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Boston, Massachusetts, April 11-12, 2005

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Jan Pedersen
Yahoo!, California, USA
Internet Search Engines: Past and Future

Carol Tenopir
University of Tennessee, School of Information Sciences, USA
What We Know About User Behavior (And What We Are Not So Sure of)

Jochen Leidner
Linguit, Bad Bergzabern, Federal Republic of Germany
The Deployment of a Mobile Question Answering System

Hans Henseler
ZyLAB Technologies, The Netherlands
Usability versus Precision & Recall

Tom Wilde
FindWhat.com, New York, USA
Content Management on the Web: the Next Killer App for Search

Claude Vogel
Convera, Virginia, USA
The Web You Trust: Building An Authoritative Portal

Search Engine Meeting 2005 Panel

The Better Mousetrap Hour

In this session, guided and animated by Stephen Arnold and questioned by the audience, young companies in the search arena tell us how and why their new products are going to have a significant impact on the world of search. The companies include:
Mondosoft (Anders Hyldahl, Denmark)
Speed of Mind (Denmark)
FAST (John Lervik, Norway)
Blossom Software (Alan Feuer, Massachusetts)

Susan Dumais
Microsoft Research, Washington, USA
Personal Information Retrieval: Helping Finders become Keepers

Igor Perisic
Entopia, California, USA
State-of-the-Art in Search Engine Personalization; an Enterprise Perspective

Justin Gilbreath and Jakob Riegger
global-linxs, Munich, Germany
Search on Demand

Avi Rappoport
Search Tools Consulting, California, USA
Data Discovery on the Intranet

Stephen E Arnold
Arnold IT, Kentucky, USA
The Google Legacy
Slides from Stephen Arnold's pre-conference Google tutorial

John Lervik
FAST, Norway
Next Generation Search Technology Advancements

David A. Hull
Clairvoyance, Pennsylvania, USA
Commercializing Information Extraction: Lessons from WhizBang Labs

Oshoma Momoh
Microsoft, Washington, USA
Search Immersion

Susan Feldman
IDC, Connecticut, USA
Trends in Information Retrieval: Search Moves to a Central Role

David A Evans
Clairvoyance, Pennsylvania, USA
New Solutions for Old (Search) Problems

Tuoc Luong
Ask Jeeves Inc, California, USA
Combining Desktop & Web: Building a Seamless Search Solution across Multiple Platforms

Raul Valdes-Perez
Vivisimo, Pennsylvania, USA
Arguments for Clustering and Meta-Search as a Universal Norm for Information Retrieval

Robert Carlson
IBM, Almaden Research Center, California, USA
The Approaching Era of Business Value on the Web

Elizabeth Liddy
Syracuse University, New York, USA
QA Authoring Tools

David A Ferrucci
IBM, New York, USA
UIMA: A component architecture for integrating structured and unstructured information in search systems

Ammy Vogtlander
Scirus/Elsevier, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Structuring the Unstructured Web for Specialized Searching