Recent Presentations from Seminar Series: Web Search and its Future, Semantic Web, Social Net Mining, Sponsored Search and More
The Web Investigation Group at Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona, Spain has one impressive seminar series. If you can't make it to the you can find access to some of the presentations along with other papers and info about the speakers. So, here we present a links to info about several presentations that took place in the past several months. From Web Social Network Mining to Sponsored Search to Peter Morville's thoughts on the future of search.
So, here we go with links to recent presentations and/or presenter home pages, etc. If the actual presentation isn't posted, we've tried our best to link to pages where it is likely to appear in the future or where you might be able to contact the author directly.
Get ready for some interesting reading. Hopefully, one of these days, the presentations themselves will be available as webcasts. We're going to list several presentations today (we skip around in terms of dates). More presentations in the next week or so.
Date: May 30, 2007 Title: SGUESTS (Groups of Users Going Social in Two.0 Search)
Speaker: Sihem Amer Yahia
Affiliation: Yahoo Research, USA Publications
Date: May 30, 2007 Title: Social Network Mining from the Web (abstract)
Speaker: Yutaka Matsuo
Affiliation: National Institute of AIST, Japan & Stanford Univ., USA
Many of Matsuo's papers can be accessed here. If the combination social networking and web search are of interest, spend some time here. Even more here where you'll learn about POLYPHONET.
Semblog is a personal knowledge publishing suite can provide an integrated environment for distributing small contents and making human relationship seamlessly. It enables peopleto exchange information and knowledge with easy and casual fashion in degrees of personal interest, e.g. checking, clipping, and posting. Semblog extends Weblogs by adding semantic tags to Weblog sites and entrieswith RSS/FOAF aggregators.
Date: May 30, 2007 Title: Ubiquitous Computing meets Social Media (abstract)
Speaker: Takuichi Nishimura
Affiliation: National Institute of AIST, Japan & Stanford Univ., USA Links to selected papers.
Date: March 28, 2007 Title: Sponsored Search: Theory and Practice (abstract)
Speaker: Jan Pedersen
Affiliation: Yahoo! Search and Marketplace Presentation slides
Pedersen is a key figure in web search history.
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