Floor Plans of Conference Site
SATURDAY (19 July 2008)
REGISTRATION: 1400-1800 (Foyer, Level 3)
REGISTRATION: 0800-1830 (Foyer, Level 3)
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0830-1000 |
T1 |
T2 |
T3 |
T4 |
T5 |
Doctoral Consortium |
1000-1020 |
Morning Tea (Foyer) | |||||
1020-1215 |
T1 |
T2 |
T3 |
T4 |
T5 |
Doctoral Consortium |
1215-1330 |
Lunch |
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1330-1530 |
T1 |
T6 |
T7 |
T8 |
T9 |
Doctoral Consortium |
1530-1550 |
Afternoon Tea (Foyer) |
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1550-1715 |
T1 |
T6 |
T7 |
T8 |
T9 |
Doctoral Consortium |
1715-1900 |
Break |
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1900-2130 |
Welcome Reception |
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List of Tutorials and Organizers
T1: Supervised and Semi-Supervised Learning for IR (full day)
Yi Zhang and Rong Jin
T2: The Probabilistic Relevance Model: BM25 and Beyond
Hugo Zaragoza and Stephen Robertson
T3: From 'Ultra-Light' to Naturalistic IR Interaction: A Framework for Research on
Interactive IR in Context (half day)
Peter Ingwersen
T4: Web Mining for Search (half day)
Ricardo Baeza-Yates and Rosie Jones
T5: Content-based and Semantic Image/Video Retrieval (half day)
Winston Hsu and Rong Yan
T6: Indian Language Information Retrieval: Dealing with Indian Language Issues (half day)
Mandar Mitra, Prasenjit Majumder, and Sobha L
T7: Learning to Rank for Information Retrieval (half day)
Tie-Yan Liu
T8: Real World Text Mining (half day)
Ronen Feldman
T9: Online Advertising: Business Models, Technologies and Issues
James Shanahan and Ayman Farahat
DAY 1: PAPER SESSIONS
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0700-0815 |
New Comers’ Breakfast |
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0830-1000 |
Opening Plenary and Keynote 1: |
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1000-1100 |
Morning Tea (Foyer) |
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1100-1230 |
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1230-1400 |
Lunch |
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1400-1530 |
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1530-1600 |
Afternoon Tea (Foyer) |
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1600-1730 |
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1730-1830 |
Break |
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1830-2130 |
Poster and Demonstrations Reception (Grand Ballroom I + Foyer) |
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DAY 2: PAPER SESSIONS
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0900-1000 |
Plenary and Keynote 2: |
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1000-1030 |
Morning Tea (Foyer) |
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1030-1230 |
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1230-1400 |
Lunch |
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1400-1530 |
Technical Demonstration |
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1530-1600 |
Afternoon Tea (Foyer) |
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1600-1730 |
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1730-1830 |
Travel to Sentosa Island |
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1830-2200 |
Conference Banquet (Siloso Beach, Rasa Sentosa Hotel) |
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DAY 3: PAPER SESSIONS
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0900-1030 |
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1030-1100 |
Morning Tea (Foyer) |
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1100-1230 |
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1230-1430 |
Lunch with ACM SIGIR Business Meeting |
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1430-1630 |
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1630-1645 |
Afternoon Tea (Foyer) |
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1645-1730 |
Closing Ceremony |
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WORKSHOPS
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0830-1000 |
W1 |
W2 |
W3 |
W4 |
W5 |
W6 |
W7 |
W9 |
W10 |
1000-1030 |
Morning Tea (Foyer) |
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1030-1230 |
W1 |
W2 |
W3 |
W4 |
W5 |
W6 |
W7 |
W9 |
W10 |
1230-1330 |
Lunch |
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1330-1530 |
W1 |
W2 |
W3 |
W4 |
W5 |
W6 |
W7 |
W9 |
W10 |
1530-1600 |
Afternoon Tea (Foyer) |
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1600-1800 |
W1 |
W2 |
W3 |
W4 |
W5 |
W6 |
W7 |
W9 |
W10 |
List of Workshops and Organizers:
W1: Focused Retrieval: Question Answering, Passage Retrieval, Element Retrieval
Andrew Trotman, University of Otago, andrew@cs.otago.ac.nz
Shlomo Geva, Queensland University of Technology, s.geva@qut.edu.au
Jaap Kamps, University of Amsterdam, kamps@science.uva.nl
W2: Learning to Rank for Information Retrieval
Hang Li, Microsoft Research Asia, hangli@microsoft.com
Tie-Yan Liu, Microsoft Research Asia, Tie-Yan.Liu@microsoft.com
ChengXiang Zhai, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, czhai@cs.uiuc.edu
W3: Searching Spontaneous Conversational Speech
Joachim Kohler, Fraunhofer IAIS, joachim.koehler@iais.fraunhofer.de
Martha Larson, University of Amsterdam, larson@science.uva.nl
Franciska de Jong, University of Twente, f.m.g.dejong@ewi.utwente.nl
Roeland Ordelman, University of Twente, ordelman@ewi.utwente.nl
Wessel Kraaij, TNO ICT, wessel.kraaij@tno.nl
W4: Analytics for Noisy Unstructured Text Data
Daniel Lopresti, Lehigh University, lopresti@cse.lehigh.edu
Shourya Roy, IBM India Research Lab, rshourya@in.ibm.com
Klaus Schulz, University of Munich, schulz@cis.uni-muenchen.de
L. Venkata Subramaniam, IBM India Research Lab, lvsubram@in.ibm.com
W5: Future Challenges in Expertise Retrieval
Krisztian Balog, University of Amsterdam, kbalog@science.uva.nl
Yong Yu, Apex Knowledge & Data Management Lab, yyu@cs.sjtu.edu.cn
W6: Aggregated Search
Mounia Lalmas, Queen Mary, University of London, mounia@dcs.qmul.ac.uk
Vanessa Murdock, Yahoo! Research – Barcelona, vmurdock@yahoo-inc.com
W7: Beyond Binary Relevance: Preferences, Diversity, and Set-Level Judgments
Paul N. Bennett, Microsoft Research, Paul.N.Bennett@microsoft.com
Ben Carterette, University of Massachusetts Amherst, carteret@cs.umass.edu
Olivier Chapelle, Yahoo! Research, chap@yahoo-inc.com
Thorsten Joachims, Cornell University, tj@cs.cornell.edu
W8: Teaching and Learning of Information Retrieval
As of 20 May 2008, this workshop has been cancelled. All prior registrants who have selected this workshop will be notified by the SIGIR secretariat and an alternative workshop or refund will be
issued.
W9: Mobile Information Retrieval
Kap Luk Chan, Nanyang Technological University, eklchan@ntu.edu.sg
Xing Xie, Microsoft Research Asia, xingx@microsoft.com
Wang-Chien Lee, Penn State University, wlee@cse.psu.edu
Minoru Etoh, NTT DoCoMo, etoh@ieee.org
Flora S. Tsai, Nanyang Technological University, efstsai@ntu.edu.sg
W10: Information Retrieval in Advertising
Ewa Dominowska, Microsoft, ewad@windows.microsoft.com
Eugene Agichtein, Emory University, eugene@mathcs.emory.edu
James Shanahan, Independent Consultant, james.shanahan@gmail.com
Evgeniy Gabrilovich, Yahoo! Research, gabr@yahoo-inc.com