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SIGIR 2007 News letter for May 2007
The 30th Annual International ACM SIGIR
Conference
23-27 July 2007, Amsterdam
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In this edition:
1. Early bird registration before 15 June 2007
2. Book your hotel as soon as possible
3. How to obtain an invitation letter for a visa
4. Complete preliminary conference schedule on-line
5. Preliminary programme for the SIGIR Industry Event
6. SIGIR provides excellent tutorials
7. TNO-ICT sponsors the SIGIR Industry Event
8. Fredhopper sponsors SIGIR at the bronze level
9. Submissions for most SIGIR workshops to close
10. Important Dates
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1. Early bird registration before 15 June 2007
We received already many registrations for the conference.
Early bird
registration is still possible: SIGIR offers reduced
registration fee
if registration and payment is received before 15 June 2007.
Furthermore, there are reduced fees for members of ACM,
BCS-IRSG, ARIA,
FGI, WGI, and SIKS.
Register now on: http://www
.sigir2007.org/registration.html
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2. Book your hotel as soon as possible
July is in the middle of tourist season in Amsterdam, so we
recommend
strongly to book early for your visit to the SIGIR 2007
conference.
Online reservations are managed by RAI Hotel & Travel
Service. They
can book a room for you at the conference hotel, the NH
Grand Hotel
Krasnapolsky. If you prefer not to stay there, RAI Hotel
& Travel
Service has carefully selected different hotels in the city
centre
of Amsterdam, at the best rates. We offer hotels for every
budget -
including 4-person rooms at one of Amsterdam's famous youth
hostels.
See: http://ww
w.sigir2007.org/accommodation.html
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3. How to obtain an invitation letter for a visa
The conference organisation receives many reguests for
invitation
letters to obtain a visa to travel to the Netherlands. The
procedure is simple: The registration form has a box to tick
if
you require an invitation letter for a visa. The visa letter
is sent
as soon as you have registered and we have received your
payment.
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4. Complete preliminary conference schedule on-line
The complete perliminary conference schedule is now on-line.
Some
small details might still change, but it gives a complete
detailed
overview of the entire program.
See: http://www.sig
ir2007.org/schedule.html
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5. Preliminary programme for the SIGIR Industry Event
The first Industry Event is proud to announce an excellent
preliminary
programme of speakers.
* Omar Alonso from SAP discusses sensemaking in the
enterprise,
where the Orcatec LCC speaker presents on legal
discovery and
litigation support.
* Hugh Williams from Microsoft and Byron Dom from Yahoo!
will
discuss topics in search for end-users.
* Vertical search is treated by Thomas Mandl, who assesses
54
website search applications, while Craig Scott from
Elsevier
Scirus explains how web data has been integrated within
Scopus.
* Daniel Tunkelang from Endeca puts the user experience in
the
spotlight, where Fredhopper's Ronny Roeller dives into
facetted
search for e-commerce.
* Collexis speaks on thesauri construction in the language
technology session, and Jakub Zavrel from Textkernel
will talk
on information extraction and web mining.
Our practitioner's panel discusses with the audience their
challenges
in applying search solutions. We expect to finalize the
programme
with more contributions on mobile search, web search and
e-commerce.
See: h
ttp://www.sigir2007.org/news/20070512prelimie.html
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6. SIGIR provides excellent tutorials
Tutorials will take place on Monday 23 July at the
University of
Amsterdam. Tutorials take half a day, so you can register
for
two half-day tutorials. The following tutorials are
offered:
* Conducting Interactive IR User Studies by Diane Kelly
from
the University of North Carolina
* Introduction to Web Retrieval and Advertising by Ricardo
Baeza-Yates, Andrei Broder, and Prabhakar Raghavan from
Yahoo Research
* Introduction to Text Mining by David Lewis of Lewis
Consulting
* The Probabilistic Relevance Model: BM25 and Beyond by
Hugo Zaragoza and Stephen Robertson from Yahoo Research
and Microsoft Research
* Cross-Language Information Access by Jianqiang Wang and
Daqing He from SUNY Buffalo and the University of
Pittsburgh
* Supervised and Semi-Supervised Learning for IR by Yi
Zhang
and Rong Jin from UC Santa Cruz and Michigan State
University
* XML Retrieval: Integrated IR-DB Challenges and Solutions
by
Sihem Amer-Yahia, Ricardo Baeza-Yates, Mariano Consens,
and
Mounia Lalmas from Yahoo Research, University of
Toronto, and
Queen Mary University bond
* Introduction to Recommender Systems by Joseph Konstan
from
University of Minnesota
For more information, see: http://www.si
gir2007.org/tutorials.html
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7. TNO-ICT sponsors the SIGIR Industry Event
TNO Information and Communication Technology sponsors the
SIGIR 2007
Industry Event. TNO Information and Communication Technology
is a
unique centre of innovation in the Netherlands. TNO helps
companies,
government bodies and (semi-)public organisations to realise
successful
innovations in ICT. Value creation for clients is TNO's
priority, and
their added value lies in the combination of innovative
strength and
in-depth knowledge. TNO's approach to innovation is
integrated and
practical. Where necessary, TNO also focuses on
user-friendliness,
financial aspects, and business processes. TNO supports the
implementation process by carrying out technical and market
trials.
TNO is also a specialist in innovation strategy and policy.
For more
information please visit http://www.tno.nl/.
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8. Fredhopper sponsors SIGIR at the bronze level
Fredhopper is the No.1 provider of onsite search &
merchandising
solutions for online business in Europe and behind the
scenes of many
of the largest online businesses. Customers include many of
the largest
online businesses such as B&Q, Neckermann, Quelle,
Philips Electronics,
Littlewoods Shop Direct Group, Thomas Cook, Waitrose and
Woolworths.
Fredhopper has product development centers in Amsterdam and
Sofia.
For more information: http://www.fredhopper.com/
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9. Submissions for most SIGIR workshops to close
The purpose of SIGIR workshops is to provide a platform for
presenting
novel ideas in a less formal and possibly more focused way
than the
conference itself. As such, they also offer a good
opportunity for
young researchers to present their work and to obtain
feedback from
an interested community. Workshops will take place on
Friday, 27
July 2007 at the University of Amsterdam. SIGIR offers the
following
workshops:
* Learning to Rank for Information Retrieval
* Web Information Seeking and Interaction
* Plagiarism Analysis, Authorship Identification, and
Near-Duplicate
Detection
* Improving Web retrieval for non-English queries
* Multimedia Information Retrieval
* Large scale Distributed Systems for Information
Retrieval
* Information retrieval and applications of graphical
models
* Focused Retrieval
* Searching Spontaneous Conversational Speech
Some workshops still take paper submissions. For details,
see:
http://www.si
gir2007.org/workshops.html
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10. Important Dates
End of May 2007: Submission dead line for most workshops
(check the
individual workshops web sites via
http://www.si
gir2007.org/workshops.html)
June 15 2007: Dead line for early registration with
reduced fee.
July 23-27, 2007: Conference in Amsterdam
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