Shuo Zhang and Krisztian Balog will give a half-day tutorial at this year’s SIGIR conference on Web Table Extraction, Retrieval and Augmentation.
Meet us at ECIR’19
IAI will be present at ECIR’19 in Cologne:
- Krisztian Balog will give a keynote On Entities and Evaluation
- Jan Trienes will present a full paper entitled Identifying Unclear Questions in Community Question Answering Websites [preprint]
- Trond Linjordet will present a short paper entitled Impact of Training Dataset Size on Neural Answer Selection Models [preprint]
Krisztian Balog wins the 2018 Karen Spärck Jones award
This year’s Microsoft BCS/BCS IRSG Karen Spärck Jones Award was awarded to Krisztian Balog. He will give a keynote talk at ECIR 2019 in Cologne.
Two journal papers on evaluation
The Journal of Data and Information Quality (ACM JDIQ) had a two-parts special issue on Reproducibility in Information Retrieval. There are two papers in there, co-authored by Krisztian Balog:
CIKM’18 short paper
Darío Garigliotti has presented our work IntentsKB: A Knowledge Base of Entity-Oriented Search Intents at the CIKM’18 conference this week.
Entity-Oriented Search book
The open-access book, Entity-Oriented Search, by Krisztian Balog is now available online.
ICTIR’18 paper
Heng Ding has presented our paper Generating High-Quality Query Suggestion Candidates for Task-Based Search at the ICTIR’18 conference this week.
Some time away
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.)