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SIGIR’17 contributions

July 2, 2018April 12, 2017 by IAI

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].

See you in Japan 😉

IAI@ECIR’17

January 17, 2018April 10, 2017 by IAI

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]

Maarten de Rijke visits IAI

March 30, 2017March 13, 2017 by IAI

Maarten de Rijke from the University of Amsterdam visits us on March 13-14. Maarten also gives a public talk at UiS.

IAI@WSDM’17

January 17, 2018February 11, 2017 by IAI

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]

Årets IDE-er 2016

March 30, 2017December 15, 2016 by IAI

At the department’s annual Christmas party, Krisztian Balog was presented with the prestigious “Årets IDE-er” (“Employee of the department”) award.

Heng Ding joins IAI

March 30, 2017December 6, 2016 by IAI

Heng Ding from Wuhan University, China will spend 14 months with us as a visiting PhD student. Heng will work on question answering over structured data.

Full paper “Entity Linking in Queries: Efficiency vs. Effectiveness” by Faegheh Hasibi, Krisztian Balog, and Svein Erik Bratsberg, and short paper “Design Patterns for Fusion-Based Object Retrieval” by Shuo Zhang and Krisztian Balog got accepted at the 39th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR ’17).

IAI project seminar in Trondheim

March 30, 2017December 1, 2016 by IAI

We had a project seminar in Trondheim, preceded by some team building activity near Røros.

Top performance at TREC 2016 Tasks track

March 30, 2017November 16, 2016 by IAI

Our team (Darío Garigliotti and Krisztian Balog) achieved top performance at the Task Understanding task of the TREC 2016 Tasks track.

WSDM’17 paper accepted

January 17, 2018October 18, 2016 by IAI

Our paper “Anticipating Information Needs Based on Check-in Activity” authored by Jan Benetka, Krisztian Balog, and Kjetil Nørvåg got accepted at the 10th ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM ’17). The acceptance rate this year was 16%.