Congrads to Dr Yoed Kenett for being recognized as a rising star creativity researcher and contribute to a SI in Creativity Research Journal reflecting on his past, current, and future research.
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Tuval Raz had published his first paper: “The Role of Asking More Complex Questions in Creative Thinking”
Tuval Raz finds creative thinking is related to the ability to ask more complex questions- validating new task to assess question generation: the Alternative Questions Task (AQT).
check this out: Raz, Reiter-Palmon, & Kenett, 2023
Tuval Raz won Judges award for best student showcase – Division 10 APA 2023 conference
Congradulations to our talented Tuval Raz for winning the ‘Judges award for best student showcase – Division 10 APA 2023 conference’ in Washington DC. We are proud of you!
Dr Yoed Kenett was a guest on the “What Happens Tomorrow” radio show. Click to listen
Dr Yoed Kenett was a guest on the “What Happens Tomorrow” radio show click to listen on minute 36.50
Dr Yoed Kenett was a guest on Gideon Sa’ar’s radio show “For Adults Only” on 103 FM
Dr Yoed Kenett was a guest on Gideon Sa’ar’s radio show “For Adults Only” on 103 FM and was talking about his aging research.
For listening : click here
Tuval Raz won the Jay Y. Tabb Prize for excellent graduate research
Congratulations to our Tuval who won the “Jay Y. Tabb Prize for excellent graduate research” for his work: The role of Question asking in Creative thinking!
Talia Wise won third place at the faculty research day!
Our Talia Wise won third place with her research: “Sparking creativity: Encouraging creative idea generation through automatically generated word recommendation” and will represent the faculty on the Technion research day.
Congratulations to Gal Sasson for the publication of her firs paper
Congratulations to Gal Sasson for the publication of her firs paper: A Mirror to Human Question Asking: Analyzing the Akinator. Online Question Game
We are extremely excited to start the new year with the official publication of the first paper of a student to come out of the lab, and the first paper (out of many to come) of Gal Sasson.
Download as PDF: click here.
Paint by algorithm: Can AI make art, or is it all just derivative?
Drawing on advances in machine learning, engineers are pushing the boundaries of creativity, creating a new medium and raising questions about what art can be. An interview with several researchers and Dr. Kenett among them on this fascinating topic.
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Ariel Nitzav’s team won the first place in the 2021 Information Retrieval Competition
06.04.21
Our very own Ariel Nitzav, together with his teammate Eilam Shapira, came in first place in the Information Retrieval Competition, held as part of the Information Retrieval course presented by Prof. Oren Kurland from the Industrial Engineering and Management faculty at the Technion. Their performance score was the highest in the competition in recent years.
The task of the competition is to design and fine-tune a search engine to be tested on a newswire collection (TREC ROBUST-04). The winning team in the competition would be the one to design a search engine which would achieve the best MAP score.
As a training set, the teams are given a collection of 50 queries (out of a total of 249). The articles in the collection are manually ranked according to their relevance to each of the queries beforehand, and their aim is to design a search engine which would match those rankings most accurately. The performance of the teams is evaluated by the course staff using the other 199 queries.
Ariel and Eilam’s search engine was constructed using the Indri toolkit and a Python script which fused rankings induced by optimized RM3 and Okapi-BM25 models and achieved a MAP score of 0.3168 on the test set. The method they used outperformed machine-based fusion models used by other competitors.
For further details we invite you to check out a short presentation which elaborates on their model’s mathematical background as well as two other models submitted by them for the competition.