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Can Users Detect Biases or Factual Errors in Generated Responses in Conversational Information-Seeking?, W. Łajewska, K. Balog, D. Spina, and J. Trippas. In: 2nd International ACM SIGIR Conference on Information Retrieval in the Asia Pacific (SIGIR-AP ’24), December 2024.
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2024

Towards Realistic Synthetic User-Generated Content: A Scaffolding Approach to Generating Online Discussions, K. Balog, J. Palowitch, B. Ikica, F. Radlinski, H. Alvari, and M. Manshadi. arXiv: 2408.08379 [CS.CL]
Explainability for Transparent Conversational Information-Seeking, W. Łajewska, D. Spina, J. Trippas, and K. Balog. In: 47th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR ’24), pages 1040–1050, July 2024. (Acceptance rate: 20%)
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A Surprisingly Simple yet Effective Multi-Query Rewriting Method for Conversational Passage Retrieval, I. Kostric and K. Balog. In: 47th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR ’24), pages 2271–227, July 2024. (Acceptance rate: 24%)
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Dataset and Models for Item Recommendation Using Multi-Modal User Interactions, S. B. Bruun, K. Balog, and M. Maistro. In: 47th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR ’24), pages 709–718, July 2024.
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SIGIR 2024 Workshop on Simulations for Information Access (Sim4IA 2024), P. Schaer, C. K. Kreutz, K. Balog, T. Breuer, and N. Fuhr. In: 47th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR ’24), pages 3058–3061, July 2024.
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Towards a Formal Characterization of User Simulation Objectives in Conversational Information Access, N. Bernard and K. Balog. In: 2024 ACM SIGIR International Conference on the Theory of Information Retrieval (ICTIR ’24), pages 185–193, July 2024. ( Best Paper Honorable Mention Award)
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Identifying Breakdowns in Conversational Recommender Systems using User Simulation, N. Bernard and K. Balog. In: ACM Conversational User Interfaces 2024 (CUI ’24), July 2024.
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User Simulation for Evaluating Information Access Systems, K. Balog and CX. Zhai. Foundations and Trends in Information Retrieval, 18(1-2):1-261, 2024.
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Tutorial on User Simulation for Evaluating Information Access Systems on the Web, K. Balog and CX. Zhai. In: Companion Proceedings of the ACM Web Conference 2024 (WWW ’24), pages 1254–1257, May 2024.
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PKG API: A Tool for Personal Knowledge Graph Management, N. Bernard, I. Kostric, W. Łajewska, K. Balog, P. Galuščáková, V. Setty, and M. G. Skjæveland. In: Companion Proceedings of the ACM Web Conference 2024 (WWW ’24), pages 1051-1054, May 2024.
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Generating Usage-related Questions for Preference Elicitation in Conversational Recommender Systems, I. Kostric, K. Balog, and F. Radlinski. ACM Transactions on Recommender Systems, (2)2: Article 12, April 2024.
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Towards Reliable and Factual Response Generation: Detecting Unanswerable Questions in Information-seeking Conversations, W. Łajewska and K. Balog. In: 46th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR ’24), pages 336-344, March 2024. (Acceptance rate: 24%; Best Short Paper Award)
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Estimating the Usefulness of Clarifying Questions and Answers for Conversational Search, I. Sekulić, W. Łajewska, K. Balog, and F. Crestani. In: 46th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR ’24), pages 384-392, March 2024. (Acceptance rate: 24%)
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Towards Self-Contained Answers: Entity-Based Answer Rewriting in Conversational Search, I. Sekulić, K. Balog, and F. Crestani. In: The 2024 ACM SIGIR Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval (CHIIR ’24), pages 209–218, March 2024.
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IAI MovieBot 2.0: An Enhanced Research Platform with Trainable Neural Components and Transparent User Modeling, N. Bernard , I. Kostric, and K. Balog. In: 17th ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM ’24), pages 1042–1045, March 2024.
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An Ecosystem for Personal Knowledge Graphs: A Survey and Research Roadmap, M. G. Skjæveland, K. Balog, N. Bernard, W. Łajewska, and T. Linjordet. In: AI Open, 5:55–69, 2024.
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2023

A Systematic Review of Fairness, Accountability, Transparency and Ethics in Information Retrieval, N. Bernard and K. Balog. In: ACM Computing Surveys, December 2023.
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Tutorial on User Simulation for Evaluating Information Access Systems, K. Balog and CX. Zhai. In: Proceedings of the Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval in the Asia Pacific Region (SIGIR-AP ’23), pages 302–305, November 2023.
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Towards Filling the Gap in Conversational Search: From Passage Retrieval to Conversational Response Generation, W. Łajewska and K. Balog. In: 32nd ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM ’23), pages 5326–5330, October 2023. ( Best Resource Paper Award)
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Tutorial on User Simulation for Evaluating Information Access Systems, K. Balog and CX. Zhai. In: 32nd ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM ’23), pages 5200–5203, October 2023.
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Large Language Models are Competitive Near Cold-start Recommenders for Language- and Item-based Preferences, S. Sanner, K. Balog, F. Radlinski, B. Wedin, and L. Dixon. In: 17th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys ’23), pages 890–896, September 2023. (Acceptance rate: 25%)
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QUARE: 2nd Workshop on Measuring the Quality of Explanations in Recommender Systems, O. Inel, N. Mattis, M. Norkute, A. Piscopo, T. Schmude, S. Vrijenhoek, and K. Balog. In: 17th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys ’23), pages 1241–1243, September 2023.
