SIGIR 2010 Industry Track
Thursday, July 22nd 2010
Following the success of the SIGIR 2007 Industry Event and the SIGIR 2009 Industry Track, this year’s SIGIR conference includes again an Industry Track during the regular conference program, and in parallel with the technical tracks. The Industry Track's objectives are twofold. The first objective is presenting the state-of-the-art in search, delivered as keynote talks by influential technical leaders from the search industry. The second objective of the Industry Track is the presentation of interesting, novel, and innovative ideas from the search industry.
Session 09:00 - 10:15
Keynote by William Chang, Baidu
Keynote by Yossi Matias, Google
Session 10:45 - 12:00
Keynote by Jan Pedersen, Bing
Keynote by Ilya Segalovich, Yandex
Session 14:00 - 15:40
- The new frontiers of Web search: going beyond the 10 blue links
Ricardo Baeza-Yates, Andrei Broder, Yoelle Maarek, and Prabhakar Raghavan, Yahoo! Labs
- Cross-Language Information Retrieval in the Legal Domain
Samir Abdou and Thomas Arni, Eurospider
- Building and Configuring a Real-Time Indexing System
Garret Swart, Ravi Palakodety, Mohammad Faisal, Wesley Lin, Oracle
- Lessons and Challenges from Product Search
Daniel E. Rose, A9.com
Session 16:10 - 17:25
- Being Social: Research in Context-aware and Personalized Information Access @ Telefonica
Xavier Amatriain, Karen Church and Josep M. Pujol, Telefónica
- Searching and Finding in a Long Tail Marketplace
Neel Sundaresan, eBay
- When No Clicks are Good News
Carlos Castillo, Aris Gionis, Ronny Lempel, and Yoelle Maarek, Yahoo! Research