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Final CFP CIKM'11 Workshop on Exploiting Semantic Annotations: July 13 deadline

Fourth Workshop on
Exploiting Semantic Annotations for Information Retrieval (ESAIR 2011)

CIKM 2011, October 28, Glasgow
http://www.sics.se/events/esair2011/

Submissions due: Wednesday July 13 (new deadline)

* Call for Papers

There is an increasing amount of structure on the Web as a result of 
modern Web languages, microformats and linked data, 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.

The main question for the workshop is how to best formulate and use 
semantic annotation of information objects and information streams for 
information access tasks such as search, retrieval, categorization and 
related information refinement tasks.

* Many Open Questions

The Workshop will bring together researchers from a range of different 
disciplines (NLP, DB, IR, KM, and Web) and together identify the natural 
use cases, the barriers to success, and work on ways of addressing them:

- Application/Use Case: What are use cases that make obvious the need 
for semantic annotation of information?  What tasks cannot be solved by 
document retrieval using the traditional bag-of-words?  What are the 
prerequisites of successful application?  How can the expressive power 
of semantic annotation best be put to use?  What is keeping searchers 
from exploring these powerful search request?

- Annotation and analysis: What types of annotation are available?  Are 
there crucial differences between author-, software-, user- , and 
machine-generated annotations?  Named entities, temporal expressions on 
the one hand and sentiment and hedging on the other are examples of 
analyses beyond topic that have moved to profitable application.  Are 
there other types of annotations that are within our grasp? What 
semantic theories do we need to formulate further annotation schemes?

- Data Curation: Annotations may live inside documents, or be stored 
externally (e.g., annotated by uncontrolled authors or tools) or both 
(e.g., annotation with linked data).  How to keep data and metadata 
together?  Does the annotation stop somewhere, or is all social or 
linked data of potential use for searching or navigating. How important 
is source of the annotations?  Are there issues with credibility or 
trust that need to be taken into account?

- Result Aggregation: Whereas IR focuses almost exclusively at finding 
individual chunks of information, DB naturally focuses on results that 
combine information and produce aggregated results (think of OLAP 
queries), and KM naturally deal with the whole information space.  How 
can we fruitfully combine these strengths?

These and other related questions will be discussed at this open format 
workshop -- the aim is to provide paths for further research to change 
the way we understand information access today!

* We Need Your Help!

Help us shape the future of information access by increasing the depth 
of analysis of today's systems:

- Submit a short 2-page research or position paper explaining your key 
wishes or key points,

- and take actively part in the discussion at the Workshop.

The deadline is Wednesday July 13, 2011 (any timezone) further 
submission details are on http://www.sics.se/events/esair2011/

We are looking forward to a productive, stimulating and fruitful 
workshop day in the tradition of previous ESAIR workshops -- come join 
the discussion!

Omar Alonso, Microsoft
Jaap Kamps, University of Amsterdam
Jussi Karlgren, SICS

Extended Deadline: Pair'11 : Intl Workshop on Patent Information Retrieval

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			PaIR 2011

4th International Workshop on Patent Information Retrieval (PaIR'11)
CIKM 2011, Glasgow UK, October 24th

http://www.ifs.tuwien.ac.at/pair2011/
Submission site: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=pair11

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NEW: Deadline extension: Monday July 11th, 23:59 across the globe

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The focus of this year’s workshop is on more interaction and more discussion between participants,
focused around the ideas of the accepted papers. 
*Participants are invited to submit technical as well as position papers between 4 and 6 pages long.*

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ORGANIZERS

Mihai Lupu, Information Retrieval Facility, Vienna
Andreas Rauber, Vienna University of Technology
Allan Hanbury, Vienna University of Technology

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IMPORTANT DATES

Individual Workshop Papers: July 11, 2011
Notification of Acceptance: July 29, 2011
Camera Ready: August 12, 2011 (hard deadline for publication)

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WORKSHOP OBJECTIVE

The objective of the workshop (and of the PaIR workshop series since 2008 in general) is to provide a forum
for Information Retrieval and Knowledge Management scientists as well as Patent Retrieval experts from
industry to study the next generation of patent search tools.
We encourage IP professionals to present their special information needs and IR&KM researchers to
present relevant technical ideas, for example for high recall search in prior art searching.
We will also promote exchange of ideas on measuring the progress of system performance for retrieval tasks
in the intellectual property domain.

