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Industry Day

Program - April 5th, 2012

All talks are 30 minutes long (including Q&A) unless noted otherwise.

9:30 - 9:40 Welcome (Fabrizio Silvestri)
9:40 - 10:15 Invited Talk: How to build the next 1000 search engines?! (Arjen De Vries, Delft University of Technology / Spinque, Netherland) (35 minutes)
10:15 - 10:30Break
10:30 - 12:00

Morning session

  1. Paper: Usefulness of Sentiment Analysis (Jussi Karlgren, Magnus Sahlgren, Fredrik Olsson, Fredrik Espinoza and Ola Hamfors, Gavagai, Sweden)
  2. Oral contribution: Discovering the Public Opinion: AOL Sentiment Analysis of User Generated Content (Amit Moran, Relegence/AOL, Israel)
  3. Oral contribution: A New Interface to Explore Social Media Search Results (Rianne Kaptein, Oxyme, The Netherlands)
12:00 - 12:15Break
12:15 - 13:45

Noon session

  1. Invited talk: Adding Context to Recommendations (Alexandros Karatzoglou, Telefonica R&D, Spain)
  2. Oral contribution: Developing the Websays Text Analytics system for Discourse and Opinion Mining (Hugo Zaragoza, Websays, Spain)
  3. Oral contribution: Analyzing the Web: Building Aol’s Core Text Analysis Platform (Sivan Ravid, Relegence/AOL, Israel)
13:45 - 15:15Lunch Break
15:15 - 16:25

Afternoon session

  1. Invited Talk: Topic-based annotation of short texts, with applications (Paolo Ferragina, University of Pisa, Italy) (35 minutes)
  2. Oral contribution: Synonym Mining and Usage in an Ecommerce Search Engine (Ravi Chandra Jammalamadaka and Vamsi Salaka, eBay, US)
16:25 - 16:30Concluding Remarks (Fabrizio Silvestri)

Description

The ECIR 2012 Industry Day will be held on Thursday, April 5, 2012. The main goal is to attract contributions on topics of mutual interest to industrial practitioners and academic researchers in Information Retrieval, mainly around (but not limited to) the following topics:

- Novel industrial applications that introduce new IR problems.
- Case studies showing successful industrial adaptations of IR theory and principles in practice.
- Academic abstractions of complex, real-life industrial IR challenges that resulted in performance breakthroughs.
- Successful industry-academy collaborations on real-life problems.
- Industrial challenges where increased academic attention is required.
- Publicly available benchmarks and datasets, and their ability to predict performance of real systems.

 

Interested authors are invited to contribute by either submitting a full paper or by proposing an oral-only presentation:

Full paper contributions will be 12-page submissions in the format of regular research papers. Submissions will undergo a peer-review process and accepted papers will appear in the conference proceedings. To submit, please email the submission to both organizers (see emails below) until December 14th.

Oral-only presentations will not appear in the conference’s proceedings (slide handouts will be distributed to Industry Day attendees). To submit proposals for informal presentations, please send both organizers the following details:
- Short CV of the presenter(s) (125 words)
- Title and abstract of the presentation (500 words)

While demos are encouraged in both types of contributions, please avoid sales pitches.

Organizers

Fabrizio Silvestri, ICTI-CNR, Pisa, Italy; fabrizio.silvestri (at) isti.cnr.it
Ronny Lempel, Yahoo! Labs, Haifa, Israel; rlempel (at) yahoo-inc.com

Program Committee

Sihem Amer-Yahia (QCRI - Qatar Computing Research Institute, Qatar)
Ron Bekkerman (LinkedIn, US)
David Carmel (IBM Research, Israel)
Paolo Ferragina (University of Pisa, Italy)
Antonio Gulli (Microsoft, UK)
Rosie Jones (Akamai, US)
Irwin King (Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
Udo Kruschwitz (University of Essex , UK)
Christina Lioma (University of Stuttgart, Germany)
Gilad Mishne (Twitter, US)
Raffaele Perego (ISTI - CNR, Pisa, Italy)
Diego Puppin (Google, US)
Arjen de Vries (Delft University of Technology, Netherland)

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Last Updated: 2012-03-24.