SIGIR 2011 Workshop on "entertain me"

Supporting Complex Search Tasks

28 July 2011

Download the proceedings as a whole:

Nicholas J. Belkin, Charles L. A. Clarke, Ning Gao, Jaap Kamps, and Jussi Karlgren, editors. Proceedings of the SIGIR 2011 Workshop on "entertain me": Supporting Complex Search Tasks. ACM Press, 2011. pdf

or download specific papers/presentations below.

The Use Case Perspective for Single Query Information Access
Jussi Karlgren paper slides

Applying Metasearch to Medical Literature Retrieval For Evidence-Based Medicine
Sungbin Choi, Borim Ryu, Sooyoung Yoo and Jinwook Choi paper slides
Affective Classification of Large Scale Broadcast Archives
Sam Davies and Denise Bland paper slides
Systematic Reviews: A Complex Search Episode for Evidence Based Policy and Practice
Sarvnaz Karimi and Falk Scholer paper slides

Articulating Information Needs by User Profile Enrichment
Chen Chen, Tiejun Zhao, Muyun Yang, Sheng Li and Haoliang Qi
Show and Tell: supporting childrens search by interactively creating stories
Andreas Lingnau, Ian Ruthven and Monica Landoni paper slides
Towards Interactive QA: suggesting refinement for Questions
Yang Tang, Fan Bu, Zhicheng Zheng and Xiaoyan Zhu paper slides
Supporting Complex Tasks in a Spoken Language Interface
Xiaojun Yuan and Nicholas Belkin paper

Searching For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge
Leif Azzopardi paper slides
Why is this restaurant different from all other restaurants? (Captioning for contextual suggestion)
Charles Clarke and William Song paper slides
A Palette Mixing Model of Information Seeking for Complex Queries
Miles Efron and Peter Organisciak paper slides
How to Evaluate Exploratory User Interfaces?
Tatiana Gossen, Stefan Haun and Andreas Nuernberger paper slides

This workshop will be held as part of the 34th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research & Development on Information Retrieval, Beijing, 2011. Information on Beijing can be found in the Wikipedia.