[Asis-l] CIKM Workshop: Improving Non English Web Searching; October 30, 2008, Napa Valley, California

[Efthimis N. Efthimiadis]

2nd ACM International Workshop
‘Improving Non English Web Searching’ iNEWS’08
held in conjunction with ACM CIKM 2008

http://rea.teimes.gr/lazarinf/iNEWS08/

Fotis Lazarinis, Efthimis Efthimiadis, Jesus Vilares, John Tait

October 30, 2008, Napa Valley, California

*Key dates:
July 15, 2008    Paper submissions due
August 10, 2008    Notifications of acceptance
August 15, 2008    Camera-ready copy due
October 30, 2008  Workshop

*Workshop Theme
The main aims of this workshop are to identify the problems in web searching when working with non-English languages and to propose solutions and tools so as to improve web retrieval systems.

*Aims and Topics
The specific aims of the workshop are to promote better understanding of:
-  the problems of search engines in non-English queries.
-  methodologies for evaluating the effectiveness of search engines in non-English queries.
-  the user query patterns in non-English Web retrieval.
-  the factors that influence utilization of search engines in a multicultural world.
-  the needed improvements to the search engines with respect to non-English Web retrieval.
-  teaching strategies to help users improve their searching behaviour.
-  how standard IR techniques (Indexing, Query representation, Query reformulation, etc) can be adapted in Web retrieval for non-English languages.
-  the application of natural language processing techniques for non-English Web IR.

Workshop areas of interest include, but are not limited to:
-  Localization of search engine interfaces
-  Creation of multi-lingual web collections
-  Cross language and multilingual retrieval
-  Digital libraries
-  Evaluation methodologies
-  Image and video retrieval services
-  Indexing
-  Concept based image retrieval
-  Information extraction
-  Intranet/enterprise search
-  Natural language processing
-  Performance issues of local search engines
-  Query log analysis
-  Question answering
-  Retrieval models
-  Summarization
-  Teaching
-  Text categorization and clustering
-  User behaviour
-  User studies
-  Web information access

*Workshop Format / Papers
The 1-day workshop will begin with a morning keynote speaker; and follow with paper presentations; poster presentations; group break-outs, and groups reporting back to the workshop. This structure is chosen in order to increase the interactivity and to promote the discussion among the participants.

Keynote Speaker(s): TBD

Group-breakouts: Participants will join teams to discuss research challenges and directions on a topic.

Papers: We solicit three types of paper submissions:
(a) Full Papers for presentation (6-8 pages, refereed, published in CIKM proceedings)
(b) short papers or posters (2-4 pages, refereed, published in CIKM proceedings)
(c) one-page position papers (Not refereed, published in print workshop proceedings and online)


Please visit the workshop site for more details on formatting and submission of papers:
http://rea.teimes.gr/lazarinf/iNEWS08/

*Contact details of the workshop organizers
Fotis Lazarinis, lazarinf [at] teimes [dot] gr
Efthimis N. Efthimiadis, efthimis [at] u [dot] washington [dot] edu
Jesus Vilares, jvilares [at] udc [dot] es
John Tait, john.tait [at] ir-facility [dot] org