Misc

A Late “Happy New Year!”

Never too late for a happy new year…
I was pretending to be on vacation (while, in fact, working on some interesting proposal), but now I’m officially back in business.

I wanted my first 2009 post to be on “looking back on 2008”, but I had to face reality and realize that writing that summary might be too hard and definitely too time-consuming.

Nevertheless, I still wanted to summarize my scientific outcome somehow, and then I came across a great website, called QuadSearch. It ranks your publications based on citation counts, calculates statistics and research impact indexes, such as the H-index and G-index. The coverage is not perfect, but is pretty decent, as far as I can tell.

And the numbers are…

H-INDEX (Hirsch Number): 8
Egghe’s G-INDEX: 13
Maximum Cites: 74
Total Cites: 214, Total Articles: 34
Cites/Paper: 6.2941

 

The top 5 papers from this chart are:

  1. Formal models for expert finding in enterprise corpora; SIGIR 2006 (Cited by 74)
  2. Finding experts and their details in e-mail corpora; WWW 2006 (Cited by 27)
  3. Language Modeling Approaches for Enterprise Tasks; TREC 2005 (Cited by 16)
  4. Why are they excited? identifying and explaining spikes in blog mood level; EACL 2006 (Cited by 13)
  5. Broad expertise retrieval in sparse data environments; SIGIR 2007 (Cited by 13)

Let’s see how much these numbers improve in 2009 :)

Dr. Balog

It has been a while since my last post…
I’ll write an update soon, but in the meantime, let me just make brief mention of a certain event that took place recently, and I think worths a post. Yes, I’m referring to my PhD defense on September 30th. So, as of that date, I’m Dr. Balog :)
My homepage still needs to be updated at several points (e.g., replacing all the “PhD student” parts with something else), but this is an activity I’ll do with pleasure.

Here is a press release from NWO (in Dutch) about my thesis work.

Upgraded to blog

Welcome to my new academic homepage that has just been transformed to a blog (the old version is still available here well, not anymore). My goal with this site is to bring together those people who find this emerging area of entity retrieval in general, and expertise search in particular interesting. I’ll use this blog to report on research activities, publications, conferences, ideas, etc., and invite you to share your comments, opinions, links to interesting resources, etc.
I make no promises about how frequently this page will be updated. Needless to say, any feedback (comments, email) would certainly keep me motivated… Stay tuned!