Programme

ADCS 2013 Programme

All symposium activities will be located in the Science and Engineering Centre, P-Block of QUT Gardens Point Campus.

All the sessions (except for the poster session) will be located in the Kindler Theatre, P421 (outside level 4)

Thursday, December 5th

8.30am Registration starts - level 5

8.50 ADCS 2013 opening

9:00-10:00 Keynote

Leif Azzopardi - Economic Models of Search

10:00-10.30 Morning Tea- level 5

10.30-12pm ADCS Session 1

Timothy Chappell, Shlomo Geva, Guido Zuccon and Anthony Nguyen. Efficient Top-K Retrieval with Signatures

Matthias Petri, Shane Culpepper and Alistair Moffat. Exploring the magic of WAND

Laurence Park and Simeon Simoff. Power Walk: Revisiting the Random Surfer

12:00-13.30 Lunch - The Terrace, level 6

13.30-15:00 ADCS Session 2

Falk Scholer, Alistair Moffat and Paul Thomas. Choices in Information Retrieval Evaluation

Antti Puurula and Sung-Hyon Myaeng. Integrated Instance- and Class-based Generative Modeling for Text Classification

Sarvnaz Karimi, Jie Yin and Cecile Paris. Classifying Microblogs For Disasters

15:00-15.30 Afternoon Tea - Level 5

15.30-16.30 ADCS Session 3

Pengfei Li, Paul Thomas and David Hawking. Merging algorithms for enterprise search

Bevan Koopman, Guido Zuccon, Lance De Vine, Aneesha Bakharia, Peter Bruza, Laurianne Sitbon and Andrew Gibson. ADCS Reaches Adulthood: An Analysis of the Conference and its Community over the last Eighteen Years

16.30-17.30 Best Paper awards and ADCS Business meeting

19:00 til late - Dinner at the Plough Inn, South Bank*

*at delegates expenses

Friday, December 6th

9:00-10:00 Keynote (shared session with ALTA)

Mark Steedman - Robust Computational Semantics

10.00-10.30 Morning Tea - level 5

10.30-12.30 - ADCS/ALTA shared session

Takumi Sonoda and Takao Miura. Conditional Collocation in Japanese

Hanna Suominen and Leif Hanlen. Visual Text Summarisation for Surveillance and Situational Awareness in Hospitals

Antti Puurula. Cumulative Progress in Language Models for Information Retrieval

Stephen Wan and Cecile Paris. A Study: From Electronic Laboratory Notebooks to Generated Queries for Literature Recommendation

12.30-14:00 Lunch - The Terrace, level 6

14:00-15:00 ADCS Session 4

Hilal Al Maqbali, Falk Scholer, James A. Thom and Mingfang Wu. Using Eye Tracking for Evaluating Web Search Interfaces

David Hawking and Kathy Griffiths. An enterprise search paradigm based on extended query auto-completion. Do we still need search and navigation?

15:00-15:15 Poster Boosters - The Cube, level 4

15:15-17:00 Posters and cocktail

Ameer Albaham and Naomie Salim. Quality Biased Thread Retrieval using the Voting Model

Matt Crane, Andrew Trotman and Richard O'Keefe. Malformed UTF-8 and Spam

Diego Molla, David Martinez and Iman Amini. Towards Information Retrieval Evaluation with Limited Positive Judgements

Karl Kreiner, Aapo Immonen and Hanna Suominen. From Social-Media Data to Crisis-Management Knowledge: Engineering and Evaluating an Expert System

Andrew Trotman, Xiang-Fei Jia and Matt Crane. Managing Short Postings Lists