Talks – Krisztian Balog

Highlights from 2019

March 28, 2020August 18, 2020 by krisztianbalog

As a first post of 2020, it’s only fitting to start with a brief summary of highlights from 2019.

My sabbatical at Google came to an end in August, and I resumed my professor position at the University of Stavanger. However, I remain part-time affiliated with Google in a visiting researcher position for another year.
I joined NTNU as an Adjunct Professor in AI/NLP.
Two of my PhD students defended their PhD theses: Shuo Zhang and Darío Garigliotti.
Assoc. prof. Vinay Setty joined our research group.
I gave keynotes at ECIR’19 and at TPDL’19.
Together with Shuo Zhang, I gave a tutorial at SIGIR on Web Table Extraction, Retrieval and Augmentation. We also published this material as a survey paper at ACM TIST.

ECIR’19 keynote

April 18, 2019May 31, 2019 by krisztianbalog

As the recipient of the 2018 Karen Spärck Jones Award, I was invited to give a keynote at the 41st European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR’19). Below are the slides of my presentation.

On Entities and Evaluation from krisztianbalog

Table generation and retrieval

July 12, 2018January 9, 2019 by krisztianbalog

Tables are powerful and versatile tools for organizing and presenting data. Tables may be viewed as complex information objects, which summarize existing information in a structured form. Therefore, for many information needs, returning tables as search results may be more helpful to users than serving a ranked list of items (documents or entities). We have a line of work, with Shuo Zhang, centered around utilizing (relational) tables as the unit of retrieval (published at WWW’18 and SIGIR’18). I presented our research at this interesting intersection of entity retrieval and data search in my keynote at the DATA:SEARCH’18 workshop at SIGIR’18 (slides are here).

RUSSIR’16 Keynote

August 29, 2016May 31, 2019 by krisztianbalog

I was invited to give a keynote talk on entity search at the 10th Russian Summer School in Information Retrieval (RuSSIR ’16). Below are the slides of my presentation.

Entity Search: The Last Decade and the Next from krisztianbalog

Note: part of the work is still under review; those slides will be added later.

KEYSTONE keynote

May 12, 2015December 17, 2016 by krisztianbalog

I was invited to talk about issues related to entity ranking, query understanding, and evaluation at the most recent KEYSTONE COST meeting. Here are the slides from my presentation.