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Barcelona - May 19-20, 2006
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Online Material


Here you can find the presentations of the talks given during the workshop.

Friday 19:

Link Analysis
  • Graph Fibrations, graph isomorphism and PageRank (PDF)
    Paolo Boldi, Univ. di Milano, Italy
  • Theoretical analysis of Link Analysis Ranking (PDF)
    Panayiotis Tsaparas, Univ. of Helsinki, Finland
  • Using Rank Propagation and Probabilistic Counting for Link-based Spam Detection (PDF)
    Carlos Castillo, Univ. di Roma La Sapienza, Italy
  • Searching the Web with Low Space Approximations (PDF)
    Andras Benczur, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Hungary
Algorithmics
  • Estimating Corpus Size via Queries (PDF)
    Andrew Tomkins, Yahoo! Research, USA
  • Compact indexing of versioned data (PDF)
    Ronny Lempel, IBM Research Haifa, Israel
  • Music of the (p)Spheres (PDF)
    Alessandro Panconesi, Univ. di Roma, Italy
  • Mixture Models and Collaborative Filtering Algorithms (PDF)
    Devdatt Dubhashi, Chalmers University, Sweden
  • Efficient Lazy Algorithms for Minimal-Interval Semantics (PDF)
    Sebastiano Vigna, Univ. di Milano, Italy
Keynote talk
  • Efficient Top-k Queries for XML Information Retrieval (PDF)
    Gerhard Weikum, Max Planck Institute, Germany
Retrieval Foundations
  • Applications of Influence Diagrams to Information Retrieval (PDF)
    Juan F. Huete, Univ. de Granada, Spain
  • "Tuning": Error Optimisation in Ad-Hoc Retrieval (PDF)
    Hugo Zaragoza, Yahoo! Research, Barcelona, Spain
  • Ongoing research on sentence retrieval and novelty detection (PDF)
    David Losada, Univ. de Santiago de Compostela, Spain
Structured Retrieval
  • XML Compression and Search (PDF)
    Paolo Ferragina, Univ. di Pisa, Italy
  • (Semantic) Structure in Structured Document Retrieval (PDF)
    Roelof Van Zwol, Univ. of Utrecht, Netherlands
  • Flexible XML Retrieval using Summaries (PDF)
    Mariano Consens, Univ. of Toronto, Canada
  • Exploiting Temporal Features for Structured Queries (PDF)
    Albrecht Schmidt, European Space Research & Technology Centre, Netherlands

Saturday 20:

Search in Other Environments
  • Mobile Search on Ubiquitous Collaborative Annotations of Space (PDF)
    Mauro Cherubini, EFPL, Switzerland
  • Semantic Overlay Networks for P2P Web Search (PDF)
    Michalis Vazirgiannis, Athens UEB, Greece
  • Efficient and Decentralized PageRank Approximation in a P2P Web Search Network (PDF)
    Josiane Parreira, Max Planck Institute, Germany
  • Image Search "Live" (PDF)
    Nick Craswell, Microsoft Research, UK
Web Search and Mining
  • Current Approaches to Personalized Web Search (PDF)
    Paul-Alexandre Chirita, Univ. of Hannover, Germany
  • Applications of Query Mining (PDF)
    Ricardo Baeza-Yates, Yahoo! Research, Barcelona
  • Boosting Performance of Web Search Engines Using Query Logs (PDF)
    Fabrizio Silvestri, CNR, Pisa, Italy
  • Web mining for natural language engineering tasks (PDF)
    Paolo Rosso, Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain
Keynote talk
  • From query based Information Retrieval to context driven Information Supply (PDF)
    Andrei Broder, Yahoo! Research, USA