Confirmed Invited Speakers

• Foto Afrati
  National Technical Universtity of Athens, Greece
  "Adaptive Sampling Algorithms for Answering Aggregation Queries on Web Sites"
  
  
• Ricardo Baeza-Yates
  Yahoo! Research, Spain
  "Mining Queries: The Wisdom of Crowds"
  
  
• Andrei Broder
  Yahoo! Research, USA
  "From query based Information Retrieval to context driven Information Supply"
  
  
• Andrea Cali
  Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy
  "Optimising access to Web data sources" [Download - 185K]
  
  
• Mariano Consens
  University of Toronto, Canada
  "Exploiting structural summaries of web collections"
  
  
• Georges Dupret
  Yahoo! Research, Chile
  "Principal Components for Automatic Term Hierarchy Building" [Download - 202K]
  
  
• Enrico Franconi
  Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy
  "The semantic web as an incomplete database" [Download - 1.8M]
  
  
• Esteban Fuerstein
  Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina
  "New algorithms for slot assignment and CTR estimation in sponsored search"
  
  
• Carlos Heuser
  Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
  "Measuring quality of similarity functions in approximate data matching" [Download - 442K]
  
  
• Josep Lluis Larriba-Pey
  Universitat Politecnica Catalunya, Spain
  "Exploring same entities in coauthorship graphs"
  
  
• Mauricio Marin
  Yahoo! Research, Chile
  "Efficient Parallelization of Web Crawling Simulations" [Download - 485K]
  
  
• Gonzalo Navarro
  Center for Web Research, Chile
  "Succint Data Structures" [Download - 453K]
  
  
• Benjamin Piwowarski
  Yahoo! Research, Chile
  "Mining query logs: Search modelisation and personalisation" [Download - 615K]
  
  
• Raghu Ramakrishnan
  Yahoo! Research, USA
  "Community Systems: The World Online"
  
  
• Hugo Zaragoza
  Yahoo! Research, Spain
  "Learning Ranking Functions for Web Search and Information Extraction" [Download - 576K]