[Asis-l] SIGIR 2006 -- Call for Papers

[Efthimis Efthimiadis]

SIGIR 2006
Call for Papers 

29th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference in 
Research and Development in Information Retrieval
August 6-11, 2006 Seattle, Washington, USA
www.sigir2006.org

Organized by the Information School of the University of Washington and ACM.

SIGIR is the major international forum for the presentation of new research results and for the demonstration of new systems and techniques in the broad field of information retrieval (IR). The Conference and Program Chairs invite all those working in areas related to IR to submit original research contributions, posters, and proposals for tutorials, workshops, and demonstrations of systems. 

AREAS

SIGIR 2006 welcomes contributions related to any aspect of IR, but the major areas of interest are listed below. For each general area, two or more area coordinators will guide the reviewing process. 
* Information Retrieval Theory and Models: User/Task-based IR theory; Formal models (Logical, Probabilistic, Vector space, Structural, Network-based, Language models etc.), Fusion/Combination. Area coordinators: Bruce Croft, University of Massachusetts, USA; Peter Bruza, DSTC, Australia.

* IR Performance and Platforms: Performance, Compression, Scalability, Architectures, Mobile applications. Area coordinators: Ricardo Baeza-Yates, University of Chile; Charlie Clarke, University of Waterloo, Canada.

* Document and Query Representation: Text content representation (Indexing), Structure-based representation, XML, Metadata, Request representation, Queries, Summarization, Natural language processing for representation.  Area coordinators: Yoelle Maarek, IBM, Israel; Arjen de Vries, CWI, Netherlands.

* IR Evaluation: Test collections, Evaluation methods and metrics, Experimental design, Data collection and analysis methods.  Area coordinators: Noriko Kando, National Institute of Informatics, Japan; Ellen Voorhees, National Institute of Standards and Technology, USA.

* User-oriented IR: Interactive IR, User interfaces and visualization, User studies, User models, Task-based IR.  Area coordinators: Ian Ruthven, University of Strathclyde, UK; Pia Borlund, Royal School of Library & Information Science, DK.

* Web IR and Digital Libraries: Web IR, Intranet/enterprise search, Citation and link analysis, Adversarial IR, Digital libraries, Distributed IR. Area coordinators: Andrei Broder, IBM, USA; Krishna Bharat, Google, USA; Ed Fox, Virginia Tech, USA.

* Cross-language Retrieval: Cross-language retrieval, Multilingual retrieval, Retrieval in languages other than English, Machine translation for IR.  Area coordinators: Jacques Savoy, University of Neuchatel, Switzerland; Hsin-hsi Chen, National Taiwan University.

* Multi-media Retrieval: Video and image retrieval, Audio and speech retrieval, Music retrieval.  Area coordinators:  Stefan Rüger, Imperial College, UK; Wei-Ying Ma, Microsoft Research, China.

* Document Tracking and Filtering: Topic detection and tracking, Content-based filtering, Collaborative filtering, Agents, Routing, Email spam. Area coordinators: James Allan, University of Massachusetts, USA;  John Reidl, University of Minnesota, USA.

* Question Answering and Extraction: Question answering, Information extraction, Lexical acquisition.  Area coordinators:  Sanda Harabagiu, University of Texas, USA; Jussi Karlgren, SICS, Sweden.

* Text Data Mining and Machine Learning for IR.  Area coordinators: Thorsten Joachims, Cornell University;  ChengXiang Zhai, University of Illinois, USA.

* Text Categorization and Clustering.  Area coordinators: Isabelle Moulinier, Thomson Legal and Regulatory, USA;  Jan Pedersen, Yahoo!, USA. 

* Domain Specific IR Applications: Genomic IR, IR in software engineering, IR for chemical structures.  Area coordinators: Bill Hersh, Oregon Health Sciences University, USA; Gordon Cormack, University of Waterloo, CA.

AREA COORDINATORS AT LARGE
Norbert Fuhr (University of Duisburg, Germany), Jamie Callan (Carnegie-Mellon University, USA) and Mark Sanderson (University of Sheffield, UK) have also agreed to serve in the role of Area Coordinators at Large.  Depending upon numbers of submissions, other eminent members of the field may be invited to assist.

Important Dates

November 14, 2005. 
Mentoring Program deadline  

January 30, 2006.
Full Research Papers due 

February 27, 2006.
Poster, Demonstrations, Tutorial, Workshop, and Doctoral Consortium submissions due

April 10, 2006.
Notification of acceptance for all submissions

On the due dates, submissions will remain open until 17:00 PST. SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

Authors are invited to submit research papers representing original, previously unpublished work, on or before January 30, 2006. Note that papers may not be submitted to other venues concurrently with SIGIR. In spite of this policy, duplicate submissions continue to be a problem. Continuing a policy initiated in 2005, authors of duplicate submissions are not be permitted to submit papers to the SIGIR conference in the following year. Papers must be submitted electronically, via the submission web page, which will be accessible no later than January 6, 2005, via the conference site: http://www.sigir2006.org/. 

Papers must not exceed 8 pages in 9 point font and must be submitted as pdf or ps files. Papers exceeding the limits will be rejected without review. SIGIR review is double blind. This means that submissions must remove identifying information (do not put the author(s) or affiliation(s) on the paper). Submitted papers should be in the ACM Conference style, see http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html, using the "Option 2" style. This is also the style that will be required for final papers. 


Conference Chair 
Efthimis Efthimiadis, University of Washington, USA 

Program Co-Chairs
Susan Dumais, Microsoft Research, Redmond, USA;
David Hawking, CSIRO ICT Centre, Canberra, AU
Kalervo Järvellin, University of Tampere, Finland. 

Posters and Demonstrations Co-Chairs 
David G. Hendry, University of Washington, USA 
Mun-Kew Leong, Inst. for Infocomm Research, SG
Douglas Oard, University of Maryland, USA

Tutorials Chair 
Peter Ingwersen, Royal School of Library & Information Science, DK

Workshops Co-Chairs 
Peter Anick, Yahoo!, USA
Mounia Lalmas, Queen Mary College, UK

Best Papers Chair
Liz Liddy, Syracuse University, USA

Mentoring Chair 
Edie Rasmussen, University of British Columbia, CA

Doctoral Consortium Co-Chairs
Nicholas Belkin, Rutgers University, USA
Wanda Pratt, University of Washington, USA

Treasurer 
William Jones, University of Washington, USA

Local Arrangements Chair 
Michael Crandall, University of Washington, USA

Corporate Sponsors and Exhibits Chairs: 
Michael Crandall, University of Washington, USA
Efthimis Efthimiadis, Univ. of Washington, USA
Tiffany Vajda, University of Washington, USA
            

SIGIR 2006, August 6-11, 2006, Seattle, Washington, USA. 	www.sigir2006.org

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Efthimis N. Efthimiadis <efthimis at u.washington.edu>
Associate Professor    
The Information School, University of Washington       
Suite 370 Mary Gates Hall, Box 352840     
Seattle, WA 98195-2840, USA     
tel.(off.) 206-616-6077, (sch) 206-685-9937, fax. 206-616-3152
http://faculty.washington.edu/efthimis
http://www.sigir2006.org
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