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Homepage of Adam Jatowt

Current positions
Professional Experience
Visiting Scholar
Education
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 (selected)
  • Top-cited paper in the Information Sciences journal by Elsevier (IF: 8.23) over the last 5 years
  • 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
  • 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)
  • PC Chair of ECIR 2026
  • Area Chair of ARR 2025 (Feb, May, July cycles)
  • Area Chair of ECML-PKDD 2025
  • Senior PC member of SIGIR 2025, 2024, 2023
  • Senior PC member of WSDM 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 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 2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018 at ECIR 2025-2018
  • CoLiE Competition at ICDAR 2025
  • JOKER Track at CLEF 2024, 2023
  • LChange 2021, 2019 at ACL 2021, 2019
  • AI4Narratives 2020 at IJCAI 2020
  • HistoInformatics 2021, 2019, 2017, 2016, 2014, 2013 at JCDL 2021, TPDL 2019, CIKM 2017, etc.
  • UISTDA 2019 at IUI 2019
  • Special Issue at Information Processing and Management (IPM) Journal at 2018
  • AKG at NTCIR 2016
  • Temporalia 1,2 at NTCIR 2015, 2014
  • WebQuality 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011 at WWW 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011
  • WICOW 2010, 2009, 2008 at WWW 2010, 2009, CIKM 2008