| 2026 | EACL | ConvApparel: A Benchmark Dataset and Validation Framework for User Simulators in Conversational Recommenders. | Ofer Meshi, Krisztian Balog, Sally Goldman, Avi Caciularu, Guy Tennenholtz, Jihwan Jeong, Amir Globerson, Craig Boutilier |
| 2026 | ECIR | SciNUP: Natural Language User Interest Profiles for Scientific Literature Recommendation. | Mariam Arustashvili, Krisztian Balog |
| 2026 | ECIR | UserSimCRS v2: Simulation-Based Evaluation for Conversational Recommender Systems. | Nolwenn Bernard, Krisztian Balog |
| 2026 | ECIR | Sim4IA-Bench: A User Simulation Benchmark Suite for Next Query and Utterance Prediction. | Andreas Konstantin Kruff, Christin Katharina Kreutz, Timo Breuer, Philipp Schaer, Krisztian Balog |
| 2026 | ECIR | Trust Me on This: A User Study of Trustworthiness for RAG Responses. | Weronika Lajewska, Krisztian Balog |
| 2026 | ICTIR | RecQuest: Towards Estimating User Domain Knowledge in Conversational Recommender Systems. | Ivica Kostric, Ujwal Gadiraju, Krisztian Balog |
| 2026 | SIGIR | A Standardized Re-evaluation of Conversational Recommender Systems on the ReDial Dataset. | Ivica Kostric, Krisztian Balog |
| 2025 | SIGIR | Theory and Toolkits for User Simulation in the Era of Generative AI: User Modeling, Synthetic Data Generation, and System Evaluation. | Krisztian Balog, Nolwenn Bernard, Saber Zerhoudi, ChengXiang Zhai |
| 2025 | SIGIR | Rankers, Judges, and Assistants: Towards Understanding the Interplay of LLMs in Information Retrieval Evaluation. | Krisztian Balog, Don Metzler, Zhen Qin |
| 2025 | SIGIR | GINGER: Grounded Information Nugget-Based Generation of Responses. | Weronika Lajewska, Krisztian Balog |
| 2025 | SIGIR | Second SIGIR Workshop on Simulations for Information Access (Sim4IA 2025). | Philipp Schaer, Christin Katharina Kreutz, Krisztian Balog, Timo Breuer, Andreas Konstantin Kruff |
| 2025 | SIGIR | MultiConAD: A Unified Multilingual Conversational Dataset for Early Alzheimer's Detection. | Arezo Shakeri, Mina Farmanbar, Krisztian Balog |
| 2025 | WSDM | CRS Arena: Crowdsourced Benchmarking of Conversational Recommender Systems. | Nolwenn Bernard, Hideaki Joko, Faegheh Hasibi, Krisztian Balog |
| 2024 | CHIIR | Towards Self-Contained Answers: Entity-Based Answer Rewriting in Conversational Search. | Ivan Sekulic, Krisztian Balog, Fabio Crestani |
| 2024 | ECIR | Towards Reliable and Factual Response Generation: Detecting Unanswerable Questions in Information-Seeking Conversations. | Weronika Lajewska, Krisztian Balog |
| 2024 | ECIR | Estimating the Usefulness of Clarifying Questions and Answers for Conversational Search. | Ivan Sekulic, Weronika Lajewska, Krisztian Balog, Fabio Crestani |
| 2024 | ICTIR | Towards a Formal Characterization of User Simulation Objectives in Conversational Information Access. | Nolwenn Bernard, Krisztian Balog |
| 2024 | WWW | Tutorial on User Simulation for Evaluating Information Access Systems on the Web. | Krisztian Balog, ChengXiang Zhai |
| 2024 | WWW | PKG API: A Tool for Personal Knowledge Graph Management. | Nolwenn Bernard, Ivica Kostric, Weronika Lajewska, Krisztian Balog, Petra Galusckov, Vinay Setty, Martin G. Skjveland |
| 2024 | SIGIR | Dataset and Models for Item Recommendation Using Multi-Modal User Interactions. | Simone Borg Bruun, Krisztian Balog, Maria Maistro |
| 2024 | SIGIR | A Surprisingly Simple yet Effective Multi-Query Rewriting Method for Conversational Passage Retrieval. | Ivica Kostric, Krisztian Balog |
| 2024 | SIGIR | Explainability for Transparent Conversational Information-Seeking. | Weronika Lajewska, Damiano Spina, Johanne R. Trippas, Krisztian Balog |
