WSDM 2014, a recap

WSDM is wrapping up today, with only the workshops left for tomorrow. All in all, it was an exciting WSDM with lots of interesting talks and discussions. And of course Times Square cannot be beaten as conference venue location. Some papers/talks that caught my (semantic search) eye at WSDM, in no particular…

Linking queries to entities

I’m happy to announce we’re releasing a new test collection for entity linking for web queries (within user sessions) to Wikipedia. About half of the queries in this dataset are sampled from Yahoo search logs, the other half comes from the TREC Session track. Check out the L24 dataset on Yahoo…

Entity Linking and Retrieval for Semantic Search (WSDM 2014)

This morning, we presented the last edition of our tutorial series on Entity Linking and Retrieval, entitled “Entity Linking and Retrieval for Semantic Search” (with Krisztian Balog and Daan Odijk) at WSDM 2014! This final edition of the series builds upon our earlier tutorials at WWW 2013 and SIGIR 2013. The focus of this…

RepLab 2014

RepLab is a competitive evaluation exercise for Online Reputation Management systems. In 2012 and 2013, RepLab focused on the problem of monitoring the reputation of (company) entities on Twitter, and dealt with the tasks of entity linking (“Is the tweet about the entity?”), reputation polarity (“Does the tweet have positive…