On the 27th July 2007 the SIGIR 2007 Workshop on Focused Retrieval was held as part of SIGIR in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Nine papers were presented in three sessions and in a fourth session there was a panel discussion. This report outlines the events of the workshop and summarizes the major outcomes.

From 22nd June to 27th of June 2008, the Dagstuhl Seminar “08261 Structure-Based Compression of Complex Massive Data” took place at the Conference and Research Center (IBFI) in Dagstuhl. 22 researchers with interests in theory and application of compression and computation on compressed structures met to present their current work and to discuss future directions.

OF DOCTORAL DISSERTATION AALTO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY P.O. BOX 11000, FI-00076 AALTO http://www.aalto.fi Author Tomi Kauppinen Name of the dissertation Manuscript submitted November 24th, 2009 Manuscript revised February 27th, 2010 Date of the defence April 23rd, 2010 Article dissertation (summary + original articles) Monograph Faculty Department Field of research Opponent(...

The paper is another part of a planned longer series designed to step by reveal the Chadic and wider Afro-Asiatic cognate heritage in lexical stock Mubi-Toram languages which represent easternmost (27th) group vast (6th) branch gigantic family.

As the World Wide Web is growing rapidly, it is getting increasingly challenging to gather representative information about it. Instead of crawling the web exhaustively one has to resort to other techniques like sampling to determine the properties of the web. A uniform random sample of the web would be useful to determine the percentage of web pages in a specific language, on a topic or in a t...