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Research Areas research areas

Overview

  • My research combines methods for text retrieval, extraction, machine learning and analytics (TREMA).

    Currently, I am working on methods that automatically, and in a query-driven manner, retrieve materials from the Web and compose Wikipedia-like articles. Especially for information needs, where the user has very little prior knowledge about, the web search paradigm of 10 blue hyperlinks is not sufficient. Instead, I envision to provide a synthesis of the Web materials to give a comprehensive overview (TREC CAR).

    My goal is to develop algorithm to find what users are looking for based on text content only. In contrast, most Web-search algorithms are based on interaction data such as query-log, click, or session information---information that is not available when searching private document collections. Consequently, we aim to maximize the utility of information retrieval models in combination with methods from natural language processing.

    A particular emphasis of my work is to utilize information from structured knowledge bases such as Wikipedia, Freebase, or DBpedia together with text-based reasoning on general document and Web corpora (KG4IR). In my work on "Entity Query Feature Expansion" (SIGIR 2014), I demonstrate that significantly better search results are obtained when using entity linking and knowledge bases in the retrieval algorithm.
  • Selected Publications

    Academic Article

    Year Title
    2020 Toward comprehensive event collectionsInternational Journal on Digital Libraries.  21:215-229. 2020
    2019 Special issue on knowledge graphs and semantics in text analysis and retrievalInformation Retrieval.  22:229-231. 2019
    2019 Special issue on knowledge graphs and semantics in text analysis and retrieval \textbf[Special Issue]Information Retrieval Journal.  1-3. 2019
    2018 Knowledge-rich image gist understanding beyond literal meaningData and Knowledge Engineering.  117:114-132. 2018
    2018 Toward a computational history of universities: Evaluating text mining methods for interdisciplinarity detection from PhD dissertation abstractsDigital Scholarship in the Humanities.  33:612-620. 2018
    2018 ACM SIGIR Student Liaison ProgramACM SIGIR Forum.  51:42-45. 2018
    2018 Overview of The First Workshop on Knowledge Graphs and Semantics for Text Retrieval and Analysis (KG4IR)ACM SIGIR Forum.  51:139-144. 2018
    2018 Toward comprehensive event collectionsInternational Journal on Digital Libraries.  1-15. 2018
    2018 Understanding the Gist of Images-Ranking of Concepts for Multimedia IndexingarXiv preprint arXiv:1809.085932018
    2017 Data from the paper: Towards a Computational History of Universities: Evaluating Text Mining Methods for Interdisciplinarity Detection from Ph. D. Dissertation AbstractsDigital Scholarship in the Humanities2017
    2016 Capturing interdisciplinarity in academic abstractsD-Lib Magazine.  22:9-9. 2016
    2016 Enhancing domain-specific entity linking in DHComputational Linguistics.  2:67-88. 2016
    2011 Inferring functional modules of protein families with probabilistic topic modelsBMC Bioinformatics.  12:141-141. 2011
    2010 Directed factor graph notation for generative modelsMax Planck Institute for Informatics, Tech. Rep2010
    2006 Exploring Social Topic Networks with the Author-Topic ModelProceedings of ESWC’06.  54-60. 2006
    2003 An Ubiquitous and Multimedia Environment for Education (EUME)Learning Technology.  5. 2003
    Across-Document Neighborhood Expansion for Candidate Retrieval
    CCR@ TREC 2012 KBA
    Stimulating Massively Multiplayer Cooperation with Co-located Game ConceptsPerGames
    Supplementary Material for" Localizing Bugs in Program Executions with Graphical Models

    Article

    Year Title
    2024 A Workbench for Autograding Retrieve/Generate Systems 2024
    2024 An Exam-based Evaluation Approach Beyond Traditional Relevance Judgments 2024
    2023 Retrieve-Cluster-Summarize: An Alternative to End-to-End Training for Query-specific Article Generation 2023
    2023 Perspectives on Large Language Models for Relevance Judgment 2023

    Chapter

    Year Title
    2023 ECIR 23 Tutorial: Neuro-Symbolic Approaches for Information RetrievalLecture Notes in Computer Science. 324-330. 2023
    2023 Entity Embeddings for Entity Ranking: A Replicability StudyLecture Notes in Computer Science. 117-131. 2023
    2005 Cooperation in ubiquitous computing: an extended view on sharing.  241-250. 2005

