Special Events at ACM SIGIR Conference Offer Numerous Interesting Presentations From Top Researchers
Of course, the entire conference (scheduled to take place in Amsterdam, 23-27 July 2007), is of interest to information and search professionals, here are a couple of special events that are worthy of extra attention. We will post more and links to papers that will be presented at SIGIR 2007 during the next two months.
++ Vertical search is treated by Thomas Mandl, who assesses 54 website search applications, while Craig Scott from Elsevier Scirus explains how web data has been integrated within Scopus.
++ Daniel Tunkelang from Endeca puts the user experience in the spotlight, where Fredhopper's Ronny Roeller dives into facetted search for e-commerce.
++ Collexis speaks on thesauri construction in the language technology session, and Jakub Zavrel from Textkernel will talk on information extraction and web mining.
#2: Tutorials
Wow! What a line-up of speakers. The following tutorials are 1/2 day events:
+ Introduction to Recommender Systems by Joseph Konstan from University of Minnesota.
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