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…

We’re now hiring next year’s interns!

I’m happy to announce that we have just opened up our applications for next year’s internships at Yahoo Labs in Barcelona. So, if you’re a PhD student in a related field, do consider applying. Especially if you’re interested in spending some time in sunny Barcelona and gaining research experience along…
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Hadoop code for TREC KBA

I’ve decided to put some of the Hadoop code I developed for the TREC KBA task online. It’s available on Github: https://github.com/ejmeij/trec-kba. In particular, it provides classes to read/write topic files, read/write run files, and expose the documents in the Thrift files as Hadoop-readable objects (‘ThriftFileInputFormat’) to be used as input to mappers. I obviously also…