    Conference Paper

    Year Title
    2024 Pencils Down! Automatic Rubric-based Evaluation of Retrieve/Generate SystemsProceedings of the 2024 ACM SIGIR International Conference on Theory of Information Retrieval. 175-184. 2024
    2024 A Workbench for Autograding Retrieve/Generate SystemsProceedings of the 47th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval. 1963-1972. 2024
    2023 Perspectives on Large Language Models for Relevance JudgmentProceedings of the 2023 ACM SIGIR International Conference on Theory of Information Retrieval. 39-50. 2023
    2023 Neuro-Symbolic Representations for Information RetrievalProceedings of the 46th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval. 2023
    2022 Topic-Mono-BERT: A Joint Retrieval-Clustering System for Retrieving Overview PassagesProceedings of the 14th Annual Meeting of the Forum for Information Retrieval Evaluation. 54-59. 2022
    2022 Query-specific Subtopic Clustering2022 ACM/IEEE JOINT CONFERENCE ON DIGITAL LIBRARIES (JCDL). 1-9. 2022
    2021 Report on the first hipstir workshop on the future of information retrievalACM SIGIR Forum. 62-75. 2021
    2020 A Large Test Collection for Entity Aspect LinkingProceedings of the 29th ACM International Conference on Information & Knowledge Management. 3109-3116. 2020
    2020 Alligator collector: a latency-optimized garbage collector for functional programming languagesProceedings of the 2020 ACM SIGPLAN International Symposium on Memory Management. 87-99. 2020
    2019 An Analysis of Deep Contextual Word Embeddings and Neural Architectures for Toponym Mention Detection in Scientific PublicationsNAACL Workshop on Workshop on extracting structured knowledge from scientific publications (ESSP). 2019
    2019 Local and Global Query Expansion for Hierarchical Complex TopicsECIR 2019 European Conference on Information Retrieval. 2019
    2019 Special issue on knowledge graphs and semantics in text analysis and retrieval \textbf[Special Issue] 2019
    2019 UNH at SemEval-2019 Task 12: Toponym Resolution in Scientific PapersThe 2019 International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation colocated with NAACL (SemEval). 2019
    2019 Why does this Entity matter? Support Passage Retrieval for Entity RetrievalPROCEEDINGS OF THE 2019 ACM SIGIR INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON THEORY OF INFORMATION RETRIEVAL (ICTIR'19). 220-223. 2019
    2018 Entity-Aspect Linking: Providing Fine-Grained Semantics of Entities in ContextJCDL'18: PROCEEDINGS OF THE 18TH ACM/IEEE JOINT CONFERENCE ON DIGITAL LIBRARIES. 49-58. 2018
    2018 TREC Complex Answer Retrieval OverviewProceedings of TREC. 2018
    2018 TREMA-UNH at TREC 2018: Complex Answer Retrieval and News TrackText Retrieval Conference (TREC). 2018
    2018 The Second Workshop on Knowledge Graphs and Semantics for Text Retrieval, Analysis, and Understanding (KG4IR)The 41st International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research & Development in Information Retrieval. 1423-1426. 2018
    2018 UKParl: A Data Set for Topic Detection with Semantically Annotated Text 2018
    2018 Utilizing Knowledge Graphs for Text-Centric Information RetrievalACM/SIGIR PROCEEDINGS 2018. 1387-1390. 2018
    2018 WordNetContext: Information Retrieval-friendly Access to WordNet Senses.ProfS/KG4IR/Data: Search@ SIGIR. 63-64. 2018
    2017 Benchmark for Complex Answer RetrievalICTIR ’17 Proceedings of the ACM SIGIR International Conference on Theory of Information Retrieval. 293-296. 2017
    2017 Building Entity-Centric Event CollectionsProceedings of the 17th ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries Digital Libraries (JCDL), 2017 ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on. 199-208. 2017
    2017 Building Entity-Centric Event Collections For Supporting Research in Political and Social HistoryDigital Humanities. 2017
    2017 Open Relation Extraction for Support Passage Retrieval: Merit and Open IssuesProceedings of the 40th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval. 1149-1152. 2017
    2017 TREC Complex Answer Retrieval overviewProceedings of TREC. 2017
    2017 TREMA-UNH at TREC 2017: Complex Answer RetrievalText Retrieval Conference (TREC). 2017
    2017 The First Workshop on Knowledge Graphs and Semantics for Text Retrieval and Analysis (KG4IR)Proceedings of the 40th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval. 1427-1428. 2017
    2017 Using Object Detection, NLP, and Knowledge Bases to Understand the Message of ImagesLecture Notes in Computer Science. 405-418. 2017
    2017 Utilizing Knowledge Graphs in Text-centric Information RetrievalProceedings of the Tenth ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining Proceedings of the Tenth ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining. 815-816. 2017
    2017 Women in IRACM SIGIR Forum. 15-17. 2017
    2016 Entity Relatedness for Retrospective Analyses of Global EventsNLP+CSS: Workshops on Natural Language Processing and Computational Social Science at Conference of Web Science 2016 May 22, 2016, Hannover, Germany. 2016
    2016 Finding Relevant Relations in Relevant DocumentsAdvances in Information Retrieval. 38th European Conference on IR Research, ECIR 2016, Padua, Italy, March 20–23, 2016.. 654-660. 2016
