Publications

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)

Web Table Extraction, Retrieval and Augmentation: A Survey by Shuo Zhang and Krisztian Balog has been published in ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology. [PDF]

Efficient Continuous Multi-Query Processing over Graph Streams by Lefteris Zervakis, Vinay Setty, Christos Tryfonopoulos, and Katja Hose has been accepted as a full paper at the EDBT conference. [PDF]

A Comparative Study for Unsupervised Network Representation Learning by Megha Khosla, Vinay Setty, and Avishek Anand has been published in IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering [PDF].

We presented the following papers at ICTIR this year:

• SADHAN: Hierarchical Attention Networks to Learn Latent Aspect Embeddings for Fake News Detection (full paper) by Rahul Mishra and Vinay Setty [PDF]
• Unsupervised Context Retrieval for Long-tail Entities (short paper) by Darío Garigliotti, Dyaa Albakour, Miguel Martinez-Alvarez, and Krisztian Balog [PDF]

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]

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.

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]

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

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