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CWR/Yahoo! Research Workshop

Workshop Program "The Web as a Database"

Auditorio Gorbea, Av. Beaucheff 850, Santiago.

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Workshop Program

Friday, Nov 3

9:30 Welcome:

• Ron Brachman & Ricardo Baeza-Yates, Yahoo! Research

9:45 Databases

• Optimising access to Web data sources
  Andrea Cali, Free University of Bolzano, Italy
• The semantic web as an incomplete database
  Enrico Franconi, Free University of Bolzano, Italy
  

10:45 Coffee Break

11:15 Keynote talk:

• From query based Information Retrieval to context driven
  Information Supply
  Andrei Broder, Yahoo! Research, USA

12:30 Opening of Yahoo! Research Latin America (by invitation only)

13:00 Lunch

14:30 Web Mining

• Mining Queries: The Wisdom of the Crowds
  Ricardo Baeza-Yates, Yahoo! Research, Spain & Chile
• Mining query logs: Search modelisation and personalisation
  Benjamin Piwowarski, Yahoo! Research, Chile
• Learning Ranking Functions for Web Search and Information Extraction
  Hugo Zaragoza, Yahoo! Research, Spain

16:00 Coffee Break

16:30 Algorithmics

• Efficient Parallelization of Web Crawling Simulations
  Mauricio Marín, Yahoo! Research, Chile
• New algorithms for slot assignment and CTR estimation in sponsored search
  Esteban Fuerstein, Univ. de Buenos Aires, Argentina
• Measuring quality of similarity functions in approximate data matching
  Carlos A. Heuser, UFRGS, Brazil
• Succint Data Structures
  Gonzalo Navarro, CWR, Univ. of Chile

20:30 Workshop Banquet (by invitation only)

Saturday, Nov 4

9:30 Keynote talk:

• Community Systems: The World Online
  Raghu Ramakrishnan, Yahoo! Research, USA

10:30 Coffee Break

11:00 Data Relations

• Adaptive Sampling Algorithms for Answering Aggregation Queries on Web Sites
  Foto Afrati, National Technical Universtity of Athens, Greece
• Exploiting structural summaries of web collections
  Mariano Consens, Univ. of Toronto, Canada
• Principal Components for Automatic Term Hierarchy Building
  Georges Dupret, Yahoo! Research, Chile
• Exploring same entities in coauthorship graphs
  Josep Lluis Larriba-Pey, UPC, Spain

13:00 Farewell