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Research Interests

• Text analysis and natural language processing
• Knowledge extraction from temporal document collections
• Comprehension-focused search
• Retrieval-augmented Large Language Models
• Large Language Models
• Computational history and collective memory analysis

Professional Experience

• 2021 - now: Full Professor at Department of Computer Science & Digital Science Center University of Innsbruck, Austria
• 2010 - 2020: Associate Professor at Department of Social Informatics, Kyoto University, Japan
• 2019 - now: Visiting Professor at National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Japan
• 2011 - 2015: Part-time 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), Kyoto, 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, Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, University of Tokyo, Japan
• 1996 - 2001: M.Sc. in Electronics and Telecommunications at Technical University of Lodz, Poland

Selected Publications

Temporal Information Processing in NLP and IR

• Jiexin Wang, Adam Jatowt, Masatoshi Yoshikawa, Yi Cai: BiTimeBERT: Extending Pre-Trained Language Representations with Dual-Type Temporal Information. . Proceedings of the 46th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2023), ACM Press, (2023) [pdf]

• Jiexin Wang, Adam Jatowt, Masatoshi Yoshikawa: ArchivalQA: A Large-scale Benchmark Dataset for Open Domain Question Answering over Historical News Collections. Proceedings of the 45th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2022), ACM Press, pp. 3025-3035 (2022) [pdf]

• Adam Jatowt: Timeline as Information Retrieval and Ranking Unit in News Search, Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Design of Experimental Search & Information REtrieval Systems, pp. 1-2, Padova, Italy (DESIRES 2021) (2021) [pdf]

• Yu Yi, Adam Jatowt, Antoine Doucet, Kazunari Sugiyama, Masatoshi Yoshikawa: Multi-TimeLine Summarization (MTLS): Improving Timeline Summarization by Generating Multiple Summaries, Proceedings of the 59th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 10th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing, pp. 377-387 (ACL-IJCNLP 2021) (2021) [pdf]

• Jiexin Wang, Adam Jatowt>, Masatoshi Yoshikawa: Event Occurrence Date Estimation based on Multivariate Time Series Analysis over Temporal Document Collections, Proceedings of the 44th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2021), ACM Press, pp. 398-407 (2021) [pdf]

• Yijun Duan, Adam Jatowt, and Masatoshi Yoshikawa: Comparative Timeline Summarization via Dynamic Affinity-Preserving Random Walk, Proceedings of the 24th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI 2020), IOS Press, pp. 1778-1785, Santiago de Compostella (2020) [pdf]

• Jiexin Wang, Adam Jatowt, Masatoshi Yoshikawa and Michael Farber: Answering Event-Related Questions over Long-term News Article Archives, Proceedings of the 42nd European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2020), Springer LNCS, pp. 774-789 (2020) [pdf] {Industry Impact Honorable Mention}

• Yijun Duan and Adam Jatowt: Across-Time Comparative Summarization of News Articles, Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM 2019), Melbourne, Australia, ACM Press, pp. 735-743 (2019) [pdf]

• Axel Almquist and Adam Jatowt: Towards Content Expiry Date Determination: Predicting Validity Periods of Sentences, Proceedings of the 41st European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2019), Springer LNCS, pp. 86-101 (2019) [pdf]

• Yating Zhang, Adam Jatowt, Katsumi Tanaka: Detecting Evolution of Concepts based on Cause-Effect Relationships in Online Reviews, Proceedings of the 25th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW 2016), ACM Press, pp. 649-660 (2016) [pdf]

• Hideo Joho, Adam Jatowt, and Roi Blanco: Temporal Information Searching Behaviour and Tactics, Information Processing and Management Journal (IPM), Elsevier, 51(6), pp. 834-850 (2015)

Analying Large Language Models

• Jonas Wallat, Adam Jatowt, Avishek Anand: Temporal Blind Spots in Large Language Models., Proceedings of the 17th ACM International WSDM Conference (WSDM 2024), ACM Press (to appear in 2024)

• Raghav Jain, Daivik Sojitra, Arkadeep Acharya, Sriparna Saha, Adam Jatowt, Sandipan Dandapat: Do Language Models Have a Common Sense regarding Time? Revisiting Temporal Commonsense Reasoning in the Era of Large Language Models, Proceedings of the 2023 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2023) ACL Press, (to appear) [pdf]

