Program
Meeting room 1
| 9:00-9:15 | Opening |
Marc Najork (Google) Natasa Milic-Frayling (University of Nottingham) Bin Shao (Microsoft) |
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| 9:15-10:00 | Keynote 1 |
Andrew Tomkins (Google) When Big Data Meets Discrete Choice.  Slides of the presentation
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| 10:00-10:30 | Invited talk 1 |
Flavio Chierichetti (Sapienza University of Rome) Randomly Walking A Fine Line. Slides of the presentation
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| 10:30-11:00 | Break | |
| 11:00-11:10 | BIG 2017 CUP |
Bin Shao (Microsoft) Slides of the presentation
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| 11:10-11:40 | Invited talk 2 |
Ed H. Chi (Google) Optimizing for User Experience with Data Science and Machine Learning. Slides of the presentation.
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| 11:40-12:10 | Invited talk 3 |
Shaun Gregory (Woodside) Think Big Slides of the presentation
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| 12:10-13:45 | Lunch | |
| 13:45-14:30 | Keynote 2 |
David Hawking (Microsoft) Synthesizing large-scale text corpora for training, testing and performance validation of search components. Slides of the presentation
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| 14:30-15:00 | Invited talk 4 |
Mounia Lalmas (Yahoo) Advertising Quality Science. Slides of the presentation
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| 15:00-15:30 | Submitted presentation |
Alexander Zipf and Jiaoyan Chen (Heidelberg University) Humanitarian Mapping with Deep Learning and Volunteered Geographic Information. Slides of the presentation
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| 15:30-16:00 | Break | |
| 16:00-17:15 | Panel |
Marc Najork (Google) – Moderator Andrew Tomkins (Google) David Hawking (Microsoft) Mounia Lalmas (Yahoo) Ed H. Chi (Google) Flavio Chierichetti (Sapienza University of Rome) Deep learning for data analytics: panacea or snake oil? |
| 17:30-19:00 | BIG Reception | Northern Foyer, outside Meeting Room 1 |