[Asis-l] UW iSchool talks / 3-29-06 / Kal Jarvelin / Thompson-ISI Lazerow Lecture / March 29, 2006, 4-5pm

[Efthimis Efthimiadis]

The Thomson ISI Annual
Samuel Lazerow Memorial Lecture
Sponsored by The Information School  

Mary Gates Hall, room 389
March 29, 2006,  4:00-5:00 PM
(refreshments will be served before and after the talk) 


Speaker: Kalervo  Jarvelin, Professor, University of Tampere, Finland 

Title:	"Ontology-Based Searching in Unannotated Text Collections"

Abstract:

The web enables the information seeker to access billions of digital
documents in many different languages. Without general standards for
document representation, searching can be as confusing as it is
rewarding. In his talk, Professor Kalervo Jarvelin from the University
of Tampere (Finland) will consider the current methodologies for online
searching, including the semantic web and the IR tradition. He will then
present Quccoo (QUery ConstruCtion with OntolOgies), his multilingual
ontology-based search interface, designed as an alternative for
unannotated collections when content standards cannot be enforced.

Bio:

Kalervo (Kal) Jarvelin, this year's speaker, has been a Professor in
Information Studies at the University of Tampere in Finland since 1996
and an Academy Professor at the Academy of Finland from 2004-09. He
holds a Ph.D. in Information Studies from the University of Tampere. Kal
Jarvelin's research covers information seeking and retrieval, database
management, especially structured documents; and linguistic and
conceptual methods in IR. He has authored over 200 scholarly
publications and supervised over 10 doctoral dissertations.

Kal has served on the ACM SIGIR Conferences as a program committee
member from 1992-2005, Conference Chair in 2002 and Program Co-Chair in
2004 and 2006. He is currently an editorial board member of Information
Processing and Management (USA).

Location Information:

The lecture takes place in Mary Gates Hall Room 389. Mary Gates Hall is
located near the center of the UW Seattle campus. View a campus map of
the location. Paid parking is available in the Central Plaza Garage
below Kane Hall.

Driving Directions: From I-5, take the NE 45th Street exit (#169). Turn
east onto NE 45th Street. Continue east about one quarter mile to 15th
Avenue NE and turn right. Head south on 15th Avenue three blocks to NE
41st Street. Turn left at Gate #1 into the Central Plaza Garage. Stop at
the gatehouse inside the garage for directions and a parking permit.



Information on the Thomson ISI Samuel Lazerow Lecture Series: 
The distinguished Samuel Lazerow Lecture, an annual event, is sponsored
by Thomson  ISI's Corporate Awards Program (http://www.isinet.com/
<http://www.isinet.com/> ). The Lecture Series was established by ISI in
1983, to honor the memory of Samuel Lazerow, who was an outstanding
librarian, administrator, and pioneer in library automation.

The Information School,    Improving Lives ... Through Information.
www.ischool.washington.edu 

Co-sponsored by the ASIS&T UW Student Chapter
(http://students.washington.edu/asis/
<http://students.washington.edu/asis/> )

For more information about this event contact Reca Washington:
mailto:reca at u.washington.edu, (206) 543-4794
 

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Efthimis N. Efthimiadis <efthimis at u.washington.edu>
Associate Professor    
The Information School, University of Washington       
Suite 370 Mary Gates Hall, Box 352840     
Seattle, WA 98195-2840, USA     
tel.(off.) 206-616-6077, (sch) 206-685-9937, fax. 206-616-3152
http://faculty.washington.edu/efthimis
http://www.sigir2006.org
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