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]
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.)
Darío Garigliotti defends PhD thesis
Today, Darío Garigliotti has successfully defended his PhD thesis on Task-Based Support in Search Engines. His opponents were Emine Yilmaz (University College London, UK) and Mathias Hagen (Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Germany).
Congratulations Dr. Garigliotti!
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Paper accepted at EDBT’20
Efficient Continuous Multi-Query Processing over Graph Streams by Lefteris Zervakis, Vinay Setty, Christos Tryfonopoulos, and Katja Hose has been accepted as a full paper at the EDBT conference. [PDF]
TKDE paper on Unsupervised Network Representation Learning
A Comparative Study for Unsupervised Network Representation Learning by Megha Khosla, Vinay Setty, and Avishek Anand has been published in IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering [PDF].
Shuo Zhang defends PhD thesis
Today, Shuo Zhang has successfully defended his PhD thesis on Table Search, Generation and Completion. His opponents were Brian D. Davison (Lehigh University, USA) and Min Zhang, (Tsinghua Universty, China).
Congratulations Dr. Zhang!
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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]