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Sunday, 20 March 2016
8:00-9:30
Registration
ProActive Information Retrieval: Anticipating Users' Information Needs (ProAct IR)
Workshop
First International Workshop on Recent Trends in News Information Retrieval (NewsIR’16)
Workshop
9:30-11:00
3rd International Workshop on Bibliometric-enhanced Information Retrieval (BIR2016)
Workshop
Living Labs for Online Evaluation: From Theory to Practice (LiLa2016)
Tutorial
Collaborative Information Retrieval: Concepts, Models and Evaluation
Tutorial
11:00-11:30
Coffee Break
ProActive Information Retrieval: Anticipating Users' Information Needs (ProAct IR)
Workshop
First International Workshop on Recent Trends in News Information Retrieval (NewsIR’16)
Workshop
11:30-13:00
3rd International Workshop on Bibliometric-enhanced Information Retrieval (BIR2016)
Workshop
Living Labs for Online Evaluation: From Theory to Practice (LiLa2016)
Tutorial
Collaborative Information Retrieval: Concepts, Models and Evaluation
Tutorial
13:00-14:30
Lunch
1st International Workshop on Modeling, Learning and Mining for Cross/Multilinguality (MultiLingMine 2016)
Workshop
First International Workshop on Recent Trends in News Information Retrieval (NewsIR’16)
Workshop
14:30-16:00
3rd International Workshop on Bibliometric-enhanced Information Retrieval (BIR2016)
Workshop
Group Recommender Systems: State of the Art, Emerging Aspects and Techniques, and Research Challenges (GroupRecSys2016)
Tutorial
Real-Time Bidding based Display Advertising: Mechanisms and Algorithms (RTBMA 2016)
Tutorial
16:00-16:30
Coffee Break
1st International Workshop on Modeling, Learning and Mining for Cross/Multilinguality (MultiLingMine 2016)
Workshop
First International Workshop on Recent Trends in News Information Retrieval (NewsIR’16)
Workshop
16:30-18:00
3rd International Workshop on Bibliometric-enhanced Information Retrieval (BIR2016)
Workshop
Group Recommender Systems: State of the Art, Emerging Aspects and Techniques, and Research Challenges (GroupRecSys2016)
Tutorial
Real-Time Bidding based Display Advertising: Mechanisms and Algorithms (RTBMA 2016)
Tutorial
18:00-21:00
Welcome Reception
Monday, 21 March 2016
8:00-9:00
Registration
9:00-9:30
Opening / Welcome
9:30-11:00
Keynote Talk
Jordan Boyd-Graber
Opening up the Black Box: Interactive Machine Learning for Understanding Large Document Collections, Characterizing Social Science, and Language-Based Games
11:00-11:30
Coffee Break
11:30-13:00
Social context and news
(Paper Session 1a)
(Paper Session 1a)
Minh-Tien Nguyen and Minh-Le Nguyen
SoRTESum: A Social Context Framework for Single-Document Summarization
Ahmet Aker, Emina Kurtic, Balamurali Andiyakkal Rajendran, Monica Paramita, Emma Barker, Mark Hepple and Rob Gaizauskas
A Graph-based Approach to Topic Clustering for Online Comments to News
Arunav Mishra and Klaus Berberich
Leveraging Semantic Annotations to Link Wikipedia and News Archives
11:30-13:00
Machine Learning
(Paper Session 1b)
(Paper Session 1b)
Weinan Zhang, Tianming Du and Jun Wang
Deep Learning over Multi-field Categorical Data: A Case Study on User Response Prediction
Zhiwei Zhang, Jingang Wang, Tao Wu, Pengjie Ren, Zhumin Chen and Luo Si.
Supervised Local Contexts Aggregation for Effective Session Search
Cheng Li, Bingyu Wang, Virgil Pavlu and Javed Aslam
An Empirical Study of Skip-gram Features and Regularization for Learning on Sentiment Analysis
13:00-14:00
Lunch
14:00-15:00
Panel
Maristella Agosti
Data-driven Information Retrieval
15:00-16:00
Question answering
(Paper Session 2a)
(Paper Session 2a)
Liu Yang, Qingyao Ai, Damiano Spina, Ruey-Cheng Chen, Liang Pang, W. Bruce Croft, Jiafeng Guo and Falk Scholer
Beyond Factoid QA: Effective Methods for Non-factoid Answer Sentence Retrieval
Liora Braunstain, Oren Kurland, David Carmel, Idan Szpektor and Anna Shtok
Supporting Human Answers for Advice-Seeking Questions in CQA Sites
15:00-16:00
Machine Learning
(Paper Session 2b)
(Paper Session 2b)
Pengfei Wang, Jiafeng Guo, Yanyan Lan, Jun Xu and Xueqi Cheng
Multi-task Representation Learning for Demographic Prediction
Danilo Croce and Roberto Basili
Large-scale Kernel-based Language Learning through the Ensemble Nystrom methods
16:00-16:30
Coffee Break
16:30-18:00
Ranking
(Paper Session 3a)
(Paper Session 3a)
Yubin Kim, Jamie Callan, Shane Culpepper and Alistair Moffat
Does Selective Search Benefit from WAND Optimization?
