[Dbworld] First Italian Information Retrieval Workshop

From: “Massimo Melucci ” (email address not shown)

CALL FOR PAPERS

First Italian Information Retrieval Workshop
IIR 2010

27-28 January 2010

http://ims.dei.unipd.it/websites/iir10/index.html

The primary aim of the Italian Information Retrieval (IIR) workshop is
to provide an international meeting forum where researchers, and
especially early stage researchers, from the domain of Information
Retrieval and related disciplines can exchange information and present
past results and innovative research developments in an informal way.

IIR 2010 will take place at the University of Padova, Italy, on
January 27-28, 2010 in conjunction with the Italian Research
Conference on Digital Libraries (IRCDL, January 28-29, 2010).

IIR 2010 welcomes contributions related to any aspect of IR, including
(but not limited to):

* Theoretical Models
* Relevance Feedback, User Models and Query Processing
* Multimedia and cross-media retrieval:
image, video, audio and music
* Multilingual and cross-lingual retrieval
* Structured document retrieval, XML-IR
* Retrieval models, language models
* Image processing for IR, audio processing for IR
* Natural language processing for IR, information extraction,
text summarization
* Processing and search of e-mail, spam, blogs
* Categorization, topic tracking and event detection
* Thesauri and Ontologies for IR
* Web IR, distributed IR, enterprise search, search of digital
libraries, intranet search, desktop search
* Collaborative filtering, recommender systems
* Efficiency and performance
* Evaluation of IR
* Machine Learning for IR
* Domain-specific IR (e.g. IR for cultural heritage data)
* IR for Children
* Mobile IR

Submission details

Papers describing original ideas may range from theoretical work to
system descriptions. We particularly encourage Ph.D. students or early
stage researchers to submit their research. We also welcome
contributions from the industry when they focus on novel research
directions. Submissions will be reviewed by at least three domain
experts. The conference language is English. Please, submit papers in
PDF, using the ACM SIG Proceedings style available at
http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html. Papers have a
length of maximum 5 pages. Moreover, extended abstract containing
descriptions of on-going projects or presenting results already
published are also welcome and should be at most 2 pages long.
Accepted papers will be published in on-line proceedings on CEUR-WS
available at
http://sunsite.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/Publications/CEUR-WS/

Submissions can be sent to the Programme Chairs:

* Stefano Mizzaro (Universita` di Udine)
mizzaro (at) dimi (dot) uniud (dot) it
* Gabriella Pasi (Universita` di Milano Bicocca)
pasi (at) disco (dot) unimib (dot) it

Important dates

* Paper submission deadline: December 1, 2009
* Notification of acceptance: December 21, 2009
* Workshop: January 27-28, 2010

General Chair

* Massimo Melucci (Universita` di Padova)

Programme Chairs

* Stefano Mizzaro (Universita` di Udine)
* Gabriella Pasi (Universita` di Milano Bicocca)

Program Committee

* Gianni Amati (Fondazione Ugo Bordon, Roma)
* Gloria Bordogna (IDPA-CNR Dalmine, Bergamo)
* Claudio Carpineto (Fondazione Ugo Bordoni, Roma)
* Emanuele Di Buccio (Universita` di Padova)
* Giorgio Di Nunzio (Universita` di Padova)
* Antonio Gulli (Search Technology Center, Bing Search, Microsoft)
* Salvatore Orlando (Universita` Ca’ Foscari di Venezia)
* Alessandro Panconesi (Sapienza Universita` di Roma)
* Raffaele Perego (ISTI-CNR, Pisa)
* Carol Peters (ISTI-CNR, Pisa)
* Giuseppe Santucci (Sapienza Universita` di Roma)
* Fabrizio Silvestri (ISTI-CNR, Pisa)
* Fabrizio Sebastiani (ISTI-CNR, Pisa)
* Giovanni Semeraro (Universita` degli Studi di Bari “Aldo Moro”)
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