Weronika Lajewska

PhD Candidate

Weronika Lajewska

Contact

Email: weronika.lajewska@uis.no

Department

Faculty of Science and Technology

Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

About me

EDUCATION 

  • University of Stavanger, Information Access and Artificial Intelligence Research Group, Ph.D. in Information Technology Feb 2022 - present Supervisor: Krisztian Balog 
  • Warsaw University of Technology, Faculty of Mathematics and Information Science, MSc in Artificial Intelligence Sep 2019 - Feb 2021 Supervisor: Anna Wróblewska 
  • Johannes Kepler University in Linz, Exchange Programme Sep 2020 - Feb 2021 Courses: Information Retrieval, Natural Language Processing 
  • Warsaw University of Technology, Faculty of Mathematics and Information Science, BSc in Computer Science Sep 2015 - Feb 2019 
  • University of Burgos, Exchange Programme Jun 2017 - Feb 2018 

RESEARCH AND WORK EXPERIENCE 

  • Warsaw University of Technology, Research Intern Mar 2021 – Jan 2022 Project: Machine Learning-based systems for the automation of systematic literature reviews in the food safety domain.
  • Sollers Consulting, Developer Apr 2019 - Sep 2019, Mar 2021 - Jan 2022 Developing and customizing Guidewire systems. 
  • Intel Corporation, Software engineer intern Jun 2016 - May 2017 Developing and customizing systems in Java, C, and Perl. 

SELECTED REWARDS AND CERTIFICATES 

  • CIKM’23 Best Resource Paper Award (2023) Weronika Łajewska and Krisztian Balog. Towards Filling the Gap in Conversational Search: From Passage Retrieval to Conversational Response Generation 
  • The Warsaw University of Technology Rector's Scholarship (2015/2016) Scholarship for the best students for high academic record 
  • Certificate of Advanced English (2015) Cambridge English Language Assessment at C1 Level

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Publications

Vitenskapelige publikasjoner

Skjæveland, Martin G; Balog, Krisztian; Bernard, Nolwenn; Lajewska, Weronika; Linjordet, Trond

(2024)

An ecosystem for personal knowledge graphs: A survey and research roadmap.

AI Open.

Volum 5.

s.55-69.

DOI: 10.1016/j.aiopen.2024.01.003

Sekulić, Ivan; Lajewska, Weronika; Balog, Krisztian; Crestani, Fabio

(2024)

Estimating the usefulness of clarifying questions and answers for conversational search. I: Advances in Information Retrieval : 46th European Conference on Information Retrieval : ECIR 2024 : Proceeding, part III.

Springer.

ISBN 978-3-031-56063-7.

s.384-392.

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-56063-7_30

Lajewska, Weronika; Balog, Krisztian

(2024)

Towards reliable and factual response generation : Detecting unanswerable questions in information-seeking conversations. I: Advances in Information Retrieval : 46th European Conference on Information Retrieval : ECIR 2024 : Proceeding, part III.

Springer.

ISBN 978-3-031-56063-7.

s.336-344.

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-56063-7_25

Bernard, Nolwenn; Kostric, Ivica; Lajewska, Weronika; Balog, Krisztian; Galuscakova, Petra; Setty, Vinay; Skjæveland, Martin G

(2024)

PKG API: A Tool for Personal Knowledge Graph Management. I: WWW '24 : Companion Proceedings of the ACM on Web Conference 2024.

Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).

ISBN 9798400701726.

s.1051-1054.

DOI: 10.1145/3589335.3651247

Lajewska, Weronika; Spina, Damiano; Trippas, Johanne R.; Balog, Krisztian

(2024)

Explainability for transparent conversational information-seeking. I: SIGIR '24: Proceedings of the 47th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval.

Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).

ISBN 979-8-4007-0431-4.

s.1040-1050.

DOI: 10.1145/3626772.3657768

Lajewska, Weronika; Balog, Krisztian

(2023)

From baseline to top performer : A reproducibility study of approaches at the TREC 2021 conversational assistance track. I: Advances in Information Retrieval : 45th European Conference on Information Retrieval : ECIR 2023, Dublin, Ireland, April 2–6, 2023 : Proceedings, Part III.

Springer.

ISBN 978-3-031-28240-9.

s.177-191.

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-28241-6_12

Lajewska, Weronika; Balog, Krisztian

(2023)

Towards Filling the Gap in Conversational Search: From Passage Retrieval to Conversational Response Generation. I: CIKM '23: Proceedings of the 32nd ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management.

Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).

ISBN 979-8-4007-0124-5.

s.5326-5330.

DOI: 10.1145/3583780.3615132

Kostric, Ivica; Balog, Krisztian; Aresvik, Tølløv Alexander Sveen; Bernard, Nolwenn Marie Emilie; Dørheim, Eyvinn Thu; Hantula, Pholit; Havn-Sørensen, Sander; Henriksen, Rune; Hosseini, Hengameh; Khlybova, Ekaterina; Lajewska, Weronika; Mosand, Sindre Ekrheim; Orujova, Narmin

(2022)

DAGFiNN: A Conversational Conference Assistant. I: RecSys '22: Sixteenth ACM Conference on Recommender Systems.

Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).

ISBN 978-1-4503-9278-5.

s.628-631.

DOI: 10.1145/3523227.3551467