[Asis-l] CfP: ECIR'13 poster/demo submissions due Oct 22

[Jaap Kamps]

CALL FOR POSTERS/DEMOS
35th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2013)
Moscow, Russia, 24-27 March 2013

http://ecir2013.org/
https://twitter.com/ecir2013
http://www.facebook.com/ecir2013

Important dates (all deadlines assume Hawaii time-zone):

- 22 Oct 2012: posters/demos deadline
- 30 Nov 2012: notification of acceptance

Confirmed Conference/Industry Day Keynote Speakers:

- Mor Naaman (Rutgers, Social Media Information Lab)
- Karen Sparck Jones Award winner (announced on Jan 31)
- Paul Ogilvie (LinkedIn)
- Hilary Mason (bitly)
- Antonio Gulli (Bing Europe)
- Andrey Kalinin (Mail.Ru)
- Marc Najork (Microsoft Research)

Call for Posters/Demos

The conference encourages the submission of short papers (presented as 
poster or demo) reporting original and innovative research in 
Information Retrieval.  Posters should present work in progress or 
leading-edge work.  Demo papers should describe first-hand experiences 
with research prototype systems.

ECIR has traditionally had a strong student focus, and papers whose sole 
or main author is a postgraduate student or postdoctoral researcher are 
especially welcome.  Papers that demonstrate a high level of research 
adventure or which break out of the traditional IR paradigms are also 
particularly welcome.

Posters and Demos are published as short papers not exceeding 4 pages, 
and will be presented at a special posters and demonstrations session. 
All submissions will be refereed. Posters will undergo double-blind peer 
review, so authors should take reasonable care not identify themselves 
in their submissions.  Demo submissions are not required to be anonymous 
and should preferably contain a link to an online demo.

All submissions must be written in English following the LNCS author 
guidelines and submitted in PDF format electronically through the 
conference submission system at http://www.conftool.pro/ecir2013/.

Topics

The Program Chairs invite for the submission of original posters and 
demos 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 Categorisation 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 methods and metrics
    - Building test collections and metrics
    - Experimental design
    - Crowdsourcing for evaluation
    - User-oriented and user-centred 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, IR for chemical structures, etc.
    - Medical IR, legal IR, patent search

Program Committee co-chairs:
   - Jaap Kamps (University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands)
   - Stefan Rüger (The Open University, UK)

Posters Chair:
   - Eugene Agichtein (Emory University, USA)

Demonstrations Chair:
   - Emine Yilmaz (Microsoft Research Cambridge, UK)