This is a call for participation to the First Workshop on Faceted Search organized in conjunction with SIGIR 2006, to be held on Aug 10, 2006, in Seattle, WA.
Background:
The web search world, since its very beginning, has offered two paradigms:- Navigational search uses a hierarchy structure (taxonomy) to enable users to browse the information space by iteratively narrowing the scope of their quest in a predetermined order, as exemplified by Yahoo! Directory, DMOZ, etc.
- Direct search allows users to simply write their queries as a bag of words in a text box. This approach has been made enormously popular by Web search engines, such as Google and Yahoo! Search.
Topics of Interests:
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to the following areas:- Facet creation from document meta-data and from document content through text analysis
- Facet creation from XML corpora and database records
- Facet creation by social tagging and folksonomies
- Efficient and scalable indexing and retrieval of faceted data
- APIs and frameworks for faceted search
- User interface issues in faceted search
- Faceted search in the mobile and pervasive domain
- Faceted search in e-commerce applications
- Faceted search and data mining, OLAP and Business Intelligence applications
- Emerging applications of faceted search
- Faceted search in the presence of imperfect, noisy data
Program
The Workshop will consist of technical presentations, demos and one invited talk. For more details, see the Final Program of the Workshop at http://FacetedSearch.googlepages.com/workshopprogram
Registration, travel, local arrangements, etc:
Please visit the SIGIR 2006 site at http://www.sigir2006.org/.
Workshop organizers
Andrei Z. Broder, Yahoo! Research, USA
Yoelle S. Maarek, Google Inc., Haifa, Israel
Program committee
Andrei Z. Broder, Yahoo! Research, USA
David Carmel, IBM Research, Israel
Ed Cutrell, Microsoft Research, USA
Susan Dumais, Microsoft Research, USA
Adam Ferrari, Endeca, USA
Marti Hearst, UC Berkeley, USA
Yoelle S. Maarek, Google Inc., Haifa, Israel
Jacco van Ossenbruggen, CWI, The Netherlands
Gabriella Kazai, Queen Mary University of London, UK
Inquiries
Email to Faceted_search_2006@yahoogroups.com