Web N-gram Workshop
July 23, 2010 – Geneva, Switzerland
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Time |
Event/Topic |
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9:00–9:05 |
Introduction—Workshop Goals |
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9:05–9:50 |
Beyond Googleology: Assessing the Composition of the Web as a Large Corpus Serge Sharoff, Centre for Translation Studies, University of Leeds |
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9:50–10:15 |
Information Extraction from Web-Scale N-Gram Data Niket Tandon, Gerard De Melo, Max Planck Institute |
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10:15–10:45 |
Break |
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10:45–11:10 |
A Comparative Study of Bing Web N-gram Language Models for Web Search and Natural Language Processing Jianfeng Gao, Patrick Ngyuen, Microsoft Research; Xiaolong Li, Microsoft Bing; Chris Thrasher, Mu Li, Kuansan Wang, Microsoft Research |
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11:10–11:35 |
Verifying the Implicit Presence of Difficult Query Aspects using a Large External Corpus Dmitri Roussinov, University of Strathclyde |
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11:35–12:05 |
Minimal Perfect Hash Rank: Efficient Storage of Large Language Models David Guthrie, Mark Hepple, University of Sheffield |
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12:05–14:00 |
Lunch |
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14:00–15:10 |
Global Statistics in Proximity Weighting Models Craig Macdonald, Iadh Ounis, University of Glasgow
Further Studies on Multi-Style Language Model for Web Information Retrieval Xiaolong Li, Microsoft Bing; Jianfeng Gao, Kuansan Wang, Microsoft Research
Using Web N-Grams to Help Second-Language Speakers Martin Potthastm, Martin Trenkmann, Benno Stein, Bauhaus-Universität Weimar
Comparing Web N-grams and Other Means of Identifying Named Entities in Corporate Blogs Aditya Rachakonda, Srinath Srinivasa, IIITB; Sudarshan Murthy, Wipro Technologies; Avinashreddy Palleti, Ramya Krishna, IIITB
Language Differences and Metadata Features on Twitter Emre Kiciman, Microsoft Research |
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15:10–15:40 |
Tutorial An Introduction to Web N-gram Service Kuansan Wang, Microsoft Research |
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15:40–16:10 |
Break |
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16:10–17:20 |
Panel Web-based Data Services for Research – Challenges and Opportunities Moderator: Stephan Vogel Panelists:
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17:20–17:30 |
Wrap Up |
Web N-gram Workshop
Contact Information
For information, send an e-mail message to ngramwkp@microsoft.com.
