Connecting The Dots
On 12 May 2023, Zhang Ce successfully defended his dissertation, entitled “Document Graph Representation Learning”. The gist of it is to derive more holistic...
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The Web Conference 2023 in Austin, Texas
In May 2023, Hady attended The Web Conference 2023 (previously the conference series was known as World Wide Web or WWW). The conference was...
Multi-Modal Recommender Systems: Towards Addressing Sparsity, Comparability, and Explainability
Hoang, Tuan, Aghiles, and Hady will be delivering a tutorial at the ACM Web Conference 2023 conference that will take place in May 2023...
Conferred With Wisdom at WSDM-23
WSDM (pronounced “wisdom”) is one of the premier conferences on web-inspired research involving search and data mining. The WSDM-23 conference took place in Singapore...
EMNLP 2022 in Abu Dhabi
Jia Peng attended the 2022 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2022) in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, from 7 to...
NeurIPS 2022 in New Orleans
Zhang Ce attended the 36th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS-22), which took place 28 November through 9 December, 2022. After two-year virtual...
All Good Recommendations Come with an Explanation
On November 29, 2022, Hoang successfully defended his dissertation entitled “Mining Product Textual Data for Recommendation Explanations”. While we were then coming out of...
KDD 2022 in Washington, D.C.
In August 2022, Hady, Zhang Ce, and Thuat travelled to Washington D.C. to attend the 28th ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data...
Preferably Nonsentimental Defense of Sentiments and Preferences
On 10 February 2022, Tuan Truong successfully defended his dissertation, entitled “Modeling Sentiments and Preferences from Multimodal Data”. In a sign of the times,...
Multi-Modal Recommender Systems: Hands-On Exploration
Tuan, Aghiles, and Hady will be delivering a tutorial at the RecSys-21 conference that will take place in September 2021. The slides and the...
