Katja Hofmann

Researcher at Microsoft Research Cambridge, UK

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Future interactive systems will learn directly from their users, and continuously adapt to their preferences. My research goal is to develop exploration, reward, and learning approaches that will make this possible. [...]

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Katja Hofmann

Intelligent Systems Lab Amsterdam
Informatics Institute
University of Amsterdam

Room C3.258
Science Park 904
1098 XH Amsterdam

+31 (20) 525 6767

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Recent Posts

  • Query Formulation with Query Auto-Completion
  • RUSSIR 2014: Lectures on Online Experimentation for Information Retrieval
  • Fast and Reliably Online Learning to Rank for Information Retrieval
  • Practical Online Retrieval Evaluation
  • Balancing Exploration and Exploitation in Online Learning to Rank for IR

Recent Tweets

  • RT @y0b1byte: I've just updated the Atari Grand Challenge dataset and published the first version of data loaders + some utils https://t.co… 1 day ago
  • RT @MSFTResearchCam: 'Frontiers in #AI' is a series of public lectures we host each month. Join us next week for our latest talk! https://t… 3 days ago
  • RT @CharlotteHase: MS research released an information seeking conversation dataset. @CAIRWorkshop Paper: drive.google.com/file/d/0B2W_GA… Data: htt… 5 days ago
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  • Microsoft researchers achieve new conversational speech recognition milestone
    By Xuedong Huang, Technical Fellow, Microsoft Last year, Microsoft’s speech and dialog research group announced a milestone in reaching human parity on the Switchboard conversational speech recognition task, meaning we had created technology that recognized words in a conversation as well as professional human transcribers. After our transcription system rea […]
  • Program that repairs programs: how to achieve 78.3 percent precision in automated program repair
    By Lily Sun, Research Program Manager of Microsoft Research Asia In February 2017, Microsoft and Cambridge University announced a DeepCoder algorithm that produces programs from problem inputs/outputs. DeepCoder, which operates on a novel yet greatly simplified programming language, cannot handle complex problems—general programming languages are still too h […]
  • Creating intelligent water systems to unlock the potential of Smart Cities
    By Satish Sangameswaran, Principal Program Manager, and Vani Mandava, Director, Data Science The newspaper headlines about “Bangalore’s looming water crisis” have been ominous, with one urban planning expert proclaiming that Bangalore will become “unlivable” in a few years because of water scarcity. This is a critical issue that threatens the future of one o […]

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  • Microsoft researchers achieve new conversational speech recognition milestone
    By Xuedong Huang, Technical Fellow, Microsoft Last year, Microsoft’s speech and dialog research group announced a milestone in reaching human parity on the Switchboard conversational speech recognition task, meaning we had created technology that recognized words in a conversation as well as professional human transcribers. After our transcription system rea […]
  • Program that repairs programs: how to achieve 78.3 percent precision in automated program repair
    By Lily Sun, Research Program Manager of Microsoft Research Asia In February 2017, Microsoft and Cambridge University announced a DeepCoder algorithm that produces programs from problem inputs/outputs. DeepCoder, which operates on a novel yet greatly simplified programming language, cannot handle complex problems—general programming languages are still too h […]
  • Creating intelligent water systems to unlock the potential of Smart Cities
    By Satish Sangameswaran, Principal Program Manager, and Vani Mandava, Director, Data Science The newspaper headlines about “Bangalore’s looming water crisis” have been ominous, with one urban planning expert proclaiming that Bangalore will become “unlivable” in a few years because of water scarcity. This is a critical issue that threatens the future of one o […]

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