Our paper “Ad Hoc Table Retrieval using Semantic Similarity” by Shuo Zhang and Krisztian Balog got accepted at The Web Conference (WWW ’18). The acceptance rate this year was below 15% [PDF].
Publications
ICTIR’17 paper
DarĂo Garigliotti presented our paper “On Type-Aware Entity Retrieval” at the 3rd ACM International Conference on the Theory of Information Retrieval (ICTIR ’17). [PDF]
SIGIR’17 contributions
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].
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ECIR’17 contributions
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).
WSDM’17 paper accepted
Our paper “Anticipating Information Needs Based on Check-in Activity” authored by Jan Benetka, Krisztian Balog, and Kjetil NørvĂ¥g got accepted at the 10th ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM ’17). The acceptance rate this year was 16%.