All conference and workshop publications are also presenteded to the audience. These are not explicitly listed here.

Keynote talks at conference, workshops, and summer schools:

TextGraphs

L.Dietz. ENT-Rank: Finding Relevant Entities through Text and Knowledge Graphs. Keynote at TextGraphs 15 Workshop at NAACL in June 2021. (Workshop)

SPIRE

L.Dietz. How to automatically create relevant articles. Keynote at the International Symposium on String Processing and Information Retrieval (SPIRE) in October 2020. (Ranked “B”)

AKBC

L.Dietz. Utilizing Knowledge Bases for Text Retrieval: A Wishlist. Keynote at Conference on Automated Knowledge Base Constructions, Amherst, MA in May 2019. (Unranked).

CSS

L.Dietz. Word Embeddings – Semantics: What is in my Documents? Lecture at the Computational Science Summer School, Los Angeles, CA in July 2018. (Summer School) – slides

ECIR

L.Dietz. Retrieving Knowledge from the Web. Keynote at European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR), Aberdeen, U.K. in April 2017. (Ranked “A”).

Panel speaker:

TAC KBP (2020):

Speaker at panel on “Information Extraction / Information Retrieval” at Text Analysis Conference / Knowledge Base Population. Host: Prof. Heng Ji.

Women in IR at SIGIR (2019):

Speaker at panel on “Addressing Gender Inequality” at the Women in IR meeting at the SIGIR conference. Host: Prof. Suzan Verberne.

ECIR (2017):

Speaker at panel on “IR & AI” at the European Conference for Information Retrieval. Host: Prof. Maarten de Rijke.

Invited talks at research groups:

UCSD

L.Dietz. Retrieve-and-generate: How to Automatically Create Relevant Articles. UCSD AI seminar, University of California, San Diego. April 2021. Host: Prof. Ndapa Nakashole.

UIUC

L.Dietz. Retrieve-and-Generate: Which Entities and Relations to Include? UIUC-NLP Seminar. University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. April 2021. Host: Prof. Heng Ji.

UNED, Spain

L.Dietz. Retrieve-and-generate: How to Automatically Create Relevant Articles. UNED-NLP-Seminar. Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia, Madrid, Spain. March 2021. Host: Prof. Julio Gonzalo.

UMass

L.Dietz. Retrieve-and-generate: How to Automatically Create Relevant Articles. CIIR Talk Series. University of Massachusetts. February 2021. Host: Prof. Hamed Zamani.

CMU

L.Dietz. ENT-Rank: Finding Relevant Entities through Text and Knowledge Graphs. LTI Colloquium. Carnegie Mellon University. September 2020. Host: Prof. Jamie Callan.

NEC, Germany

L.Dietz. ENT-Rank: Finding Relevant Entities through Text and Knowledge Graphs. NEC Heidelberg, Germany. July 2020. Host: Dr. Kiril Gashteovski.

Spotify

L.Dietz. Text, Entities, and Relevant Context for Complex Answer Retrieval. Spotify, Cambridge, MA. May 2019. Host: Dr. Rosie Jones.

Microsoft Research

L.Dietz. Text, Entities, and Relevant Context for Complex Answer Retrieval. Microsoft Research, Montreal, Canada. March 2019. Host: Dr. Fernando Diaz.

Amazon

L.Dietz. Text, Entities, and Relevant Context for Complex Answer Retrieval. Amazon, Boston, MA. January 2019. Host: Dr. Adrian Boteanu.

Bloomberg

L.Dietz. Text, Entities, and Relevant Context for Complex Answer Retrieval. Bloomberg, New York City, NY. August 2018. Host: Dr. Amanda Stent.

Facebook

L.Dietz. Text, Entities, and Relevant Context for Complex Answer Retrieval. Facebook, Menlo Park, CA. April 2018. Host: Prof. Charles Clarke.

JHU

L.Dietz. Retrieving Complex Answers through Knowledge Graphs and Text. CLIP Seminar. University of Maryland. March 2018. Host: Prof. Ben van Durme.

Georgetown

L.Dietz. Retrieving Complex Answers through Knowledge Graphs and Text. Georgetown University. August 2017. Host: Prof. Nazli Goharian.

UMD

L.Dietz. Retrieving Complex Answers through Knowledge Graphs and Text. CLSP Fall Seminar Series. Johns Hopkins University. October 2017. Host: Prof. Doug Oard.

UNH

L.Dietz. Retrieving Knowledge from the Web. Data Science Seminar at UNH. September 2017. Host: Prof. Wheeler Ruml.

Brown

L. Dietz. Retrieving Knowledge from the Web. DBlunch series. Brown University. October 2016. Host: Prof. Carsten Binnig.

University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands

L. Dietz. Query-specific Wikipedia Construction. Invited talk at ILPS at Amsterdam University, The Netherlands. November 5, 2015. Host: Prof. Maarten De Rijke

GESIS, Germany

L.Dietz. Query-specific Wikipedia Construction and Network Topic-Models. Invited talk at GESIS Leibnitz-Institut fuer Sozialwissenschaften (Computational Social Science Seminar), Cologne, Germany. September 17, 2015. Host: Dr. Amin Bleier and Prof. Claudia Wagner

University of Heidelberg, Germany

L. Dietz. Network Topic Models. Invited talk at Heidelberg University (Stat NLP Colloquium). May 22, 2015. Host: Prof. Stefan Riezler