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Boston, Massachusetts, April 27-28, 2009

Program

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  Monday April 27  

09:00 Day One Opening Keynote

Bjørn Olstad
Microsoft Corp, Washington
Why Today’s Search Engines are not Prepared to Drive Tomorrow’s Information Experiences  

Dmitri Soubbotin 
Semantic Engines, New York
The Variety of Goals and Applications of Semantic Approach to Search 

Product Presentation: Northern Light

Diane Burley
Nstein, Canada
A Pragmatic Look at the Semantic Web 

Frank Bandach
Eeggi, California
Semantic Coherence and a New Search Paradigm 

Kathleen Dahlgren
Cognition Technologies, California
The Puzzle of Semantic Technologies 

Product Presentation: Perfect Search 

Martin Baumgärtel
bioRASI, California
Advanced Visualization of Search Results: More Risks, or More Chances? 

Panel Review: Non-Text Search Technologies: Speech, Images, Video 
Introduced and chaired by Susan Feldman (IDC, Massachusetts)

Thomas Wilde (Everyzing, Massachusetts): How Video Gets Found: changing consumer search strategies for audio and video online and implications for content producers  

Naveen Agnihotri (Milabra, New York):  Classifying an image with accuracy and speed: the value of parts-based representations 

Michael Phillips (Vlingo, Massachusetts): Mobile Voice Search 

Stephen E. Arnold
AIT, Kentucky
Google Looks Beyond the Laundry List 

Francisco Corella and Karen Lewison 
Pomcor, Oregon
Searching the Web More Effectively with Multiple Simultaneous Queries 

Marguerite Leenhardt
Université Paris 3 Sorbonne nouvelle, CLA2T/SYLED, France
A Study of Evaluative Language in SMS Messages: Towards a Characterization of Opinion 

  Tuesday April 28  

09:00 Day Two Opening Keynote
David A. Evans
JustSystems Evans Reseach, Pennsylvania
E-Discovery: A Signature Challenge for Search