The paper Conversational AI from an Information Retrieval Perspective: Remaining Challenges and a Case for User Simulation by Krisztian Balog has received a Best Paper Award at 2nd International Conference on Design of Experimental Search & Information REtrieval Systems (DESIRES ’21) and is now available online.
TWeb paper on Semantic Table Retrieval
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.
SIGIR’21 contributions
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]
Ivica Kostric joins IAI
Ivica Kostric joins IAI as a PhD student. Ivica will be working on conversational AI and will be supervised by Krisztian Balog. This position is partially funded by Google.
ECIR’22 will be held in Stavanger, Norway
We are very excited to host the European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR) next year! ECIR’22 is planned to be held as a physical conference (with support for remote attendance) in Stavanger, Norway, which would be the northernmost location in the history of the conference.
Christin Kreutz visits IAI
Christin Kreutz, a PhD student from the University of Trier, Germany, visits us for a period of three months. Christin works on the reviewer coverage problem of conference program committees.
SMART Challenge
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.
PhD position in Conversational AI
We have a fully-funded PhD position in Conversational AI. This position is partially funded by Google. Visit Jobbnorge for more information and application details (notice the requirement for a cover letter). Application deadline: Nov 26.
Funding from Google
Krisztian Balog has received an unrestricted gift from Google, “as part of Google’s growing efforts to support excellent research in academia” to support his work on conversational search, user modeling, transparency, and explainability. The gift will be used towards funding a PhD position, which will be announced soon.
Trond Linjordet is nominated for Best DC Paper Award at CIKM’20
Trond Linjordet has been nominated for the Best Doctoral Consortium Paper Award at CIKM’20 for his work on Neural (Knowledge Graph) Question Answering Using Synthetic Training Data.