December 7, 2007.
The Westin Resort & Spa and The Hilton Whistler Resort & Spa, Whistler,
Canada
Morning Session: 7:30am -- 10:30pm
7:30am Opening Remarks
7:35am What's New in Web Search?
Sam Roweis (Google
Research)
8:20am Large Margin Optimization of Ranking
Measures
Olivier Chapelle (Yahoo! Research),
Quoc Le (NICTA) &
Alex Smola (NICTA)
8:40am SoftRank with Gaussian Processes
Edward Snelson
(Microsoft Research) &
John Guiver
(Microsoft Research)
9:00am Coffee Break & Poster Viewing
9:30 am
On Using
Simultaneous Perturbation Stochastic Approximation for IR Measures, and
the Empirical Optimality of LambdaRank
Yisong Yue (Cornell University) & Christopher J.
C. Burges (Microsoft Research)
9:50 am Learning to Admit You're Wrong:
Statistical Tools
for Evaluating Web QA
Mark Dredze (University of Pennsylvania) &
Krzysztof Czuba (Google)
10:10am Manipulation-Resistant Reputations
Using Hitting Time
John Hopcroft
(Cornell University) & Daniel Sheldon (Cornell University)
10:30am Poster Viewing & Discussion
Afternoon Session: 4:00pm -- 6:30pm
4:00pm Computational Advertising
Andrei Broder (Yahoo! Research)
4:45pm Lightly-Supervised Attribute Extraction
for Web Search
Kedar Bellare (University of Massachusetts),
Partha Pratim Talukd (University of Pennsylvania), Giridhar
Kumaran(University of Massachusetts), FernandoPereira(University of
Pennsylvania), Mark Liberman(University of Pennsylvania), Andrew
McCallum (University of Massachusetts) & Mark Dredze(University of
Pennsylvania)
5:05 pm Coffee Break
5:30pm Privacy, Personalization, and the Web: A
Utility-Theoretic Approach
Andreas Krause (Carnegie Mellon University) & Eric
Horvitz (Microsoft Research)
5:50pm
A Decision
Theoretic Framework for Implicit Relevance Feedback
Onno Zoeter (Microsoft Research), Nick Craswell
(Microsoft Research), Michael Taylor
(Microsoft Research), Ed Snelson (Microsoft Research) & John Guiver
(Microsoft Research)
6:10pm Closing Remarks
Posters
Learning Diverse Rankings with
Multi-Armed Bandits
Robert Kleinberg (Cornell University), Filip
Radlinski (Cornell University), and Thorsten Joachims (Cornell
University)
Semantic Search Guidance: Learn From History
M. Barouni-Ebrahimi (University of New Brunswick),
Reza Zafarani (University of New Brunswick), Ebrahim Bagheri, and Ali A.
Ghorbani (University of New Brunswick)