IBM Research

ACM SIGIR 2005 Workshop

 


Call for Papers and Participation

Predicting Query Difficulty - Methods and Applications

Salvador - Bahia - Brazil
August 19, 2005
 http://www.haifa.il.ibm.com/sigir05-qp/

Program


09:00 - 09:15 Welcome
09:15 - 10:15 Keynote - NIST: Towards Query-Specific Customization of IR Systems,
Keynote Speaker - Donna Harman
10:15 - 10:45 Coffee break
10:45 - 12:30 First session - Prediction methods:
10:45 - 11:15 An Attempt to Identify Weakest and Strongest Queries,
K.L. Kwok
11:15 - 11:45 Linguistic features to predict query difficulty,
Josiane Mothe, Ludovic Tanguy
11:45 - 12:15 Automatic classification of queries by expected retrieval performance,
Grivolla, Jourlin, de Mori
12:15 - 12:30 Open discussion
12:30 - 13:30 Lunch
13:30 - 15:00 Second Session - Prediction applications:
13:30 - 14:00 Predicting Query Performance in Intranet Search,
Craig Macdonald, Ben He, Iadh Ounis
14:00 - 14:30 Predicting Performance for Gene Queries,
Aditya Sehgal and Padmini Srinivasan
14:30 - 15:00 Metasearch and Federation using Query Difficulty Prediction,
Elad YomTov, Shai Fine, David Carmel, Adam Darlow
15:00 - 15:30 Coffee break
15:30 - 16:30 Panel discussion - TBD