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["Horn, Eric Bailey" <erichorn AT illinois.edu>]

The 2011 Data Sciences Summer Institute is proud to announce, as part of our Expert Speaker series:

 

Machine Learning Approaches to Query-Document Matching in Search

 

Hang Li, Microsoft Research Asia

 

Friday, June 24, 1pm

 

2405 Siebel Center

 

Abstract:

In this talk, I will introduce the machine learning technologies for query document matching in search, which we have developed at MSRA. I will start my talk by pointing out that query-document mismatch is one of the major challenges for web search. I will explain how we think that the challenge can be addressed. Specifically, it is necessary to perform better query understanding and document understanding, and conduct query-document matching at sense, topic, and structure levels. Next I will describe the machine learning techniques which we have developed for query document matching, including Learning of Query Document Matching Model and Regularized Latent Semantic Indexing. I will also discuss the relationships between our methods and existing methods. Finally, I will outline future research directions for query-document matching.

http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/people/hangli/

 

If you are interested in an individual meeting with this speaker, please contact Eric Horn (erichorn AT illinois.edu, 333-0871)

 

Data Sciences Summer Institute (DSSI):

The Data Sciences Summer Institute is a 6-week long program in Data Science areas for graduate and undergraduate students from around the country.  This summer program (May 22 - July 2, 2011) consists of an intensive class in the mathematical foundations of Data Sciences, tutorials on advanced Data Science topics and collaborative research projects.  The DSSI weaves together mathematical foundations, applications, and research.

 

The mission of the Data Sciences Summer Institute is to develop diverse human resources to enhance the scientific research, education, and government workforce in Data Science disciplines.  This program is funded by the Department of Homeland Security’s Center of Excellence – Command, Control, and Interoperability Center for Advanced Data Analysis (CCICADA) at the UIUC’s Multimodal Information Access & Synthesis (MIAS) Center.

 

For more information about the Data Sciences Summer Institute, please see our website at: http://mias.illinois.edu/DSSI2011 or contact Nancy Komlanc at DSSI-cs AT illinois.edu, 217-244-4675.