[Corpora-List] Call for Participation: SIKS/Yahoo Seminar on Searching and Ranking in Structured Text Repositories

[Djoerd Hiemstra]

                        SIKS/Yahoo Seminar on
         Searching and Ranking in Structured Text Repositories

             http://www.cs.utwente.nl/~hiemstra/ssr2008/

                           June 27th, 2008
                         University of Twente
                       Enschede, The Netherlands

The goal of the one day workshop is to bring together researchers
from companies and academia working in the area of computer science
and applied mathematics on ranking and searching in highly dynamic,
structured text environments.

Keynote speakers:

  * Prof.dr. Ricardo Baeza-Yates (Yahoo! Research, Barcelona, Spain)
  * Dr. Debora Donato (Yahoo! Research, Barcelona, Spain)

Program:

  9:30  Coffee and Welcome
 10:00  Efficient graph-based context-sensitive search
        by Debora Donato, Yahoo! Research Barcelona
 11:00  Evaluating statistical dependencies and rank correlations in
        power law graphs
        by Yana Volkovich, University of Twente
 11:30  Guest speaker to be announced
 12:15  Lunch
 13:00  The search for expertise: to the documents and beyond
        Pavel Serdyukov, University of Twente
 13:30  Towards a Distributed Search Engine
        Ricardo Baeza-Yates, Yahoo! Research Barcelona
 14:30  Break
 14:45  From Document to Entity Retrieval: Improving Precision and
        Performance of Focussed Text Search
        PhD defense of Henning Rode

The seminar is sponsored by:

 WGI:   Werkgemeenschap Informatiewetenschap
        http://www.informatiewetenschap.org/
 CTIT:  Centre for Telematics and Information Technology
        http://www.ctit.utwente.nl/
 NWO:   Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research
        http://www.nwo.nl/
 SIKS:  Netherlands research School for Information and Knowledge
        Systems http://www.siks.nl/
 Yahoo:	Yahoo! Research
        http://research.yahoo.com/

Organizers:

    * Djoerd Hiemstra, University of Twente
    * Nelly Litvak, University of Twente

Registration:

Please send your name and affiliation to ssr at lists.utwente.nl if you
plan to participate in the seminar, and help us estimate the required
catering.



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