Workshop I: Dynamic Searches and Knowledge Building - IPAM

Workshop I: Dynamic Searches and Knowledge Building

Part of the Long Program Mathematics of Knowledge and Search Engines
October 1 - 5, 2007

Schedule

All times in this Schedule are Pacific Time (PT)

Monday, October 1, 2007

Morning Session

08:00-08:45
Check-In/Light Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)
08:45-09:00
Welcome and Opening Remarks
09:00-10:00
Peter Jones (Yale University)
Spectral Methods for Knowledge Building: Theory and Open Problems
10:00-10:30
Coffee Break
10:30-11:30
Ran El-Yaniv (Technion - Israel Institute of Technology)
Transductive Learning
11:30-13:00
Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session

13:00-14:00
Eduard Hovy (University of Southern California (USC))
Title not available
14:00-14:30
Break
14:30-15:30
David Ferrucci (IBM Watson Research Center)
Semantic Search in QA: A critical look at our legacy in Automatic Question Answering
15:30-16:00
Coffee Break
16:00-17:00
Anthony Davis (Comcast/Streamsage)
Indexing and Searching Timed Media: The Role of Mutual Information Models.

Tuesday, October 2, 2007

Morning Session

08:00-09:00
Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)
09:00-10:00
Hagit Shatkay (Queen’s University)
Sweeping through the Biomedical Literature: An Information Retrieval Approach to Biomedical Text Mining
10:00-10:30
Coffee Break
10:30-11:30
Ronald Coifman (Yale University)
Diffusion and inference geometries as a tool for data driven ontology/language building.
11:30-13:00
Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session

13:00-14:00
Karin Verspoor (University of Colorado, Denver)
Exploiting contextual similarity for semantic prediction in the Biology domain
14:00-14:30
Break
14:30-15:30
Mark Meiss (Indiana University)
Building Networks from Networks: Mining Network Data to Model User Behavior
15:30-16:00
Coffee Break
16:00-17:00
Mark Manasse (Microsoft Research)
Recent Advances in Minhashing
17:30-19:00
Reception (Location: IPAM Lobby)

Wednesday, October 3, 2007

Morning Session

08:00-09:00
Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)
09:00-10:00
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Analysis and learning on graphs through diffusion processes
10:00-10:30
Coffee Break
10:30-11:30
Tina Eliassi-Rad (Rutgers University)
Collective Classification in Network Data
11:30-13:00
Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session

13:00-14:00
David Blei (Columbia University)
Modeling Science: Topic models of Scientific Journals and Other Large Document Collections
14:00-14:30
Break
14:30-15:30
Jim Thomas (Battelle Pacific Northwest Laboratories)
Title not available
15:30-16:00
Coffee Break
16:00-17:00
Marius Pasca (Google Inc.)
Knowledge Acquisition from Web Search Queries

Thursday, October 4, 2007

Morning Session

08:00-09:00
Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)
09:00-10:00
Jimmy Lin (University of Maryland)
Beyond Bag of Words: Towards a Framework for Conceptual Retrieval
10:00-10:30
Coffee Break
10:30-11:30
Bonnie Webber (University of Edinburgh)
Possibilities for Improving Information Search through Corpus Profiling
11:30-13:00
Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session

13:00-14:00
Diane Kelly (University of North Carolina)
Personalizing Information Search: Understanding Users and their Interests
14:00-14:30
Coffee Break
14:30-16:00
Discussion Panel
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