Last updated 20 April 2001
to review the presentation (some of the PDF files are quite large).Day One Keynote
David Seuss (Northern Light, Massachusetts)
Search Strategies for Large Enterprises
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Panel: Search Engine
Developments and Trends since April 2000
Greg
Notess (Montana State University-Bozeman) - http:/searchengineshowdown.com/
Chris
Sherman (About.com, California) - http://websearch.about.com/
Avi Rappoport (Searchtools.com)
- www.searchtools.com/
Lou Rosenfeld (Argus Center for Information
Architecture, Michigan)
We've Got it Backwards: an information architect's viewpoint
for broadening searching and narrowing domains
Bob Travis and Andrei Broder (Altavista,
California)
The Need Behind the Query: Web Search vs Classic Information
Retrieval
Chris Cardinal (Hummingbird, Canada)
The TREC and Commercial Search Companies
Mark Hansen and Elizabeth Shriver (Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies, New Jersey)
The Information Hidden When Web Searching
Panel: Content Architecture (Part I)
Sue
Feldman (IDC, Massachusetts) -- Introduction: What is content
architecture?
Eytan
Ruppin (Zapper Technologies, Israel) -- putting search and categorization
in context
Panel: Content Architecture (Part II)
Daniel Lulich, (Rulespace, Oregon) -- automatic classification
and its visualization
Tom
Wilde (FAST, Massachusetts) -- scaling and content aggregation
platforms
Horst
Koerner (Seruba, Germany) -- cross language ontologies and topic
maps - knowledge engineering
Raymond
Lau (iPhrase Technologies)
Day Two Keynote
Eric Brewer (Inktomi Corporation,
California)
The Next Evolution: A New Infrastructure for Connecting Content
with Users
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Bernard Normier (LexiQuest, New York)
From String Indexing to Semantic Indexing. The example of Lexisez,
an NLP-based question / answering system
David A Evans (Clairvoyance, Pennsylvania)
The 'Affect' Dimensions of Search
Stephen E. Arnold (AIT, Kentucky)
Vertical Search Engines
John Snyder, Webtop.com, Cambridge,
England
Beyond the Keyboard: Speech Enabled Search
Matthew Koll (Virginia)
Massively Distributed Search: Still a Good New Idea
Craig Silverstein, (Google,
California)
Beyond Search Engines: The Future History of Information Retrieval
Gregory T Grefenstette (Xerox Research
Centre Europe, France)
Multilinguality in the Web
Panel: The Secularization of Search
Chairman:
David A. Evans (Clairvoyance, Pennsylvania)
William
R. Hersh (Oregon Health Sciences University (Oregon)
Joshua
Arai and Keiichi Kitagawa (Justsystem Corporation, Japan)