Sender: Abdur Chowdhury Subject: research.aol.com AOL is embarking on a new direction for its business - making its content and products freely available to all consumers. To support those goals, AOL is also embracing the vision of an open research community, which is creating opportunities for researchers in academia and industry alike. We are introducing AOL Research to everyone, with the goal of facilitating closer collaboration between AOL and anyone with a desire to work on interesting problems. To get started, we invite you to visit us at http://research.aol.com, where you will find: - 20,000 hand labeled, classified queries - 3.5 million web question/answer queries (who, what, where, when, etc.) - Query streams for 500,000 users over 3 months (20 million queries) - Query arrival rates for queuing analysis - 2 million queries against US Government domains Also, please feel free to provide feedback on the site, datasets you'd like to see in the future, and any other comments about our vision. Thanks, Abdur Chowdhury ************************************************** This SIGIR-IRList message and the SIG-IRList Digest (a moderated IR newsletter), are brought to you by SIGIR, distributed from the University of Sheffield and edited by Raman Chandrasekar (irlist-editor@acm.org). o To submit an article, e-mail irlist-editor@acm.org with the subject heading SUBMIT o To unsubscribe, e-mail listproc@sheffield.ac.uk with no subject and the following body text: unsubscribe irlist or click here o To subscribe, e-mail listproc@sheffield.ac.uk with no subject and the following body text: subscribe irlist o For more info, visit: http://www.sigir.org/sigirlist/ o IRList postings can be seen at http://searchtextminingspaces.live.com/ o Subscribe to a feed of these messages at http://searchtextmining.spaces.live.com/feed.rss These files are not to be sold or used for commercial purposes. THE OPINIONS EXPRESSED WITHIN THIS DOCUMENT DO NOT REPRESENT THOSE OF THE EDITOR, MICROSOFT CORPORATION OR THE UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD. AUTHORS ASSUME FULL RESPONSIBILITY FOR THEIR MATERIAL.