Schedule

Tuesday, July 17, 2007

05:15 P.M. – 07:00 P.M.

Faculty Summit BBQ at the Sports Field (Optional)

Wednesday, July 18, 2007

08:00 A.M. – 08:30 A.M.

Breakfast

08:30 A.M. – 08:45 A.M.

Welcome - Overview of the Day
Evelyne Viegas, Microsoft Research

08:45 A.M. – 9:15 A.M.

Vinegar: Leading Indicators in Query Logs
Eytan Adar, Brian Bershad, Steven Gribble, Daniel Weld, University of Washington, US

9:15 A.M. – 09:45 A.M.

User Intention and Interaction for Improving Search Effectiveness
Alistair Moffat, Yuye Zhang, University of Melbourne, Australia

09:45 A.M. – 10:15 A.M.

Statistical Machine Learning for User Modelling
Zoubin Ghahramani, Frederik Eaton, University of Cambridge, UK

 
10:15 A.M. – 10:30 A.M.

Break

10:30 A.M. – 11:00 A.M.

VISP: Visualizing Information Search Processes
Lada A. Adamic, Suresh K. Bhavnani, Dale Hunscher, University of Michigan, US

11:00 A.M. – 11:30 A.M.

Social Search: Bringing the Social Component to the Web
Gerd Stumme, Andreas Hotho, Beate Krause, University of Kassel, Germany

11:30 A.M. – 12:00 P.M.

Combining Econometric and Text Mining Approaches for Measuring the Effect of Online Information Exchange
Panagiotis Ipeirotis, Anindya Ghose, Nikolay Archak, New York University, US

12:00 P.M. – 01:30 P.M.

LUNCH - Microsoft Demos

"The Wild Thing Goes Local", Ken Church
"Gazing into Web Search", Ed Cutrell
"Web Projections", Susan Dumais
"DryadLINQ", Dennis Fetterly
"Reducing the use of randomness in minhashing", Mark Manasse, Frank McSherry
"Audience Intelligence: Understanding Users from their Queries", Arun Surendran
"Personalized Search", Jaime Teevan

01:30 P.M. – 02:00 P.M.

Mine Query/Click Log for Collaborative Internet Search
ChengXiang Zhai, Xuanhui Wang, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, US

02:00 P.M. – 02:30 P.M.

Entity Search: Are You Searching for What You Want?
Kevin C. Chang, Tao Cheng, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, US

02:30 P.M. – 03:00 P.M.

Entity and Relation Types in Web Search: Annotation, Indexing and Scoring Techniques
Soumen Chakrabarti, IIT Bombay, India

03:00 P.M. – 03:15 P.M.

Break

03:15 P.M. – 03:45 P.M.

The Truth is Out There: Aggregating Answers from Multiple Web Sources
Amélie Marian, Minji Wu, Rutgers University, US

03:45 P.M. – 4:15 P.M.

Incorporating Trust into Web Authority
Brian Davison, Xiaoguang Qi, Lehigh University, US

04:15 P.M. – 5:00 P.M.

The "Blind Men and the Elephant" Parable and the Future of Web Search
Gary Flake, Microsoft Live Labs

05:00 P.M. – 05:45 P.M.

Break - Search RFP Posters

05:45 P.M. – 06:00 P.M.

Wrap Up

06:00 P.M. – 06:30 P.M.

Bus Pick up at Microsoft Conference Centre for Dinner

07:00 P.M.

Dinner at Waters, Woodmark Hotel, Kirkland