Workshop Program
Friday, Nov 3
|
9:30
|
Welcome:
Ron Brachman & Ricardo Baeza-Yates, Yahoo! Research
|
|
9:45
|
Databases
Moderator: Leopoldo Bertossi
-
Optimising access to Web data sources
Andrea Cali, Free University of Bolzano, Italy
-
The semantic web as an incomplete database
Enrico Franconi, Free University of Bolzano, Italy
|
|
10:45
|
Coffee Break
|
|
11:15
|
Keynote talk:
Moderator: Ricardo Baeza-Yates
From query based Information Retrieval to context driven Information Supply
Andrei Broder, Yahoo! Research, USA
|
|
12:30
|
Opening of Yahoo! Research Latin America (by invitation only)
Ron Brachman & Ricardo Baeza-Yates, Yahoo! Research
Local Authorities
|
|
13:00
|
Lunch Cocktail
|
|
14:30
|
Web Mining
Moderator: Ron Brachman
-
Mining Queries: The Wisdom of the Crowds
Ricardo Baeza-Yates, Yahoo! Research, Spain & Chile
-
Mining query logs: Search modelisation and personalisation
Benjamin Piwowarski, Yahoo! Research, Chile
-
Learning Ranking Functions for Web Search and Information Extraction
Hugo Zaragoza, Yahoo! Research, Spain
|
|
16:00
|
Coffee Break
|
|
16:30
|
Algorithmics
Moderator: Andrei Broder
-
Efficient Parallelization of Web Crawling Simulations
Mauricio Marín, Yahoo! Research, Chile
-
New algorithms for slot assignment and CTR estimation in sponsored search
Esteban Fuerstein, Univ. de Buenos Aires, Argentina
-
Measuring quality of similarity functions in approximate data matching
Carlos A. Heuser, UFRGS, Brazil
-
Succint Data Structures
Gonzalo Navarro, CWR, Univ. of Chile
|
|
20:30
|
Workshop Banquet (by invitation only)
|
Saturday, Nov 4
|
9:30
|
Keynote talk:
Moderator: Ricardo Baeza-Yates
Community Systems: The World Online
Raghu Ramakrishnan, Yahoo! Research, USA
|
|
10:30
|
Coffee Break
|
|
11:00
|
Data Relations
Moderator: Mauricio Marin
-
Adaptive Sampling Algorithms for Answering Aggregation Queries on Web Sites
Foto Afrati, National Technical Universtity of Athens, Greece
-
Exploiting structural summaries of web collections
Mariano Consens, Univ. of Toronto, Canada
-
Principal Components for Automatic Term Hierarchy Building
Georges Dupret, Yahoo! Research, Chile
-
Exploring same entities in coauthorship graphs
Josep Lluis Larriba-Pey, UPC, Spain
|
|
13:00
|
Farewell
|
|
