Program

Session 1, 8.45-10.15: Systems

• Low Latency Index Maintenance in Indri
  Trevor Strohman and W. Bruce Croft
• PF/Tijah: text search in an XML database system
  Djoerd Hiemstra, Henning Rode, Roel van Os, and Jan Flokstra
• Terrier: A High Performance and Scalable Information Retrieval Platform
  Iadh Ounis, Gianni Amati, Vassilis Plachouras, Ben He, Craig Macdonald, and Christina Lioma

Session 2, 10.30-12.30: Distributed IR and Users

• Deploying Lucene on the Grid
  Edgar Meij and Maarten de Rijke
• IR-Wire: A Research Tool for P2P Information Retrieval
  Shefali Sharma, Linh Thai Nguyen, and Dongmei Jia
• Tagging in Peer-to-Peer Wikipedia
  Jenneke Fokker, Wray Buntine, and Johan Pouwelse
• Web Recommender System Implementations in Multiple Flavors: Fast and (Care-)Free for All
  Olfa Nasraoui, Zhiyong Zhang, and Esin Saka

Session 3, 1.30-3.00: Other Issues in IR

• An Effectiveness Measure for Evaluating Open Retrieval Systems
  Hsieh-Chang Tu and Jieh Hsiang
• SHOW AND TELL: A Seamlessly Integrated Tool For Searching with Image Content And Text
  Zhiyong Zhang, Carlos Rojas and Olfa Nasraoui, and Hichem Frigui
• Standards for Open Source Information Retrieval
  Wray Buntine, Michael P. Taylor, and Francois Lagunas

Session 4, 3.30-5.00: Panel: IR Research and Open Source