Sean Welleck
Efficient AUC Optimization for Information Ranking Applications
Liu Yang, Qi Guo, Yang Song, Sha Meng, Milad Shokouhi, Kieran McDonald and W. Bruce Croft
Modelling User Interest for Zero-query Ranking
16:30-18:00
Evaluation Methodology
(Paper Session 3b)
(Paper Session 3b)
Jiepu Jiang and James Allan
Adaptive Effort for Search Evaluation Metrics
Johannes Jurgovsky, Michael Granitzer and Christin Seifert
Evaluating Memory Efficiency and Robustness of Word Embeddings
Manisha Verma and Emine Yilmaz
Characterizing Relevance on Mobile and Desktop
18:30-21:00
Poster Session and Reception
Tuesday, 22 March 2016
8:00-9:00
Registration
9:00-10:30
Keynote Talk
Emine Yilmaz
A Task-Based Perspective to Information Retrieval
10:30-11:00
Coffee Break
11:00-12:30
Probabilistic Modelling
(Paper Session 4a)
(Paper Session 4a)
Wen Li, Arjen de Vries and Carsten Eickhoff
Probabilistic Local Expert Retrieval
Long Chen, Joemon Jose, Haitao Yu, Fajie Yuan and Huaizhi Zhang
Probabilistic Topic Modelling with Semantic Graph
Yun He, Qinmin Hu and Liang He
Estimating Probability Density of Content Types for Promoting Medical Records Search
11:00-12:30
Evaluation Issues
(Paper Session 4b)
(Paper Session 4b)
Aldo Lipani, Mihai Lupu and Allan Hanbury
The Curious Incidence of Bias Corrections in the Pool
Guido Zuccon
Understandability Biased Evaluation for Information Retrieval
Mengdie Zhuang, Elaine G. Toms and Gianluca Demartini
The Relationship between User Perception and User Behaviour in Interactive Information Retrieval Evaluation
12:30-14:00
Lunch
14:00-15:30
Multimedia
(Paper Session 5a)
(Paper Session 5a)
Jaime Arguello, Sandeep Avula and Fernando Diaz
Using Query Performance Predictors to Improve Spoken Queries
Markus Schedl and Fang Zhou
Fusing Web and Audio Predictors to Localize the Origin of Music Pieces for Geospatial Retrieval
Ángel Faraldo, Emilia Gomez, Sergi Jorda and Perfecto Herrera
Key Estimation in Electronic Dance Music
14:00-15:30
Summarization
(Paper Session 5b)
(Paper Session 5b)
Fahmida Hamid, David Haraburda and Paul Tarau
Evaluating Text Summarization Systems with a Fair Baseline from Multiple Reference Summaries
Yllias Chali and Mohsin Uddin
Multi-Document Summarization based on Atomic Semantic Events and their Temporal Relationships
Jorge Carrillo de Albornoz, Enrique Amigó, Laura Plaza and Julio Gonzalo
Tweet Stream Summarization for Online Reputation Management
15:30-16:00
Coffee Break
16:00-18:00
Reproducibility
(Paper Session 6a)
(Paper Session 6a)
Martin Potthast, Sarah Braun, Tolga Buz, Fabian Duffhauss, Florian Friedrich, Jörg Marvin Gülzow, Jakob Köhler, Winfried Lötzsch, Fabian Müller, Maike Elisa Müller, Robert Paßmann, Bernhard Reinke, Lucas Rettenmeier, Thomas Rometsch, Timo Sommer, Michael Träger, Sebastian Wilhelm, Benno Stein, Efstathios Stamatatos and Matthias Hagen
Who Wrote the Web? Revisiting Influential Author Identification Research Applicable to Information Retrieval
Jimmy Lin, Matt Crane, Andrew Trotman, Jaime Callan, Ishan Chattopadhyaya, John Foley, Grant Ingersoll, Craig Macdonald and Sebastiano Vigna
Toward Reproducible Baselines: The Open-Source IR Reproducibility Challenge
Stuart Mackie, Richard Mccreadie, Craig Macdonald and Iadh Ounis
Experiments in Newswire Summarisation
Faegheh Hasibi, Krisztian Balog and Svein Erik Bratsberg
