Conference Schedule

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Sunday, 22 July 2007

Conference Registration in Hotel Krasnapolsky (Sun 13:00-17:00)

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Monday, 23 July 2007

Tutorials take place at the University of Amsterdam, Building A.

Conference Registration at University of Amsterdam, Building A (Mon 8:00-17:30)

Tutorials Session 1 (Mon 8:30-12:15)

• 2A - Conducting Interactive IR User Studies
  Diane Kelly, room A1.02
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• 2B - Introduction to Web Retrieval
  Ricardo Baeza-Yates, Andrei Broder, and Prabhakar Raghavan, room AB.43 (room C)
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• 2C - Introduction to Text Mining
  David D. Lewis, room A4.06
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• 2D - The Probabilistic Relevance Model: BM25 and Beyond
  Hugo Zaragoza and Stephen Robertson, room A2.23 (room E)
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• 2E - Cross-Language Information Access
  Jianqiang Wang and Daqing He, room A1.08
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The morning programme has a coffee break at 10:00-10:30.

Lunch (Mon 12:15-13:15)

At the Agora, Roeterstraat 11, Amsterdam

Tutorials Session 2 (Mon 13:15-17:00)

• 2A - Conducting Interactive IR User Studies (part 2)
  Diane Kelly, room A1.02
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• 2F - Introduction to Web Advertising
  Ricardo Baeza-Yates, Andrei Broder, and Prabhakar Raghaven, room AB.43 (room C)
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• 2G - Supervised and Semi-Supervised Learning for IR
  Yi Zhang and Rong Jin, room A2.23 (room E)
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• 2H - XML Retrieval: Integrated IR-DB Challenges and Solutions
  Sihem Amer-Yahia, Ricardo Baeza-Yates, Mariano Consens, and Mounia Lalmas, room A1.08
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• 2K - Introduction to Recommender Systems
  Joseph A. Konstan, room 4.06
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The afternoon programme has a coffee break at 15:00-15:30.

Doctoral Consortium (Mon 9:00-17:00)

The SIGIR doctoral consortium takes place at the University of Amsterdam, Building E.

• See also Accepted Contributions.

Welcoming reception (Mon 18:00-19:00)

The mayor of Amsterdam invites the SIGIR attendees to a welcoming reception at the Foyer of the City Hall, Amstel 1, Amsterdam. The invitation can be found in your conference bag.
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Tuesday, 24 July 2007

The main conference is held at Hotel Krasnapolsky.

Conference Registration (8:00-12:00)

Newcomer's breakfast (Tue 7:30-8:45)

St. John's Rooms
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Opening (Tue 9:00)

Grand Ballroom

Keynote 1 (Tue 9:15-10:15)

Chair: Franciska de Jong, Grand Ballroom

• Strategy follows Technology
  Edwin van Huis (Netherlands Institute for Sound & Vision)
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Coffee break (Tue 10:15-11:00)

St. John's Rooms

Session 1: Personalization (Tue 11:00-12:30)

Chair: Susan Dumais, Grand Ballroom

• Personalized Query Expansion for the Web
  Paul - Alexandru Chirita, Claudiu Firan, Wolfgang Nejdl
• Using Query Contexts in Information Retrieval
  Jing Bai, Jian-Yun Nie, Hugue Bouchard, Guihong Cao
• Towards Task-based Personal Information Management Evaluations
  David Elsweiler, Ian Ruthven

Session 2: Routing and Filtering (Tue 11:00-12:30)

Chair: Sung-Hyon Myaeng, Amsterdam Room

• Utility-based Information Distillation Over Temporally Sequenced Documents
  Yiming Yang, Abhimanyu Lad, Ni Lao, Abhay Harpale, Bryan Kisiel, Monica Rogati, Jian Zhang, Jaime Carbonell, Peter Brusilovsky, Daqing He
• Effective Missing Data Prediction for Collaborative Filtering
  Hao Ma, Irwin King, Michael R. Lyu
• Efficient Bayesian Hierarchical User Modeling for Recommendation Systems
  Yi Zhang, Jonathan Koren

Session 3: Evaluation I (Tue 11:00-12:30)

