essir 2007 glasgow
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European Summer School in Information Retrieval 27—31 August 2007, Glasgow, Scotland. ESSIR 2007 Glasgow. http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/essir2007/. Presented at KEG seminar on September 13th 2007. Jan Nemrava, KIZI VŠE nemrava @vse.cz. IR Group at GU. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
ESSIR 2007 Glasgow
Presented at KEG seminar
on September 13th 2007Jan Nemrava, KIZI VŠE
European Summer School
in Information Retrieval
27—31 August 2007, Glasgow, Scotland
http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/essir2007/
IR Group at GU
• Lead by Professor C.J. 'Keith' van Rijsbergen• Dr Joemon Jose in charge of K-Space• Cca 20 students and researches • 3? Working on K-Space• Research areas from Theoretical models for IR Quantum
Logics to Relance Feedback
• Reede Ren• Frank Hopfgartner• Nicholas J Gildea
ESSIR in numbers
• ESSIR 2007 was the 6th summer school of the series
• 214 delegates (twice as many as in 2005) from over 30 countries
• 25 lecturers• 15 lectures• 2 talks from industry• 1 panel session on what makes a good IR PhD
Lectures overview
• Introduction to Information Retrieval (by Keith van Rijsbergen)
• Evaluation in IR & TREC (by Stephen Robertson) • Structure/XML Retrieval (by Mounia Lalmas) • Information Retrieval and Context (by Ian Ruthven) • Question Answering, Information Extraction & NLP (by
Maarten de Rijke) • Multimedia Information Retrieval (by Alan Smeaton) • Web Usage and Data Mining (by Bettina Berendt) • Web Information Retrieval (by David Hawking)
Providing Effective Web searcha “Google-y” Perspective
• Trystan Upstill
• “We’re about 5% done” – Larry Page
• Historical context for Web search
• IR for Web search
• How to make your own Web search engine
• The next generation of Web search engines
Information Retrieval & Business
• Theo Huibers
• Web 1.0 information network• Web 2.0 information social network• Web 3.0 information intelligent network• Finding information will become refined to domain
specific,context-limited, user-experience-friendly, meaningaware, document synthesis retrieval.
• IR from business point of view
Information Retrieval and Context
• Ian Ruthven
• why context is important
• views of context and contextual searching
• examples of contextual systems evaluation in (of) context
Panel Discussion
• What makes a good IR PhD? (by Maristella Agosti, Fidel Cacheda, Yves Chiaramella, Theo Huibers, Vassilis Plachouras, Alan Smeaton and Keith van Rijsbergen )
• Duration of PhD studies in various countries• Internships in industry• Relation with an adviser
Social Events
• Reception at the Hunterian Museum sponsored by Google
• Football Game: Lecturers/organisers vs participants.
• Social Dinner: The Trades Hall, Glasgow city Centre
• And many others :)
Hunterian Museum
Football game
The Trades Hall
ACL Prague
• held in Prague, Czech Republic, June 23rd–30th 2007
• Tutorial: From Web Content Mining to Natural Language Processing by Bing Liu
• http://ufal.mff.cuni.cz/acl2007/tutorials/index.php/t4/ • Mining data from heterogeneous sources, using NLP for better IE.
• Automatic Acquisition of Ranked Qualia Structures from the Web• Philipp Cimiano
• Quale (plural Qualia) - “vnímaná vlastnost braná jako nezávislá na svém původu” - the ways things seem to us