• Personalized Search and Recommendation
• Personal Knowledge Graphs
• Information Extraction

• CUP: a Framework for Resource-Efficient Review-Based Recommenders
  Ghazaleh Haratinezhad Torbati, Anna Tigunova, Gerhard Weikum, Andrew Yates. To appear in Proceedings of the 47th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR'25).
• STAR: Sparse Text Approach for Recommendation
  Anna Tigunova, Ghazaleh Haratinezhad Torbati, Andrew Yates, Gerhard Weikum. In Proceedings of the 33rd ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM'24). Pages 4086–4090. October 2024..
• SIRUP: Search-based Book Recommendation Playground
  Ghazaleh Haratinezhad Torbati, Anna Tigunova, Gerhard Weikum. In Proceedings of the 17th ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM'24). Pages 1062–1065. March 2024.
  Link to demo: sirup.mpi-inf.mpg.de
• Search-based Recommendation: the Case for Difficult Predictions
  Ghazaleh Haratinezhad Torbati, Gerhard Weikum, Andrew Yates. In WWW'23 Companion: Companion Proceedings of the ACM Web Conference 2023, pages 318–321, April 2023.
• Unveiling Challenging Cases in Text-based Recommender Systems
  Ghazaleh Haratinezhad Torbati, Anna Tigunova, Gerhard Weikum. In Perspectives on the Evaluation of Recommender Systems Workshop (PERSPECTIVES'23), co-located with Recsys, September 2023.
• You Get What You Chat: Using Conversations to Personalize Search-based Recommendations
  Ghazaleh Haratinezhad Torbati, Andrew Yates, Gerhard Weikum. In Proceedings of the 43nd European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR'21), pages 207-223, March 2021.
• Personalized Entity Search by Sparse and Scrutable User Profiles
  Ghazaleh Haratinezhad Torbati, Andrew Yates, Gerhard Weikum. Proceedings of the Fifth ACM SIGIR Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval (CHIIR'20), pages 427-431, March 2020.

• September 2018 - present:
  Ph.D. student in Computer Science at the Universität des Saarlandes, Saarbrücken, Germany and the Max-Planck-Institut für Informatik
  
  
• 2014 - 2018:
  M.Sc. in Computer Science at the Universität des Saarlandes, Saarbrücken, Germany.
  Title of Master's Thesis: Joint Disambiguation of Named Entities and Concepts (supervisor: Prof. Dr. Gerhard Weikum, advisor: Dr. Luciano Del Corro).
  
  
• 2007 - 2012:
  B.Sc. in Computer Software Engineering, Azad University of Mashhad (IAUM), Mashhad,Iran.

• Research Intern at the Bosch Center for Artificial Intelligence
  Sep 2021 - Feb 2022
• Teaching Assistant for Information Retrieval and Data Mining course at the Saarland University
  Oct 2019 - Mar 2020
• Research Assistant and Developer in Ambiverse located at the Max-Planck-Institut for Informatics
  2016 - 2018
• Research Assistant and Developer in the Department of Computational Biology at the Max-Planck-Institut for Informatics
  2014 - 2016

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