About
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Dr. Krisztian Balog is a postdoctoral researcher at the Computer and Information Science Department of the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) in Trondheim, Norway. Previously, he was a postdoc at the Information and Language Processing Systems (ILPS) group at the Informatics Institute of the University of Amsterdam, where he received his PhD in Computer Science in 2008 under the supervision of prof.dr. Maarten de Rijke. He holds M.Sc. degrees in Computer Science from the Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest (2005) and from the Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam (2004). He received the Best Doctoral Consortium Paper Award at the ACM SIGIR Conference in 2007 for his dissertation topic, and was awarded with the Victorine van Schaickprijs for his PhD dissertation in 2009. He also holds the Best Paper Award from the 2011 ECIR conference. Balog is a leading author behind influential models for expertise retrieval. His general research interests lie in the use and development of information retrieval, information extraction, and machine learning techniques for intelligent information access tasks. His current research concerns entity retrieval and formal models, specifically probabilistic models, such as language models. |
Professional activities
(Co-)organizer
- 1st Joint International Workshop on
Entity-oriented and Semantic Search (JIWES) at SIGIR 2012 - TREC Entity track 2009-2011
- SIGIR 2011 workshop on Entity-Oriented Search (EOS)
- SIGIR 2008 workshop on Future Challenges in Expertise Retrieval (fCHER)
- The CLEF Crosslingual Web Track (WebCLEF) 2006
Program Committee Member (International Conferences)
- ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM) 2011-2012
- ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM) 2010-2013
- ACM SIGIR Conference on Research & Development on Information Retrieval (SIGIR) 2007-2012
- ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD) 2010
- Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and Human Language Technologies Conference (ACL-HLT) 2011-2012
- European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR) 2012
- International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM) 2010-2011
- International World Wide Web Conference (WWW) 2010-2012
Program Committee Member (International Workshops)
- Cross-lingual Expert Search (CriES) at CLEF 2010
- Discovering Meaning On the Go in Large & Heterogeneous Data (LHD-11) at IJCAI 2011
- Query Representation and Understanding (QRU) at SIGIR 2011
- Search and Mining Entity-Relationship Data (SMER’11) at CIKM 2011
- Social Aspects of the Web (SAW), 2008-2009
Reviewer International Journals
- Data Knowledge & Engineering 2008
- IEEE Intelligent Systems 2008
- Information Processing & Management 2006-2010
- Information Retrieval 2009-2010
- Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research (JAIR) 2009
- Knowledge and Information Systems (KAIS) 2011
Reviewer International Conferences
- ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI) 2009-2010
- ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data/Principles of Database Systems (PODS) 2008
- Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL) 2009
- European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases (ECML PKDD) 2011
- International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries (TPDL), 2011
- Web Intelligence (WI) 2007-2008
Other
- Member of the Student mentoring programme at ECIR 2011-2012
- Member of the Outstanding papers award committee at SIGIR 2009
- Member of the Mentoring committee at SIGIR 2009
Awards
- Best Paper Award at the 33rd European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2011)
- Victorine van Schaickprijs 2009 (for PhD dissertation)
- Best Doctoral Consortium Paper Award at the ACM SIGIR Conference on Research & Development on Information Retrieval, 2007
Contact details
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Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Dept. of Computer and Information Science |
Tel: +47 735 90519 |