7:00 – 4:00 ASRC MKT
- Cannot log into my timesheet
- 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.
- In some countries, fake news on Facebook is a matter of life and death
- 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
