SIRIP
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)
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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)
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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)
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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)