| 2024 | SIGIR | SIGIR 2024 Workshop on Simulations for Information Access (Sim4IA 2024). | Philipp Schaer, Christin Katharina Kreutz, Krisztian Balog, Timo Breuer, Norbert Fuhr |
| 2024 | WSDM | IAI MovieBot 2.0: An Enhanced Research Platform with Trainable Neural Components and Transparent User Modeling. | Nolwenn Bernard, Ivica Kostric, Krisztian Balog |
| 2023 | CHI | Measuring the Impact of Explanation Bias: A Study of Natural Language Justifications for Recommender Systems. | Krisztian Balog, Filip Radlinski, Andrey Petrov |
| 2023 | CIKM | Tutorial on User Simulation for Evaluating Information Access Systems. | Krisztian Balog, ChengXiang Zhai |
| 2023 | CIKM | Towards Filling the Gap in Conversational Search: From Passage Retrieval to Conversational Response Generation. | Weronika Lajewska, Krisztian Balog |
| 2023 | ECIR | From Baseline to Top Performer: A Reproducibility Study of Approaches at the TREC 2021 Conversational Assistance Track. | Weronika Lajewska, Krisztian Balog |
| 2023 | RecSys | QUARE: 2nd Workshop on Measuring the Quality of Explanations in Recommender Systems. | Oana Inel, Nicolas Mattis, Milda Norkute, Alessandro Piscopo, Timothe Schmude, Sanne Vrijenhoek, Krisztian Balog |
| 2023 | RecSys | Large Language Models are Competitive Near Cold-start Recommenders for Language- and Item-based Preferences. | Scott Sanner, Krisztian Balog, Filip Radlinski, Ben Wedin, Lucas Dixon |
| 2023 | SIGIR | MG-ShopDial: A Multi-Goal Conversational Dataset for e-Commerce. | Nolwenn Bernard, Krisztian Balog |
| 2023 | SIGIR | Beyond Single Items: Exploring User Preferences in Item Sets with the Conversational Playlist Curation Dataset. | Arun Tejasvi Chaganty, Megan Leszczynski, Shu Zhang, Ravi Ganti, Krisztian Balog, Filip Radlinski |
| 2023 | WSDM | UserSimCRS: A User Simulation Toolkit for Evaluating Conversational Recommender Systems. | Jafar Afzali, Aleksander Mark Drzewiecki, Krisztian Balog, Shuo Zhang |
| 2022 | ICTIR | Towards Formally Grounded Evaluation Measures for Semantic Parsing-based Knowledge Graph Question Answering. | Trond Linjordet, Krisztian Balog, Vinay Setty |
| 2022 | RecSys | DAGFiNN: A Conversational Conference Assistant. | Ivica Kostric, Krisztian Balog, Tllv Alexander Aresvik, Nolwenn Bernard, Eyvinn Thu Drheim, Pholit Hantula, Sander Havn-Srensen, Rune Henriksen, Hengameh Hosseini, Ekaterina Khlybova, Weronika Lajewska, Sindre Ekrheim Mosand, Narmin Orujova |
| 2022 | SIGIR | Analyzing and Simulating User Utterance Reformulation in Conversational Recommender Systems. | Shuo Zhang, Mu-Chun Wang, Krisztian Balog |
| 2022 | SIGIR | Would You Ask it that Way?: Measuring and Improving Question Naturalness for Knowledge Graph Question Answering. | Trond Linjordet, Krisztian Balog |
| 2022 | SIGIR | QUARE: 1st Workshop on Measuring the Quality of Explanations in Recommender Systems. | Alessandro Piscopo, Oana Inel, Sanne Vrijenhoek, Martijn Millecamp, Krisztian Balog |
| 2022 | SIGIR | On Natural Language User Profiles for Transparent and Scrutable Recommendation. | Filip Radlinski, Krisztian Balog, Fernando Diaz, Lucas Dixon, Ben Wedin |
| 2021 | RecSys | Soliciting User Preferences in Conversational Recommender Systems via Usage-related Questions. | Ivica Kostric, Krisztian Balog, Filip Radlinski |
| 2021 | SIGIR | POINTREC: A Test Collection for Narrative-driven Point of Interest Recommendation. | Jafar Afzali, Aleksander Mark Drzewiecki, Krisztian Balog |
| 2021 | SIGIR | Sim4IR: The SIGIR 2021 Workshop on Simulation for Information Retrieval Evaluation. | Krisztian Balog, David Maxwell, Paul Thomas, Shuo Zhang |
| 2021 | SIGIR | On Interpretation and Measurement of Soft Attributes for Recommendation. | Krisztian Balog, Filip Radlinski, Alexandros Karatzoglou |
