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Andrew Trotman | 4 Dec 2008 01:24
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Focused Retrieval and Result Aggregation, Journal of Information Retrieval-Special Issue

Call for Papers
Journal of Information Retrieval Special Issue on
FOCUSED RETRIEVAL AND RESULT AGGREGATION

GUEST EDITORS
*Andrew Trotman (andrew@...), University of Otago, New Zealand
*Mounia Lalmas (mounia@...), University of Glasgow, UK
*Shlomo Geva (s.geva@...), Queensland University of
Technology, 
Australia
*Jaap Kamps (kamps@...), University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
*Vanessa Murdock (vanessa.murdock@...), Yahoo! Research
Barcelona, 
Spain

DETAILS
Standard document retrieval finds atomic documents.  It leaves to the user 
the tasks of locating relevant information within a document, and that of 
aggregating different results (each corresponding to a piece of the sought 
information) into a final answer. Focused retrieval addresses the first task 
by providing the user a more direct access to relevant information; result 
aggregation addresses the second task by a creating a single "result", an 
answer constructed from the relevant components (using summarization and 
presentation techniques).

FOCUSED RETRIEVAL aims to identify not only documents relevant to a user 
information need, but also where within the document the relevant 
information is located. It aims to satisfy the user information need and not 
to just identify documents that satisfy the information need.  There are 
three main forms of focused retrieval: element retrieval, passage retrieval,
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Stefan Rueger | 5 Dec 2008 00:10
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2 permanent senior academic posts available

Two permanent senior academic positions are available at
the Knowledge Media Institute of The Open University. 

http://kmi.open.ac.uk/jobs/index.php#5215

The job title is "Senior Lecturer", which corresponds to
"Associate Professor" or "Assistant Professor" depending
on the system. Despite the job title, there is no teaching
and no teaching administration: These are pure research
posts.

KMi solicits applications in the area of research in mobile
computing and semantic social software. However, we will be
open to strategic guidance from successful candidates to
other related areas.

Applications with a focus on Information Retrieval or
Multimedia research are certainly of interest!

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Stefan Rueger                           s.rueger@...
Knowledge Media Institute             tel: +44-1908-655 945
The Open University                   fax: +44-1908-653 169
Milton Keynes MK7 6AA, UK        http://kmi.open.ac.uk/mmis

Professor of Knowledge Media,       The Open University, UK
Visiting Principal Research Fellow, Imperial College London

The Open University is  incorporated  by  Royal Charter (RC
000391), an exempt charity in England & Wales and a charity
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Iadh Ounis | 5 Dec 2008 13:30
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SemAst 2009: Call for Papers

SemAst 2009 Call for Papers

Second International Workshop on Practical Semantic Astronomy

2-5 March 2009

Glasgow, UK.

http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/workshops/semast09/

Semantic astronomy promises to expand the scientific discovery
potential of exponentially growing data collections by enabling
natural language querying, content-based searching, rich metadata
markup and retrieval, rapid integration of diverse data collections,
and machine-assisted scientific discovery.

Practical Semantic Astronomy 2009 is the second in a series of
workshops first held at Caltech in February 2008.  The workshop brings
together experts from a broad range of disciplines using semantic
technologies, alongside practitioners experimenting with these
techniques to address current problems in astroinformatics.

The Virtual Observatory is a loose planet-wide collaboration of
astronomy computing projects, aiming to make available the high-volume
and rich data of astronomy.  Although astronomical data is generally
well-described, it is very dispersed, so that there is a substantial
data-discovery and integration problem, making it fertile ground for
the sorts of semantic approaches applied with such success in other
disciplines.
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Stein L. Tomassen | 9 Dec 2008 09:35
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CfP: ENQOIR 2009, First International Workshop on Aspects in Evaluating Holistic Quality of Ontology-based Information Retrieval

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		 Call for Paper
		
	      *** ENQOIR 2009 ***
	First International Workshop on
    Aspects in Evaluating Holistic Quality of
      Ontology-based Information Retrieval
       http://events.idi.ntnu.no/enqoir09/

  To be held with the joint APWeb-WAIM 2009 conferences
         April 1-4, 2009 | Suzhou, China
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HIGHLIGHTS:

- Submissions' cite is opened:
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=enqoir2009
- Submission deadline: January 5, 2009;
- A double-blind review process;
- Post-proceedings in LNCS by Springer;
- A couple of extended best papers will be considered for publication
in a standard issue of ACM JDIQ (Journal of Data and information
Quality, ISSN: 1936-1955)
- Extended versions of other selected papers will be published in a
special issue of International Journal on Metadata, Semantics and
Ontologies (ISSN: 1744-2621).

The ENQOIR workshop targets to deeper understanding and disseminate
knowledge on advances in evaluation and application of ontology-based
information retrieval (ObIR). The main areas of the workshop is an
overlap between three evaluation aspects in ObIR, namely, evaluation of
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Iadh Ounis | 17 Dec 2008 11:08
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SemAst 2009: 2nd Call for Papers

Apologies if you receive multiple copies.

SemAst 2009 2nd Call for Papers
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Second International Workshop on Practical Semantic Astronomy
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2-5 March 2009

Glasgow, UK.

http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/workshops/semast09/

Semantic astronomy promises to expand the scientific discovery
potential of exponentially growing data collections by enabling
natural language querying, content-based searching, rich metadata
markup and retrieval, rapid integration of diverse data collections,
and machine-assisted scientific discovery.

Practical Semantic Astronomy 2009 is the second in a series of
workshops first held at Caltech in February 2008.  The workshop brings
together experts from a broad range of disciplines using semantic
technologies, alongside practitioners experimenting with these
techniques to address current problems in astroinformatics.

