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ESSIR 2007 Glasgow Presented at KEG seminar on September 13th Jan Nemrava, KIZI VŠE [email protected] European Summer School in Information Retrieval 27—31 August 2007, Glasgow, Scotland ttp://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/essir2007/

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ESSIR 2007 Glasgow

Presented at KEG seminar

on September 13th 2007Jan Nemrava, KIZI VŠE

[email protected]

European Summer School

in Information Retrieval

27—31 August 2007, Glasgow, Scotland

http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/essir2007/

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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

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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

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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)

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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

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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

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Information Retrieval and Context

• Ian Ruthven

• why context is important

• views of context and contextual searching

• examples of contextual systems evaluation in (of) context

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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

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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 :)

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Hunterian Museum

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Football game

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The Trades Hall

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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