Chair: Stephen Robertson, Foyer Room

• Robust Test Collections for Retrieval Evaluation
  Ben Carterette
• Reliable Information Retrieval Evaluation with Incomplete and Biased Judgements
  Stefan Buettcher, Charles Clarke, Peter Yeung, Ian Soboroff
• Alternatives to Bpref
  Tetsuya Sakai

Lunch (Tue 12:30-14:00)

At the Binnengasthuis/Atrium, Oudezijds Achterburgwal 237, Amsterdam

Session 4: Classification and Clustering (Tue 14:00-15:30)

Chair: Thomas Hofmann, Grand Ballroom

• An InterActive Algorithm For Asking And Incorporating Feature Feedback into Support Vector Machines
  Hema Raghavan, James Allan
• Learn from Web Search Logs to Organize Search Results
  Xuanhui Wang, ChengXiang Zhai
• Regularized Clustering for Documents
  Fei Wang, Changshui Zhang, Tao Li

Session 5: Image Retrieval (Tue 14:00-15:30)

Chair: Stefan Rueger, Amsterdam Room

• Towards Automatic Extraction of Event and Place Semantics from Flickr Tags
  Mor Naaman, Tye Rattenbury, Nathaniel Good
• Hierarchical Classification for Automatic Image Annotation
  Jianping Fan
• Laplacian Optimal Design for Image Retrieval
  Xiaofei He, Deng Cai

Session 6: Summaries (Tue 14:00-15:30)

Chair: Doug Oard, Foyer Room

• Fast Generation of Result Snippets in Web Search
  Andrew Turpin, Yohannes Tsegay, David Hawking, Hugh E. Williams
• The Influence of Caption Features on Clickthrough Patterns in Web Search
  Charles Clarke, Eugene Agichtein, Susan Dumais, Ryen White
• CollabSum: Exploiting Multiple Document Clustering for Collaborative Single Document Summarizations
  Xiaojun Wan

Coffee break (Tue 15:30-16:00)

St. John's Rooms

Session 7: Users and the Web (Tue 16:00-17:30)

Chair: Diane Kelly, Grand Ballroom

• Information Re-Retrieval: Repeat Queries in Yahoo's Logs
  Eytan Adar, Jaime Teevan, Rosie Jones, Michael Potts
• Studying the Use of Popular Destinations to Enhance Web Search Interaction
  Ryen White, Mikhail Bilenko, Silviu Cucerzan
• Neighborhood Restrictions in Geographic IR
  Steven Schockaert, Martine De Cock

Session 8: Managing Memory (Tue 16:00-17:30)

Chair: Alistair Moffat, Amsterdam Room

• Efficient Document Retrieval in Main Memory
  Trevor Strohman, Bruce Croft
• The Impact of Caching on Search Engines
  Aristides Gionis, Ricardo Baeza-Yates, Flavio Junqueira, Vanessa Murdock, Vassilis Plachouras, Fabrizio Silvestri
• Pruning Policies for Two-Tiered Inverted Index with Correctness Guarantee
  Alexandros Ntoulas, Junghoo-John Cho

Session 9: Topic Detection and Tracking (Tue 16:00-17:30)

Chair: James Allan, Foyer Room

• Topic Segmentation with Shared Topic Detection and Alignment of Multiple Documents
  Sun Bingjun, Prasenjit Mitra, Lee Giles, Hongyuan Zha, John Yen
• Analyzing Feature Trajectories for Event Detection
  QI HE, Kuiyu Chang, Ee-Peng Lim
• New Event Detection Based on Indexing-tree and Named Entity
  Kuo ZHANG, JuanZi LI, Gang WU

Poster & Demo session (Tue 17:45-21:00)

Wintertuin

• See Accepted Posters and Demonstrations.

