Doctoral Consortium

Monday August 15, 2005

The second SIGIR Doctoral Consortium is being run as part of SIGIR 2005 in Salvador, Brazil. The purpose of the Consortium is to provide doctoral students with a forum, in which to discuss their PhD thesis proposal with experienced information retrieval (IR) researchers and other doctoral students.

A report on the Doctoral Consortium, which will include abstracts of the student papers, will be published in the Proceedings of the SIGIR 2005 Conference.

Details of the consortium arrangements will be communicated by email to the participants.

The student participants and titles of papers are:

• An Analysis of Evolved Term-weighting Schemes in Information Retrieval
  Ronan Cummins
  Dept. of Information Technology
  National University of Ireland
  Galway, Ireland
• Score Region Algebra: A Framework for Structured IR
  Vojkan Mihajlovic
  CTIT, University of Twente
  The Netherlands
• Advancing Corpus-Based Bilingual Retrieval
  Paul McNamee
  University of Maryland
  Baltimore County , USA
• The Re:Search Engine: Helping People Return to Information on the Web
  Jaime Teevan
  Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  Cambridge, Ma., USA
• Web Information Access in the Blog Age: Opinions Matter
  Gilad Mishne
  Informatics Institute
  University of Amsterdam
  Amsterdam, The Netherlands
• Recovering Chronological Relationships in Dynamic Information
  Jahna Otterbacher
  School of Information
  University of Michigan
  Ann Arbor, Mi.., USA
• Focused Information Retrieval from Semi-Structured Documents
  Börkur Sigurbjörnsson
  Informatics Institute
  University of Amsterdam
  The Netherlands
• A Quality Focused Crawler for Health Information
  Thanh Tin Tang
  Department of Computer Science
  Australian National University
  Canberra, Australia
• Query-based, task-specific automatic summarization of biomedical literature on gene-gene relations
  Jianji Yang
  Department of Medical Informatics and Clinical Epidemiology
  Oregon Health & Science University
  Portland, Or., USA
• Topic Hierarchy Construction for Web Site Summarization
  Yongzheng Zhang
  Faculty of Computer Science
  Dalhousie University,
  Canada

Consortium Program Committee

The members of the Consortium Program Committee are:

Nick Belkin, Rutgers U., USA
Jamie Callan, Carnegie Mellon U., USA
Bruce Croft, U. Massachusetts, USA
Sue Dumais, Microsoft Research, Redmond, USA
Liz Liddy, Syracuse U., USA
Yoëlle Maarek, IBM Research, Israel
Alistair Moffat, U. Melbourne, Australia
Doug Oard, U. Maryland, USA
John Tait, U. Sunderland, UK
Fabrizio Sebastiani, U. Padua, Italy

Chair:

David Harper, The Robert Gordon University, UK