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MG-ShopDial: A Multi-Goal Conversational Dataset for e-Commerce, N. Bernard and K. Balog. In: 46th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR ’23), pages 2775–2785, July 2023.
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Beyond Single Items: Exploring User Preferences in Item Sets with the Conversational Playlist Curation Dataset, A. T. Chaganty, S. Zhang, M. Leszczynski, K. Balog, F. Radlinski, and R. Ganti. In: 46th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR ’23), pages 2754–2764, July 2023.
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Recommending Tasks based on Search Queries and Missions, D. Garigliotti, K. Balog, K. Hose, and J. Bjerva. Natural Language Engineering, 2023. (Impact: 1.841)
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Measuring the Impact of Explanation Bias: A Study of Natural Language Justifications for Recommender Systems, K. Balog, F. Radlinski, and A. Petrov. In: Extended Abstracts of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA ’23), Article 203, April 2023.
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From Baseline to Top Performer: A Reproducibility Study of Approaches at the 2021 TREC Conversational Assistance Track, W. Łajewska and K. Balog. In: 45th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR ’23), pages 177—191, April 2023.
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The University of Stavanger (IAI) at the TREC 2022 Conversational Assistance Track, W. Łajewska, N. Bernard, I. Kostric, I. Sekulić, and K. Balog. In: 31st Text REtrieval Conference (TREC ’22), February 2023.
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UserSimCRS: A User Simulation Toolkit for Evaluating Conversational Recommender Systems, J. Afzali, A. M. Drzewiecki, K. Balog, and S. Zhang. In: 16th ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM ’23), pages 1160—1163, February 2023.
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Talk the Walk: Synthetic Data Generation for Conversational Music Recommendation, M. Leszczynski, S. Zhang, R. Ganti, K. Balog, F. Radlinski, F. Pereira, and A. T. Chaganty. arXiv: 2301.11489 [CS.IR]

2022

Report on the 1st Workshop on Measuring the Quality of Explanations in Recommender Systems (QUARE 2022) at SIGIR 2022, A. Piscopo, O. Inel, S. Vrijenhoek, M. Millecamp, and K. Balog. SIGIR Forum, 56(2): Article 11, December 2022.
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Conversational Music Retrieval with Synthetic Data, M. E. Leszczynski, R. Ganti, S. Zhang, K. Balog, F. Radlinski, F. Pereira, and A. T. Chaganty. In: 2nd Workshop on Interactive Learning for Natural Language Processing at NeurIPS 2022 (InterNLP ’22), December 2022.
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The University of Stavanger (IAI) at the TREC 2022 Conversational Assistance Track, W. Łajewska, N. Bernard, I. Kostric, I. Sekulić, and K. Balog. In: TREC 2022 Working Notes, November 2022.
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DAGFiNN: A Conversational Conference Assistant, I. Kostric, K. Balog, T. A. Aresvik, N. Bernard, E. T. Dørheim, P. Hantula, S. Havn-Sørensen, R. Henriksen, H. Hosseini, E. Khlybova, W. Łajewska, S. E. Mosand, and N. Orujova. In: 16th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys ’22), pages 628—631, September 2022.
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Towards Formally Grounded Evaluation Measures for Semantic Parsing-based Knowledge Graph Question Answering, T. Linjordet, K. Balog, and V. Setty. In: 8th ACM SIGIR International Conference on the Theory of Information Retrieval (ICTIR ’22), pages 3—12, July 2022.
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Analyzing and Simulating User Utterance Reformulation in Conversational Recommender Systems, S. Zhang, M. C. Wang , and K. Balog. In: 45th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR ’22), pages 133—143, July 2022. (Acceptance rate: 20%)
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On Natural Language User Profiles for Transparent and Scrutable Recommendation, F. Radlinski, K. Balog, F. Diaz, L. Dixon, and B. Wedin. In: 45th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR ’22), pages 2863—2874, July 2022. (Acceptance rate: 21%)
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Would You Ask it that Way? Measuring and Improving Question Naturalness for Knowledge Graph Question Answering, T. Linjordet and K. Balog. In: 45th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR ’22), pages 3090—3098, July 2022.
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QUARE: 1st Workshop on Measuring the Quality of Explanations in Recommender Systems, A. Piscopo, O. Inel, S. Vrijenhoek, M. Millecamp, and K. Balog. In: 45th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR ’22), pages 3478—3481, July 2022.
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Report on the Workshop on Personal Knowledge Graphs (PKG 2021) at AKBC 2021, K. Balog, P. Mirza, M. G. Skjæveland, and Z. Wang. SIGIR Forum, 56(1): Article 4, June 2022.
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Report on the 44th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2022): The First Major Hybrid IR Conference, K. Balog, K. Nørvåg, and V. Setty. SIGIR Forum, 56(1): Article 8, June 2022.
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Advances in Information Retrieval: 44th European Conference on IR Research, ECIR 2022, Proceedings, Part I. M. Hagen, S. Verberne, C. Macdonald, C. Seifert, K. Balog, K. Nørvåg, and V. Setty, editors. Stavanger, Norway, April 10–14, 2022.
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Advances in Information Retrieval: 44th European Conference on IR Research, ECIR 2022, Proceedings, Part II. M. Hagen, S. Verberne, C. Macdonald, C. Seifert, K. Balog, K. Nørvåg, and V. Setty, editors. Stavanger, Norway, April 10–14, 2022.