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Wednesday, 25 July 2007

Session 10: Web IR I (Wed 09:00-10:30)

Chair: David Hawking, Grand Ballroom

• Multiple-Signal Duplicate Detection for Search Evaluation
  Howard Wong-Toi, Scott Huffman, April Lehman, Alexei Stolboushkin, Fan Yang, Hein Roehrig
• Robust Classification of Rare Queries Using Web Knowledge
  Evgeniy Gabrilovich, Andrei Broder, Marcus Fontoura, Amruta Joshi, Vanja Josifovski, Tong Zhang
• Random Walks on the Click Graph
  Nick Craswell, Martin Szummer

Session 11: Interaction (Wed 09:00-10:30)

Chair: Ian Ruthven, Amsterdam Room

• Supporting Multiple Information-Seeking Strategies in a Single System Framework
  Xiaojun Yuan, Nicholas Belkin
• Investigating the Querying and Browsing Behavior of Advanced Search Engine Users
  Ryen White, Dan Morris
• Term Feedback for Information Retrieval with Language Models
  Bin Tan, Atulya Velivelli, Hui Fang, ChengXiang Zhai

Session 12: Learning to Rank I (Wed 09:00-10:30)

Chair: Bruce Croft, Foyer Room

• A Support Vector Method for Optimizing Average Precision
  Yisong Yue, Thomas Finley, Filip Radlinski, Thorsten Joachims
• Ranking with Multiple Hyperplanes
  Tie-Yan Liu, Tao Qin, Wei Lai, Xu-Dong Zhang, De-Sheng Wang, Hang Li
• A Regression Framework for Learning Ranking Functions Using Relative Relevance Judgments
  Zhaohui Zheng, Hongyuan Zha, Keke Chen, Gordon Sun

Coffee break (Wed 10:30-11:00)

St. John's Rooms

Session 13: Formal Models (Wed 11:00-13:00)

Chair: Mounia Lalmas, Amsterdam Room

• An Exploration of Proximity Measures in Information Retrieval
  Tao Tao, ChengXiang Zhai
• Estimation and Use of Uncertainty in Pseudo-relevance Feedback
  Kevyn Collins-Thompson, Jamie Callan
• Latent Concept Expansion Using Markov Random Fields
  Donald Metzler, Bruce Croft
• A Study of Poisson Query Generation Model for Information Retrieval
  Qiaozhu Mei, Hui Fang, ChengXiang Zhai

Session 14: Question Answering (Wed 11:00-13:00)

Chair: Donna Harman, Foyer Room

• Deconstructing Nuggets: The Stability and Reliability of Complex Question Answering Evaluation
  Jimmy Lin, Pengyi Zhang
• Interesting Nuggets and Their Impact on Definitional Question Answering
  Kian-Wei Kor, Tat Seng Chua
• A Probabilistic Graphical Model for Joint Answer Ranking in Question Answering
  Jeongwoo Ko, Luo Si, Eric Nyberg
• Structured Retrieval for Question Answering
  Matthew Bilotti, Paul Ogilvie, Jamie Callan, Eric Nyberg

Session 15: Evaluation II (Wed 11:00-12:30)

Chair: Ian Soboroff, Grand Ballroom

• On the Robustness of Relevance Measures with Incomplete Judgments
  Ravi Kumar, Tanuja Bompada, Chi-Chao Chang, John Chen, Rajesh Shenoy
• Test Theory for Assessing IR Test Collections
  David Bodoff, Pu Li
• Strategic System Comparisons via Targeted Relevance Judgments
  Alistair Moffat, William Webber, Justin Zobel

Lunch (Wed 13:00-14:30)

At the Binnengasthuis/Atrium, Oudezijds Achterburgwal 237, Amsterdam

Session 16: Learning to Rank II (Wed 14:30-16:30)

Chair: Keith van Rijsbergen, Grand Ballroom

• FRank: A Ranking Method with Fidelity Loss
  Ming-Feng Tsai, Tie-Yan Liu, Tao Qin, Hsin-Hsi Chen, Wei-Ying Ma
• AdaRank: A Boosting Algorithm for Information Retrieval
  Jun Xu, Hang Li
• A Combined Component Approach for Finding Collection-Adapted Ranking Functions based on Genetic Programming
  Humberto Almeida, Marcos Goncalves, Marco Cristo, Pavel Calado
• Feature Selection for Ranking
  Tie-Yan Liu, Xiubo Geng, Tao Qin

