In the coming months, we will be away visiting other research groups. Krisztian Balog will spend a year-long sabbatical at Google, London, UK, while the PhD students will each do a 3-months internship: Shuo Zhang at Bloomberg, London, UK, Darío Garigliotti at Signal Media, London, UK, and Trond Linjordet at ILPS, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
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.)
IAI@SIGIR’18
You will have a number of opportunities to hear about our research at the 41st International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR ’18), starting this Sunday:
- Darío Garigliotti and Shuo Zhang will present their thesis work at the Doctoral Consortium on Sunday, July 8.
- Shuo Zhang will present the demo SmartTable: A Spreadsheet Program with Intelligent Assistance on Monday, July 9 (15:30 – 17:00) [PDF].
- Shuo Zhang will present the full paper On-the-fly Table Generation on Wednesday, July 11 (9:00–10:30, Session 5B: Entities) [PDF].
- Krisztian Balog will give a keynote (Table Retrieval and Generation) at the DATA:SEARCH’18 workshop on Thursday, July 12 (13:30-14:30).
Trond Linjordet joins IAI
Trond Linjordet joins IAI as a PhD student. Trond will work on deep learning from sparse data.
WWW’18 paper accepted
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].
ICTIR’17 paper
Darío Garigliotti presented our paper “On Type-Aware Entity Retrieval” at the 3rd ACM International Conference on the Theory of Information Retrieval (ICTIR ’17). [PDF]
IAI retreat at Åmøy
We stayed a couple of days at the island of Åmøy for a coding retreat and to have some fun.