book – Krisztian Balog

This was another year when I was just too busy to blog. But, here are a few things from 2018 to be proud of (in no particular order).

PhD students: Faegheh Hasibi defended her PhD thesis and Trond Linjordet joined my group.
Our SIGIR’06 paper with Leif Azzopardi and Maarten de Rijke received a Test of Time Honorable Mention Award at SIGIR’18.
I joined Google for my sabbatical to work on explainable AI in the context of conversational recommender systems.
I am general co-chair for ICTIR 2020, which will be held in Stavanger, Norway.
My book on Entity-Oriented Search got published by Springer and is available open access.
I was recipient of the Karen Spärck Jones Award 2018 for my contributions to the area of semantic search and for my work on evaluation methodology.

I am pleased to announce that my Entity-Oriented Search book is now available online.

This open access book covers all facets of entity-oriented search—where “search” can be interpreted in the broadest sense of information access—from a unified point of view, and provides a coherent and comprehensive overview of the state of the art. It represents the first synthesis of research in this broad and rapidly developing area. Selected topics are discussed in-depth, the goal being to establish fundamental techniques and methods as a basis for future research and development. Additional topics are treated at a survey level only, containing numerous pointers to the relevant literature. A roadmap for future research, based on open issues and challenges identified along the way, rounds out the book.