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)

PhD Opening

We have a fully funded PhD position in Knowledge Graphs for Conversational AI.
See this page for the project description and application instructions.
Application deadline: April 19, 2020 May 3, 2020.
(Remember to apply specifically for the topic Knowledge Graphs for Conversational AI.)

ICTIR’19 contributions

We presented the following papers at ICTIR this year:

  • SADHAN: Hierarchical Attention Networks to Learn Latent Aspect Embeddings for Fake News Detection (full paper) by Rahul Mishra and Vinay Setty [PDF]
  • Unsupervised Context Retrieval for Long-tail Entities (short paper) by Darío Garigliotti, Dyaa Albakour, Miguel Martinez-Alvarez, and Krisztian Balog [PDF]

Vinay Setty joins IAI

Associate Professor Vinay Setty joins IAI as a faculty member. Vinay works on IR, text mining and machine learning on text with applications to fake news detection and other news mining tasks. In addition, Vinay also works on network representation learning techniques with respect to scalability and applications to news and social media.