Preliminary Program:
Keynote talks are 40 minutes plus 5 minutes of questions.
All the other talks are 20 minutes plus 5 minutes of questions.
Friday 19
| 9:00 |
Welcome |
| 9:05 |
Link Analysis
Moderator: Ravi Kumar (Yahoo! Research, USA)
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Graph Fibrations, graph isomorphism and PageRank
Paolo Boldi, Univ. di Milano, Italy
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Theoretical analysis of Link Analysis Ranking
Panayiotis Tsaparas, Univ. of Helsinki, Finland
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Using Rank Propagation and Probabilistic Counting for Link-based Spam Detection
Carlos Castillo, Univ. di Roma La Sapienza, Italy
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Searching the Web with Low Space Approximations
Andras Benczur, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Hungary
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| 10:45 |
Coffee Break |
| 11:00 |
Algorithmics
Moderator: Stefano Leonardi (Univ. di Roma La Sapienza, Italy)
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Blogs, Friendship, and Geography
Andrew Tomkins, Yahoo! Research, USA
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Compact indexing of versioned data
Ronny Lempel, IBM Research Haifa, Israel
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Music of the (p)Spheres
Alessandro Panconesi, Univ. di Roma, Italy
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Mixture Models and Collaborative Filtering Algorithms
Devdatt Dubhashi, Chalmers University, Sweden
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Efficient Lazy Algorithms for Minimal-Interval Semantics
Sebastiano Vigna, Univ. di Milano, Italy
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| 13:00 |
Keynote talk
Moderator: Ricardo Baeza-Yates (Yahoo! Research, Spain)
Efficient Top-k Queries for XML Information Retrieval
Gerhard Weikum, Max Planck Institute, Germany
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| 13:45 |
Lunch |
| 15:00 |
Retrieval Foundations
Moderator: Josiane Mothe (IRIT, France)
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Applications of Influence Diagrams to Information Retrieval
Juan F. Huete, Univ. de Granada, Spain
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"Tuning": Error Optimisation in Ad-Hoc Retrieval
Hugo Zaragoza, Yahoo! Research, Barcelona, Spain
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Ongoing research on sentence retrieval and novelty detection
David Losada, Univ. de Santiago de Compostela, Spain
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| 16:30 |
Coffee break |
| 16:45 |
Structured Retrieval
Moderator: Pablo de la Fuente (Univ. de Valladolid, Spain)
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XML Compression and Search
Paolo Ferragina, Univ. di Pisa, Italy
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(Semantic) Structure in Structured Document Retrieval
Roelof Van Zwol, Univ. of Utrecht, Netherlands
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Flexible XML Retrieval using Summaries
Mariano Consens, Univ. of Toronto, Canada
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Exploiting Temporal Features for Structured Queries
Albrecht Schmidt, European Space Research & Technology Centre, Netherlands
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| 20:30 |
Dinner at
Magnum 7 Portes
(Location map)
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Saturday 20:
| 9:00 |
Search in Other Environments
Moderator: Bettina Berendt (Humboldt University Berlin, Germany)
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Mobile Search on Ubiquitous Collaborative Annotations of Space
Mauro Cherubini, EFPL, Switzerland
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Semantic Overlay Networks for P2P Web Search
Michalis Vazirgiannis, Athens UEB, Greece
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Efficient and Decentralized PageRank Approximation in a P2P Web Search Network
Josiane Parreira, Max Planck Institute, Germany
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Image Search "Live"
Nick Craswell, Microsoft Research, UK
|
| 10:40 |
Coffee break |
| 11:00 |
Web Search and Mining
Moderator: Arjen de Vries (CIW, Netherlands)
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Current Approaches to Personalized Web Search
Paul-Alexandre Chirita, Univ. of Hannover, Germany
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Applications of Query Mining
Ricardo Baeza-Yates, Yahoo! Research, Barcelona
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Boosting Performance of Web Search Engines Using Query Logs
Fabrizio Silvestri, CNR, Pisa, Italy
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Web mining for natural language engineering tasks
Paolo Rosso, Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain
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| 12:45 |
Keynote talk
Moderator: Ricardo Baeza-Yates (Yahoo! Research, Spain)
From query based Information Retrieval to context driven Information Supply
Andrei Broder, Yahoo! Research, USA
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| 13:30 |
Open Discusion |
| 14:00 |
Farewell |
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