First Call for Articles - LDV Forum: Special Issue on Genre

Apologies for cross-postings
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*** Call for Journal Articles ***

Special Issue: LDV Forum 2008, Vol. 23(2)
***Title: "Automatic Genre Identification: State of the Art, Issues,
and Prospects"***

GUEST EDITORS: M. Santini, G. Rehm, S. Sharoff,  A. Mehler

DESCRIPTION

The popularity of the World Wide Web has given rise to distinct forms
of information-seeking behaviour and new interaction styles, but we
have not fully understood what these forms are nor their implication
for the developmen of new applications to assist users in the tasks
they perform online on a day-to-day basis. We believe that the concept
of genre have a significant impact on the future of web information
seeking and interaction, and our common goal is to explore the
possibility of meeting users' needs by filtering or organizing
information by genre.

There are several reasons why Automatic Genre Identification is still
only a niche research area. Among others, it seems to be very
difficult to agree upon a shared definition of genre, and a shared set
of genre categories. Another major problem is the lack of a genre
benchmark to perform objective evaluations of categorisation
approaches.

Job: NLP, Machine learning and Java developer position [magpie.net]

Magpie.net is seeking to fill an NLP, Machine Learning and Java
developer position. The successful candidate will join a dynamic team
to participate in the development of an innovative online application
and should satisfy most of the following requirements:

 * Primary field of study: Computational Linguistics, or Computer
   Science preferably with experience in NLP.

 * Experience with Machine Learning, especially as it is applied to
   unstructured text analysis and text classification.

     - Familiarity with working with web content is a big plus.

     - Practical knowledge in information extraction, fact finding and
       opinion mining is a big plus.

     - Hands-on experience with existing NLP and Machine Learning
       frameworks: GATE is a BIG plus, so is Rapidminer/YALE and/or
       Weka.

     - Background in statistical and probabilistic methods is a plus.

 * Sufficient Java programming and software development skills is
   essential.

This is an exciting opportunity to work with real and dynamic data on
a daily basis. For further information, please contact Berkan Eskikaya
at berkan AT magpie.net.

Interested candidates should send their CV, optionally with a cover

Job: PhD Position in Information Retrieval - Bauhaus University Weimar

The Web Technology and Information Systems group at the Bauhaus University
Weimar, Germany, invites applications for a PhD research position. Your
research will focus on topics from the following areas:

   * Information Retrieval
   * (Internet) Data Mining
   * Machine Learning
   * Knowledge-based Technologies

The position is tenable immediately for two years with the possibility of
extension for another two or three years. The salary amounts to German TV-L
E13, which is roughly 40.000 Euro gross income per year. We are looking for
highly-motivated, dedicated candidates who meet the following requirements:

  - Very good degree (Master, Diploma) in Computer Science or a closely
related field
  - Well versed in Mathematics, Statistics, and Algorithmic Computer Science
  - Very good programming skills
  - Very good communicative skills in German or in English.

Interested candidates are requested to send their application (in German or
in English) by December 31, 2007 to Benno Stein (see address below), including:

1. A cover letter describing yourself and your interests.
2. Your CV 
3. Soft copy of your publications (e.g. master thesis, conference papers) 

For inquiries and further information please contact Benno Stein via email
(benno.stein@...).

CfP: Workshop on Advances in Accessing Deep Web (ADW 2008); deadline: 12 Jan 08

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        1st Workshop on Advances in Accessing Deep Web  (ADW 2008)
                            in conjunction with
 11th International Conference on Business Information Systems (BIS 2008)

                            Innsbruck, Austria
                            May 5, 6 or 7, 2008

         http://bis.kie.ae.poznan.pl/11th_bis/wscfp.php?ws=adw2008

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                Deadline for submissions: January 12, 2008

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The main way of accessing content on contemporary Web is by means of
general purpose search engines.
However, for reasons such as: password protection, FORM based interfaces
and usage of dynamic client-side technologies (JavaScript, AJAX and
Flash), a huge portion of modern Web content remains unindexable and thus
unavailable to the majority of Web users.
In many cases this unindexable information sources, known altogether under
the name of Deep Web, are better structured and of better quality than
indexable surface Web sources.
Both size and high value of Deep Web information make Deep Web research
new Holy Grail for information retrieval, information extraction and
related technologies.

Announcing John Campbell Trust awards scheme 2008 calls

Apologies for cross-posting.

The John Campbell Trust has issued its 2008 calls for applications for

The John Campbell Scholarship (a new award)

The John Campbell Dissertation Bursary

The John Campbell Conference/Travel Bursary

The deadline for the first call is 16 January 2008.

For details of the awards schemes and how to apply, see

http://www.cilip.org.uk/interests/jct/index.html for details.

Adrienne Muir
Chair, Trustees
John Campbell Trust

Department of Information Science
Loughborough University
Loughborough LE11 3TU
UK
Tel +44 (0)1509 223052
Fax +44 (0)1509 223053
Email dis@...

