Slavko Žitnik, PhD Posts

As I have already mentioned, the Videolectures.net team was capturing the main summer school’s track. You can access their material at: http://videolectures.net/essir2011_koblenz/

On the last day of the summer school, Peter Ingwersen was giving a double lecture of information seeking. He introduced us some theoretical models, variables and their uses. This models are meant for the architecture of a search engine and are independent of index implementation. In the last part, he…

Yesterday the first two lessons were held by Stefan Rueger from Knowledge media institute. He talked about multimedia search (images, videos), indexing etc. There were some similarities to wednesday’s symposium on bias. The main problem he addressed is about semantic gap in image recognition. We have methods to extract data…

On the fourth day of the ESSIR we had PhD symposiums or presentation of Livingknowledge project work. I have chosen Livingknowledge project: Bias and diversity sessions. In the first part Richard Johannson from Trento presented us Opinion Extraction from coarse to fine-grained methods. For coarse classification (useful for larger text…

Today Ricardo Baeza-Yates was the keynote speaker. He is very famous researcher in the field of Information Retrieval and leads the Yahoo! Research Labs. The keynote was mostly about webscale algorithms and some interesting IR insights. One of them is the notion of adversarial level of access for the internet…