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.
Paper accepted at CIKM’19
Auto-completion for Data Cells in Relational Tables by Shuo Zhang and Krisztian Balog has been accepted as a full paper at the CIKM conference. [PDF]
SIGIR’19 Tutorial
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.