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PROPOSED PROGRAMME

The workshop will begin with two invited speakers, at least one of which will be from the industry. Then,
accepted papers will be invited to do short presentations. Discussions will take place in the second part
of the workshop around posters of the accepted papers. The workshop will end with a separation into
working groups, based on the discussions which have taken place during the morning and early afternoon.
Potential workgroup discussion topics are:
• Industry – Academia: collaboration or competition?
• Patentese : experiences and ideas on understanding and processing it
• Image recognition for patents
• Data annotation, text mining and their use for a more semantic patent retrieval

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THEME AND TOPICS

This workshop will solicit two types of papers: research papers and industry papers. All papers should
apply to patent IR or a related area in the Intellectual Property domain.
Suggested topics for research papers include, but are not limited to:
•	Machine Translation and Cross-lingual information retrieval

•	Patent Classification
•	Ontology-based Retrieval
•	Latent Semantic Analysis
•	Information retrieval evaluation
•	Evaluation frameworks
•	Test collections
•	Large-scale information retrieval experiments
•	Parallel and distributed information retrieval
•	Ranking strategies
•	Query validation and query quality analysis
•	Query expansion
•	Interactive retrieval
•	Session-based information retrieval
•	User modelling
•	Handling of noisy data (OCR/spelling/typing errors)
•	XML retrieval

Industry papers shall present research challenges. Suggested topics include, but are not limited to:
•	Patent search workflow
•	Patent search strategies
•	Information needs of the patent researcher
•	Shortcomings of current patent search tools
•	Case studies
•	Challenges in patent search
•	Patent life cycle
•	Quality of patent data

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CONTACT 
Mihai Lupu
m.lupu@...

Call for Tutorials and Workshops : ECIR 2012 - The 34th European Conference on Information Retrieval

Industry Day : ECIR 2012 - The 34th European Conference on Information Retrieval

Call for Participation - PROMISE Winter School 2012 "Information Retrieval meets Information Visualization"

** Apologies for cross postings **

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Call for Participation - Registration deadline: 30 September 2011

PROMISE Winter School 2012 on

Information Retrieval meets Information Visualization

Zinal, Valais - Switzerland
23 - 27 January 2012 

http://www.promise-noe.eu/events/winter-school-2012/
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AIM AND SCOPE

The aim of the Promise Winter School on information retrieval and information visualization is 
to give participants a grounding in the core topics that constitute the multidisciplinary area of 
multilingual and multimedia information retrieval. Other topics of the school will include 
usability of systems, system evaluation, social media and several other related fields.

The school is a week-long event consisting of guest lectures from invited speakers who are 
recognized experts in the field of information retrieval and information visulization.

The school mainly targets PhD and Master students but all other researchers or participation 
from industry is welcome. Some scholarships are available and prizes are kept reasonable to allow 
for a wide participation.

Time is also foreseen to get in contact with the experts and the participants are encouraged 
to prepare a poster on their personal research project for a general poster session 
during the first day.

LECTURES 

- Introduction to Information Retrieval
  Keith van Rijsbergen, University of Glasgow, Scotland, UK

- Introduction to Information Visualization
  Robert Spence, Imperial College London, UK

- Human Computer Interaction Principles
  Francesca Costabile, University of Bari, Italy

- Human Computer Interaction View of Information Retrieval Evaluation
  Tiziana Catarci, Sapienza, University of Rome, Italy

- User-oriented Information Retrieval
  Peter Ingwersen, Royal School of Information and Library Science, Copenaghen, Denmark

- Evaluating User-oriented Information Retrieval
  Kalervo Järvelin, University of Tampere, Finland

- Multilingual Information Retrieval
  Jacques Savoy, University of Neuchatel, Neuchâtel, Switzerland

- Multimedia Information Retrieval 
  Stéphane Marchand-Maillet, University of Geneva, Switzerland

