The Thomson ISI Annual
Samuel Lazerow Memorial Lecture
Sponsored by The Information School
Mary Gates Hall, room 389
March 29, 2006, 4:00-5:00 PM
(refreshments will be served before and after the talk)
Speaker: Kalervo Jarvelin, Professor, University of
Tampere, Finland
Title: "Ontology-Based Searching in Unannotated Text
Collections"
Abstract:
The web enables the information seeker to access billions of
digital
documents in many different languages. Without general
standards for
document representation, searching can be as confusing as it
is
rewarding. In his talk, Professor Kalervo Jarvelin from the
University
of Tampere (Finland) will consider the current methodologies
for online
searching, including the semantic web and the IR tradition.
He will then
present Quccoo (QUery ConstruCtion with OntolOgies), his
multilingual
ontology-based search interface, designed as an alternative
for
unannotated collections when content standards cannot be
enforced.
Bio:
Kalervo (Kal) Jarvelin, this year's speaker, has been a
Professor in
Information Studies at the University of Tampere in Finland
since 1996
and an Academy Professor at the Academy of Finland from
2004-09. He
holds a Ph.D. in Information Studies from the University of
Tampere. Kal
Jarvelin's research covers information seeking and
retrieval, database
management, especially structured documents; and linguistic
and
conceptual methods in IR. He has authored over 200 scholarly
publications and supervised over 10 doctoral dissertations.
Kal has served on the ACM SIGIR Conferences as a program
committee
member from 1992-2005, Conference Chair in 2002 and Program
Co-Chair in
2004 and 2006. He is currently an editorial board member of
Information
Processing and Management (USA).
Location Information:
The lecture takes place in Mary Gates Hall Room 389. Mary
Gates Hall is
located near the center of the UW Seattle campus. View a
campus map of
the location. Paid parking is available in the Central Plaza
Garage
below Kane Hall.
Driving Directions: From I-5, take the NE 45th Street exit
(#169). Turn
east onto NE 45th Street. Continue east about one quarter
mile to 15th
Avenue NE and turn right. Head south on 15th Avenue three
blocks to NE
41st Street. Turn left at Gate #1 into the Central Plaza
Garage. Stop at
the gatehouse inside the garage for directions and a parking
permit.
Information on the Thomson ISI Samuel Lazerow Lecture
Series:
The distinguished Samuel Lazerow Lecture, an annual event,
is sponsored
by Thomson ISI's Corporate Awards Program (http://www.isinet.com/
<http://www.isinet.com/>
). The Lecture Series was established by ISI in
1983, to honor the memory of Samuel Lazerow, who was an
outstanding
librarian, administrator, and pioneer in library automation.
The Information School, Improving Lives ... Through
Information.
www.ischool.washington.edu
Co-sponsored by the ASIS&T UW Student Chapter
(http://students.
washington.edu/asis/
<http://stude
nts.washington.edu/asis/> )
For more information about this event contact Reca
Washington:
mailto:reca u.washington.edu, (206) 543-4794
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Efthimis N. Efthimiadis <efthimisu.washington.edu>
Associate Professor
The Information School, University of Washington
Suite 370 Mary Gates Hall, Box 352840
Seattle, WA 98195-2840, USA
tel.(off.) 206-616-6077, (sch) 206-685-9937, fax.
206-616-3152
http://faculty
.washington.edu/efthimis
http://www.sigir2006.org
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