Second International Workshop on Adaptive Information Retrieval (AIR 2008)

09:00 - 10:00 Invited Talk by Prof. David Harper (Google, Switzerland): Adaptive Search on A Web Scale [slides]
10:00 - 10:30 Coffee Break
10:30 - 11:10 Eckstein, R. and Henrich, A. (University of Bamberg, Germany): Reaching the Boundaries of Context-Aware IR: Accepting Help from the User [slides]
11:10 - 11:50 Springmann, M. and Schuldt, H. (University of Basel, Switzerland): Using Regions of Interest for Adaptive Image Retrieval [slides]
11:50 - 12:30 Klas, C. and Kriewel, S. (University of Hagen and University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany): An Experimental System for Adaptive Services in Information Retrieval [slides]
12:30 - 14:00 Lunch Break and Poster session
14:00 - 15:00 Invited Talk by Prof. Norbert Fuhr (University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany): A Probability Ranking Principle for Interactive IR [slides]
15:00 - 16:00 Break out session [slides from session 1, session 2, session 3]
16:00 - 16:30 Coffee Break and Poster session
16:30 - 17:30 Report back and discussion

Authors	Affiliation	Title
Bermejo, P. and Hopfgartner, F. and Jose, J. M.	University of Castilla-La Mancha University of Glasgow	Automatically Creating and Comparing Features and Contexts
Kanawati, R.	CNRS	A CBR Framework for Implementing Community-Aware Web Search Engine
Oakes, M. P. and Palomino, M. A. and Xu, Y.	University of Sunderland	An Adaptive Method to Associate Pictures with Indexing Terms
Ferguson, P. and Lee, H. and Gurrin, C. and Sav, S. and Foures, T. and Lacote, S. and Smeaton, A. F. and O'Connor, N.	Dublin City University	Searching withoug Text in an Interactive TV Environment
Cullen, C. and Vaughan, B. and Kousidis, S. and McAuley, J.	Dublin Institute of Technology	Metadata Visualisation for Emotional Speech Corpora
Sitbon, L. and Bellot, P.	Queensland University of Technology University of Avignon	A readabiity measure for an Information Retrieval Process Adapted To Dyslexics
Kaptein. R. and Kamps, J.	University of Amsterdam	Improving Information Access by Relevance and Topical Feedback
Fuhr, N. and Jordan, M. and Frommholz, I.	University of Duisburg-Essen	Combining Cognitive and System-Oriented Approaches for Designing IR User Interfaces
Diriye, A. and Blandford, A. and Tombros, A.	UCL Queen Mary, University of London	Information Search Stage Based Representations
Freund, L.	University of British Columbia	Putting Digital Government in Context