Workshop Program
You can find the abstracts for the talks under Speakers.
(*) Regular Talk (35 minutes)
(**) Short Talk (20 minutes)
Friday, April 17
| 9:00 | - | 9:15 |
Opening |
| 9:15 | - | 10:00 |
Keynote Speaker
External Mining of Search Query logs.
Ziv Bar-Yossef. Google Haifa, Israel
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| 10:00 | - | 10:15 |
Coffee break |
| 10:15 | - | 12:40 |
Session: Disambiguation and Identification
- Unique identifiers for the Web (**)
Zoltan Miklos (EPFL, Switzerland)
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- Freebase: A socially managed identity database (*)
Jamie Taylor (Metaweb)
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- Semantics and tags: giving tags and labels their due (**)
Alexandre Monnin (University of Paris I Panthéon, France)
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- Name ambiguity resolution and attribute extraction for the Web People Search task: overview of the WePS 2 evaluation campaign (*)
Julio Gonzalo (UNED, Spain)
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- Using Web Information for Author Name Disambiguation (*)
Nivio Ziviani (UFMG, Brazil)
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| 12:40 | - | 12:45 |
Break |
| 12:45 | - | 14:00 |
Session: Query Interface and Result Presentation
- Approximately Optimal Facet Selection (*)
Ronny Lempel (Yahoo! Research Haifa, Israel)
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- (Re)Organizing web search results by means of semantic and visual tools (**)
Gonzalo A. Aranda-Corral (University of Sevilla, Spain)
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- Adding semantic context to key word queries (**)
Rianne Kaptein (University of Amsterdam, Netherlands)
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| 14:00 | - | 15:30 |
Lunch |
| 15:30 | - | 16:15 |
Keynote Speaker
Interacting with Semantically Annotated Collections. Abstract
Hugo Zaragoza (Yahoo! Research, Spain)
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| 16:15 | - | 16:30 |
Coffee Break |
| 16:30 | - | 18:20 |
Session: NLP & Information Extraction for Semantic Search
- Text Analytics for Wikipedia Semantic Search (*)
Giuseppe Attardi (University of Pisa, Italy)
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- Non-linear semantic mapping for cross-language document search (*)
Rafael Banchs (Barcelona Media Foundation, Spain)
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- Video shot retrieval : Who kills the vampire? (**)
Koen Deschacht (University of Leuven, Belgium)
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- Extracting structured data from text with applications (**)
Blaz Fortuna (Jozef Stefan Institute, Slovenia)
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| 20:30 | | |
Banquet
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Saturday, April 18
| 9:30 | - | 10:15 |
Keynote Speaker
Scalable, Tolerant, Fair... ultimately useful: Web of Data processing for the benefit of Humans. Abstract
Giovanni Tummarello (DERI, Ireland)
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| 10:15 | - | 10:30 |
Coffee break |
| 10:30 | - | 11:45 |
Session: Retrieval and Ranking I
- Achieving (and Understanding) Dense Linking in the LOD Cloud (*)
Mariano Consens (University of Toronto)
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- Semantically enhanced Information Retrieval: an ontology-based approach (**)
Miriam Fernandez (Autonomous University of Madrid, Spain)
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- Language-Model based Ranking in Entity-Relationship Graphs (**)
Shady Elbassuoni (Max-Planck-Institut for Informatics, Germany)
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- Semantically enhanced Information Retrieval: an ontology-based approach (**)
Miriam Fernandez (Autonomous University of Madrid, Spain)
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| 11:45 | - | 12:00 |
Break |
| 12:00 | - | 13:35 |
Session: Retrieval and Ranking II
- Investigating the Semantic Gap (*)
Peter Mika (Yahoo! Research, Spain)
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- Concept Search: Enabling Semantics in Syntactic Search (**)
Uladzimir Kharkevich (University of Trento, Italy)
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- Relevance feedback for Semantic Search (**)
Harry Halpin (University of Edinburgh, UK)
- Data Web Search: What is to be done? (**)
Tran Thanh (AIFB Institute, University Karlsruhe, Germany)
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| 13:35 | - | 14:00 |
Discussion/Wrap-up/Last-minute presentations
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| 14:00 | - | 15:30 |
Lunch |
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