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To Appear
- Ranking Distributed Knowledge Repositories, R. Neumayer, K. Balog, and K. Nørvåg. In: International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries (TPDL 2012), September 2012.
- Expertise Retrieval, K. Balog, Y. Fang, M. de Rijke, P. Serdyukov, and L. Si. Foundations and Trends in Information Retrieval, to appear, 2012.
- Exploiting External Collections for Query Expansion, W. Weerkamp, K. Balog, and M. de Rijke. ACM Transactions on the Web, accepted subject to revisions. (Impact: 1.909; 5-year Impact: 2.500)
2012
- On the Modeling of Entities for Ad-hoc Entity Search in the Web of Data, R. Neumayer, K. Balog, and K. Nørvåg. In: 34th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2012), April 2012. (Acceptance rate: 21%)
[PDF|BIB] - When Simple is (more than) Good Enough: Effective Semantic Search with (almost) no Semantics, R. Neumayer, K. Balog, and K. Nørvåg. In: 34th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2012), April 2012.
[PDF|BIB|Poster] - Overview of the TREC 2011 Entity Track, K. Balog, P. Serdyukov, and A. P. de Vries. In: Proceedings of the Twentieth Text REtrieval Conference (TREC 2011), February, 2012.
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2011
- The First International Workshop on Entity-Oriented Search (EOS) (workshop report), K. Balog, A. P. de Vries, P. Serdyukov, and J.-R. Wen. SIGIR Forum, 45(2):43-50, December 2011.
[PDF|BIB|DOI] - Query Modeling for Entity Search Based on Terms, Categories and Examples, K. Balog, M. Bron and M. de Rijke. ACM Transactions on Information Systems, 29(4), Article 22, November 2011. (Impact: 1.667; 5-year Impact: 5.774)
[PDF|BIB|DOI] - Overview of the TREC 2011 Entity Track, K. Balog, P. Serdyukov, and A. P. de Vries. In: TREC 2011 Working Notes, November 2011.
[PDF|BIB|Slides] - Blog Feed Search with a Post Index, W. Weerkamp, K. Balog, and M. de Rijke. Information Retrieval Journal, 14(5): 515-545, October 2011. (Impact: 1.841; 5-year Impact: 1.752)
[PDF|BIB|DOI] - Towards a Living Lab for Information Retrieval Research and Development. A Proposal for a Living Lab for Product Search Tasks, L. Azzopardi and K. Balog. In: Conference on Multilingual and Multimodal Information Access Evaluation (CLEF 2011), pages 26-37, September 2011.
[PDF|BIB|DOI|Slides] - Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Entity-Oriented Search (EOS), K. Balog, A. de Vries, P. Serdyukov, and J-R. Wen, editors. TU Delft, The Netherlands, July 2011.
[PDF|BIB] - The Sindice-2011 Dataset for Entity-Oriented Search in the Web of Data, S. Campinas, D. Ceccarelli, T. E. Perry, R. Delbru, K. Balog, and G. Tummarello. In: 1st International Workshop on Entity-Oriented Search (EOS), SIGIR 2011 conference, pages 26-32, July 2011.
[PDF|BIB|Slides] - People Searching for People: Analysis of a People Search Engine Log, W. Weerkamp, R. Berendsen, B. Kovachev, E. Meij, K. Balog, and M de Rijke. In: 34th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research & Development on Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2011), pages 45-54, July 2011. (Acceptance rate: 19.8%)
[PDF|BIB|DOI] - On the Investigation of Similarity Measures for Product Resolution, K. Balog. In: Workshop on Discovering Meaning On the Go in Large Heterogeneous Data (LHD-11), IJCAI 2011 conference, July 2011.
[PDF|BIB|Slides] - NTNU at SemSearch 2011, K. Balog, M. Ciglan, R. Neumayer, W. Wei, and K. Nørvåg. In: 4th International Semantic Search Workshop (SEMSEARCH ’11), WWW 2011 conference, April 2011.
