• Maximilian and Manfred presented our contributions on “Pairwise Learning to Rank for Hit Song Prediction” and “Detection of Generated Text Reviews by Leveraging Methods from Authorship Attribution: Predictive Performance vs. Resourcefulness” at the BTW conference this week [03/2023].
• Our report on the 2nd Workshop on the Perspectives on the Evaluation of Recommender Systems (PERSPECTIVES 2022) at RecSys 2022 has been published in the December issue of SIGIR Forum [02/2023].
• Just joined the senior program committee for this year’s SIGIR conference [01/2023].
• I will serve as a workshop co-chair for the Annual Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI) 2024 [01/2023].
• We will present our paper “Verse versus Chorus: Structure-aware Feature Extraction for Lyrics-based Genre Recognition” at the 23rd International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference (ISMIR 2022) this week [12/2022].
• At last week’s CIKM conference, Marta presented our paper “Music4All-Onion – A Large-Scale Multi-Faceted Content-Centric Music Recommendation Dataset”, available here [10/2022].
• Will hold a talk at SEA: Search Engines Amsterdam on October 5th, 2022 about beyond-mainstream music listeners [10/2022].
• Honoured to receive one of the “Women in RecSys: Journal Paper of the Year Awards” at ACM RecSys for our paper “Leveraging Affective Hashtags for Ranking Music Recommendations”, together with Yi-Hsuan Yang, Chih-Ming Chen, and Ming-Feng Tsai [09/2022].
• I’m very proud that our survey paper “Evaluating Recommender Systems: Survey and Framework” was just accepted at ACM Computing Surveys and is already available online (together with Christine Bauer) [09/2022].
• Check out the program and teaser videos of our Perspectives workshop at ACM RecSys [09/2022].
• I just added overview papers for the Style Change Detection task I co-organized at PAN@CLEF to the list of publications [09/2022].
• Our paper “Unsupervised Graph Embeddings for Session-based Recommendation with Item Features” has been accepted at the Context-Aware Recommender Systems Workshop at RecSys 2022. This is joint work together with Andreas Peintner, Marta Moscati, Emilia Parada-Cabaleiro, and Markus Schedl [08/2022].
• Our paper “Music4All-Onion. A Large-Scale Multi-faceted Content-Centric Music Recommendation Dataset” was accepted as resource paper at the 31st ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM). This is joint work together with Marta Moscati, Emilia Parada-Cabaleiro, Yashar Deldjoo, and Markus Schedl [08/2022].
• Our paper “Verse versus Chorus: Structure-aware Feature Extraction for Lyrics-based Genre Recognition” has been accepted at ISMIR 2022 [07/2022].
• I just joined the programme committee for WSDM 2023 [06/2022].

• Humans and Recommender Systems: Towards a Mutual Understanding (principal investigator)
  funded by Austrian Research Fund (FWF)
  2021-2024, 600,000 EUR
• GoStudent - Q&A Matching (principal investigator)
  funded by Austrian Research Promotion Agency (FFG)
  2019-2020, 89,000 EUR
  
• Digitization and Visualization of Archives and Collections (co-principal investigator)
  funded by Region of Tyrol
  2018-2020, 200,000 EUR

Conference Organization

• Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (UMAP) 2022 (Track Chair Personalized Recommender Systems)
• ACM Hypertext 2022 (Track Chair Adaptive Web and Recommender Systems)
• Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (UMAP) 2021 (Late Breaking Results and Demo Chair)
• International Society on Music Information Retrieval Conference (ISMIR) 2020 (Publication Chair)
• International Society on Music Information Retrieval Conference (ISMIR) 2019 (Tutorials Chair)
• Women in MIR at International Society on Music Information Retrieval Conference (ISMIR) 2018 (WiMIR Chair)

Workshop Organization

• PERSPECTIVES 2022 Workshop: 2nd Perspectives on the Evaluation of Recommender Systems Workshop at ACM Recommender Systems 2022.
• PERSPECTIVES 2021 Workshop: Perspectives on the Evaluation of Recommender Systems Workshop at ACM Recommender Systems 2021.
• 2nd WiMIR Workshop at International Society on Music Information Retrieval Conference (Project Guide for Multi-Dimensional User Models for MIR)
• 1st International Workshop on Multi-Method Evaluation of Personalized Systems @UMAP 2018 – User Modelling, Adaptation and Personalization, 2018.
• 23rd Workshop Grundlagen von Datenbanken 2011.

