Some really interesting and informative reading for your already full reading lists. The conference took place in The Hague, The Netherlands, 19-20 April 2004. Here's a selected list of the presentations. I STRONGLY urge you to review the entire list. The page also contains bio info for all speeakers. All of the presentations are either pdf or ppt files.
+ Quantity versus quality?
Karen Sp�rck Jones, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge, UK
+ The Subtle Side of Retrieval
Elizabeth Liddy, Syracuse University, New York, USA
+ Text and XML querying - Is There a Common Ground?
Prabhakar Raghavan, Verity, California, USA
+ Product Intro: A Holistic Approach to Search
Tuoc Luong, Ask Jeeves, California, USA
+ Information Retrieval: A Single Point of Access
Susan Feldman, IDC, Connecticut, USA
+ Double the Value of Search Using User Behaviour
Laust Sondergaard, Mondosoft, Denmark
+ Social Software and New Search
Stephen E Arnold, AIT, Kentucky, USA
+ Human Intervention in the Search Process
Martin Belam, BBCi Search, UK
+ Learning to Harvest Information for the Semantic Web
Fabio Ciravegna, University of Sheffield, UK
+ Formalising the Concept of Serendipity in Web Searching
Olivier Ertzscheid, University of Toulouse, and Gabriel Gallezot, University of Nice
+ Turbo10: The Mechanics of a Deep Net Metasearch Engine
Nigel Hamilton, Turbo10.com, UK
+ A Relevance Model for Web Image Search
Ethan V. Munson and Cheng Thao, University of Wisconsin, USA
+ Access to Archives of Digital Video Information
Alan Smeaton, Dublin City University"
posted by Jen @ 8:04 AM
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