SIGIR 2007 Workshop

"Improving Web retrieval for non-English queries"

Amsterdam - 27 July 2007

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List of accepted papers:

  1. Invited talk by Maarten de Rijke Who's the user? Who's the researcher? (slides)
  2. How do Search Engines handle Greek Queries? (slides)
  3. A Fine-Grained Model for Language Identification (slides)
  4. Terrier takes on the non-English Web(slides)
  5. Querying the Greek Web in Greeklish (slides)
  6. Thesaurus topic assigment using hierarchical text categorization (slides)
  7. EusBila, a search service designed for the agglutinative nature of Basque (slides)
  8. Multilingual Query-Reformulation using RDF-OWL EuroWordNet (slides)
  9. More Accurate Fuzzy Text Search for Languages Using Abugida Scripts (not presented)
  10. Farsi e-Orthography: an Example of e-Orthography Concept (slides)
  11. N-Grams Conflation Approach for Arabic Text (slides)

Schedule

09:00 Introduction and welcome
09:15 Invited talk
10:00 Session 1 - full papers
* "How do Search Engines handle Greek Queries?"
Efthimis Efthimiadis, Nicos Malevris, Apostolos Kousaridas, Alexandra Lepeniotou and Nikolaos Loutas.
10:30 Coffee break
11:00 Session 2 - full papers
* "A Fine-Grained Model for Language Identification"
   Harald Hammarström.
* "Terrier takes on the non-English Web"
   Craig Macdonald, Christina Lioma and Iadh Ounis.
* "Querying the Greek Web in Greeklish"
   Paraskevi Tzekou, Sofia Stamou, Nikos Zotos and Eleftherios Kozanidis.
12:30 Lunch
14:00 Session 3 - short papers
* "N-Grams Conflation Approach for Arabic Text"
   Farag Ahmed and Andreas Nürnberger.
* "EusBila, a search service designed for the agglutinative nature of Basque"
   Igor Leturia Azkarate, Antton Gurrutxaga, Nerea Areta, Iñaki Alegria and Aitzol Ezeiza.
* "Multilingual Query-Reformulation using RDF-OWL EuroWordNet"
   Ernesto William De Luca, Martin Eul and Andreas Nürnberger.
* "Farsi e-Orthography: an Example of e-Orthography Concept"
   Behrang Qasemizadeh.
* "Thesaurus topic assigment using hierarchical text categorization"
   Francisco Ribadas, Erica Lloves-Calvino and Víctor Manuel Darriba.
* "More Accurate Fuzzy Text Search for Languages Using Abugida Scripts"
   Anil Kumar Singh, Harshit Surana and Karthik Gali.
15:30 Coffee break
16:00 Structured Discussion to generate research agenda
17:00 Close