Call For Papers: TLIR'08

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              Second International Workshop on Teaching and
                   Learning of Information Retrieval
                                (TLIR'08)


               http://www.soi.city.ac.uk/~andym/TLIR08/
                       http://tlir08.soi.city.ac.uk
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                 Workshop in conjunction with IiiX2008
             (http://irsg.bcs.org/iiix2008/workshopsp.php#)

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Justification, goals and summary of the workshop
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Information Retrieval (IR) is a research area that has generated a great 
deal of interest in recent years, largely due to the growth of the 
Internet. Many different problems that have arisen during this time have 
been tackled by the efforts of thousand of researchers around the world. 
New advances are spread following the usual scientific channels, i.e. 
journals and conferences, keeping researchers abreast of new 
developments in the field.

However we need to ensure that students who study the subject of IR 
understand the basis of this discipline, not just with the aim of 
conducting research in the future for example, but also as a way of 
learning how search engines work - tools that they use for their own 
benefit on a daily basis. IR is a very useful subject to reinforce the 
knowledge acquired in other fields, such as programming, data 
structures, user interface design etc. Postgraduate students who may 
conduct research in this area also need to know the fundamental aspects
of the subject, simply because they may be building new solutions for them.

Therefore as important as research is to IR, one way to improve the 
profile of the subject is to create a common space where IR lecturers 
and researchers can share their experiences and opinions in the field of 
IR teaching at any of the educational levels (primary, secondary and 
tertiary). The aim of the workshop is to provide this common space.

The first edition of the workshop was held in January 10th, 2007, under 
the auspices of the BCS-IRSG at the BSC Headquarters in London. The 
proceedings were published by the BCS 'Electronic Workshops in 
Computing' (eWIC). We have designed this workshop to provide an event 
which will strengthen the community, attracting both young and 
experienced lecturers, who will be encouraged to present their
experiences and ideas, obtaining a valuable feedback from an audience 
with the same interests.

We have a number of broad topics to which we invite position papers on, 
and will then take the issues to a couple of break out sessions. The 
breakout sessions will develop positions based on the core questions 
raised by the position papers.
We intend to publish a white paper on our findings from these session, 
and feedback the issue to the academic community. The outcome therefore 
is not a set of papers which discuss pedagogical research in the area, 
but a set of recommendations to those who teach IR on how to improve 
delivery and quality on their courses, from several perspectives – 
academic, professional body and commercial.

The scope of this workshop will be all the experiences teaching IR. 
Possible topics are listed under the following categories, although not 
restricted to:

Level 1
[A] Technical Level (Non-technical Mid-way to Technical continuum)
[B] Educational Goals
     [b1] Library and information Science
     [b2] Computer Science
     [b3] MIS
     [b3] Linguistics
Level 2
[1] Teaching and Learning methods:
     [1a] classroom;
     [1b] elearning (distance learning);
[2] Assessment and feedback
[3] Curricula.

We invite  position papers on IR teaching, theoretical or position 
papers on any of some of the areas mentioned above. For all the areas we 
identify we will provide a broad overview of them, and a list off issues 
which will be discussed further in breakout sessions.

Submission
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Papers will have an extension of 3 or 4 pages at most.
In http://www.bcs.org/server.php?show=nav.7939, the authors may find the 
Microsoft Windows Template for writing the paper. This will be the only 
possible format.

The papers will be electronically published by eWiC (BCS electronic 
Worshops in Computing – http://ewic.bcs.org/). Later, authors of best 
papers will be invited to submit extended versions as chapters of a book 
on teaching and learning of IR (as soon as we have the detail of the 
publishers and series, we shall inform).

The papers will be submitted in PDF format to the following URL:
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=tlir08

Depending on the number of papers accepted, the presentation of some of 
them will take place in a poster session.


Important Dates
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Deadline for paper submission: September, 15th, 2008.
Notification of Acceptance: September 29th, 2008.
Camera ready: October, 6th, 2008.
Workshop: October, 18th, 2008.


Workshop Organisers
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Andrew MacFarlane ([email protected]),
Department of Information Science. City University. London - United Kingdom.

Juan F. Huete (jhg-HD5+sDbChkR/5/[email protected]),
Departamento de Ciencias de la Computación e Inteligencia Artificial.
Universidad de Granada - Spain.

Juan M. Fernández-Luna (jmfluna-HD5+sDbChkR/5/[email protected]),
Departamento de Ciencias de la Computación e Inteligencia Artificial.
Universidad de Granada - Spain.

Efthimis N. Efthimiadis ([email protected]),
The information School, University of Washington, Seattle, U.S.A.

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                      Juan Manuel Fernández Luna
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                 Escuela Ténica Superior de Ingenierías
                   Informática y de Telecomunicación
                        Universidad de Granada
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