22 de Noviembre del 2011 de 17:30 - 19:30 Mining the Web 2.0 to Improve Image Search

Seminario - "Mining the Web 2.0 to Improve Image Search"
Actividad de reconocimiento de créditos "Ciclo de Seminarios en Interacción Persona Ordenador"
Ponente: Ricardo Baeza Yates (Yahoo! Research for Europe, Middle East and Latin America)
Día: Martes 22 de Noviembre del 2011 de 17:30 - 19:30
Lugar: Sala1. Sala de Audiovisuales. Laboratorio II. Móstoles. Móstoles.
Seminario enmarcado dentro de la asignatura de Multimedia del Máster en Informática Interactiva y Multimedia.
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Resumen:

There are several semantic sources that can be found in the Web that are either explicit, e.g. Wikipedia, or implicit, e.g. derived from Web usage data. Most of them are related to user generated content (UGC) or what is called today the Web 2.0. In this presentation we show several applications of mining the wisdom of crowds behind UGC to improve image search, by combining the context and the content of the image. This is joint work with Ximena Olivares and Roelof Van Zwol.
Breve CV del autor:
Ricardo Baeza-Yates is VP of Yahoo! Research for Europe, Middle East and Latin America, leading the labs at Barcelona, Spain and Santiago, Chile, as well as supervising the newer lab in Haifa, Israel. Until 2005 he was the director of the Center for Web Research at the Department of Computer Science of the Engineering School of the University of Chile; and ICREA Professor at the Dept. of Technology of the Univ. Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona, Spain. He is co-author of the best-seller book Modern Information Retrieval, published in 1999 by Addison-Wesley with a second edition in 2010, as well as co-author of the 2nd edition of the Handbook of Algorithms and
Data Structures, Addison-Wesley, 1991; and co-editor of Information Retrieval:
Algorithms and Data Structures, Prentice-Hall, 1992, among more than 200 other publications. He has received the Organization of American States award for young researchers in exact sciences (1993) and with two Brazilian colleagues obtained the COMPAQ prize for the best CS Brazilian research article (1997).
In 2003 he was the first computer scientist to be elected to the Chilean Academy of Sciences. During 2007 he was awarded the Graham Medal for innovation in computing, given by the University of Waterloo to distinguished ex-alumni. In 2009 he was awarded the Latin American distinction for contributions to CS in the region and became an ACM Fellow. Finally, in 2011 he also became IEEE Fellow.