[PDF|BIB] - A User-oriented Model for Expert Finding, E. Smirnova and K. Balog. In: 33rd European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2011), LNCS 6611, pages 580-592, April 2011. (Acceptance rate: 20%; Best Paper Award)
[PDF|BIB|DOI] - Overview of the TREC 2010 Entity Track, K. Balog, P. Serdyukov, and A. P. de Vries. In: Proceedings of the Nineteenth Text REtrieval Conference (TREC 2010), February, 2011.
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2010
- Overview of the TREC 2010 Entity Track, K. Balog, P. Serdyukov, and A. P. de Vries. In: TREC 2010 Working Notes, November 2010.
[PDF|BIB|Slides] - Ranking Related Entities: Components and Analyses, M. Bron, K. Balog, and M. de Rijke. In: ACM 19th Conference on Information and Knowledge Managment (CIKM 2010), pages 1079-1088, October 2010. (Acceptance rate: 13%)
[PDF|BIB|Data] - On the Evaluation of Entity Profiles, M. de Rijke, K. Balog, T. Bogers and A. van den Bosch. In: CLEF 2010: Conference on Multilingual and Multimodal Information Access Evaluation, pages 94-99, September 2010.
[PDF|BIB] - The University of Amsterdam at WePS3, M. Tsagkias and K. Balog. In: CLEF 2010 LABs and Workshops, Notebook Papers, September 2010.
[PDF|BIB] - A Two-Stage Model for Blog Feed Search, W. Weerkamp, K. Balog, and M. de Rijke. In: 33th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research & Development on Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2010), pages 877-878, July 2010.
[PDF|BIB|Poster] - Combining Term-based and Category-based Representations for Entity Search, K. Balog, M. Bron, M. de Rijke, and W. Weerkamp. In: Focused Retrieval and Evaluation: 8th International Workshop of the Initiative for the Evaluation of XML Retrieval (INEX 2009), Springer, pages 265-272, 2010.
[PDF|BIB] - Entity Search: Building Bridges between Two Worlds, K. Balog, E. Meij and M. de Rijke. In: 3rd International Semantic Search Workshop (SEMSEARCH ’10), WWW 2010 conference, pages 1-5, April 2010.
[PDF|BIB|Slides] - Category-based Query Modeling for Entity Search, K. Balog, M. Bron and M. de Rijke. In: 32nd European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2010), pages 319-331, March 2010. (Acceptance rate: 22%)
[PDF|BIB|Poster] - Overview of the TREC 2009 Entity Track, K. Balog, A. P. de Vries, P. Serdyukov, P. Thomas, and T. Westerveld. In: Proceedings of the Eighteenth Text REtrieval Conference (TREC 2009), February, 2010.
[PDF|BIB] - Related Entity Finding Based on Co-Occurrence, M. Bron, K. Balog, and M. de Rijke. In: Proceedings of the Eighteenth Text REtrieval Conference (TREC 2009), February, 2010.
[PDF|BIB] - Heuristic Ranking and Diversification of Web Documents, J. He, K. Balog, K. Hofmann, E. J. Meij, M. de Rijke, E. Tsagkias, and W. Weerkamp. In: Proceedings of the Eighteenth Text REtrieval Conference (TREC 2009), February, 2010.
[PDF|BIB] - Contextual Factors for Finding Similar Experts, K. Hofmann, K. Balog, T. Bogers, and M. de Rijke. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 61(5):994-1014, May 2010. (Impact: 2.300; 5-year Impact: 2.480)
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2009
- The University of Amsterdam (ISLA) at INEX 2009, K. Balog, J. He, M. Bron, M. de Rijke, and W. Weerkamp. In: INEX 2009 Workshop Pre-Proceedings, December 2009.
[PDF|BIB] - Overview of the TREC 2009 Entity Track, K. Balog, A. P. de Vries, P. Serdyukov, P. Thomas, and T. Westerveld. In: TREC 2009 Working Notes, November 2009.
[PDF|BIB|Slides] - The University of Amsterdam at TREC 2009: Blog, Web, Entity and Relevance Feedback, K. Balog, M. Bron, J. He, K. Hofmann, E. Meij, M. de Rijke, M. Tsagkias, and W. Weerkamp. In: TREC 2009 Working Notes, November 2009.
