Represents the interests and activities of the BCS IRSG (British Computer Society Information Retrieval Special Interest Group)

Nicola Ferro | 2 May 2010 11:51

CLEF 2010 - Deadline Extension to May 5 by 23:59:59 HST

Due to multiple requests from the authors, the submission deadline for CLEF 2010 has been extended   to
Wednesday, May 5 2010, by 23:59:59 Hawaii-Aleutian Standard Time (HST), that corresponds to  GMT-10,
i.e. 11:59:59 CEST (Rome time) the following day.

Papers should be submitted in PDF  according to the LNCS format to the following address: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=clef2010

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CLEF 2010 - Conference on Multilingual and Multimodal Information Access Evaluation

20–23 September 2010, Padua, Italy

http://www.clef2010.org/

Background

CLEF2010 is the continuation of the popular CLEF campaigns that have run for the past ten years. It will
cover a broad range of issues in the fields of multilingual and multimodal information access
evaluation. It will consist of two main parts: a peer-reviewed conference (20-21 September) on
experimental evaluation, which will innovate the CLEF tradition, and a series of labs (22-23
September), which will continue the CLEF tradition of community-based evaluation and discussion on
evaluation issues.

Aim and Scope

The CLEF2010 conference aims at advancing the evaluation of complex multimodal and multilingual
information systems in order to support individuals, organizations, and communities who design,
develop, employ, and improve such systems.

The growth of the Internet has been exponential with respect to the number of users, media, and languages

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Nicola Ferro | 2 May 2010 12:25

CLEF 2010 - Deadline Extension to May 5 by 23:59:59 HST

Due to multiple requests from the authors, the submission deadline for CLEF 2010 has been extended to
Wednesday, May 5 2010, by 23:59:59 Hawaii-Aleutian Standard Time (HST), that corresponds to GMT-10,
i.e. 11:59:59 CEST (Rome time) the following day.

Papers should be submitted in PDF  according to the LNCS format to the following address: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=clef2010

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CLEF 2010 - Conference on Multilingual and Multimodal Information Access Evaluation

20–23 September 2010, Padua, Italy

http://www.clef2010.org/

Background

CLEF2010 is the continuation of the popular CLEF campaigns that have run for the past ten years. It will
cover a broad range of issues in the fields of multilingual and multimodal information access
evaluation. It will consist of two main parts: a peer-reviewed conference (20-21 September) on
experimental evaluation, which will innovate the CLEF tradition, and a series of labs (22-23
September), which will continue the CLEF tradition of community-based evaluation and discussion on
evaluation issues.

Aim and Scope

The CLEF2010 conference aims at advancing the evaluation of complex multimodal and multilingual
information systems in order to support individuals, organizations, and communities who design,
develop, employ, and improve such systems.

The growth of the Internet has been exponential with respect to the number of users, media, and languages

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Simon Attfield | 5 May 2010 16:31

VASS Visual Analytics Summer School 16th-24th Sept. 2010

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VASS 2010
Visual Analytics Summer School, 16th-24th September 2010.
Middlesex University, London, UK.
*** Pre-Registration Notice ***

Registration opens 17 May 2010.
http://www.eis.mdx.ac.uk/vass
.........................................

As part of the UKVAC or United Kingdom Visual Analytics Consortium, Middlesex University is hosting VASS
2010, the Visual Analytics Summer School (camp) at their Hendon campus in London. This residential event
is sponsored by the US Department of Homeland Security via the US National Visualization and Analytics
Centre (NVAC) and is organised in collaboration with the UK Home Office and Ministry of Defence.

VASS 2010 follows in the tradition of the 2008 Summer Camp held at the US NVAC, National Visualisation and
Analytics Centre, at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in Richland, Washington. As part of a series
of events in September this year to mark the foundation of the UKVAC, VASS 2010 will be hosted by Middlesex
University, in London, UK.

