SIGIR demonstrations will take place on Monday afternoon and Tuesday afternoon as part of the main scientific programme, not on Monday evening as in previous years. Note that half of the demonstrations will be presented on Monday and half on Tuesday! Both sessions will take place in the Exam Hall, TCD.
Monday, 29th July 2013
Short Paper and Demo Sessions I13:40-15:40
Exam Hall, TCD
Demonstrations: Users and Interactive IR
ThemeStreams: Visualizing the Stream of Themes Discussed in Politics
Ork de Rooij (University of Amsterdam), Daan Odijk (University of Amsterdam), Maarten de Rijke (University of Amsterdam)
BATC - A Benchmark for Aggregation Techniques in Crowdsourcing
Quoc Viet Hung Nguyen (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne), Thanh Tam Nguyen (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne), Ngoc Tran Lam (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne), Karl Aberer (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne)
Spacious: An Interactive Mental Search Interface
Phong D Vo (TELECOM ParisTech), Hichem Sahbi (CNRS Telecom ParisTech)
Demonstrations: IR and Structured Data
Flex-BaseX: an XML Engine with a Flexible Extension of XQuery Full-Text
Emanuele Panzeri (University of Milano-Bicocca), Gabriella Pasi (University of Milano-Bicocca)
ProductSeeker: Entity-based Product Retrieval for E-Commerce
Hongzhi Wang (Harbin Institute of Technology), Xiaodong Zhang (Harbin Institute of Technology), Jianzhong Li (Harbin Institute of Technology), Hong Gao (Harbin Institute of Technology)
Demonstrations: Information Extraction
Live Nuggets Extractor
Matthew Ekstrand-Abueg (Northeastern University), Virgil Pavlu (Northeastern University), Javed A Aslam (Northeastern University)
X-ENS: Semantic Enrichment of Web Search Results at Real-Time
Pavlos Fafalios (FORTH-ICS & University of Crete), Yannis Tzitzikas (FORTH-ICS & University of Crete)
Accurate and Robust Text Detection: A Step-In for Text Retrieval in Natural Scene Images
Xu-Cheng Yin (University of Science and Technology Beijing), Xuwang Yin (University of Science and Technology Beijing), Kaizhu Huang (Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University(, Hong-Wei Hao (Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences)
Demonstrations: Filtering and Recommending
A Framework for Specific Term Recommendation Systems
Thomas Lüke (GESIS - Leibniz-Institute for the Social Sciences), Philipp Schaer (GESIS - Leibniz-Institute for the Social Sciences), Philipp Mayr (GESIS - Leibniz-Institute for the Social Sciences)
TweetMogaz: A News Portal of Tweets
Walid Magdy (Qatar Computing Research Institute)
Demonstrations: Classification and Clustering
InfoLand: Information Lay-of-Land for Session Search
Jiyun Luo (Georgetown University), Dongyi Guan (Georgetown University), Hui Yang (Georgetown University)
A Portable Multilingual Medical Directory by Automatic Categorization of Wikipedia Articles
Fernando Ruiz-Rico (University of Alicante), David Tomás (University of Alicante), Jose-Luis Vicedo (University of Alicante), María-Consuelo Rubio-Sánchez (University of Alicante)
Tuesday, 30th July 2013
Short Paper and Demo Sessions II13:40-15:40
Exam Hall, TCD
Demonstrations: Users and Interactive IR
A Geolinguistic Web Application Based on Linked Open Data
Emanuele Di Buccio (University of Padua), Giorgio Maria Di Nunzio (University of Padua), Gianmaria Silvello (University of Padua)
TopicVis: A GUI for Topic-based Feedback and Navigation
Debasis Ganguly (Dublin City University), Manisha Ganguly (Dublin City University), Johannes Leveling (Dublin City University), Gareth J. F. Jones (Dublin City University)
Information Seeking in Digital Cultural Heritage with PATHS
Mark M Hall (The University of Sheffield), Paul D Clough (The University of Sheffield), Samuel Fernando (The University of Sheffield), Paula Goodale (The University of Sheffield), Mark Stevenson (The University of Sheffield), Eneko Agirre (University of the Basque Country), Arantxa Otegi (University of the Basque Country), Aitor Soroa (University of the Basque Country), Kate Fern (MDR Partners), Jillian Griffiths (MDR Partners), Runar Bergheim Asplan Viak (Internet AS)
Demonstrations: IR and Structured Data
Answering Natural Language Queries over Linked Data Graphs: A Distributional Semantics Approach
Andre Freitas (National University of Ireland, Galway), Fabricio F de Faria (National University of Ireland, Galway), Sean O'Riain (National University of Ireland, Galway), Edward Curry (National University of Ireland, Galway)
Removing the MisMatch Headache in XML Keyword Search
Yong Zeng (National University of Singapore), Zhifeng Bao (National University of Singapore), Tok Wang Ling (National University of Singapore), Guoliang Li (Tsinghua University)
Demonstrations: Information Extraction
SearchResultFinder: Federated Search Made Easy
Dolf Trieschnigg (University of Twente), Kien Tjin-Kam-Jet (University of Twente), Djoerd Hiemstra (University of Twente)
YaLi: a Crowdsourcing Plug-In for NERD
Yafang Wang (Max Planck Institute for Informatics), Lili Jiang (Max Planck Institute for Informatics), Johannes Hoffart (Max Planck Institute for Informatics), Gerhard Weikum (Max Planck Institute for Informatics)
Demonstrations: Filtering and Recommending
Online Matching of Web Content to Closed Captions in IntoNow
Carlos Castillo (QCRI), Gianmarco De Francisci Morales (Yahoo! Research), Ajay Shekhawat (Yahoo! Labs)
Match the News: a Firefox Extension for Real-Time NewsRecommendation
Karkali Margarita (Athens University of Economics and Business), Dimitris Pontikis (Athens University of Economics and Business), Michalis Vazirgiannis (Athens University of Economics and Business)
Demonstrations: Classification and Clustering
Demonstration of Citation Pattern Analysis for Plagiarism Detection
Bela Gipp (University of California, Berkeley), Norman Meuschke (University of California, Berkeley), Corinna Breitinger (University of California, Berkeley), Mario Lipinski (University of California, Berkeley), Andreas Nürnberger (Otto-von-Guericke-University Magdeburg)
A Multilingual and Multiplatform Application for Medicinal Plants Prescription from Medical Symptoms
Fernando Ruiz-Rico (University of Alicante), David Tomás (University of Alicante), Jose-Luis Viced (University of Alicante), María-Consuelo Rubio-Sánchez (University of Alicante)
