[kdd] Call for Participation: SIGIR 2014 Tutorial on Dynamic Information Retrieval Modeling

[Marc Sloan]

Call for participation:

 

A half-day tutorial on July 7th afternoon on Dynamic Information Retrieval
Modeling by Hui Yang, Marc Sloan and Jun Wang at the 37th annual
international ACM SIGIR conference 2014 (July 6-11 2014, Gold Coast,
Australia)

 

Abstract:
 

Dynamic aspects of Information Retrieval (IR), including changes found in
data, users and systems, are increasingly being utilized in search engines
and information filtering systems. Examples include large datasets
containing sequential data capturing document dynamics and modern IR systems
observing user dynamics through interactivity. Existing IR techniques are
limited in their ability to optimize over changes, learn with minimal
computational footprint and be responsive and adaptive.

 

The objective of this tutorial is to provide a comprehensive and up-to-date
introduction to Dynamic Information Retrieval Modeling. Dynamic IR Modeling
is the statistical modeling of IR systems that can adapt to change. It is a
natural follow-up to previous statistical IR modeling tutorials with a fresh
look on state-of-the-art dynamic retrieval models and their applications
including session search and online advertising. The tutorial will cover
techniques ranging from classic relevance feedback to the latest
applications of partially observable Markov decision processes (POMDPs) and
will present to fellow researchers and practitioners a handful of useful
algorithms and tools for solving IR problems incorporating dynamics.
 

After this tutorial, attendees will:

* Have a sound understanding of how to identify the dynamic aspects of an IR
problem

* Be able to utilize a Markov Decision Process in their IR models so as to
incorporate dynamic elements

* Have knowledge of how such models are already used in state-of-the-art
research

 

More information can be found on the tutorial and SIGIR website 

 

http://www.dynamic-ir-modeling.org/


http://sigir.org/sigir2014/finaltutorials.php#DIR

 

Information about registration and attendance can be found on the SIGIR
website


http://sigir.org/sigir2014/index.php
 

 

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