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2021

Report on the 1st Simulation for Information Retrieval Workshop (Sim4IR 2021) at SIGIR 2021, K. Balog, D. Maxwell, P. Thomas, and S. Zhang. SIGIR Forum, 55(2): Article 10, December 2021.
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Diverse Reviewer Suggestion for Extending Conference Program Committees, C. K. Kreutz, K. Balog, and R. Schenkel. In: 20th IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology (WI-IAT ’21), pages 79—86, December 2021.
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The University of Stavanger (IAI) at the TREC 2021 Conversational Assistance Track, I. Kostric, K. Balog, M. Book, T. Linjordet, and V. Setty. In: TREC 2021 Working Notes, November 2021.
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Soliciting User Preferences in Conversational Recommender Systems via Usage-related Questions, I. Kostric, K. Balog, and F. Radlinski. In: Fifteenth ACM Conference on Recommender Systems Proceedings (RecSys ’21), pages 724—729, September 2021.
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Conversational AI from an Information Retrieval Perspective: Remaining Challenges and a Case for User Simulation, K. Balog. In: 2nd International Conference on Design of Experimental Search & Information REtrieval Systems (DESIRES ’21), pages 80—90, September 2021. ( Best Paper Award)
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CSR-Sim4IR 2021: Joint Proceedings of the Causality in Search and Recommendation (CSR) and Simulation of Information Retrieval Evaluation (Sim4IR) Workshops 2021. K. Balog, X. Chen, X. Chen, D. Maxwell, P. Thomas, S. Zhang, Y. Zhang, and Y. Zhang, editors. CEUR Workshop Proceedings 2911, CEUR-WS.org, July 2021.
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On Interpretation and Measurement of Soft Attributes for Recommendation, K. Balog, F. Radlinski, and A. Karatzoglou. In: 44th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR ’21), pages 890–899, July 2021. (Acceptance rate: 21%)
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POINTREC: A Test Collection for Narrative-driven Point of Interest Recommendation, J. Afzali, A. M. Drzewiecki and K. Balog. In: 44th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR ’21), pages 2478–2484, July 2021.
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Conversational Entity Linking: Problem Definition and Datasets, H. Joko, F. Hasibi, K. Balog, and A. P. de Vries. In: 44th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR ’21), pages 2390–2397, July 2021.
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Simulating User Satisfaction for the Evaluation of Task-oriented Dialogue Systems, W. Sun, S. Zhang, K. Balog, Z. Ren, P. Ren, Z. Chen, and M. de Rijke. In: 44th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR ’21), pages 2499–2506, July 2021.
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Sim4IR: The SIGIR 2021 Workshop on Simulation for Information Retrieval Evaluation (workshop overview), K. Balog, D. Maxwell, P. Thomas, and S. Zhang. In: 44th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR ’21), pages 2697–2698, July 2021.
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Semantic Table Retrieval using Keyword and Table Queries, S. Zhang and K. Balog. ACM Transactions on the Web, 15(3): Article 11, May 2021. (Impact: 2.0)
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2020

Semantic Answer Type Prediction using BERT: IAI at the ISWC SMART Task 2020, V. Setty and K. Balog. In: Proceedings of the SeMantic AnsweR Type prediction task (SMART) at ISWC 2020 Semantic Web Challenge, pages 10—18, November 2020.
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Generating Categories for Sets of Entities, S. Zhang, K. Balog, and J. Callan. In: 29th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM ’20), pages 1833—1842, October 2020. (Acceptance rate: 21%)
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ArXivDigest: A Living Lab for Personalized Scientific Literature Recommendation, K. Gingstad, Ø. Jekteberg, and K. Balog. In: 29th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM ’20), pages 3393—3396, October 2020.
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IAI MovieBot: A Conversational Movie Recommender System, J. Habib, S. Zhang, and K. Balog. In: 29th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM ’20), pages 3405—3408, October 2020.
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Sanitizing Synthetic Training Data Generation for Question Answering over Knowledge Graphs, T. Linjordet and K. Balog. In: 6th ACM SIGIR International Conference on the Theory of Information Retrieval (ICTIR ’20), pages 121–128, September 2020.
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ICTIR ’20: Proceedings of the 2020 ACM SIGIR on International Conference on Theory of Information Retrieval. K. Balog, V. Setty, C. Lioma, Y. Liu, M. Zhang, and K. Berberich, editors. Virtual Event, Norway. ACM. September 2020.
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Evaluating Conversational Recommender Systems via User Simulation, S. Zhang and K. Balog. In: 26th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery & Data Mining (KDD ’20), pages 1512-1520, August 2020. (Acceptance rate: 17%)
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Measuring Recommendation Explanation Quality: The Conflicting Goals of Explanations, K. Balog and F. Radlinski. In: 43rd International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR ’20), pages 329-338, July 2020. (Acceptance rate: 26%)
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Summarizing and Exploring Tabular Data in Conversational Search, S. Zhang, Z. Dai, K. Balog, and J. Callan. In: 43rd International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR ’20), pages 1537-1540, July 2020.
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REL: An Entity Linker Standing on the Shoulders of Giants, J. M. van Hulst, F. Hasibi, K. Dercksen, K. Balog, and A. P. de Vries. In: 43rd International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR ’20), pages 2197–2200, July 2020.
