[UAI] Workshop on Rich Representations for Reinforcement Learning

[Bich-Lien Doan]

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Submission : extended deadline :March 31, 2005
CFP workshop on Context-Based Information Retrieval (CIR-05), 5 july

Call for Papers

	International Workshop on

Context-Based Information Retrieval (CIR-05)

Held in conjunction with the 5th International and 
Interdisciplinary Conference on Modeling and Using Context
(CONTEXT-05)

July 5, 2005 – Paris, France (one day)

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 may take into account the context of the information 
and the context of the query. Contextual information includes both explicit 
and implicit knowledge about intentions of 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 explicit the contextual information 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. 
The workshop's aim is to promote exchanges in these fields, to establish the
current state of the art, to identify the emerging problems and to propose 
future research directions. Besides, we encourage interested researchers
from 
related areas to attend the workshop. 

Relevant topics include but are not limited to:  
* Contextual information retrieval modeling
* Contextual information retrieval metrics and assessments
* Use of contextual graph to model information retrieval systems
* Theory in context and information retrieval 
* Multiple contexts in information retrieval
* Adaptive and interactive information retrieval
* Multi-context based browsing
* Use of ontology and thesaurus to contextualize the querying and indexing
* Querying contextual information retrieval systems
* Experiments with test collection of contextual information retrieval
systems
* Tools to support contextual information retrieval

Papers and Evaluations
Authors are invited to submit electronically original papers through the
CONTEXT’05 web site, 
http://www.context-05.org. 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. 
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. 
Please send all submissions to workshop chairs at: Bich-Lien.Doan at supelec.fr

Key dates
	Submissions due: 		March 31, 2005
	Acceptance notification: 	April 15th, 2005 
	Camera-ready papers received: 	April 30th, 2005 
 	Program on line:             	May 5th, 2005 
	Workshop: 			July 5th, 2005

Workshop Organizers

Bich-Liên DOAN,     Supélec, France
Patrick BREZILLON,     LIP6, France 

Scientific Committee

Maristella Agosti, university of Padua, Italy
Patrick Brézillon, LIP6, France
Bich-Liên Doan, Supélec, France
Gilles Falquet, University of Geneva, Switzerland
Norbert Fuhr, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Joemon Jose, University of Glasgow, UK
Mounia Lalmas, University of London, UK
Massimo Melucci, University of Padua, Italy
Iadh Ounis, University of Glasgow, UK
François Paradis, University of Montreal, Canada
Ian Ruthven, University of Strathclyde, UK
Rohini K. Srihari, University of New-York, US
Amanda Spink, University of Pittsburgh, US
Julien Tane, University of Kassel, Germany
Anne-Marie Vercoustre, INRIA, France

Contact information

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