2nd ACM iNEWS08: Improving Non-English Web Searching

Dr Trystan Upstill, Google (http://cs.anu.edu.au/~Trystan.Upstill/)


Dr Belle Tseng, Yahoo (http://www.linkedin.com/in/belletseng)

Accepted papers (ACM DL)

  1. Juan Otero, Jesus Vilares and Manuel Vilares Ferro, "Corrupted Queries in Spanish Text Retrieval: Error Correction vs. N-Grams" (full)
  2. Dan Wu, Daqing He and Heng Ji, "A Study of Using an Out-Of-Box Commercial MT System for Query Translation in CLIR" (full)
  3. Wei Gao, John Blitzer and Ming Zhou, "Using English Information in Non-English Web Search" (full)
  4. Eiman Alshammari and Jessica Lin, "Towards an Error-Free Arabic STEMMING" (full)
  5. Georgios Paltoglou, Michail Salampasis and Fotis Lazarinis, "Indexing and retrieval of a Greek corpus" (full)
  6. Srinivasan Janarthanam, Sethu Ramalingam and Udhyakumar Nallasamy, "Named Entity Transliteration for Cross-Language Information Retrieval using Compressed Word Format mapping algorithm" (full)
  7. Sofia Stamou, Lefteris kozanidis, Paraskevi Tzekou and Nikos Zotos, "Query Selection for Improved Greek Web Searches" (full)
  8. Tetsuya Shibata and Koji Eguchi, "Automatic Query Structuring from Sentences for Japanese Web Retrieval" (full)
  9. Milagros Fern?ndez Gavilanes, Manuel Vilares Ferro and Eric de la Clergerie, "Mining Conceptual Graphs for Knowledge Acquisition-" (full)
  10. Jos?© Aires, Jos?© Lopes and Joaquim Silva, "Efficient Multi-Word Expressions Extractor Using Suffix Arrays and Related Structures" (full)
  11. Xuerui Wang, Andrei Broder, Evgeniy Gabrilovich, Vanja Josifovski and Boh Pang, "Cross-Lingual Query Classification: a Preliminary study" (short)
  12. Fotis Lazarinis and Efthimis Efthimiadis, "Measuring search engine quality in image queries in 10 non-English languages: an exploratory study" (short)
  13. Abolfazl AleAhmad, Hadi Amiri, Masoud Rahgozar and Farhad Oroumchian, "Experiments with Persian Text Retrieval" (short)
  14. Efthimis Efthimiadis, "How do Greeks search the web? A search log analysis study." (short)
  15. Choochart Haruechaiyasak, Sarawoot Kongyoung and Chaianun Damrongrat, "LearnLexTo: A Machine-Learning Based Word Segmentation for Indexing Thai Texts" (short)
  16. Kashif Riaz, "Baseline for Urdu IR Evaluation" (short)
  17. Dipasree Pal, Prasenjit Majumder, Mandar Mitra, Sukanya Mitra and Aparajita Sen, "Issues in Searching for Indian Language Web Content" (short)

Demo

Venkat Ramdass, A universal transliteration approach to web input methods (slide and demo paper)

Workshop schedule

08.00 - 08.50: Registration, poster hanging on the walls

08.50 - 09.00: Welcome

09.00 - 09.30: Poster boaster session

09.30 - 10.30: Keynote: Belle Tseng, Yahoo

10.30 - 11.00: Common Coffee Break (and posters)

11:00 - 12:00: Session 1: Oral presentations

12:00 - 12:30: Introduction to breakout sessions and Posters

12.30 - 14.00: Lunch (and posters)

14.00 – 15:00: Keynote: Trystan Upstill, Google

15.00 - 15.30: Breakout sessions

15:30 - 16:00: Common Coffee Break (and posters)

16.00 - 16.45: Report back from breakouts and workshop-wide discussion

16.45 - 17.00: Closing

17:30 - 18:30: Wine tasting hour in Marriott Hotel