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Novel Entity Discovery from Web Tables, S. Zhang, E. Meij, K. Balog, and R. Reinanda. In: The Web Conference 2020 (WWW ’20), pages 1298–1308, April 2020. (Acceptance rate: 19%)
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Web Table Extraction, Retrieval and Augmentation: A Survey, S. Zhang and K. Balog. ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology. 11(2): Article 13, January 2020.(Impact: 3.566)
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Common Conversational Community Prototype: Scholarly Conversational Assistant, K. Balog, L. Flekova, M. Hagen, R. Jones, M. Potthast, F. Radlinski, M. Sanderson, S. Vakulenko, and H. Zamani. CoRR abs/2001.06910 (arXiv preprint), January 2020.
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2019

Auto-completion for Data Cells in Relational Tables, S. Zhang and K. Balog. In: 28th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM ’19), pages 761-770, November 2019. (Acceptance rate: 19%)
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Personal Knowledge Graphs: A Research Agenda, K. Balog and T. Kenter. In: 5th ACM SIGIR International Conference on the Theory of Information Retrieval (ICTIR ’19), pages 217-220, October 2019.
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Unsupervised Context Retrieval for Long-tail Entities, D. Garigliotti, D. Albakour, M. Martinez-Alvarez, and K. Balog. In: 5th ACM SIGIR International Conference on the Theory of Information Retrieval (ICTIR ’19), pages 225-228, October 2019.
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ICTIR ’19: Proceedings of the 2019 ACM SIGIR on International Conference on Theory of Information Retrieval. Y. Fang, Y. Zhang, J. Allan, K. Balog, B. Carterette, and J. Guo, editors. Santa Clara, CA, USA. ACM. October 2019.
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Coached Conversational Preference Elicitation: A Case Study in Understanding Movie Preferences, F. Radlinski, K. Balog, B. Byrne, and K. Krishnamoorthi. In: 20th Annual SIGdial Meeting on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDIAL ’19), pages 353-360, September 2019.
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Continuous Evaluation of Large-Scale Information Access Systems: A Case for Living Labs, F. Hopfgartner, K. Balog, A. Lommatzsch, L. Kelly, B. Kille, A. Schuth, and M. Larson. In: N. Ferro and C. Peters, editors, Information Retrieval Evaluation in a Changing World – Lessons Learned from 20 Years of CLEF, pages 511-543, Springer, 2019.
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Transparent, Scrutable and Explainable User Models for Personalized Recommendation, K. Balog, F. Radlinski, and S. Arakelyan. In: 42nd International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR ’19), pages 265-274, July 2019. (Acceptance rate: 20%)
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Table2Vec: Neural Word and Entity Embeddings for Table Population and Retrieval, L. Deng, S. Zhang, and K. Balog. In: 42nd International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR ’19), pages 1029-1032, July 2019.
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Web Table Extraction, Retrieval and Augmentation (tutorial overview), S. Zhang and K. Balog. In: 42nd International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR ’19), pages 1409-1410, July 2019.
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Recommending Related Tables, S. Zhang and K. Balog. CoRR abs/1907.03595 (arXiv preprint), July 2019.
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NeuType: A Simple and Effective Neural Network Approach for Predicting Missing Entity Type Information in Knowledge Bases, J. A. B. Hovda, D. Garigliotti, and K. Balog. CoRR abs/1907.03007 (arXiv preprint), July 2019.
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Identifying and Exploiting Target Entity Type Information for Ad Hoc Entity Retrieval, D. Garigliotti, F. Hasibi, and K. Balog. Information Retrieval Journal, 22(3):285-323, August 2019. (Impact: 2.841)
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Identifying Unclear Questions in Community Question Answering Websites, J. Trienes and K. Balog. In: 41st European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR ’19), pages 276-289, April 2019. (Acceptance rate: 23%)
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Impact of Training Dataset Size on Neural Answer Selection Models, T. Linjordet and K. Balog. In: 41st European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR ’19), pages 828-835, April 2019.
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2018

Entity Retrieval, K. Balog. In: L. Liu and M. T. Özsu (eds.) Encyclopedia of Database Systems (2nd ed.), Springer, 2018
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Evaluation-as-a-Service for the Computational Sciences: Overview and Outlook, F. Hopfgartner, A. Hanbury, H. Müller, I. Eggel, K. Balog, T. Brodt, G. V. Cormack, J. Lin, J. Kalpathy-Cramer, N. Kando, M. P. Kato, A. Krithara, T. Gollub, M. Potthast, E. Viegas, and S. Mercer. Journal of Data and Information Quality, 10(4): Article 15, November 2018.
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IntentsKB: A Knowledge Base of Entity-Oriented Search Intents, D. Garigliotti and K. Balog. In: 27th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM ’18), pages 1659-1662, October 2018
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Entity-Oriented Search, K. Balog. Springer, 2018.
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OpenSearch: Lessons Learned from an Online Evaluation Campaign, R Jagerman, K. Balog, and M. de Rijke. Journal of Data and Information Quality, 10(3): Article 13, October 2018.
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Generating Synthetic Data for Neural Keyword-to-Question Models, H. Ding and K. Balog. In: 4th ACM International Conference on the Theory of Information Retrieval (ICTIR ’18), pages 51-58, September 2018.
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On-the-fly Table Generation, S. Zhang and K. Balog. In: 41st International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR ’18), pages 595-604, July 2018. (Acceptance rate: 21%)
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SmartTable: A Spreadsheet Program with Intelligent Assistance, S. Zhang, V. A. Zada, and K. Balog. In: 41st International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR ’18), pages 1297-1300, July 2018.
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Ad Hoc Table Retrieval using Semantic Similarity, S. Zhang and K. Balog. In: The Web Conference 2018 (WWW ’18), pages 1553-1562, April 2018. (Acceptance rate: 15%)
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Generating High-Quality Query Suggestion Candidates for Task-Based Search, H. Ding, S. Zhang, D. Garigliotti, and K. Balog. In: 40th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR ’18), pages 625-631, March 2018.
