award) [slides]
Poison Pills and Antidotes, Inoculation Relevance Feedback
Institute for Logic, Language and Computation, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands. [slides]
Two-Way Parsimonious Relevance Models
ILPS group, Informatics Institute of the University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands. [slides]
On Horizontal and Vertical Separation in Hierarchical Text Classification
ILPS group, Informatics Institute of the University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands. [slides]
Generalized Group Profiling for Content Customization
ACM SIGIR Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval (CHIIR'16), Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA. [poster]
Generalized Group Profiling for Content Customization
ILPS group, Informatics Institute of the University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands. [slides]
2015
Learning to Combine Sources of Evidence for Indexing Political Texts
Dutch-Belgian Information Retrieval Workshop, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
WikiCat Browser: Projecting the Data into the External Knowledge Bases for Better Exploratory Search
Talk of Europe-Creative Camp #3, National Library of the Netherlands, The Hague, Netherlands. [slides]
Revisiting Optimal Rank Aggregation: A Dynamic Programming Approach
ACM SIGIR International Conference on the Theory of Information Retrieval (ICTIR'15), Northampton, Massachusetts, USA. [poster]
Are Topically Diverse Documents Also Interesting?
Conference and Labs of the Evaluation Forum (CLEF'15), Toulouse, France. [poster]
Generalized Language Models of Hierarchical Entities
Invited talk, Database Research Group, University of Twente, Enschede, Netherlands.
Sources of evidence for automatic indexing of political texts
European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR'15), Vienna, Austria.(Best Poster Award) [poster]
Indexing of Political Texts: Combining Different Sources of Evidence
Digging into Linked Parliamentary Data (DiLiPaD) project meeting, Amsterdam, Netherlands. [slides]
Hierarchical Classification of Parliamentary Data
Digging into Linked Parliamentary Data (DiLiPaD) project meeting, Amsterdam, Netherlands. [slides]
2014
Multilingual Email Mining
ILPS group, Informatics Institute of the University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
2013
Email Management in Multilingual Environments
MSc thesis defense session, The University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran. [slides]
2012
An Introduction to Bioinformatic
Invited talk at Shahrood University of Technology, Shahrood, Semnan, Iran.
Internet Frauds
6th International Digital Media Fair,Tehran, Iran.
An Evolutionary-Based Method for Reconstructing Conversation Threads in Email Corpora
The 2012 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining (ASONAM), Istanbul, Turkey. [slides]
A Brief Overview of Trends in Data Mining and Intelligent Information Processing
Invited talk at Shahrood University of Technology, Shahrood, Semnan, Iran.
2011
Email Security
5th International Digital Media Fair, Tehran, Iran.
2010
Personalizing Search Engine Results Based on User Behavior
Iran Data Mining Conference (IDMC'04), Iran, Tehran.