Computational History

• Mari Sato, Adam Jatowt, Yijun Duan, Ricardo Campos, Masatoshi Yoshikawa: Estimating Contemporary Relevance of Past News, Proceedings of the 21tst ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL 2021), ACM Press, Illinois, USA, pp. 70-79 (2021) [pdf] {Vannevar Bush Best Paper Award}

• Adam Jatowt, I-Chen Hung, Michael Färber, Ricardo Campos and Masatoshi Yoshikawa: Exploding TV Sets & Disappointing Laptops: Suggesting Interesting Content in News Archives based on Surprise Estimation, Proceedings of the 43rd European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2021), Lucca, Italy, Springer, pp. (to appear in 2021) [pdf]

• Yasunobu Sumikawa, Adam Jatowt and Marten During: Digital History Meets Microblogging: Analyzing Collective Memories in Twitter, Proceedings of the 18th ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL 2018) ACM Press, pp. 213-222, Dallas Forth Worth, USA (2018) [pdf]

• Yijun Duan, Adam Jatowt and Katsumi Tanaka: Discovering Typical Histories of Entities, Proceedings of the 28th ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media (HT 2017), ACM Press, Prague, Czech Republic (2017) [pdf]

• Adam Jatowt, Daisuke Kawai and Katsumi Tanaka: Digital History Meets Wikipedia: Analyzing Historical Persons in Wikipedia, Proceedings of the 16th ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL 2016), ACM Press, Newark, USA, pp. 17-26 (2016){Runner-up for the best paper award} [pdf]

• Ching Man Au Yeung and Adam Jatowt: Studying How the Past is Remembered: Towards Computational History through Large Scale Text Mining, Proceedings of the 20th ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2011), ACM Press, Glasgow, UK, pp. 1231-1240 (2011) [pdf]

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Grants (PI) & Awards

• Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award by Alexander von Humboldt Foundation

• International Excellence Fellowship from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)

• Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (Kiban B): "Novel Technologies for Improving comprehension and Utilization of Historical Knowledge" (Grant#: 17H01828; Duration: 2017-2020)

• Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology Challenging Exploratory Research: "Archive-based Question Answering" (Grant#: 18K19841; Duration: 2018-2019)

• Strategic Information and Communications R&D Promotion Programme (SCOPE): "Memorable-route recommendation system for safe and Attractive Paths to Diverse Kinds of Pedestrians" (Grant#: 171507010; Duration: 2017-2019)

• Research Fund for International Young Scientists by National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC): "A Unified Framework for Predicting Future Activities of Social Media Users" (Grant No. 61750110530, Duration: 2018-2019)

• Microsoft Research Asia Collaborative Research 2018 Grant: "Question Answering over Long-term Document Archives"

• Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology Challenging Exploratory Research: "Framework for Studying Language Evolution using Large Scale Data" (Grant#: 15K12158; Duration: 2015-2017)

• Sakigake (Presto) Research Fund (Japan Science and Technology Agency): "Analyzing Collective Memory and Developing Methods for Knowledge Extraction from Historical Documents" (Duration: 2011-2015)

• Microsoft Research Asia Fellowship 2010 (IJARC Collaborative Research Project): "Mining and Searching Web for Future-related Information"

• Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists B: "Towards time-focused Web Search and Mining" (Grant#: 22700096; Duration: 2010-2013)

• Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists B: "Information Retrieval and Mining in Web Archives" (Grant#: 18700111; Duration: 2006-2009)

Academic Activities

Event Organization and other Service

• Area chair at the Document Classification, Information Retrieval and Cross-lingual Retrieval track at the LREC-COLING 2024 - The 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-COLING 2024)

• Organizer of the JOKER Track: Automatic Wordplay Analysis at Conference and Labs of the Evaluation Forum (CLEF 2023)

• Organizer of the 6th workshop on Narrative Extraction from Text (Text2Story 2023) in conjunction with ECIR 2023

• Organizer of the 29th International Conference on Neural Information Processing (ICONIP 2022)

• Program Committee co-chair of the 29th International Conference on Neural Information Processing (ICONIP 2022)

• Editorial Board member of Information Processing and Management (IPM) Journal, Elsevier

• Editorial Board member of Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology (JASIST), Wiley-Blackwell

• Editorial Board member of International Journal on Digital Libraries (IJDL), Springer

• Editorial Board member of Journal on Intelligent Information Systems (JIIS), Springer