CFP - Workshop on novel methodologies for evaluation in IR

CFP IIiX 2008 Doctoral Forum, Oct 14, 2008, London, UK

CFP - Workshop on efficiency issues in information retrieval

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1st workshop on Efficiency Issues in Information Retrieval
in conjunction with
ECIR'08 30th European Conference on Information Retrieval

March 30, Glasgow UK

http://irlab.dc.fi.udc.es/ecir/
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Deadline for submissions January 25, 2008

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The workshop will be held during ECIR'08 in Glasgow (UK).

The call for papers aims at original high-quality presentations
dealing with typical and new efficiency issues in IR. Some of the
topics of the accepted contributions would include, but are not
limited to:

    * exploiting compression in traditional/web IR systems,
    * multi-core architectures for efficient traditional/web IR,
    * caching for fast query processing,
    * static/dynamic pruning for efficient traditional/web IR systems,
    * efficient dynamic indexing,
    * efficient filtering,
    * load balancing,
    * fast auto-completion,
    * tolerant retrieval,
    * scalable search in P2P architectures,
    * efficient multimedia IR,
    * scalable routing in distributed architectures,
    * parallel and distributed techniques for IR.

The organisers will also conduct a guided discussion among all the
participants regarding to future trends in scalability of search
engines and new architectures, and the transferability of the research
results to a full production real environment. A discussion panel of
selected experts in the field will also be held. We are planning to
consider a selection of the best accepted papers for publication on an
special issue.

IMPORTANT DATES

    * Jan 25: Paper submission deadline
    * Feb 25: Notification to authors
    * March 10: Camera-ready Copies of Papers to be received by the
Workshop Organisers
    * March 30: Workshop

More information on the workshop's website: http://irlab.dc.fi.udc.es/ecir/

ORGANISERS
	Roi Blanco (University of A Coruña)
	Fabrizio Silvestri (ISTI-CNR, Pisa)

CPF: INFOSCALE 2008 The Third International Conference on Scalable Information Systems

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CPF: INFOSCALE 2008
The Third International ICST Conference on Scalable Information Systems
June 4-6, 2008 - Vico Equense, Italy

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www.infoscale.org
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General Chairs:
 Ronny Lempel - Yahoo! Research Haifa, Israel
 Raffaele Perego - ISTI CNR, Italy
 Fabrizio Silvestri - ISTI  CNR, Italy

As data and knowledge volume keep increasing while global means for
information dissemination continue to diversify, new methods, modeling
paradigms, and structures are needed to support efficiently the
mounting scalability requirements.

In the last few years we have seen the proliferation of the use of
heterogeneous distributed systems, ranging from simple Networks of
Workstations, to highly complex Grid Computing environments. Such
computational paradigms have been preferred due to their reduced costs
and inherent scalability, but their efficient usage pose many
challenges in terms of information access, storage and retrieval as
well as in terms of algorithms for efficiently manage, transfer, and
analyze huge volume of data and knowledge.

Grid computing, P2P technology, data and knowledge bases, distributed
information retrieval technology, and networking technology should all
converge to address the scalability concern. Furthermore, with the
advent of emerging computing architectures - e.g. SMTs, GPUs,
Multicores, etc. - the importance of designing techniques explicitly
targeting these systems, is becoming more and more important.

The Third International Conference on Scalable Information Systems
will focus on a wide array of scalability issues and investigate new
approaches to tackle problems arising from the ever-growing size and
complexity of information of all kinds.

The conference invites original technical papers that were not
previously published and are not currently under review for
publication elsewhere. Topics include, but are not limited to:

    * Scalable Parallel and Distributed Information Retrieval
    * Scalable Grid Information Systems
    * Scalable Peer-to-Peer Systems
    * Scalable Mobile Systems
    * Scalable Web Services
    * Scalable Sensor Networks and Systems
    * Scalable Systems and Conceptual Modeling
    * Scalable Multimedia Information Systems
    * Scalability Issues on Emerging Computing Architectures (SMTs,
GPUs, Multicores)
    * Scalable Data Mining
    * Parallel and Distributed Computing Systems
    * Middleware Technology for Scalable Computing
    * Information Security
    * Architectures for Scalability
    * Networking for Scalable Information Systems
    * Evaluation Metrics for Scalability
    * Enterprise Information Systems and Applications
    * Very Large Databases
    * Compression Techniques for Scalability
    * Optimizing Compiling Techniques for Scalable Parallel Systems

Important Dates
Full Papers due: March 14, 2008
Notification of Acceptance: April 14, 2008
Camera-ready Manuscripts due: May 2, 2008
Conference Dates: June 4-6, 2008

WORKSHOPS

Proposals for half-day workshops to be held in conjunction with the
conference are solicited. A maximum of 2 pages, including the workshop
name, its scope and a list of topic of interests, should be submitted
to Salvatore Orlando, University of Venice .

TUTORIALS

Proposal for half-day tutorials should be submitted to Pavel Zezula,
Masaryk University, Brno .

SME – ENTREPRENEURSHIP GLOBAL CONFERENC E 2008