[PDF|BIB] - SaHaRa: Discovering Entity-Topic Associations in Online News, K. Balog, M. de Rijke, R. Franz, H. Peetz, B. Brinkman, I. Johgi, and M. Hirschel. In: 8th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2009), October 2009.
[PDF|BIB|Poster] - A Generative Blog Post Retrieval Model that Uses Query Expansion based on External Collections, W. Weerkamp, K. Balog and M. de Rijke. In: Joint conference of the 47th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 4th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing of the Asian Federation of Natural Language Processing (ACL-ICNLP 2009), pages 1057-1065, August 2009. (Acceptance rate: 21%)
[PDF|BIB] - Resolving Person Names in Web People Search, K. Balog, L. Azzopardi, and M. de Rijke. In: R. Baeza-Yates and I. King, editors, Weaving Services, Location, and People on the WWW, pages 301-324, Springer, July 2009.
[PDF|BIB] - A Generative Language Modeling Approach for Ranking Entities, W. Weerkamp, K. Balog and E. Meij. Advances in Focused Retrieval: 7th International Workshop of the Initiative for the Evaluation of XML Retrieval (INEX 2008), Springer, pages 292-299, 2009.
[PDF|BIB] - The University of Amsterdam at WePS2, K. Balog, J. He, K. Hofmann, V. Jijkoun, C. Monz, M. Tsagkias, W. Weerkamp, and M. de Rijke. In: 2nd Web People Search Evaluation Workshop (WePS 2009), WWW 2009 conference, April 2009.
[PDF|BIB] - Using Contextual Information to Improve Search in Email Archives, W. Weerkamp, K. Balog and M. de Rijke. In: 31th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2009), pages 400-411, April 2009. (Acceptance rate: 22%)
[PDF|BIB] - Overview of the TREC 2008 Enterprise Track, K. Balog, I. Soboroff, P. Thomas, N. Craswell, A. P. de Vries, and P. Bailey. In: The Seventeenth Text REtrieval Conference (TREC 2008) Proceedings, NIST, 2009.
[PDF|BIB] - Combining Candidate and Document Models for Expert Search, K. Balog and M. de Rijke. In: The Seventeenth Text REtrieval Conference (TREC 2008) Proceedings, NIST, February 2009.
[PDF|BIB] - A Language Modeling Framework for Expert Finding, K. Balog, L. Azzopardi, and M. de Rijke. Information Processing and Management, 45(1):1-19, January 2009. (Impact: 1.852; 5-year Impact: 2.020)
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2008
- The University of Amsterdam (ILPS) at INEX 2008, W. Weerkamp, J. He, K. Balog, and E. Meij. In: INEX 2008 Workshop Pre-Proceedings, December 2008.
[PDF|BIB] - The SIGIR 2008 Workshop on Future Challenges in Expertise Retrieval (fCHER), K. Balog. In: SIGIR Forum, 42(2):46-52, December 2008.
[PDF|BIB] - People Search in the Enterprise (Dissertation abstract), K. Balog. In: SIGIR Forum, 42(2):103, December 2008.
[PDF|BIB] - The University of Amsterdam at TREC 2008: Blog, Enterprise, and Relevance Feedback, K. Balog, E. Meij, W. Weerkamp, J. He, and M. de Rijke. In: TREC 2008 Working Notes, November 2008.
[PDF|BIB|Slides] - Non-Local Evidence for Expert Finding, K. Balog and M. de Rijke. In: ACM 17th Conference on Information and Knowledge Managment (CIKM 2008), pages 489-498, October 2008. (Acceptance rate: 17%)
[PDF|BIB|Slides] - Finding Key Bloggers, One Post At A Time, W. Weerkamp, K. Balog, and M. de Rijke. In: 18th European Conference on Articificial Intelligence (ECAI 2008), pages 318-322, July 2008. (Acceptance rate: 21%)
[PDF|BIB] - Proceedings of the ACM SIGIR Workshop ‘Future Challenges in Expertise Retrieval (fCHER)’ held in conjunction with the 31th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference, K. Balog and Y. Yu, editors. July 2008.
