Current PhD students
- Nolwenn Bernard (UiS, 2022-)
- Weronika Łajewska (UiS, 2022-)
- Ivica Kostric (UiS, 2021-)
Former PhD students
- Trond Linjordet (UiS, PhD 2022)
- Thesis: A Critical Look at the Evaluation of Knowledge Graph Question Answering [PDF]
- Co-supervisors: Kjersti Engan, Trygve Eftestøl
- Rahul Mishra* (co-supervisor, UiS, PhD 2021)
- Thesis: Deep Neural Attention for Misinformation and Deception Detection [PDF]
- Main supervisor: Reggie Davidrajuh
- Darío Garigliotti (UiS, PhD 2019)
- Thesis: Task-Based Support in Search Engines [PDF]
- Co-supervisor: Kjetil Nørvåg
- Shuo Zhang (UiS, PhD 2019)
- Thesis: Table Search, Generation and Completion [PDF]
- Co-supervisor: Heri Ramampiaro
- Faegheh Hasibi (co-supervisor, NTNU, PhD 2018)
- Thesis: Semantic Search with Knowledge Bases [PDF]
- Main supervisor: Svein Erik Bratsberg
- Richard Berendsen (co-supervisor, UvA, PhD 2015)
- Thesis: Finding People, Papers, and Posts: Vertical Search Algorithms and Evaluation [PDF]
- Main supervisor: Maarten de Rijke
- Marc Bron (co-supervisor, UvA, PhD 2013)
- Thesis: Exploration and Contextualization through Interaction and Concepts [PDF]
- Main supervisor: Maarten de Rijke
- Robert Neumayer (co-supervisor, NTNU, PhD 2013)
- Thesis: Semantic and Distributed Entity Search in the Web of Data [PDF]
- Main supervisor: Kjetil Nørvåg
* formal co-supervisor, not actively involved
Visiting PhD students
- Simone Borg Bruun (visiting from University of Copenhagen, Denmark, Apr-July 2023)
- Ivan Sekulić (visiting from Università della Swizzera italiana, Switzerland, Apr-July 2022)
- Christin Kreutz (visiting from University of Trier, Germany, Jan-Apr 2021)
- Heng Ding (visiting from Wuhan University, China, Dec 2016-Jan 2018)
PhD committee membership
- Gabriel Bénédict, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 2024
- Ivan Sekulić, Università della Svizzera italiana, Switzerland, 2024
- Gustavo Penha, TU Delft, The Netherlands, 2023
- Mikhail Kamalov, Inria, France, 2021 (pre-defense)
- José Luís Devezas, University of Porto, Portugal, 2021
- Flávio Martins, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, Portugal, 2018
- Tom Kenter, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 2017
- Alberto Tonon, University of Fribourg, Switzerland, 2017
- Leander Jehl, UiS, 2016 (committee chair)
- Morten Mossige, UiS, 2015 (committee chair)
- Surender Yerva, EPFL, Switzerland, 2013
Former MSc students
- Jafar Afzali and Aleksander Mark Drzewiecki (UiS, MSc, 2022)
Context Modeling for User Simulation for Conversational Information Access - Narmin Orujova and Ekaterina Khlyboba (UiS, MSc, 2022)
Personalizing Human-Robot Dialogue Interactions using Face and Name Recognition - Ivica Kostric (UiS, MSc, 2021)
Soliciting User Preferences in Conversational Recommender Systems via Usage-related Questions - Einar M. Langholm (co-supervisor, UiS, MSc, 2021)
Constructing a Personal Knowledge Graph from Disparate Data Sources - Henrik Haugland Syverinsen (NTNU, MSc, 2021)
Supervised Pre-training for Dialogue Act Classification in Task-oriented Dialogue - Olaf Liadal (NTNU, MSc, 2021)
Explainable Research Paper Recommendation Using Scientific Knowledge Graphs - Pål Fossnes (NTNU, MSc, 2021)
Narrative Driven Recommendation - Kristian Gingstad and Øyvind Jekteberg (UiS, MSc, 2020)
