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].
Paper accepted at KDD’20
Evaluating Conversational Recommender Systems via User Simulation by Shuo Zhang and Krisztian Balog has been accepted as a full paper at the KDD conference. [PDF]
Paper accepted at WWW’20
Earlier today, Shuo Zhang has presented a paper on Novel Entity Discovery from Web Tables at The Web Conference 2020, which was a result of his internship at Bloomberg AI [PDF]. The work has also been discussed at the Tech at Bloomberg blog.
SIGIR’20 contributions
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)
TIST survey on Web Table Extraction, Retrieval and Augmentation
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]