Homepage of Adam Jatowt
Current positions
- Deputy Head of Digital Science Center, University of Innsbruck
- Deputy Head of Research Center Digital Humanities, University of Innsbruck
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: Affiliated Scholar 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
- Feb-Mar 2026: INESC TEC & University of Porto, Portugal
- Nov 2025: University of Toulouse, France
- Summer 2022 & 2023: Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
- Summer 2018: University of La Rochelle, France
- Winter 2012: 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 and information retrieval
- Novel NLP and IR solutions for digital history
- Automatic hint generation
- Retrieval-augmented Large Language Models
- Probing Large Language Models
- Text temporal validity and obsoleteness
- Future forecasting (aka. future opinion summarization)
- Complex question answering
- Computational history and collective memory analysis
Publications
Awards & Distinctions, etc. (selected)
- Member of the Scientific Council of NASK – a National Research Institute (Poland, >1.1k employees)
- Top-cited paper in the Information Sciences journal by Elsevier (IF: 8.23) over the last 5 years (2024)
- Best master thesis award at Dept. of Comp. Science of Univ. of Innsbruck by a supervised student (Georg Wenzel)
- 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's Young Researcher's Achievement and Contribution Award
- Vannevar Bush Best Paper Award at JCDL 2021 (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 with more than 600 attendees)
- 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
Recent Community Service (selected)
- Associate Editor (AE) for the ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS)
- PC Chair of ECIR 2026
- Area Chair of KDD 2026
- Area Chair of ARR 2025 (Feb, May, July cycles)
- Area Chair of ECML-PKDD 2026, 2025
- Senior PC member of Web Conference 2026
- Senior PC member of SIGIR 2025, 2024, 2023
- Senior PC member of WSDM 2026, 2025, 2024, 2023
- Senior PC member of CIKM 2025, 2024, 2023
- Senior PC member of ECAI 2025, 2024
- Area Chair of COLING-LREC 2024
- Senior PC member of ECIR 2024, 2023
- Senior PC member of JCDL 2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018
- Senior PC member of SIGIR-AP 2023
- PC Chair of ICONIP 2022 (Int. Conf. on Neural Information Processing; >1k submissions)
- Area Chair of EACL 2021
- Steering Committee member of JCDL, TPDL, ICADL
- General co-chair of ICADL 2020
- General Chair of TPDL 2019
- PC Chair of JCDL 2017
- Tutorial Chair of SIGIR 2017
- Poster/demo Chair at TPDL 2016
Workshop/Task/SI Organizer (selected)
- Text2Story 2026, 2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018 workshop at ECIR 2026-2018
- CoLiE competition at ICDAR 2025
- JOKER 2023, 2024 track at CLEF 2024, 2023
- IACT 2023 workshop at SIGIR 2023
- LChange 2021, 2019 workshop at ACL 2021, 2019
- AI4Narratives 2020 workshop at IJCAI 2020
- HistoInformatics 2021, 2019, 2017, 2016, 2014, 2013 workshop at JCDL 2021, TPDL 2019, CIKM 2017, etc.
- UISTDA 2019 workshop at IUI 2019
- Special Issue at Information Processing and Management (IPM) Journal at 2018
- AKG track at NTCIR 2016
- Temporalia 1,2 tracks at NTCIR 2015, 2014
- WebQuality 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011 workshop at WWW 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011
- WICOW 2010, 2009, 2008 workshop at WWW 2010, 2009, CIKM 2008