Publications

Diverse Reviewer Suggestion for Extending Conference Program Committees by Christin Katharina Kreutz, Krisztian Balog, and Ralf Schenkel has been published at 20th IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology (WI-IAT’21) as a full paper. This work is the result of Christin’s research visit at IAI, earlier this year.

The paper Soliciting User Preferences in Conversational Recommender Systems via Usage-Related Questions by Ivica Kostric, Krisztian Balog, and Filip Radlinski has been published as a late breaking result paper at the 15th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys ‘21) [PDF].

The paper Semantic Table Retrieval Using Keyword and Table Queries by Shuo Zhang and Krisztian Balog has been published in ACM Transactions on the Web and is now available online.

We got the following papers accepted at SIGIR’21:

• On Interpretation and Measurement of Soft Attributes for Recommendation by Krisztian Balog, Filip Radlinski, and Alexandros Karatzoglou as a full paper [PDF]
• Simulating User Satisfaction for the Evaluation of Task-Oriented Dialogue Systems by Weiwei Sun, Shuo Zhang, Krisztian Balog, Zhaochun Ren, Pengjie Ren, Zhumin Chen, and Maarten de Rijke as a resource paper [PDF]
• Conversational Entity Linking: Problem Definition and Datasets by Hideaki Joko, Faegheh Hasibi, Krisztian Balog, and Arjen P. de Vries as a resource paper [PDF]
• POINTREC: A Test Collection for Narrative-Driven Point of Interest Recommendation by Jafar Afzali, Aleksander Mark Drzewiecki, and Krisztian Balog as a resource paper [PDF]
• Sim4IR: The SIGIR 2021 Workshop on Simulation for Information Retrieval Evaluation by Krisztian Balog, David Maxwell, Paul Thomas, and Shuo Zhang as a workshop [PDF]

The write-up of our top performing participation at the SMART Challenge of the 2020 International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC ’20) is now available online.

We got the following papers accepted at CIKM’20:

• Generating Categories for Sets of Entities by Shuo Zhang, Krisztian Balog, and Jamie Callan (full paper) [PDF]
• Truth be Told: Fake News Detection Using User Reactions on Reddit by Vinay Setty and Erlend Rekve (poster paper) [PDF]
• ArXivDigest: A Living Lab for Personalized Scientific Literature Recommendation by Kristian Gingstad, Øyvind Jekteberg, and Krisztian Balog (demo paper) [PDF]
• IAI MovieBot: A Conversational Movie Recommender System by Javeria Habib, Shuo Zhang, and Krisztian Balog (demo paper) [PDF]
• Neural (Knowledge Graph) Question Answering Using Synthetic Training Data by Trond Linjordet (doctoral consortium) [PDF]

Sanitizing Synthetic Training Data Generation for Question Answering over Knowledge Graphs by Trond Linjordet and Krisztian Balog has been accepted as a full paper at the ICTIR conference [PDF].

Evaluating Conversational Recommender Systems via User Simulation by Shuo Zhang and Krisztian Balog has been accepted as a full paper at the KDD conference. [PDF]

Earlier today, Shuo Zhang has presented a paper on Novel Entity Discovery from Web Tables at The Web Conference 2020, which was a result of his internship at Bloomberg AI [PDF]. The work has also been discussed at the Tech at Bloomberg blog.

We got the following contributions accepted at SIGIR’20:

• Summarizing and Exploring Tabular Data in Conversational Search by Shuo Zhang, Zhuyun Dai, Krisztian Balog, and Jamie Callan (short paper)
• BRENDA: Browser Extension for Fake News Detection by Bjarte Botnevik, Eirik Sakariassen, and Vinay Setty (demo)
• REL: An Entity Linker Standing on the Shoulders of Giants by Johannes M. van Hulst, Faegheh Hasibi, Koen Dercksen, Krisztian Balog, and Arjen P. de Vries (demo)