CfP-ext dl: 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/

    ---- Extended Deadline: January 11, 2009 ----

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

- New submission deadline: January 11, 2009;
- Submissions' cite:
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=enqoir2009
- 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

Reminder: Abstract Deadline for SIGIR 2009

SIGIR 2009 Call for Tutorials

SIGIR 2009 Call for Tutorials (http://sigir2009.org/Calls/tutorials)

SIGIR 2009 (http://sigir2009.org/) opens with a full day of tutorials  
on Sunday, July 19, 2009.

Proposals are solicited for tutorials of either a half-day (3 hours  
plus breaks) or a full day (6 hours plus
breaks) on topics in information retrieval and its applications. Each  
tutorial should cover a single topic in
detail.  For example, tutorials may cover an IR topic in depth,  
introduce an emerging application for IR
technologies, or update the IR community on recent advances in related  
fields.

Submissions should include a cover sheet and an extended abstract.   
The cover sheet should specify: (1) the title
and length of the tutorial; (2) the intended audience (introductory,  
intermediate, advanced); (3) any background
knowledge or skills required; (4) complete contact information for the  
contact person and other presenters; and
(5) a brief biography (max. 2 paragraphs) for each presenter.  The  
extended abstract should be 3 to 4 pages, and
should include an outline of the tutorial, along with descriptions of  
the course objectives, its relevance to the
IR community, and course materials.

Tutorial proposals in PDF format must be sent via email by February  
23, 2009 to the Tutorial Chair, Arjen P. de
Vries (arjen [at] acm.org). The submissions will undergo peer review  
and tutorials to be presented will be
selected by members of the Program Committee. Notifications will be  
made by April 11, 2009.

SIGIR 2009 Call for Posters

CALL FOR POSTERS

The 32nd Annual ACM SIGIR Conference July 19-23 2009, Boston, USA

Poster presentations offer researchers a unique opportunity to present  
late-breaking results, significant work in progress, or research that  
is best communicated in an interactive or graphical format. Poster  
presentations further provide researchers with an opportunity to  
obtain direct feedback about their work from a wide audience during  
the poster session.

Poster submissions are welcomed in areas related to any aspect of  
Information Retrieval (IR) as identified in the call for  
contributions. Posters should focus on problems and methodology of the  
presented research. Submissions describing the work will be reviewed  
and the ones accepted will be published in the conference proceedings.  
Please note, however, that posters describing work at the proposal  
stage will not be accepted.

Submissions of extended abstracts for posters must be in English and  
should not exceed 2 pages in SIGIR format (including references and  
figures). Suitable LaTeX and Word templates for SIGIR are available  
from the ACM Website (for LaTeX, use "Option 2").

The only accepted format for submissions is PDF. As with full papers,  
authors should conceal their identity where it is practical to do so.  
Poster papers must be submitted electronically at the poster track of  
the conference submission system. Please see http://sigir2009.org/submitting 
  for submisison information.

POSTER CO-CHAIRS:
Jimmy Lin, University of Maryland, USA
Donald Metzler, Yahoo! Research, USA

IMPORTANT DATES:
Feb 23, 2009 Posters submission deadline
Apr 11, 2009 Author notification of acceptance

For further details, please visit http://sigir2009.org.

CFP LRE Journal: Special Issue on Plagiarism and Authorship Analysis

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Language Resources and Evaluation Journal

Special Issue on Plagiarism and Authorship Analysis

Guest Editors: Efstathios Stamatatos, Benno Stein, and Moshe Koppel

The vast number of electronic texts available in Internet media (e.g.,
newspaper articles, blogs, online forum messages, email messages)
necessitates automated processing of information. However, it also
increases opportunities for infringement of intellectual property
rights. One important question is whether a text by a specific author
includes another author's ideas, language, or writing without proper
acknowledgment of the original source. Plagiarism analysis is a general
term for a variety of automated methods for identifying plagiarism and
related infringements. In connection with text documents, we distinguish
between corpus-based and intrinsic analysis: the former compares suspicious
documents against a set of potential original documents, the latter
identifies potentially plagiarized passages by analyzing the suspicious
document with respect to changes in writing style. Such passages can then
be used as a starting point for a Web search or for human inspection. In
addition, writing style can also be exploited by authorship analysis tools
to extract meta-data for a textual document. Thus, by analyzing the
stylistic choices of an author, it is possible to estimate the author's
sex, age, educational level etc. Moreover, given that we have examples of
the writing style of a set of candidate authors, we can identify the most
likely author of a new text or verify whether this text is written by a
specific author. Apart from the traditional usage of this technology in the
analysis of literary works, such information is crucial for forensic
applications where part of the evidence is electronic text.

