Call For Participation: IBM Haifa Information Retrieval/Search Technologies Seminar 2007

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CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

Information Retrieval/Search Technologies Seminar 2007

June 27, 2007


Organized by IBM Research Lab in Haifa
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You are cordially invited to participate in a one-day Leadership Seminar
on  Information Retrieval and Search Technologies, to be held Wednesday,
June 27, 2007 at the IBM Haifa Research Lab (HRL), located on the University
of Haifa  campus in Haifa, Israel.

This full-day seminar provides a forum for the  research and development
communities from both academia and industry to share  their work, exchange
ideas, and discuss issues, problems, and work-in-progress,  as well as
future research directions and trends.

The seminar will take  place in the auditorium of the IBM Haifa Research Lab
from 09:20 to 17:15. Lunch  and light refreshments will be served.
Participation is free of charge.

The official language of the workshop is English.

Please confirm  your participation by June 24, 2007, via the seminar
website: http://www.haifa.il.ibm.com/Workshops/ir2007/registration.html

Tentative Agenda:

09:20 Opening Remarks,
Aya Soffer, Department Group Manager,  Information and User Technologies,
IBM Haifa Research Lab

09:30  Cluster Ranking,
Ziv Bar-Yossef, Google Inc.  (Haifa) and Faculty of Electrical Engineering,
Technion, Israel

10:00 Searching for Key Semantic Relations,
Noam Ziv, CEO,  Transformer Ltd., Israel

10:30 IR on  Semistructured Data: from XML Trees to Entity-Relation Graphs,
Gerhard  Weikum, Research Director, Max-Planck Institute for Informatics
(MPII),  Saarbruecken, Germany

11:10 Coffee Break

11:30 PageRank and Hubs and Authorities Without Hyperlinks:  Structural
Re-ranking of Search Results using Links Induced by Language  Models,
Oren Kurland , Faculty of Industrial Engineering, Technion, Israel

12:00 Incremental Caching for  Collection Selection Architectures,
Fabrizio Silvestri , Institute of  Information Science and Technologies,
National Research Council (ISTI-CNR),  Pisa, Italy

12:30 XML Fragments Extended with Database  Operators,
Benjamin Sznajder, IBM Haifa Research Lab

13:10  Lunch

14:10 Keynote: Algorithmic  Advertising,
Andrei Broder, Fellow and VP of Emerging Search  Technology, Yahoo!
Research, USA

15:00 (TBD)

15:30  Demo Session Preview

15:45 Extended Coffee Break and Demo Session

16:30 A Novel Approach for Speech  Information Retrieval,
Jonathan Mamou, IBM Haifa Research Lab

17:00 Concluding Remarks,
Oded Cohn, Director, IBM Haifa  Research Lab


Seminar Organizers:

Program - Ronny Lempel  rlempel-7z/[email protected]
Local Arrangements - Ephrat Elgarisi ephrate-7z/[email protected]

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