ECIR 2008 CALL FOR POSTERS AND WORKSHOP/TUTORIAL PROPOSALS

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ECIR 2008 CALL FOR POSTERS AND WORKSHOP/TUTORIAL PROPOSALS

 
ECIR 2008

30th European Conference on Information Retrieval, Glasgow, UK.

30th March - 3rd April, 2008.

http://ecir2008.dcs.gla.ac.uk/  


The Annual European Conference on Information Retrieval is the main
European forum for the presentation of new research results in the field
of Information Retrieval. ECIR 2008 is the 30th anniversary of this
conference series and will take place in Glasgow, Scotland.

We are also pleased to announce three keynote speakers who will present
at the conference:

* Professor Nick Belkin, Rutgers University

* Dr Amit Singhal, Google

* Professor Bettina Berendt, KU Leuven


CALL FOR POSTERS

Poster submissions demonstrating work in progress and late-breaking
research results are invited.  All posters will be refereed through
blind peer review and should be anonymous.  Authors are invited to
submit posters representing original, previously unpublished work, on or
before 15 October 2007, following the poster submission guidelines
available on the conference Web site (maximum 5 pages LNCS format
including references and figures). Poster submissions will be accepted
while it is still October 15 anywhere in the world. The abstracts of
accepted posters will be published in the conference proceedings (as
part of Springer-Verlag's LNCS series) and distributed to all delegates
at the conference.

We encourage the submission of posters reporting original and innovative
research within Information Retrieval. The conference intends to cover
all aspects of accessing digital information with or without explicitly
specified semantics.  Poster papers should describe novel research that
is at an early stage in development and is not sufficiently mature to
warrant a full paper. These papers should describe research that is
ongoing not merely proposals for research.


Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):


* Theory and Models for Information Retrieval.

* Efficiency and Performance of IR. Platforms, Architectures.

* Applications of IR.

* Evaluation and Test collections.

* Indexing. Query representation, Query reformulation, Structure-based
representation, XML, Metadata. Summarization. Natural language
processing for IR.

* Tracking, Filtering, Topic detection, Collaborative filtering, Agents,
Routing and Email spam.

* Categorization and clustering.

* User studies and interfaces. Interactive IR. Task-based IR.

* Web IR, Distributed IR, Digital libraries. Intranet, Desktop,
Enterprise and Blog Search. Adversarial IR.

* Question answering and information extraction. Text Data Mining and
Machine Learning for IR.

* Multimedia IR.

* Cross-language and multilingual Information Retrieval.

 

The conference proceedings - containing both accepted full-papers and
accepted posters - will appear as a special commerative edition of LNCS
to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the ECIR conference series. 

 
CALL FOR WORKSHOP AND TUTORIAL PROPOSALS

Submissions are solicited for workshops and tutorials on all topics of
Information Retrieval and its applications. Especially encouraged are
workshops that facilitate interaction and collaboration among
participants, while opening new directions for future research, as well
as tutorials that inform the Information Retrieval community on recent
advancements in related fields, or on novel application areas related to
Information Retrieval.


Submissions describing proposed workshops and tutorials should be up to
1,000 words. They should state the title and the goals of the proposed
workshop or tutorial, as well as the full contact details of the
organizers and presenters, including a one-paragraph biography with past
experience in organizing relevant events.

 

An award will be presented to the author of the Best Poster presented at
the conference.

 

IMPORTANT DATES

Poster Submission: 15th October 2007

Workshop/Tutorial Submission: 15th October 2007

Notifications: 11th December 2007

 

CONTACTS

If you have any queries regarding a poster or workshop/tutorial
submission, please contact the appropriate organising chair:

 

Ryen White (posters)

email: ryenw at microsoft.com

 

Vassilis Plachouras (tutorials and workshops)

email: vassilis at yahoo-inc.com


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