Professional Activities

Invited Talks (selected)

CIKM 2021 Keynote: “Knowledge Graphs in Practice”
ECIR 2021 Industry Day Keynote: “Search and Discovery for Finance, in Practice”
ING Bank’s NLP Event 2021: “NLP in Finance”
FinIR 2020: The First Workshop on Information Retrieval in Finance (co-located with SIGIR 2020): “Search and Discovery for Finance”
Data-Driven Financial Stability: Opportunities and Challenges in Big Data (organized by the Bank of Finland): “Using AI to Understand News that Moves Markets”
The BIG Track at the Web Conference 2019: “Understanding News Using the Bloomberg Knowledge Graph”
ODSC 2018: “Making Sense of Twitter @Bloomberg for Finance”
NewsIR 2018 Keynote: “AI & Automated News: Implications on Trust, Bias, and Credibility”
Search Solutions 2017: “Semantic Search at Bloomberg”
ESSIR 2017: “Semantic Search for Finance”

(Co-)organizing

WWW 2023 (Sponsorship chair)
KDD 2020 – International Workshop on Knowledge Graph: Mining Knowledge Graph for Deep Insights
AKBC 2020 – Bias in Automatic Knowledge Graph Construction
WWW 2019 – Workshop on Knowledge Graph Technology and Applications
SIGIR 2018 – KG4IR Workshop on Knowledge Graphs and Semantics for Text Retrieval, Analysis, and Understanding
SIGIR 2017 – KG4IR Workshop on Knowledge Graphs and Semantics for Text Retrieval, Analysis, and Understanding
Utilizing Knowledge Graphs in Text-centric Information Retrieval (tutorial)
CLEF RepLab 2014
CLEF RepLab 2013
CLEF RepLab 2012
LREC 2012 Workshop on Language Engineering for Online Reputation Management
CLEF 2011
DIR 2011
SIGIR 2007

Membership of editorial boards

Information Retrieval Journal

Program Committee member / Reviewer

Journals

IEEE Access
Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology
PLOS ONE
Transactions on Information Systems
Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering
Knowledge and Information Systems
Information Sciences
Information Systems
Information Retrieval
Information Processing and Management
Artificial Intelligence in Medicine
Computers in Biology and Medicine
Journal of Computer Science and Technology
Journal of Web Semantics
JASIST

Conferences and workshops