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IIIA-2006: International Workshop on Intelligent Information Access
July 6-8, 2006
Marina Congress Center, Helsinki, Finland. |
©City of Helsinki Picture Bank / Matti Tirri
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International Workshop on Intelligent Information Access (IIIA-2006)
| Co-Chairs | Wray Buntine, HIIT |
| Henry Tirri, Nokia Research Center | |
| Local Arrangements | Petri Myllymäki, University of Helsinki |
| Date | July 6-8, 2006 |
| Venue | Marina Congress Center, Helsinki, Finland |
Areas of interest: statistical methods, machine learning, probabilistic and information theoretic models, and other approaches to uncertainty and complexity in all areas of Information Access, including but not limited to:
- search and information retrieval,
- cross-language access
- question answering,
- peer to peer support,
- semantic annotation,
- information extraction,
- community and reputation analysis, and
- support tools for machine translation.
- personalisation
- multimedia aspects of information access
Invited speakers:
| Fernando Pereira | University of Pennsylvania | Structured Linear Models |
| Soumen Chakrabarti | IIT Bombay | Building blocks for semantic search engines: Ranking and compact indexing in entity-relation graphs |
| Doug Cutting | Nutch+Lucene | Nutch & Hadoop: Platforms for Search |
| Henry Tirri | Nokia | Searching Internet of Things | Loretta Anania | European Commission | Introduction to panel on Future Search Engines | Ralf Steinberger | European Commission | Cross-lingual Linking of News Clusters in Various Languages Avoiding the Usage of Bilingual Linguistic Resources |
Workshop format: The workshop will consist of two and a half days of talks, panels, informal breakout sessions, and a boat trip to local Helsinki islands. The number of workshop attendants is limited so you are advised to register early.
Dates:| Submission of abstracts or extended abstracts: | April 15th |
| Notification of invitation to attend the workshop: | May 15th |
| Deadline for hotel booking: | June 5th |
| Workshop dates: | July 6th-8th |
Arrangements: The workshop will be held at the Marina Congress Center in downtown Helsinki overlooking the harbour. A block of rooms has been reserved for workshop attendees until June 5. The special workshop rate of 80 euros/night for a single room includes a full breakfast buffet, and is available for those presenting an IIIA reservation code that will be emailed to registered participants (the workshop attendees are expected to arrange their accommodation directly with the Marina Congress Senter). See "Location" for more details.
The registration fee of 250 euros covers all meals during the workshop plus the boat cruise on Saturday. See "Registration" for more details.
Sponsors: Nokia, EU's 6th Framework Programme (Alvis Strep and PASCAL Network of Excellence), OpenSourceSearch, Finnish Funding Agency for Technology and Innovation (Tekes), and Helsinki Institute for Information Technology (HIIT). The workshop is part of PASCAL's 2006 Thematic Programme on Intelligent Information Access.
Further information: For enquiries concerning the workshop, please send email to .
