Programme
A programme for the event can be downloaded here (pdf). The event runs over two days: Wednesday 27th May (beginning at 10am and ending around 5pm) and Thursday 28th May (beginning at 9am and ending around 3.30pm). On Thursday, Jim Jansen is providing a short tutorial on log analysis at 9am.
| Speaker | Institution | Talk Title | Download |
| Paul Clough | University of Sheffield (UK) | Introduction to the event | Slides (PDF) |
| Mark Levene | Birbeck, University of London (UK) | From server logs to query logs | Slides (PDF) Audio (MP3) |
| Nigel Ford | University of Sheffield (UK) | Log analysis and individual differences | Slides
(PDF) Audio (MP3) |
| Jim Jansen | Penn State University (USA) | Moving from Description to Prediction for Information Searching | Slides
(PDF) Audio (MP3) |
| Filip Radlinski | Microsoft Research Cambridge (UK) | What do click logs tell us about user's search satisfaction? | Slides
(PDF) Audio (MP3) |
| Vanessa Murdock | Yahoo! Research (Barcelona, Spain) | Online learning from click data | Slides (PDF) Audio (MP3) |
| Lynn Connaway | OCLC (USA) | Following the Trail of WorldCat Users | Slides
(PDF) Audio (MP3) |
| Dhavval Thakker | Press Association Images (Nottingham, UK) | Using Query Logs at PA Images | Slides
(PDF) Audo (MP3) |
| Fabrizio Silvestri | ISTI-CNR (Pisa, Italy) | Query log mining @ HPC-Lab | Slides
(PDF) Audo (MP3) |
| Bettina Berendt | Katholieke Universiteit, Leuven (Belgium) | Exploratory analysis needs theor[y|ies] - OR: Some answers to 14 questions | Slides
(PDF) Audo (MP3) |
| Udo Kruschwitz | University of Essex (UK) | Log Analysis at Essex | Slides
(PDF) Audo (MP3) |
| Giorgio Di Nunzio | University of Padoa (Italy) | Logging Digital Libraries | Slides
(PDF) Audo (MP3) |
| Thomas Mandl | University of Hildesheim (Germany) | Query Classification in Logfile-Analysis: Evaluation Issues and User Satisfaction | Slides
(PDF) Audo (MP3) |
| Jim Jansen | Penn State University (USA) | What is Web log analysis - Tutorial | Slides
(PDF) Audo (MP3) Book chapter |
There is a workshop dinner on Wednesday night and provisionally 20 places have been booked at Zizzi Restorante 73-75 The Strand, London, WC2R 0DE) - http://www.zizzi.co.uk/restaurants/93. All attendees are welcome to come along and join in the evening (and afterwards for football fans we will look for a pub with Sky TV to watch the rest of the Manchester Utd vs. Barcelona game - kick-off is 19.45 BST).
