Sunday, December 21, 2008

FIRE 2008 at Kolkata

FIRE (Forum For Information Retrieval Evaluation) Workshop 2008 at Kolkata, Dec 13-15

Talks
Donna Harman - failure analysis
Xerox - Nicola Cancedda - CCA for EU langs
Kalervo Jaervelin - Finland - morph analysis
Noriko Kando, Tatsuya Sakai - NTCIR, Galaxy of Words - interaction in IR
Doug Ouard - Univ. of Maryland
Carol Peters - CLEF
Mark Sanderson - Diversity in results (evaluation using clustering)
CLIA (Cross-Lingual Information Access) - an-India project (IITB/K, IIITH,ISI,JU,AU) - building IR for Indian lang + building resources for that (dic,corp,Ont,Rules etc.)

Runs
JHU - n-grams,skipgrams, lang-indep
Univ. of Neuchatel (Jacques Savoy) (recommended reading by Donna Harman) - various techniques - Okapi,BM25, DFR (prob), LM (stat), tf.idf, data fusion

Others
Measures - MAP is the most preferred, Prec. vs. Recall also used, Performance never discussed
People - Manoj Chinnakotla, Vishal Vachnani, Ashish Almeida, Pavitro Mitra (IITKgp)

Upcoming confs
NE workshop at ACL-IJCNLP - NE task - Dates - Task details - Jan 31 - Paper submsn - May 01 - acl-ijcnlp-2009.org/workshops/NEWS2009
Workshop in CLIA - talks and papers - search.iiit.ac.in/CLIA2009 - Dates: Mar 06 - paper subm
Discourse Anaphora and Anaphora Resolution Colloquium (DAARC2009) - Nov 5-6 2009, Goa - www.au-kbc.org/daarc2009 - Dates: April 25 - pap subm,