Alexander Kotov

Associate Professor
Department of Computer Science
Wayne State University
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Contact information:
Office: Maccabees Building, Suite 14001.6 (14th floor)
Email: my last name at wayne dot edu
Phone: (313) 577-9307
 Mailing address:
Computer Science Department, Wayne State University
5057 Woodward Ave, Suite 14001.6
Detroit, Michigan 48202, USA
Intro Resume IR Biomedical ML/NLP Code WSU

Book chapters

  1. Alexander Kotov, "Knowledge Graph Entity Representation and Retrieval", Proceedings of the 10th Summer School in Information Retrieval and Young Scientist Conference (RuSSIR 2016) by Pavel Braslavski et al. (editors), Communications in Computer and Information Science, 2016 [pdf]

Selected journal papers

  1. Saeid Balaneshin-kordan, Alexander Kotov,  "Bayesian Approach to Incorporating Different Types of Biomedical Knowledge Bases into Information Retrieval Systems for Clinical Decision Support in Precision Medicine", In the Journal of Biomedical Informatics (JBI), Volume 98, 103238, October 2019 [link]

Selected full papers

  1. Mona Zamiri, Yao Qiang, Fedor Nikolaev, Dongxiao Zhu and Alexander Kotov,  "Benchmark and Neural Architecture for Conversational Entity Retrieval from a Knowledge Graph", In Proceedings of the 33rd Annual ACM Web Conference (WWW'24), pages 1519-1528 (acceptance rate 20.2%) [pdf, slides]
  2. Fedor Nikolaev and Alexander Kotov,  "Joint Word and Entity Embeddings for Entity Retrieval from a Knowledge Graph", In Proceedings of the 42nd Annual European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR'20), pages 141-155 (acceptance rate 26.7%) [pdf, slides]
  3. Saeid Balaneshin-kordan, Alexander Kotov and Fedor Nikolaev, "Attentive Neural Architecture for Ad-hoc Structured Document Retrieval", In Proceedings of the 27th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM'18), pages 1173-1182 (acceptance rate 17%) [pdf, slides]
  4. Saeid Balaneshin-kordan and Alexander Kotov, "Deep Neural Architecture for Multi-Modal Retrieval based on Joint Embedding Space for Text and Images", In Proceedings of the 11th ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM'18), pages 28-36 (acceptance rate 16%) [pdf]
  5. Saeid Balaneshin-kordan and Alexander Kotov, "Sequential Query Expansion using Concept Graph", In Proceedings of the 25th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM'16), pages 155-164 (acceptance rate 18%) [pdf]
  6. Saeid Balaneshin-kordan and Alexander Kotov, "Optimization Method for Weighting Explicit and Latent Concepts in Clinical Decision Support Queries", In Proceedings of the 2nd ACM International Conference on the Theory of Information Retrieval (ICTIR'16), pages 241-250 (acceptance rate 50%) [pdf]
  7. Fedor Nikolaev*, Alexander Kotov* and Nikita Zhiltsov, "Parameterized Fielded Term Dependence Models for Ad-hoc Entity Retrieval from Knowledge Graphs", In Proceedings of the 39th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR'16), pages 435-444 (acceptance rate 18%) [pdf]
  8. Nikita Zhiltsov, Alexander Kotov and Fedor Nikolaev, "Fielded Sequential Dependence Model for Ad-Hoc Entity Retrieval in the Web of Data", In Proceedings of the 38th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR'15), pages 253-262 (acceptance rate 20%) [pdf, slides]
  9. Alexander Kotov, Vineeth Rakesh, Eugene Agichtein and Chandan Reddy, "Geographical Latent Variable Models for Microblog Retrieval", In Proceedings of the 37th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR'15), pages 635-647 (acceptance rate 23%) [pdf, slides]
  10. Alexander Kotov and ChengXiang Zhai, "Tapping into Knowledge Base for Concept Feedback: Leveraging ConceptNet to Improve Search Results for Difficult Queries", In Proceedings of the 5th ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM'12), pages 403-412 (acceptance rate 21%) [pdf]
  11. Alexander Kotov and ChengXiang Zhai, "Interactive Sense Feedback for Difficult Queries", In Proceedings of the 20th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM'11), pages 163-172 (acceptance rate 15%) [pdf, slides]
  12. Alexander Kotov, Paul Bennett, Ryen White, Susan Dumais and Jaime Teevan, "Modeling and Analysis of Cross-Session Search Tasks", In Proceedings of the 34th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR'11), pages 5-14 (acceptance rate 20%) [pdf, slides]
  13. Alexander Kotov, ChengXiang Zhai and Richard Sproat, "Mining Named Entities with Temporally Correlated Bursts from Multilingual Web News Streams", In Proceedings of the 4th ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM'11), pages 237-246 (acceptance rate 8%) [pdf, slides]
  14. Alexander Kotov, Pranam Kolari, Lei Duan and Yi Chang, "Temporal Query Log Profiling to Improve Web Search Ranking", In Proceedings of the 19th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM'10), pages 1149-1158 (acceptance rate 13%) [pdf, slides]
  15. Alexander Kotov and ChengXiang Zhai, "Towards Natural Question-Guided Search", In Proceedings of the 19th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW'10), pages 541-550 (acceptance rate 14%) [pdf, slides]

