CfP: CIRCLE 2022 | 2nd edition of the Joint Conference of the Information Retrieval Communities in Europe, July 4-7, 2022, Samatan, Gers, France

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*CIRCLE 2022 | *2nd edition of the Joint Conference of the Information
Retrieval Communities in Europe July 4-7, 2022, Samatan, Gers, France


Call for Papers

*SCOPE*

The second edition of CIRCLE will take place on *July 4-7, 2022* at
Samatan, Gers, south of France (50 minutes from Toulouse). More information
at https://www.irit.fr/CIRCLE/.

*CIRCLE *arose from a twofold wish to gather three national Information
Retrieval (IR) conferences and to offer young researchers the opportunity
to meet and discuss with senior researchers. CIRCLE is supported by the
ARIA French conference (CORIA, COnférence en Recherche d’Information et
Applications), the Spanish Conference on Information Retrieval (CERI,
Congreso Español de Recuperación de Información), the Italian Information
Retrieval Workshop, and the Swiss IR community. The main objective of
CIRCLE is to propose a unique place for stimulating and disseminating
research in IR, where senior/industrial and early stage researchers
(including MSc and PhD students) can network and discuss their research
results in a friendly environment.



*KEY DATES*

●     *25 February 2022*: Long paper deadline

●     *18 March 2022*: Short, resource, demo papers and extended abstracts
deadline

●     *29 April 2022:* Papers notifications

●     *27 May 2022*: Camera-Ready deadline



*TOPICS* *OF INTEREST*

CIRCLE 2022 welcomes both theoretical and experimental papers on core IR
and papers on connections between IR and close disciplines including but
not limited to natural language understanding and information
extraction.  Relevant
topics include, but are not restricted to:

●     *Search and ranking*. Research on core IR algorithmic topics,
including IR at scale, covering topics such as:

○     Queries and query analysis

○     Web search, including link analysis, sponsored search, search
advertising, adversarial search and spam, and vertical search

○     Retrieval models and ranking, including diversity and aggregated
search

○     Efficiency and scalability

○     Theoretical models and foundations of information retrieval and access

●     *Content analysis, recommendation and classification*. Research
focusing on recommender systems, rich content representations and content
analysis, covering topics such as:

○     Filtering and recommender systems

○     Document representation

○     Content analysis and information extraction, including summarization,
text representation, readability, sentiment analysis, and opinion mining

○     Cross- and multilingual search

○     Clustering, classification, and topic models

○     IR and natural language processing

●     *Domain-specific applications*. Research focusing on domain-specific
IR challenges, covering topics such as:

○     Social search

○     Search in structured data including email search and entity search

○     Multimedia search

○     Education

○     Legal

○     Health, including genomics and bioinformatics

○     IR and digital libraries

○     IR and databases

○     Other domains such as enterprise, news search, app search, archival
search

●     *Artificial intelligence, semantics and dialog*. Research bridging AI
and IR, especially toward deep semantics and dialog with intelligent
agents, covering topics such as:

○     Question answering

○     Conversational systems and retrieval, including spoken language
interfaces, dialog management systems, and intelligent chat systems

○     Semantics and knowledge graphs

○     Deep learning for IR, embeddings, and agents

●     *Human factors and interfaces*. Research into user-centric aspects of
IR, including user interfaces, behavior modeling, privacy, and interactive
systems, covering topics such as:

○     Mining and modeling search activity, including user and task models,
click models, log analysis, behavioral analysis, and attention modeling

○     Interactive and personalized search

○     Collaborative search, social tagging and crowdsourcing

○     Information privacy and security

●     *Evaluation*. Research that focuses on the measurement and evaluation
of IR systems, covering topics such as:

○     User-centered evaluation methods, including measures of user
experience and performance, user engagement and search task design

○     Test collections and evaluation metrics, including the development of
new test collections

○     Eye-tracking and physiological approaches, such as fMRI

○     Evaluation of novel information access tasks and systems such as
multi-turn information access

○     Statistical methods and reproducibility issues in information
retrieval evaluation

●     *IR architectures*. Research dealing with IR system architectures and
scalability, covering topics such as:

○     String processing for IR

○     IR system scalability

○     Efficient text representations, indexing and ranking

 *Future directions*. Research with theoretical or empirical contributions
on new technical or social aspects of IR, especially in more speculative
directions or with emerging technologies, covering topics such as:

○     Novel approaches to IR

○     Ethics, economics, and politics

○     Applications of search to social good

○     IR with new devices, including wearable computing, neuroinformatics,
sensors, Internet-of-Things, vehicles

*PAPER SUBMISSIONS *

Authors are invited to submit one of the following *types of contributions*:

●     *Long* original papers (from 6 to 9 pages including references)
describing mature and original research results

●     *Short* original papers (from 3 to 5 pages including references)
which typically discuss exciting new work that is not yet mature enough for
a long paper, such as for example “doctoral papers”. In particular, novel
but significant proposals will be considered for acceptance into this
category despite not having gone through sufficient experimental validation
or lacking strong theoretical foundation.

●     *Resource and demo papers* (from 3 to 7 pages including references).
A *resource* paper describes IR test collections software tools made
available to the IR research community. *Demo* papers showcasing new
technologies and prototypes in the cope of CIRCLE

●     *Extended abstracts* (up to 3 pages including references) containing
descriptions of ongoing projects or presenting already published results



Manuscripts should be submitted to CIRCLE’22’s Easychair site (
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=circle2022) in PDF format and must
be in English using the current *ACM two-column conference format*.
Suitable LaTeX, Word, and Overleaf templates are available from the ACM
Website <https://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template> (use
the“sigconf”proceedings template).

*Long* and *short* submissions must be *anonymous and will *be peer
reviewed by at least 3 reviewers in a double-blind process by the CIRCLE
common program committee. *Resource* and *demo *submissions as well as
*extended
abstracts* are *not anonymous* and will be peer reviewed by at least 3
reviewers in a single-blind process by the CIRCLE common program committee

The conference language for this track will be English. Each accepted paper
will be orally presented and will be part of the proceedings which will be
sent to CEUR-WS.org for online publication.

Best regards,

Md Zia Ullah,
Postdoc
Toulouse, France.
https://zuacubd.github.io/

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