Web Science and Digital Libraries Research Group

In My Process: From the Field to PhD Candidacy Born and raised in Budapest, Hungary, this journey has been unbelievable. To be honest, I mainly came to Old Dominion University to play football in 2020, but then I took Dr. Jian Wu 's CS 450 Database Concepts course which changed the entire direction of my journey. Before the course started he advertised one of his data science  undergraduate research assistant positions at LAMP-SYS (Lab for Applied Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing Systems) , which I then applied for at the beginning of 2022. I have been working with him since, resulting in the publication of two papers to date. On July 18th, 2024 I defended my Master's Thesis titled: "Who Wrote the Scientific News? Improving the Discernibility of LLMs to Human-Written Scientific News" . I am enrolled in the ODU Computer Science PhD Program to continue my research in Natural Language Processing under the supervision of Dr. Wu,  Dr. Jiang , and  Dr. Ash...

SIGIR 2024 Opening Session ACM SIGIR 2024 was held in Washington, D.C from July 14 - 18. There were over 900 attendees! The conference also featured two themed days: LLM Day and Government Day. Parallel topic sessions included presentations for full papers, resource papers, and invited Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS) journal papers. Short papers were presented as posters altogether in one session. Dr. Nelson ( @phonedude_mln ) and I ( @lesley_elis ) both attended SIGIR 2024.  Monday Opening and Keynote: Gerald Salton Award The conference opened on Monday, with the conference chairs presenting about registration and the program chairs presenting about how papers were selected. The review process used an automated system to match reviewers to papers based on information from DBLP. This also was used to avoid conflicts, to the extent that reviewers and authors had different countries. Next, the opening keynote was reserved for the Gerald Salton Award winner. Congratulation...