You are cordially invited to an informal IR workshop at CWI (room M279), November 1st (next week Thursday) afternoon, 14.00 - 17.00.
Our featured speaker is Nick Belkin from Rutgers University who will talk about Personalizing the Digital Library Experience. Nick Belkin visits Amsterdam as a committee member in Georgina Ramirez' PhD defense (on Structural features in XML Retrieval).
Additional speakers include:
Jaap Kamps (UvA) on The Importance of Link Evidence in Wikipedia
Thijs Westerveld (Teezir) on Expert Finding in Practice
Henning Rode (UT) on Entity Retrieval
Martin Kersten (CWI) on Database Summarization
Maarten de Rijke (UvA) on Question Answering at INEX
Please RSVP (mailto:arjen@acm.org) if you plan to attend the workshop, and help us estimate the required catering.