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XI—the eXascale Infolab—is a new research group at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland.
We are designing, building and deploying next-generation infrastructures for Big Data, with a focus on social, scientific, and linked data.

Latest News

February 2013—Paper Accepted at WWW2013

New paper accepted at WWW2013 (acceptance:15%): Pick-A-Crowd: Tell Me What You Like, and I'll Tell You What to Do.

January 2013—CIDR Presentation

Gianluca presents his CrowdQ paper at CIDR; Blog Post about it, ppt slides.

December 2012—Paper Accepted at ECIR

New ScienceWise paper on Ontology-Based Word Sense Disambiguation for Scientific Literature accepted at ECIR 2013.

November 2012—New XI Member

Dr. Martin Grund from HPI joins us, supported by a generous research grant from SAP. Welcome Martin!

September 2012—Swiss Computer Science Prize

Prof. Cudré-Mauroux won the Swiss National Center 2001-2012 Research in Computer Science award. Link to the MICS event this September.

August 2012 -- Upcoming Events

Two exciting events on the horizon: ISWC 2012 in Boston and DESWEB 2013 in Brisbane (prof. Cudré-Mauroux co-chairs both of them). Don't miss them!

July 2012 -- Verisign Research Grant

We are ecstatic to have won one of the two global research grants from Verisign Inc. Press release here.

June 2012 -- Swiss Transportations Android App

Living in Switzerland? Then don't miss Roman's Android app offering timetables for Swiss public transportations. Available for free on Google Play.

April 2012 -- For a Few Papers More

Combining Inverted Indices and Structured Search for Ad-hoc Object Retrieval accepted at SIGIR. An overview of HYRISE in IEEE Data Eng. Bull. Downscaling Entity Registries with VUA and Verisign at DOWNSCALE. Graph Data Management Techniques for the large-scale deployment of Semantic Web technologies invited paper at GDM.

March 2012 -- Presentations

Fresh arrival, slide decks on the menu: Entity-Centric Data Management (presentation given at MIT CSAIL, DERI, and IBM Research Smarter Cities Centre); tutorial on Semantic Search (by Demartini et al. at ECIR); tutorial on Scalability in Semantic Data Management (Schloss Dagstuhl).

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