Visual Analytics is the science of analytical reasoning supported by interactive visualisations.
Delegates will learn about visual analytic problems, techniques and solutions from leading
international experts in the field. Included in the syllabus are: analytical reasoning; the design of
interactive visualisations; data representations and transformations; perspectives on software
engineering and programming for rapid visualisation. The aim of the summer school is to provide a
multidisciplinary grounding in this emerging and important area. Teaching will be by classroom
delivery, discussion and hands-on experience with visual analytic tools.

Speakers and tutors include:
Prof. Ann Blandford, Director, UCL Interaction Center, UCL, UK.

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Ian Ruthven | 6 May 2010 10:59

Information Interaction in Context, Doctoral Consortium, IIiX-DC

Information Interaction in Context 2010

Doctoral Consortium
http://www.iiix2010.org/

[Few more places available in IIiX-DC after the first selection round]

[New submissions to Doctoral Consortium are due *** May 23 , 2010 ****]

[Conference August 18-22, 2010]

The Information Interaction in Context conference (IIiX) explores the 
relationships between and within the contexts that affect information 
retrieval and information seeking, how these contexts impact information 
behavior, and how knowledge of information contexts and behaviors 
improves the design of interactive information systems.

The intention of IIiX is to foster an integrated approach to information 
access by bringing together members of the research communities in 
information seeking behavior (Behavior Track), interactive information 
retrieval (Interaction Track), and information retrieval system design 
(System Track). A list of topics of interest can be found at the 
conference website.

A Doctoral Consortium held in conjunction with the main conference 
provides an opportunity for doctoral students to present and discuss 
their research with senior researchers and other doctoral students in a 
seminar format. The Doctoral Consortium focuses on 1) advising students 
regarding currentcritical issues in their research, and 2) making 
students aware of the strengths and weaknesses of their research as

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Pablo Castells | 6 May 2010 11:59

CFP: RecSys 2010 International Workshop on the Practical Use of Recommender Systems, Algorithms and Technologies (PRSAT 2010)

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1st Call for Papers

International Workshop on the Practical Use of Recommender Systems, 
Algorithms and Technologies (PRSAT 2010)
30 September 2010 | Barcelona, Spain
http://ir.ii.uam.es/prsat2010

In conjunction with the 4th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems 
(RecSys 2010)
http://recsys.acm.org/2010

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Important dates
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   * Paper submission:                       July 1, 2010
   * Notification of acceptance/rejection:   July 26, 2010
   * Camera-ready copies of accepted papers: August 16, 2010
   * APRESW 2010 Workshop:                   September 30, 2010

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Motivation
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User modeling, adaptation, and personalization techniques have hit the 
mainstream. The explosion of social network websites, on-line 
user-generated content platforms, and the tremendous growth in

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Mark Sanderson | 11 May 2010 11:39

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION, NTCIR-8 Workshop Meeting

*Japanese Message follows English one.


                                　　　          [English Message]

Apologies for multiple copies

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                        CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
                       NTCIR-8 Workshop Meeting
           on Evaluation of Information Access Technologies:
             IR, QA and Cross-lingual Information Access
                          June 15-18, 2010
                           NII, Tokyo, Japan
     　　http://research.nii.ac.jp/ntcir/ntcir-ws8/meeting/

EVIA 2010http://research.nii.ac.jp/ntcir/ntcir-ws8/EVIA-2010/index.html


     Program:
     http://research.nii.ac.jp/ntcir/ntcir-ws8/meeting/program-en.html


Online registration is available at:
http://research.nii.ac.jp/ntcir/ntcir-ws8/meeting/registration_ws8.html

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The NTCIR-8 Workshop Meeting and the 3rd International Workshop on
Evaluating Information Access (EVIA 2010) will be held on June 15-18,
2010, at NII in Tokyo, Japan. Anybody who is interested in research
areas related to NTCIR, such as Information Retrieval, Question
Answering, Information Extraction, Text Mining and Data Engineering,
Machine Translation, is welcome to attend and join the discussion.