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Towards an Understanding of Entity-Oriented Search Intents, D. Garigliotti and K. Balog. In: 40th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR ’18), pages 644-650, March 2018.
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2017

Overview of TREC OpenSearch 2017, R. Jagerman, K. Balog, P. Schaer, J. Schaible, N. Tavakolpoursaleh, and M. de Rijke. In: TREC 2017 Working Notes, November 2017.
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On Type-Aware Entity Retrieval, D. Garigliotti and K. Balog. In: 3rd ACM International Conference on the Theory of Information Retrieval (ICTIR ’17), pages 27-34, October 2017.
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EntiTables: Smart Assistance for Entity-Focused Tables, S. Zhang and K. Balog. In: 40th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR ’17), pages 255-264, August 2017. (Acceptance rate: 22%)
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Dynamic Factual Summaries for Entity Cards, F. Hasibi, K. Balog, and S. E. Bratsberg. In: 40th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR ’17), pages 773-782, August 2017. (Acceptance rate: 22%)
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Target Type Identification for Entity-Bearing Queries, D. Garigliotti, F. Hasibi, and K. Balog. In: 40th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR ’17), pages 845-848, August 2017.
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Generating Query Suggestions to Support Task-Based Search, D. Garigliotti and K. Balog. In: 40th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR ’17), pages 1153-1156, August 2017.
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DBpedia-Entity v2: A Test Collection for Entity Search, F. Hasibi, F. Nikolaev, C. Xiong, K. Balog, S. E. Bratsberg, A. Kotov, and J. Callan. In: 40th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR ’17), pages 1265-1268, August 2017. ( Best Short Paper Honorable Mention Award)
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Nordlys: A Toolkit for Entity-Oriented and Semantic Search, F. Hasibi, K. Balog, D. Garigliotti, and S. Zhang. In: 40th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR ’17), pages 1289-1292, August 2017.
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Towards Building a Knowledge Base of Monetary Transactions from a News Collection, J. Benetka, K. Balog, and K. Nørvåg. In: 17th ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL ’17), June 2017.
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Entity Linking in Queries: Efficiency vs. Effectiveness, F. Hasibi, K. Balog, and S. E. Bratsberg. In: 39th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR ’17), pages 40-53, April 2017. (Acceptance rate: 27%)
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Design Patterns for Fusion-Based Object Retrieval, S. Zhang and K. Balog. In: 39th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR ’17), pages 684-690, April 2017.
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The University of Stavanger at the TREC 2016 Tasks Track, D. Garigliotti and K. Balog. In: 25th Text REtrieval Conference (TREC ’16), February, 2017.
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Supervised Ranking of Triples for Type-Like Relations, F. Hasibi, D. Garigliotti, S. Zhang, and K. Balog. In WSDM Cup 2017, February 2017.
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Anticipating Information Needs Based on Check-in Activity, J. Benetka, K. Balog, and K. Nørvåg. In: 10th ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM ’17), pages 41-50, February 2017. (Acceptance rate: 16%)
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2016

Lucene4IR: Developing Information Retrieval Evaluation Resources Using Lucene L. Azzopardi, Y. Moshfeghi, M. Halvey, R.S. Alkhawaldeh, K. Balog, E. Di Buccio, D. Ceccarelli, J. M. Fernández-Luna, C. Hull, J. Mannix, and S. Palchowdhury. SIGIR Forum, 50(2):58-75, December 2016.
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Overview of the TREC 2016 Open Search track: Academic Search Edition, K. Balog, A. Schuth, P. Dekker, N. Tavakolpoursaleh, P. Schaer, P-Y. Chuang, J. Wu, and C. L. Giles. In: TREC 2016 Working Notes, November 2016.
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The University of Stavanger at the TREC 2016 Tasks Track, D. Garigliotti and K. Balog. In: TREC 2016 Working Notes, November 2016.
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Exploiting Entity Linking in Queries for Entity Retrieval, F. Hasibi, K. Balog, and S. E. Bratsberg. In: 2nd ACM SIGIR International Conference on the Theory of Information Retrieval (ICTIR ’16), pages 209-218, September 2016. ( Best Paper Honorable Mention Award)
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Towards an Understanding of Transactional Tasks N. Shepeleva and K. Balog. In: 7th International Conference of the CLEF Association (CLEF ’16), pages 234-240, September 2016.
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Experimental IR Meets Multilinguality, Multimodality, and Interaction – 7th International Conference of the CLEF Association, CLEF 2016, Évora, Portugal, September 5-8, 2016, Proceedings. N. Fuhr, P. Quaresma, T. Gonçalves, B. Larsen, K. Balog, C. Macdonald, L. Cappellato, and N. Ferro, editors. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 9822, Springer 2016.
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Working Notes of CLEF 2016 – Conference and Labs of the Evaluation forum, Évora, Portugal, 5-8 September, 2016. K. Balog, L. Cappellato, N. Ferro, and C. Macdonald, editors. CEUR Workshop Proceedings 1609, CEUR-WS.org 2016.
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Report on the Eighth Workshop on Exploiting Semantic Annotations in Information Retrieval (ESAIR’15) K. Balog, J. Dalton, A. Doucet, and Y. Ibrahim. SIGIR Forum, 50(1):49-57, June 2016.
