Guest Lecture: Towards Semantic Search
Dr. Ricardo Baeza-Yates, head of Yahoo! Research (Barcelona and Santiago) will give a guest lecture on Monday 18th August at 10:15 in room C222.
Abstract: Semantic search seems to be an elusive and fuzzy target to IR, SW and NLP researchers. One reason is that this challenge lies in between all those fields, which implies a broad scope of issues and technologies that must be mastered. In this talk we survey the work of Yahoo! Research at Barcelona to approach this problem. Our research is intended to produce a virtuous feedback circuit by using machine learning for capturing semantics, and, ultimately, for better search.
About the speaker: Dr. Baeza-Yates, Head of the Yahoo! research laboratories in Barcelona and Santiago, is a well-known expert in information retrieval and web research.
Website: http://www.dcc.uchile.cl/~rbaeza/