[PDF|BIB] - Integrating Contextual Factors into Topic-Centric Retrieval Models for Finding Similar Experts, K. Hofmann, K. Balog, T. Bogers, and M. de Rijke. In: Workshop on Future Challenges in Expertise Retrieval (fCHER), SIGIR 2008 conference, July 2008.
[PDF|BIB] - A Few Examples Go A Long Way: Constructing Query Models from Elaborate Query Formulations, K. Balog, W. Weerkamp and M. de Rijke. In: 31th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research & Development on Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2008), pages 371-378, July 2008. (Acceptance rate: 17%)
[PDF|BIB|Slides] - Parsimonious Relevance Models, E. Meij, W. Weerkamp, K. Balog, and M. de Rijke. In: 31th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research & Development on Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2008), pages 817-818, July 2008.
[PDF|BIB|Poster] - Bloggers as Experts: Feed Distillation using Expert Retrieval Models, K. Balog, M. de Rijke, and W. Weerkamp. In: 31th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research & Development on Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2008), pages 753-754, July 2008.
[PDF|BIB|Poster] - People Search in the Enterprise, K. Balog. PhD thesis, University of Amsterdam, June 2008.
[more] - Personal Name Resolution of Web People Search, K. Balog, L. Azzopardi, and M. de Rijke. In: 2nd International Workshop on NLP Challenges in the Information Explosion Era (NLPIX 2008), WWW 2008 conference, April 2008.
[PDF|BIB|Slides] - Associating People and Documents, K. Balog and M. de Rijke. In: 30th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2008), LNCS 4956, pages 296-308, April 2008. (Acceptance rate: 23%)
[PDF|BIB|Slides] - Query and Document Models for Enterprise Search, K. Balog, K. Hofmann, W. Weerkamp and M. de Rijke. In: The Sixteenth Text REtrieval Conference (TREC 2007) Proceedings, NIST, February 2008.
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2007
- The University of Amsterdam at the TREC 2007 Enterprise Track, K. Balog, K. Hofmann, W. Weerkamp and M. de Rijke. In: TREC 2007 Working Notes, NIST, pages 248-251, November 2007.
[PDF|BIB|Slides] - Overview of WebCLEF 2006, K. Balog, L. Azzopardi, J. Kamps, and M. de Rijke. In: C. Peters et al, editors, Evaluation of Multilingual and Multi-modal Information Retrieval. 7th Workshop of the Cross-Language Evaluation Forum, CLEF 2006, Alicante, Spain, September 20-22, 2006, Revised Selected Papers, LNCS 4730, pages 803-819, September 2007.
[PDF|BIB] - Index Combinations and Query Reformulations for Mixed Monolingual Web Retrieval, K. Balog and M. de Rijke. In: C. Peters et al, editors, Evaluation of Multilingual and Multi-modal Information Retrieval. 7th Workshop of the Cross-Language Evaluation Forum, CLEF 2006, Alicante, Spain, September 20-22, 2006, Revised Selected Papers, LNCS 4730, pages 830-833, September 2007.
[PDF|BIB] - People Search in the Enterprise, K. Balog. In: 30th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research & Development on Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2007), pages 916-916, July 2007. (Best Doctoral Consortium Paper Award)
[PDF|BIB|Slides] - Finding Similar Experts, K. Balog and M. de Rijke. In: 30th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research & Development on Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2007), pages 821-822, July 2007.
[PDF|BIB|Poster] - Broad Expertise Retrieval in Sparse Data Environments, K. Balog, T. Bogers, L. Azzopardi, M. de Rijke, and A. van den Bosch. In: 30th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research & Development on Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2007), pages 551-558, July 2007. (Acceptance rate: 17%)
[PDF|BIB|Slides|Data] - Building Simulated Queries for Known-Item Topics: An Analysis using Six European Languages, L. Azzopardi, M. de Rijke, and K. Balog. In: 30th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research & Development on Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2007), pages 455-462, July 2007. (Acceptance rate: 17%)
[PDF|BIB] - UVA: Language Modeling Techniques for Web People Search, K. Balog, L. Azzopardi, and M. de Rijke. In: SemEval-2007, June 2007.
