Trond Linjordet joins IAI as a PhD student. Trond will work on deep learning from sparse data.
WWW’18 paper accepted
Our paper “Ad Hoc Table Retrieval using Semantic Similarity” by Shuo Zhang and Krisztian Balog got accepted at The Web Conference (WWW ’18). The acceptance rate this year was below 15% [PDF].
ICTIR’17 paper
Darío Garigliotti presented our paper “On Type-Aware Entity Retrieval” at the 3rd ACM International Conference on the Theory of Information Retrieval (ICTIR ’17). [PDF]
IAI retreat at Åmøy
We stayed a couple of days at the island of Åmøy for a coding retreat and to have some fun.
SIGIR’17 contributions
We have a number of contributions accepted at this year’s ACM SIGIR conference.
- “EntiTables: Smart Assistance for Entity-Focused Tables” (full paper) by S. Zhang and K. Balog [PDF].
- “Dynamic Factual Summaries for Entity Cards” (full paper) by F. Hasibi, K. Balog, and S. E. Bratsberg [PDF].
- “Target Type Identification for Entity-Bearing Queries” (short paper) by D. Garigliotti, F. Hasibi, and K. Balog [PDF].
- “Generating Query Suggestions to Support Task-Based Search” (short paper) by D. Garigliotti and K. Balog [PDF].
- “DBpedia-Entity v2: A Test Collection for Entity Search” (resource paper) by F. Hasibi, F. Nikolaev, C. Xiong, K. Balog, S. E. Bratsberg, A. Kotov, and J. Callan [PDF].
- “Nordlys: A Toolkit for Entity-Oriented and Semantic Search” (demo paper) by F. Hasibi, K. Balog, D. Garigliotti, and S. Zhang [PDF].
See you in Japan 😉
IAI@ECIR’17
This week, we are presenting two papers at the 39th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR ’17) in Aberdeen, Scotland UK.
Maarten de Rijke visits IAI
Maarten de Rijke from the University of Amsterdam visits us on March 13-14. Maarten also gives a public talk at UiS.
IAI@WSDM’17
Earlier this week, we have presented two papers at the 10th ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM ’17) in Cambridge, UK.