http://www.multipla-project.org/ 2010-09-05T16:42:58+02:00 http://www.multipla-project.org/ http://www.multipla-project.org/lib/images/favicon.ico text/html 2010-08-27T15:59:36+02:00 Philipp Sorg http://www.multipla-project.org/cries:start?rev=1282917576&do=diff Array Cross-lingual Expert Search - Bridging CLIR and Social Media CriES will be a workshop at CLEF 2010, September 20-23, Padua (Italy). As part of the workshop we will also define a pilot challenge for multi-lingual expert search. Download the official [Call for Papers]. text/html 2010-08-17T16:00:50+02:00 Philipp Sorg http://www.multipla-project.org/sidebar?rev=1282053650&do=diff August 2010: * The Research-ESA Web service is now available. February 2010: * The Multipla project will support the CriES Workshop at the CLEF Conference. * As part of CriES we will organize a Pilot Challenge for multi-lingual Expert Search. text/html 2010-08-17T15:58:02+02:00 Philipp Sorg http://www.multipla-project.org/tools?rev=1282053482&do=diff Research ESA Description: Implementation of Explicit Semantic Analysis for usage in research (more details). Link to project page: <http://code.google.com/p/research-esa/> text/html 2010-08-17T15:12:29+02:00 Philipp Sorg http://www.multipla-project.org/research-esa?rev=1282050749&do=diff Research-ESA is an open source implementation of Explicit Semantic Analysis. It supports the cross-lingual extension of ESA and allows the variation of the ESA model and parameters. Library The Research-ESA library is available on the Research-ESA project site. It requires a local instance of the Wikipedia database (or alternative knowledge sources that can be used for ESA). It supports the following features: text/html 2010-07-21T15:19:15+02:00 Philipp Sorg http://www.multipla-project.org/cries:sidebar?rev=1279718355&do=diff Links * CriES Workshop Program * CLEF Submission Site (camery-ready versions) Important Dates Workshop: 04.07. Submission deadline for papers 18.07. Notification of acceptance 15.08. Camera ready deadline Pilot Challenge: Dec 09 Release of pilot dataset 16.05. Submission deadline for results on pilot challenge 20.06. Release of relevance assessments and evaluation results 04.07. Submission deadline for papers 18.07. Notification of acceptance 15.08. Camera ready deadline Con… text/html 2010-07-21T15:18:18+02:00 Philipp Sorg http://www.multipla-project.org/cries:program?rev=1279718298&do=diff Thursday, 23 September 2010 Faculty of Statistical Sciences Padua, Italy 14:30 - 16:00 * 14:30 Philipp Sorg. Introduction and overview of the CriES pilot challenge. * 15:00 Paper Slot 1 * 15:30 Paper Slot 2 16:30 - 18:00 * 16:30 Paper Slot 3 * 17:00 Invited talk by Krisztian Balog. * 17:50 Wrap up and final discussion text/html 2010-07-21T15:12:28+02:00 Philipp Sorg http://www.multipla-project.org/cries:challenge?rev=1279717948&do=diff In the pilot challenge of the CriES Workshop we instantiate the problem setting by an expert finding task, i.e. our goal is to identify the expertise of online community members and to provide expert suggestions for solving new problems, questions, or help requests in multi-lingual social media. In many cases, expert users in online communities are multi-lingual, i.e. they participate in discussions in several languages. Frequently, the actual expertise of the user is language-independent, so he…