September 10-12, 2009
http://kmi.open.ac.uk/events/ictir09/
Indicative topics of interest
We seek high-quality and original research papers and posters that have not been previously published and are not under review for another conference or journal. Submissions will be reviewed by experts on the basis of the originality of the work, the validity of the chosen methodology and their results, quality of writing and the overall contribution to the field of IR. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the theories and formal models appropriate to the following areas:
Foundations
§ Mathematical foundations of IR
§ Probabilistic, logical, language, and social IR models, and quantum mechanics based models
§ Information, meaning, entropy
§ Properties and structures in IR
§ IR architectures: peer-to-peer, distributed IR, grid
§ Content representation and indexing
§ Algorithms, complexity
§ New models, frameworks and approaches to IR
Techniques
§ Evaluation methodologies, test collections, metrics
§ User modelling and user interactions
§ Context issues
§ Browsing, semantic search, meta-search
§ Bibliometrics for IR and citation analysis
§ Social networks and media, on-line community analysis, social tagging
§ Classification, categorization, and clustering
§ Machine learning
§ Visualisation
Applications
§ Web IR
§ Enterprise search
§ Expert search
§ Interactive IR
§ Text mining
§ Digital libraries
§ XML retrieval
§ Multimedia retrieval
§ Domain-specific IR (blog, legal, biomedical, book, etc.)
§ Recommender systems
§ Filtering
§ Semantic Web
§ Mobile IR
Wider context
§ Philosophy of IR
§ Sociology of IR
§ Pedagogy of IR
§ Linguistics of IR
Important dates
17 April 2009: Research papers
1 May 2009: Posters
Submissions
Authors are invited to submit research papers of up to 12 pages, or posters of up to 4 pages, representing original and previously unpublished work.
Submissions must be written in English, following the submission guidelines set by Springer, available at www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-7-72376-0. Additional information for authors can be found at www.springer.com/lncs.
All accepted papers and posters will be published by Springer in the Proceedings of ICTIR 2009, as part of the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series. In addition, a special edition of the Journal of Information Retrieval will be published from extended versions of the selected best papers.
For information on how to submit a paper, please visit http://kmi.open.ac.uk/events/ictir09/call-for-papers.php.
Further information
For further information, please visit the conference web site at http://kmi.open.ac.uk/events/ictir09/.
Conference organizers
Honorary chair:
C.J. “Keith” van Rijsbergen (University of Glasgow)
Conference chairs:
Gabriella Kazai (Microsoft Research)
Stefan Rüger (The Open University)
Program Committee chairs:
Leif Azzopardi (University of Glasgow)
Dawei Song (The Robert Gordon University)
Adviser:
Stephen Robertson (Microsoft Research)
Local organizers:
Milad Shokouhi (Microsoft Research)
Emine Yilmaz (Microsoft Research)