Reminder: [IR discussion Series] Rosie Jones,Tomorrow 11am @ NSH 3002

[Grace Hui Yang]

Grace Hui Yang wrote:
> Dear all,
>   We are pleased to have Rosie Jones from Yahoo! research to give her 
> talk on Web Search Sessions next Thursday. Please mark your calender 
> for her talk. Lunch will be provided by Yahoo!.
>    See you then!
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> 3002 Newell-Simon Hall
> Thursday, October 9, 2008
> 11:00am-12pm
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> Speaker :  Rosie Jones
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> Title:  Web Search Sessions
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> Abstract:  Traditionally, information retrieval examines the search
> query in
> isolation: a query is used to retrieve documents, and the relevance of
> the documents returned are evaluated in relation to that query. However,
> users typically conduct web and other types of searches in sessions,
> issuing a query, examining results, and the re-issuing a modified 
> query to
> improve the results. We decribe the properties of real web search
> sessions, and show that users conduct searches for both broad and finer
> grained tasks, which can be both interleaved and nested. We show that 
> user
> search reformulations can be mined to identify related terms, and that we
> can identify the boundaries between tasks with greater accuracy than
> previous methods.
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> Bio:
> Rosie Jones is a Senior Research Scientist at Yahoo!. Her research
> interests include web search, geographic information retrieval, and 
> natural
> language processing. She received her PhD from the Language Technologies
> Institute at Carnegie Mellon University under the
> supervision of Tom Mitchell, where her doctoral thesis was titled 
> Learning
> to Extract Entities from Labeled and Unlabeled Text. She is co-organizing
> the WSDM 2009 Workshop on Web Search Click Data (WSCD09). She served on
> the Senior PC for SIGIR in 2007 and 2008, and is a Senior Member of the
> ACM.
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