Events

• 2^nd International Workshop on Usage Analysis and the Web of Data (USEWOD 2012), co-organized by the IR Group at the 21^st International World Wide Web Conference (WWW 2012). The workshop will be held on 17 April in Lyon, France


• The IR Group hosts a talk by Julio Gonzalo: "Web People Search: a case study in evaluation design as research driver in Human Language Technologies" on 23 November 2011, 12:00, at the Autónoma University of Madrid. See further details of the talk.


• The IR Group hosts a talk by Birger Larsen: "Adding user context to IR collections" on 3 October 2011, 11:00, at the Autónoma University of Madrid. See further details of the talk.


• 3^rd International Workshop on Search and Mining User-generated Contents (SMUC 2011), co-organized by the IR Group at the 20^th ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2011). The workshop was held on 28 October 2011 in Glasgow, UK.


• International Workshop on Novelty and Diversity in Recommender Systems (DiveRS 2011), co-organized by the IR Group at the 5^th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys 2011). The workshop was be held on 23 October 2011 in Chicago, IL, USA.


• 2^nd International Workshop on Information Heterogeneity and Fusion in Recommender Systems (HetRec 2011), co-organized by the IR Group at the 5^th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys 2011). The workshop was held on 23-27 October 2011 in Chicago, IL, USA.


• 1^st International Workshop Social Object Networks (SocialObjects 2011), co-organized by the IR Group at the 3^rd IEEE Conference on Social Computing (SocialCom 2011). The workshop will be held on 9-11 October 2011 in Boston, MA, USA.


• 1^st Workshop on Knowledge Extraction and Exploitation from semi-Structured Online Sources (KEESOS 2011), co-organized by the IR Group at the XIV Conference of the Spanish Association for Artificial Intelligence (CAEPIA 2011). The workshop was held on 7-11 November 2011 in La Laguna, Tenerife, Spain.


• 9^th International Workshop on Content-Based Multimedia Indexing (CBMI 2011), co-organized by the IR Group. The workshop was held from 13 to 15 June 2011 at the Autónoma University of Madrid.


• 1^st International Workshop on Usage Analysis and the Web of Data (USEWOD 2011) co-organized by the IR Group at the 20^th International Word Wide Web Conference (WWW 2011). The workshop was held on 28-29 March 2011 in Hyderabad, India.


• 5^th public MAVIR meeting: Multimedia information acccess and processing, organized by the Mavir consortium, was held on 10 and 11 November 2010 at the ETSI Telecomunicación, Technical University of Madrid.


• 2^nd International Workshop on Search and Mining User-generated Contents (SMUC 2010), co-organized by the IR Group at the 19^th ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2010). The workshop was held on 30 October 2010 in Toronto, Canada. 


• International Workshop on Social, Adaptive and Personalized Multimedia Interaction and Access (SAPMIA 2010), co-organized by the IR Group at the International ACM Multimedia Conference (ACM MM 2010). The workshop was held on 25 October 2010 in Florence, Italy. 


• International Workshop on the Practical Use of Recommender Systems, Algorithms, and Technology (PRSAT 2010), co-organized by the IR Group at the 4^th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys 2010). The workshop was held on 26 September 2010 in Barcelona, Spain.


• International Workshop on Information Heterogeneity and Fusion in Recommender Systems (HetRec 2010), co-organized by the IR Group at the 4^th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys 2010). The workshop was held on 26 September 2010 in Barcelona, Spain. 


• The IR Group organized the 1^st Spanish Conference on Information Retrieval (CERI 2010), held on 15 and 16 June 2010 at the Autónoma University of Madrid. The conference programme included keynote talks by Ricardo Baeza-Yates and Fabio Crestani.


• International Workshop on Adaptation, Personalization and REcommendation in the Social-semantic Web (APRESW 2010), co-organized by the IR Group at the 7^th Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2010). The workshop was held on 31 May 2010 in Heraklion, Greece.