Information Retrieval Seminar 2010
December 12, 2010
Organized by IBM R&D Labs in Israel
IBM Research Lab Auditorium, Haifa
Program
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8:30 Registration
9:15 Opening Remarks, Aya Soffer, Director, Information Management Analytics 9:30 Semantic Advertising in a Real-Time Media Buying Environment - Challenges and Solutions, Jonathan Schler, Chief Technology Officer, General Manager, Peer39 Israel 10:00 Analysis of Contact Center Customer Interactions, Ezra Daya, Text Analytics Research Team Leader, Analytics Technologies Group, IBA, R&D, NICE Systems Ltd., Israel 10:30 Extracting User Profiles from Large-Scale Data, Michal Shmueli-Sheuer, IBM R&D Labs in Israel 11:00 Break 11:15 Automatic Generation of Semantics Using Large Web Repositories, Shaul Markovitch, Computer Science Department, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology 11:45 A Sarcasm Detector - That's a Real Useful Invention, Oren Tsur, Computational Cognitive Linguistics Lab, Department of Computer Science, Hebrew University |
12:15 Tag-Cloud Generation in Sparsely Tagged
Domains, David Carmel, IBM R&D Labs in Israel 12:45 Demos: Five-Minute Madness 13:15 Lunch and demos 14:15 Keynote: Open Information Extraction at Web Scale, Oren Etzioni, Director of the Turing Center, University of Washington 15:15 Break 15:30 Semi-Supervised Topic Models for Semantic Exploratory Search –Application to the Domain of Halachic Texts, Michael Elhadad, Department of Computer Science, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev 16:00 Graph Walk Similarity Measures for Parsed Text, Einat Minkov, Department of Information Systems, University of Haifa 16:30 Concluding Remarks 16:45 Demos Reception |
