Melbourne Search August 2015 Meetup

We are excited to announce that RMIT will be hosting the next meetup!

Venue: Building 14, RMIT University, Room 014.11.038 (map (https://www.google.com.au/maps/place/414+Swanston+St,+Melbourne+VIC+3000/@-37.8076827,144.9630123,18z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m2!3m1!1s0x6ad642cb62779421:0x652687798402ff65))

Direction: take any tram for 1 stop from Melbourne Central towards north direction

Time: 6pm-8:30

Catering will start at 6pm, and talks will start at 6:30pm.

Briefing:

by Prof. Mark Sanderson (Deputy head of school of CSIT, director of RMIT-NICTA Data Analytics lab)

Talk 1:

speaker: Dr. Timothy Jones

title: "Practical and principled evaluation of search quality"

Abstract: In this talk, I will introduce some common ways that search systems can be evaluated for result quality in a research setting, and discuss how these approaches can easily apply to an industrial setting. Topics will include explicit judgements of individual document quality, A/B in-situ system evaluation, and effective use of implicit metrics such as click data.

Talk 2:

speaker: Assoc. Prof. Jenny Zhang

Title: Sentiment Analysis on Social Media data

Talk 3:

speaker: Dr. Zhifeng Bao

Title: Fuzzy type-ahead search over geo-textual data - how is it different from Google Map?

Each talk is about 15 mins, followed by a 5-min Q&A.