Schedule
Note: Abstracts of all the talks (and presentation slides for some) are available at the abstracts page.
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8:30–8:35 | Welcome and Opening Remarks Evgeniy Gabrilovich |
8:35–9:30 | KEYNOTE — The DDI Approach to Features: Don't Do It Ken Church |
9:30–10:00 | Online Feature Selection for Information Retrieval Niranjan Balasubramanian, Giridhar Kumaran, and Vitor Carvalho |
10:00–10:30 | Hubness in the Context of Feature Selection and Generation Milos Radovanovic, Alexandros Nanopoulos, and Mirjana Ivanovic |
10:30–11:00 | Coffee Break |
11:00–11:30 | Information Retrieval and Machine Learning at the Long Tail Neel Sundaresan |
11:30–12:00 | Greedy RankRLS: a Linear Time Algorithm for Learning Sparse Ranking Models Tapio Pahikkala, Antti Airola, Pekka Naula and Tapio Salakoski |
12:00–12:30 | Extensions to Self-Taught Hashing: Kernelisation and Supervision Dell Zhang, Jun Wang, Deng Cai and Jinsong Lu |
12:30-14:00 | Lunch |
14:00-15:00 | KEYNOTE — Hierarchical Bayesian Models of Language and Text Yeh Whye Teh |
15:00-15:30 | Coffee Break |
15:30-15:50 | Feature Selection for Document Ranking using Best First Search and Coordinate Ascent Van Dang and W. Bruce Croft |
15:50-16:10 | Enhancing Query-oriented Summarization based on Sentence Wikification Yajie Miao and Chunping Li |
16:10-16:30 | A Compression Framework for Generating User Profiles Xiaoxiao Shi, Kevin Chang, Vijay K. Narayanan, Vanja Josifovski and Alex J. Smola |
16:30-16:50 | An SVM Based Approach to Feature Selection for Topical Relevance Judgement of Feeds Yongwook Shin and Jonghun Park |
16:50-17:20 | Representing and Exploiting Searcher Interaction Data Eugene Agichtein
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