    2016 Finding Relevant Relations in Relevant DocumentsAdvances in Information Retrieval: 38th European Conference on IR Research, ECIR 2016, Padua, Italy, March 20–23, 2016. Proceedings. 654-660. 2016
    2016 Topic model tutorial: A basic introduction on latent dirichlet allocation and extensions for web scientistsProceedings of the 8th ACM Conference on Web Science. 10-10. 2016
    2016 Tutorial on Utilizing knowledge bases in text-centric information retrievalProceedings of the 2016 ACM International Conference on the Theory of Information Retrieval Proceedings of the 2016 ACM on International Conference on the Theory of Information Retrieval. 5-5. 2016
    2016 Understanding the message of images with knowledge base traversalsProceedings of the 2016 ACM International Conference on the Theory of Information Retrieval. 199-208. 2016
    2015 An interface sketch for queripidia: Query-driven knowledge portfolios from the webProceedings of the Eighth Workshop on Exploiting Semantic Annotations in Information Retrieval. 43-46. 2015
    2015 Image with a Message: Towards detecting non-literal image usages by visual linking 2015
    2015 Ranking Entities for Web Queries Through Text and KnowledgeACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM). 2015
    2015 UMass at TREC WEB 2014: Entity Query Feature Expansion using Knowledge Base LinksText Retrieval Conference (2015). 2015
    2014 Entity query feature expansion using knowledge base linksProceedings of the 37th international ACM SIGIR conference on Research & development in information retrieval. 365-374. 2014
    2014 Queripidia: Query-specific Wikipedia ConstructionNIPS Workshop for Automated Knowledge Base Construction (AKBC). 2014
    2014 UMass CIIR at TAC KBP 2013 Entity Linking: Query Expansion using Urban DictionaryText Analysis Conference (TAC). 2014
    2014 UMass at BioASQ 2014: Figure-inspired Text Retrieval.CLEF (Working Notes). 1296-1310. 2014
    2014 UMass at TREC 2013 Knowledge Base Acceleration TrackText Retrieval Conference (TREC). 2014
    2013 A neighborhood relevance model for entity linkingProceedings of the 10th Conference on Open Research Areas in Information Retrieval. 149-156. 2013
    2013 Constructing query-specific knowledge basesProceedings of the 2013 workshop on Automated knowledge base construction. 55-60. 2013
    2013 Retrieving opinions from discussion forumsProceedings of the 22nd ACM international conference on Information & Knowledge Management. 1225-1228. 2013
    2013 Time-aware evaluation of cumulative citation recommendation systemsProceedings of the SIGIR 2013 workshop on time-aware information access. 2013
    2013 UMass CIIR at TAC KBP 2013 Entity LinkingProc. Text Analysis Conference (TAC2013). 2013
    2013 UMass at TREC 2013 Knowledge Base Acceleration Track: Bi-directional Entity Linking and Time-aware EvaluationText Retrieval Conference (TREC). 2013
    2012 Acrossdocument neighborhood expansion: UMass at TAC KBP 2012 entity linkingText Analysis Conference (TAC). 2012
    2012 Bi-directional linkability from Wikipedia to documents and back again: UMass at TREC 2012 knowledge base acceleration trackText Retrieval Conference. 2012
    2012 De-Layering Social Networks by Shared Tastes of Friendships.International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM). 2012
    2010 Inferring Shared Interests from Social NetworksProceedings of Neural Information Processing Systems Workshop on Computational Social Science and the Wisdom of Crowds. 2010
    2009 Localizing bugs in program executions with graphical modelsAdvances in Neural Information Processing Systems. 468-476. 2009
    2009 Modeling shared tastes in online communitiesNIPS Workshop on Applications for Topic Models: Text and Beyond. 2009
    2008 Probabilistic Graph Models for Debugging SoftwareNIPS Workshop on Analyzing Graphs: Theory and Applications. 2008
    2007 Modeling Evolution of Ideas in the Web of ScienceNIPS 2007. 1-2. 2007
    2007 Unsupervised prediction of citation influencesProceedings of the 24th international conference on Machine learning. 233-240. 2007
    2007 of Proceedings: ICML 2007: proceedings of the Twenty-Fourth International Conference on Machine Learning 2007
    2006 Utilize probabilistic topic models to enrich knowledge basesProc. of the ESWC 2006 Workshop on Mastering the Gap: From Information Extraction to Semantic Representation. 2006
    2004 Single display gaming: Examining collaborative games for multi-user tabletopsWorkshop on Gaming Applications in Pervasive Computing Environments at Pervasive. 2004
    2003 ConcertStudeo: Using PDAs to support face-to-face learningInternational Conference on Computer Support for Collaborative Learning. 235-237. 2003
    Proceedings of the First Workshop on Knowledge Graphs and Semantics for Text Retrieval and Analysis (KG4IR 2017) co-located with the 40th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2017), Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan, August 11, 2017CEUR Workshop Proceedings. Ed. Dietz, Laura. 
    Workshop on Kn owledge Graph Technology and Applications (KGTA)WWW 2019: International World Wide Web Conference.
    Workshop on extracting structured knowledge from scientific publications (ESSP)NAACL 2019 Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association of Computational Linguistics.

