The 29th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval

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August 6 - 11, 2006 - Seattle, Washington, USA
SUNDAY 8/6
MONDAY  8/7
TUESDAY 8/8
WEDNESDAY 8/9
THURSDAY 8/10
FRIDAY 8/11
8 Registration Kane Hall Lobby 7:30 - 8:15 a.m. Newcomers' Breakfast  HUB West Ballroom Registration:  Kane Hall Lobby Registration Kane Hall Lobby     Registration  Kane Hall Lobby Registration MEB     8
           
Doctoral Consortium Mary Gates Hall Tutorials  Mary Gates Hall            
8:30 a.m. Conf Opening (E.N. Efthimiadis); Welcoming remarks (iSchool Dean H. Bruce)            
9 Keynote Address Keynote Address     Workshops (including PIM)  Loew Hall and MEB PIM Workshop  420 Mary Gates Hall 9
Keynote Address Awardee TBA at the Conference  Salton Award Keynote Speaker, 120 Kane Hall      
Jon Kleinberg  120 Kane Hall Radha Radhakrishnan 120 Kane Hall    
     
10 Coffee break Coffee break Coffee break     Coffee break 10
     
Doctoral Consortium Mary Gates Hall Tutorials  Mary Gates Hall SESSION I SESSION IV     SESSION VI Coffee break   Coffee break
           
11 User Behavior & Modelling  120 Kane Hall Handling Messages & Finding Experts  110 Kane Hall Speech & Music  220 Kane Hall  Question & Answering  210 Kane Hall Machine Learning  120 Kane Hall User Models & Test Collections  220 Kane Hall  Queries  120 Kane Hall Clustering 210 Kane Hall The First Page of Results  220 Kane Hall  Workshops (including PIM)  Loew Hall and MEB PIM Workshop  420 Mary Gates Hall 11
12 Lunch  HUB West Ballroom Lunch HUB West Ballroom 12
Lunch  Mary Gates Hall Commons
Lunch  HUB West Ballroom  ACM Business Meeting Lunch Loew Hall & MEB Lunch   Mary Gates Hall Commons
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Doctoral Consortium Mary Gates Hall Tutorials  Mary Gates Hall
SESSION II SESSION VII Workshops (including PIM)  Loew Hall and MEB   PIM Workshop  420 Mary Gates Hall
     
14 Web1-Exploiting Graph Structure  120 Kane Hall Semantics  110 Kane Hall Fusion & Spam  220 Kane Hall  Users: Clarification, etc. 210 Kane Hall Classification and Machine Learning  120 Kane Hall Use & Abuse  220 Kane Hall        14
     
SESSION V      
     
15 Coffee break Coffee break Web 2 120 Kane Hall Distributed IR  210 Kane Hall Efficiency  220 Kane Hall  Coffee break Coffee break   Coffee break 15
       
Doctoral Consortium Mary Gates Hall Tutorials  Mary Gates Hall SESSION III   SESSION VIII Workshops (including PIM)  Loew Hall and MEB   PIM Workshop  420 Mary Gates Hall
       
16 Relevance Feedback  120 Kane Hall Formal Models  110 Kane Hall Cross Language  220 Kane Hall    Evaluation 2  210 Kane Hall Web IR: Current Topics  120 Kane Hall Summariz-ations  220 Kane Hall        16
       
       
     
17             Conference Closing   120 Kane Hall       17
               
    Poster and Demo Session Sponsor:  Google  Buffet reception HUB East Ballroom              
    Banquet:  Tillicum Village on Blake Island Sponsor: Microsoft Corp.
5:45 p.m. Load buses to depart from University 
11:00 p.m. Load buses to return to University District/hotels		            
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Welcome Reception Boeing Center for the Future of Flight (Everett)  Sponsor:  The Boeing Co.  
6:15 p.m. Load buses to depart from University 
10:30 p.m. Load buses to return to University District/hotels		            
           
           
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