Ce matin, j’ai trouvé un cours très intéressant par le professeur Panos de l’Université de New York intitulé Search and the New Economy. Le cours est en ligne avec des extraits vidéo.

André Vellino donnera une conférence en français sur les systèmes de recommandations dans nos bureaux (100, rue Sherbrooke ouest, local 2720) à 12h30 ce jeudi (21 février 2008).

Recommender systems for scientific digital libraries that have been the subject of experiments in recent years have used corpora that are primarily in the field of computer science. However, designing an effective recommender system for journal articles in a broader Scientific, Technical and Medical (STM) digital library poses special challenges and presents unique opportunities.

This talk describes a recommender system for scientific scholarly articles that is both hybrid (content and collaborative filtering based) and multi-dimensional (across different rating criteria.) Our hypothesis is that such a design for a recommendation engine can improve scientists’ ability to discover new knowledge from a digital library provided that an interface to these recommendations can simultaneously offer explanations for the recommendations and increase the user’s control over how the recommender behaves.

Cette conférence sera diffusée sur le web avec une technologie Microsoft: mms://mediasrv.lorit.ca/presentation.

Yahoo! embauche des spécialistes de la recherche d’informations à Montréal. Fernando Diaz — un chercheur en recherche d’informations chez Yahoo! — m’a envoyé l’offre d’emploi suivante (en anglais).

Machine Learning / NLP / Information Retrieval Researcher

Yahoo! Applied Research Lab
Montreal, QC

Job Responsibilities

The NLP group in Yahoo’s Applied Research Lab is looking for an researcher with the following qualifications:

-Strong knowledge of the Information Retrieval (IR) field
-Deep familiarity and hands-on experience in machine learning techniques
-Ability to conduct experiments involving massive data sources (mainly text and data mining)
-Background in natural language processing or computational linguistics
-Proven experience in software development in the fields mentioned above

Minimum Job Qualifications

The work that this researcher is expected to be conducting will be in the general area of Information Retrieval, typically will be related to one of Yahoo!’s initiatives in the area of search, including but not limited to relevance ranking, question answering, information extraction, text classification or subjectivity analysis. The candidate will be expected to have impact on product initiatives and at the same time will be encouraged to contribute to the general research community by active participation in scientific forums, publications, etc.

Masters Degree required

Preferable Job Qualifications

PhD

Yahoo! Inc. is an equal opportunity employer. For more information, please contact Fernando Diaz (diazf@yahoo-inc.com), Jean-François Crespo (jfcrespo@yahoo-inc.com), or visit http://careers.yahoo.com.