We participated in the Semantic Answer Type prediction (SMART) task Challenge at the International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC ’20). Our submissions, led by Vinay Setty, earned the top place on both the DBpedia and Wikidata leaderboards on all evaluation metrics. A write-up will be posted soon.
Achievements
Krisztian Balog Elected Member of Norwegian Academy of Technological Sciences
Krisztian Balog has been elected as a member of the Norwegian Academy of Technological Sciences.
Darío Garigliotti defends PhD thesis
Today, Darío Garigliotti has successfully defended his PhD thesis on Task-Based Support in Search Engines. His opponents were Emine Yilmaz (University College London, UK) and Mathias Hagen (Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Germany).
Congratulations Dr. Garigliotti!
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Shuo Zhang defends PhD thesis
Today, Shuo Zhang has successfully defended his PhD thesis on Table Search, Generation and Completion. His opponents were Brian D. Davison (Lehigh University, USA) and Min Zhang, (Tsinghua Universty, China).
Congratulations Dr. Zhang!
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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.
SIGIR Test of Time Honorable Mention Award
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.)
Årets IDE-er 2016
At the department’s annual Christmas party, Krisztian Balog was presented with the prestigious “Årets IDE-er” (“Employee of the department”) award.
Top performance at TREC 2016 Tasks track
Our team (Darío Garigliotti and Krisztian Balog) achieved top performance at the Task Understanding task of the TREC 2016 Tasks track.