Krisztian Balog got promoted to full professor of Computer Science. An interview took place on the occasion (available only in Norwegian).
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ICTIR 2016 paper wins Best Paper Honorable Mention Award
Our paper “Exploiting Entity Linking in Queries for Entity Retrieval” by Faegheh Hasibi, Krisztian Balog, and Svein Erik Bratsberg won the Best Paper Honorable Mention Award at the 2nd ACM SIGIR International Conference on the Theory of Information Retrieval (ICTIR 2016).
RuSSIR 2016 keynote by Krisztian Balog
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.
Kalervo Järvelin visits IAI
Prof. Kalervo Järvelin and Mia-Maria Saastamoinen from the University of Tampere, Finland, visited IAI for a seminar on task-based and iteractive information retrieval.
IAI Trondheim seminar and outing
We spent a two-day seminar at NTNU, Trondheim, which consisted of a series of research and tech talks, plus a coding session. Then, we headed off for a weekend of mountain air, skiing, and adventure.
Krisztian Balog visits Microsoft Bing
Krisztian Balog will spend 5 weeks at Microsoft Bing in Bellevue, Seattle WA, USA, as a visiting researcher.
Hello world!
Here we go! We are IAI, which stands for Information Access & Interaction. We are full of ideas and are working on tomorrow’s search engine.