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Panel on use of proprietary data
A panel discussion on the use of proprietary data was held at SIGIR 2012 in Portland. This report summarizes the positions put forward by the six panelists and the points that arose during the wider discussion that followed.
Salton award lecture information retrieval as engineering science
This paper gives my personal view on the field of information retrieval (IR), by first presenting my own definition of the field, and then pointing out why IR isn't an engineering science yet. For the latter, IR lacks appropriate theoretic foundations, ...
ECIR 2012: 34th european conference on information retrieval research
- Ricardo Baeza-Yates,
- Mari-Carmen Marcos,
- Arjen P. de Vries,
- Hugo Zaragoza,
- B. Barla Cambazoglu,
- Vanessa Murdock,
- Alvaro Barreiro,
- David E. Losada,
- Ronny Lempel,
- Fabrizio Silvestri,
- Mounia Lalmas
HCIR 2012: the sixth international symposium on human-computer interaction and information retrieval
This report describes the 2012 Symposium on Human-Computer Interaction and Information Retrieval. Now in its sixth year, the two-day symposium (formerly a one-day workshop) was held in October in Cambridge, MA. The event brought together researchers and ...
Report on INEX 2012
- P. Bellot,
- T. Chappell,
- A. Doucet,
- S. Geva,
- S. Gurajada,
- J. Kamps,
- G. Kazai,
- M. Koolen,
- M. Landoni,
- M. Marx,
- A. Mishra,
- V. Moriceau,
- J. Mothe,
- M. Preminger,
- G. Ramírez,
- M. Sanderson,
- E. Sanjuan,
- F. Scholer,
- A. Schuh,
- X. Tannier,
- M. Theobald,
- M. Trappett,
- A. Trotman,
- Q. Wang
INEX investigates focused retrieval from structured documents by providing large test collections of structured documents, uniform evaluation measures, and a forum for organizations to compare their results. This paper reports on the INEX'12 evaluation ...
PROMISE retreat report prospects and opportunities for information access evaluation
- Maristella Agosti,
- Richard Berendsen,
- Toine Bogers,
- Martin Braschler,
- Paul Buitelaar,
- Khalid Choukri,
- Giorgio Maria Di Nunzio,
- Nicola Ferro,
- Pamela Forner,
- Allan Hanbury,
- Karin Friberg Heppin,
- Preben Hansen,
- Anni Järvelin,
- Birger Larsen,
- Mihai Lupu,
- Ivano Masiero,
- Henning Müller,
- Simone Peruzzo,
- Vivien Petras,
- Florina Piroi,
- Maarten de Rijke,
- Giuseppe Santucci,
- Gianmaria Silvello,
- Elaine Toms,
- Richard Berendsen,
- Allan Hanbury,
- Mihai Lupu,
- Vivien Petras,
- Gianmaria Silvello
The PROMISE network of excellence organized a two-days brainstorming workshop on 30th and 31st May 2012 in Padua, Italy, to discuss and envisage future directions and perspectives for the evaluation of information access and retrieval systems in ...
The first joint international workshop on entity-oriented and semantic search (JIWES)
- Krisztian Balog,
- David Carmel,
- Arjen P. de Vries,
- Daniel M. Herzig,
- Peter Mika,
- Haggai Roitman,
- Ralf Schenkel,
- Pavel Serdyukov,
- Thanh Tran Duc
The First Joint International Workshop on Entity-oriented and Semantic Search (JIWES) workshop was held on Aug 16, 2012 in Portland, Oregon, USA, in conjunction with the 35th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference (SIGIR 2012). The objective for the ...
Open source information retrieval: a report on the SIGIR 2012 workshop
On August 16, 2012 the SIGIR 2012 Workshop on Open Source Information Retrieval was held as part of the SIGIR 2012 conference in Portland, Oregon, USA. There were 2 invited talks, one from industry and one from academia. There were 6 full papers and 6 ...
#TAIA2012
The SIGIR 2012Workshop on Time-aware Information Access (#TAIA2012)1 was held in Portland on Thursday, 16 August 2012. The workshop brought together about 50 researchers from academia and industry for a full-day programme on time-sensitive information ...
Report on the WebQuality 2012 workshop
The 2nd Joint WICOW/AIRWeb Workshop on Web Quality (WebQuality 2012) was held in conjunction with the 21st International World Wide Web Conference in Lyon, France on the 16th April 2012. Seven full and three short paper presentations were delivered in ...
Improving the effectiveness of language modeling approaches to information retrieval: bridging the theory-effectiveness gap
Improving the effectiveness of general retrieval models has been a long-standing difficult challenge in information retrieval research, yet is also a fundamentally important task, because an improved general retrieval model would benefit every search ...
Learning to Predict the Future using Web Knowledge and Dynamics
Mark Twain famously said that "the past does not repeat itself, but it rhymes." In the spirit of this reflection, we present novel algorithms and methods for leveraging large-scale digital histories and human knowledge mined from the Web to make real-...