DI-2021 @ KDD 2021: Don Metzler Announce

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Announcing Don Metzler’s invited talk: Challenges in Enterprise Search and Intelligence.
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August 10, 2021

DI-2021 invited talk announcement. Image: LinkedIn.

Document Intelligence Workshop @ KDD2021 proudly presents our last (but definitely not the least) of the 6 invited talks, to be given by Don Metzler, Senior Staff Software Engineer at Google!

Title: Challenges in Enterprise Search and Intelligence (8/15 15:35-16:15 PDT)

Abstract: Building effective enterprise search and intelligence capabilities at scale presents a number of significant challenges. The goal of this talk is to highlight research-focused challenges that are often encountered when developing such systems. The challenges covered in the talk, all of which are backed by real-world use cases, include document understanding, query understanding, and question answering.

Bio: Don Metzler is a Senior Staff Software Engineer at Google, where he leads a group focused on problems at the intersection of machine learning, natural language processing, and information retrieval. Previously, he was a Research Assistant Professor at the University of Southern California (USC) and a Senior Research Scientist at Yahoo!. He has served as the Program Chair of the ACM Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM), ACM International Conference on the Theory of Information Retrieval (ICTIR), and the Open Research Areas in Information Retrieval (OAIR) conferences, sat on the editorial boards of the major journals in the field, published over 100 research papers, has been awarded 9 patents, and co-authored the textbook Search Engines: Information Retrieval in Practice.

Program committee (alphabetical): Doug Burdick, Dave Lewis, Yijuan Lu, Hamid Motahari, Sandeep Tata Chair: Benjamin Han

Originally posted on LinkedIn.