Room: 4050A, Arts Block, TCD

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Abstract: This workshop brings together researchers and practitioners from industry and academia to discuss health search and discovery. We will focus on ways to make medical information more readily accessible to laypeople (including enhancements to ranking algorithms and search interfaces), and how we can discover new medical facts and phenomena from information sought by people, as evidenced in their query streams and other sources such as social media. This domain also presents unprecedented opportunities for applications that monitor and improve the quality of life of people with a variety of medical conditions, by providing tools to support their health-related information behavior.

Room: 3071, Arts Block, TCD

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Abstract: Internet advertising, a form of advertising that utilizes the Internet to deliver marketing messages and attract customers, has seen exponential growth since twenty years ago; it has been pivotal to the success of the Internet industry. The dramatic growth of internet advertising poses great challenges to information retrieval, machine learning, data mining, and game theory, and it calls for novel technologies to be developed. The purpose of this workshop is to bring together researchers and practitioners in the area of Internet Advertising and enable them to share their latest research results, to express their opinions, and to discuss future directions.

Room: Swift Theatre, Arts Block, TCD

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Abstract: There is growing interest in ways to incorporate models of human behavior into Cranfield-style evaluation of information retrieval systems. While there are many approaches to this problem, two prominent approaches have been either to start from a user interface and then simulate user interaction with this interface, or to take traditionally styled evaluation measures and make them more realistic in terms of known human behavior. This workshop aims to bring together people to discuss existing and new approaches, ways to collaborate, and other ideas and issues involved in improving information retrieval evaluation through the modeling of user behavior.

Room: 3126, Arts Block, TCD

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Abstract: The purpose of EuroHCIR is to push the agenda of understanding the role that HCI has with IR systems, beyond InteractiveIR. While the previous two workshops have taken place at more HCI focused conferences (BCS-HCI and IIiX2012), the particular purpose of running EuroHCIR2013 at SIGIR2013 is to better engage with the core IR community, on extended search scenarios like holiday planning, entertainment, and casual browsing. The EuroHCIR workshops have three main goals: 1) Present and discuss novel HCIR designs, systems, and findings. 2) Identify and unite researchers and industry professionals working in this area. 3) Facilitate and encourage collaboration and joint academic and industry ventures. We intend to have a few pertinent presentations, an open format demo/poster session, and proactive breakout groups focusing on uniting IR & HCI researchers over extended search sessions.

Room: 3126, Arts Block, TCD

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Abstract: This workshop serves as a venue for work on novel, personalization-centric benchmarking approaches to evaluate adaptive retrieval and recommender systems. New evaluation approaches of such systems should evaluate both functional and non-functional requirements. Functional requirements go beyond traditional relevance metrics and focus on user-centered utility metrics, such as novelty, diversity and serendipity. Non-functional requirements focus on performance and technical aspects, e.g. scalability and reactivity.

Room: Uí Chadhain Theatre, Arts Block, TCD

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Abstract: #TAIA2013 aims to bring together practitioners and researchers to discuss their recent breakthroughs and the challenges with addressing time-aware information access, both from the algorithmic and the architectural perspectives. This workshop would be a successor to the successful SIGIR 2012 Workshop on Time Aware Information Access (#TAIA2012). Where the 2012 edition was the first to bring together a broad set of academic and industrial researchers around the topic of time-aware information access, the specific focus of this workshop is on the many time-aware benchmarking activities that are on-going in 2013.

Room: Long Room Hub, TCD

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Abstract: The first Workshop on the Exploration, Navigation and Retrieval of Information in Cultural Heritage, ENRICH 2013 aims to: 1) to discuss the challenges and opportunities in Information Retrieval research in the area of Cultural Heritage; 2) to encourage collaboration between researchers engaged in work in this specialist area of Information Retrieval, and to foster the formation of a research community; 3) to identify a set of actions which the community should undertake to progress the research agenda. The workshop will encourage the design of search tools that can help end-users fully exploit the wonderful Cultural Heritage material that is available across the globe.