Subject: Call for Participation: SIKS/Yahoo Seminar on Searching and Ranking in Structured Text Repositories
SIKS/Yahoo Seminar on
Searching and Ranking in Structured Text Repositories
http://www.cs.utwente.nl/~hiemstra/ssr2008/
June 27th, 2008
University of Twente
Enschede, The Netherlands
The goal of the one day workshop is to bring together researchers
from companies and academia working in the area of computer science
and applied mathematics on ranking and searching in highly dynamic,
structured text environments.
Keynote speakers:
* Prof.dr. Ricardo Baeza-Yates (Yahoo! Research, Barcelona, Spain)
* Dr. Debora Donato (Yahoo! Research, Barcelona, Spain)
Program:
9:30 Coffee and Welcome
10:00 Efficient graph-based context-sensitive search
by Debora Donato, Yahoo! Research Barcelona
11:00 Evaluating statistical dependencies and rank correlations in
power law graphs
by Yana Volkovich, University of Twente
11:30 Guest speaker to be announced
12:15 Lunch
13:00 The search for expertise: to the documents and beyond
Pavel Serdyukov, University of Twente
13:30 Towards a Distributed Search Engine
Ricardo Baeza-Yates, Yahoo! Research Barcelona 数据挖掘工具
14:30 Break
14:45 From Document to Entity Retrieval: Improving Precision and
Performance of Focussed Text Search
PhD defense of Henning Rode
The seminar is sponsored by:
WGI: Werkgemeenschap Informatiewetenschap
http://www.informatiewetenschap.org/
CTIT: Centre for Telematics and Information Technology
http://www.ctit.utwente.nl/
NWO: Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research
http://www.nwo.nl/
SIKS: Netherlands research School for Information and Knowledge 数据挖掘研究院
Systems http://www.siks.nl/
Yahoo: Yahoo! Research
http://research.yahoo.com/
Organizers:
* Djoerd Hiemstra, University of Twente
* Nelly Litvak, University of Twente
Registration:
Please send your name and affiliation to ssr@lists.utwente.nl if you
plan to participate in the seminar, and help us estimate the required
catering.
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