• Editorial Board member of Journal on Social Computing (JSC), IEEE

• Steering Committee Chair of the International Conference on Asian Digital Libraries (ICADL)

• Information Processing Society of Japan Database System Study Group (IPSJ SIG-DBS) Steering Committee Member

• Co-organizer of the 5th Text2Story workshop (Text2Story 2023) in conjunction with 43rd European Conference on Information Retrieval Conference (ECIR 2023)

• Co-organizer of the 5th Text2Story workshop (Text2Story 2022) in conjunction with 43rd European Conference on Information Retrieval Conference (ECIR 2022)

• Co-organizer of the 4th Text2Story workshop (Text2Story 2021) in conjunction with 43rd European Conference on Information Retrieval Conference (ECIR 2021)

• Co-organizer of the 2nd International Workshop on Computational Approaches to Historical Language Change 2021 (LChange 2021) in conjunction with the Annual Meeting of the Association of Computational Linguistics (ACL 2021)

• General co-chair of the 22nd International Conference on Asia-Pacific Digital Libraries (ICADL 2020)

• Co-organizer of the 1st workshop on AI for Narratives (AI4Narratives 2020) in conjunction with IJCAI-PRICAI 2020

• Co-organizer of the 3rd Text2Story workshop (Text2Story 2020) in conjunction with 42nd European Conference on Information Retrieval Conference (ECIR 2020)

• PC co-chair of the 21st International Conference on Asia-Pacific Digital Libraries (ICADL 2019)

• General co-chair of of the 23rd International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries (TPDL 2019)

• Co-organizer of the 5th International Workshop on Computational History (HistoInformatics 2019) in conjunction with the 23rd International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries (TPDL 2019)

• Co-organizer of the 1st International Workshop on Computational Approaches to Historical Language Change 2019 (LChange 2019) in conjunction with the Annual Meeting of the Association of Computational Linguistics (ACL 2019)

• Co-organizer of the 2nd workshop on User Interfaces for Spatial-Temporal Data Analysis (UISTDA 2019) in conjunction with the ACM Intelligent User Interfaces Conference (IUI 2019)

• Co-organizer of the 2nd Text2Story workshop (Text2Story 2019) in conjunction with 41st European Conference on Information Retrieval Conference (ECIR 2019)

• Co-organizer of the 1st workshop on User Interfaces for Spatial-Temporal Data Analysis (UISTDA 2018) in conjunction with the ACM Intelligent User Interfaces Conference (IUI 2018)

• Co-organizer of the 1st Text2Story workshop (Text2Story 2018) in conjunction with 40th European Conference on Information Retrieval Conference (ECIR 2018)

• Tutorial co-chair of the 40th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research & Development on Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2017)

• PC Co-chair of the Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL 2017)

• Co-organizer of NTCIR-13 Pilot Task on Actionable Knowledge Graph: (AKG)

• Co-organizer of the 4th International Workshop on Computational History (HistoInformatics 2017) in conjunction with the 26th International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2017)

• Co-organizer of NTCiR-12 Core Task on Temporal Information Access: (Temporalia-2)

• Co-organizer of the 3rd International Workshop on Computational History (HistoInformatics 2016) in conjunction with the 2016 Digital Humanities Conference

• Poster and demo co-chair of the 20th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries (TPDL 2016)

• Co-chair of the 5th Workshop on Web Quality (WebQuality 2015) in conjunction with the 24th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW 2015)

• PC co-chair of the 16th International Conference on Asia-Pacific Digital Libraries (ICADL 2014)

• Co-organizer of NTCiR-11 Pilot Task on Temporal Information Access: "Temporalia"

• Co-chair of the 2nd International Workshop on Computational History (HistoInformatics 2014) in conjunction with the 6th International Conference on Social Informatics

• Co-chair of the 4th Joint WICOW/AIRWeb Workshop on Web Quality (WebQuality 2014) in conjunction with the 23rd International World Wide Web Conference (WWW 2014)

• PC co-chair of the 5th International Conference on Social Informatics (SocInfo 2013)

• Co-organizer of the 1st International Workshop on Histoinformatics (Histoinformatics 2013) in conjunction with the 5th International Conference on Social Informatics

• Co-chair of the 3rd Joint WICOW/AIRWeb Workshop on Web Quality (WebQuality 2013) in conjunction with the 22nd International World Wide Web Conference (WWW 2013)

• Vice Program Chair of the 5th International Workshop with Mentors on Databases, Web and Information Management (iDB 2013)