This special issue solicits state-of-the-art methods, tools, and
applications in the area of Plagiarism and Authorship Analysis. The
following list gives examples from the outlined field for which
contributions are welcome (but not limited to):

  - Plagiarism detection in general, in Web communities and social
    networks

  - Cross-language plagiarism

  - Identifying near-duplicate and versioned documents

  - Technology for high-similarity retrieval such as fingerprinting and
    similarity hashing

  - Models for authorship identification and verification

  - Writing style analysis and author profiling

  - NLP- and knowledge-based retrieval models to capture personal traits
    and sentiment

  - Web forensics, community fraud, and new Web infringements

  - Test corpora, performance measures, and evaluation methods

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SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
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Prospective authors should submit their paper according to the directions
on the LRE Web site following the content and formatting guidelines
available at

http://www.springer.com/journal/10579/

Submissions will be reviewed according to the standards of the LRE
journal. Papers should not have been submitted or published elsewhere but
may be extended or refined versions of conference papers with significant
new, original material.

Prospective authors are advised to inform the guest editors about their
intention to submit a paper as soon as possible.

All questions about submissions should be directed to lre@...

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IMPORTANT DATES
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April 30, 2009    Submission of articles
July 1, 2009      Notification to authors
August 31, 2009   Final version of accepted papers

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GUEST EDITORS
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Efstathios Stamatatos
University of the Aegean, Greece

Benno Stein
Weimar University, Germany

Moshe Koppel
Bar-Ilan University, Israel

Contact: lre@...

SIGIR 2009: Call for Demonstrations

SIGIR 2009: Call for Demonstrations

Demonstration proposals are solicited as part of the 32nd Annual  
International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in  
Information Retrieval, which will be held on 19-23 July 2009 in Boston  
(http://sigir2009.org/).

Demonstrations present first-hand experience with research prototypes  
or operational systems. They provide opportunities to exchange ideas  
gained from implementing IR systems and to obtain feedback from expert  
users. Demonstration submissions are welcomed in any of the areas  
identified in the call for papers (http://sigir2009.org/Calls). One- 
page demonstration abstracts will appear in the conference proceedings.

Submissions must be in English and consist of an extended abstract  
(one page in SIGIR format including references and figures) and an  
additional one-page requirements description.

  * The abstract should emphasize what the implemented system aims to  
achieve, the major components of the system, the novelty of the  
techniques that have been implemented, and comparisons with comparable  
systems.
  * The requirements description should identify the hardware,  
software and network access requirements for the demonstration.  
Network connections and computers with standard Web browsers can be  
provided upon request. Proposals to demonstrate systems that require  
more than a standard Web browser (e.g. context-aware mobile systems or  
virtual reality systems) must explain how the systems will be  
demonstrated at the conference.

The only accepted format for submissions is PDF. Templates for SIGIR  
submissions are available from the ACM Website (for LaTeX, use the  
"Option 2" style). This is also the style that will be required for  
final papers.

Unlike posters and research papers, authors of demonstration proposals  
are not expected to take measures to conceal their identity from  
reviewers.

Demonstration proposals must be submitted by February 23, 2009.  
Demonstration proposals must be submitted electronically via the  
demonstration track of the conference submission system. Submission  
details are provided at the conference Web site (http://sigir2009.org/Calls/demonstrations 
).

The submissions will undergo peer review. At least one author should  
register and attend the conference. Any queries regarding  
demonstration proposals should be emailed to the demonstrations chair  
Iadh Ounis (ounis [at] dcs.gla.ac.uk).