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On the Reproducibility of the TAGME Entity Linking System, F. Hasibi, K. Balog, and S. E. Bratsberg. In: 38th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR ’16), pages 436-449, March 2016. (Acceptance rate: 25%)
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Living Labs for Online Evaluation: From Theory to Practice (tutorial overview), A. Schuth and K. Balog. In: 38th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR ’16), pages 893-896, March 2016.
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2015

Evaluation-as-a-Service: Overview and Outlook, A. Hanbury, H. Müller, K. Balog, T., G. V. Cormack, I. Eggel, T. Gollub, F. Hopfgartner, J. Kalpathy-Cramer, N. Kando, A. Krithara, J. Lin, S. Mercer, and M. Potthast. arXiv:1512.07454, December 2015.
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Evaluating Document Filtering Systems Over Time, T. Kenter, K. Balog, and M. de Rijke. Information Processing & Management, 51(6):791-808, November 2015. (Impact: 1.265; 5-year Impact: 1.469)
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Eighth Workshop on Exploiting Semantic Annotations in Information Retrieval (ESAIR’15) (workshop overview), K. Balog, J. Dalton, A. Doucet, and Y. Ibrahim. In: 24th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM ’15), October 2015.
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Proceedings of the Eighth Workshop on Exploiting Semantic Annotations in Information Retrieval (ESAIR ’15) held in conjunction with CIKM 2015, K. Balog, J. Dalton, A. Doucet, and Y. Ibrahim, editors. Melbourne, Australia, October 2015.
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Entity Linking in Queries: Tasks and Evaluation, F. Hasibi, K. Balog, and S. E. Bratsberg. In: ACM SIGIR International Conference on the Theory of Information Retrieval (ICTIR ’15), page 171-180, September 2015.
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Overview of the Living Labs for Information Retrieval Evaluation (LL4IR) CLEF Lab 2015, A. Schuth, K. Balog, and L. Kelly. In: Sixth International Conference of the CLEF Association (CLEF ’15), pages 484-496, September, 2015.
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Extended Overview of the Living Labs for Information Retrieval Evaluation (LL4IR) CLEF Lab 2015, A. Schuth, K. Balog, and L. Kelly. In: CLEF 2015 Labs and Workshops, Notebook Papers, September, 2015.
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Probabilistic Field Mapping for Product Search, A. B. Ghirmatsion and K. Balog. In: CLEF 2015 Labs and Workshops, Notebook Papers, September, 2015.
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Report on the Evaluation-as-a-Service (EaaS) Expert Workshop, F. Hopfgartner, A. Hanbury, H. Müller, N. Kando, S. Mercer, J. Kalpathy-Cramer, M. Potthast, T. Gollub, A. Krithara, J. Lin, K. Balog, and I. Eggel. SIGIR Forum, 49(1):57-65, June 2015.
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Task-completion Engines: A Vision with a Plan, K. Balog. In: First International Workshop on Supporting Complex Search Tasks (SCST ’15), March, 2015.
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IR Game: How well do you know information retrieval papers?, J. Rybak, K. Balog, and K. Nørvåg. In: Second International Workshop on Gamification for Information Retrieval (GamifIR ’15), March 2015.
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Learning to Combine Collection-centric and Document-centric Models for Resource Selection, K. Balog. In: Proceedings of the Twenty-Third Text REtrieval Conference (TREC ’14), February, 2015.
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2014

NTNUiS at the TREC 2014 Federated Web Search Track, K. Balog. In: TREC 2014 Working Notes, November 2014.
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Head First: Living Labs for Ad-hoc Search Evaluation, K. Balog, L. Kelly, and A. Schuth. In: 23rd ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM ’14), pages 1815-1818, November 2014. (Acceptance rate: 22%)
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A Greedy Algorithm for Finding Sets of Entity Linking Interpretations in Queries, F. Hasibi, K. Balog, and S. E. Bratsberg. In: Entity Recognition and Disambiguation Challenge (ERD ’14), July 2014.
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ExperTime: Tracking Expertise over Time, J. Rybak, K. Balog, and K. Nørvåg. In: 37th international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR ’14), pages 1273-1274, July 2014.
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Report on the CIKM Workshop on Living Labs for Information Retrieval Evaluation, K. Balog, D. Elsweiler, E. Kanoulas, L. Kelly, and M. D. Smucker. SIGIR Forum, 48(1):21-28, June 2014.
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Temporal Expertise Profiling, J. Rybak, K. Balog, and K. Nørvåg. In: 36th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR ’14), pages 540-546, April 2014.
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Semistructured Data Search, K. Balog. In: N. Ferro (ed.) Bridging Between Information Retrieval and Databases. LNCS, vol. 8173, pages 74-96, Springer, 2014.
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Entity Linking and Retrieval for Semantic Search (tutorial overview), E. Meij, K. Balog, and D. Odijk. In: 7th ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM ’14), page 683, Feb 2014.
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Collection and Document Language Models for Resource Selection, K. Balog. In: Proceedings of the Twenty-Second Text REtrieval Conference (TREC ’13), February, 2014.
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2013

The University of Stavanger at the TREC 2013 Federated Web Search Track, K. Balog. In: TREC 2013 Working Notes, November 2013.
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Proceedings of the 2013 workshop on Living labs for information retrieval evaluation (LivingLab ’13) held in conjunction with CIKM 2013, K. Balog, D. Elsweiler, E. Kanoulas, L. Kelly, and M. D. Smucker, editors. San Francisco, CA, USA, October 2013.
