***Call for papers a SIGIR 2010 workshop on Desktop Search (Understanding, Supporting and Evaluating
Personal Data Search), July 23,
Geneva, Switzerland (http://www.cdvp.dcu.ie/DS2010/)***
Desktop
Search Workshop
Understanding,
Supporting, and Evaluating Personal Data Search
A SIGIR 2010 workshop, July
23, Geneva, Switzerland
http://www.cdvp.dcu.ie/DS2010/
Desktop
search refers to the process of searching within one’s
personal space of information. The information searched during a desktop
search can include content that resides on one's personal computer (e.g.,
documents, emails, visited Web pages, and multimedia files), and may extend to
content on other personal devices, such as music players and mobile
phones. Despite recent research interest, desktop search is
under-explored compared to other search domains such as the web,
semi-structured data, or flat text.
This workshop will bring
together researchers interested in desktop search with the goal of fostering
collaborations and addressing the challenges faced in this area. The workshop
will be structured to encourage group discussion and active collaboration among
attendees. We encourage participation from researchers in the fields of
information retrieval, personal information management, natural language
processing, human-computer interaction, and related areas.
The topics of the workshop include but are
not limited to:
- Understanding
desktop search behavior
·
Studies of desktop search behavior
·
Desktop query log analysis
·
Psychological aspects of re-finding (e.g., people’s
memories of items)
- Supporting
desktop search
·
Retrieval approaches (e.g., content analysis, search algorithms)
·
Personalization to account for highly individual collections and
needs
·
Interfaces for desktop search and presentation of results
- Evaluating
desktop search
·
Evaluation approaches (e.g., test collections, lab studies, log
analyses)
·
Test set creation (e.g., common reference task, common
corpora)
- Other
uses of desktop collections
·
Life-logging
·
Introspection and reflection using personal collections
Submission Guidelines
Short papers (max 4 pages) and short position
papers (max 2 pages) describing significant work in progress, late breaking
results or ideas / challenges for the domain are invited. Submissions should be
in ACM SIGIR format. LaTeX and Word templates are available at http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates (for LaTeX, use the "Option
2" style).
Anonymised papers in pdf format should be
submitted to http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=desktop2010
no later than
midnight Pacific Daylight Time on June 3, 2010. Submissions will be subject to
triple-blind reviewing.
Important Dates
June 3,
2010 Deadline
for paper submission
June 27, 2010
Notification to authors
July 5,
2010
Camera-ready copy due
July 23,
2010 Workshop
Further Information
Further information is available on the
workshop website at http://www.cdvp.dcu.ie/DS2010/
or by emailing the
workshop organizers.
Workshop Organizers
David Elsweiler
– University of Erlangen, Germany (david-0tjEYskydmyx7wk7FZxnQA@public.gmane.org)
Gareth J. F. Jones
– Dublin City University, Ireland (gjones-j9mISXBebvq70S6Re0YL1A@public.gmane.org)
Liadh Kelly –
Dublin City University, Ireland (lkelly-j9mISXBebvq70S6Re0YL1A@public.gmane.org)
Jaime Teevan –
Microsoft Research Redmond, USA (teevan-0li6OtcxBFHby3iVrkZq2A@public.gmane.org)
Program Committee
Leif Azzopardi - University of Glasgow, UK
Ofer Bergman – Sheffield University,
UK
Rob Capra - University of North
Carolina, USA
Sergey Chernov - University of Hanover,
Germany
Bruce Croft - University of Massachusetts,
USA
Ed Cutrell - Microsoft Research, India
Susan Dumais - Microsoft Research,
USA
Diane Kelly - University of North Carolina,
USA
Ian Ruthven - University of Strathclyde, UK
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