SIGIR 2011 LOGO

The First International Workshop on Entity-Oriented Search (EOS)

July 28, 2011   Beijing, China

Contact: eos2011@easychair.org

 

EOS 2011 Program

08.00 - 08.15        Welcome, opening

08.15 - 09.15        Keynote 1, Paul Ogilvie (Senior Soft. Engineer, LinkedIn): Anchoring Relevance with Entities (abstract & bio)

09.15 - 10.05        Short paper session (8+2 min)

  1. High Performance Clustering for Web Person Name Disambiguation Using Topic Capturing
     Zhengzhong Liu, Qin Lu, and Jian Xu
  2. Extracting Dish Names from Chinese Blog Reviews Using Suffix Arrays and a Multi-Modal CRF Model
     Richard Tzong-Han Tsai and Chun-Hui Chou
  3. LADS: Rapid Development of a Learning-To-Rank Based Related Entity Finding System using Open Advancement
     Bo Lin, Kevin Dela Rosa, Rushin Shah, and Nitin Agarwal
  4. Finding Support Documents with a Logistic Regression Approach
    Qi Li and Daqing He
  5. The Sindice-2011 Dataset for Entity-Oriented Search in the Web of Data
     Stéphane Campinas, Diego Ceccarelli, Thomas E. Perry, Renaud Delbru, Krisztian Balog, and Giovanni Tummarello

10.05 - 10.30        Coffee break

10.30 - 12.15        Regular paper session #1 (20+5)

  1. Cross-Domain Bootstrapping for Named Entity Recognition
     Ang Sun and Ralph Grishman
  2. Semi-supervised Statistical Inference for Business Entities Extraction and Business Relations Discovery
     Raymond Y.K. Lau and Wenping Zhang
  3. Unsupervised Related Entity Finding
     Olga Vechtomova

12.15 - 14.15        Lunch break

14.15 - 15.15        Keynote 2, Andrey Plakhov (Senior Soft. Engineer, Search Quality Group, Yandex): Entity-oriented Search Result Diversification (abstract & bio)

15.15 - 15.45        Coffee break

15.45 - 17.00        Regular paper session #2 (20+5)

  1. Learning to Rank Homepages For Researcher-Name Queries
     Sujatha Das, Prasenjit Mitra, and C. Lee Giles
  2. An Evaluation Framework for Aggregated Temporal Information Extraction
     Enrique Amigó, Javier Artiles, Qi Li, and Heng Ji
  3. Entity Search Evaluation over Structured Web Data
     Roi Blanco, Harry Halpin, Daniel M. Herzig, Peter Mika, Jeffrey Pound, Henry S. Thompson, and Thanh Tran Duc

17.00 - 17.50        Panel, discussion

17.50 - 18.00        Closing