Journal of Information Retrieval "Non-English Web Retrieval" special issue

Springer Academic Publishers
'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: 
Please visit http://rea.teimes.gr/~lazarinf/NonEnglishWebIR/