Web Search: Presentations from the Workshop: The Future of Web Search

Web Search: Presentations from the Workshop: The Future of Web Search
This event brought together researchers from around the globe. It was held in Barcelona — May 19-20, 2006. Many presentations. Here are a few that caught my eye at first glance. Visit this page to find links to all of the presentations. All presentations are PDF files.

+ Keynote: From query based Information Retrieval to context driven Information Supply
by Andrei Broder, Yahoo

+ Keynote: Efficient Top-k Queries for XML Information Retrieval
by Gerhard Weikum, Max Planck Institute, Germany

+ Using Rank Propagation and Probabilistic Counting for Link-based Spam Detection

+ Estimating Corpus Size via Queries

+ “Tuning”: Error Optimisation in Ad-Hoc Retrieval

+ Mobile Search on Ubiquitous Collaborative Annotations of Space

+ Image Search “Live”

+ Boosting Performance of Web Search Engines Using Query Logs
Many more presentations listed here.

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