RuSSIR 2012: Call for Course Proposals

                         MULTILINGUAL WORLD
                             RuSSIR 2012
              Monday August 6 - Friday August 10, 2011
                          Yaroslavl, Russia
                     http://romip.ru/russir2012

                     CALL FOR COURSE PROPOSALS

The 6th Russian Summer School in Information Retrieval (RuSSIR 2012)
will be held on August 6-10, 2012 in Yaroslavl, Russia. The school is
co-organized by the Yaroslavl Demidov State University
(http://www.uniyar.ac.ru) and the Russian Information Retrieval
Evaluation Seminar (ROMIP, http://romip.ru).

The mission of the RuSSIR school series is to teach students about
modern problems and methods in information retrieval and related
disciplines, to stimulate scientific research and collaboration in the
field; and to create environment for informal contacts between
scientists, students and industry professionals.

RuSSIR 2012 will offer up to seven courses and host approximately 150
participants. The target audience of the school is advanced graduate
and PhD students, post-doctoral researchers, academic and industrial
researchers, and developers. The working language of the school is
English.

RuSSIR 2012 will focus on multilingual information access, cross-
language information retrieval, and machine translation. The School
Program Committee invites proposals for courses on a wide range of IR-
related topics. Courses dealing with multilinguality, spanning IR,

Deadline Extension: 2nd workshop on Diversity in Document retrieval - papers now due 12th December

** Paper deadline extended until 12th December **

DDR-2012: Diversity in Document Retrieval, 12th February 2012
Seattle WA, USA in conjunction with WSDM 2012
http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/workshops/ddr2012/

Call for Papers
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We invite submissions of original research papers (6 pages) and position
papers (4 pages) in the general area of diversity in document retrieval.
Potential topics include (but are not limited to):

Modelling Diversity:
       Implicit diversification approaches
       Explicit diversification approaches
       Query log mining for diversity
       Learning-to-rank for diversification
       Clustering of results for diversification
       Query intent understanding
       Query type classification

Modelling Risk:
       Probability ranking principle
       Risk Minimization frameworks and role diversity

Evaluation:
       Test collections for diversity
       Evaluating of diverse search results
       Measuring the ambiguity of queries

Survey Invitation:Critical Success Factors in the deployment of Institutional Repositories

Dear all,

You are requested to be part of a research study of Fatemeh Lagzian 's doctoral research entitled 
“Critical Success Factors in the deployment of Institutional Repositories” at the Faculty
of Computer Science and Information Technology, University of Malaya, Malaysia. It would hardly take
your 10 minutes.

The research aims towards to identify the success factors which affect the activities that make an
Institutional Repository is available for use. 

All responses will be kept completely confidential and only be used for evaluating the research objectives.

Your cooperation will be highly appreciated.

http://tinyurl.com/3bwhghf

Best Regards,
Fatemeh Lagzian
LIS Ph.D. student, UM
University of Malaya
Faculty of Computer Science & Information Technology
Department of Library and Information Science
Tel:             +60 17 2683637      

ECIR 2012: Mentoring Program

CFP: Applications of Multimedia Mining

Call for Papers: Applications of Multimedia Mining 

This special issue in the journal Advances in Multimedia wants to highlight cutting-edge research in the
challenging area of identifying patterns, extracting, and using information or knowledge from
multimedia. This may involve indexing, summarizing, searching, browsing, and finding relevant
digital multimedia documents comprising images, video, audio, speech, music, sketches, technical
drawings, figures from scientific articles, and multimodal combinations. For the purposes of this
special issue, particularly interesting application areas are education, science, cultural
heritage, patents, industrial workplace, lifelong multimedia logs, and social networking, but other
application areas where analysing or mining multimedia is relevant are also welcome.

We invite researchers to submit original research as well as review articles. Potential topics include,
but are not limited to:

 - Analysis, indexing, search, and retrieval of multimedia
 - Content and context-based multimedia retrieval
 - Media capture and mining in mobile environments
 - Social media-supported mining
 - Mining in distributed P2P or cloud-based collections
 - Scalable multimedia mining and retrieval
 - High-dimensional indexing
 - Intelligent multimedia-based decision support systems
 - Intelligent summary, reuse, or remixing of multimedia content
 - Specialised mining: scientific, biomedical, geographic, patent, life logs, surveillance, and forensic

Before submission authors should carefully read over the journal's Author Guidelines, which are located
at http://www.hindawi.com/journals/am/guidelines/. Prospective authors should submit an
electronic copy of their complete manuscript through the journal Manuscript Tracking System at
http://mts.hindawi.com/ according to the following timetable:

Friday, 13 April 2012	Manuscript Due
Friday, 6 July 2012	First Round of Reviews
Friday, 31 August 2012	Publication Date

Lead Guest Editor
 - Stefan Rueger, Knowledge Media Institute, The Open University, UK

Guest Editors
 - Shyamala Doraisamy, Department of Multimedia, University Putra Malaysia, Malaysia
 - Alexander Hauptmann, School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
 - Suzanne Little, Knowledge Media Institute, The Open University, UK
 - Joao Magalhaes, Department of Computer Science, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal

Call webpage: http://www.hindawi.com/journals/am/si/amm/

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Call for bids to host ICTIR 2013

Colleages

Formal bids - deadline March 31 2012  <at>  12 midnight (GMT)

The biennial International Conference on the Theory of Information
Retrieval (ICTIR) aims to provide a forum for discussion and interaction
among those with theoretical and applicative research interests in
mathematical/formal aspects of Information Retrieval (IR), including,
e.g., foundational issues, description or integration of models, retrieval
applications, mathematical/formal techniques, existing and/or new theories
and theoretical aspects.

