Neu-IR: The SIGIR 2016 Workshop on Neural Information Retrieval
Location: Pisa, Italy
Neu-IR will be a highly interactive full day workshop, featuring a mix of presentation and interaction formats. The full schedule is presented below.
Morning Session I
09:00 – 10:30
Welcome and opening announcements [slides (opens in new tab)]
Bhaskar Mitra
15 mins
Keynote: Recurrent Networks and Beyond [slides (opens in new tab)]
Tomas Mikolov, Facebook AI Research
45 mins
Paper: Query Expansion with Locally-Trained Word Embeddings [slides (opens in new tab)]
Fernando Diaz, Bhaskar Mitra and Nick Craswell
15 mins
Paper: Uncertainty in Neural Network Word Embedding Exploration of Potential Threshold [slides (opens in new tab)]
Navid Rekabsaz, Mihai Lupu and Allan Hanbury
15 mins
Coffee Break
10:30 – 11:00
Morning Session II
11:00 – 12:30
Lessons from the Trenches [slides (opens in new tab)]
45 mins
Poster presentations
45 mins
Lunch Break
12:30 – 14:00
Afternoon Session I
14:00 – 15:30
Keynote: Does IR Need Deep Learning? [slides (opens in new tab)]
Hang Li, Huawei Technologies
45 mins
Paper: Modelling User Preferences using Word Embeddings for Context-Aware Venue Recommendation [slides (opens in new tab)]
Jarana Manotumruksa, Craig Macdonald and Iadh Ounis
15 mins
Paper: A Study of MatchPyramid Models on Ad-hoc Retrieval [slides (opens in new tab)]
Liang Pang, Yanyan Lan, Jiafeng Guo, Jun Xu and Xueqi Cheng
15 mins
Paper: Emulating Human Conversations using Convolutional Neural Network-based IR [slides (opens in new tab)]
Abhay Prakash, Chris Brockett and Puneet Agrawal
15 mins
Coffee Break
15:30 – 16:00
Afternoon Session II
16:00 – 17:45
Breakout session
45 mins
Breakout session retrospective
45 mins
Concluding remarks
15 mins