Program

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Monday, 23 January:

    13.00   bus from Sierre to Zinal *
    13.30 - 14.30   Registration
    14.30 - 16.00

  Introduction to IR

   Keith van Rijsbergen, University of Glasgow, Scotland, UK

   16.00 - 16.30   coffee break
   16.30 - 18.00

  Introduction to IV

   Alan Dix, Lancaster University, UK

   18.00 - 18.30   Poster setup
   18.30 - 20.00   Poster Session with Welcome Reception                                                                     
    20.00   Dinner

 

* for those not using public transportation

Tuesday, 24 January:

    8.30 - 10.00     

   HCI Principles

   Maria Francesca Costabile, University of Bari, Italy

    10.00 - 10.30   coffee break
    10.30 - 12.00

   HCI View of Information Retrieval Evaluation

   Tiziana Catarci, Sapienza, University of Rome, Italy

   12.00 - 16.30    skiing
   16.30 - 18.00

   User-oriented Information Retrieval

   Elaine Toms, University of Sheffield, UK

   18.00 - 18.15   short break
   18.15 - 19.45

  Evaluating User-oriented IR

   Kalervo Järvelin, University of Tampere, Finland

   20.00    Dinner

 

Wednesday, 25 January:

    8.30 - 10.00     

   Multilingual Information Retrieval

    Jacques Savoy, University of Neuchatel, Neuchâtel, Switzerland

    10.00 - 10.30   coffee break
    10.30 - 12.00

   Multimedia Information Retrieval 

   Stéphane Marchand-Maillet, University of Geneva, Switzerland

   12.00 - 16.30    skiing
   16.30 - 18.00

   TREC Style Evaluation

   Donna Harman, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, USA  

   18.00 - 18.15   short break
   18.15 - 19.45

  Metrics, Statistics, Tests

   Stephen RobertsonMicrosoft Research, Cambridge, UK

   20.00    Dinner

 

Thursday, 26 January:

    8.30 - 10.00     

  Number Visualization   

   Giuseppe Santucci, Sapienza, University of Rome, Italy

    10.00 - 10.30   coffee break
    10.30 - 12.00

  Visual Analytics

   Silvia Miksch, Vienna University of Technology, Vienna, Austria                                     

   12.00 - 16.30    skiing   
   16.30 - 18.00

   Web Personalisation

    Vincent P. Wade,Centre for Next Generation Localisation, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland

   18.00 - 18.15   short break
   18.15 - 19.45

  Log File Analysis

   Maarten de RijkeUniversity of Amsterdam, The Netherlands   

   20.00    Dinner

 

Friday, 27 January:

    8.30 - 10.00      

  Crowdsourcing  

   Gareth Jones, Centre for Next Generation Localisation, Dublin City University, Ireland

    10.00 - 10.30   coffee break
    10.30 - 12.00

  Retrieval from Social Media

   Alejandro Jaimes, Yahoo! Research Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

   12.30    bus back to the train station in Sierre