PASCAL

Schedule

09:00 - 09:20 Welcome
09:20 - 10:10 Invited Talk: Thomas Hofmann
10:10 - 10:30 A Web-based Kernel Function for matching Short Text Snippets
Mehran Sahami, Tim Heilman
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 - 11:20 A Semantic Kernel to classify texts with very few training examples
Roberto Basili, Marco Cammisa and Alessandro Moschitti
11:20 - 11:40 Learning Word-to-Concept Mappings for Automatic Text Classification
Georgiana Ifrim, Gerhard Weikum
11:40 - 12:00 Topic-Specific Scoring of Documents for Relevant Retrieval
Wray Buntine, Jaakko Löfström, Sampi Perttu and Kimmo Valtonen
12:00 - 12:30 Open Discussion
12:30 - 14:30 Lunch Break
14:30 - 15:20 Invited Talk: Thorsten Joachims
15:20 - 15:40Unsupervised Concept Tagging for Knowledge Markup
Paul Buitelaar, Srikanth Ramaka
15:40 - 16:00 Evaluating the Robustness of Learning from Implicit Feedback
Filip Radlinski, Thorsten Joachims
16:00 - 16:30Coffee Break
16:30 - 17:20 Invited Talk: Soumen Chakrabarti
17:20 - 17:40 Pipelets: A Framework for Distributed Computation
17:40 - 18:00 Sailing the Web with Captain Nemo: a Personalized Metasearch Engine
Stefanos Souldatos, Theodore Dalamagas, Timos Sellis