SIRIP 1: Start-Ups and Beyond

August 10 (Thursday) 11:10-12:30, 5F Concord Ballroom A
Chair: Sumio Fujita (Yahoo! JAPAN), Vanessa Murdock (Microsoft)

• MAPping the Probability of Start-up Success
  David Hawking (Microsoft (Bing))
• Search Without a Query – Powering Job Recommendations via Search Index at LinkedIn
  Dhruv Arya (LinkedIn), Ganesh Venkataraman (LinkedIn)
• Spotify: Music Access At Scale
  Fernando Diaz (Spotify)
• Structuring the Unstructured: From Startup to Making Sense of eBay’s Huge eCommerce Inventory
  Ido Guy (eBay Research), Kira Radinsky (eBay Research)

SIRIP 2: Start-Up Research and Academic Collaboration

August 10 (Thursday) 14:30-15:50, 5F Concord Ballroom A
Chair: Sumio Fujita (Yahoo! JAPAN), Vanessa Murdock (Microsoft)

• Making Ads More Relevant – Innovations in Digital Advertising
  Sudong Chung (Wider Planet, Co. Ltd.)
• Traditional IR Meets Ontology Engineering in Search for Data
  Anton Firsov (Knoema)
• Semantic Query Understanding
  Ricardo Baeza-Yates (NTENT)
• Twicalli: An Earthquake Detection System Based on Citizen Sensors Used for Emergency Response in Chile
  Barbara Poblete (University of Chile)

SIRIP 3: Research at Large-scale Search Engines

August 10 (Thursday) 16:20-17:40, 5F Concord Ballroom A
Chair: Sumio Fujita (Yahoo! JAPAN), Vanessa Murdock (Microsoft)

• Cross-Lingual Information Retrieve in Sogou Search
  Jingfang Xu (Sogou, Inc.), Feifei Zhai (Sogou, Inc.), Zhengshan Xue (Sogou, Inc.)
• Find Shoes Like These
  Hideyuki Maeda (Yahoo Japan Corporation)
• Machine Learning Powered A/B Testing
  Pavel Serdyukov (Yandex)
• Naver Search – Deep Learning Powered Search Portal for Intelligent Information Provision
  Inho Kang (Naver Corporation)