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 NTCIR-10 Conference
Keynotes 1


Title:  Knowledge in Search

by
Shashidhar (Shashi) Thakur, Google


Abstract:
Search engines are evolving from being a complex algorithm that matches user queries to web documents to one that also answers user questions directly. Having structured Knowledge about things in the world plays an important part towards this goal of answering questions. This talk will discuss how Google search has been going through a radical transformation in this direction. We will talk about some of the technologies behind the Google Knowledge Graph and its applications in search.

Biography:
Shashidhar (Shashi) Thakur is a Principal Engineer in the search team at Google. He led the team that brought the Google Knowledge Graph to search (more information). He has previously worked on different aspects of search ranging from spam detection to core ranking. Prior to Google, Shashi was a Distinguished Engineer at Synopsys Inc., working on algorithms behind tools that make digital chip design processes more efficient. He holds a PhD in Computer Science from University of Texas, Austin and a BTech in Computer Science from Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay. (More on the linkedin profile - http://www.linkedin.com/in/shashidharthakur )


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Keynotes 2


Title:  Time-Biased Gain

by
Charles Clarke, University of Waterloo, Canada


Abstract:
Time-biased gain provides a unifying framework for information retrieval evaluation, generalizing many traditional effectiveness measures while accommodating aspects of user behavior not captured by these measures. By using time as a basis for calibration against actual user data, time-biased gain can reflect aspects of the search process that directly impact user experience, including document length, near-duplicate documents, and summaries. Unlike traditional measures, which must be arbitrarily normalized for averaging purposes, time-biased gain is reported in meaningful units, such as the total number of relevant documents seen by the user. In work reported at SIGIR 2012, we proposed and validated a closed-form equation for estimating time-biased gain, explored its properties, and compared it to standard approaches. In work reported at CIKM 2012, we used stochastic simulation to numerically approximate time-biased gain, an approach that provides greater flexibility, allowing us to accommodate different types of user behavior and increases the realism of the effectiveness measure. In work reported at HCIR 2012, we extended our stochastic simulation to model the variation between users. In this talk, I will provide an overview of time-biased gain, and outline our ongoing and future work, including extensions to evaluate query suggestion, diversity, and whole-page relevance. This is joint work with Mark Smucker.

Biography:
Charles Clarke is a Professor in the School of Computer Science at the University of Waterloo, Canada. His research interests include information retrieval, web search, and text data mining. He has published on a wide range of topics, including papers related to question answering, XML, filesystem search, user interfaces, computational advertising, statistical natural language processing, and the evaluation of information retrieval systems. He is a co-author of the book Information Retrieval: Implementing and Evaluating Search Engines, MIT Press, 2010. He is co-Editor-in-Chief of the journal Information Retrieval. He is co-coordinator of the Web and Contextual Suggestion Tracks at TREC. He frequently serves on the program committees of information retrieval conferences, including SIGIR, CIKM, ECIR, and WSDM.

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