Congratulations Dr. Denis Savenkov on successfully defending his PhD Thesis titled “Question Answering with User Generated Content”. Best wishes to him for his new journey at Facebook in Seattle as a research scientist! We will all miss you in the…
Congratulations Dr. Denis Savenkov on successfully defending his PhD Thesis titled “Question Answering with User Generated Content”. Best wishes to him for his new journey at Facebook in Seattle as a research scientist! We will all miss you in the…
Work hard play hard-IRLab at Stone Mountain! Happy winter break~
A question answering system, developed at Emory by a Ph.D. student Denis Savenkov, was ranked first in the LiveQA challenge, as announced at the 2016 Text Retrieval Conference (TREC 2016) on November 2016. The goal of the LiveQA challenge was…
Our paper “CRQA: Crowd-powered Real-time Automated Question Answering System” by Denis Savenkov and Eugene Agichtein has been accepted to HCOMP 2016. It describes our experiments in using crowdsourcing to improve real-time question answering system, which we ran during TREC LiveQA…
Exciting news, our paper titled “When a Knowledge Base Is Not Enough: Question Answering over Knowledge Bases with External Text Data” by Denis Savenkov and Eugene Agichtein has been accepted at SIGIR 2016. The conference will take place in Pisa,…
In 2015, 24 recipients from 22 universities were selected based on their areas of science and interest to Yahoo! The Department of Mathematics is proud to announce that Dr. Eugene Agichtein was awarded a research gift and the opportunity to…
Congratulations to Dr. Qiaoling Liu who successfully defended her PhD thesis on “Improving Usefulness of Community Question Answering Services Towards Better Searcher Satisfaction and Question Recommendation”.
We are happy to announce that Dr. Yu Wang has successfully defended his Ph.D. Thesis on “Modeling Temporal Dynamics of User Generated Content”.
Jinho Choi is an assistant professor in the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science at Emory University. He obtained a Ph.D. in Computer Science and Cognitive Science from the University of Colorado Boulder in 2012. Jinho Choi has been active…
We are happy to announce that Dmitry Lagun has successfully defended his Ph.D. dissertation on “Modeling User Attention and Interaction on the Web.“ He will be joining Google as a Research Scientist in the Fall.
