Final Program Final_Version (in PDF format) Sunday July 25, 2004 09:00 - 17:00      Doctoral Consortium (Halifax Hall of Residence) 08.00 - 17.00       Registration (Arts Tower) 08.30 - 12.15       Tutorials (Arts Tower, Coffee break 10.00 - 10.30) XML Information Retrieval Ricardo Baeza-Yates, University of Chile Norbert Fuhr, University of Duisburg Essen Machine Learning for Text Classification Applications David Lewis, Independent consultant Multilingual Information Retrieval Fred Gey, UC Berkeley User Interfaces and Visualisation for Information Access Marti Hearst, UC Berkeley 12.15 - 13.15       Lunch  (Arts Tower) 13.15 - 17.00       Tutorials (Arts Tower, Coffee break 15.00 - 15.30) Internet search Jan Pedersen, Yahoo! Knut Magne Risvik, Yahoo! High Performance Indexing and Query Evaluation for Information Retrieval Justin Zobel, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology Bioinformatics and Genomics for Information Retrieval Bill Hersh, Oregon Health and Science University Text summarization Dragomir Radev, University of Michigan See http://sigir.org/sigir2004/tutorials.htm for more information about tutorials. 12.15 - 17.00       Coach Trip (Chatsworth House) 19.30 - 21.00       Reception (Millennium Galleries) Monday July 26, 2004 (Octagon Centre & Union of Students Auditorium) 07.30 - 09.00       Newcomer's Breakfast (University House) 08.00 - 18.00       Registration open (Octagon Centre) 09.00 - 10.30 Opening & Keynote Address (Octagon Centre) Challenges in Using Lifetime Personal Information Stores Gordon Bell, Microsoft Bay Area Research Center 10.30 - 11.00       Coffee Break (University House) 11.00 - 12.30       Session I: Opening session (Octagon Centre) Evaluating High Accuracy Retrieval Techniques Scaling IR-System Evaluation using Term Relevance Sets Temporal Profiles of Queries 12.30 - 14.00       Lunch (University House) 14.00 - 15.30       Session IIa: Test collections (Octagon Centre) Retrieval Evaluation with Incomplete Information Test collections with no system pooling Building an Information Retrieval Test Collection for Spontaneous Conversational Speech 14.00 - 15.30       Session IIb: Formal models - 1 (Union of Students Auditorium) A Formal Study of Information Retrieval Heuristics Probabilistic Model for Contextual Retrieval Discriminative Models for Information Retrieval 15.30 - 16.00       Coffee (University House) 16.00 - 17.30       Session IIIa: XML retrieval (Octagon Centre) The overlap problem in content-oriented XML retrieval evaluation Length Normalization in XML Retrieval Configurable Indexing and Ranking for XML Information Retrieval 16.00 - 17.30       Session IIIb: Dimensionality reduction (Union of Students Auditorium) Locality Preserving Indexing for Document Representation Polynomial Filtering in Latent Semantic Indexing for Information Retrieval On Scaling Latent Semantic Indexing for Large Peer-to-Peer Systems 18.00 - 21.00       Poster and Demo Session with buffet (Octagon Centre) See http://sigir.org/sigir2004/posters.htm for more information about posters. Tuesday, July 27, 2004 (Octagon Centre & Union of Students Auditorium) 08.00 - 18.00       Registration opens 08.30 - 10.00       Session IVa: Formal models - 2 (Octagon Centre) GaP: A Factor Model for Discrete Data Belief Revision for Adaptive Information Retrieval Tuning Before Feedback: Combining Ranking Discovery and Blind feedback for Robust Retrieval 08.30 - 10.00       Session IVb: Cross-language information retrieval (Union of Students Auditorium) Translating Unknown Queries with Web Corpora for Cross-Language Information Retrieval Resource Selection for Domain-Specific Cross-Lingual IR Using the Web for Automated Translation Extraction in Cross-Language Information Retrieval 10.00 - 10.30       Coffee Break (University House) 10.30 - 12.30       Session Va: Language models (Octagon Centre) Dependence Language Model for Information Retrieval Parsimonious Language Models for Information Retrieval Cluster-based retrieval using language models Corpus structure, language models, and ad-hoc information retrieval 10.30 - 12.30       Session Vb: Clustering (Union of Students Auditorium) Document Clustering by Concept Factorization Learning To Cluster Search Results Document Clustering via Adaptive Subspace Iteration Restrictive Clustering and Metaclustering for self-organizing Document Collections 12.30 - 14.00       Lunch (University House) 14.00 - 15.30       Session VIa: Text classification (Octagon Centre) Feature Selection using Linear Classifier Weights: Interaction with Classification Models Web-page Classification through Summarization Parameterized generation of labeled datasets for text categorization based on hierarchical directory 14.00 - 15.30       Session VIb: Disambiguation (Union of Students Auditorium) Information Retrieval using Word Sense: Root Sense Tagging Approach An Effective Approach to Document Retrieval via Utilizing WordNet and Recognizing Phrases Web-a-where: Geotagging Web Content 15.30 - 16.00       Coffee Break (University House) 16.00 - 17.30       Session VIIa: Recognising and using named entities (Octagon Centre) Focused Named Entity Recognition Using Machine Learning Learning Phonetic Similarity for Matching Named Entity Translations and Mining New Translations Text Classification and Named Entities for New Event Detection 16.00 - 17.30       Session VIIb: Efficiency and scaling (Union of Students Auditorium) Assigning Identifiers to Documents to Enhance the Clustering Property of Fulltext Indexes Filtering Algorithms for Information Retrieval Models with Named Attributes and Proximity Operators Hourly Analysis of a Very Large Topically Categorized Web Query Log 19.00 - 23.00 Banquet (Cutler's Hall) Wednesday, July 28, 2004 (Octagon Centre & Union of Students Auditorium)   08.30 - 17.30       Registration open 09.00 - 11.00       Session VIIIa: Content-based filtering & collaborative filtering (Octagon Centre) A Collaborative Filtering Algorithm and Evaluation Metric that Accurately Model the User Experience An Automatic Weighting Scheme for Collaborative Filtering Using Bayesian Priors to Combine Classifiers for Adaptive Filtering A Nonparametric Hierarchical Bayesian Framework for Information Filtering 09.00 - 11.00       Session VIIIb: Image retrieval, users and usability (Union of Students Auditorium) Automatic Image Annotation by Using Concept-Sensitive Salient Objects for Image Content Represent A Search Engine for Historical Manuscript Images Display Time as Implicit Feedback: Understanding Task Effects Human versus Machine in the Topic Distillation Task 11.00 - 11.30       Coffee Break (University House) 11.30 - 12.30       Keynote Address (Octagon Centre) Chemoinformatics: an Application Domain for Information Retrieval Techniques Professor Peter Willett, University of Sheffield 12.30 - 14.00      Lunch / ACM Business Meeting 14.00 - 15.30       Session IXa: Machine learning for IR (Octagon Centre) Learning Effective Ranking Functions for Newsgroup Search Language-specific Models in Multilingual Topic Tracking Web Taxonomy Integration through Co-Bootstrapping 14.00 - 15.30 Session IXb: Natural language processing (Union of Students Auditorium) Evaluation of an Extraction-based Approach to Answering Definitional Questions Query Based Event Extraction along a Timeline Sentence Completion 15.30 - 16.00       Coffee Break 16.00 - 17.30       Session X: Web structure (Octagon Centre) Block-Level Link Analysis Usefulness of Hyperlink Structure for Query-Biased Topic Distillation Block-based Web Search 17.30 - 17.40       Conference Close Thursday, July 29, 2004 (Arts Tower) 09.00 - 17.00       Workshops New Directions For IR Evaluation RIA and "Where can IR go from here?" Peer-to-Peer IR Information Retrieval in Context Search and Discovery in Bioinformatics Integration of Information Retrieval and Databases (IR + DB) XML and Information Retrieval Geographical IR Mathematical Formal Methods Semantic Web Information Retrieval For Question Answering See http://sigir.org/sigir2004/workshops.htm for more information about workshops. Home | About Sheffield | Important Dates | Call For Papers | Organisers | Travel | Contact Us