- TREC Style Evaluation
  Donna Harman, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, USA  

- Metrics, Statistics, Tests
  Stephen Robertson, Microsoft Research, Cambridge, UK

- Number Visualization   
  Giuseppe Santucci, Sapienza, University of Rome, Italy

- Visual Analytics
  Silvia Miksch, Vienna University of Technology, Vienna, Austria                                     

- Web Personalisation
  Vincent P. Wade, Centre for Next Generation Localisation, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland

- Log File Analysis
  Maarten de Rijke, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands   

- Crowdsourcing  
  Gareth Jones, Centre for Next Generation Localisation, Dublin City University, Ireland

- Retrieval from Social Media
  Alejandro Jaimes, Yahoo! Research Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

IMPORTANT DATES

- Registration deadline: 30 September 2011
- Winter School: 23 - 27 January 2012 

ORGANIZATION

General Chair

- Tiziana Catarci, Sapienza, University of Rome, Italy

Program Commitee

- Maristella Agosti, University of Padua, Italy
- Nicola Ferro, University of Padua, Italy
- Henning Müller, University of Applied Sciences Western Switzerland, Switzerland
- Guiseppe Santucci, Sapienza, University of Rome, Italy

Publicity Chair

- Centre for the Evaluation of Language and Communication Technologies (CELCT), Italy
- Evaluations and Language resources Distribution Agency (ELDA), France

Local Organization

- Alexandre Cotting, University of Applied Sciences Western Switzerland, Switzerland
- Henning Müller, University of Applied Sciences Western Switzerland, Switzerland

CONTACT 

For any information please contact: 

winter-school[at]promise-noe.eu

or visit the Winter School Web site:

http://www.promise-noe.eu/events/winter-school-2012/

Extended Deadline 3rd Int'l Workshop on Collaborative Information Retrieval (CIR2011) at CIKM 2011

Apologies for cross-postings.

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We are pleased to announce that the submission deadline for the 3rd International Workshop on
Collaborative Information Retrieval (CIR2011) has been extended to July 15.

Submission Procedure
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Submissions to the workshop will be handled through the EasyChair site. Please
log into EasyChair from the following URL
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cir20110
to submit papers. Please note the trailing 0 on the URL!

Workshop details follow.

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3rd Workshop on Collaborative Information Retrieval (CIR 2011)
CIKM'2011, Glasgow, UK, October 28th.
http://cir2011.fxpal.com/

Organizers
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- Gene Golovchinsky, FX Palo Alto Laboratory, Inc, USA.
- Jeremy Pickens, Catalyst Repository Systems, USA.
- Meredith Ringel Morris, Microsoft Research, USA.
- Juan M. Fernández-Luna, University of Granada, Spain.
- Juan F. Huete, University of Granada, Spain.
- Julio C. Rodríguez-Cano, University of Informatics Science, Cuba.

Introduction and Goal
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This is the third workshop we are organizing on the topic of collaborative
information retrieval. The first workshop, held in conjunction with JCDL 2008,
focused on broad topics and sought to establish a vocabulary for discussion
about collaborative information seeking, to identify work practices and
disciplines that might benefit from collaborative information seeking,
and to establish a community of researchers with related interests. The second
workshop, held in conjunction with CSCW 2010, built on the previous results, and
focused on issues of communication and awareness in support of collaborative
information seeking.

Our goal in this third workshop is to focus on algorithmic and other software
issues related to information seeking in a collaborative setting. We would like
to explore a variety of algorithms for mediating collaboration, and also to
examine how different user interface elements can be used to support associated
activity. Algorithmic aspects will include the coordination of input from
multiple people, fusion and distribution of search results, and modifications to
ranking algorithms based on group-specific information. Interface aspects will
include support for awareness of individual and of group activity, role-specific
interfaces, support for communication among collaborators, and support for
transparency of search algorithms to foster a better understanding of the search
space. It is also important to consider the effect that the starting context
(e.g., IM chat, discussions in a social network, transitions from single-user
to collaborative search, etc.) has on the algorithms and on the UI.

