[Asis-l] SIGIR 2012 Call for Tutorials

[Bill Hersh]

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SIGIR 2012, Portland, OR, USA, August 12-16, 2012
http://www.sigir.org/sigir2012/

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CALL FOR TUTORIALS

SIGIR 2012 will begin with a full day of tutorials on August 12, 2012.

Proposals are solicited for tutorials of either a half-day (3 hours plus breaks) or full day (6 hours plus breaks) on all topics of information retrieval and its applications. Each tutorial should cover a single topic in detail. For example, tutorials may cover an information retrieval topic in depth, introduce an emerging application for retrieval technologies, or update the information retrieval community on recent advances in related fields.

Submissions should include a cover sheet and an extended abstract. The cover sheet should specify: (1) the title and length of the tutorial; (2) the intended audience (introductory, intermediate,
advanced) and prerequisite knowledge or skills required, if any; (3) complete contact information for the contact person and other presenters; and (4) a brief biography (max. 2 paragraphs) for each presenter. The extended abstract should be 3 to 4 pages, and should include an outline of the tutorial, along with descriptions of the course objectives, its relevance to the information retrieval community, and course materials.

Tutorial proposals in PDF format must be sent via email by March 5, 2012 to the Tutorial Chair, Henning Müller henning.mueller at hevs.ch. The submissions will undergo peer review and tutorials to be presented will be selected by the SIGIR Tutorial Committee. Notifications will be send out by 30 April, 2012.

Important Dates:
5 March 2012 : Tutorial proposals due
30 April 2012 : Acceptance notifications
12-16 August 2012 : Conference in Portland, OR, USA

Tutorial Chair :
Henning Müller, University of Applied Sciences Western Switzerland (HES-SO), Sierre, Switzerland This call for tutorials is also available at: 
http://www.sigir.org/sigir2012/callfortutorials.php