ESAIR'12: Fifth International Workshop on Exploiting Semantic Annotations in Information Retrieval

Proceedings

Program

Invited Speaker

• Ron Kaplan (Nuance) / Conversational User Interfaces
  Opening slide
• Evgeniy Gabrilovich (Google) / Understanding the Web using Large-Scale Knowledge Repositories
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Accepted Papers

• Krisztian Balog and Kjetil Nørvåg / On the Use of Semantic Knowledge Bases for Temporally-aware Entity Retrieval
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• Amitava Das and Björn Gambäck / Exploiting 5W Annotations for Opinion Tracking
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• Ann-Marie Eklund / Why query annotations may help in providing accurate public health information
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• Sumio Fujita, Georges Dupret and Ricardo Baeza-Yates / Semantics of Query Rewriting Patterns in Search Logs
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• Arunav Mishra, Sairam Gurajada and Martin Theobald / Design and Evaluation of an IR-Benchmark for SPARQL Queries with Full-text Conditions
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• Tashida Nomoto and Noriko Kando / Conceptualizing Documents with Wikipedia
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• Sana Sellami and Claudia Catalin Gutérrez Rodríguez / Semantic Annotation: What About Quality?
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• Petr Sojka / Exploiting Semantic Annotations in Math Information Retrieval
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• Giovanni Yoko Kristianto, Goran Topic, Minh-Quoc Nghiem and Akiko Aizawa / Annotating Scientific Papers for Mathematical Formulae Search
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• Masaharu Yoshioka and Noriko Kando / Multifaceted analysis of news articles by using semantic annotated information
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Final Discussion

• Leveraging Semantic Search and IR (mostly on combining low level statistics and higher level models)
• Shared Data/Corpora/Tasks/Models (mostly on a wishlist of ClueWeb12 annotations)

SCHEDULE

CREDITS

This workshop will be held as part of the 21st ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, Maui, 2012. Information on Maui can be found in the Wikipedia.