{"id":65,"date":"2017-03-17T18:27:48","date_gmt":"2017-03-17T23:27:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infoseeking.org\/iblog\/?p=65"},"modified":"2017-03-18T07:16:58","modified_gmt":"2017-03-18T12:16:58","slug":"cheers-for-chiir","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infoseeking.org\/iblog\/2017\/03\/17\/cheers-for-chiir\/","title":{"rendered":"Cheers for CHIIR!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Once again, the InfoSeekers experienced great success at an international conference! Last week, many lab members traveled to Oslo, Norway for <a href=\"http:\/\/sigir.org\/chiir2017\/\" target=\"_blank\">CHIIR 2017<\/a>. Mortals may call it the annual Conference on Human Information Interaction &amp; Retrieval.<\/p>\n<p>It was a chilly week, but that didn&#8217;t stop anyone from doing what they do best: having fun with their research! Manasa Rath, Yiwei Wang, Shawan Sarkar and Jiqun Liu presented posters, while Long Lee presented a paper on Community Question &amp; Answering services.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-66\" src=\"http:\/\/infoseeking.org\/iblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/long_CQA-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"391\" height=\"293\" srcset=\"https:\/\/infoseeking.org\/iblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/long_CQA-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/infoseeking.org\/iblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/long_CQA-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/infoseeking.org\/iblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/long_CQA-360x270.jpg 360w, https:\/\/infoseeking.org\/iblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/long_CQA.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 391px) 100vw, 391px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-67\" src=\"http:\/\/infoseeking.org\/iblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/poster_1-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"317\" height=\"423\" srcset=\"https:\/\/infoseeking.org\/iblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/poster_1-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/infoseeking.org\/iblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/poster_1-203x270.jpg 203w, https:\/\/infoseeking.org\/iblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/poster_1.jpg 720w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 317px) 100vw, 317px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-68\" src=\"http:\/\/infoseeking.org\/iblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/poster_2-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"306\" height=\"408\" srcset=\"https:\/\/infoseeking.org\/iblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/poster_2-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/infoseeking.org\/iblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/poster_2-203x270.jpg 203w, https:\/\/infoseeking.org\/iblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/poster_2.jpg 720w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 306px) 100vw, 306px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-69\" src=\"http:\/\/infoseeking.org\/iblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/poster_3-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"305\" height=\"406\" srcset=\"https:\/\/infoseeking.org\/iblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/poster_3-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/infoseeking.org\/iblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/poster_3-203x270.jpg 203w, https:\/\/infoseeking.org\/iblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/poster_3.jpg 720w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 305px) 100vw, 305px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>But it wasn&#8217;t all work and no play! Participants were able to enjoy a wonderful banquet with a rather scenic backdrop and even visit the Nobel Peace Center.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-70\" src=\"http:\/\/infoseeking.org\/iblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/banquet_oslo-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"481\" height=\"361\" srcset=\"https:\/\/infoseeking.org\/iblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/banquet_oslo-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/infoseeking.org\/iblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/banquet_oslo-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/infoseeking.org\/iblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/banquet_oslo-360x270.jpg 360w, https:\/\/infoseeking.org\/iblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/banquet_oslo.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 481px) 100vw, 481px\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-71\" src=\"http:\/\/infoseeking.org\/iblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/nobel_peace-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/infoseeking.org\/iblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/nobel_peace-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/infoseeking.org\/iblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/nobel_peace-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/infoseeking.org\/iblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/nobel_peace-360x270.jpg 360w, https:\/\/infoseeking.org\/iblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/nobel_peace.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>All in all, it was a conference well-spent! And guess what? Seekers won&#8217;t have to travel far for <a href=\"http:\/\/sigir.org\/chiir2018\/index.php\" target=\"_blank\">CHIIR 2018<\/a>&#8230;it&#8217;s happening right in New Brunswick!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-75\" src=\"http:\/\/infoseeking.org\/iblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/conclusion-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/infoseeking.org\/iblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/conclusion-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/infoseeking.org\/iblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/conclusion-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/infoseeking.org\/iblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/conclusion-360x270.jpg 360w, https:\/\/infoseeking.org\/iblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/conclusion.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Once again, the InfoSeekers experienced great success at an international conference! Last week, many lab members traveled to Oslo, Norway for CHIIR 2017. Mortals may call it the annual Conference on Human Information Interaction &amp; Retrieval. It was a chilly week, but that didn&#8217;t stop anyone from doing what they do best: having fun with their research! Manasa Rath, Yiwei Wang, Shawan Sarkar and Jiqun Liu presented posters, while Long Lee presented a paper on Community Question &amp; Answering services&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/infoseeking.org\/iblog\/2017\/03\/17\/cheers-for-chiir\/\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[19,15,7,18,3,6],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infoseeking.org\/iblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infoseeking.org\/iblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infoseeking.org\/iblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infoseeking.org\/iblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infoseeking.org\/iblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/infoseeking.org\/iblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76,"href":"https:\/\/infoseeking.org\/iblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65\/revisions\/76"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infoseeking.org\/iblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infoseeking.org\/iblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infoseeking.org\/iblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}