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Industry DaysIn 2019, the CLEF conference will be held for the first time in Switzerland and in collaboration with the Swiss Alliance for Data-Intensive Services. The Industry Days will allow the interaction between the scientific community, practitioners and decision-makers through panels, a special keynote and presentations. Additionally, the very best and most pertinent work of the academic CLEF participants will be made accessible in a concise manner. The goal of CLEF is to provide a platform to compare and test information retrieval systems. The conference is organized in independent labs that target different subtopics of information retrieval such as personalized information retrieval (Lab: PIR-CLEF) or digital text forensics and stylometry (Lab: PAN). Each lab defines a challenge (including a dataset and a task) that is solved by participants and evaluated by the organizers during the year. The conference provides a place discuss the results, show their methods and exchange ideas. As a consequence, each yearly conference consists of a number of presentations of research activities carried out on standard datasets.
If you are interested in participating in this part of the conference please contact Gundula Heinatz.
ProgramWednesday, Sep 11, 2019
The Industry Days program runs for two days, and includes tutorials (best of academic CLEF output), talks by industry representatives, a panel by distinguished experts on data science in Europe and a keynote by Dr. Martinez from Signal AI. There is ample room for networking and social contacts, including a reception on Wednesday evening. Details of the full conference, also open to industrial attendees are found here.
12:00 — 13:30 Welcome Reception Industry Days
13:30 — 15:00 Plenary Session: Panel on “Data Science in Europe” Moderation: Martin Braschler, ZHAW, Switzerland Participants: Dorian Selz (Squirro), Kornelia Papp (SwissRe), Doug Oard (University of Maryland), Reinhard Riedl (National Research Council of the SNSF), Gareth Jones (Dublin City University)
15:00 — 15:30 Coffee Break
15:30 — 16:00 Martin Braschler, ZHAW, Switzerland on "CLEF Tutorial for Industry" Room: Auditorium
16:00 — 16:30 Mark Cielibak, SpinningBytes/ZHAW, Switzerland on "Do You Have to Read All Incoming Documents?" Room: Auditorium
16:30 — 17:00 Silvio Arcangeli, SAP, Switzerland on "Operationalizing and scaling Machine Learning for real-life usage in enterprise contexts" Room: Auditorium
17:00 — 17:30 Jussi Karlgren, Gavagai, Sweden on “"Thresholds for adopting systematic evaluation benchmarks in industrial settings" Room: Auditorium
18:30 — 21:00 Civic Reception An aperò will be served in Villa Ciani, Parco Ciani, Lugano
Thursday, Sep 12, 2019
09:00 — 10:00 Keynote Talk Chair: Martin Braschler, ZHAW, Switzerland Speaker: Miguel Martinez, Signal AI Analysing the world's news: Learnings and challenges from industry Room: Auditorium
10:00 — 10:30 Coffee Break
10:30 — 11:30 Best of CLEF for Industry Chair: Gundula Heinatz Bürki, Data+Service Alliance, Switzerland Room: Auditorium
Henning Müller, University of Applied Sciences Western Switzerland, Switzerland ImageCLEF - benchmarking multimodal image analysis and retrieval
Alexis Joly, Inria/LIRMM, France LifeCLEF: Biodiversity Identification and Prediction Challenges
11:30 — 12:00 The Future of CLEF Speaker: Nicola Ferro, Università di Padova, Italy Room: Auditorium
12:00 — 13:30 Lunch
13:30 — 15:00 Best of CLEF for Industry Chair: Melanie Geiger, Data+Service Alliance, Switzerland Room: Auditorium
Lorraine Goeuriot, Université Grenoble Alpes, France What can CLEF eHealth bring to the industry?
Francisco Rangel, Autoritas Consulting, Spain PAN Shared Tasks for Industry: Experiment Platforms and Author Profiling
Ali Hürriyetoğlu, Osman Mutlu, Koc University, Turkey ProtestNews: Cross-context Event Information Collection from News
15:00 — 15:30 Coffee Break
15:30 — 17:00 Industry Talks Chair: Martin Braschler, ZHAW, Switzerland Room: Auditorium
José Iria, Mobiliar, Switzerland Information Access Problems in Life Insurance
Alireza Ghasemi, ELCA, Switzerland Insight Extraction from Unstructured Data: Opportunities and Challenges
Christoph Glauser, ArgYou, Switzerland Live Monitoring for Jungfrau-Region
17:00 — 17:15 The Future of CLEF/Industry Involvement Chair: Martin Braschler, ZHAW, Switzerland Room: Auditorium
17:15 — 17:30 Plenary Session: Closing Chair: Fabio Crestani, Università della Svizzera italiana, Switzerland Room: Auditorium  |