SIGIR Industry Event

The SIGIR Industry Event takes place at the Paviljoen ().

Participation to the Industry Event is on invitation only.

9.00 - 9.10

Opening

Enterprise Search

9.10 - 9.30

Information Sensemaking in a Business Scenario
Omar Alonso (SAP)

9.30 - 9.50

Search, Analytics and Discovery
Aya Soffer (IBM)

9.50 - 10.10

Legal Discovery and Litigation Support
TBA (Orcatec LLC)

10.10 - 10.30

Break

Consumer Search

10.30 - 10.50

TBA
William Chang (Baidu)

10.50 - 11.10

Google Search: Helping Users Find What They Want, Millions of Times a Day
Maureen Heymans (Google)

11.10 - 11.30

Multimedia Search Relevance
Hugh Williams (Microsoft)

11.30 - 11.50

Break

Consumer Search (continued)

11.50 - 12.10

Yahoo! Answers: Applications of machine learning in social search
Byron Dom (Yahoo!)

Vertical Search

12.10 - 12.30

The Integration of Web-based Content within Scopus
Craig Scott (Scirus)

12.30 - 12.50

Evaluating the Search Applications of Industry and Public Websites
Thomas Mandl (CH consortium)

12.50 - 14.00

Lunch

Novel Search Applications

14.00 - 14.20

Information Access and the User Experience
Daniel Tunkelang (Endeca)

14.20 - 14.40

Result Relevancy beyond Linguistics in E-Commerce Search
Ronny Roeller (Fredhopper)

14.40 - 15.00

State of the Art in Mobile Search
Jochen Leidner (Linguit Ltd.)

15.00 - 15.20

Break

Practitioner's Panel

15.20 - 16.10

Panel with:
Niels Lucas Luijcx (TNO Quality of Life)
Marian Hellema (Royal Dutch National Library, KB)
Ron Boelsma (Royal Dutch National Police, KLPD)
Hank van de Loo (RTL Group)

16.10 - 16.30

Break

Language Technology

16.30 - 16.50

Linguistic analysis applied in practical cases
Dr. Edward W. Vergragt (Collexis)

16.50 - 17.10

The relevance of Natural Language {website|internet|enterprise} Search
Marcel Smit (Q-go)

17.10 - 17.30

Knowledge Poor Information Extraction in Action
Jakub Zavrel (Textkernel)

17.30 - 19.00

Reception