Information Retrieval/Search Technologies Seminar
2008
December 16, 2008
Organized by IBM Haifa
Research Lab
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09:00 Registration 09:15 Opening Remarks, Aya Soffer, Department Group Manager, Information and Interaction, IBM Haifa Research Lab 09:30 The Social Media Opportunity for Multimedia Search, Mor Naaman, Rutgers University (Presentation) 10:00 Automatic Personalization Using Implicit Social Graph Structure, Emil Ismalon, Collarity 10:30 Public vs. Private - Comparing Public Social Network Information with Email, Ido Guy, IBM Haifa Research Lab 11:00 Break 11:20 A Social Aspect of Person Name Disambiguation in the Web, Ron Bekkerman, HP Labs 11:50 Textual Entailment as a Framework for Semantic Information Access, Ido Dagan, Bar-Ilan university (Presentation) |
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How to Get a Good Answer Online?, Daphne Raban, School of Management and the Center for the Study of the Information Society, University of Haifa (Presentation) 13:00 Lunch 14:00 Keynote: The Future of Information Discovery: Designing to Support Social Media and Exploratory Search, Ben Shneiderman, University of Maryland (Presentation) 15:00 Break 15:15 Searching the Social Web - the Challenges of Socially-Connected Search, Ofer Egozi, Delver (Presentation) 15:45 Social Search and Discovery using a Unified Approach, Sivan Yogev/Nadav Har'El, IBM Haifa Research Lab (Presentation) 16:15 Concluding Remarks, David Carmel, IBM Haifa Research Lab 16:30 Poster and Demo Session, (Coffee + Ice Cream) |