    Teaching Activities

  • Algorithms Taught course
  • Algorithms Taught course
  • DS - Knowledge Graphs and Text Taught course
  • Doctoral Research Taught course
  • Doctoral Research Taught course
  • Information Retrieval Taught course
  • Doctoral Research Taught course 2024
  • Foundations of Neural Networks Taught course 2024
  • Foundations of Neural Networks Taught course 2024
  • Doctoral Research Taught course 2023
  • Doctoral Research Taught course 2022
  • Foundations of Neural Networks Taught course 2022
  • Algorithms Taught course 2022
  • Algorithms Taught course 2022
  • DS - Knowledge Graphs and Text Taught course 2022
  • Doctoral Research Taught course 2022
  • Independent Study Taught course 2022
  • Doctoral Research Taught course 2021
  • Information Retrieval Taught course 2021
  • Internship Experience Taught course 2021
  • Algorithms Taught course 2021
  • Algorithms Taught course 2021
  • DS - Knowledge Graphs and Text Taught course 2021
  • Doctoral Research Taught course 2021
  • Doctoral Research Taught course 2020
  • Top/Machine Learn for Sequnces Taught course 2020
  • Algorithms Taught course 2020
  • Algorithms Taught course 2020
  • DS - Knowledge Graphs and Text Taught course 2020
  • Doctoral Research Taught course 2020
  • Doctoral Research Taught course 2019
  • Information Retrieval Taught course 2019
  • DS - Knowledge Graphs and Text Taught course 2019
  • Doctoral Research Taught course 2019
  • Information Retrieval Taught course 2018
  • Adv Top/Data Sci w/ KnowGraphs Taught course 2018
  • Independent Study Taught course 2017
  • Information Retrieval Taught course 2017
  • Adv Top/Data Science Taught course 2017
  • Top/Information Retrieval Taught course 2016
  • Top/Information Retrieval Taught course 2016
  • Education And Training

    Full Name

  • Laura Dietz