IIIA-2006 Programme

All talks will be held in the Nautica Hall, except the panel which will be held in the Press Room.


THURSDAY July 6th 2006
9.00-9.15
 Opening remarks
9.15-10.15
 Invited talk: Doug Cutting: Experiences with the Nutch search engine
10.15-10.40
 Ville H. Tuulos, Antti Tuominen: Some Key Challenges in Web Crawlers and Content-Based Search Engines
10.40-11.05
 Antti Tuominen, Ville H. Tuulos: BulkFS: a Distributed Fault-Tolerant File System for Massive Data Applications
11.05-11.30
 COFFEE BREAK
11.30-12.30
 Invited talk: Henry Tirri: Searching Internet of Things
12.30-12.55
 Pavel Serdyukov: Dealing with Heterogeneity in Profiles for Personalized Information Retrieval
12.55-13.20
 Vasudeva Varma, N. Sriharsha, Prasad Pingali, Murali Krishna Punaganti Venkata: Personalized Web Search Engine for Mobile Devices
13.20-14.35
 LUNCH BREAK
14.35-15.35
 Invited talk: Soumen Chakrabarti: Building blocks for semantic search engines: Ranking and compact indexing in entity-relation graphs
15.35-16.00
 Gilad Mishne: Information Access Challenges in the Blogspace
16.00-16.25
 Adeline Nazarenko, Claire Nédellec, Erick Alphonse, Sophie Aubin, Thierry Hamon, Alain-Pierre Manine: Semantic Annotation in the Alvis Project
16.25-16.50
 COFFEE BREAK
16.50-17.15
 Frank Van Kesteren, Wessel Kraaij: Measuring the Quality of Multi-document Cluster Headlines
17.15-17.40
 Blaz Fortuna, Marko Grobelnik, Dunja Mladenic: Learning Word Weighting Schema
Talk moved to Friday morning!
17.40-18.05
 Krisztian Balog, Maarten de Rijke: Searching for People in the Personal Work Space
18.05-19.00
 BREAK
19.00-21.00
 Welcoming reception in the Makasiini Restaurant (inside the Marina Hotel)
 
 

FRIDAY July 7th 2006

09.30-10.00
 Blaz Fortuna, Marko Grobelnik, Dunja Mladenic: Learning Word Weighting Schema
10.00-10.25
 Kai Puolamäki, Jarkko Salojärvi, Eerika Savia, Jaana Simola, Samuel Kaski: Proactive Information Retrieval by User Modeling from Eye Tracking
10.25-10.50
 C.D. Spyropoulos, G. Paliouras, V. Karkaletsis, D. Kosmopoulos, I. Pratikakis, S. Perantonis, B. Gatos: BOEMIE: Bootstrapping Ontology Evolution with Multimedia Information Extraction
10.50-11.15
 COFFEE BREAK
11.15-11.40
 Andreas Hotho, Robert Jäschke, Christoph Schmitz, Gerd Stumme: Ranking in Folksonomies
11.40-12.05
 Eszter P. Windhager, Libertad Tansini, Istvan Biro, Devdatt Dubhashi: Iterative Algorithms for Collaborative Filtering with Mixture Models
12.05-12.30
 Sylvain Gelly, Stéphane Lallich, Elie Prudhomme, Olivier Teytaud: Quasi-Random Resamplings, with Applications to Rule Extraction, Cross-Validation and (Su-)Bagging
12.30-14.00
 LUNCH BREAK
14.00-15.00
 Invited talk: Fernando Pereira: Structured Linear Models
15.00-15.25
 Roman Yangarber: Verification of Facts across Document Boundaries
15.25-15.50
 Shuhua Liu, Johnny Lindroos: Automated Text Summarization using MEAD: Experience with the IMF Staff Reports
15.50-16.10
 COFFEE BREAK
16.10-16.35
 Qiang Zhou, Yabin Zheng: Integrate Text Clustering Features in Text Categorization System
16.35-17.00
 Anastasia Krithara, Cyril Goutte, Massih Amini, Jean-Michel Renders: Active, Semi-Supervised Learning for Textual Information Access
17.00-17.15
 BREAK
17.15-18.15
 Invited panel chaired by Loretta Anania: Future Search Engines (The panel will be held in the Press Room.)
18.15-19.00
 BREAK
19.00-22.00
 Banquet in Restaurant Kappeli (no. 16 on the Helsinki Your Way map).
 
 

SATURDAY July 8th 2006

09.00-10.00
 Invited talk: Ralf Steinberger, Bruno Pouliquen, Camelia Ignat, Ken Blackler, Olivier Deguernel: Cross-lingual Linking of News Clusters in Various Languages Avoiding the Usage of Bilingual Linguistic Resources
10.00-10.25
 Prasad Pingali, Jagadeesh Jagarlamudi, Vasudeva Varma: Telugu - English Dictionary Based Cross Language Query Focused Multi-Document Summarization
10.25-10.50
 Nicola Cancedda: Research Directions in SMART
10.50-11.15
 COFFEE BREAK
11.15-11.40
 Juho Rousu: On Max-Margin Markov Networks in Hierarchical Document Classification
11.40-12.05
 Stephan Bloehdorn, Sebastian Blohm: A Self-Organizing Map for Relation Extraction from Wikipedia using Structured Data Representations
12.05-12.30
 Wray Buntine, Kimmo Valtonen: Topic Models in ALVIS
12.30-13.00
 BREAK
13.00-16.00
 Cruise (+ lunch on board). The boat "m/s Victoria" departs from the Linnanlaituri quay at the Market Square (next to no. 12 on the Helsinki Your Way map).