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Industry Day 2010

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Hinrich Schütze
IR, NLP, and visualization
In the last ten years natural language processing (NLP) has become an essential part of many information retrieval systems, mainly in the guise of question answering, summarization, machine translation and preprocessing such as decompounding. However, most of these methods are shallow. More complex natural language processing is not yet sufficiently reliable to be used in IR. I will discuss how new visualization technology and rich interactive environments offer new opportunities for complex NLP in IR.

Short Bio: Hinrich Schütze is best known for co-authoring the standard reference book on statistical natural language processing (http://nlp.stanford.edu/fsnlp/) (Google Scholar lists more than 4,700 citations of this book). His new book "Introduction to Information Retrieval" (http://nlp.stanford.edu/IR-book/information-retrieval-book.html) (co-authored with Chris Manning and Prabhakar Raghavan) was published in 2008 and has already been adopted by many IR courses throughout the world. Dr. Schütze obtained his PhD from Stanford University and has worked for a number of Silican Valley companies, including two large search engines and several text mining startups. He is currently Chair of Theoretical Computational Linguistics at the University of Stuttgart (www.ims.uni-stuttgart.de/~schuetze/).
Barry Smyth
Web Search Futures: Personal, Collaborative, Social
In this talk we will discuss where Web search may be heading, focusing on a number of large-scale research projects that are trying to develop the "next big thing" in Web search. We will consider some important recent initiatives on how to improve the quality of the Web search experience by helping search engines to respond to our individual needs and preferences. In turn, we will focus on some innovative work on how to take advantage of the inherently collaborative nature of Web search as we discuss recent attempts to develop so-called "social search engines"

Short Bio: Barry Smyth is a Professor of Computer Science in University College Dublin. Barry Graduated with a PhD in Computer Science from Trinity College Dublin in 1996 and his research interests include artificial intelligence, machine learning, case-based reasoning, and information retrieval with a core focus on recommender systems and personalization technologies. In 1999 Barry co-founded ChangingWorlds as a UCD campus company to commercialize personalization technologies for the mobile sector, helping to grow the company to more than 150 people before it was acquired by Amdocs Inc. in late 2008. Today Barry is the Director of CLARITY, the SFI-funded Centre for Sensor Web Technologies, and a joint initiative between University College Dublin, Dublin City University, and the Tyndall National Institute.
Keynote 3: Winner of the Karen Spärck Jones Award 2010