Day 1

• 9:00­-9:15 – Welcome
• 9:15-­10:45 – project presentations (3)
  • Dian Tjondronegoro: Cross-Modal Web Searching using XML-based Data Mining
  • Peter Bailey: TREC Enterprise 2007 — task modelling, CERC collection creation, and system building
  • Alexandra L. Uitdenbogerd: Next Generation Music Search
• 10:45-­11:15 – break
• 11:15-­12:45 – project presentations (3)
  • Diego Molla-Aliod: AnswerFinder - question answering and related tasks
  • Hong Liang Qiao, Yidong Yuan, Tony Pham: Towards Lexxe Beta Version
  • David Martinez: ILIAD (Improved Linux Information Access by Data Mining)
• 12:45-­14:00 – lunch break
• 14:00-­15:30 – project presentations (3)
  • Jon Patrick: Information Extraction from Clinical Notes
  • Enrico Coiera, Annie Lau, Farah Magrabi: Knowledge based approaches to improving clinical search behaviours and decision outcomes – the Quick Clinical Project
  • Amir Hadad, Tom Gedeon: A new Fuzzy logic based method to discover similarity between document words
• 15:30-­16:00 – break
• 16:00-­16:30 – project presentation (1)
  • Robert Dale, Brett Powley: Supercharging the ACL Anthology
• 16:30-16:45 -- speed presentations (1)
  • Willem-Jan Jansen: Playing easy to get — how search is transforming the searchee
• 19:00-­21:00 – dinner

Day 2

• 9:00­-9:15 – reflections on the first day
• 9:15-­10:15 – keynote presentation
  • Brett Poole, Head of Search of Yahoo!7
• 10:15-­10:45 – student presentations (2)
  • Andrew Lampert: Managing Obligations and Commitments in Email
  • Luiz Augusto Pizzato: Information Retrieval for Question Answering
• 10:45-­11:15 – break
• 11:15-­12:00 – student presentations (3)
  • Su Nam Kim: Multiword Expressions
  • Sukanya Manna: A Fuzzy Relational Model to Calculate the Relatedness between Words
  • Tom Rowlands: Using Folksonomies to Improve Search
• 12:00-­14:00 – Lunch break
• 14:00-­15:15 – speed presentations (5)
  • Nathalie Colineau, Cecile Paris and Ross Wilkinson: The Next Generation of Search -- a Whole-of-System Perspective
  • Jose Lay: Content-based retrieval of Lecture Videos
  • James Hogan, Asgeir Frimannsson: Translation Re-Use and Cross Lingual Search
  • Robert McArthur: Open source datasets of human communication
  • Annie Lau, Enrico Coiera: Cognitive biases during information searching
• 15:15-­16:00 – break
• 16:00-­16:30 – speed presentations (2)
  • Grace Chung, Enrico Coiera: Text Mining For Clinical Decision Making in Healthcare
  • Wei Wang, Yi Luo: SPARK: top-k keyword search on relational databases (presented by Yi Luo)
• 16:30-­17:00 – discussion and wrap­up

Cancelled

• Girija Chetty and Michael Wagner: Information Retrieval from Broadcast Video Based on Multimodal Fusion
• Marcus Butavicius: A psychological approach to dealing with large corpora
• Menno van Zaanen: Learning patterns to improve multi-modal information retrieval

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