• Ad Hoc Table Retrieval using Semantic Similarity 

      Zhang, Shuo; Balog, Krisztian (Chapter, 2018)
      We introduce and address the problem of ad hoc table retrieval: answering a keyword query with a ranked list of tables. This task is not only interesting on its own account, but is also being used as a core component in ...
    • Fusion-based information retrieval 

      Zhang, Shuo (Masteroppgave/UIS-TN-IDE/2016;, Master thesis, 2016-06-14)
      Information retrieval technique assists us to extract information from a huge amount of information sources. Web search engine is a typically commercial system implementing information retrieval technique and receiving ...
    • Report on the 1st Simulation for Information Retrieval Workshop (Sim4IR 2021) at SIGIR 2021 

      Balog, Krisztian; Maxwell, David; Thomas, Paul; Zhang, Shuo (Journal article, 2021)
      Simulation is used as a low-cost and repeatable means of experimentation. As Information Retrieval (IR) researchers, we are no strangers to the idea of using simulation within our own field---such as the traditional means ...
    • SmartTable: A Spreadsheet Program with Intelligent Assistance 

      Zhang, Shuo; Zada, Vugar Abdul; Balog, Krisztian (Chapter, 2018)
      We introduce SmartTable, an online spreadsheet application that is equipped with intelligent assistance capabilities. With a focus on relational tables, describing entities along with their attributes, we offer assistance ...
    • Table Search, Generation and Completion 

      Zhang, Shuo (PhD thesis UiS;, Doctoral thesis, 2019-10)
      Tables are one of those “universal tools” that are practical and useful in many application scenarios. Tables can be used to collect and organize information from multiple sources and then turn that information into knowledge ...
    • Table2Vec: Neural Word and Entity Embeddings for Table Population and Retrieval 

      Deng, Li (Masteroppgave/UIS-TN-IDE/2018;, Master thesis, 2018-06)
      Tables contain a significant amount of valuable knowledge in a structured form. In recent years, a growing body of studies related to tables has been conducted in different application domains. To the best of our knowledge, ...