Program of the ACM SIGIR 2000 Workshop On

XML and Information Retrieval

 


Athens, Greece
July 28, 2000

 
  

9:00 - 9:15 Welcome
9:15 - 9:45 A survey of search engines for XML documents - Luk, Chan, Dillon, Leong, HongKong Polytechnic University 
Session I: Query languages
9:45 - 10:15 XIRQL -- an extension of XQL for information retrieval,  Fuhr and Grossjohann, Dortmund University, Germany 
10:15 - 10:45 A Type System for Querying XML documents - A. Albano, D. Colazzo, G. Ghelli, P. Manghi, C. Sartiani, University di Pisa ,Italy 
10:45  - 11:15  Coffee Break
Session II: Retrieval algorithms
11:15 - 11:45 Searching text-rich XML documents - Hayashi, Tomita, Kikui , NTT Cyberspace Laboratories, Japan 
11:45 - 12:15 XQL and Proximal nodes -   Baeza-Yates and Navarro,  Universidad de Chile,  Chile 
12:15 - 12:45 Approximate Tree Embedding for querying XML data,  Schlieder and Naumann, Freie Universitat Berlin 
12:45 - 13:45 Lunch
Session III: IR systems for XML documents
13:45 - 14:10  XYZfind: Searching in Context with XML  -   Egnor and Lord, XYZFind Corporation, Seattle, Washington, USA 
14:10 - 14:35 Querying XML Documents in Xyleme  -  Vincent Aguilera Sophie Cluet Pierangelo Veltri Fanny Wattez 
INRIA project, France 
14:35 - 15:00 XMLFS: An XML-Aware File System -  Azagury, Factor, Mandler, IBM Research Lab in Haifa, Israel 
15:00 - 15:30  Coffee Break
15:30 - 16:00  Searching Annotated Language Resources in XML-  Nancy Ide, ,Vassar College, USA 
16:00 - 16:30  What's next - an open discussion

 
Please note that this time schedule is preliminary and may change.