Workshops

Open Source Information Retrieval
Andrew Trotman University of Otago (New Zealand), Charles L. A. Clarke University of Waterloo (Canada) Iadh Ounis University of Glasgow (Scotland), J. Shane Culpepper RMIT University (Australia) Marc-Allen Cartright University of Massachusetts Amherst (USA), Shlomo Geva QUT (Australia)
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This workshop is providing a venue for users and authors of open source IR tools to get together and discuss their joint future. Of particular interest is how to work together to build OpenSearchLab, an open source, live and functioning, online web search engine for research purposes. Other topics of interest include: Software Engineering; Hardware Engineering; Evaluation; Protocols; Needs and Desires. Short papers (posters) and Demonstrations are particularly encouraged, but full papers are also sought. See the web site for more information on this exciting workshop.
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Time-aware Information Access
Fernando Diaz (Microsoft Research) Susan Dumais (Microsoft Research) Kira Radinsky (Technion, Israel) Maarten de Rijke (ISLA, University of Amsterdam) Milad Shokouhi (Microsoft Research)
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Web content increasingly reflects the current state of the physical and social world, manifested both in traditional news media sources along with user-generated publishing sites such as Twitter, Foursquare, and Facebook. At the same time, web searching increasingly reflects problems grounded in the real world.
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Community IR Evaluation using Private Data Collections
Ian Soboroff (NIST), Paul Over(NIST), Ellen Voorhees (NIST), Ophir Frieder (Georgetown University)
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Information retrieval experiment has thrived on the basis of common, shared test collection resources. From the earliest test collections to those produced by TREC, CLEF, NTCIR, INEX, and other evaluation workshops, the foundational principle is that test collections are a community resource, possibly built and definitely used by multiple organizations, for their own research goals as well as the broader goal of defining measurement methods for information access and search tasks. This principle perseveres because the most efficient and effective methods for test collection creation that we know of work best within a community model such as pooling.
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1st Joint International Workshop on Entity-oriented and Semantic Search (JIWES)
Krisztian Balog (NTNU, Norway), David Carmel (IBM Research Haifa), Arjen P. de Vries (CWI/TU Delft, The Netherlands), Daniel M. Herzig (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany), Peter Mika (Yahoo! Research, Barcelona), Haggai Roitman (IBM Research Haifa), Ralf Schenkel (Saarland University/MPII), Pavel Serdyukov (Yandex, Russia), Thanh Tran Duc (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany)
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The workshop encompasses various tasks and approaches that go beyond the traditional bag-of-words paradigm and incorporate an explicit representation of the semantics behind information needs and relevant content. This kind of semantic search, based on concepts, entities and relations between them, has attracted attention both from industry and from the research community. The workshop aims to bring people from different communities (IR, SW, DB, NLP, HCI, etc.) and backgrounds (both academics and industry practitioners) together, to identify and discuss emerging trends, tasks and challenges. This joint workshop is a sequel of the Entity-oriented Search and Semantic Search Workshop series held at different conferences in previous years.
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