Published reports from the conference "The Future of Web Search"

The scientific conference "The Future of Web Search" was held May 19-20 in Barcelona (Spain) and was organized with the participation of Yahoo. Some time later, reports were published online.

The list of presentations includes 26 scientific papers on a variety of topics: link analysis, algorithms, information retrieval, data structuring, search integration with other media, data mining. Scientists from Germany, Spain, USA, Great Britain, Italy, Finland, Hungary, Israel, Canada and Holland, as well as researchers from Yahoo, told about their developments.

Habrahabr publishes a full list of presentations with links to PDF files. Each of the presentations includes key slides. There are various numbers of slides: from six to three dozen, but they are usually extremely saturated with information. These are the main theses of work plus the accompanying graphs and formulas. By the way, many of the scientific works can be found in the public domain on the Internet in the archives of scientific journals.

Link Analysis
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" Graph Bundle: Graph and Isomorphism of PageRank" (Graph Fibrations, graph isomorphism and PageRank, PDF);

Theoretical Analysis of Link Analysis Ranking (PDF);

“Using position spread and probabilistic counting to detect link spam” (Using Rank Propagation and Probabilistic Counting for Link-based Spam Detection, PDF);

“Searching the Web with Close Approximation” (Searching the Web with Low Space Approximations, PDF).

Algorithm

“Estimating sample size using queries” (Estimating Corpus Size via Queries, PDF);

“Compact indexing of document versions” (Compact indexing of versioned data, PDF);

“Music (p) Spheres” (Music of the (p) Spheres, PDF);

“Mixed Models and Collaborative Filtering Algorithms ” (Mixture Models and Collaborative Filtering Algorithms, PDF);

"Efficient" lazy "algorithms for semantics with minimal intervals" (Efficient Lazy Algorithms for Minimal-Interval Semantics, PDF).

Retrieval Foundations Basics

Application of Influence Diagrams for Information Extraction (Applications of Influence Diagrams to Information Retrieval, PDF);

“Tuning: optimizing errors when extracting data on the fly” (“Tuning”: Error Optimization in Ad-Hoc Retrieval, PDF);

"Current research on sentence extraction and change identification" (Ongoing research on sentence retrieval and novelty detection, PDF).

Structured Retrieval

XML Compression and Search (XML Compression and Search, PDF);

“Semantic structure when extracting structured documents” ((Semantic) Structure in Structured Document Retrieval, PDF);

"Flexible XML extraction methods using summaries" (Flexible XML Retrieval using Summaries, PDF);

"Developing Temporary Features for Structured Queries " (Exploiting Temporal Features for Structured Queries, PDF).

Search in Other Environments

“Mobile Search and Universal Joint Abstract of Space Objects” (Mobile Search on Ubiquitous Collaborative Annotations of Space, PDF);

"Semantic intersecting networks for peer-to-peer web search" (Semantic Overlay Networks for P2P Web Search, PDF);

“Efficient and decentralized PageRank approximation in peer-to-peer web search networks” (Efficient and Decentralized PageRank Approximation in a P2P Web Search Network, PDF);

"Search for images in real time" (Image Search "Live", PDF).

Web search and data mining (Web Search and Mining)

“ Current Approaches to Personalized Web Search ” (Current Approaches to Personalized Web Search, PDF);

" Query mining applications" (Applications of Query Mining, PDF);

"Improving the performance of search engines using search query logs" (Boosting Performance of the Web Search Engines Using Query Logs, PDF);

"Extracting data from the web for natural language design tasks" (Web mining for natural language engineering tasks, PDF).

Reports on the general discussion

“Effective Top-k Requests for Extracting Information over XML” (Efficient Top-k Queries for XML Information Retrieval, PDF).

“From information retrieval using queries to supplying information based on context analysis” (From query based Information Retrieval to context driven Information Supply, PDF).