--- title: "Maarten de Rijke — author profile and papers in our library" description: "Maarten de Rijke, University of Amsterdam: 4 papers on Elamur Research (2020–2026), h-index 75 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/maarten-de-rijke/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/maarten-de-rijke/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Maarten de Rijke # Maarten de Rijke Maarten de Rijke has 4 papers in our library, in 2020–2026, most of them on [Multilingual & cross-lingual NLP](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multilingual-nlp/), [Semitic languages](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semitic-languages/), [Information retrieval & search](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/information-retrieval/); often with [Evangelos Kanoulas](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/evangelos-kanoulas/), [Kidist Amde Mekonnen](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kidist-amde-mekonnen/), [Yosef Worku Alemneh](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yosef-worku-alemneh/). 4 papers in our library · 2020–2026 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5031439294) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1086-0202) · [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6721195) · [**h-index 75**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5031439294) · [1,276 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5031439294) · [30,258 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5031439294&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 4 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/maarten-de-rijke/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 61 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/maarten-de-rijke/cited-by/) · [7 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #9258](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/93/#star-9258) The profile is the library's match of the name; two people with one name are not always told apart. Elsewhere: [Google Scholar](https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=search_authors&mauthors=Maarten+de+Rijke) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Maarten+de+Rijke) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Maarten+de+Rijke) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Maarten+de+Rijke) ## Affiliations [🎓**University of Amsterdam** Amsterdam · Netherlands 1990–2026 · 969 papersEducation 1990–1993 · PhDEmployment 1998–2001 · Assistant professor, Institute for Logic, Language and ComputationEmployment 2002–2004 · Associate professor, Institute for Logic, Language and ComputationEmployment since 2004 · Academic, University Professor, Information and Language Processing Syst (IVI, FNWI)Employment 2004–2018 · Professor, Informatics InstituteEmployment since 2011 · Academic, CommunicationEmployment since 2018 · Distinguished University Professor*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-amsterdam/) · [🏢**Ahold Delhaize** Zaandam · Netherlands 2020–2021 · 49 papersEmployment 2020–2021 · VP Personalization and Relevance](https://ror.org/01v6p2g18) · [🎓**University of Warwick** Coventry · United Kingdom 1995–1998 · 14 papersEmployment 1996–1997 · Warwick Research Fellow, Department of Computer Science](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-warwick/) · [🔬**Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica** Amsterdam · Netherlands 1994–1995 · 5 papersEmployment 1994–1995](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/centrum-wiskunde-informatica/) · [🏢**Ahold Delhaize** Carlisle · United States 2020–2021 · 2 papers](https://ror.org/00mc4x834) 🏛️**Innovation Center for Artificial Intelligence** Amsterdam · [Netherlands](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/countries/netherlands/) 2018Employment since 2018 · Scientific director 🏛️**Centrum Wiskunde en Informatica** Amsterdam · [Netherlands](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/countries/netherlands/) 1994–1995Employment 1994–1995 · Postdoc From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 9 more institutions on single bylines are not listed. ## Fields, topics and concepts Of its works in our library, with the number of works on each. 📚 Shelves 5 The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).[Arts and Humanities · 4 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Computer Science · 4 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) · [Artificial Intelligence · 4 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/artificial-intelligence/) · [Information Systems · 4 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/information-systems/) · [Language and Linguistics · 4 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) 🧭 Topics 4 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Information retrieval & search · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/information-retrieval/) · [Multilingual & cross-lingual NLP · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multilingual-nlp/) · [Semitic languages · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semitic-languages/) · [Evaluation & benchmarks · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/evaluation-benchmarks/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2026** 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/maarten-de-rijke/year/2026/) · [**2025** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/maarten-de-rijke/year/2025/) · [**2020** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/maarten-de-rijke/year/2020/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[WN-Salience: A Corpus of News Articles with Entity Salience Annotations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/wu-2020-wn-salience-corpus-news-articles/)** *(2020 · 11 citations)* Research on entity salience, which asks which of the many entities in a text are actually central to it, has been held back by a shortage of suitable data. 2. **[Optimized Text Embedding Models and Benchmarks for Amharic Passage Retrieval](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/mekonnen-2025-optimized-text-embedding-models-benchmarks/)** *(2025 · 4 citations)* Amharic is a low-resource Semitic language with root-and-pattern morphology and the Ge'ez abugida script. Neither lexical matching nor large