| 2021 | SIGIR | Conversational Entity Linking: Problem Definition and Datasets. | Hideaki Joko, Faegheh Hasibi, Krisztian Balog, Arjen P. de Vries |
| 2021 | SIGIR | Simulating User Satisfaction for the Evaluation of Task-oriented Dialogue Systems. | Weiwei Sun, Shuo Zhang, Krisztian Balog, Zhaochun Ren, Pengjie Ren, Zhumin Chen, Maarten de Rijke |
| 2020 | CIKM | Generating Categories for Sets of Entities. | Shuo Zhang, Krisztian Balog, Jamie Callan |
| 2020 | CIKM | ArXivDigest: A Living Lab for Personalized Scientific Literature Recommendation. | Kristian Gingstad, yvind Jekteberg, Krisztian Balog |
| 2020 | CIKM | IAI MovieBot: A Conversational Movie Recommender System. | Javeria Habib, Shuo Zhang, Krisztian Balog |
| 2020 | ICTIR | Sanitizing Synthetic Training Data Generation for Question Answering over Knowledge Graphs. | Trond Linjordet, Krisztian Balog |
| 2020 | KDD | Evaluating Conversational Recommender Systems via User Simulation. | Shuo Zhang, Krisztian Balog |
| 2020 | WWW | Novel Entity Discovery from Web Tables. | Shuo Zhang, Edgar Meij, Krisztian Balog, Ridho Reinanda |
| 2020 | SIGIR | Summarizing and Exploring Tabular Data in Conversational Search. | Shuo Zhang, Zhuyun Dai, Krisztian Balog, Jamie Callan |
| 2020 | SIGIR | Measuring Recommendation Explanation Quality: The Conflicting Goals of Explanations. | Krisztian Balog, Filip Radlinski |
| 2020 | SIGIR | REL: An Entity Linker Standing on the Shoulders of Giants. | Johannes M. van Hulst, Faegheh Hasibi, Koen Dercksen, Krisztian Balog, Arjen P. de Vries |
| 2019 | CIKM | Auto-completion for Data Cells in Relational Tables. | Shuo Zhang, Krisztian Balog |
| 2019 | ECIR | Impact of Training Dataset Size on Neural Answer Selection Models. | Trond Linjordet, Krisztian Balog |
| 2019 | ECIR | Identifying Unclear Questions in Community Question Answering Websites. | Jan Trienes, Krisztian Balog |
| 2019 | ICTIR | Personal Knowledge Graphs: A Research Agenda. | Krisztian Balog, Tom Kenter |
| 2019 | ICTIR | Unsupervised Context Retrieval for Long-tail Entities. | Daro Garigliotti, Dyaa Albakour, Miguel Martinez, Krisztian Balog |
| 2019 | SIGIR | Web Table Extraction, Retrieval and Augmentation. | Shuo Zhang, Krisztian Balog |
| 2019 | SIGIR | Transparent, Scrutable and Explainable User Models for Personalized Recommendation. | Krisztian Balog, Filip Radlinski, Shushan Arakelyan |
| 2019 | SIGIR | Table2Vec: Neural Word and Entity Embeddings for Table Population and Retrieval. | Li Zhang, Shuo Zhang, Krisztian Balog |
| 2019 | SIGdial | Coached Conversational Preference Elicitation: A Case Study in Understanding Movie Preferences. | Filip Radlinski, Krisztian Balog, Bill Byrne, Karthik Krishnamoorthi |
| 2018 | CIKM | IntentsKB: A Knowledge Base of Entity-Oriented Search Intents. | Daro Garigliotti, Krisztian Balog |
| 2018 | ECIR | Generating High-Quality Query Suggestion Candidates for Task-Based Search. | Heng Ding, Shuo Zhang, Daro Garigliotti, Krisztian Balog |
| 2018 | ECIR | Towards an Understanding of Entity-Oriented Search Intents. | Daro Garigliotti, Krisztian Balog |
| 2018 | ICTIR | Generating Synthetic Data for Neural Keyword-to-Question Models. | Heng Ding, Krisztian Balog |
| 2018 | WWW | Ad Hoc Table Retrieval using Semantic Similarity. | Shuo Zhang, Krisztian Balog |
| 2018 | SIGIR | On-the-fly Table Generation. | Shuo Zhang, Krisztian Balog |
| 2018 | SIGIR | SmartTable: A Spreadsheet Program with Intelligent Assistance. | Shuo Zhang, Vugar Abdul Zada, Krisztian Balog |
| 2017 | ECIR | Entity Linking in Queries: Efficiency vs. Effectiveness. | Faegheh Hasibi, Krisztian Balog, Svein Erik Bratsberg |
