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Site Search Analytics for a Better User Experience

by Louis Rosenfeld (May 15, 2008 - Chicago IL, USA)
In this day-long workshop, Lou Rosenfeld—co-author of Information Architecture for the World Wide Web and the forthcoming Search Analytics for your Site: Conversations with your customers—will combine lecture, discussion, and extensive hands-on exercises to cover the basics of site search analytics. And he'll show you how spending even an hour a week analyzing your search queries can help tune and improve your site and expose new opportunities for improving your business strateg

Start date: May 15, 2008 | Comments (0) | Permalink

Site Search Analytics for a Better User Experience

by Louis Rosenfeld (April 4, 2008 - Boston MA, USA)
In this day-long workshop, Lou Rosenfeld—co-author of Information Architecture for the World Wide Web and the forthcoming Search Analytics for your Site: Conversations with your customers—will combine lecture, discussion, and extensive hands-on exercises to cover the basics of site search analytics. And he'll show you how spending even an hour a week analyzing your search queries can help tune and improve your site and expose new opportunities for improving your business strateg

Start date: April 04, 2008 | Comments (0) | Permalink

Site Search Analytics for a Better User Experience

by Louis Rosenfeld (March 18, 2008 - Sunnyvale, CA, USA)
In this day-long workshop, Lou Rosenfeld—co-author of Information Architecture for the World Wide Web and the forthcoming Search Analytics for your Site: Conversations with your customers—will combine lecture, discussion, and extensive hands-on exercises to cover the basics of site search analytics. And he'll show you how spending even an hour a week analyzing your search queries can help tune and improve your site and expose new opportunities for improving your business strateg

Start date: March 18, 2008 | Comments (0) | Permalink

FIND'07

Int'l Workshop on Dynamic Taxonomies and Faceted Search (September 3-7, 2007 - Regensburg, Germany EU)
Dynamic taxonomies work on multidimensional taxonomies (usually organized by facets) and provide a single, coherent visual framework in which users can focus on one or more concepts in the taxonomy, and immediately see a conceptual summary of their focus, in the form of a reduced taxonomy derived from the original one by pruning unrelated concepts. Concepts in the reduced taxonomy can be used to set additional, dependent foci and users iterate in a guided yet unconstrained way until they reach a result set sufficiently small for manual inspection.

Start date: September 03, 2007 | Comments (0) | Permalink

IIiX 2006

First Symposium on Information Interaction in Context (October 18-20, 2006: Copenhagen, Denmark)
There is a growing realisation that relevant information will be accessible increasingly across media and genres, across languages and across modalities. The retrieval of such information will depend on time, place, history of interaction, task in hand, and a range of other factors that are not given explicitly but are implicit in the interaction and ambient environment, namely the context. Information Retrieval and Seeking research is now conducted in multi-media, multi-lingual, and multi-modal environments, but largely out of context.

Start date: October 18, 2006 | Comments (0) | Permalink

SIGIR 2006

29th Annual International ACM SIGIR - Conference on Research and Development on Information Retrieval (August 6-11, 2006: Seattle, Washington USA)
"SIGIR is the major international forum for the presentation of new research results and the demonstration of new systems and techniques in the broad field of information retrieval."

Start date: August 06, 2006 | Comments (0) | Permalink

Enterprise Search Summit

Solving the Findability Dilemma (May 17-18, 2005) - Hilton New York, New York City
"(...) an intensive two-day learning experience that covers the nuts and bolts of developing and managing an internal search capability. The concentrated curriculum, which has been completely revised and updated for 2005, offers a structured learning environment where information managers and IT professionals can grasp the strategies and get the know-how they need to make the content that they are acquiring, publishing, organizing, and managing not only searchable, but 'findable'.”

Start date: May 17, 2005 | Comments (0) | Permalink

AIRWeb '05

First International Workshop on Adversarial Information Retrieval on the Web (May 10-14, 2005 - Chiba, Japan)
Search is the single most common application used on the Web. The attraction of hundreds of millions of searches per day provides significant incentive to content providers to do whatever necessary to rank highly in search engine results. The use of techniques that push rankings higher than they belong is often called spamming a search engine. Such methods typically include textual as well as link-based techniques. Like e-mail spam, search engine spam is a form of adversarial information retrieval; the conflicting goals of accurate results of search providers and high positioning by content providers provides an interesting and real-world environment to study techniques in optimization, obfuscation, and reverse engineering, in addition to the application of information retrieval and classification.

Start date: May 10, 2005 | Comments (0) | Permalink