SIGIR 2014 Doctoral Consortium

NOTE: Presentations are 15 +10 minutes for questions

9:00 - 9:10

• Opening

9:10 - 10:50

• Improving Offline and Online Web Search Evaluation by Modelling the User Behaviour
Eugene Kharitonov (Yandex & University of Glasgow, Russia)
Mentors: Mark Smucker & Maarten de Rijke

• Novelty and Diversity Enhancement and Evaluation in Recommender Systems and Information Retrieval
Saúl Vargas (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain)
Mentors: Mark Sanderson & Paul Thomas

• Modeling of Terms Across Scripts Through Autoencoders
Parth Gupta (Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Spain)
Mentors: Douglas Oard & Iadh Ounis

• Cluster Links Prediction for Literature Based Discovery using Latent Structure and Semantic Features
Yakub Sebastian (Monash University Malaysia, Malaysia)
Mentors: Susan Dumais & Claudia Hauff

10:50 - 11:15

• Coffee

11:15 - 12:15

• Morning presenters: meet with mentors

• Afternoon presenters: Career Planning Panel Discussion
Panelists: Diane Kelly & Peter Bailey

12:15 - 12:45

• Senior Student Boasters
Mentors: Paul Bennett & Ben Carterette

12:45 - 1:45

• Lunch and Networking

1:45 - 3:25

• Enrichment of User Profiles Across Multiple Online Social Networks for Volunteerism Matching for Social Enterprise
Xuemeng Song (National University of Singapore, Singapore)
Mentors: Peter Bailey & Douglas Oard

• Graph-based Large Scale RDF Data Compression
Wei Zhang (University of Adelaide, Australia)

• A Tag-based Personalized Item Recommendation System using Tensor Modeling and Topic Model Approaches
Noor Ifada (Queensland University of Technology, Australia)
Mentors:Susan Dumais & Mark Smucker

• Entity-based Retrieval
Hadas Raviv (Technion - Israel institute of Technology, Israel)
Mentors: Maarten de Rijke & Claudia Hauff

3:25 - 4:00

• Coffee

4:00 - 5:00

• Morning presenters: Career Planning Panel Discussion
Panelists: Mark Sanderson & Vanessa Murdock

• Afternoon presenters: meet with mentors