• Co-organizer of Study Theme: " Redesigning Wikipedia for education: How to make Wikipedia articles better suited for learning?" in Summer Design School 2012, Kyoto

• Co-chair of the 2nd Joint WICOW/AIRWeb Workshop on Web Quality (WebQuality 2012) in conjunction with the 21st International World Wide Web Conference (WWW 2012)

• PC co-chair of the 8th International Conference on Preservation of Digital Objects 2011 (iPRES 2011)

• Co-chair of the 1st Joint WICOW/AIRWeb Workshop on Web Quality (WebQuality 2011) in conjunction with the 20th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW 2011)

• Co-chair of the Minitrack Web Information Credibility Analysis at Forty-Fourth Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS 2011)

• Co-chair of the 2nd, 3rd and 4th Workshop on Information Credibility on the Web (WICOW 2008 WICOW 2009 WICOW 2010)

• Executive Committee member of the 1st, 2nd and 3rd International Workshop with Mentors on Databases, Web and Information Management (iDB 2009 iDB 2010 iDB 2011)

Program Committee Member (incomplete)

• 2024: Senior PC member of WSDM2024 Senior PC member of ECIR2024
• 2023: Senior PC member of CIKM2023 Senior PC member of SIGIR2023 Senior PC member of ECIR2023 Senior PC member of SIGIR-AP2023 Senior PC member of JCDL 2023
• 2022: CIKM2022 SIGIR2022 KDD2022 Webconf2022 COLING2022 ECIR2022 JCDL2022
• 2021: WSDM2021 AAAI2021 CHIIR2021 ECIR2021 JCDL2021 MMM2021 CIKM2021 EMNLP2021
• 2020: WSDM2020 WebConf2020 AAAI2020 ACL2020 CIKM2020 SIGIR2020 ECIR2020 LREC2020 SocInfo2020 ASONAM2020 DH2020 JCDL2020
• 2019: AAAI2019 WSDM2019 ACL2019 EMNLP-IJCNLP2019 SocInfo2019 ECIR2019 DH2019 NAACL-HLT2019 JCDL2019 IEEE BigComp2019 ICSC2019 MMM2019 IC2S22019 IEEE ISM2019 AIRS2019
• 2018: WSDM2018 CIKM2018 EMNLP2018 ICDM2018 DH2018 JCDL2018 TPDL2018 SocInfo2018 MMM2018 WISE2018 IEEE BigComp2018 ICSC2018 IC2S22018 TIME2018 ICADL2018 ISM2018 AIRS2018 SKG2018 Euro CSS Symposium2018
• 2017: WSDM2017 CIKM2017 SIGIR2017 ICSC2017 MMM2017 DH2017 TPDL2017 SocInfo2017 ICADL2017 WISE2017 AIRS2017
• 2016: WWW2016 IJCAI2016 SIGIR2016 JCDL2016 WISE2016 IDEAS2016 SocInfo2016 ICADL2016 AIRS2016 TPDL2016
• 2015: SIGIR2015 WSDM2015 CIKM2015 JCDL2015 SocInfo2015 (Senior PC member) DASFAA2015 TPDL2015 AIRS2015 MMM2015 EPIA2015 IDEAS2015 ICADL2015
• 2014: SIGIR2014 CIKM2014 AAAI2014 DL2014 DASFAA2014 SocInfo2014 APWeb2014 IDEAS2014 WWW2014 (PhD symposium) WSDM2014 (Workshops committee)
• 2013: SIGIR2013 JCDL2013 DASFAA2013 ACML2013 AIRS2013 APWeb2013 ICSCAI2013 iPRES2013 EPIA2013
• 2012: JCDL2012 DASFAA2012 ASONAM2012
• 2011: SIGIR 2011 DASFAA2011 AIRS2011 iiWAS2011
• 2010: SIGIR2010 COLING2010 HT2010 AIRS2010 SocInfo2010
• 2009: SIGIR2009 HT2009 DASFAA2009

Complete List

Professional Memberships

ACM, SIGWEB, WIC, DBSJ, IEICE, IPSJ

Hobbies

backpacking, sailing, kayaking, chess,

Contact

Department of Computer Science & DiSC, University of Innsbruck
Inrain 6020, Innsbruck, Austria
Phone: +43 512 507 39764
jatowt@acm.org
https://adammo12.github.io/adamjatowt/