Important Dates

February 23, 2009 Demonstrations proposals due
April 11, 2009 Notifications sent
July 19-23, 2009 Conference in Boston

1st CfP I-Know 09, 2 - 4 September 2009, Graz Austria

DEXA-Workshop on Text-Based Information Retrieval, TIR'09

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*TIR'09  -  6th International Workshop on Text-Based Information Retrieval*
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                 In conjunction with the DEXA 2009
 20th International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications

                 Linz, Austria, August 31 - September 4
                    http://www.webis.de/tir-09

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Intelligent algorithms for mining and retrieval are the key technology to
cope with the information need challenges in our media-centered
society. Methods for text-based information retrieval receive special
attention, which results from the important role of written text, from the
high availability of the Internet, and from the enormous importance of Web
communities.

Advanced information retrieval and extraction uses methods from different
areas: machine learning, computer linguistics and psychology, user
interaction and modeling, information visualization, Web engineering,
artificial intelligence, or distributed systems. The development of
intelligent retrieval tools requires the understanding and combination of
the achievements in these areas, and in this sense the workshop provides a
common platform for presenting and discussing new solutions.

The following list organizes classic and ongoing topics from the field of
text-based IR for which contributions are welcome:

  - Theory. Retrieval models, language models, similarity measures, formal
    analysis

  - Mining and Classification. Category formation, clustering, entity
    resolution, document classification, learning methods for ranking

  - Web. Community mining, social network analysis, structured retrieval
    from XML documents

  - NLP. Text summarization, keyword extraction, topic identification

  - User Interface. Paradigms and algorithms for information visualization,
    personalization, privacy issue

  - User Context. Context models for IR, context analysis from user
    behaviour and from social networks

  - Multilinguality. Cross-language retrieval, multilingual retrieval,
    machine translation for IR

  - Evaluation. Corpus construction, experiment design, conception of user
    studies

  - Semantic Web. Meta data analysis and tagging, knowledge extraction,
    inference, and maintenance

  - Software Engineering. Frameworks and architectures for retrieval
    technology, distributed IR

The workshop is held for the sixth time. In the past, it was characterized
by a stimulating atmosphere, and it attracted high quality contributions
from all over the world. In particular, we encourage participants to
present research prototypes and demonstration tools of their research
ideas.

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April 1, 2009     Deadline for paper submission
April 20, 2009    Notification to authors
May 15, 2009      Camera-ready copy due
August 31, 2009   Workshop opens

Contributions will be peer-reviewed by at least two experts from the
related field. Accepted papers will be published as IEEE proceedings by
IEEE CS Press.

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Benno Stein, Bauhaus University Weimar
Michael Granitzer, Know-Center Graz & Graz University of Technology

Contact: tir09@... Information about the workshop can be found at
http://www.webis.de/tir-09

2009 IEEE/WIC/ACM WI-IAT Call for Workshop Proposals - DEADLINE EXTENDED

[Apologies if you receive this more than once]

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Call for Workshop Proposals

2009 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Joint
Conference on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology
(WI-IAT'09)

Milano, Italy, September 15-18, 2009.
http://www.wi-iat09.disco.unimib.it/WI09/WIhome.htm
http://www.wi-iat09.disco.unimib.it/IAT09/IAThome.htm

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Workshop Proposals Due: ** January 31 **, 2009 - DEADLINE EXTENDED

All papers accepted for workshops will be included in the Workshop
Proceedings published by the IEEE Computer Society Press,
which are indexed by EI.
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The Program Committees of the 2009 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Joint
Conference on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology
(WI-IAT'09) invite proposals for Workshops. The Workshops will be held
within the Conference, September 15-18, 2009 at Milano, Italy.

The main goal of the WI-IAT'09 workshops is to stimulate and facilitate
active exchange, interaction and comparison of approaches, methods and
ideas related to specific topics, both theoretical and applied, in the
general areas related to Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent
Technology. The workshops will provide an informal setting where
participants will have the opportunity to discuss specific technical
topics in an atmosphere that fosters the active exchange of ideas.

The workshop organizers will be responsible for advertising the workshop,
forming the program committees, reviewing and selecting the papers, and
guaranteeing a high quality worthy of the prestige and range of the
Conference. All papers accepted for workshops will be included in the
Workshop Proceedings, which are expected to be published by IEEE Computer
Society Press and will be available at the workshops.

