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	<description>Semantic Entity Search on the Bleeding Edge</description>
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		<title>Future research directions in IR</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Wondering what your next IR conference paper should be about? This is the billion dollar question (well, at least for IR researchers) that I surely won&#8217;t answer for you. But, here is some hint. (I&#8217;ve just come across this on Facebook (thnx to Arjen P. De Vries and Claudia Hauff); this is evidence, that if [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://krisztianbalog.com/2012-02-05/future-research-directions-in-ir/</link>
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		<title>Research positions in Trondheim, Norway</title>
		<description><![CDATA[PhD positions at NTNU As part of the Microsoft-led centre on Information Access Disruptions (iAD), NTNU is offering up to 4 PhD positions. The NTNU-led subproject of iAD focuses on activities to create schema agnostic indexing services. There is strong convergence in approach and principles for information access across databases, XML repositories, text search and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://krisztianbalog.com/2012-01-14/research-positions-in-trondheim-norway/</link>
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		<title>New year&#8217;s resolution</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Post more often. Happy 2012!]]></description>
		<link>http://krisztianbalog.com/2012-01-06/new-years-resolution/</link>
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		<title>EOS workshop summary</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The First International Workshop on Entity-Oriented Search (EOS) was held on July 28, 2011 in Beijing, China, in conjunction with SIGIR 2011. The objective for the workshop was to bring together academic researchers and industry practitioners working on entity-oriented search to discuss tasks and challenges, and to uncover the next frontiers for academic research on [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://krisztianbalog.com/2011-10-19/eos-workshop-summary/</link>
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		<title>A Living Lab for Product Search</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Earlier today I presented the work by Leif Azzopardi and myself at the CLEF 2011 conference, entitled Towards a Living Lab for Information Retrieval Research and Development. A proposal for a living lab for product search tasks. The abstract follows: The notion of having a &#8220;living lab&#8221; to undertaken evaluations has been proposed by a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://krisztianbalog.com/2011-09-19/living-lab-for-product-search/</link>
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		<title>TREC Entity 2011 timeline &amp; guidelines</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The timeline for the 2011 edition of the track has been set. The guidelines are available at this address: http://bit.ly/entity2011-guidelines. Please follow the track&#8217;s mailing list for the related discussion. Note that it&#8217;s still time to sign up for TREC if you haven&#8217;t done so already. Registration will close on May 27.]]></description>
		<link>http://krisztianbalog.com/2011-05-23/trec-entity-2011-timeline-guidelines/</link>
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		<title>Entity-Oriented Search Workshop at SIGIR 2011</title>
		<description><![CDATA[WORKSHOP OBJECTIVE The objective of the workshop is to provide a forum to discuss entity-oriented search, without restricting to any particular data collection, entity type, or user task, and to solicit research contributions on topics including entity mining, entity ranking, query log analysis, or user context. In sum, the workshop seeks to uncover the next [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://krisztianbalog.com/2011-04-04/entity-oriented-search-workshop-at-sigir-2011/</link>
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		<title>TREC Entity 2010 overview</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The TREC Entity 2010 overview paper is now available online. We will soon start the discussion about the 2011 edition on the track&#8217;s mailing list.]]></description>
		<link>http://krisztianbalog.com/2011-03-29/trec-entity-2010-overview/</link>
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		<title>Yahoo! Semantic Search Challenge</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The 3rd Semantic Search Workshop (SemSearch&#8217;10) organized an Entity Search Challenge last year (see my notes from the event). This competition is being organized this year again. There are two tasks: entity search (queries refer to a particular entity) and list search (complex queries with multiple possible answers). The collection is the Billion Triple Challenge [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://krisztianbalog.com/2011-03-03/yahoo-semantic-search-challenge/</link>
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		<title>Switching colours</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As of this month, I am a postdoc at the Database Systems research group, headed by Prof. Kjetil Nørvåg at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) in Trondheim, Norway. I would like to say a big thank you to all my former colleagues in Amsterdam for providing an extremely friendly and inspiring research [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://krisztianbalog.com/2011-02-16/switching-colours/</link>
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