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

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Microsoft Research News

An interview with Microsoft President Brad Smith
Episode 113 | April 1, 2020 - Brad Smith is the President of Microsoft and leads a team of more than 1400 employees in 56 countries. He plays a key role in spearheading the company’s work on critical issues involving the intersection of technology and society. In his spare time, he’s also an author! We were fortunate to catch up with Brad who, late on a Frid […]
Alt text that informs: Meeting the needs of people who are blind or low vision
Image descriptions are vital to making digital content fully accessible to people who are blind or have low vision. However, as past research has shown, content authors often leave out these descriptions—also known as “alternative text” or “alt text”—for images on the web and on social media, making AI-based vision-to-language services that automatically gen […]
Extending the reach of care: Tending to patients using chat app technology
According to a report released by World Bank and the World Health Organization in 2017, there are nearly 4 billion people worldwide, that’s half of the world population, who lack access to essential healthcare. Although delivering high-quality patient-centered care is at the heart of good healthcare, this is no easy task due to both cost […] The post Extendi […]

Recent MSR Publications

An interview with Microsoft President Brad Smith
Episode 113 | April 1, 2020 - Brad Smith is the President of Microsoft and leads a team of more than 1400 employees in 56 countries. He plays a key role in spearheading the company’s work on critical issues involving the intersection of technology and society. In his spare time, he’s also an author! We were fortunate to catch up with Brad who, late on a Frid […]
Alt text that informs: Meeting the needs of people who are blind or low vision
Image descriptions are vital to making digital content fully accessible to people who are blind or have low vision. However, as past research has shown, content authors often leave out these descriptions—also known as “alternative text” or “alt text”—for images on the web and on social media, making AI-based vision-to-language services that automatically gen […]
Extending the reach of care: Tending to patients using chat app technology
According to a report released by World Bank and the World Health Organization in 2017, there are nearly 4 billion people worldwide, that’s half of the world population, who lack access to essential healthcare. Although delivering high-quality patient-centered care is at the heart of good healthcare, this is no easy task due to both cost […] The post Extendi […]

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