[Asis-l] ECIR 2008 cfp - 3 weeks to submission deadline for research papers

[Ian Ruthven]

*apologies for cross-posting*

ECIR 2008 Call for full papers, posters, workshop and tutorial proposals

[Note: submission date is earlier than previous ECIR conferences!]

ECIR 2008
30th European Conference on Information Retrieval, Glasgow, UK.
30th March – 3rd April, 2008.
http://ecir2008.dcs.gla.ac.uk/

The Annual European Conference on Information Retrieval is the main 
European forum for the presentation of new research results in the field 
of Information Retrieval. ECIR 2008 is the 30th anniversary of this 
conference series and will take place in Glasgow, Scotland.

We are also pleased to announce three keynote speakers who will present 
at the conference:
Professor Nick Belkin, Rutgers University
Dr Amit Singhal, Google
Professor Bettina Berendt, KU Leuven

CALL FOR PAPERS
We encourage the submission of high-quality research papers reporting 
original and innovative research within Information Retrieval. The 
conference intends to cover all aspects of accessing digital information 
with or without explicitly specified semantics. Papers solely or mainly 
authored by a student are especially welcome. Submissions will be 
reviewed by experts on the basis of the originality of the work, the 
validity of the results, chosen methodology, writing quality and the 
overall contribution to the field of Information Retrieval.

Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):
• Theory and Models for Information Retrieval.
• Efficiency and Performance of IR. Platforms, Architectures. 
Applications of IR.
• Evaluation and Test collections.
• Indexing. Query representation, Query reformulation, Structure-based 
representation, XML, Metadata. Summarization. Natural language 
processing for IR.
• Tracking, Filtering, Topic detection, Collaborative filtering, Agents, 
Routing and Email spam.
• Categorization and clustering.
• User studies and interfaces. Interactive IR. Task-based IR.
• Web IR, Distributed IR, Digital libraries. Intranet, Desktop, 
Enterprise and Blog Search. Adversarial IR.
• Question answering and information extraction. Text Data Mining and 
Machine Learning for IR.
• Multimedia IR.
• Cross-language and multilingual Information Retrieval.

All papers will be refereed through blind peer review. Authors are 
invited to submit research papers representing original, previously 
unpublished work, on or before 1st October, 2007 (Midnight GMT), 
following the paper submission guidelines available on the conference 
homepage (12 pages LNCS format including references and figures). All 
accepted papers will be published in Springer-Verlag's LNCS series and 
distributed to all delegates at the Conference.

The proceedings will appear as a special commerative edition of LNCS to 
celebrate the 30th anniversary of the ECIR conference series. It is also 
planned that some selected outstanding papers from the conference will 
be invited to contribute to an edited volume of papers marking this 
significant milestone.


CALL FOR POSTERS
Poster submissions addressing any of the areas identified in the 
conference topics are also invited. Poster authors are encouraged to 
demonstrate work in progress and late-breaking research results. Poster 
abstracts (maximum 5 pages) will also be included in the proceedings.

CALL FOR WORKSHOP AND TUTORIAL PROPOSALS
Submissions are solicited for workshops and tutorials on all topics of 
Information Retrieval and its applications. Especially encouraged are 
workshops that facilitate interaction and collaboration among 
participants, while opening new directions for future research, as well 
as tutorials that inform the Information Retrieval community on recent 
advancements in related fields, or on novel application areas related to 
Information Retrieval.

Submissions describing proposed workshops and tutorials should be up to 
1,000 words. They should state the title and the goals of the proposed 
workshop or tutorial, as well as the full contact details of the 
organizers and presenters, including a one-paragraph biography with past 
experience in organizing relevant events.

An award will be presented to the author of the Best Paper, Best Student 
Paper, and Best Poster presented at the conference.

IMPORTANT DATES
Paper Submission: 1st October 2007
Poster Submission: 15th October 2007
Workshop/Tutorial Submission: 15th October 2007
Notifications: 11th December 2007

CONTACTS
If you have any queries regarding a submission, please contact any of 
the organising chairs:

Ian Ruthven (full papers)
email: ir at cis.strath.ac.uk

Ryen White (posters)
Email: ryenw at microsoft.com

Vassilis Plachouras (tutorials and workshops)
email: vassilis at yahoo-inc.com


-- 
Ian Ruthven
Department of Computer and Information Sciences
University of Strathclyde
Glasgow G1 1XH
Email: Ian.Ruthven at cis.strath.ac.uk
Tel: +44 141 548 3098
Fax: +44 141 548 4523
http://www.cis.strath.ac.uk/~ir