| 2017 | ECIR | Design Patterns for Fusion-Based Object Retrieval. | Shuo Zhang, Krisztian Balog |
| 2017 | ICTIR | On Type-Aware Entity Retrieval. | Daro Garigliotti, Krisztian Balog |
| 2017 | ICTIR | Learning to Rank Target Types for Entity-Bearing Queries. | Daro Garigliotti, Krisztian Balog |
| 2017 | SIGIR | Generating Query Suggestions to Support Task-Based Search. | Daro Garigliotti, Krisztian Balog |
| 2017 | SIGIR | Target Type Identification for Entity-Bearing Queries. | Daro Garigliotti, Faegheh Hasibi, Krisztian Balog |
| 2017 | SIGIR | Dynamic Factual Summaries for Entity Cards. | Faegheh Hasibi, Krisztian Balog, Svein Erik Bratsberg |
| 2017 | SIGIR | Nordlys: A Toolkit for Entity-Oriented and Semantic Search. | Faegheh Hasibi, Krisztian Balog, Daro Garigliotti, Shuo Zhang |
| 2017 | SIGIR | DBpedia-Entity v2: A Test Collection for Entity Search. | Faegheh Hasibi, Fedor Nikolaev, Chenyan Xiong, Krisztian Balog, Svein Erik Bratsberg, Alexander Kotov, Jamie Callan |
| 2017 | SIGIR | EntiTables: Smart Assistance for Entity-Focused Tables. | Shuo Zhang, Krisztian Balog |
| 2017 | WSDM | Anticipating Information Needs Based on Check-in Activity. | Jan R. Benetka, Krisztian Balog, Kjetil Nrvg |
| 2016 | ECIR | On the Reproducibility of the TAGME Entity Linking System. | Faegheh Hasibi, Krisztian Balog, Svein Erik Bratsberg |
| 2016 | ECIR | Living Labs for Online Evaluation: From Theory to Practice. | Anne Schuth, Krisztian Balog |
| 2016 | ICTIR | Exploiting Entity Linking in Queries for Entity Retrieval. | Faegheh Hasibi, Krisztian Balog, Svein Erik Bratsberg |
| 2015 | CIKM | Eighth Workshop on Exploiting Semantic Annotations in Information Retrieval (ESAIR'15). | Krisztian Balog, Jeffrey Dalton, Antoine Doucet, Yusra Ibrahim |
| 2015 | ECIR | Task-completion Engines: A Vision with a Plan. | Krisztian Balog |
| 2015 | ECIR | IR Game: How well do you Know Information Retrieval Papers? | Jan Rybak, Krisztian Balog, Kjetil Nrvg |
| 2015 | ICTIR | Entity Linking in Queries: Tasks and Evaluation. | Faegheh Hasibi, Krisztian Balog, Svein Erik Bratsberg |
| 2014 | CIKM | Head First: Living Labs for Ad-hoc Search Evaluation. | Krisztian Balog, Liadh Kelly, Anne Schuth |
| 2014 | ECIR | Temporal Expertise Profiling. | Jan Rybak, Krisztian Balog, Kjetil Nrvg |
| 2014 | SIGIR | A greedy algorithm for finding sets of entity linking interpretations in queries. | Faegheh Hasibi, Krisztian Balog, Svein Erik Bratsberg |
| 2014 | SIGIR | ExperTime: tracking expertise over time. | Jan Rybak, Krisztian Balog, Kjetil Nrvg |
| 2014 | WSDM | Entity linking and retrieval for semantic search. | Edgar Meij, Krisztian Balog, Daan Odijk |
| 2013 | CIKM | CIKM 2013 workshop on living labs for information retrieval evaluation. | Krisztian Balog, David Elsweiler, Evangelos Kanoulas, Liadh Kelly, Mark D. Smucker |
| 2013 | ECIR | Example Based Entity Search in the Web of Data. | Marc Bron, Krisztian Balog, Maarten de Rijke |
| 2013 | SIGIR | A test collection for entity search in DBpedia. | Krisztian Balog, Robert Neumayer |
| 2013 | SIGIR | Cumulative citation recommendation: classification vs. ranking. | Krisztian Balog, Heri Ramampiaro |
| 2013 | SIGIR | Entity linking and retrieval. | Edgar Meij, Krisztian Balog, Daan Odijk |
| 2012 | CIKM | On the use of semantic knowledge bases for temporally-aware entity retrieval. | Krisztian Balog, Kjetil Nrvg |
| 2012 | CIKM | Hierarchical target type identification for entity-oriented queries. | Krisztian Balog, Robert Neumayer |
| 2012 | ECIR | On the Modeling of Entities for Ad-Hoc Entity Search in the Web of Data. | Robert Neumayer, Krisztian Balog, Kjetil Nrvg |