For more information, please see the Call For Papers at
http://cir2011.fxpal.com/, which also includes a Demo session during which
participants are encouraged to demonstrate interactive collaborative information
seeking systems.

Call for Papers
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Support for explicit collaboration is an essential part of many information
seeking activities. Explicit collaboration differs from recommendation systems
and collaborative filtering in that the people engaged in information seeking
have an explicitly shared information need. Hence, rather than inferring
similarities of intent, the system is free to mediate the sharing of knowledge
and division of labor. In the last few years, several research groups have
pursued various issues related to collaboration during search, including support
   for awareness, algorithmic mediation, conceptual and software frameworks
for collaboration, and collaboration through a range of different devices.

Explicit collaboration implies a certain emphasis on interaction. The system has
to not only communicate search results to the user, but also mediate
communication and data sharing among its users. There are new algorithms that
need to be invented that use inputs from multiple people to produce search
results, and new evaluation metrics need to be invented that reflect the
collaborative and interactive nature of the task. Finally, we need to integrate
the expertise of library and information science researchers and practitioners
by revisiting real-world information seeking situations with an eye for shared
information needs and explicit collaborative search.

We are looking for several kinds of submissions for the workshop.

- Position/work in progress papers, four to six pages in length in the standard
   ACM format, the describe work related to collaborative information seeking.
Papers will be reviewed and a few will be selected for presentation; the rest
will be invited to submit a poster instead. The submission date for papers is
June 29th.
- Posters will present late-breaking or just-starting work in the area. Poster
submissions should be two to four pages in the standard ACM format. The workshop
   schedule will include time to view and discuss posters. The submission date for
   posters is June 29th.

- Demos will show working systems that support collaborative search or other
information seeking activities. Each accepted demo will include a plenary
presentation slot of 15-20 minutes, during which significant aspects of the
system can be described and demonstrated. We will also set aside time for a
session (analogous to the poster session) during which participants could
interact with the demo presenters and their systems. Those interested in
participating in the demo track should submit a two to four page paper in the
standard ACM format that will describe key aspects of the system and how it
supports various aspects of collaborative search. These papers are also due on
June 29th. In addition, because system building is sometimes unpredictable in
the amount of time involved, to help us plan the schedule, we would like to
receive an interim progress report from those intending to participate in the
demo track some time in early September. Such a report should consist of a
series of screenshots or a video screen-cast (or even a link to a working online
system!). We’ll settle on an exact date once we see how many participants we
have in this track. Demo acceptances are contingent on having a viable system
available in time for the workshop; if participants are unable to get a system
ready in time for the workshop, we will reclassify the submission as a Poster.

Important Dates
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- Submission date: July 15, 2011
- Notification of acceptance: August 5, 2011
- Revised papers due: August 19, 2011
- Conference dates: 24-28, 2011
- Workshop Date: October 28, 2011

For further questions
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Please contact the organizers with any questions about the workshop. You can
follow the workshop on Twitter with the #cir2011 hashtag.

Workshop on Human-Computer Interaction & Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (HCI-KDD) <at> USAB 2011 (Graz, Austria, Nov, 24-26) Papers due to August, 8, 2011

Workshop Human-Computer Interaction and Knowledge Discovery and Data 
Mining (HCI KDD)
in the context of USAB 2011 Information Quality in e-Health, Graz, 
Austria, November 24-26, 2011
see main conference page: http://www.meduni-graz.at/imi/usab2011
Workshop-Papers due to August, 8, 2011

In Biomedicine, Health Care, Clinical Medicine and the Life Sciences 
professional end users are confronted with increased masses of data. 
Research in Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) and Information Retrieval 
(IR) or Knowledge Discovery in Databases and Data Mining (KDD) 
respectively, has long been working to develop methods that help end 
users to identify, extract, visualize and understand useful information 
from these masses of high dimensional and mostly weakly structured data. 
HCI and IR/KDD, however, take very different perspectives in tackling 
this challenge; and historically, they have had little collaboration. 
Our goal is to support professional end users to interactively analyze 
information properties and to visualize the most relevant parts without 
getting overwhelmed. The challenge is to bring HCI & IR/KDD to work 
together and hence reap the benefits, so that Computer 
Science/Informatics can benefit the areas of Medicine, Health Care and 
the Life Sciences even more.

