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.
Top performance at SMART Task Challenge
We participated in the Semantic Answer Type prediction (SMART) task Challenge at the International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC ’20). Our submissions, led by Vinay Setty, earned the top place on both the DBpedia and Wikidata leaderboards on all evaluation metrics. A write-up will be posted soon.
Maryam Saleki joins IAI
Maryam Saleki joins IAI as a PhD student. Maryam will be working on efficient and effective Transformer models for conversational AI. She will be supervised by Vinay Setty and co-supervised by Krisztian Balog.
CIKM’20 contributions
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]
IAI: New members and name
We welcome two new members to our group.
- Martin Georg Skjæveland is an Associate Professor II, with a research focus on semantic technologies and in particular ontology engineering.
- Magnus Særtsen Book is a PhD student, working on predicting slow onset disasters (such as Influenza, COVID-19) from heterogeneous data sources using deep learning, under the co-supervision of Vinay Setty.
To better reflect our research focus, we have decided to change the name of the group to Information Access & Artificial Intelligence, while keeping the acronym IAI.
Krisztian Balog Elected Member of Norwegian Academy of Technological Sciences
Krisztian Balog has been elected as a member of the Norwegian Academy of Technological Sciences.
Paper accepted at ICTIR’20
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].