Tutorials: August 7, 2017
Workshops: August 11, 2017
Venue: Keio Plaza Hotel
The SIGIR (Special Interest Group on Information Retrieval) Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2017) is the premier international forum for the presentation of new research results and for the demonstration of new systems and techniques in information retrieval.
Microsoft is proud to be a silver sponsor of the 2017 SIGIR event in Tokyo, Japan on August 8–10, 2017.
Committee Chairs
- Program Chair, Ryen White, Microsoft Cortana
- Symposium on IR in practice (SIRIP) chair, Vanessa Murdock, Microsoft
Invited speakers
- Session 3A: Search Interaction 2
August 9 @ 10:30 AM – 12:10 PM | 5F Concord Ballroom A
Chair: Jaime Teevan, Microsoft Research - Session 6B: Conversations and Question Answering
August 10 @ 11:10 AM – 12:30 PM | 5F Concord Ballroom C
Chair: Peter Bailey, Microsoft
SIRIP
- MAPping the Probability of Start-up Success
August 10 @ 11:10 AM – 12:30 PM | 42F Fuji
Speaker: David Hawking, Microsoft Bing - Search Without a Query – Powering Job Recommendations via Search Index at LinkedIn
August 10 @ 11:10 AM – 12:30 PM | 42F Fuji
Speakers: Dhruv Arya, LinkedIn; Ganesh Venkataraman, LinkedIn