CFP: JIR -- Special Issue on Non-English Web Retrieval

Journal of Information Retrieval
Special Issue on Non-English Web Retrieval


Important dates:
      Abstract submission: May 4, 2008
      Paper submission: May 11, 2008, 11:50pm Hawaii Standand Time
      Notification of acceptance/rejection: June 25, 2008

Guest Editors:
      Fotis Lazarinis, Technological Education Institute, Mesolonghi,
Greece
      Jesus Vilares, Department of Computer Sciences, University of A
Coruna, Spain
      John Tait, Information Retrieval Facility, Austria
      Efthimis N. Efthimiadis, The Information School, University of
Washington

Contacts:
      lazarinf [at] teimes [dot] gr
      jvilares [at] udc [dot] es
      john.tait [at] ir-facility [dot] org
      efthimis [at] u [dot] washington [dot] edu

Site: http://rea.teimes.gr/~lazarinf/NonEnglishWebIR/

Since its conception, the World Wide Web (WWW or Web) has rapidly become
one of the most widely used services of the Internet. Its friendly
interface and its hypermedia features attract virtually every computer user
around the globe. As a result, the Web has become a dominant global
multicultural and multilingual pool of various types of data. Further it
continues to grow. Finding information that satisfies specific criteria is
a regular daily activity of almost every Web user. Recent Web statistics
showed that almost 65% of the online citizens are non-English language
users. As the Web population continues to grow, especially in Asia, Africa,
and South America, more non-English users will be amassed online. Recent
studies showed that non-English queries and unclassifiable queries have
nearly tripled in the last decade. The main conclusion from previous
research is that most search engine features are primarily focused on the
English language.

Based on previous studies and on the experiences and conclusions of the
iNEWS07 (Improving Non-English Web Searching) ACM SIGIR'07 Workshop, the
special issue aims to address the challenges and directions in Non-English
Web retrieval.

For the special issue we seek high quality papers with theoretical and/or
experimental orientation. Topics of interest for the special issue, as
applied to Non-English Web searching, include, but are not limited to:

Evaluation
User search behaviour
Query log analysis
Indexing
Information extraction
Summarization
User studies
Retrieval models
Question answering
Natural language processing
Concept based image retrieval
Creation of multi-lingual web collections
Intranet/enterprise search
Text categorization and clustering
Digital libraries
Cross language and multilingual retrieval

Submission Instructions:
Submissions must be in English and adhere to the format specified by the
journal Information Retrieval.
For formatting guidelines please see: JIR formatting guidelines

The abstract should be about 250-words in plain text. Include title, author
(s) and author(s) affiliations, contact details, and up to five (5)
keywords that describe your work.

The full paper should be anonymous, and authors should conceal their
identity where it is practical to do so. Include a 200-250-word abstract
and up to five keywords. The paper should range between 16-20 pages.

Both the abstract and the full paper should be uploaded in the Springer
paper submission system

For Word and LaTeX templates, please click Springer Word and Latex
templates

Reviewers for the special issue:
1.    Alonso, Miguel (Univ. of A Coruña, Spain)
2.    Baeza Yates, Ricardo (Yahoo! Research Barcelona)
3.    Chen, Zheng (Microsoft Research Asia, China)
4.    Dalamagas, Theodore (National Technical Univ. of Athens, Greece)
5.    de Rijke, Maarten (Univ. of Amsterdam, The Netherlands),
6.    Hawking, David (CSIRO ICT Centre, Australia)
7.    Huang, Chu-Ren (Academia Sinica, Taiwan)
8.    Järvelin, Kalervo (University of Tampere, Finland)
9.    Kanaan, Ghassan (Yarmouk University, Jordan)
10.   Kando, Noriko (National Institute of Informatics, Japan)
11.   Karanikolas, Nikitas (TEI of Athens, Greece)
12.   Kuang-hua, Chen (National Taiwan University, Taiwan)
13.   Levene, Mark (Birkbeck University of London, UK)
14.   Losada, David (Univ. of Santiago de Compostela, Spain)
15.   Min, Song (New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA)
16.   Nasredine, Semmar (LIC2M/CEA-LIST, France)
17.   Ntoulas, Alexandros (Microsoft Search Labs, USA)
18.   Ounis, Iadh (Univ. of Glasgow, UK)
19.   Pereira, Gabriel (Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal)
20.   Peters, Carol (ISTI-CNR, Italy)
21.   Plachouras, Vassilis (Yahoo! Research Barcelona)
22.   Rambow, Owen (Columbia University, USA)
23.   Savoy, Jacques (Univ. of Neuchatel, Switzerland)
24.   Stamou, Sofia (Univ. of Patras, Greece)
25.   Sutcliffe, Richard (Univ. of Limerick, Ireland))
26.   Vilares, Manuel (Univ. of Vigo, Spain)
27.   White, Ryen (Microsoft, USA)