Hi Everybody Semantic Web Austin is hosting a meeting with Dr. Ricardo Baeza-Yates, VP of Yahoo Research in Europe and Latin America. It will take place this Friday, Oct 15 at 5:30pm. The place is TBA but it will be downtown.
This event is open to everybody! More info: http://semanticwebaustin.org/ <http://semanticwebaustin.org/>Next Generation Search Yahoo! Research Labs provide its personal vision of what could be the next generation of Web search engines, based on a single premise: people do not really want to search, they want to get tasks done. Hence, the key to a better experience will come from the combination of the deeper analysis of content with the detailed inference of user intent. To achieve this, the main ideas are: (1) in place of the indexing that search engines traditionally perform, we have a content analysis phase that spots entities such as people, places and dates in documents; (2) at query time we assign an intent to the user based on the query and its context; and then (3) we retrieve entities matching the intent and assemble a results page not of documents, but of matching entities and their attributes. Ricardo Baeza-Yates leads the Yahoo! Research Labs at Barcelona, Spain, and Santiago, Chile, and also supervises the lab in Haifa, Israel. He is co-author of "Modern Information Retrieval" (2010, 2nd ed.), among other books and publications. Member of the ACM (Fellow), AMS, IEEE (Senior), SIAM and SCCC, as well as the Chilean Academy of Sciences. He has received awards from American Organization States, Institute of Engineers of Chile, University of Waterloo and COMPAQ. Cheers Juan Sequeda +1-575-SEQ-UEDA www.juansequeda.com -- Our Web site: http://www.RefreshAustin.org/ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Refresh Austin" group. [ Posting ] To post to this group, send email to [email protected] Job-related postings should follow http://tr.im/refreshaustinjobspolicy We do not accept job posts from recruiters. [ Unsubscribe ] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] [ More Info ] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Refresh-Austin
