7:00 – 4:00 ASRC MKT

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• Continuing along with TF. Got past the introductions and to the beginning of the coding.
• Myanmar: UN blames Facebook for spreading hatred of Rohingya (The Guardia)
  • ‘Facebook has now turned into a beast’, says United Nations investigator, calling network a vehicle for ‘acrimony, dissension and conflict’
• Related to the above (which was pointed out by the author in this tweet)
  • In some countries, fake news on Facebook is a matter of life and death
    • …journalists working in Myanmar say they have seen waves of Facebook-based misinformation and propaganda aimed at fueling anti-Rohingya fervor, including fabricated reports that families were setting fire to their own homes in an attempt to generate sympathy.
• Keynote: Susan Dumais
  • Better Together: An Interdisciplinary Perspective on Information Retreival
  • A solution to plato’s problem – latent semantic indexing
  • The road to LSI
  • LSI paper as dimension reduction Dumas et al 1988,
  • Search and context
    • Ranked list of 10 blue links
    • Need to understand the context in which they occur. Documents are intricately linked
    • Search is doe to accomplish something (picture of 2 people pointing at a chart/map?)
    • Short and long term models of interest (Bennett et al 2012)
    • Stuff I’ve Seen (2003) Becomes LifeBrowser
  • Future directions
    • ML will take over IR for better or worst
    • Moving from a world that indexe strings to a world that indexes things
    • Bing is doing pro/con with questions, state maintained dialog
• Here and Now: Reality-Based Information Retrieval. [Perspective Paper]
  Wolfgang Büschel, Annett Mitschick and Raimund Dachselt
  • Perspective presentation on AR-style information retreival.
  • Maybe an virtual butler that behaves like an invisible freind?
• A Study of Immediate Requery Behavior in Search.
  Haotian Zhang, Mustafa Abualsaud and Mark Smucker
• Exploring Document Retrieval Features Associated with Improved Short- and Long-term Vocabulary Learning Outcomes.
  Rohail Syed and Kevyn Collins-Thompson
• Switching Languages in Online Searching: A Qualitative Study of Web Users’ Code-Switching Search Behaviors.
  Jieyu Wang and Anita Komlodi
• A Comparative User Study of Interactive Multilingual Search Interfaces.
  Chenjun Ling, Ben Steichen and Alexander Choulos