Doctoral Consortium

The Doctoral Consortium is a closed, invitation-only event. 

The main DC room is Room 4 (Floor 1), with student-mentor meetings in Kalamazoo (Floor 2).

Sunday, July 8  (Main room: Room 4, Floor 1)
08:00 Registration
09:00 –

 

09:20

 Exploring Potential Pathways to Address Bias and Ethics in IR
Steven Zimmerman (University of Essex)
Mentors: David Carmel, Diane Kelly
09:20 –

 

09:40

 Case-Based Retrieval Using Document-Level Semantic Networks
Stefano Marchesin (University of Padova)
Mentors: Douglas Oard, Ian Soboroff
09:40 –

 

10:00

 Enhanced Contextual Recommendation using Social Media Data
Anirban Chakraborty (Trinity College Dublin)
Mentors: Jaap Kamps, Ji-Rong Wen
10:00 –

 

10:30

 Coffee Break (League Concourse, Floor 2)
10:30 –

 

10:50

 A Semantic Search Approach to Task-Completion Engines
Darío Garigliotti (University of Stavanger)
Mentors: Paul Bennett, Jimmy Huang
10:50 –

 

11:10

 Design and Evaluation of Query Auto Completion Mechanisms
Unni Krishnan (The University of Melbourne)
Mentors: Hannah Bast, Fiana Raiber
11:10 –

 

12:00

 Face-to-face Meetings (Kalamazoo, Floor 2) & Career Planning Panel (Room 4, Floor 1)
12:00 –

 

13:20

 Doctoral Consortium Lunch
13:20 –

 

13:40

 SmartTable: Equipping Spreadsheets with Intelligent Assistance Functionalities
Shuo Zhang (University of Stavanger)
Mentors: Jaime Arguello, Ji-Rong Wen
13:40 –

 

14:00

 Utilizing Inter-Passage Similarities for Focused Retrieval
Eilon Sheetrit (Technion – Israel Institute of Technology)
Mentors: Jimmy Huang, Jaap Kamps
14:00 –

 

14:20

 Addressing News-Related Standing Information Needs
Kristine Rogers (University of Maryland)
Mentors: Diane Kelly, Fiana Raiber
14:20 –

 

14:40

 Better Textbooks with Human Language Technology
Sudeshna Das (IIT Kharagpur)
Mentors: Douglas Oard, Mark Smucker
14:40 –

 

15:00

 CHEERS: CHeap & Engineered Evaluation of Retrieval Systems
Kevin Roitero (University of Udine)
Mentors: Ben Carterette, Ian Soboroff
15:00 –

 

15:30

 Coffee Break (League Concourse, Floor 2)
15:30 –

 

15:50

 Efficiency-Effectiveness Trade-Offs in Machine Learned Models for Information Retrieval
Luke Gallagher (RMIT University)
Mentors: Eugene Agichtein, Hannah Bast
15:50 –

 

16:10

 Improving Systematic Review Creation With Information Retrieval
Harrisen Scells (Queensland University of Technology)
Mentors: Noriko Kando, Oren Kurland
16:10 –

 

17:00

 Face-to-face Meetings (Kalamazoo, Floor 2) & Career Planning Panel (Room 4, Floor 1)
17:30 –

 

11:59

 Welcome Reception: Michigan Museum of Art