SIRIP I: Big Companies, Big Data
Auditorium, Wednesday, July, 20, 11:00–12:30
Chair: Gilad Mishne (Color Genomics)
SIRIP 2016 Keynote: Alternative Entry Points to Search.
Hadar Shemtov (Google)
When Watson Went to Work – Leveraging Cognitive Computing in the Real World.
Aya Soffer (IBM Research, Haifa), David Konopnicki (IBM Research, Haifa), Haggai Roitman (IBM Research, Haifa)
Ask Your TV: Real-Time Question Answering with Recurrent Neural Networks.
Ferhan Ture (Comcast Labs), Oliver Jojic (Comcast Labs)
Amazon Search: The Joy of Ranking Products.
Daria Sorokina (A9.com), Erick Cantu-Paz (A9.com)
Learning to Rank Personalized Search Results in Professional Networks.
Viet Ha-Thuc (LinkedIn Corporation), Shakti Sinha (LinkedIn Corporation)
SIRIP II: Small Companies, Big Ideas
Auditorium, Wednesday, July, 20, 14:30 – 16:00
Chair: Gilad Mishne (Color Genomics)
SIRIP 2016 Keynote: Architecture for Discovering Tags in Content: Combining Folksonomies and Automatic tag extraction for organizing content.
Debora Donato (StumbleUpon)
Building a Self-Learning Search Engine: From Research to Business.
Manos Tsagkias (904Labs), Wouter Weerkamp (904Labs)
From Research to Industry, in Ten Not-So-Easy Steps.
Radim Řehůřek (RaRe Technologies)
Sedano: A News Stream Processor for Business.
Ugo Scaiella (Spaziodati), Giacomo Berardi (Spaziodati), Giuliano Mega (Spaziodati), Roberto Santoro (Spaziodati)
Ranking Financial Tweets.
Diego Ceccarelli (Bloomberg LP), Francesco Nidito (Bloomberg LP), Miles Osborne (Bloomberg LP)
SIRIP III: Modeling and Evaluation
Auditorium, Wednesday, July, 20, 16:30 – 18:00
Chair: Jussi Karlgren (Gavagai & KTH)
Principles for the Design of Online A/B Metrics.
Widad Machmouchi (Bing, Microsoft), Georg Buscher (Bing, Microsoft)
Visual Recommendation Use Case for an Online Marketplace Platform – allegro.pl.
Anna Wróblewska (Allegro), Lukasz Rączkowski (University of Warsaw & Allegro), Monika Cierzniak (Allegro)
AOL’s Named Entity Resolver: Solving Disambiguation via Document Strongly Connected Components and Ad-Hoc Edges Construction.
Roni Wiener (AOL), Yonatan Ben-Simhon (AOL), Anna Chen (AOL)
The Data Stack in Information Retrieval.
Omar Alonso (Microsoft)
SIRIP 2016 Closing Panel: Evaluation is for conference papers. I need to build a real life product!
Panelists: Gabriella Kazai (Lumi), Grant Ingersoll (Lucidworks), Jimmy Lin (University of Waterloo)