IRFC 2012 - 5th Information Retrieval Facility Conference 2012

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Deadline: March 04, 2012 | Date: July 02, 2012-July 03, 2012

Venue/Country: Vienna, Austria

Updated: 2012-02-29 23:29:15 (GMT+9)

Call For Papers - CFP

Organised by the Vienna University of Technology and the MUMIA Cost Action

Conference: http://www.ir-facility.org/irf-conference-2012

Paper Submission: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=irfc2012

T H E I R F C O N F E R E N C E

The 5th Information Retrieval Facility Conference 2012 provides once again a multidisciplinary scientific forum for researchers in

Information Retrieval and related areas. Furthermore, the conference aims at bringing young researchers into contact with the industry

at an early stage. Another emphasis is put on the applicability of IR solutions to real industry cases and the respective challenges.

A panel of experts from both academia and industry will discuss the relevance of the presented papers for current challenges faced by information

professionals at the end of the conference.

The 5th IRF Conference addresses 3 complementary research areas:

* Information Retrieval

* Machine Translation for search solutions

* Interactive Information Access

The 5th IRF Conference targets researchers who are interested in:

* Learning about complementary technologies for the development of next generation search solutions

* Applying their results to real business needs

* Joining the international research network of the MUMIA Cost Action

* Discussing results obtained by using the IRF data resources or other data resources

All papers will undergo a review process with each paper being reviewed by at least three members of the programme committee.

The proceedings in 2011 have been published by Springer in the LNCS series, and we have contacted Springer regarding 2012.

All paper submissions must be written in English following the LNCS author guidelines. We welcome two different types of submissions(Science, Industry).

- Science Papers

For researchers and students in the fields of Information Retrieval, Machine Translation for Search Solutions and Interactive Information Access.

Papers submitted must refer to novel, unpublished research. Full papers must not exceed 15 pages including references and figures.

- Industry Papers

For developers and implementers of novel technology in the fields of Information Retrieval, Machine Translation for Search Solutions

and Interactive Information Access. For business and industry representatives using IR technologies to search and analyse large quantities

of information. Papers of this type should not exceed 4 pages including references and figures.

- PatOlympics

For the 3rd time, the PatOlympics will take place together with the IRF Conference. This competition provides an interactive evaluation platform

where prototypes of state-of-the-art patent retrieval systems are tested and driven to their limits by patent retrieval professionals.

Research groups as well as technology providers are invited to participate in the PatOlympics.

O R G A N I S A T I O N

General Chair:

Norbert Fuhr (University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany)

Programme Chairs:

Birger Larsen (Royal School of Library and Information Science, DK)

Michail Salampasis (Vienna University of Technology, AT)

Programme Committee (as currently agreed, additional invitations are still pending):

Galia Angelova, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences

Pavel Braslavski, Yandex

Paul Buitelaar, DERI, National University of Ireland

Pablo Castells, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid

Ivan Chorbev, Sts. Cyril and Methodius University

Bruce Croft, UMass

Danco Davcev, University Sts Cyril and Methodius

Gideon Dror, Yahoo! Research

Anna Esposito, Seconda Universita di Napoli

Sebastien Ferre, Universite de Rennes 1, IRISA

Wilfried Gansterer, University of Vienna

Gregory Grefenstette, Exalead

Allan Hanbury, Vienna University of Technology

Ivan Koichev, University of Sofia "St. Kliment Ohridski"

Yiannis Kompatsiaris, Centre for Research and Technology Hellas

Udo Kruschwitz, University of Essex

David Lamas, Tallinn University

Christina Lioma, University of Stuttgart

Mihai Lupu, Vienna University of Technology

David Losada, University of Santiago de Compostela

Walid Magdy, Dublin City University

Marie-Francine Moens, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven

Igor Mozetic, Jozef Stefan Institute

Henning Muller, University of Applied Sciences, Western Switzerland

Hidetsugu Nanba, Hiroshima City University

Ragnar Nordlie, Oslo University College

Andreas Nurnberger, Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg

Georgios Paltoglou, University of Wolverhampton

Andreas Rauber, Vienna University of Technology

Patrick Ruch, University Hospital of Geneva

Ian Ruthven, University of Strathclyde

Hannu Toivonen, University of Helsinki

Dolf Trieschnigg, University of Twente

Elaine Toms, Univeristy of Sheffield

Ioannis Tzitzikas, University of Crete and FORTH-ICS

David Vallet, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid

Suzan Verberne, Radboud University Nijmegen

T O P I C S T O B E A D D R E S S E D

We seek papers on novel, unpublished research in one or more topics

mentioned below:

* IR Models

* IR Evaluation

* User Modeling, Personalization and Interactive IR

* Machine Learning, Categorization, and Clustering for IR

* Cross-Language IR

* Visualization of Search Results

* Ontologies

* Reasoning

* Semantic Annotation

* Information Extraction and Summarization

* Named Entity Recognition

* Machine Translation

* Question Answering

* Patent Analytics

* Scientific Paper Search

* Biomedical Information Search

* Enterprise Search

* Web Search

Multi-disciplinary papers combining topics from multiple areas are particularly welcome.

I M P O R T A N T D A T E S

Deadline for paper submission: March 4,2012

Acceptance decision and reviews to authors: April 6, 2012

Deadline for submission of final paper: April 23, 2012

Speaker registration: April 23, 2012

Early registration deadline: April 23, 2012

IRF Conference: July 2 & 3, 2012

For more information, please consult our website http://www.ir-facility.org/irf-conference-2012 or,

contact the organising chairs via email: irfc2012ir-facility.org

IRFC 2012 is organised by the Vienna University of Technology, Information Management and Preservation Group and the MUMIA Cost Action.