The Virtual Observatory is a loose planet-wide collaboration of
astronomy computing projects, aiming to make available the high-volume
and rich data of astronomy.  Although astronomical data is generally
well-described, it is very dispersed, so that there is a substantial
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Andrew MacFarlane | 17 Dec 2008 18:28
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Okapi released under BSD License

The Centre for Interactive Systems Research is pleased to announce the
release of the experimental Okapi IR as Open Source software, under the
BSD license. It is available from

        http://www.soi.city.ac.uk/~andym/OKAPI-PACK/package/

The download contains many documents of use, but researchers interested in
using Okapi can also find information on the Okapi Pack web site:

        http://www.soi.city.ac.uk/~andym/OKAPI-PACK/

The current version available is 2.53, which has XML indexing facilities
and field weighting.

If anybody is interested in developing Okapi further, please contact the
project leader, Andrew MacFarlane. We would be very interested in any
possible research collaboration involving Okapi.

Cheers
andy

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!     Dr. A. MacFarlane, Senior Lecturer, Room A304E,     !
!       Centre for Interactive Systems Research           !
! Dept. Of Information Science,  City University London   !
!         Northampton Square, LONDON EC1V 0HB             !
!   Tel:+44 (0)20 7040 8386   Fax:+44 (0)20 7040 8584     !
!       URL: http://www.soi.city.ac.uk/~andym/            !
!       Blog: http://unix-spiders.blogspot.com/           !
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Fabio Crestani | 17 Dec 2008 22:20
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CFP: ECIR'09 Workshop on Mobile and Ubiquitous Information Access

Call for Papers: Fourth International Workshop on Mobile and  
Ubiquitous Information Access (MUIA'09)
In conjunction with ECIR 2009 (http://ecir09.irit.fr)

The 4th International Workshop on Mobile and Ubiquitous Information  
Access will be held at the European Conference on Information  
Retrieval. As with previous workshops in the series, this workshop  
will provide a forum to investigate the many problems of providing  
information to users on the move. Devices range from web tablets and  
music players, through mobile phones to PDAs and tablet PCs.  
Developments in terms of device and network capability continue to  
transform the opportunities for novel methods of accessing  
information, and to improve existing techniques.

The workshop will provide a forum for those from traditional and  
mobile information retrieval communities to engage with experts in  
mobile computing and interaction. Accepted papers will be produced in  
workshop proceedings, with revised and re-reviewed post-proceedings  
versions published in an international journal. During the workshop,  
we will foster a lively environment for extensive discussion and the  
creation of new ideas.

Papers may focus on any one of a number of issues in this fast-moving  
and complex area:

·      Mobile Information retrieval and filtering

·      User modelling and personalisation

·      Mobile device design for information access
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Florence SEDES | 18 Dec 2008 14:35
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ECIR 2009, Geographic Information on the Internet Workshop (GIIW)

*Call for Papers*

*ECIR 2009, Geographic Information on the Internet Workshop (GIIW)*

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*Context & Topics of Interest*

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Finding geographically-based information constitutes a common use of Web 
search engines, for a variety of user needs. With the rapid growth of 
the volume of geographically-related information on the Web, efficient 
and adaptable ways of tagging, browsing and accessing relevant documents 
still needs to be found. Structuring and mashing-up geographic 
information from different Web data sources is one appealing alternative 
to long term efforts of manually creating large scale geographic 
resources such as The Alexandria Digital Library[1] <#_ftn1> or 
Geonames[2] <#_ftn2>, whose constructions are costly and not necessarily 
adapted to specific applications.

Efficient automatic geographical information structuring methods involve 
coping with a wide diversity and huge volumes of geographically relevant 
documents. Consider Wikipedia (over 200,000 geo-referenced articles for 
the English version), or Flickr (over 50 million geo-referenced 
pictures) or Yahoo! Trip Planner (over 159,000 publicly available trip 
descriptions). These sites include disparate text, images and 
geo-localisation information. Exploiting this information requires
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Mounia Lalmas | 18 Dec 2008 15:37
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CFP: IEEE/WIC/ACM IAT 2009 (Milano, Italy)

[Apologies if you receive this more than once]

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     IEEE/WIC/ACM Intelligent Agent Technology 2009
               CALL FOR PAPERS
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2009 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on
Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT-09)

September 15-18, 2009, University of Milano - Bicocca, Milano, Italy

http://www.wi-iat09.disco.unimib.it/

Sponsored By
IEEE Computer Society
Web Intelligence Consortium (WIC)
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)

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# (Papers Due: *** 10 April 2009 ***
# Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings
# by the IEEE Computer Society Press, which are indexed by EI.
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IAT 2009 will provide a leading international forum to bring together
researchers and practitioners from diverse fields, such as computer
science, information technology, business, education, systems
engineering, and robotics, to (1) examine the design principles and
performance characteristics of various approaches in intelligent agent
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Lindsay, John M | 22 Dec 2008 11:02
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FW: [KIDMM] KIDMM Web site is back up, no thanks to Santa

That kidmm is now more closely associated with the bcs judging by the
url might mean that th eirsg, being possibly the most connected of the
bcs sg, needs to make more cognisance?

-----Original Message-----
From: BCS Knowledge, Information and Metadata Management
[mailto:BCS-KIDMM@...] On Behalf Of Conrad Taylor
Sent: 21 December 2008 19:28
To: BCS-KIDMM@...
Subject: [KIDMM] KIDMM Web site is back up, no thanks to Santa

The KIDMM Web site is back up -- no thanks to Santa, but...

Let me instead reiterate thanks to Bob Bater, Aida Slavic
and Chris Overfield for making this possible.

The new location is http://www.bcs-kidmm.org

I have just reloaded what I had in store as a back-up,
so there is some need for updating, which I shall do this
Christmas week.

Happy Christmas, one and all! said tiny Conrad.
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