Workshop on Web Information Retrieval

Agosto 12, 2005

Organizer: Center for Web Research, DCC, Univ. de Chile

Millennium Nucleus funded by Mideplan

When: August 12

Where: Auditorium DCC, Blanco Encalada 2120, third floor

Final Program:
09:20-09:30 Opening

-> Ricardo Baeza-Yates, CWR/DCC, Univ. de Chile

Session I: XML, RDF and Query Languages

Moderator: Carlos Hurtado

09:30-09:55 Efficient and Expressively Complete XML Query Languages

-> Pablo Barcelo, Univ. of Toronto, Canada

Slides PDF 75 KB

09:55-10:20 Query Languages for Graph Databases

-> Claudio Gutierrez, CWR/DCC, Univ. de Chile

Slides PDF 1.4 MB

10:20-10:45 Temporal RDF

Alejandro Vaisman, Univ. de Buenos Aires, Argentina

Slides PDF 303 KB

10:20-11:00 XML Data Exchange: Consistency and Query Answering

-> Marcelo Arenas, P. Univ. Católica, Chile

Slides PDF 646 KB

11:10-11:30 Coffee Break
Session II: Advances on Information Retrieval

Moderator: Claudio Gutierrez

11:30-12:10 Interactive Cross Language Retrieval

-> Doug Oard, U. of Maryland, USA

Slides PDF 0.99 MB

12:10-12:35 Precision Recall with User Modelling Applied to XML Retrieval

-> Benjamin Piwowarski, CWR/DCC, Univ. de Chile

Slides PDF 1.21 MB

12:35-13:00 Efficient Searchable Natural Language Adaptive Compression

-> Gonzalo Navarro, CWR/DCC, Univ. de Chile

Slides PDF 446 KB

13:00-14:45 Lunch
Session III: Web Mining

Moderator: Gonzalo Navarro

14:45-15:10 Estimating Relative Query Relevance from Search Engine Logs

-> Georges Dupret, CWR/DCC, Univ. de Chile

Slides PDF 264 KB

15:10-15:35 Automatic Maintenance of Web Directories using Search Engine Logs

-> Carlos Hurtado, CWR/DCC, Univ. de Chile

Slides PDF 543 KB

15:35-16:00 Context through Query Mining

-> Ricardo Baeza-Yates, CWR/DCC, Univ. de Chile

Slides PDF 770 KB

16:00-16:20 Coffee Break
Session IV: Context in Information Retrieval

Moderator: Ricardo Baeza-Yates

16:20-17:00 Extending Information Retrieval Towards Context

-> Kalervo Jarvelin, Univ. of Tampere, Finland

Slides PDF 360 KB

17:00-17:40 Contexts in Information Seeking & Retrieval (IS&R)

-> Peter Ingwersen, Royal School of Library and Inf. Science, Denmark

Slides PDF 158 KB

17:40-18:20 The Challenge of Context for Information Seeking

-> Gary Marchionini, Univ. of North Carolina, USA

Slides PDF 1.01 MB

18:20-18:45 Discussion and Closing Remarks