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Karen Spärck Jones
Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge, UK
Quantity versus quality ?

Elizabeth Liddy
Syracuse University, New York, USA
The Subtle Side of Retrieval

Donna Harman
NIST - TREC, Maryland, USA
What is New at TREC

Prabhakar Raghavan
Verity, California, USA
Text and XML querying - Is There a Common Ground?

Peter Bell
Endeca, Massachusetts, USA
Search and Guided Navigation for Unstructured Content?

Product Intro: A Holistic Approach to Search
Tuoc Luong, Ask Jeeves, California, USA

Panel Session I: The Multi-Lingual Web
Chairman & Panel Presenter: David A Evans

Participants

Gregory Grefenstette, Clairvoyance (USA)
Joop van Gent, Irion (The Netherlands)
Piek Vossen, Irion (The Netherlands)

Individual presentations will cover:

== The scale of the multi-lingual Web
Gregory Grefenstette

== The state of the art in CLIR
David Evans

== CLIR semantics for the Web
Joop van Gent & Piek Vossen

== Mining the Web for multi-language information
Wessel Kraaij

Product Intro: Convera: Fundamental Approaches to Categorisation
Iain Fletcher, Convera, UK

Susan Feldman
IDC, Connecticut, USA
Information Retrieval: A Single Point of Access

Laust Sondergaard
Mondosoft, Denmark
Double the Value of Search Using User Behaviour

Stephen E Arnold
AIT, Kentucky, USA
Social Software and New Search

Kasper Vad
InfoMedia Huset, Denmark
Migration to a New In-House Search Platform: the Main Challenges, and Lessons Learned

Martin Belam
BBCi Search, UK
Human Intervention in the Search Process

Panel Session II: Ontologies, Agents and The Web
Chairman & Panel Presenter: David A Evans

Participants
Terry Payne, University of Southampton, UK

Fabio Ciravegna, University of Sheffield, UK
Learning to Harvest Information for the Semantic Web

Olivier Ertzscheid, University of Toulouse, and Gabriel Gallezot, University of Nice
Formalising the Concept of Serendipity in Web Searching

Product Intro: Finding the Needle in the Haystack: Multilingual Search and Entity Extraction for Defence
Steve Cohen, Basis Technology, USA

Product Intro: Turbo10: The Mechanics of a Deep Net Metasearch Engine
Nigel Hamilton, Turbo10.com, UK

Ethan V. Munson and Cheng Thao
University of Wisconsin, USA
A Relevance Model for Web Image Search

Alan Smeaton
Dublin City University, Ireland
Access to Archives of Digital Video Information

Sebastein Gilles
LTU Technologies, France
Organising personal pictures with content analysis technology