Month: April 2017

SIGIR’17 contributions

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We have a number of contributions accepted at this year’s ACM SIGIR conference.

  • “EntiTables: Smart Assistance for Entity-Focused Tables” (full paper) by S. Zhang and K. Balog [PDF].
  • “Dynamic Factual Summaries for Entity Cards” (full paper) by F. Hasibi, K. Balog, and S. E. Bratsberg [PDF].
  • “Target Type Identification for Entity-Bearing Queries” (short paper) by D. Garigliotti, F. Hasibi, and K. Balog [PDF].
  • “Generating Query Suggestions to Support Task-Based Search” (short paper) by D. Garigliotti and K. Balog [PDF].
  • “DBpedia-Entity v2: A Test Collection for Entity Search” (resource paper) by F. Hasibi, F. Nikolaev, C. Xiong, K. Balog, S. E. Bratsberg, A. Kotov, and J. Callan [PDF].
  • “Nordlys: A Toolkit for Entity-Oriented and Semantic Search” (demo paper) by F. Hasibi, K. Balog, D. Garigliotti, and S. Zhang [PDF].

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IAI@ECIR’17

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This week, we are presenting two papers at the 39th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR ’17) in Aberdeen, Scotland UK.

  • “Entity Linking in Queries: Efficiency vs. Effectiveness“, a full paper by Faegheh Hasibi, Krisztian Balog, and Svein Erik Bratsberg [PDF]
  • “Design Patterns for Fusion-Based Object Retrieval“, a short paper by Shuo Zhang and Krisztian Balog [PDF]