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The Future of Web Search: Beyond Text
Andorra - April 4-5, 2008
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Workshop Program

You can visit a detailed version of the program with the abstracts of each talk.

Friday, April 4

9:00-9:15 Opening
9:15-10:00 Keynote Speaker
TRECVid & future of video search - (1.5M)
Wessel Kraaij (TNO, The Netherlands)
10:00-10:30 Coffee break
10:30-11:40 Session on Multimedia
  • Audio-video search within a corpus news contents in 6 languages
    Julien Law-To (Exalead)

  • Making visual content on the web searchable
    Jan-Erik Solem (Polar Rose, Sweden)

11:40-14:00 Session on CHORUS projects (Multimedia)
14:00-15:30 Lunch
15:30-16:30 Session on Specialized Search
16:30-18:00 Coffee break and Demos/Posters
17:00-18:00 Hands-on session
Teaching User Interface Design using a web-based Usability Tool
Ernesto Arroyo (Fundacio Barcelona Media, Spain)
20:00   Banquet
At the Roc de les Bruixes restaurant. One of the most highly regarded establishments in the entire Grandvalira domain, both for the quality of its creative cuisine with French, Andorran and Pyrenean touches, as well as for the views of the Canillo valley from its terrace. T. +376 890 696

Includes a bus from the hotel, climbing upto 2,000m above sea-level in a cable car.
Dinner Menu (in Spanish).


Saturday, April 5

9:00-10:30 Session on Specialized Search
10:30-11:00 Coffee break
11:00-12:00 Session Multimedia
12:00-12:45 Invited Speaker
The Future of Web Search
Usama Fayyad (CDO Yahoo!, USA)
12:45-14:00 Speakers' Corner / Discussion / Wrap up based on topics raised during the event
14:00-15:30 Lunch