Program of SIGIR 2015 Industry Track

First session (95 minutes)

Theme: E-Commerce
Chair: Hang Li
Opening 5 minutes, 3 invited talks, each 20 minutes; 2 proposed talks, each 15 minutes

Opening
Jaime Teevan (Microsoft), Hang Li (Huawei)
Finding Money in the Haystack: Information Retrieval at Bloomberg
Jonathan Dorando (Bloomberg)
WeChat Search & Headline: Tencent & Sogou Join Forces on Mobile Search and the Challenges We Face
Chao Liu (Sogou)
Structure, Personalization, Scale: A Deep Dive into LinkedIn Search
Asif Makhani (LinkedIn)
Bringing Order to the Job Market: Efficient Job Offer Categorization in E-Recruitment
Emmanuel Malherbe (Multiposting), Mario Cataldi (Universit Paris 8), and Andrea Ballatore (University of California, Santa Barbara)
Where to Go on Your Next Trip? Optimizing Travel Destinations Based on User Preferences
Julia Kiseleva (Eindhoven University of Technology), Melanie Mueller (Booking.com), Lucas Bernardi (Booking.com), Chad Davis (Booking.com), Ivan Kovacek (Booking.com), Mats Stafseng Einarsen (Booking.com), Jaap Kamps (University of Amsterdam), Alexander Tuzhilin (New York University), and Djoerd Hiemstra (University of Twente)

Theme: Evaluation
Chair: Jaime Teevan
3 invited talks, each 20 minutes; 2 proposed talks, each 15 minutes

Location in Commercial Search Engines
Vanessa Murdock (Microsoft)
From Web Search Relevance to Vertical Search Relevance
Yi Chang (Yahoo)
Challenges and Opportunities in Online Evaluation of Search Engines
Pavel Serdyukov (Yandex)
Incremental Sampling in Query Logs
Ricardo Baeza-Yates (Yahoo)
Practical Lessons for Gathering Quality Labels at Scale
Omar Alonso (Microsoft)

Theme: Miscellaneous and Panel Discussion
Chair: Jimmy Lin
2 invited talks, each 20 minutes; panel discussion, 60 minutes, closing 20 minutes

Lower Search Cost
Dou Shen (Baidu)
If SIGIR had an Academic Track, what would be in it?
David Hawking (Microsoft)
Panel discussion: having impact on industry from academia
Coordinator: Jimmy Lin (University of Maryland)
Closing
Jaime Teevan (Microsoft), Hang Li (Huawei)