Session 17: Spam Spam Spam (Wed 14:30-16:00)

Chair: Gord Cormack, Foyer Room

• Relaxed Online SVMs for Spam Filtering
  D. Sculley, Gabriel Wachman
• Know your Neighbors: Web Spam Detection using the Web Topology
  Aristides Gionis, Carlos Castillo, Debora Donato, Vanessa Murdock, Fabrizio Silvestri
• DiffusionRank: A Possible Penicillin for Web Spamming
  Haixuan Yang, Irwin King, Michael R. Lyu

Session 18: Music Retrieval (Wed 14:30-15:30)

Chair: Stephen Downie, Amsterdam Room

• Towards Musical Query-by-Semantic-Description using the CAL500 Data Set
  Douglas Turnbull, Luke Barrington, David Torres, Gert Lanckriet
• A Music Search Engine Built upon Audio-based and Web-based Similarity Measures
  Peter Knees, Tim Pohle, Markus Schedl, Gerhard Widmer

Session 19: Multi-Lingual IR (Wed 15:30-16:30)

Chair to be determined, Amsterdam Room

• Building Simulated Queries for Known-Item Topics
  Leif Azzopardi, Maarten de Rijke, Krisztian Balog
• Cross-Lingual Query Suggestion Using Query Logs of Different Languages
  Wei Gao, Cheng Niu, Jian-Yun Nie, Ming Zhou, Jian Hu, Kam-Fai Wong, Hsiao-Wuen Hon

Surprise (Wed 17:15-18:00)

Grand Ballroom

Banquet (Wed 19:00-23:00)

In the Grote Zaal of the Beurs van Berlage, Beursplein 1, Amsterdam.
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Thursday 26 July 2007

Keynote 2 (Thu 9:00-10:00)

Grand Ballroom

• ACM Athena award lecture
  A video of Karen Spärck Jones
  introduction by Donna Harman
  Karen Spärck Jones passed away on 4 April 2007.
  For more information, please see the keynote announcement, and the announcement of her death.

Coffee break (Thu 10:00-10:30)

St. John's Rooms

Session 20: Link Analysis (Thu 10:30-12:00)

Chair: Nick Craswell, Grand Ballroom

• HITS on the Web: How does it Compare?
  Marc Najork, Hugo Zaragoza, Michael Taylor
• HITS Hits TREC - Exploring IR Evaluation Results with Network Analysis
  Stephen Robertson, Stefano Mizzaro
• Combining Content and Link for Classification using Matrix Factorization
  Shenghuo Zhu, Kai Yu, Yun Chi, Yihong Gong

Session 21: Collection Representation in Distributed IR (Thu 10:30-12:00)

Chair: Jamie Callan, Amsterdam Room

• Federated Text Retrieval From Uncooperative Overlapped Collections
  Milad Shokouhi, Justin Zobel
• Evaluating Sampling Methods for Uncooperative Collections
  Paul Thomas, David Hawking
• Updating Collection Representations For Federated Search
  Milad Shokouhi, Mark Baillie, Leif Azzopardi

Session 22: Index Structures (Thu 10:30-12:00)

Chair: Chris Buckley, Foyer Room

• A Time Machine for Text Search
  Klaus Berberich, Srikanta Bedathur, Thomas Neumann, Gerhard Weikum
• Principles of Hash-based Text Retrieval
  Benno Stein
• Compressed Permuterm Index
  Paolo Ferragina, Rossano Venturini

Lunch break (Thu 12:00-14:00)

Wintertuin

With the ACM SIGIR Business Meeting (12:30-14:00) in the Grand Ballroom.

