2022 – Krisztian Balog

Event reports

July 29, 2022July 29, 2022 by krisztianbalog

The June 2022 issue of SIGIR Forum reports on two events that I co-organized:

The Personal Knowledge Graphs (PKG) workshop at the AKBC’21 conference [PDF]
The 44th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR’22) that was held in Stavanger, Norway in a hybrid format [PDF]

SIGIR’22 contributions

April 2, 2022May 31, 2022 by krisztianbalog

The following papers got accepted at SIGIR’22:

“Analyzing and Simulating User Utterance Reformulation in Conversational Recommender Systems” — full paper with Shuo Zhang and Mu Chun Wang [PDF]
“On Natural Language User Profiles for Transparent and Scrutable Recommendation” — perspectives paper with Filip Radlinski, Fernando Diaz, Lucas Dixon, and Ben Wedin [PDF]
“Would You Ask it that Way? Measuring and Improving Question Naturalness for Knowledge Graph Question Answering” — resource paper with Trond Linjordet [PDF]

Additionally, together with Alessandro Piscopo, Oana Inel, Sanne Vrijenhoek, and Martijn Millecamp, I’ll be co-organizing a workshop on Measuring Quality of Explanations in Recommender Systems [PDF].

update May 31: pre-prints added

Highlights from 2021

January 10, 2022March 28, 2023 by krisztianbalog

A selection of highlights from 2021:

Served as PC co-chair of the short paper track of CIKM’21.
Organized workshops on Simulation for IR Evaluation (@SIGIR’21) and Personal Knowledge Graphs (@AKBC’21).
Received a Best Paper Award at DESIRES’21.
Ivica Kostric joined IAI as a PhD student.
Joined Google as a Staff Research Scientist in a 50% role. In the remaining 70% I continue to work as a Professor at the University of Stavanger. (Yes, that adds up to 120%.)