On the Reproducibility of the TAGME Entity Linking System
16:00-18:00
Twitter
(Paper Session 6b)
(Paper Session 6b)
Shafiza Mohd Shariff, Mark Sanderson and Xiuzhen Zhang
Correlation Analysis of Reader's Demographics and Tweets Credibility Perception
Anastasia Giachanou, Morgan Harvey and Fabio Crestani
Topic-Specific Stylistic Variations for Opinion Retrieval on Twitter
Fattane Zarrinkalam, Hossein Fani, Ebrahim Bagheri and Mohsen Kahani
Inferring Implicit Topical Interests on Twitter
Anjie Fang, Craig Macdonald, Iadh Ounis and Philip Habel
Topics in Tweets: A User Study of Topic Coherence Metrics for Twitter Data
20:00-23:00
Social Dinner
Wednesday, 23 March 2016
8:00-9:00
Registration
9:00-10:30
Industry Keynote Talk
Domonkos Tikk
Lessons Learnt at Building Recommendation Services in Industry Scale
10:30-11:00
Coffee Break
11:00-12:30
Retrieval Models
(Paper Session 7a)
(Paper Session 7a)
Matthias Hagen, Anna Beyer, Tim Gollub, Kristof Komlossy and Benno Stein
Supporting Scholarly Search with Keyqueries
Fernando Diaz
Pseudo-Query Reformulation
Thibaut Thonet, Guillaume Cabanac, Mohand Boughanem and Karen Pinel-Sauvagnat
VODUM: a Topic Model Unifying Viewpoint, Topic and Opinion Discovery
11:00-12:30
Industry Talks
Nicola Montecchio (Spotify)
Music search, personalization and discovery (45 mins)
Andreas Lommatzsch (Berlin Institute of Technology), Martha Larson (Delft University of Technology), and Daniel Kohlsdorf (XING), and Jonas Seiler (Plista)
Get on with it! Recommender system industry challenges move towards real-world, online evaluation (45 mins)
12:30-14:00
Lunch
14:00-15:30
Applications
(Paper Session 8a)
(Paper Session 8a)
Josiah Wang, Katja Markert and Mark Everingham
Harvesting Training Images for Fine-Grained Object Categories using Visual Descriptions
Yu Xu, M.Rami Ghorab, Zhongqing Wang, Dong Zhou and Séamus Lawless.
Do Your Social Profiles Reveal What Languages You Speak? Language Inference From Social Media Profiles
John Foley and James Allan
Retrieving hierarchical syllabus items for exam question analysis
14:00-15:30
Industry Talks
Debora Donato (StumbleUpon)
Improving user engagement through genre diversification (45 mins)
Etienne Sanson (Criteo)
An overview of the challenges R&D had to face over the last 10 years (45 mins)
15:30-16:00
Coffee Break
16:00-18:00
Information Filtering
(Paper Session 9a)
(Paper Session 9a)
Weinan Zhang, Lingxi Chen, Jun Wang and Thomas Furmston
Implicit Look-alike Modelling in Display Ads: Transfer Collaborative Filtering to CTR Estimation
Daniel Valcarce, Javier Parapar and Alvaro Barreiro
Efficient Pseudo-Relevance Feedback Methods for Collaborative Filtering Recommendation
Daniel Valcarce, Javier Parapar and Alvaro Barreiro
Language Models for Collaborative Filtering Neighbourhoods
Jean-Michel Renders
Adaptive Collaborative Filtering with Extended Kalman Filters and Multi-Armed Bandit
16:00-18:00
Industry Talks
Michal Laclavik (Magnetic), Marek Ciglan (Magnetic), Sam Steingold (Magnetic), and Alex Dorman (Magnetic)
Multilingual query categorization (35 mins)
Tony Russell-Rose (UXLabs)
Thinking outside the search box: a visual approach to complex query formulation (35 mins)
Fernando Diaz (Microsoft)
Worst Practices for Designing Production Information Access Systems (45 mins)
Omar Alonso and Pavel Serdyukov
Closing (5 mins)