EOS workshop summary
The First International Workshop on Entity-Oriented Search (EOS) was held on July 28, 2011 in Beijing, China, in conjunction with SIGIR 2011. The objective for the workshop was to bring together academic researchers and industry practitioners working on entity-oriented search to discuss tasks and challenges, and to uncover the next frontiers for academic research on the topic. The workshop program accommodated two invited talks, eleven refereed papers divided into three technical paper sessions, and a group discussion.
You can find the workshop proceedings here. A summary report, to appear in the December issue of SIGIR Forum, is already available online.
SemSearch2010 workshop at WWW
The 3rd Semantic Search workshop (SemSearch2010) was held on Monday in conjunction with the WWW2010 conference at Raleigh, NC, USA.
This post is about the highlights of the workshop, with some personal comments at the end. For more information, check the post by Christian Grant, Jeff Dalton, and the #semsearch2010 hashtag on twitter.
Seminar on Searching and Ranking in Enterprises
Today, on the occasion of the PhD defense of Pavel Serdyukov, a seminar on enterprise seach was held at the University of Twente. Three of Pavel’s committee members gave talks: David Hawking, Iadh Ounis, and Maarten de Rijke.
The summaries of the talks will soon be uploaded.
Of course, the main attraction of the day was Pavel’s defense. His PhD thesis is entitled The search for expertise: Beyond direct evidence. He was confronted with interesting, and, sometimes quite challenging questions, but handled them to the satisfaction of the committee. Congratulations Pavel, I mean, Dr. Serdyukov!
Future challenges in expertise retrieval
This was the title of the workshop I organized at SIGIR 2008 in July. The main objective of the workshop was to bring people from di?erent research communities together, to discuss recent advances in expertise retrieval, and to de?ne a research roadmap for the next years.
I think (and I hope I’m not alone with this) that the workshop was a success, with many interesting papers and lively discussions. If you’re interested in expert finding but missed it, now is your chance to find out what themes were discussed; check out the workshop summary that was recently published in the December 2008 issue of SIGIR Forum.