ECIR 2008 Industry Day Call For Participation, ECIR Early bird registration: 29/02/2008

Call For Participation

ECIR 2008 Industry Day

30th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2008)
April 3rd, 2008 Glasgow, Scotland, UK
http://ecir2008.dcs.gla.ac.uk/

The Industry Day held on the last day of ECIR 2008 is a special one-day
event devoted to the interests and needs of information retrieval
practitioners. This event explores the challenges involved in designing
and developing practical solutions for information search and retrieval,
and aims to build bridges between IR specialists in industry and
academia. This forum presents an opportunity for commercial
organisations to share their work with a wider audience, and for
researchers to learn more about the issues faced by search professionals
in developing innovative search and retrieval products and services.

This year's industry day is the successor of previous successful
editions of the BCS IRSG industry day held in London: ID 2006 and Search
Solutions 2007. The ECIR 2008 Industry Day event follows a similar
format, where a number of invited speakers involved in developing search
solutions for leading companies present their latest developments and
share opinions and expertise.

Programme

Final programme schedule is being finalised, but will include:

* Mihai Stroe, Google. Innovation in search.
* Hugo Zaragoza, Yahoo! Research. Trying to Find Answers to Complex
Questions.
* Daniel Tunkelang, Chief Scientist, Endeca. Guided Summarization.
* Richard Boulton, Lemur Consulting Ltd. Supporting enterprise search
with open source tools.
* Iain Drummond, Memex Technology Limited. How to get from "is that
them?" to "who is that?".
* Theo Huibers, Thaesis / University of Twente. The perfect storm - IR
and Business.
* Friso Visser, Netherlands Public Library Association. Great
Expectations or Mass Extinction? - Public Libraries in an informed society.
* Hugh Williams, Microsoft Research. Title tbc
* Antonio Linari, Expert System. How Semantics Changes Information
Retrieval.
* Francesco Webber, CEO, Matrixware. The Information Retrieval Facility
and its Role in Professional Information Research.
* Antonio Valderrábanos, Bitext. What can Language Technologies do for
Information Retrieval?
* Jeffery Dalton, GlobalSpec. The Challenge of Engineering Vertical Search.


More details on the Industry Day are available from
http://ecir2008.dcs.gla.ac.uk/industry.html

Registration for ECIR2008 Industry Day is open. Early registration rates
apply until February 29, 2008. More details on registrations are
available from http://ecir2008.dcs.gla.ac.uk/registration.html