Doctoral Consortium Schedule

Attendance at the Doctoral Consortium is by invitation only. The DC will take place on July 21..

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        <td colspan="7">Sunday, July 21</td>
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        <td>09:00 - 09:10</td>
        
        
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        <b>
        Mentor Introductions
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        <td>09:10 - 10:30</td>
        
        
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        Paper session 1 (4 talks 20 mins each)
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        <li align="left">Marco Wrzalik - Document Distance Metric Learning in an Interactive Exploration Process</li>
        
        <li align="left">Alfan Farizki Wicaksono - Measuring Job Search Effectiveness</li>
        
        <li align="left">Binsheng Liu - From Query Variations To Learned Relevance Modelling</li>
        
        <li align="left">Rashmi Sankepally -  Event Information Retrieval from Text</li>
        
        </ul>
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        <td>10:30 - 11:00</td>
        
        
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        <b>
        Coffee Break
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        <td>11:00 - 12:00</td>
        
        
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        <b>
        Paper session 2 (3 talks 20 mins each)
        </b><ul>
        
        <li align="left">Gregory Goren - Ranking Robustness in Adversarial Retrieval Settings</li>
        
        <li align="left">Benyou Wang - Dynamic Content Monitoring and Exploration using Vector Spaces</li>
        
        <li align="left">Jiqun Liu - Characterizing the Stages of Complex Tasks</li>
        
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        <td>12:00 - 12:30</td>
        
        
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        <b>
        Student-Mentor 1-1 Session 1 / Panel (30 mins)
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        <li align="left">Marco Wrzalik - Douglas Oard and Fiana Raiber</li>
        
        <li align="left">Alfan Farizki Wicaksono - Diane Kelly and Ben Carterette</li>
        
        <li align="left">Binsheng Liu - Yiqun Liu and Andrew Trotman</li>
        
        <li align="left">Rashmi Sankepally - Ian Soboroff and Hannah Bast</li>
        
        <li align="left">Gregory Goren - Hui Fang and Gordon Cormack</li>
        
        <li align="left">Benyou Wang - Ji-Rong Wen and Jaap Kamps</li>
        
        <li align="left">Jiqun Liu - Gareth Jones and Noriko Kando</li>
        
        </ul>
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        <td>12:30 - 13:30</td>
        
        
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        <b>
        Lunch
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        </ul>
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        <td>13:30 - 13:40</td>
        
        
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        <b>
        Student feedback from 1-1 sessions
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        <td>13:40 - 15:00</td>
        
        
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        <b>
        Paper session 3 (4 talks 20 mins each)
        </b><ul>
        
        <li align="left">Qiuchi Li - Multimodal Data Fusion with Quantum Inspiration</li>
        
        <li align="left">Rodger Benham - Evaluating Risk-Sensitive Text Retrieval</li>
        
        <li align="left">Souvick Ghosh - Informing the Design of Conversational IR Systems - Framework and Result Presentation</li>
        
        <li align="left">Markus Zlabinger - Efficient and Effective Text-Annotation through Active Learning</li>
        
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        <td>15:00 - 15:30</td>
        
        
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        <b>
        Coffee Break
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        </ul>
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        <td>15:30 - 16:30</td>
        
        
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        Paper session 4 (3 talks 20 mins each)
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        <li align="left">Priya Deshpande - Biomedical Heterogeneous Data Integration and Rank Retrieval using Data Bridges</li>
        
        <li align="left">Hernan Sarmiento - A Domain-Independent and Multilingual Approach for Crisis Event Detection and Understanding</li>
        
        <li align="left">Hawre Hosseini - Implicit Entity Recognition</li>
        
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        <td>16:30 - 17:00</td>
        
        
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        <b>
        Student-Mentor 1-1 Session 2 / Panel (30 mins)
        </b><ul>
        
        <li align="left">Qiuchi Li - Ji-Rong Wen and Ben Carterette</li>
        
        <li align="left">Rodger Benham - Andrew Trotman and Fiana Raiber</li>
        
        <li align="left">Souvick Ghosh - Diane Kelly and Noriko Kando</li>
        
        <li align="left">Markus Zlabinger - Gordon Cormack and Hannah Bast</li>
        
        <li align="left">Priya Deshpande - Jaap Kamps and Yiqun Liu</li>
        
        <li align="left">Hernan Sarmiento - Gareth Jones and Ian Soboroff</li>
        
        <li align="left">Hawre Hosseini - Douglas Oard and Hui Fang</li>
        
        </ul>
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        <td>17:00 - 17:10</td>
        
        
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        <b>
        Student feedback from 1-1 sessions
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        </ul>
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        <td>17:10 - 17:15</td>
        
        
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        <b>
        Close
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If you have any questions about DC, you can contact the chairs:

University of Waterloo
Canada
Microsoft
UK