Session 23: Web IR II (Thu 14:00-15:30)

Chair: Ricardo Baeza-Yates, Grand Ballroom

• Query Performance Prediction in Web Search Environments
  Yun Zhou, Bruce Croft
• Broad Expertise Retrieval in Sparse Data Environments
  Leif Azzopardi, Krisztian Balog, Maarten de Rijke
• A Semantic Approach to Contextual Advertising
  Vanja Josifovski, Andrei Broder, Lance Riedel, Marcus Fontoura

Session 24: Evaluation III (Thu 14:00-15:30)

Chair: Jaana Kekäläinen, Amsterdam Room

• How Well does Result Relevance Predict Session Satisfaction?
  Scott Huffman, Michael Hochster
• A New Approach for Evaluating Query Expansion: Query-Document Term Mismatch
  Tonya Custis, Khalid Al-Kofahi
• Measuring the Spatial Correlation of Retrieval Functions for Zero-Judgment Performance Prediction
  Fernando Diaz

Session 25: Combination and Fusion (Thu 14:00-15:30)

Chair: Fabrizio Sebastiani, Foyer Room

• An Outranking Approach for Rank Aggregation in Information Retrieval
  Mohamed Farah, Daniel Vanderpooten
• Enhancing Relevance Scoring with Chronological Term Rank
  Adam Troy, Guo-Qiang Zhang
• ARSA: A Sentiment-Aware Model for Predicting Sales Performance Using Blogs
  Jimmy Huang, Yang Liu, Aijun An, Xiaohui Yu

Coffee break (Thu 15:30-16:00)

St. John's Rooms

Session 26: Spoken Document Retrieval (Thu 16:00-17:30)

Chair: Gareth Jones, Amsterdam Room

• Vocabulary Independent Spoken Term Detection
  Jonathan Mamou, Bhuvana Ramabhadran, Olivier Siohan
• Improving Text Classification for Oral History Archives with Temporal Domain Knowledge
  James Olsson, Douglas Oard
• Indexing Confusion Networks for Morph-based Spoken Document Retrieval
  Ville Turunen, Mikko Kurimo

Session 27: Domain Specific NLP (Thu 16:00-17:30)

Chair: Maarten de Rijke, Foyer Room

• Context Sensitive Stemming for Web Search
  Fuchun Peng, Nawaaz Ahmed, Xin Li, Yumao Lu
• Detecting Categorizing and Clustering Entity Mentions in Chinese Text
  Wenjie Li, Donglei Qian, Chunfa Yuan, Qin Lu
• Knowledge-intensive Conceptual Retrieval and Passage Extraction of Biomedical Literature
  Wei Zhou, Clement Yu, Neil Smalheiser, Vetle Torvik, Jie Hong

Session 28: Query Processing Strategies (Thu 16:00-17:30)

Chair: Jan Pedersen, Grand Ballroom

• Heavy-Tailed Distributions and Multi-Keyword Queries
  Arnd Konig, Surajit Chaudhuri, Liying Sui, Kenneth Church
• ESTER: Efficient Search on Text Entities and Relations
  Holger Bast, Alexandru Chitea, Fabian Suchanek, Ingmar Weber
• Web Text Retrieval with a P2P Query-Driven Index
  Gleb Skobeltsyn, Toan Luu, Ivana Podnar, Martin Rajman, Karl Aberer

Conference Closing (Thu 17:30-17:45)

Grand Ballroom

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Friday, 27 July 2007

Workshops take place at the University of Amsterdam, Building A.

Workshops (Fri 9:00-17:00)

• 3A - Learning to Rank for Information Retrieval
  Room AB.42 (room B)
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• 3B - Web Information Seeking and Interaction
  Room A4.04
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• 3C - Plagiarism Analysis, Authorship Identification, and Near-Duplicate Detection
  Room A3.03
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• 3D - Improving Web retrieval for non-English queries
  Room A3.04
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• 3E - Multimedia Information Retrieval
  Room A3.05
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• 3F - Large scale Distributed Systems for Information Retrieval
  Room A3.06
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• 3G - Information retrieval and applications of graphical models
  Room A1.08
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• 3H - Focused Retrieval (Question Answering, Passage Retrieval, Element Retrieval)
  Room A2.23 (room E)
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• 3K - Searching Spontaneous Conversational Speech
  Room A4.06
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Workshops have coffee breaks 10:30-11:00 and 15:30-16:00, and a lunch break 12:30-14:00.

Industry Event (Fri 9:00-19:00)

The SIGIR Industry Event takes place at Paviljoen het Oosten ().

• See also the Programme of the Industry Event.