Conferences

We hosted the 44th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR’22)! It was not only the northernmost ECIR ever but also the first major IR conference in a hybrid format. ECIR’22 was a great success, both in the number of attendees (378 in total, of which 185 in person) and their level of satisfaction. We are glad that we could play a role in facilitating this. The report on the conference is now available online, as well as our Flickr photo album.

Krisztian Balog and former IAI member Shuo Zhang, together with David Maxwell and Paul Thomas, have co-organized a workshop on Simulation for Information Retrieval at SIGIR’21. The summary of the workshop has been published in the December issue of SIGIR Forum [PDF].

We are very excited to host the European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR) next year! ECIR’22 is planned to be held as a physical conference (with support for remote attendance) in Stavanger, Norway, which would be the northernmost location in the history of the conference.

Check the website and follow us on Twitter for updates.

Shuo Zhang and Krisztian Balog will give a half-day tutorial at this year’s SIGIR conference on Web Table Extraction, Retrieval and Augmentation.

IAI will be present at ECIR’19 in Cologne:

• Krisztian Balog will give a keynote On Entities and Evaluation
• Jan Trienes will present a full paper entitled Identifying Unclear Questions in Community Question Answering Websites [preprint]
• Trond Linjordet will present a short paper entitled Impact of Training Dataset Size on Neural Answer Selection Models [preprint]

You will have a number of opportunities to hear about our research at the 41st International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR ’18), starting this Sunday:

• Darío Garigliotti and Shuo Zhang will present their thesis work at the Doctoral Consortium on Sunday, July 8.
• Shuo Zhang will present the demo SmartTable: A Spreadsheet Program with Intelligent Assistance on Monday, July 9 (15:30 – 17:00) [PDF].
• Shuo Zhang will present the full paper On-the-fly Table Generation on Wednesday, July 11 (9:00–10:30, Session 5B: Entities) [PDF].
• Krisztian Balog will give a keynote (Table Retrieval and Generation) at the DATA:SEARCH’18 workshop on Thursday, July 12 (13:30-14:30).

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]

Earlier this week, we have presented two papers at the 10th ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM ’17) in Cambridge, UK.

• “Anticipating Information Needs Based on Check-in Activity“, a full paper by Jan R. Benetka, Krisztian Balog, and Kjetil Nørvåg [PDF]
• “Supervised Ranking of Triples for Type-Like Relations“, describing our participation in the WSDM Cup Triple Scoring task [PDF]

Krisztian Balog was invited to give the plenary keynote at the 10th Russian Summer School in Information Retrieval (RuSSIR 2016) in Saratov, Russia. The slides of the talk can be found here.