ACM CIKM iNEWS08 Workshop: New submission date (2nd CfP)

2nd ACM International Workshop
=A1Improving Non English Web Searching=A2 iNEWS=A208

held in conjunction with ACM CIKM 2008

http://rea.teimes.gr/lazarinf/iNEWS08/

Fotis Lazarinis, Efthimis Efthimiadis, Jesus Vilares, John Tait

October 30, 2008, Napa Valley, California

*Key dates
July 20, 2008 (** new date **)    Paper submissions due
August 10, 2008    Notifications of acceptance
August 15, 2008    Camera-ready copy due
October 30, 2008  Workshop

*Workshop Theme
The
main aims of this workshop are to identify the problems in web
searching when working with non-English languages and to propose
solutions and tools so as to improve web retrieval systems.

*Aims and Topics
The specific aims of the workshop are to promote better understanding of:=20
-  the problems of search engines in non-English queries.
-  methodologies for evaluating the effectiveness of search engines in non-=
English queries.
-  the user query patterns in non-English Web retrieval.
-  the factors that influence utilization of search engines in a multicultu=
ral world.
-  the needed improvements to the search engines with respect to non-Englis=
h Web retrieval.
-  teaching strategies to help users improve their searching behaviour.
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how standard IR techniques (Indexing, Query representation, Query
reformulation, etc) can be adapted in Web retrieval for non-English
languages.
-  the application of natural language processing techniques for non-Englis=
h Web IR.

Workshop areas of interest include, but are not limited to:
-  Localization of search engine interfaces
-  Creation of multi-lingual web collections
-  Cross language and multilingual retrieval
-  Digital libraries
-  Evaluation methodologies
-  Image and video retrieval services
-  Indexing
-  Concept based image retrieval
-  Information extraction
-  Intranet/enterprise search
-  Natural language processing=20
-  Performance issues of local search engines
-  Query log analysis
-  Question answering=20
-  Retrieval models=20
-  Summarization=20
-  Teaching
-  Text categorization and clustering
-  User behaviour
-  User studies
-  Web information access

*Workshop Format / Papers
The
1-day workshop will begin with a morning keynote speaker; and follow
with paper presentations; poster presentations; group break-outs, and
groups reporting back to the workshop. This structure is chosen in
order to increase the interactivity and to promote the discussion among
the participants.
Keynote Speaker(s): Our aim is to provide a panel
of 2-3 representatives from the major Search Engines to discuss issues
relating to non-English language search.
Group-breakouts: Participants will join teams to discuss research challenge=
s and directions on a topic.
Papers: We solicit three types of paper submissions:=20
(a) Full Papers for presentation (6-8 pages, refereed, published in CIKM pr=
oceedings)
(b) short papers or posters (2-4 pages, refereed, published in CIKM proceed=
ings)
(c) one-page position papers (Not refereed, published in print workshop pro=
ceedings and online)
We
also intend to write a journal paper synthesizing the ideas and the
conclusions of the workshop, referencing the papers of the workshop.

Please visit the workshop site for more details on formatting and submissio=
n of papers:

http://rea.teimes.gr/lazarinf/iNEWS08/

*Contact details of the workshop organizers=20
Fotis Lazarinis, lazarinf [at] teimes [dot] gr
Efthimis N. Efthimiadis, efthimis [at] u [dot] washington [dot] edu
Jesus Vilares, jvilares [at] udc [dot] es
John Tait, john.tait [at] ir-facility [dot] org


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