multilingual embedders handle it well, and the authors trace much of the trouble to poor subword segmentation. They fine-tune existing Amharic BERT and RoBERTa checkpoints… 3. **[Query Decomposition for RAG: Balancing Exploration-Exploitation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/petcu-2026-query-decomposition-rag-balancing-exploration/)** *(2026 · 2 citations)* In RAG, complex requests are often split into sub-queries. Pulling a fixed number of documents for each one, however, floods the generator with irrelevant text and can overflow the context window. Petcu et al. treat the choice of which sub-query to read from, and how far down its ranked list to go, as a multi-armed… 4. **[The Multilingual Curse at the Retrieval Layer: Evidence from Amharic](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/alemneh-2026-multilingual-curse-retrieval-layer-evidence/)** *(2026)* The paper asks whether multilingual retrievers that score well zero-shot actually transfer to an underrepresented, morphologically rich language. ## All works 11 works of theirs in our library, the most cited first; 4 with a page here, the others link their original until we summarise them. 1. **[Siamese CBOW: Optimizing Word Embeddings for Sentence Representations ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P16-1089/) Proceedings of the 54th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers) · no summary yet**Tom Kenter, Alexey Borisov, Maarten de Rijke*2016 · 277 citations* 2. **[RepeatNet: A Repeat Aware Neural Recommendation Machine for Session-Based Recommendation ↗](https://doi.org/10.1609/aaai.v33i01.33014806) Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence · no summary yet**Pengjie Ren et al.*2019 · 266 citations* 3. **[A Survey on Variational Autoencoders in Recommender Systems ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/3663364) ACM Computing Surveys · no summary yet**Shangsong Liang et al.*2024 · 88 citations* 4. **[Conversational Recommendation: Formulation, Methods, and Evaluation ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/3397271.3401419) International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR) · no summary yet**Wenqiang Lei et al.*2020 · 77 citations* 5. **[An Intent-guided Collaborative Machine for Session-based Recommendation ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/3397271.3401273) International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR) · no summary yet**Zhiqiang Pan et al.*2020 · 51 citations* 6. **[WN-Salience: A Corpus of News Articles with Entity Salience Annotations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/wu-2020-wn-salience-corpus-news-articles/) [Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/lrec/)**Chuan Wu, Evangelos Kanoulas, Maarten de Rijke, et al.*2020 · 11 citations* 7. **[Diversifying Task-oriented Dialogue Response Generation with Prototype Guided Paraphrasing ↗](https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.03391) arXiv:2008.03391 · no summary yet**Phillip Lippe; Pengjie Ren; Hinda Haned; Bart Voorn;, Maarten de Rijke*2020 · 10 citations* 8. **[Optimized Text Embedding Models and Benchmarks for Amharic Passage Retrieval](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/mekonnen-2025-optimized-text-embedding-models-benchmarks/) [Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/findings/)**Kidist Amde Mekonnen, Yosef Worku Alemneh, Maarten de Rijke*2025 · 4 citations* 9. **[Query Decomposition for RAG: Balancing Exploration-Exploitation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/petcu-2026-query-decomposition-rag-balancing-exploration/) [Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/eacl/)**Roxana Petcu, Kenton Murray, Daniel Khashabi, et al.*2026 · 2 citations* 10. **[The Multilingual Curse at the Retrieval Layer: Evidence from Amharic](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/alemneh-2026-multilingual-curse-retrieval-layer-evidence/) [Workshop on Multilinguality in the Era of Large Language Models](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/mellm/)**Yosef Worku Alemneh, Kidist Amde Mekonnen, Maarten de Rijke*2026* 11. **[Chaos for Efficient Statistical Inference and Simulation ↗](https://openalex.org/W2588017080) no summary yet**Maarten de Rijke, Max Welling*2013* ## Co-authors here 9 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Evangelos Kanoulas](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/evangelos-kanoulas/) ×2 - [Kidist Amde Mekonnen](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kidist-amde-mekonnen/) ×2 - [Yosef Worku Alemneh](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yosef-worku-alemneh/) ×2 - [Chuan Wu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/chuan-wu/) - [Daniel Khashabi](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/daniel-khashabi/) - [Dawn Lawrie](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/dawn-lawrie/) - [Kenton Murray](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kenton-murray/) - [Kevin Duh](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kevin-duh/) - [Wei Lu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/wei-lu/) ## Venues Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page. - International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR) ×2 - [Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/eacl/): [EACL 2026](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/eacl/2026/) - [Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/findings/): [Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics 2025](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/findings/2025/) - [Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/lrec/): [LREC 2020](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/lrec/2020/) - [Workshop on Multilinguality in the Era of Large Language Models](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/mellm/): [Workshop on Multilinguality in the Era of Large Language Models 2026](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/mellm/2026/) - ACM Computing Surveys - Proceedings of the 54th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers) - Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 61 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [9 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/maarten-de-rijke/cited-by/). Updated 1 November 2026