BarCampPune - Context based search project by Mukul Joshi (and others)

Mukul Joshi presented an implementation of context-sensitive search engine that was implemented by some project students, and got a first prize in annual competition held in IISc. (Sorry, don't have reference here.)

Context search is when search engine gives you options when you search. For e.g. if you say Apple, is it Apple computer or Apple fruit?

He gave a good overview, and explained all the concepts; in particular use of Context Net database (again, sorry no reference as yet) that has some 50000+ concepts. More importantly, how can personalization be integrated so that user doesn't have to specifically select context. He also neatly summed up various problems in search space still to be attacked.

Interestingly, Webaroo also gave a presentation. They have something known as 'webpacks' which are a set of collected information about a particular topic such as City. (These can be uploaded to mobile later.) So that is basically a context, right? So what they do is to automatically identify good resources and pack them for you to download them in mobile (so they are available offline for search and browse).

Atul Kulkarni gave a talk on Naive Bayesian classification, and gave resources / toolkits etc.