[PDF] - How to Overcome Tiredness: Estimating Topic-Mood Associations, K. Balog and M. de Rijke. In: International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM 2007), pages 199-202, March 2007.
[PDF|BIB|Slides] - MoodViews: Tracking and Searching Mood-Annotated Blog Posts, G. Mishne, K. Balog, M. de Rijke, and B. Ernsting. In: International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM 2007), pages 323-324, March 2007.
[PDF|BIB] - Language Models for Enterprise Search: Query Expansion and Combination of Evidence, K. Balog, E. Meij, and M. de Rijke. In: The Fifteenth Text REtrieval Conference (TREC 2006) Proceedings, NIST, February 2007.
[PDF|BIB] - Determining Expert Profiles (With an Application to Expert Finding), K. Balog and M. de Rijke. In: 20th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 2007), pages 2657-2662, January 2007. (Acceptance rate: 15%)
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2006
- The University of Amsterdam at the TREC 2006 Enterprise Track, K. Balog, E. Meij, and M. de Rijke. In: TREC 2006 Working Notes, NIST, pages 694-698, 2006.
[PDF|BIB|Poster] - Overview of WebCLEF 2006, K. Balog, L. Azzopardi, J. Kamps, and M. de Rijke. In: A. Nardi, C. Peters, and J.L. Vicedo, editors, Working Notes CLEF 2006, September 2006.
[PDF|BIB] - The University of Amsterdam at WebCLEF 2006, K. Balog and M. de Rijke. In: A. Nardi, C. Peters, and J.L. Vicedo, editors, Working Notes CLEF 2006, September 2006.
[PDF|BIB] - Formal Models for Expert Finding in Enterprise Corpora, K. Balog, L. Azzopardi, and M. de Rijke. In: 29th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research & Development on Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2006), pages 43-50, August 2006. (Acceptance rate: 19%)
[PDF|BIB|Slides] - Searching for People in the Personal Work Space, K. Balog and M. de Rijke. In: International Workshop on Intelligent Information Access (IIIA 2006), July 2006.
[PDF|BIB] - Decomposing Bloggers’ Moods, K. Balog and M. de Rijke. In: 3rd Annual Workshop on the Weblogging Ecosystem, WWW 2006 conference, May 2006.
[PDF|BIB|Slides] - Finding Experts and their Details in E-mail Corpora, K. Balog and M. de Rijke. In: 15th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW 2006), May 2006.
[PDF|BIB|Poster] - Language Modeling Approaches for Enterprise Tasks, L. Azzopardi, K. Balog, and M. de Rijke. In: The Fourteenth Text Retrieval Conference (TREC 2005), 2006.
[PDF|BIB] - Why Are They Excited? Identifying and Explaining Spikes in Blog Mood Levels, K. Balog, G. Mishne, and M. de Rijke. In: 11th Meeting of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL 2006), April 2006.
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2005
- The University of Amsterdam at TREC 2005, D. Ahn, L. Azzopardi, K. Balog, S. Fissaha, V. Jijkoun, J. Kamps, K. Müller, M. de Rijke, and E. Tjong Kim Sang. In: TREC 2005 Working Notes.
[PDF] - Modeling Navigation Patterns of Visitors of Unstructured Websites, K. Balog, P.I. Hofgesang, and W. Kowalczyk. In: The Twenty-fifth SGAI International Conference on Innovative Techniques and Applications of Artificial Intelligence (Springer Verlag), 2005. (Acceptance rate: 14%)
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2004
- An Intelligent Support System for Developing Text Classifiers, Krisztian Balog, MSc. Thesis, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, Department of Computer Science, 2004.
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Miscellaneous
- Archieven Linken met Semantische Zoekmachines (in Dutch), M. de Rijke, K. Balog, M. Bron, J. He, B. Huurnink, V. Jijkoun, F. Laan, E. Meij, M. Tsagkias, A. Vishneuski, W. Weerkamp. DIXIT (Tijdschrift over toegepaste taal- en spraaktechnologie), December 2010.
- Searching for People in the Personal Workspace, K. Balog. In: The Informer – newsletter of the BCS Information Retrieval Specialist Group, 2006.
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