Challenge Organization

• Multi-Author Analysis Task, PAN@CLEF 2023 (Task Chair)
• Multi-Author Analysis Task, PAN@CLEF 2022 (Task Chair)
• Style Change Detection Task, PAN@CLEF 2021 (Task Chair)
• Style Change Detection Task, PAN@CLEF 2020 (Task Chair)
• Style Change Detection Task, PAN@CLEF 2019 (Task Chair)

Editorial Service

• Guest editor: Special Issue “Perspectives on Recommender Systems Evaluation” in ACM Transactions on Recommender Systems (together with Christine Bauer and Alan Said) [2022-2023]

Reviewing for Conferences

• ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR) [2022, senior PC member 2023]
• ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM) [2023]
• The Web Conference [2022, senior PC member 2023]
• European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR) [2019, 2021-2023]
• International Workshop on Algorithmic Bias in Search and Recommendation [2020-2023]
• ACM International Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys) [2018-2022; best reviewer award nominee 2018]
• International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference (ISMIR) [2016, meta-reviewer 2017-2022]
• Workshop on Adaptive and Personalized Explainable User Interfaces [2022]
• Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (UMAP) [2019-2021]
• International Symposium on Open Collaboration (OpenSym) [2021]
• Workshop on Computational Humanities Research [2020-2021]
• ACM International Conference on Multimedia (ACMMM) [2019-2020]
• ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC) [2015-2020]
• Explainable User Models and Personalized Systems Workshop (ExUM) [2020]
• ACM Conference on Web Science (WebSci) [2019]
• Sound & Music Computing Conference (SMC) [2019]
• Workshop on Explainable and Holistic User Modeling [2019]
• Workshop Engineering Accountable Information Systems [2019]
• International Workshop on Transparent Personalization Methods based on Heterogeneous Personal Data [2019]
• International Conference on New Music Concepts (ICNMC) [2014-2019]
• Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS) [2016-2019]
• Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction (ACII) [2017, 2019]
• CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI) [2018]
• Workshop on Social Aspects in Personalization and Search (SoAPS) [2018]
• International Conference on Semantic Systems (SEMANTiCS) [2014-2018]
• Digital Humanities Austria (DHA) [2017-2018]
• Workshop on Social Media for Personalization and Search (SoMePeaS) [2017]
• International Conference on Advances in Semantic Processing (SemaPro) [2017]
• Workshop on Linked Enterprise Data Services, Provenance, Linking and QualitY (LEDSPLaY) [2017]
• Workshop on Engineering Computer-Human Interaction in Recommender Systems (EnCHIReS) [2016]
• European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS, Social Media in Business and Society) [2016]
• International Conference on Semantic Systems (SEMANTiCS), Poster Track [2014-2016]
• Affect and Sentiment in Multimedia Workshop (ASM) [2015]
• International Workshop on Social Media Retrieval and Analysis (Somera) [2014-2015]
• European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS, Social Media Research and Analytics Track) [2015]
• International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC) [2014]
• International Conference on Semantic Systems (I-Semantics) [2012-2013]

Reviewing for Journals

• ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS)
• ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology (TIST)
• Data Mining and Discovery
• Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery
• Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence: The International Journal of Intelligent Real-Time Automation
• EPJ Data Science
• EURASIP Journal on Audio, Speech, and Music Processing
• Expert Systems with Applications Journal
• Frontiers in AI - Natural Language Processing (member of editorial team)
• Frontiers in Research Metrics and Analytics - Research methods (member of editorial team)
• Information Sciences (Informatics and Computer Science Intelligent Systems Applications)
• International Journal of Multimedia Information Retrieval (IJMIR)
• International Journal on Human-Computer Studies
• Journal Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience
• Journal of Grid Computing
• Journal of Social Network Analysis and Mining (SNAM)
• Knowledge and Information Systems (KAIS)
• PLOS One
• Transactions of the International Society for Music Information Retrieval (TISMIR)
• User Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction (UMUAI)