[Asis-l] Free Registration Open: Living Labs for IR Evaluation, Challenge Preparation Workshop in Amsterdam

[Liadh Kelly]

Apologies - the workshop date is *June 6, 2014* (and NOT July 6 as stated
at one point in the below call).




On 20 May 2014 09:25, Liadh Kelly <lkelly at computing.dcu.ie> wrote:

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> The Living Labs for Information Retrieval (IR) Evaluation - Challenge
> Preparation Workshop
>
> 6 June, 2014, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
> http://living-labs.net/llc/
>
> [Challenge runs June 15 – August 15, as part of
> ​CIKM ​
> 2nd Living Labs for IR
> ​Evaluation ​
> Workshop]
>
> https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/living-labs
>
>
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>
> The basic idea of living labs for information retrieval (IR) is that
> rather than individual research groups independently developing
> experimental search infrastructures and gathering their own groups of test
> searchers for IR evaluations, a central and shared experimental environment
> is developed to facilitate the sharing of resources in a live setting (most
> important of all: users). See http://living-labs.net/ for details.
>
> The aim of the Challenge Preparation Workshop is to test and further
> develop a living labs for IR evaluation methodology and a living labs for
> IR platform, which has been created as part of the CIKM'14 2nd Living Labs
> for IR Evaluation Workshop. This is to be initially used in a community
> challenge as part of CIKM'14 2nd Living Labs for IR Evaluation Workshop.
> The challenge at CIKM focuses on two use-cases: product search (on an
> e-commerce site) and local domain search (on a university’s website).
> During the first month of the challenge participants will have the
> opportunity to tune their system through the product and local domain
> search websites. The second month of the challenge will examine the
> performance of participants’ systems on these search websites.
>
> The programme for the Challenge Preparation Workshop includes (1) invited
> talks and discussions with invited guests to learn from their knowledge in
> this space, and (2) a hackathon and system testing session with prospective
> participants for testing the challenge components.
>
>
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> Participation
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> The workshop is free and open to all interested participants, but
> registration is required.
>
> Click here to register:
> https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1L3o_AWKNTXw8iFaK7_gGMFqmBhi4d_Sy-GFGoz_7KuI/viewform
> Registration will close May 29.
>
> We have a limited number of travel grants to cover travel and
> accommodation costs (reserved for those with academic affiliations and
> outside The Netherlands); enquiries can be sent to the workshop organisers.
>
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> Date & Location
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> July 6, 2014 - Living Labs Challenge Workshop, at the University of
> Amsterdam, The Netherlands
>
> [Challenge runs June 15 – August 15]
>
>
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> Further Information
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> Further information is available on the workshop website (
> http://living-labs.net/llc/) or by emailing the workshop organisers.
>
>
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> Workshop Organisers
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> Krisztian Balog – University of Stavanger, Norway (krisztian.balog (at)
> uis.no)
> Liadh Kelly – Dublin City University, Ireland (liadh.kelly (at)
> computing.dcu.ie)
> Anne Schuth – University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands (anne.schuth (at)
> uva.nl)
>
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