The program for Elag 2010 is almost completed, but we are still looking for somebody who would be willing to moderate a workshop on: 'Tweaking search results relevance ranking' A workshop leader at Elag conferences prepares a starting document that will help to discuss a topic during the workshop breaks at the conference. At the end of the conference each workshop will present their results at a plenary session. The presenter does not have to be the workshop leader. So if you are interested in this topic and you were already coming to helsinki in June or if this would be a good reason for you to go there,please let me know asap. The theme is described as follows:
"Google has proved that having the most relevant results on the first page works. So users expect any discovery tool to perform this way. Google's pagerank algorithm is based on references between pages. Pages that get linked to often are supposed to be important. Traditional relevance ranking methods, using word frequencies etc, do help but do not work as well. These algorithms are even less effective in resources that lack full text, but only consists of metadata. On the other hand, this metadata could be used to improve relevance ranking. Knowledge about year of publication, loans frequency or impact factors and lots of other meta data could be used to improve relevance ranking in library catalogs and other bibliographies. And what about indexing full text to improve relevance ranking ?" P.S. If you have any other interesting topic that you would see a workshop on and are willing to moderate, you may still suggest something as well. Peter Drs. P.J.C. van Boheemen Hoofd Applicatieontwikkeling en beheer - Bibliotheek Wageningen UR Head of Application Development and Management - Wageningen University and Research Library tel. +31 317 48 25 17 http://library.wur.nl P Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail
