New Directions in Multilingual Information Access

WORKSHOP PROGRAM (including Abstracts and full PDF Papers)

(last updated September 12, 2006)

Thursday, August 10, 2006
	New Directions in Multilingual Information Access: Introduction to the Workshop at SIGIR 2006 (abstract, PDF) Fredric C. Gey, Noriko Kando, Chin-Yew Lin and Carol Peters
9:00–9:15	Opening Remarks by Fredric Gey
	Invited Talk
9:15–9:45	From R&D to Practice — Challenges to Multilingual Information Access in the Real World (abstract, PDF) David A. Evans
	Session 1: New Research Directions 1
9:45–9:55	Combining Evidence from Homologous Datasets (abstract, PDF) Ao Feng and James Allan
9:55–10:05	Translation Disambiguation in Web-based Translation Extraction for English-Chinese CLIR (abstract, PDF) Chengye Lu, Yue Xu and Shlomo Geva
10:05–10:15	Named Entity Processing for Cross-lingual and Multilingual IR Applications (abstract, PDF) César de Pablo-Sánchez, José Luis Martínez-Fernández and Paloma Martínez
10:15–10:30	Real-World Understanding for Multilingual Statistical Tables (abstract, PDF) Fredric C. Gey
10:30–10:40	Discussion
10:30–11:00	BREAK
	Session 2: Lesser Studied Languages
11:00–11:10	Multilingual Information Access: an Indian Language Perspective (abstract, PDF) Prasenjit Majumder, Mandar Mitra and Kalyan Datta
11:10–11:20	Using Monolingual Clickthrough Data to Build Cross-lingual Search Systems (abstract, PDF) Vamshi Ambati and Rohini U
11:20–11:30	Discussion
	Session 3: New Research Directions 2
11:30–11:45	The Future of Multilingual Summarization: Beyond Sentence Extraction (abstract, PDF) David K. Evans
11:45–11:55	Identification of Document Language in Hard Contexts (abstract, PDF) Joaquim Ferreira da Silva and Gabriel Pereira Lopes
11:55–12:10	Integrated Content Presentation for Multilingual and Multimedia Information Access (abstract, PDF) Gareth J. F. Jones and Vincent Wade
12:10–12:20	Discussion
12:20–13:40	LUNCH
	Session 4: User Studies / Interactive Access
13:40–13:50	Studying the Use of Interactive Multilingual Information Retrieval (abstract, PDF removed at author request) Daqing He, Douglas W. Oard and Lynne Plettenberg
13:50–14:00	The Remarkable Search Topic-Finding Task to Share Success Stories of Cross-Language Information Retrieval (abstract, PDF) Masashi Inoue
14:00–14:10	Discussion
	Session 5: Importance of Evaluation
14:10–14:20	New Directions at CLEF by Carol Peters
14:20–14:30	The Way Ahead of Multilingual Information Access Evaluation by Noriko Kando
14:30–14:40	Multilingual Summarization at DUC and MSE by Chin-Yew Lin
14:40–14:50	A Data Curation Approach to Support In-depth Multilingual Evaluation Studies (abstract, PDF) Maristella Agosti, Giorgio Maria Di Nunzio and Nicola Ferro
14:50–15:00	Discussion
15:00–15:25	BREAK
	Session 6: From Research to Practice
15:25–15:35	Designing Multilingual Information Access to Tate Online (abstract, PDF) Paul Clough, Jennifer Marlow and Mark Sanderson
15:35–15:45	Implementing MLIA in an Existing DL System (abstract, PDF) Martin Braschler, Nicola Ferro and Julie Verleyen
15:45–16:00	What is the Future of Multi-lingual Information Access? (abstract, PDF) Isabelle Moulinier and Frank Schilder
16:00–17:00	Future Directions — Moderated Discussion