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