All workshop papers will be reviewed by at least three international 
experts. Accepted papers will be included in the main proceedings, 
Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS).
Workshop Papers are in the format of short papers. Submit via the 
ConfTool: https://www.conftool.net/usab2011

Maimon & Rokach (2010) state in their book “Data Mining and Knowledge 
Discovery” : “Knowledge Discovery demonstrates intelligent computing at 
its best, and is the most desirable and interesting end-product of 
Information Technology”. However, the real challenge is to combine 
MACHINE INTELLIGENCE with the strengths and possibilities of HUMAN 
INTELLIGENCE – a primary research objective in the field of 
Human-Computer Interaction. Consequently, the aim of this workshop is to 
bring together experts of both areas: Knowledge Discovery/Information 
Retrieval with Human-Computer Interaction/Usability Engineers.
Some hot topics of future research include – but are not limited to: 
Human-Computer Interaction and …

* … Multimedia Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery (e.g. in high 
dimensional and weakly structured data)
* … Swarm Intelligence (collective intelligence) and Collaborative Data 
Mining
* … Intelligent, interactive multivariate Information Visualization and 
Visual Analytics
* … Multimedia Data Exploration and Visualization
* … Time-Oriented Data and Information (e.g. longitudinal data and time 
series data)
* … Novel Search User Interaction Techniques
* … Future Interaction Techniques (science fiction today is science fact 
of tomorrow)
* … Modelling of Human Search Behavior and Understanding Human 
Information Needs
* … Methods and Methodologies (e.g. Support Vector Machines, Maximum 
Entropy Modeling, …)
* … Text Mining and Information Extraction

For more information see:
http://www.hci4all.at/?page_id=334

3rd CfP : TREC-CHEM : Chemical IR Evaluation

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TREC Chemical IR Evaluation campaign
https://wiki.ir-facility.org/index.php/TREC-CHEM_2011

3rd CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

next item in the timeline: Submission of runs by participants (TS & 
Image2Structure topics): August 1st, 2011
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The 3rd TREC-CHEM evaluation campaign continues the work done in the 
previous two years on assessment of IR tools for the chemical domain, 
with a special focus this year on bio-chemistry.

The organizers make available to participants a large collection of 
patent documents and scientific articles, including the attached 
non-text information (images, structure files)

Participants are invited to register and to submit results to one or 
more of three tasks:
* Prior Art - Given a patent application, find all other patent 
documents which may be lead to the rejection of the application
* Technology Survey - Given an information need (from the bio-chemistry 
domain) expressed in natural language, retrieve all patents and 
scientific articles which may satisfy this need
* Image-to-Structure - Given a raster image file, determine the 
structure represented in this file and return it as a chemical structure 
information file (e.g. MOL, but exact format still to be decided).

Registration for the track MUST be done both on the NIST website at 
http://ir.nist.gov/trecsubmit.open/application.html
AND by sending the signed licence agreements available at 
https://download.ir-facility.org/trec/ to lupu@...

Registration does not bind you to sending in results, so please register 
as soon as possible if you have any intention to participate.

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    * Data Release: For TS and PA will use the same data collection as 
in 2010: [1]. For Image2Structure - April, 2011 - DONE
    * PA topics release April, 2011 - DONE
    * TS Topics Release: May, 2011 - DONE
    * Image2Structure Topics: May, 2011 - DONE
    * Submission of runs by participants (TS & Image2Structure topics): 
August 1st, 2011
    * Submission of runs by participants (PA topics): September 1st, 2011
    * Release of Evaluation results: September 21st, 2011
    * Submission of Working Notes: Mid to End of October 2011
    * TREC in Gaithersburg, MD: November 2011

Track mailing list: trec-chem@...
Track website: https://wiki.ir-facility.org/index.php/TREC-CHEM_2011

CFP: ECIR 2012 - The 34th European Conference on Information Retrieval