Doctoral Consortium

Magdalena Kaiser - Incorporating User Feedback in Conversational Question Answering over Heterogeneous Web Sources
Mentors: Xuanjing Huang (Fudan University), Grace Hui Yang (Georgetown University)

Yunqiu Shao - Towards Legal Case Retrieval
Mentors: Paul Thomas (Microsoft), Allan Hanbury (Vienna University of Technology)

Lei Han - Every Penny Counts: On Increasing the Intrinsic Value of Crowdsourcing
Mentors: Carsten Eickhoff (Brown University), Gabriella Kazai (Microsoft)

Zuoxi Yang - Biomedical Information Retrieval Incorporating Knowledge Graph for Explainable Precision Medicine
Mentors: Allan Hanbury (Vienna University of Technology), Guido Zuccon (The University of Queensland)

Runjie Zhu - Bridging East and West: An Integration of TCM and Western Medicine in Medical Text Mining
Mentors: Meng Wang (Hefei University of Technology), Tat-Seng Chua (National University of Singapore)

Paheli Bhattacharya - Legal Data Analytics: Developing Assistive Tools for Legal Practitioners
Mentors: Suzan Verberne (LIACS, Leiden University), Jialie Shen (Queen's University Belfast)

Qiang Zhang - Towards Evaluating Veracity of Textual Statements on the Web
Mentors: Iadh Ounis (University of Glasgow), Guido Zuccon (The University of Queensland)

Azin Ghazimatin - Explaining Recommendations in Heterogeneous Networks
Mentors: Iadh Ounis (University of Glasgow), Min Zhang (Tsinghua University), Denis Parra (Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile)

Siwei Liu - Improving the Effectiveness and Efficiency of Graph NeuralRecommender Systems
Mentors: Meng Wang (Hefei University of Technology), Makoto P. Kato (University of Tsukuba)

Sebastian Hofstätter - End-to-End Contextualized Document Indexing and Retrieval with Neural Networks
Mentors: Makoto P. Kato (University of Tsukuba), Tat-Seng Chua (National University of Singapore)

Valeriia Bolotova-Baranova - Multi-document answer generation for non-factoid questions
Mentors: Xuanjing Huang (Fudan University), Cathal Gurrin (Dublin City University)

Ayme Arango - Language Agnostic Hate Speech Detection
Mentors: Suzan Verberne (LIACS, Leiden University), Cathal Gurrin (Dublin City University)

Yanpeng Lin - User Modeling Towards Stateful Learning to Rank
Mentors: Carsten Eickhoff (Brown University), Min Zhang (Tsinghua University)

Juglar Diaz Zamora - Spatio-temporal conditioned language models
Mentors: Jialie Shen (Queen's University Belfast), Jian-Yun Nie (University of Montreal)