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sedes | 4 Feb 2009 15:32
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ECIR 2009, Workshop on Geographic Information on the Internet (WGII), 2nd CfP

[Please forward to interested parties - Apologies for multiple postings]

ECIR 2009, Workshop on Geographic Information on the Internet (WGII)

06 APRIL 2009, TOULOUSE, FRANCE

http://www.moromete.net/GII/index.htm <http://www.moromete.net/GII/index.htm>

http://ecir09.irit.fr <http://ecir09.irit.fr/>

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] or
Geonames[2], 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),
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Michael Granitzer | 16 Feb 2009 10:04
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2nd CfP I-Know 09, 2 - 4 September 2009, Graz Austria

Please apologize any cross postings. Best regards.

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Call for Papers I-KNOW' 09 
9th International Conference on Knowledge Management and Knowledge
Technologies
http://www.i-know.at 
2 - 4 September 2009, messecongress|graz, Austria
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Important Dates: 
- Paper Submission Deadline: 9 March 2009 
- Notification of Acceptance: April 2009
- Submission of Camera-Ready Paper: May 2009 
- I-KNOW '09 Conference: 2-4 September 2009 

Introduction 
I-KNOW '09 will be held concurrently with the I-SEMANTICS' 09 -
International Conference on Semantic Systems. I-KNOW reflects the
increasing importance and convergence of knowledge management and
knowledge technologies and aims at bridging the gaps between the various
communities and their technology fields. Now in its ninth year, I-KNOW
has a tradition of bringing together Europes leading researchers and
practitioners involved in knowledge management. Attracting more than 500
attendees, I-KNOW is the premier conference on knowledge management and
knowledge technologies in Europe.
I-KNOW provides a perfect opportunity to stay abreast of the latest
developments in these fields. The novelty and quality of the accepted
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Lindsay, John M | 16 Feb 2009 10:49
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(ir) What is an IS

To commemorate the twenty five years of the School of Information
Systems here at Kingston University, on 18th March in the afternoon we
are having a round table discussing where we have come from, and where
we are going.

When I was asked to join the BCS, the irsg was the group I chose to join
as it seemed closest to me in dealing with the sorts of things I thought
I was angaged with. (knew word and preposition)

I spent something like three years editing the informer, three years as
treasurer and three years as chair, so learned quite a lot.

Anyone on this list who is interested in the 25 year story of
information systems is welcome to attend.  Please let me know, and I'll
pass to the organisers.

There will then be drinkies and nibbles, followed by a session with
George Rzevski, who founded the school, and the undergraduate and
postgraduate courses, then more drinkies and nibbles, with the whole
thing finishing about 9pm.

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Michael Oakes | 17 Feb 2009 18:08
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Call for One-Day Event Proposals

Call for One-Day Event Proposals.

The Information Retrieval Specialist Group (IRSG) of the British Computer 
Society would like to hear from individuals or organisations wishing to host 
One-Day events related to the aims of the IRSG. Such events have recently 
included the successful Search Solutions (Presentations from Industry), 
Teaching and Learning in Information Retrieval, and Further Directions in 
Information Access (a forum for postgraduate researchers or those new to the 
world of IR, to discuss their work and receive feedback). The BCS 
Headquarters at 5 Southampton Street, near Covent Garden, can provide an 
excellent venue for these events, with comfortable meeting rooms of various 
sizes, good audiovisual facilities and optional catering facilities. The BCS is 
willing to allow use of its premises (free of charge, in some circumstances) and 
there is a possibility that such one-day events could be partially subsided by 
the IRSG (up to a maximum of £500) to cover such expenses as invited 
speakers. Those wishing to apply for the use of these facilities for one-day 
events are asked, in the first instance, to fill in the accompanying template 
and email it to Michael.Oakes@... Informal queries
may be 
made to this email address, or by telephone on 0191 515 3631.

Michael Oakes, on behalf of the BCS IRSG.
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Michael Granitzer | 19 Feb 2009 16:44
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Call for Papers DEXA Workshop on Text-Based Information Retrieval TIR' 09, 31. August 09, Linz, Austria

Please apologize any cross postings.

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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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About this Workshop:
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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
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Andrew MacFarlane | 20 Feb 2009 09:35
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BCS talk on 9th March - Science Week

folks

A flyer this this jointed event with BCS London Central branch is
attached.

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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Mohand boughanem | 20 Feb 2009 10:41
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ECIR'2009 Call for participation

This is a reminder that early registration deadline is March 1st.

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

31st European Conference on Information Retrieval -
Toulouse – France, 6-9 April 2009 organised by IRIT Lab.
in cooperation with the BCS-IRSG and is supported by ACM-SIGIR, ARIA and
E-IRSG. http://ecir09.irit.fr/

* Conference programme (6th April –9 th April)
The technical program will include 42 full research papers, 18 short
papers and 25 posters.
Details of the programme are at http://ecir09.irit.fr/access.php?p=programme

* Keynote speakers
ECIR 2009 is pleased to announce the following three keynote speakers:

-Professor W. Bruce Croft University of Massachusetts, Amherst, US
-Dr. Gregory Grefenstette Research Director at Exalead (France)
-Professor Maarten de Rijke University of Amsterdam.

* Paper awards
Best paper award, best student paper award and best poster award, all
sponsored by Yahoo! Research

* Student Grant
The organisers offer grants for students that want to attend the
ECIR'2009 conference in Toulouse.

ECIR 2009 will also host three  tutorials and four workshops
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Lindsay, John M | 23 Feb 2009 14:10
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Re: BCS talk on 9th March - Science Week

Andy's flyer refers to science week, so his science is concerned with
what he considers science to  be, but I'm afraid I simply don't
understand the first paragraph

And I think as a professional society we have to be very clear about the
role of paper with ink squeezed into dead trees.

As soon as we move from Andyscience to JohnhumanITies the matter becomes
even more pressing.

In the arts and humanities it seems to me, imho etc, that we have made
very little progress, indeed with the loss of paper card library
catalogues, things have actually regressed.

A method for examining this matter is with us, for the Royal Academy has
an exhibition at the moment on Palladio, with a wonderful paper and ink
squeezed technology for twenty five pounds.

Building a knowbot with whatever tools we know would make for an
entertaining evening with a bottle of wine after a visit to the
exhibition, and if that whole thing is still too large, then a smaller
knowbot, would be Palladio in England.

Ever since Alena Vickery, I think we have known that very small domains
are capable, but as soon as a thread grows to a rope, to use a Blunt
dialectic, then we are back to classical librarianship?

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related groups. [mailto:IR@...] On Behalf Of Andrew
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Benno Stein | 26 Feb 2009 12:15
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2nd CFP: 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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About this Workshop:
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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:
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Lindsay, John M | 27 Feb 2009 12:10
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Re: BCS talk on 9th March - Science Week

The first knowbot to come to my attention since this post went out,
therefore the first knew, is open library.

http://openlibrary.org/

which then links to googlebooks, which links to find in a library

and others might have found out other things about it

what i noticed was the top left corner where it put in what it called a
facet

and the listing of what I take to be library of congress subject
headings

my search topic was Marsyas.. for reasons I wont explain here, and then
Stonehenge

but what seems to me, for search science, remains the concept that we
are still at grep, and we don't have what Foskett called a subject
approach to information, over five volumes, and in which he no where
goes beyond a narrow and un-unified science.

Foskett of course makes a good grep test.

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related groups. [mailto:IR@...] On Behalf Of Andrew
MacFarlane
Sent: 20 February 2009 08:36
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