July 19, 2011
Bellevue, WA, United States
The Spelling Alteration for Web Search workshop addresses the challenges of web-scale natural language processing with a focus on search query spelling correction. The workshop will provide a forum in which Speller Challenge participants and others can exchange ideas and discuss future research in the field of alteration for web search. The workshop will include the official award ceremony for the prize winners of the Speller Challenge.
Although the workshop is not limited to the Speller Challenge participants, we encourage the on-demand evaluation web application and the referenced testing dataset to be included in the system evaluation of the prospective workshop submissions so that different systems and approaches can be compared on the same benchmark. Furthermore, we encourage the submitted systems be made publicly accessible throughout the workshop to facilitate live demonstrations.
Agenda
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Time |
Event/Topic |
Presenter |
Chair | |
| 8:30 | Breakfast | |||
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9:00 |
Opening |
Evelyne Viegas—Microsoft Research | Jianfeng Gao | |
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9:10 |
Award Presentation |
Harry Shum—corporate vice president, Microsoft | ||
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9:30 |
Report |
Kuansan Wang—Microsoft Research | ||
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10:00 |
Break and snacks | |||
| 10:30 | A Data-Driven Approach for Correcting Search Queries | Gord Lueck—independent software developer, Canada | Jianfeng Gao | |
| 10:50 | CloudSpeller: Spelling Correction for Search Queries by Using a Unified Hidden Markov Model with Web-Scale Resources | Yanen Li, Huizhong Duan, and ChengXiang Zhai—UIUC, Illinois, United States | ||
| 11:10 | qSpell: Spelling Correction of Web Search Queries Using Ranking Models and Iterative Correction | Yasser Ganjisaffar, Andrea Zilio, Sara Javanmardi, Inci Cetindil, Manik Sikka, Sandeep Katumalla, Narges Khatib, Chen Li, and Cristina Lopes—University Of California, Irvine, United States | ||
| 11:30 | TiradeAI: An Ensemble of Spellcheckers | Dan Stefanescu, Radu Ion, Tiberiu Boros—Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence, Romania | ||
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11:50 |
Spelling Generation Based on Edit Distance |
Yoh Okuno—Yahoo Corp., Japan | ||
| 12:00 | Lunch | |||
| 13:00 | A REST-Based Online English Spelling Checker "Pythia" | Peter Nalyvayko—Analytical Graphics Inc., United States | Kuansan Wang | |
| 13:15 | A Principled Approach to Query Spellchecking | Dan Stefanescu, Radu Ion | ||
| 13:30 | Panel Discussion | Ankur Gupta and Li-wei He—Microsoft Gord Lueck, Yanen Li, Yasser Ganjisaffar and Dan Stefanescu—Speller Challenge winners | ||
| 14:30 | Wrap Up | |||
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