Workshop Program

9:00-9:10

Welcome - Introduction

Andrei Broder, Yahoo! Research, USA and  Yoelle Maarek, Google Inc., Israel

9:10-9:40

Dynamic Category Sets: An Approach for Faceted Search

Daniel Tunkelang, Endeca, USA

9:40-10:05

BETA: Better Extraction Through Aggregation

Daniel N. Meredith and Jan H. Pieper, IBM Almaden Research Center, USA

10:05-10:30

Using WordNet to Build Facet Hierarchies

Emilia Stoica and Marti A. Hearst
UC Berkeley, USA

10:30-11:00

Break

11:00-11:45

Programmable Search – Invited Talk -

R. Guha, Google Inc., USA

11:45-12:15

Automatic Discovery of Useful Facet Terms

Wisam Dakka, Rishabh Dayal,
Columbia University, USA
and Panagiotis G. Ipeirotis
New York University, USA

12:15-12:40

Using a Faceted Search Paradigm on Tag Space - The RawSugar Approach

Daniel Feinstein and Frank Smadja, RawSugar, Israel

12:40-13:35

Lunch

13:35-14:05

Design Recommendations for
Hierarchical Faceted Search Interfaces

Marti A. Hearst, UC Berkeley, USA

14:05-14:30

When You’re Lost for Words: Faceted Search with Autocompletion

Holger Bast and Ingmar Weber, Max Planck Institute fur  Informatik, Germany

14:30-15:00

The Semantic GrowBag Demonstrator
for Automatically Deriving Topic Facets

Jorg Diederich, Uwe Thaden
and WolfTilo Balke L3S Research Center, Germany

15:00-15:30

Break

15:30-16:00

Personalized Faceted Query Expansion

Haward Jie and Yi Zhang,
University of California, Santa Cruz, USA

16:00-16:30

Some Research Results in Dynamic Taxonomy and Faceted Search Systems

Giovanni Maria Sacco
Università di Torino, Italy

16:30-16:55

Real-Time Query Expansion and Procedural Interfaces for Information Hierarchies

Saverio Perugini, University of Dayton, USA

16:55-17:25

Using Link Analysis to Identify Aspects in Faceted Web Search

Christian Kohlschütter, PaulAlexandru
Chirita and Wolfgang Nejdl,
L3S / University of Hannover, Germany

17:25-17:30

Closing

Andrei Broder, Yahoo! Research, USA and  Yoelle Maarek, Google Inc., Israel