Homepage of Adam Jatowt
Current positions
- Deputy Head of Digital Science Center
- Deputy Head of Research Center Digital Humanities
Professional Experience
- 2021 - now: Full Professor at Department of Computer Science & Digital Science Center at the University of Innsbruck, Austria
- 2010 - 2020: Associate Professor at Department of Social Informatics, Kyoto University, Japan
- 2019 - 2023: Visiting Professor at National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Japan
- 2011 - 2015: Affiliated researcher at Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST), Japan
- 2006 - 2010: Assistant Professor at Department of Social Informatics, Kyoto University, Japan
- 2005 - 2006: Research Fellow at National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT), Japan
Visiting Scholar
- Summer 2022 and 2023: Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
- Summer 2018: L3I Laboratory, University of La Rochelle, France
- Winter 2012: School of Information, University of California at Berkeley, USA
Education
- 2002 - 2005: Ph.D. in Information Science and Technology, University of Tokyo, Japan
- 1996 - 2001: M.Sc. in Electronics and Telecommunications, Technical University of Lodz, Poland
Research Interests
- Temporal aspects in natural language processing
- Automatic hint generation
- Retrieval-augmented Large Language Models
- Large Language Models
- Text temporal validity and obsoleteness
- Future forecasting (future opinion summarization)
- Complex question answering
- Computational history and collective memory analysis
Publications
Recent Community Service (selected)
- Senior PC member of SIGIR 2025, SIGIR 2024, SIGIR 2023
- Senior PC member of WSDM 2025, WSDM 2024, WSDM 2023
- Senior PC member of ECAI 2025, ECAI 2024
- Organizer of Text2Story workshops 2025-2018
- Senior PC member of CIKM 2024, CIKM 2023
- Senior PC member of ECIR 2024, ECIR 2023
- Area Chair of COLING-LREC 2024
- Senior PC member of JCDL 2024-2018
- Organizer of the JOKER Track at CLEF 2024, CLEF 2023
- Senior PC member of SIGIR-AP 2023
- PC Chair of ICONIP 2022 (>1k submissions)
- Area Chair of EACL 2021
- General Chair of TPDL 2019
- PC Chair of JCDL 2017
Awards & Distinctions (selected)
- Best master thesis award at Dept. of Comp. Science of Univ. of Innsbruck by a supervised student
- Best paper award at ECIR 2023
- Runner-up for the Best Demo Paper Award at CIKM 2023
- Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
- International Excellence Fellowship from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)
- Database Society of Japan Young Researcher's Achievement and Contribution Award
- Vannevar Bush Best Paper Award (award sponsored by SIGIR and SIGWEB)
- Industrial Impact Paper Honorable Mention at ECIR 2020
- Best Paper Award at DEIM 2020 (annual conference of the Database Society of Japan with more than 600 attendees)
- Best Student Paper Award at DEIM 2019 (annual conference of the Database Society of Japan)
- Best Demo Paper Award at ECIR 2019
- Best Student Paper Award at APWeb/WAIM 2019
- Runner-up for Best Paper Award at COLING 2018
- Best Short Paper Award at ECIR 2018
- 1st place in Arquivo.pt Prizes 2018 Competition for innovative access proposals to the Portuguese Web Archive (prize: €10k and a total of 27 participating teams)
- Runner-up for Vannevar Bush Best Paper Award at JCDL 2018
- Database Society of Japan Kambayashi Young Researcher Award
- Runner-up for the Vannevar Bush Best Paper Award at JCDL 2016
- Runner-up for Best Paper Award at WI 2015
- Runner-up for the Vannevar Bush Best Paper Award at JCDL 2007
- Best Student Paper Award at APWeb/WAIM 2007