Workshop Program

Monday February 2nd
10:30-11:00 Welcome, registration, and Coffee
11:00-12:00 Session 1: INDUSTRY KEYNOTE: (Chair: Theo Huibers)
Rene van Erk (Wolters-Kluwer)
Communities and Workflow: Driving Information Consumption
12:00-12:35 Lunch
12:35-13:45 Session 2: CULTURAL KEYNOTE:
Daniël van Veen
Van Veen alleen
13:45-15:15 Session 3: MULTIMEDIA & XML (Chair: Arjen de Vries)
  Marco A. Palomino, Michael P. Oakes and Tom Wuytack
Automatic Extraction of Keywords for a Multimedia Search Engine Using the Chi-Square Test
  Thomas Geerinck, Hichem Sahli, Iris Vanhamel, and Valentin Enescu
Spatiotemporal Region-oriented Attentional Selection of Active Salient Objects
  Tim Gielissen and Maarten Marx
Exemelification of Parliamentary Debates
15:15-15:45 Coffee
15:45-17:15 Session 4: QUESTION ANSWERING & QUERY FORMULATION (Chair: TBA)
  Almer S. Tigelaar, Rieks op den Akker, and Fenne Verhoeven.
Matching Queries to Frequently Asked Questions: Search Functionality for the MRSA Web-Portal
  Suzan Verberne, Stephan Raaijmakers and Daphne Theijssen and Lou Boves
Learning to rank answers to why-questions
  Nikolai Buzikashvili
Non-Linear Query Reformulation Behavior
17:15-18:15 Session 5: Poster & Demo Session
18:30-20:30 Dinner at the Faculty Club (with a cultural surprise)
 
Tuesday February 3rd
09:00-10:00 Session 6: ACADEMIC KEYNOTE: (Chair: Djoerd Hiemstra)
Prof. Gerhard Weikum (Max-Planck Institute, Saarbrücken)
Harvesting, Searching, and Ranking Knowledge on the Web
10:00-10:30 Coffee
10:30-12:00 Session 7: CONTENT MODELING & KEYWORD EXTRACTION (Chair: Eduard Hoenkamp)
  Javier Arias Moreno, Koen Deschacht, and Marie-Francine Moens
Language Independent Context Extraction from Web Pages
  John Tait, Mihai Lupu, Helmut Berger, Giovanna Roda, Michael Dittenbach, Andreas Pesenhofer, Erik Graf and Keith van Rijsbergen
Patent Search: An important new test bed for IR
  Inga Kohlhof, Bob Schijvenaars, and Mario Diwersi
Semi-automatic construction of domain-specific thesauri
12:00-13:00 Lunch
13:00-14:30 Session 8: SPAM DETECTION, TOPIC MODELING & INFORMATION EXTRACTION (Chair: Marie-Francine Moens)
  Rianne Kaptein, Jaap Kamps
Web Directories as Topical Context
  Yeong Su Lee and Michaela Geierhos
Business Specific Online Information Extraction from German Websites
  Toine Bogers and Antal van den Bosch
Using language modeling for spam detection in social reference manager websites
14:30-15:00 Closing
15:00-16:30 Annual Meeting of the Werkgemeenschap Informatiewetenschap



9th Dutch-Belgian Information Retrieval Workshop (DIR 2009)