ECIR 2012 - European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2012)

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Category ECIR 2012

Deadline: October 02, 2011 | Date: April 01, 2012-April 05, 2012

Venue/Country: Barcelona, Spain

Updated: 2011-07-11 21:44:21 (GMT+9)

Call For Papers - CFP

Authors are invited to submit research papers presenting original, previously unpublished, work on or before 2 October 2011. Submissions must be written in English following the LNCS guidelines and must not exceed 12 pages in long papers including references and figures, or 6 pages in short papers. All papers will be refereed through double-blind peer review. Accepted papers will be published by Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS), Springer Verlag-Germany.

Important dates

Full and short papers submission deadline is 2 October 2011. See the Important dates section, or visit the workshops, tutorials, poster and demos, and Industry Day sections for specific information.

Topics

The Program Chairs invite for the submission of original research papers and posters in all areas of Information Retrieval, including but not limited to:

IR Theory and Formal Models

Searching, browsing, meta-searching, data fusion, filtering and indexing

Text and content classification, categorisation, clustering

Relevance feedback, query expansion

Topic detection and tracking, novelty detection

Content-based filtering, collaborative filtering, Spam filtering

Personalised, collaborative or user-adaptive IR, recommender systems

Adversarial IR

Privacy in IR

Mobile, Geo and Local Search

Web and Social Media IR

Link analysis

Query log analysis

Advertising and ad targeting

Spam detection

Authority, Reputation, Ranking

Blog and online-community search

Social Tagging

User aspects

User modelling, user studies, user interaction in IR systems

Interactive IR, User studies, User models, Task-based IR

Novel user interfaces for IR systems

User interfaces, visualisation and presentation of queries, search results or content

Multimodal aspects

IR system architectures

Distributed and peer to peer IR

Parallel IR

Fusion/Combination

Open, interoperable and flexible

Performance, Scalability, Architectures, Efficiency, Platforms

Compression, performance, optimisation

Content representation and processing

IR for semi-structured documents

IR for semantically annotated collections, semantic search

Meta information and structures, metadata

Query representation, Query reformulation

Text Categorization and clustering

Text data mining

Opinion mining

Cross-language retrieval, Multilingual retrieval

Machine translation for IR

Question answering, Natural language processing for IR, Summarization

Evaluation

Evaluation methosd and metrics

Building test collections and metrics

Experimental design

Crowdsourcing for evaluation

User-oriented and user-centered test and evaluation

Multimedia and cross-media IR

Speech retrieval

Image and video retrieval

Digital music, radio and broadcast retrieval

Applications

Digital libraries

Enterprise Search, Intranet search, Desktop search

Mobile IR

Genomic IR, legal IR, IR for chemical structures, etc.

Medical IR, legal IR, patent search