[Web4lib] CFP context-based information retrieval (CIR-07)

[Bich-Lien Doan]

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                             CALL FOR PAPERS

 

                                 CIR'07 

       2nd International Workshop on Context-Based Information Retrieval 

                         http://wwwsi.supelec.fr/bld/CIR-07/

                                         August 20-21, 2007 

 

Held in conjunction with the 6th International and Interdisciplinary
Conference on Modeling and Using Context (CONTEXT-07),
http://context-07.ruc.dk

 

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SCOPE

 

With the explosion of the volume of available information on the Web, the

information retrieval systems (IRSs) have become necessary to help the

users to find relevant documents. Traditional IRSs may be drastically

different if they take into account the context of the information, the

context of the interactions and the context of the query. Contextual

information includes, for example, both explicit and implicit feedback from

the user, environment the user is attached to and the system itself. Such

factors constrain the search without intervening in it explicitly. One idea

to improve the efficiency of IRSs is to make the contextual information

explicit in order to enhance the retrieval performance.

 

The workshop audience is intended to explore related work, theoretical

framework and applications which focus on contextual IRSs. It is intended

for researchers in the area of computer science, information retrieval and

digital libraries, artificial intelligence and cognitive science. 

The workshop aims at promoting exchanges in these

fields, establishing the current state of the art,identifying the emerging

problems and proposing future research directions. Besides, we encourage

interested researchers from related areas to attend the workshop.

 

Relevant topics include but are not limited to:

 

- Theory in context and information retrieval

- Contextual information retrieval modeling

- Multiple contexts in information retrieval, navigation and browsing

- Adaptive and interactive information retrieval

- Visualization and interaction for contextual search

- Personalized and collaborative information retrieval

- Implicit and explicit feedback

- Use of ontology and thesaurus to contextualize search

- Use of contextual graph to model information retrieval systems

- Contextual information retrieval evaluation

- Query-based and non-content-based contextual information retrieval systems

- Tools, algorithms and interfaces to support contextual information
retrieval

- Integration of context-aware information retrieval & database systems

 

PAPERS AND EVALUATION

 

Papers should be single-spaced with a font size of 11. Two types of papers
are solicited:

 

full paper : 8-12 pages

short paper: 4-6 pages

 

The organizers will oversee a peer-review process for all the submitted

papers.  Selection will be based on originality, clarity, and technical

quality. A synopsis of the presentations and discussions will be posted on

the workshop web page. Although not required for the initial submission, we

recommend to follow the LNCS format guidelines for proceedings

(http://www.springeronline.com/sgw/cda/frontpage/0,10735,5-164-2-72376-0,00.
html).

Revised versions of research papers will appear in the CEUR Workshops

Proceedings (http://ceur-ws.org). At least one author of each paper should

attend the workshop to present the paper. For more information, please

contact the workshop chairs. 

Authors are invited to submit electronically original papers. Please send
all submissions to Bich-Lien.Doan at supelec.fr.

 

IMPORTANT DATES

 

May 22.    Paper Submission

Jun 18.    Notifications for Papers

Jun 30.    Camera-ready Copies of Papers to be received by the Workshop
Organizers 

Jul 18.    Deadline for Camera-ready Copy of Workshop Notes to be received
by the CONTEXT 07 Workshop

Aug 20-21. Workshop Days

 

ORGANIZING CO-CHAIRS

 

Bich-Liên Doan, Supélec, France, Bich-Lien.Doan at supelec.fr

Massimo Melucci, University of Padua, Italy, melo at dei.unipd.it

Joemon Jose, University of Glasgow, UK, jj at dcs.gla.ac.uk

 

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

 

Maristella Agosti, University of Padua, Italy 

Patrick Brézillon, LIP6, Paris

Bich-Liên Doan, Supélec, France

Gilles Falquet, University of Geneva, Switzerland 

Joemon Jose, University of Glasgow, UK

Mounia Lalmas, University of London, UK

Massimo Melucci, University of Padua, Italy 

Iadh Ounis, University of Glasgow, UK 

Ian Ruthven, University of Strathclyde, UK

Rohini K.Srihari, University of New-York, USA 

Amanda Spink, University of Pittsburgh, USA

Ryen White, Microsoft Research, Redmond, USA

Yi Zhang, University of California, USA

Hideo Joho, University of Glasgow, UK

Jana Urban, University of Glasgow, UK