ECIR 2008 - Final Call for Participation; Glasgow 30th March- 3rd April; UK

Final CALL FOR PARTICIPATION 

30th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2008) 30th March -
3rd April University of Glasgow 
http://ecir2008.dcs.gla.ac.uk/        

Organized by: University of Glasgow
In cooperation with: BCS-IRSG, ACM SIGIR 

* Conference programme (31st March - 2nd April) The technical program
includes 33 full research papers, 19 short papers, and 28 posters. Full
programme is available at http://ecir2008.dcs.gla.ac.uk/programme.html       

Tutorials and workshops (30th March) 
http://ecir2008.dcs.gla.ac.uk/tutorials_workshops.html    
ECIR 2008 will host three half-day tutorials and three full-day workshops
Tutorial: Advanced language modeling approaches (case study: expert
search) -  Djoerd Hiemstra, University of Twente, The Netherlands
Tutorial: Search and discovery in user-generate text content - Maarten de
Rijke and Wouter Weerkamp, ISLA, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Tutorial: Research and building IR applications using Terrier - Craig
Macdonald and Ben He, University of Glasgow, UK
Workshop: Workshop on novel methodologies for evaluation in Information
Retrieval - organized by Mark Sanderson, University of Sheffield, UK, Martin
Braschler, Zurich University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland, Nicola Ferro,
University of Padova, Italy, and Julio Gonzalo, UNED, Spain
Workshop: Efficiency issues in Information Retrieval Workshop - organized by
Roi Blanco, Universidade da Coruña, Spain and Fabrizio Silvestri, ISTI CNR,
Italy
Workshop: Exploiting semantic annotations in Information Retrieval - Omar
Alonso, A9.com, USA and Hugo Zaragoza, Yahoo! Research Barcelona, Spain 

*Industry day (3rd April) 
http://ecir2008.dcs.gla.ac.uk/industry.html        
A day of presentations and discussion dedicated to the interests and needs
of Information Retrieval practitioners. The programme includes 12 speakers from leading IR companies. 

* Keynote speakers
ECIR 2008 is pleased to announce the following three keynote speakers: 
Nicholas J. Belkin Rutgers, University, USA - Some(what) Grand Challenges
for Information Retrieval 
Bettina Berendt, K.U. Leuven, Belgium - You are a document too: Web mining
and IR for next-generation information literacy 
Amit Singhal, Google Research Fellow, Google, USA - Web Search: 
Challenges and Directions 

* Paper awards
Best paper award, best student paper award and best poster award, all
sponsored by Yahoo! Research 

* Social events
A social event every day, including a Banquet reception on 31st March at the
Kelvingrove Museum, a civic reception at the City Chambers on 1st April, and a Google-sponsored reception at the Glasgow Science Centre on 2nd April.
Further details are available on the ECIR 2008 Web site. 

* Registration
For registration and other information, please visit the ECIR 2008 
home page at http://ecir2008.dcs.gla.ac.uk/registration.html      

* Accommodation
Assistance in booking your hotel is provided by our Conference and Visitors Services Office. For further information about Accommodation, please visit http://ecir2008.dcs.gla.ac.uk/accommodation.html 

* Main sponsors 
Google  http://www.google.com     
Microsoft Research  http://research.microsoft.com     
Yahoo! Research  http://research.yahoo.com      
MatrixWare Information Services  http://www.matrixware.com     


We are looking forward to welcoming you in Glasgow, 

The ECIR 2008 Chairs
(Ian Ruthven, Vassilis Plachouras, Ryen White and Iadh Ounis)