2nd CFP: DEXA-Workshop on Text-Based Information Retrieval, TIR-08

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*TIR-08 - 5th International Workshop on Text-Based Information Retrieval*
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                 In conjunction with the DEXA 2008
 19th International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications

                 Turin, Italy, September 1st to 5th
                    http://www.aisearch.de/tir-08

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About this Workshop:
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Intelligent algorithms for mining and retrieval are the key technology
to cope with the information need challenges in our
information-flooded society. Methods for text-based information
retrieval receive special attention, which results from the
fundamental role of written text, from the high availability of the
Internet, and from the enormous importance of Web communities.

Advanced information retrieval and extraction is not an isolated field
of research but uses methods from different areas: machine learning,
computer linguistics and psychology, user interaction and modeling,
information visualization, Web engineering, artifical intelligence, or
distributed systems. The development of intelligent retrieval tools
requires the understanding and combination of the achievements of
these areas, and in this sense the workshop provides a common platform
for presenting and discussing new solutions.

The following list organizes classic and ongoing topics from the field
of text-based IR for which contributions are welcome:

  - Theory. Retrieval models, language models, similarity measures,
formal analysis
  - Mining and Classification. Category formation, clustering, entity
resolution, document classification
  - Web. Community mining, social network analysis, structured
retrieval from XML documents
  - NLP. Text summarization, keyword extraction, topic identification
  - User Interface. Paradigms and algorithms for information
visualization, personalization, privacy issues
  - Multilinguality. Cross-language retrieval, multilingual retrieval,
machine translation for IR
  - Evaluation. Corpus construction, experiment design, conception of
user studies
  - Semantic Web. Meta data analysis and tagging, knowledge
extraction, inference, and maintenance
  - Software Engineering. Frameworks and architectures for retrieval
technology, distributed IR

The workshop is held for the fifth time. In the past, it was always
characterized by a stimulating atmosphere, and it attracted high
quality contributions from all over the world. In particular, we
encourage participants to present research prototypes and
demonstration tools of their research ideas.


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Important Dates:
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April 1, 2008      Deadline for paper submission
April 20, 2008     Notification to authors
May 15, 2008       Camera-ready copy due
September 1, 2008  Workshop opens 


Contributions will be peer-reviewed by at least two experts from the
related field. Accepted papers will be published as IEEE proceedings
by IEEE CS Press.


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Workshop Organization:
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Benno Stein, Bauhaus University Weimar
Sven Meyer zu Eissen, Bauhaus University Weimar


Contact: [email protected]
Information about the workshop can be found at
http://www.aisearch.de/tir-08