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CIKM 2013 Workshop on Living Labs for Information Retrieval Evaluation (workshop overview), K. Balog, D. Elsweiler, E. Kanoulas, L. Kelly, and M. D. Smucker. In: 22nd ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM ’13), page 2557, October 2013.
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On the Assessment of Expertise Profiles, R. Berendsen, M. de Rijke, K. Balog, T. Bogers, and A. van den Bosch. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 64(10):2024-2044, October 2013. (Impact: 2.005; 5-year Impact: 2.159)
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Time-aware Evaluation of Cumulative Citation Recommendation Systems, L. Dietz, J. Dalton, and K. Balog. In: SIGIR 2013 Workshop on Time-aware Information Access (#TAIA2013), Aug 2013.
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A Test Collection for Entity Search in DBpedia, K. Balog and R. Neumayer. In: 36th international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR ’13), pages 737-740, July 2013.
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Cumulative Citation Recommendation: Classification vs. Ranking, K. Balog and H. Ramampiaro. In: 36th international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR ’13), pages 941-944, July 2013.
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Entity Linking and Retrieval (tutorial overview), E. Meij, K. Balog, and D. Odijk. In: 36th international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR ’13), page 1127, July 2013.
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KBAAA: A Web-based Toolkit for the Assessment and Analysis of Knowledge Base Acceleration Systems, K. Balog, H. Ramampiaro, and K. Nørvåg. In: 10th Conference on Open Research Areas in Information Retrieval (OAIR ’13), pages 215-216, May 2013.
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Multi-step Classification Approaches to Cumulative Citation Recommendation, K. Balog, N. Takhirov, H. Ramampiaro, and K. Nørvåg. In: 10th Conference on Open Research Areas in Information Retrieval (OAIR ’13), pages 121-128, May 2013.
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Example Based Entity Finding in the Web of Data, M. Bron, K. Balog, and M. de Rijke. In: 34th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR ’13), pages 392-403, March 2013. (Acceptance rate: 29%)
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2012

The First Joint International Workshop on Entity-oriented and Semantic Search (JIWES) (workshop report), K. Balog, D. Carmel, A. P. de Vries, D. M. Herzig, P. Mika, H. Roitman, R. Schenkel, P. Serdyukov, and T. Tran Duc. SIGIR Forum, 46(2):87-94, December 2012.
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Exploiting External Collections for Query Expansion, W. Weerkamp, K. Balog, and M. de Rijke. ACM Transactions on the Web, 6(4): Article 18, November 2012. (Impact: 1.909; 5-year Impact: 2.500)
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On the Use of Semantic Knowledge Bases for Temporally-aware Entity Retrieval, K. Balog and K. Nørvåg. In: Fifth International Workshop on
Exploiting Semantic Annotations in Information Retrieval (ESAIR ’12), October 2012.
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Hierarchical Target Type Identification for Entity-oriented Queries, K. Balog and R. Neumayer. In: 21st ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM ’12), pages 2391-2394, October 2012.
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Collection Ranking and Selection for Federated Entity Search, K. Balog, R. Neumayer, and K. Nørvåg. In: 19th International Symposium on String Processing and Information Retrieval (SPIRE ’12), pages 73-85, October 2012.
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Ranking Distributed Knowledge Repositories, R. Neumayer, K. Balog, and K. Nørvåg. In: International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries (TPDL ’12), pages 486-491, September 2012.
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Proceedings of the 1st Joint International Workshop on Entity-Oriented and Semantic Search (JIWES) held in conjunction with the 35th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference, K. Balog, D. Carmel, A. P. de Vries, D. M. Herzig, P. Mika, H. Roitman, R. Schenkel, P. Serdyukov, and T. Tran Duc, editors. Portland, OR, USA, August 2012.
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Expertise Retrieval, K. Balog, Y. Fang, M. de Rijke, P. Serdyukov, and L. Si. Foundations and Trends in Information Retrieval, 6(2-3):127-256, August 2012.
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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 ’12), pages 133-145, April 2012. (Acceptance rate: 21%)
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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 ’12), pages 540-543, April 2012.
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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 ’11), 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.
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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, December 2011. (Impact: 1.667; 5-year Impact: 5.774)
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Overview of the TREC 2011 Entity Track, K. Balog, P. Serdyukov, and A. P. de Vries. In: TREC 2011 Working Notes, November 2011.
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Finding Related Entities (keynote abstract), K. Balog. In: 1st International Workshop on Search and Mining Entity-relationship Data (SMER ’11), page 21, October 2011.
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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)
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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 ’11), pages 26-37, September 2011.
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Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Entity-Oriented Search (EOS) held in conjunction with the 34th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference, K. Balog, A. de Vries, P. Serdyukov, and J-R. Wen, editors. Beijing, China, July 2011.
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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 ’11), pages 26-32, July 2011.
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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 in Information Retrieval (SIGIR ’11), pages 45-54, July 2011. (Acceptance rate: 20%)
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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), July 2011.
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NTNU at SemSearch 2011, K. Balog, M. Ciglan, R. Neumayer, W. Wei, and K. Nørvåg. In: 4th International Semantic Search Workshop (SEMSEARCH ’11), April 2011.
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A User-oriented Model for Expert Finding, E. Smirnova and K. Balog. In: 33rd European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR ’11), pages 580-592, April 2011. (Acceptance rate: 20%; Best Paper Award)
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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 ’10), 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.
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Ranking Related Entities: Components and Analyses, M. Bron, K. Balog, and M. de Rijke. In: ACM 19th Conference on Information and Knowledge Managment (CIKM ’10), pages 1079-1088, October 2010. (Acceptance rate: 13%)
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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.
