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Workshop on Challenges in Information Retrieval and Language Modeling Wrap-up and action items

Workshop on Challenges in Information Retrieval and Language Modeling Wrap-up and action items. September 11-12, 2002 Amherst, Massachusetts. Missing talks. Rich. Formalisms Djoerd, JohnL, JayP, Steve, Howard Cross-language IR Wessel, Philip, Salim, Jinxi, Ralph Web search

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Workshop on Challenges in Information Retrieval and Language Modeling Wrap-up and action items

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  1. Workshop on Challenges in Information Retrieval and Language ModelingWrap-up and action items September 11-12, 2002Amherst, Massachusetts

  2. Missing talks • Rich

  3. Formalisms Djoerd, JohnL, JayP, Steve, Howard Cross-language IR Wessel, Philip, Salim, Jinxi, Ralph Web search Jamie, DavidH, Thomas, Roni, Amit, Alan, Cheng Filtering, TDT, and classification DaveL, Rich, Jamie, Victor User modeling James, Nick, Anton, Sue, Norbert Summarization Wessel, Drago, Donna, Ed LM/IR toolkit n/a? Testbed (new) Chris, Salim, Ralph, Amit, JohnL, Philip, Drago Question answering Bruce, Ed, Liz, Andrew, JohnP, Ralph, Drago Meta-search and distributed retrieval JayA, Jamie, Manmatha, Mark, Ellen Multimedia Alan, Manmatha, Mark, Rich, Thomas Teams

  4. Area report contents • Motivation • List of 3-5-year challenges • Needs to tackle these problems • Evaluation environment (cf. Salim et al) • Software (e.g., Lemur) • Language modeling: successes and hopes • Few suggestions for Grand challenge(s)

  5. Report deadlines • First draft within team ASAP • Draft to everyone by September 23 • Revised draft by October 7 • Integrated report by October 15 • Final report by October 29  • Published in Autumn SIGIR Forum

  6. Reimbursements • Contact Jill Lentz at CMU • Contact information on Web page • Will fund guarantees first (e.g., hotel) • Once we know available funds, will start handing them out to defer other costs • Probably means submitting all your expenses to Jill at once

  7. Missing areas • Non-text media • Problems we’d like the database community to address • ...information extractors… etc

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