Talks
2012
- Semantic Entity Search
Invited talk, Department of Computer Science, University College London
London, UK, May 2012.
2011
- Overview of the TREC 2011 Entity track
The Twentieth Text REtrieval Conference (TREC 2011)
Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA, November 2011.
[Slides]
- Finding Related Entities
Invited talk, First International Workshop on Search and Mining Entity-Relationship Data (SMER’11) at CIKM 2011
Glasgow, UK, October 2011.
[Slides]
- Towards a Living Lab for Information Retrieval Research and Development. A proposal for a living lab for product search tasks
CLEF 2011: Conference on Multilingual and Multimodal Information Access Evaluation
Amsterdam, The Netherlands, September 2011.
[Slides]
- The Sindice-2011 Dataset for Entity-Oriented Search in the Web of Data
SIGIR 2011 Workshop on Entity-Oriented Search (EOS)
Beijing, China, July 2011.
[Slides]
- On the Investigation of Similarity Measures for Product Resolution
IJCAI’11 Workshop on Discovering Meaning On the Go in Large Heterogeneous Data (LHD-11)
Barcelona, Spain, July 2011.
[Slides]
2010
- Entity Search
Invited talk, Department of Computer and Information Science, Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Trondheim, Norway, November 2010.
- Overview of the TREC 2010 Entity track
The Nineteenth Text REtrieval Conference (TREC 2010)
Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA, November 2010.
[Slides|Poster]
- Expertise Retrieval: Tasks, Methods, Evaluation
Invited talk, Cross-lingual Expert Search (CriES) workshop, at CLEF 2010
Padua, Italy, September 2010.
[Slides]
- Entity Search: Building Bridges between Two Worlds
Semantic Search WWW2010 Workshop
Raleigh, NC, USA, April 2010.
[Slides]
- Retrieving Entities
Invited talk, Department of Computing Science, University of Glasgow
Glasgow, UK, April 2010.
- Category-based Query Modeling for Entity Search
32nd European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2010)
Milton Keynes, UK, March 2010.
[Poster]
- Beyond document search: Finding entities
Invited talk, Microsoft Research
Cambridge, UK, March 2010.
- Beyond document search: Finding entities
Invited talk, TripleTalk Semantic Web Meetings, Vrije Universiteit
Amsterdam, The Netherlands, March 2010.
2009
- Overview of the TREC 2009 Entity track
The Eighteenth Text REtrieval Conference (TREC 2009)
Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA, November 2009.
[Slides]
- SaHaRa: Discovering Entity-Topic Associations in Online News
8th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2009)
Chantilly, Virginia, USA, October 2009.
[Poster]
- Retrieving Entities
Advanced SIKS-Course: Probabilistic Methods for Entity Resolution and Entity Ranking
Zeist, The Netherlands, April 2009.
[Slides]
2008
- Now that you’ve bought into Model 2, we’ll tell you why to get Model 1
The Seventeenth Text REtrieval Conference (TREC 2008)
Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA, November 2008.
[Slides]
- Non-Local Evidence for Expert Finding
ACM 17th Conference on Information and Knowledge Managment (CIKM 2008)
Napa Valley, California, USA, October 2008.
[Slides]
- A Few Examples Go A Long Way: Constructing Query Models from Elaborate Query Formulations
31th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research & Development on Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2008)
Singapore, Singapore, July 2008.
[Slides]
- Bloggers as Experts
31th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research & Development on Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2008)
Singapore, Singapore, July 2008.
[Poster]
- Personal Name Resolution of Web People Search
WWW2008 Workshop: NLP Challenges in the Information Explosion Era (NLPIX 2008)
Beijing, China, April 2008.
[Slides]
- Associating People and Documents
30th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2008)
Glasgow, Scotland, April 2008.
[Slides]
2007
- Query and Document Models for Enterprise Search
Sixteenth Text REtrieval Conference (TREC 2007)
Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA, November 2007.
[Slides]
- Broad Expertise Retrieval in Sparse Data Environments
30th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research & Development on Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2007)
Amsterdam, The Netherlands, July 2007.
[Slides]
- Finding Similar Experts
30th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research & Development on Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2007)
Amsterdam, The Netherlands, July 2007.
[Poster]
- People Search in the Enterprise
Doctoral Consortium, SIGIR 2007
Amsterdam, The Netherlands, July 2007.
[Slides]
- Tracking User Generated Content
Invited talk, Kickoff meeting of new mastertrack HAIT (Human Aspects of Information Technology)
University of Tilburg, The Netherlands, May 2007.
[Slides]
- How to Overcome Tiredness: Estimating Topic-Mood Associations
International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM 2007)
Boulder, Colorado, USA, March 2007.
[Slides]
- Determining Expert Profiles (With an Application to Expert Finding)
20th International Joint Conference on Artifical Intelligence (IJCAI 2007)
Hyderabad, India, January 2007.
[Slides]
2006
- Why Are They Excited? Identifying and Explaining Spikes in Blog Mood Levels
Scientific ICT Research Event Netherlands (SIREN 2006)
Utrecht, The Netherlands, October 2006.
[Poster]
- Formal Models for Expert Finding in Enterprise Corpora
29th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research & Development on Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2006)
Seattle, USA, August 2006.
[Slides]
- Decomposing Bloggers’ Moods
WWW-2006 Workshop on the Weblogging Ecosystem
Edinburgh, Scotland, May 2006.
[Slides]
- Finding Experts and their Details in E-mail Corpora
15th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW 2006)
Edinburgh, Scotland, May 2006.
[Poster]
- Why Are They Excited? Identifying and Explaining Spikes in Blog Mood Levels
11th Meeting of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL 2006)
Trento, Italy, April 2006.
[Poster]