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Krisztian Balog wins the 2018 Karen Spärck Jones award

December 18, 2018December 14, 2018 by IAI

This year’s Microsoft BCS/BCS IRSG Karen Spärck Jones Award was awarded to Krisztian Balog. He will give a keynote talk at ECIR 2019 in Cologne.

IRJ paper on entity types

December 18, 2018December 9, 2018 by IAI

Our article Identifying and Exploiting Target Entity Type Information for Ad Hoc Entity Retrieval by Darío Garigliotti, Faegheh Hasibi, and Krisztian Balog has been published in the Information Retrieval Journal. The full-text article is available here, with resources made available on GitHub.

Two journal papers on evaluation

December 18, 2018November 10, 2018 by IAI

The Journal of Data and Information Quality (ACM JDIQ) had a two-parts special issue on Reproducibility in Information Retrieval. There are two papers in there, co-authored by Krisztian Balog:

OpenSearch: Lessons Learned from an Online Evaluation Campaign by Jagerman et al. [PDF]
Evaluation-as-a-Service for the Computational Sciences: Overview and Outlook by Hopfgartner et al. [PDF]

CIKM’18 short paper

November 28, 2018October 26, 2018 by IAI

Darío Garigliotti has presented our work IntentsKB: A Knowledge Base of Entity-Oriented Search Intents at the CIKM’18 conference this week.

Entity-Oriented Search book

November 28, 2018October 2, 2018 by IAI

The open-access book, Entity-Oriented Search, by Krisztian Balog is now available online.

ICTIR’18 paper

November 28, 2018September 17, 2018 by IAI

Heng Ding has presented our paper Generating High-Quality Query Suggestion Candidates for Task-Based Search at the ICTIR’18 conference this week.

Some time away

November 28, 2018September 1, 2018 by IAI

In the coming months, we will be away visiting other research groups. Krisztian Balog will spend a year-long sabbatical at Google, London, UK, while the PhD students will each do a 3-months internship: Shuo Zhang at Bloomberg, London, UK, Darío Garigliotti at Signal Media, London, UK, and Trond Linjordet at ILPS, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

SIGIR Test of Time Honorable Mention Award

November 28, 2018July 12, 2018 by IAI

The SIGIR 2006 paper Formal Models for Expert Finding in Enterprise Corpora by Krisztian Balog, Leif Azzopardi, and Maarten de Rijke was awarded with a Test of Time Honorable Mention Award at this year’s SIGIR conference. The paper has over 680 citations according to Google Scholar at the time of writing. (Fun fact: this was Krisztian’s very first SIGIR paper.)

IAI@SIGIR’18

July 9, 2018July 2, 2018 by IAI

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).

Faegheh Hasibi defends PhD thesis

March 28, 2020March 12, 2018 by IAI

On March 12, Faegheh Hasibi successfully defended her PhD thesis “Semantic Search with Knowledge Bases”. Congratulations Dr. Hasibi!
[Thesis|Photos]