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Focus
Search Summit 2007 gathers the winners of the
Search RFP 2006, RFP which
directly addresses the need for more large-scale data by making
additional real-world search data available to academia. This RFP
further encouraged academic research and innovation in search by
increasing the availability of relevant, large, current data sets
from MSN/Live Search, new data analysis, and algorithm development in
Internet Search.
The goal of the Search Summit 2007 is threefold:
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Share the research results among the winners of
the Search RFP 2006 to encourage further collaborations
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Understand how the assets contributed to enable
academic research
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Engage in a two-way conversation with
search stakeholders from Microsoft and Microsoft Research
Structure
In order to accomplish the above stated goals, the
workshop will have a mix of presentations, posters and demos as follows:
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Presentations of the Search RFP 2006 projects, one year into the
research, including one slide entitled:
“the Quest for Assets – the Good, the Bad and the Wanted”
summarising:
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how the assets were helpful in answering
research questions
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where these assets failed to be helpful and why
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which research
questions PIs would like to address if unlimited access to assets
was an option
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Demo session from search stakeholders from
Microsoft and Microsoft Research
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Poster session highlighting particular research
from the Search RFPs 2006 projects
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Closing talk by Gary Flake, Microsoft Live
Labs: The "Blind Men and the Elephant" Parable and the Future
of Web Search
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