The workshop organizers will also have the discretion of editing selected
papers (after their expansion and revision) into books or special journal
issues. Workshops may be full-day or half-day. A full-day workshop should
select 10-14 regular papers, while a half-day workshop should select 5-7
regular papers, from a large number of submissions. The workshop
organizers should ensure the presence of authors of accepted papers at the
workshops. Optionally, the workshop may be started or concluded by a panel
focusing on interesting aspects, controversial issues, or unsolved
problems to stimulate lively, thoughtful, and thought-provoking debate; we
expect the workshop organizers to actively engage the audience and help
them gain a deeper understanding of the issues. The goal of a panel is to
debate and thus panels should always reflect more than one point of view.

*** Workshop Topics

Each workshop subject will focus on new research challenges and
initiatives in Web Intelligence (WI) and Intelligent Agent Technology
(IAT). The workshops should provide an informal and vibrant forum for
researchers and industry practitioners to share their research results and
practical development experiences in these two fields. Suggested
workshop topics include, but are not limited to:

Web Intelligence, Brain Informatics and Bio Technology
Intelligent E-Technology (including E-Science, E-Business, E-Learning,
E-Finance, E-Government, E-Community)
Intelligent Web Interaction
Knowledge Grids and Grid Intelligence
Semantics and Ontology Engineering
Social Networks and Social Intelligence
Web Agents
Web Information Filtering and Retrieval
Web Mining and Forming
Web Monitoring and Change
Web Personalization and Recommendations
Web Security, Integrity, Privacy and Trust
Web Services and Grid Services
Web Support Systems
World Wide Wisdom Web (W4)
Intelligent Web Querying
Log Mining
Agent Systems Modeling and Methodology
Autonomous Knowledge and Information Agents
Autonomous Auctions and Negotiation
Autonomy-Oriented Computing (AOC)
Learning and Self-Adapting Agents
Agents and Data Mining Interaction
Multiagent Systems in E-business

*** Workshop Proposal Submission

Workshop proposals should include the following elements:

Title of the workshop
The organizers name, affiliation, mailing address and e-mail address
A description of the topic of the workshop (not exceeding 200 words)
Type of the workshop (full-day or half-day)
A description of how the workshop will contribute to the field of Web
Intelligence and/or Intelligent Agent Technology
A short description on how the workshop will be advertised so as to ensure
a sufficiently wide range of authors and high quality papers
Optionally, only for full-day workshops, the title of a proposed panel,
with a brief description highlighting the reasons of interest of the 
issues to be debated

After the acceptance of a workshop proposal the organizer(s) should:

Create a Call for papers/participation for the workshop
Create a Web page for the workshop, the link of which will be published on
the Conference Web site
Create a Board of Reviewers (Program Committee)
Review and select papers
Schedule the workshop activities.

Those papers selected by a workshop organizer will also be reviewed by
the Workshop Co-Chairs for final acceptance.

All submitted papers will be reviewed on the basis of technical quality,
relevance, significance, and clarity.

We will provide an online paper submission and review system to support
the workshops.

*** Important Dates

- Workshop proposal submission due: January 31, 2009 - DEADLINE EXTENDED
- Notification to workshop proposers: February 16, 2009
- Each Workshop Organizer Sends out Call for Workshops Papers: February 5,
2009
- Due date for full workshop papers submission: (at least two reviews for
each paper) April 30, 2009
- Final acceptance by Workshop Co-Chairs: June 10, 2009
- Notification of paper acceptance to authors: June 8, 2009
- Camera-ready of accepted papers: June 30, 2009
- Workshop day: 	September 15, 2009

*** Workshop proposal submissions
The above described workshop proposals must be submitted via e-mail
(workshops.wi.iat@...).

We look forward to your support in making 2009 IEEE/WIC/ACM WI-IAT'09
workshops an exciting event.

*** Workshop Co-Chairs:

- Paolo Boldi, DSI, Universita' degli Studi di Milano (boldi [at>
dsi.unimi.it)
- Giuseppe Vizzari, DISCO, Universita' degli Studi di Milano Bicocca
(vizzari [at> disco.unimib.it)

City University Research Studentships 2009/10

Colleages

City University Research Studentships for academic year 2009/10 are now
being advertised on the following central University page:

	http://www.city.ac.uk/research/resdev/studentships.html

If anybody is interested in pursing research in information retrieval at
the Centre for Interactive Systems Research, please contact me in the
first instance. The CISR web site is:

	http://www.soi.city.ac.uk/organisation/is/research/cisr/

cheers
andy

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