[Corpora-List] Call for Participation: Second Web People Search Evaluation Workshop (WePS-2)

[Satoshi Sekine]

Second Web People Search Evaluation Workshop (WePS-2)

Call for Participation
April 21st - Madrid, Spain
Co-located with the WWW2009 conference

http://nlp.uned.es/weps


    Finding information about people in the World Wide Web is one of
the most common activities of Internet users. Person names, however,
are highly ambiguous. In most cases, the results for a person name
search are a mix of pages about different people sharing the same
name. The user is then forced either to add terms to the query
(probably losing recall and focusing on one single aspect of the
person), or to browse every document in order to filter the
information about the person he/she is actually looking for. In an
ideal system the user would simply type a person name, and receive
search results clustered according to the different people sharing
that name.


 - What is the WePS Evaluation ?

   The Web People Search (WePS) Evaluation is a shared evaluation
campaign focused on this problem.  In this second evaluation 19
research teams from around the world have participated in two tasks:
(i) clustering web pages to solve the ambiguity of search results, and
(ii) extracting 18 kinds of attribute values for target individuals
whose names appear on a set of web pages. Participants where provided
with task guidelines and development data, and later evaluated their
systems on a new testbed.


 - What will I find in the WePS Workshop ?

   The WePS-2 Workshop will feature an overview of the lessons learned
in this evaluation, talks from the participant teams, a poster session
and invited talks from academic and industry speakers.

Participation in the workshop is not restricted to WePS-2 teams.
WePS-2 is a workshop open for anybody who is interested in the WePS
research and its implications in the web search business.

More details on the workshop will be made available in
http://nlp.uned.es/weps/weps-2-workshop/

 - How do I register ?

   The WePS-2 is co-located with the WWW2009 conference as a full-day
workshop.
In order to register please go to https://gestion.gpdmc.com/www2009/ *

* Note that you only need a 1-day registration if are not planning to
attend to other WWW Conference events. You can check the registration
fees in the following address: http://www2009.org/conferences.html



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