ArXivDigest: A Living Lab for Personalized Scientific Literature Recommendation - Javeria Habib (UiS, MSc, 2020)
A Conversational Movie Recommender System - Renny Octavia Tan (UiS, MSc, 2020)
Towards More Natural Explanations of User Preferences - Kenan Mahic (NTNU, MSc, 2020)
Impact of Clarifying Uncertainty in Graph-based Entity Disambiguation - Jon Arne Bø Hovda (UiS, MSc, 2018)
Automatic Entity Typing using Deep Learning - Li Deng (UiS, MSc, 2018)
Table2Vec: Neural Word and Entity Embeddings for Table Population and Retrieval - Ivan-Louis Miranda Husebø and Andreas Kvist (UiS, MSc, 2018)
Decreasing Manual Workload by Automating SAP Travel Expense Workflows - Vugar Abdul Zada (UiS, MSc, 2018)
Natural Language Interaction with Tables - Øyvind Blaauw (UiS, MSc, 2017)
Answering Engine for Sports Statistics: Question Processing - Aida Mehdipour Pirbazari (UiS, MSc, 2017)
Answering Engine for Sports Statistics: Development of an Ontology and a Knowledge Base - Kjell Arne Hellum (UiS, MSc, 2017)
Information Retrieval Using Applied Supervised Learning for Personalized E-Commerce - Johan Le Gall (UiS, MSc, 2016)
Tabularized Search Results - Shuo Zhang (UiS, MSc, 2016)
Fusion-based Information Retrieval - Brage Michael Ellingsen Roalkvam (UiS, MSc, 2015)
Effective Entity Linking for News Articles - Maryam Sadat Marashi (UiS, MSc, 2015)
Automatic Generation of Quiz Questions Using Freebase - Aman Berhane Ghirmatsion (UiS, MSc, 2015)
Probabilistic Field Mapping for Product Search - Chris Håland (UiS, MSc, 2014)
Tweet-based Event Summarization - Jenda Rybak (co-supervisor, NTNU, MSc, 2013)
Cost Data Extraction and Visualization - Wouter Bolsterlee (co-supervisor, UvA, MSc, 2009)
Expert Profiling in an Academic Enterprise - Jop van Raaij (co-supervisor, UvA, MSc, 2007)
The Relation Between the News, User Generated Content and the Stock Market - Lucas Bouma (co-supervisor, UvA, MSc, 2007)
Drie taalmodellen voor het zoeken in discussies
Former BSc students
- Rune Henriksen and Sindre E. Mosand (UiS, BSc, 2022)
A Conversational Framework for Multiple Modalities - Sander Havn-Sørensen and Eyvinn Thu Dørheim (UiS, BSc, 2022)
A Conversational Recommender Skill for Conference Content - Tølløv Aresvik, Hengameh Hosseini, and Pholit Hantula (UiS, BSc, 2022)
Developing a POI Recommendation Skill for a Conversational Conference Assistant - Fredrik Seim Berge (UiS, BSc, 2021)
Creating a Movie Recommendation Chatbot for the Facebook Messenger Platform - David Gordon Ramsay and Rebeca Pop (UiS, BSc, 2021)
ArXiv Table Extractor - Osama Billa and Yohannes Dawit Kassaye (UiS, BSc, 2021)
LMS and Smart Text-Editor to Enhance Teacher-Student Collaboration - Jafar Afzali and Aleksander M. Drzewiecki (UiS, BSc, 2020)
Creating a Test Collection for POI Recommendation - Per-Kristian E. Holltrø and Magne Njå (UiS, BSc, 2018)
SymCheck: Symptom Based Disease Information Collection and Search - Daniel Torvaldsen Garip and Jørgen Holme (UiS, BSc, 2018)
Context-Aware Entity Cards - Øyvind Jekteberg and Kristian Gingstad (UiS, BSc, 2018)
ArXivDigest: An online evaluation platform for personalized scientific literature recommendation - Mii Erik Samyo Haugård (UiS, BSc, 2017)
Hucomii: A Web-Based Human Computation Platform - Helge J. Bjorland (UiS, BSc, 2017)
Investigation of the Potential for Using Text from Net Promoter Score as Predictor for Customer Churn - Andreas Kvist and Ivan-Louis Miranda Husebo (UiS, BSc, 2016)
