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Timetable for MIRA conference
Wednesday-Friday 14-16 April 1999.
(For other information, go back up to
conference main page.)
Wed. 14 April 1999. Hunterian Art gallery, University of Glasgow
Main conference accommodation is at
Kelvinhaugh Gate, 5 Kelvinhaugh Street, near the bottom of Kelvin Way.
4pm-5pm Registration (coffee)
5pm-6:15pm Panel: Interactive TREC
Alan Smeaton & Peter Ingwersen
6pm Reception, with food
Thur. 15 April 1999
9am-10:30am Reading Room, University of Glasgow
Consensus in relevance judgements
Jane Reid et al. [1.5 hours]
11am-12:30pm, IEE Conference centre, Teachers Building, City centre.
Keynote: Workplace studies of engineering design
Annelise Pejtersen & Raya Fidel
Lunch
2pm-2:30pm Collaborative filtering Matthew Chalmers
2:30pm-3pm
The application of work tasks in connection with the evaluation of
interactive information retrieval systems: empirical results
Pia Borlund & Peter Ingwersen [0.5 hour]
3pm-3:30pm Reportback from session on Consensus in RJs
4pm-5pm Panel:
Different senses or types of relevance and relevance
judgements (RJs)
- Steve Draper: Four levels /types of information need.
- Matthew Chalmers: "Relevance" in IR, workflow, and collaborative filtering
- Gianni Amati: Scalar not binary RJs
- Jane Reid: Consensus in RJs.
5:30pm-6:15pm MIRA business meeting (for MIRA site representatives only;
at least one representative from each MIRA site needs to attend.)
6:15pm-7pm Gauguin meeting for those involved.
Fri. 16 April 1999
9:30am-10am
The perceived similarity of photos
Eero Sormunen, M.Markkula, K.Jarvelin [0.5 hour]
10am-11am
Effects of topic, task, and context on relevance
Stefano Mizzaro [1 hour]
11:30am-12:30pm Keynote: Task oriented evaluation
Giorgio Brajnik [40 mins]
Respondent: David Harper [5 mins discussant]
Lunch
2pm-2:30pm
Toward a theoretical framework for IR evaluating in an
information-seeking context
A.Spink & T.Wilson
2:30pm-3:30pm Applying HCI evaluation to an IR system
Mark Dunlop, Steve Draper
4pm-5:30pm Keynote talk
Process and outcome: On the evaluation of IR systems in the
age of interaction, GUIs and multimedia
Steve Robertson [45 mins]
Respondent: Bruce Croft [5 mins]
It is expected that most participants will go straight on from the conference
to the reception and dinner, which are near the conference centre.
6pm Reception at John Smiths bookshop, 57 St. Vincent Street
7:30pm Conference dinner. "Yes", 22 West Nile Street.
Sat-Sun. 17-18 April 1999: Free
Mon. 19 April 1999:
IRSG begins
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