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Transcript of ESSIR 2007 Glasgow
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