Auto-completion for Data Cells in Relational Tables by Shuo Zhang and Krisztian Balog has been accepted as a full paper at the CIKM conference. [PDF]
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SIGIR’19 Tutorial
Shuo Zhang and Krisztian Balog will give a half-day tutorial at this year’s SIGIR conference on Web Table Extraction, Retrieval and Augmentation.
Meet us at ECIR’19
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]
Krisztian Balog wins the 2018 Karen Spärck Jones award
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.
Two journal papers on evaluation
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:
CIKM’18 short paper
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
The open-access book, Entity-Oriented Search, by Krisztian Balog is now available online.
ICTIR’18 paper
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
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.