| 2012 | ECIR | When Simple is (more than) Good Enough: Effective Semantic Search with (almost) no Semantics. | Robert Neumayer, Krisztian Balog, Kjetil Nrvg |
| 2012 | SPIRE | Collection Ranking and Selection for Federated Entity Search. | Krisztian Balog, Robert Neumayer, Kjetil Nrvg |
| 2011 | ECIR | A User-Oriented Model for Expert Finding. | Elena Smirnova, Krisztian Balog |
| 2011 | IJCAI | On the Investigation of Similarity Measures for Product Resolution. | Krisztian Balog |
| 2011 | SIGIR | People searching for people: analysis of a people search engine log. | Wouter Weerkamp, Richard Berendsen, Bogomil Kovachev, Edgar Meij, Krisztian Balog, Maarten de Rijke |
| 2010 | CIKM | Ranking related entities: components and analyses. | Marc Bron, Krisztian Balog, Maarten de Rijke |
| 2010 | ECIR | Category-Based Query Modeling for Entity Search. | Krisztian Balog, Marc Bron, Maarten de Rijke |
| 2010 | WWW | Entity search: building bridges between two worlds. | Krisztian Balog, Edgar Meij, Maarten de Rijke |
| 2010 | SIGIR | A two-stage model for blog feed search. | Wouter Weerkamp, Krisztian Balog, Maarten de Rijke |
| 2009 | ACL | A Generative Blog Post Retrieval Model that Uses Query Expansion based on External Collections. | Wouter Weerkamp, Krisztian Balog, Maarten de Rijke |
| 2009 | ECIR | Using Contextual Information to Improve Search in Email Archives. | Wouter Weerkamp, Krisztian Balog, Maarten de Rijke |
| 2008 | CIKM | Non-local evidence for expert finding. | Krisztian Balog, Maarten de Rijke |
| 2008 | ECAI | Finding Key Bloggers, One Post At A Time. | Wouter Weerkamp, Krisztian Balog, Maarten de Rijke |
| 2008 | ECIR | Associating People and Documents. | Krisztian Balog, Maarten de Rijke |
| 2008 | WWW | Resolving Person Names in Web People Search. | Krisztian Balog, Leif Azzopardi, Maarten de Rijke |
| 2008 | SIGIR | Bloggers as experts: feed distillation using expert retrieval models. | Krisztian Balog, Maarten de Rijke, Wouter Weerkamp |
| 2008 | SIGIR | A few examples go a long way: constructing query models from elaborate query formulations. | Krisztian Balog, Wouter Weerkamp, Maarten de Rijke |
| 2008 | SIGIR | Parsimonious relevance models. | Edgar Meij, Wouter Weerkamp, Krisztian Balog, Maarten de Rijke |
| 2007 | IJCAI | Determining Expert Profiles (With an Application to Expert Finding). | Krisztian Balog, Maarten de Rijke |
| 2007 | ICWSM | How to Overcome Tiredness: Estimating Topic-Mood Associations. | Krisztian Balog, Maarten de Rijke |
| 2007 | ICWSM | MoodViews: Tracking and Searching Mood-Annotated Blog Posts. | Gilad Mishne, Krisztian Balog, Maarten de Rijke, Breyten Ernsting |
| 2007 | SIGIR | Building simulated queries for known-item topics: an analysis using six european languages. | Leif Azzopardi, Maarten de Rijke, Krisztian Balog |
| 2007 | SIGIR | People search in the enterprise. | Krisztian Balog |
| 2007 | SIGIR | Broad expertise retrieval in sparse data environments. | Krisztian Balog, Toine Bogers, Leif Azzopardi, Maarten de Rijke, Antal van den Bosch |
| 2007 | SIGIR | Finding similar experts. | Krisztian Balog, Maarten de Rijke |
| 2006 | EACL | Why Are They Excited? Identifying and Explaining Spikes in Blog Mood Levels. | Krisztian Balog, Gilad Mishne, Maarten de Rijke |
| 2006 | WWW | Finding experts and their eetails in e-mail corpora. | Krisztian Balog, Maarten de Rijke |
| 2006 | SIGIR | Formal models for expert finding in enterprise corpora. | Krisztian Balog, Leif Azzopardi, Maarten de Rijke |
| 2005 | SGAI | Modeling Navigation Patterns of Visitors of Unstructured Websites. | Krisztian Balog, Peter Hofgesang, Wojtek Kowalczyk |