As the recipient of the 2018 Karen Spärck Jones Award, I was invited to give a keynote at the 41st European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR’19). Below are the slides of my presentation.
keynote
Table generation and retrieval
Tables are powerful and versatile tools for organizing and presenting data. Tables may be viewed as complex information objects, which summarize existing information in a structured form. Therefore, for many information needs, returning tables as search results may be more helpful to users than serving a ranked list of items (documents or entities). We have a line of work, with Shuo Zhang, centered around utilizing (relational) tables as the unit of retrieval (published at WWW’18 and SIGIR’18). I presented our research at this interesting intersection of entity retrieval and data search in my keynote at the DATA:SEARCH’18 workshop at SIGIR’18 (slides are here).
KEYSTONE keynote
I was invited to talk about issues related to entity ranking, query understanding, and evaluation at the most recent KEYSTONE COST meeting. Here are the slides from my presentation.