IR, building on its library science roots, has by now proved to stretch
beyond information and computer sciences, reaching mathematics and
linguistics, tackling and challenging new areas like physics, philosophy,
sociology, or biology. It is the broad goal of the ICTIR conferences to be
the forum that reflects this new, multi-valued meaning of IR in terms of
new and original results. 

The conference was established in 2007, with the first ICTIR held in
Budapest, Hungary (October 2007), the second ICTIR was held in Cambridge,
UK (September 2009), and the third instance was held in Bertinoro, Italy
(September 2011).

ICTIR was brought about by the growing interest in the consecutive
workshops ran at ACM SIGIR each year from 2000 until 2005 on Mathematical
and Formal Methods in IR (Athens, Greece, 2000; New Orleans, USA, 2001;
Tampere, Finland, 2002; Toronto, Canada, 2003; Sheffield, UK, 2004;
Salvador, Brazil, 2005). These workshops demonstrated that the
mathematical/formal results achieved in IR could be organized into a
coherent theoretical framework, bringing new knowledge to IR, and that
mathematical/formal research can stand as a specialized research area of
IR.

Applications must include all of the information requested in the attached
document and must include a formal resolution of commitment from the host
organization.

Please submit your bid in PDF format by email to the chair Andrew
MacFarlane (andym@...) not later than the 31st of March, 2012  <at>  12
midnight GMT. The winning bid will be notified on or before the 31st of
May, 2012. 

cheers
andy 

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!       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.city.ac.uk/informatics            !
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Research Fellow/Assistant Positions in Multimedia Retrieval for Social Media

Multimedia retrieval for social media, Research Fellow/Assistant (2 
posts), 2.5 / 2 years

An opportunity to work in a large European project (FP7),  SocialSensor. 
The project will create a platform for real-time indexing and search of 
multimedia information in the social web. The work will also focus on 
context-aware search. Partners: CERTH, Yahoo, Alcatel-Lucent, IBM, 
Deutsche-Welle, DFKI, JCP, Univ. Koblenz, ATC, Univ. Klagenfurt.

The project is based within the Centre for Interactive Systems Research 
which has 20 years experience of R&D in search algorithms and 
technologies, including a well-known search algorithm.

In these posts you will develop novel multimedia retrieval algorithms 
based on content-based techniques, social indexing, text retrieval, and 
user's context. You will create and implement these in a context aware and 
real-time multimedia retrieval system. You will be involved in integrating 
these in collaboration with project partners. The project will build upon 
current state-of-art multimedia retrieval techniques, collections, 
relevant open-source initiatives, and evaluation methods.

Applicants should be qualified in Information Retrieval (or related area). 
More specifically, text and multimedia retrieval techniques will be 
needed. The qualification sought is PhD or equivalent experience in field. 
Strong programming skills are essential, and experience of one or more of 
the following areas is an advantage: Social media; user-centred IR system 
design, implementation, and evaluation; context learning; 
personalization, recommendation, news domain. Experience in collaborating 
with partners from industry is desirable.

For informal enquiries, please contact Dr. Ayse Goker: 
ayse.goker.1@...
Further details of the positions available at:
http://tinyurl.com/cwqm2pp
http://tinyurl.com/bqsv6zo

The post will also be advertised on www.jobs.ac.uk

Closing date: 4 January, 2012
Interview date: 16 January, 2012
Start date: February/March, 2012

Further information:
www.soi.city.ac.uk/is/research/cisr
www.soi.city.ac.uk/~sbbb872

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Dr. Ayse Goker
Senior Lecturer
Centre for Interactive Systems Research
Department of Information Science
School of Informatics
City University London
www.soi.city.ac.uk/is/research/cisr
www.soi.city.ac.uk/~sbbb872

Professor in Information Analytics

The School of Informatics
City University London

We are seeking to appoint a Professor with an outstanding record of
research achievement and a commitment to excellent education in
information analytics.

As well as sector-leading salary and benefits, the Professor will have the
opportunity to recruit a Lecturer and two fully-funded doctoral students.

Full details of the post are available at:
http://www.city.ac.uk/academicexcellence/school-of-informatics.

For further information about the appointments please contact Perrett
Laver at http://www.perrettlaver.com/featured-appointments/city.

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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.city.ac.uk/informatics            !
!       Twitter: http://twitter.com/unixspiders           !
!       Blog: http://unix-spiders.blogspot.com/           !
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TBAS 2012 2nd Call for Papers

CFP: 2nd Workshop on Context-awareness in Retrieval and Recommendation (CaRR2012)