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Susanne Thierfelder | 13 May 2010 13:39

SAMT 2010 - CALL FOR PAPERS

(apologies for multiple postings)

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*              SAMT 2010 - CALL FOR PAPERS                    *
*            5th International Conference on                  *
*        Semantic And digital Media Technologies              *
*        Saarbruecken, Germany, 1-3 December 2010             *
*                http://www.samt2010.org                      *
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Important Dates
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Abstract Submission:  June 15
Paper Submission:     June 22
Notification:         August 15
Camera Ready:         September 15
Conference:           December 1-3

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Objectives and Topics
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Large amounts of multimedia material, such as images, audio, video,
and 3D/4D material, as well as computer generated 2D, 3D, and 4D
content, already exist and are growing at increasing rates. While
these amounts are growing, managing distribution of and access to
multimedia material is becoming ever harder, both for lay and
professional users.

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Liadh Kelly | 14 May 2010 18:02

CFP: Desktop Search Workshop at SIGIR 2010 - Submission Deadline June 3

[Apologies if you receive this call more than once. Please feel free to
forward to other interested parties.]

** This is a friendly reminder that the paper submission deadline for the
SIGIR 2010 Desktop Search Workshop (Understanding, Supporting and
Evaluating Personal Data Search) is 3 weeks away - June 3, 2010 **


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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 ones 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 academics and industrial practitioners
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

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Andrew Trotman | 17 May 2010 09:23

Call for participation INEX 2010

Call for participation INEX 2010

REGISTRATION NOW OPEN AT http://www.inex.otago.ac.nz

OVERVIEW
INEX 2010 is examining focused (sub-document) retrieval using the Wikipedia
Collection.  The collection size is over 50 Gigabyte with 2.5 million
articles in semantically marked-up XML format.  For the main ad hoc
retrieval track the collection is available in Plain Text as well as XML so
that non-XML based passage retrieval systems can also be used. Other tracks
are: Book Searching (using a collection of 50,000 full text books in XML),
Interactive (iTrack, using data from Amazon and LibraryThing), Question
Answering (QA <at> INEX), Link-the-Wiki, XML-Mining, Web Service Discovery,
Relevance Feedback, and Data Centric (most probably using IMBD). All
INEX Participants are expected to participate in topic creation, and
assessment.

TASKS AND TRACKS
. Ad hoc Track - The main track of INEX 2010 will investigate the
effectiveness of XML-IR and Passage Retrieval for highly focused retrieval
by restricting result length to "snippets" or discounting for reading
effort.
. Data Centric Track - Investigating Focused Retrieval over a strongly
structured collection of documents (most probably IMBD).
. Book Track - Investigating techniques to support users in reading,
searching, and navigating full texts of digitized books.
. Interactive Track (iTrack) - Investigating the behavior of users when
interacting with XML documents, as well as developing retrieval approaches
which are effective in user-based environments.
. Question Answering (QA <at> INEX) Track - Investigating technology for

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Jaap Kamps | 19 May 2010 07:14

CFP CIKM 2010 Workshop on Exploiting Semantic Annotations: Deadline June 30

Third Workshop on
Exploiting Semantic Annotations for Information Retrieval (ESAIR 2010)

CIKM 2010, October 30, Toronto
http://www.sics.se/events/esair2010/

Submissions due: June 30

Call for Papers

There is an increasing amount of structure on the Web as a result of
modern Web languages, user tagging and annotation, and emerging robust
NLP tools.  These meaningful, semantic, annotations hold the promise
to significantly enhance information access, by enhancing the depth of
analysis of today's systems.  Currently, we have only started
exploring the possibilities and only begin to understand how these
valuable semantic cues can be put to fruitful use.

Unleashing the potential of semantic annotations requires us to
transcend earlier technologies, by combining the insights of natural
language processing (NLP) to go beyond bags of words, the insights of
databases (DB) to use structure efficiently even when aggregating over
millions of records, the insights of information retrieval (IR) in
effective goal-directed search and evaluation, and the insights of
knowledge management (KM) to get grips on the greater whole.

The Workshop will bring together researchers from these different
disciplines and identify the natural use cases, the barriers to
success, and work on ways of addressing them:

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