Call for papers: GIR07

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Workshop on Geographical Information Retrieval GIR'07 - Call for papers
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http://www.geo.unizh.ch/~rsp/gir07/
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This is a first call for papers for a workshop on Geographic Information
Retrieval (GIR'07), to be held in conjunction with the 16th ACM  
Conference
on Information and Knowledge Management, Lisboa, Portrugal
(http://www.fc.ul.pt/cikm2007/). The workshop is the fourth in a  
series of
successful workshops held previously in conjunction with SIGIR 2004,  
CIKM
2005 and SIGIR 2006. The workshop will take place immediately  
following the
conference on November the 9th 2007.

The purpose of this workshop is to bring together the growing  
community of
researchers and practitioners working in the field of geographic  
information
retrieval to discuss further progress within the field and potential  
future
research strands. Examples of topics that are particularly relevant  
include,
but are not confined to:

.	architectures for geographic search engines;
.	spatial indexing of documents and images;
.	extraction of geographical context from documents and geo-datasets;
.	geographical annotation techniques for geo-referenced documents and
images;
.	design, construction, maintenance and access methods for
geographical ontologies, gazetteers and geographical 	thesauri;
.	geographical query interfaces for the web and geo-spatial libraries;
.	geographic information question/ answering services;
.	dealing with natural language in geographic information retrieval;
.	visualising of the results of geographic searches; and
.	relevance ranking for geographical search.

We invite the submission of extended abstracts of up to 6 pages for
presentation as long papers (30 minutes) and 2 page short abstracts
reporting on work in progress for short presentations (15 minutes). All
submissions will be reviewed by two members of the program committee,  
and
all accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings.

You should prepare your abstract in accordance with the CIKM camera- 
ready
instructions (http://www.fc.ul.pt/cikm2007/Camera-Ready- 
Instructions.html)
and submit it to Ross Purves (rsp-57TFBAJhQDV83/[email protected]) by June 15th, 2007.

Further details of the workshop will be available shortly at
http://www.geo.unizh.ch/~rsp/gir07/

Please forward this message to anyone whom you think may have an  
interest in
the workshop.

With best wishes,

Ross Purves (rsp-57TFBAJhQDV83/[email protected]) and Chris Jones ([email protected])

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