ECIR 2010 Industry Day
Thursday 1st April 2010
The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK
We are pleased to announce the European Conference on Information Retrieval
(ECIR) 2010 Industry Day. This event takes place the day after the main ECIR
programme and represents a unique opportunity to meet and share ideas with a
broad mix of experts from both industry and academia. We have a great list
of speakers who will present the latest challenges faced by practitioners in
both enterprise and web search. We are excited that this year we have some
talks on applications of semantic analysis which is considered to be a
rapidly maturing academic field, now ready for wider adoption in the
marketplace. The event should appeal to students, academics, researchers,
designers, and developers alike.
Programme
09:00 - 10:00 Registration (Berrill Building)
10:00 - 10:10 Welcome
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Session 1: Advancing Web Search
10:10 Ricardo Baeza-Yates (Yahoo! Research) "Mining the Web 2.0 to Improve
Search"
10:35 Dan Crow (Google) "Google Squared: web scale, open domain information
extraction and presentation"
11:00 Milad Shokouhi (Microsoft Research) "Relevance Challenges at Bing"
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11:25 - 11:55 Coffee break
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Session 2: Enterprise Search
11:55 Vegard Sandvold (Comperio) "Search User Experience - The Essentials of
Great Search Design"
12:20 David Hawking (Funnelback) "Getting value from the Search Master's
Toolbox"
12:45 Nick Patience (The 451 Group) "Enterprise Search: State of the Market
2010 & Beyond"
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13:10 - 14:10 Lunch
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Session 3: Domain-Specific Search
14:10 Rob Blackwell (Active Web Solutions) "Project Plaza - A new approach
to information management in the Construction Sector"
14:35 Sally Chambers (The European Library) "Rethinking the library
catalogue: making search work for the library user"
15:00 Francisco de Sousa Webber (Matrixware)
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15:25 - 16:00 Coffee break
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Session 4: Beyond Search: Question-Answering
16:00 Jon McLoone (Wolfram Alpha)"Wolfram|Alpha - the new computational
knowledge engine"
16:25 Simon Overell (True Knowledge) "Using AI to get Answers from the
Internet"
Panel Discussion
16:50 Panel Topic: "Leveraging semantics to enable better search experiences"
Dan Crow (Google), Gjergji Kasneci (Microsoft Research), Jon McLoone
(Wolfram Alpha), Simon Overell (True Knowledge). Panel moderator: Mike Taylor
This discussion will centre on the exciting subject of semantic analysis. We
will try to cover both technological and application orientated aspects of
this field. For example, some of the questions we will attempt to address
are as follows:
· How feasible is it to automatically infer useful semantic
information from the Web?
· How should we quantify trust and ambiguity in knowledge extracted
from the Web?
· Could semantic search ever replace keyword search?
· What is a good UI for semantic search?
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17:30 - 19:30 Drinks reception
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Registration
The registration fee includes lunch and a copy of the Industry Day
proceedings. Tea and coffee will also be available throughout the day
followed by a drinks reception. Please register via the ECIR 2010
Registration site. Fees: Students/BCS Member £95, Non-Member: £120.
Venue
Industry Day will be held at the same venue as the main conference (The Open
University). See http://kmi.open.ac.uk/events/ecir2010/ for further details.
Contact
If you have any enquiries about the event, please see
http://dces.essex.ac.uk/staff/udo/ecir2010/ or contact Udo Kruschwitz: udo
[at] essex.ac.uk
Industry Day Organisers
Tony Russell-Rose, Endeca
Udo Kruschwitz, University of Essex
Mike Taylor, Microsoft Research
ECIR Industry Day is organised by the Information Retrieval Specialist Group
of the BCS (British Computer Society).
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