Selected short papers

  1. Faegheh Hasibi, Fedor Nikolaev, Chenyan Xiong, Krisztian Balog, Svein Erik Bratsberg, Alexander Kotov and Jamie Callan,  "DBpedia-Entity v2: A Test Collection for Entity Search", short paper, In Proceedings of the 40th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR'17), pages 1265-1268 (acceptance rate 30%) [pdf] (Best Short Paper honorable mention)
  2. Saeid Balaneshin-kordan and Alexander Kotov, "Embedding-based Query Expansion for Weighted Sequential Dependence Retrieval Model", short paper, In Proceedings of the 40th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR'17), pages 1213-1216 (acceptance rate 30%) [pdf]
  3. Saeid Balaneshin-kordan and Alexander Kotov, "A Study of Document Expansion using Translation Models and Dimensionality Reduction Methods", short paper, In Proceedings of the 2nd ACM International Conference on the Theory of Information Retrieval (ICTIR'16), pages 233-236 (acceptance rate 54%) [pdf]
  4. Saeid Balaneshin-kordan and Alexander Kotov, "An Empirical Comparison of Term Association and Knowledge Graphs for Query Expansion", short paper, In Proceedings of the 38th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR'16), pages 761-767 (acceptance rate 30%) [pdf]
  5. Rajul Anand and Alexander Kotov, "Improving Difficult Queries by Leveraging Clusters in Term Graph", short paper, In Proceedings of the 11th Asia Information Retrieval Societies Conference (AIRS'15), pages 387-393 (acceptance rate 12%) [pdf] (Best Short Paper award)
  6. Alexander Kotov and Eugene Agichtein, "The Importance of Being Socially-Savvy: Quantifying the Influence of Social Networks on Microblog Retrieval", short paper, In Proceedings of the 22nd ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM'13), pages 1905-1908 (acceptance rate 37%) [pdf]
  7. Alexander Kotov, Yu Wang and Eugene Agichtein, "Leveraging Geographical Metadata to Improve Search over Social Media", poster paper, In Proceedings of the 22nd International World Wide Web Conference (WWW'13), pages 151-152 [pdf]

Tutorials

  1. Laura Dietz, Alexander Kotov, Edgar Meij. "Utilizing Knowledge Bases in Text-centric Information Retrieval", presented at the 41st Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR'18) [slides]
  2. Laura Dietz, Alexander Kotov, Edgar Meij. "Utilizing Knowledge Bases in Text-centric Information Retrieval", presented at the 10th ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM'17) [slides]
  3. Laura Dietz, Alexander Kotov, Edgar Meij. "Utilizing Knowledge Bases in Text-centric Information Retrieval", presented at the 2nd ACM International Conference on the Theory of Information Retrieval (ICTIR'16) [slides]
  4. Alexander Kotov. "Entity Representation and Retrieval from Knowledge Graphs", presented at the 10th Russian Summer School in Information Retrieval (RuSSIR'16) [slides]
* Authors provided equal contribution.