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The University of Amsterdam at WePS3, M. Tsagkias and K. Balog. In: CLEF 2010 LABs and Workshops, Notebook Papers, September 2010.
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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 in Information Retrieval (SIGIR ’10), pages 877-878, July 2010.
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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 ’09), pages 265-272, 2010.
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Entity Search: Building Bridges between Two Worlds, K. Balog, E. Meij and M. de Rijke. In: 3rd International Semantic Search Workshop (SEMSEARCH ’10), pages 1-5, April 2010.
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Category-based Query Modeling for Entity Search, K. Balog, M. Bron and M. de Rijke. In: 32nd European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR ’10), pages 319-331, March 2010. (Acceptance rate: 22%)
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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 ’09), February, 2010.
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Related Entity Finding Based on Co-Occurrence, M. Bron, K. Balog, and M. de Rijke. In: Proceedings of the Eighteenth Text REtrieval Conference (TREC ’09), February, 2010.
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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 ’09), February, 2010.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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 ’09), October 2009.
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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 ’09), pages 1057-1065, August 2009. (Acceptance rate: 21%)
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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.
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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 ’08), pages 292-299, 2009.
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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 ’09), April 2009.
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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 ’09), pages 400-411, April 2009. (Acceptance rate: 22%)
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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 Proceedings (TREC ’08), NIST, 2009.
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Combining Candidate and Document Models for Expert Search, K. Balog and M. de Rijke. In: The Seventeenth Text REtrieval Conference Proceedings (TREC ’08), NIST, February 2009.
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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.
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The SIGIR 2008 Workshop on Future Challenges in Expertise Retrieval (fCHER), K. Balog. In: SIGIR Forum, 42(2):46-52, December 2008.
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People Search in the Enterprise (dissertation abstract), K. Balog. In: SIGIR Forum, 42(2):103, December 2008.
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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.
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Non-Local Evidence for Expert Finding, K. Balog and M. de Rijke. In: ACM 17th Conference on Information and Knowledge Managment (CIKM ’08), pages 489-498, October 2008. (Acceptance rate: 17%)
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Finding Key Bloggers, One Post At A Time, W. Weerkamp, K. Balog, and M. de Rijke. In: 18th European Conference on Articificial Intelligence (ECAI ’08), pages 318-322, July 2008. (Acceptance rate: 21%)
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Proceedings of the Future Challenges in Expertise Retrieval (fCHER) workshop held in conjunction with the 31th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference, K. Balog and Y. Yu, editors. Singapore, July 2008.
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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), July 2008.
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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 in Information Retrieval (SIGIR ’08), pages 371-378, July 2008. (Acceptance rate: 17%)
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Parsimonious Relevance Models, E. Meij, W. Weerkamp, K. Balog, and M. de Rijke. In: 31th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research & Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR ’08), pages 817-818, July 2008.
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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 in Information Retrieval (SIGIR ’08), pages 753-754, July 2008.
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People Search in the Enterprise, K. Balog. PhD thesis, University of Amsterdam, June 2008.
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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 ’08), April 2008.
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Associating People and Documents, K. Balog and M. de Rijke. In: 30th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR ’08), pages 296-308, April 2008. (Acceptance rate: 23%)
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Query and Document Models for Enterprise Search, K. Balog, K. Hofmann, W. Weerkamp and M. de Rijke. In: The Sixteenth Text REtrieval Conference Proceedings (TREC ’07), 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.
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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.
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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.
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People Search in the Enterprise, K. Balog. In: 30th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research & Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR ’07), pages 916-916, July 2007. ( Best Doctoral Consortium Paper Award)
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Finding Similar Experts, K. Balog and M. de Rijke. In: 30th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research & Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR ’07), pages 821-822, July 2007.
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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 in Information Retrieval (SIGIR ’07), pages 551-558, July 2007. (Acceptance rate: 17%)
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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 in Information Retrieval (SIGIR ’07), pages 455-462, July 2007. (Acceptance rate: 17%)
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UVA: Language Modeling Techniques for Web People Search, K. Balog, L. Azzopardi, and M. de Rijke. In: SemEval-2007, June 2007.
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How to Overcome Tiredness: Estimating Topic-Mood Associations, K. Balog and M. de Rijke. In: International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM ’07), pages 199-202, March 2007.
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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 ’07), pages 323-324, March 2007.
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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 Proceedings (TREC ’06), NIST, February 2007.
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Determining Expert Profiles (With an Application to Expert Finding), K. Balog and M. de Rijke. In: 20th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI ’07), 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.
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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.
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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.
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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 in Information Retrieval (SIGIR ’06), pages 43-50, August 2006. (Acceptance rate: 19%; Test of Time Honorable Mention Award)
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Searching for People in the Personal Work Space, K. Balog and M. de Rijke. In: International Workshop on Intelligent Information Access (IIIA ’06), July 2006.
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Decomposing Bloggers’ Moods, K. Balog and M. de Rijke. In: 3rd Annual Workshop on the Weblogging Ecosystem (WWE ’06), May 2006.
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Finding Experts and their Details in E-mail Corpora, K. Balog and M. de Rijke. In: 15th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW ’06), May 2006.
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Language Modeling Approaches for Enterprise Tasks, L. Azzopardi, K. Balog, and M. de Rijke. In: The Fourteenth Text Retrieval Conference (TREC ’05), 2006.
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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 ’06), 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.
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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, pages 116-129, 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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