3rd SIKS/Twente Seminar on Searching and Ranking

                January 29, 2010
              University of Twente
            Enschede, The Netherlands

The goal of the one day workshop is to bring together researchers from
companies and academia working on the effectiveness of search engines.
Keynote speakers are:

    * Leif Azzopardi (University of Glasgow, UK)
    * Vanessa Murdock (Yahoo Research, Barcelona, Spain)

The workshop will take place at the University of Twente at the
Spiegel (building 2), lecture hall SP-6.

Program

10:30   Coffee and Welcome
11:00   Usage Based Effectiveness Measures
        Leif Azzopardi (University of Glasgow, UK)
11:45   Title to be announced
        Arjen de Vries (CWI and University of Delft)
12:30   Lunch
13:30   Leveraging User-Generated Content for GeoVation
        Vanessa Murdock (Yahoo Research, Barcelona)
14:15   Closing
14:45   Predicting the Effectiveness of Queries and Retrieval Systems
        PhD defense of Claudia Hauff (University of Twente)

Sponsors

 * Netherlands research School for Information and Knowledge Systems
 * Centre for Telematics and Information Technology,
   SRO Natural Interaction in Computer-mediated Environments

Registration

Please send your name and affiliation to ssr@lists.utwente.nl if you
plan to participate in the seminar, and help us estimate the required
catering.

SSR 2010 is organized by Franciska de Jong and Djoerd Hiemstra.