Development of ABCHjelp Response: An Application for Rapid Response in Emergencies - Adam Nuridov and Gustav Nødland (UiS, BSc, 2016)
Design and Development of Responsive Front-End and Back-End for Emergency Services - Nicolas S. Kolnes-Cassis (UiS, BSc, 2016)
Web UI for a Task-Completion Engine - Bjørn Magne Snoen (UiS, BSc, 2016)
Smart Query Completion - Christoffer K. Clausen and Steffen Opheim (UiS, BSc, 2015)
IPAWIDE – Intelligent Project Administration and Website IDE [YouTube] - Jonatan Pettersen (UiS, BSc, 2015)
A Critical Analysis of Language Modeling Implementations in IR Toolkits - Athar Ali Tajik and Tihan Torban (UiS, BSc, 2015)
A Tool for Assessing and Comparing Information Retrieval (IR) Systems - Asbjørn Thom (UiS, BSc, 2015)
A WordPress Plugin for Academics - Bartosz Wasilewski (UiS, BSc, 2014)
Faceted Search and Navigation UI Library - Janicke Falch and Ine Foss (UiS, BSc, 2014)
Subsea Introduction [YouTube] - Morten Hovdan (UiS, BSc, 2014)
PartyQuiz – An Online Hotseat Quiz Game - Anonymous* (UiS, BSc, 2013)
An Interactive Broker System for Federated Entity Retrieval - Svetlin M. Stefanov (co-supervisor, UvA, BSc, 2007)
Searching Blog Posts: By Topic and Mood
* student wished to not have their identity disclosed
Former project students
- Ivica Kostric (UiS, MSc CS Project, 2020)
Neural IAI Moviebot - Henrik Haugland Syverinsen (NTNU, MSc CS Project, 2020)
Intent Classification for Conversational AI - Olaf A. Liadal (NTNU, MSc CS Project, 2020)
Publication Metadata Extraction From Academic Homepages - Pål Fossnes (NTNU, MSc CS Project, 2020)
Narrative-driven Recommendations - Javeria Habib (UiS, MSc CS Project, 2019)
JARVIS Movie Recommendation System - Kenan Mahic (NTNU, MSc CS Project, 2019)
On the use of Context for Entity Linking in a Conversational Setting - Jan Trienes (MSc, visiting from the University of Twente with ERASMUS, 2018)
Identifying Unclear Questions in Community Question Answering Websites - Kjell Arne Hellum (UiS, MSc CS Project, 2016)
Information Retrieval Using Applied Supervised Learning for Personalized E-Commerce - Christer Hadland (UiS, MSc CS Project, 2015)
Answer Type Determination for Web Question Answering - Aman Berhane Ghirmatsion (UiS, MSc CS Project, 2014)
Concept Recognition and Weighting for Product Search - Brage Michael Ellingsen Roalkvam (UiS, MSc CS Project, 2014)
Approach for Spotting Entity-bearing Words in News Articles - Maryam Sadat Marashi (UiS, MSc CS Project, 2014)
Developing a Solr-based Large-Scale News Search Engine - Chris Håland (UiS, MSc CS Project, 2013)
Tweet-based Event Summarization - Martin Rudi Holaker and Eirik Emanuelsen (NTNU, MSc CS Specialization Project, 2012)
Effective and Efficient Estimation of Relation Language Models with Mapreduce - Ellen Wiig Andresen (NTNU, MSc CS Specialization Project, 2012)
Novelty Detection in Knowledge Base Acceleration - Pål Grønås Drange and Erik Parmann (UvA, MSc Language Technology project, 2010)
SaHaRa Solr - Kamran Massoudi and Gabriele Modena (UvA, MSc Language Technology project, 2009)
Wikipedia Product Search - Bart Brinkman, Ivan Johgi, and Max Hirschel (UvA, BSc Project Information Retrieval, 2009)
SaHaRa - A.E. Folkers, S. Gerard, M.J. Janssen, V. Mahabir, R. Nijdam, and D.J. Witte (UvA, BSc Project Information Retrieval, 2006)
Expert Search System