[Asis-l] CFP for ICTIR 2013

[Oren Kurland]

ICTIR 2013, second call for papers

The 4th  International Conference on  the Theory  of Information
Retrieval (ICTIR  2013)

29 September - 2 October, 2013, Copenhagen, Denmark

The  International Conference on  the Theory  of Information
Retrieval (ICTIR) aims to provide a forum for discussion and
interaction  among those  with  theoretical and  applicative
research   interests  in   mathematical/formal   aspects  of
Information   Retrieval   (IR),   including,  for   example,
foundational issues,  description or integration  of models,
retrieval   applications,   mathematical/formal  techniques,
existing and/or new theories and theoretical aspects.

The  fourth  ICTIR  conference  aims to  continue in  the same
spirit,  promoting research  in  the wider  contexts of  IR.
Accordingly,  in  addition  to  the established  fields  and
approaches in  IR, research  papers  on  new approaches (e.g.,
those inspired by other disciplines) are sought.  Papers that
demonstrate  a high  level  of research  adventure or  which
break out of the traditional IR  paradigms are particularly
welcome. Experimental and/or practical results, or any other
means (including  theoretical) that  give   support  for
innovative hypotheses are  of interest. Indicative topics of
interest are:

METHODS/PARADIGMS
Vector-Space-based Models
Probabilistic Models
Logic-based Models
Information-Theoretic Models
Relevance-Feedback-Based Approaches
Machine Learning Methods (e.g., learning to rank)
Quantum Theory-inspired Methods
Natural Language Processing
Semantics-based Methods
Architectures, Algorithms and Complexity

TASKS
Retrieval (e.g., ad hoc, Web, enterprise , desktop, mobile,
           expert, cross-lingual, blog, legal, biomedical,
           book, federated, vertical, etc.)
Interactive Search
Forming Test Collections and Devising Evaluation Metrics
Bibliometrics and Citation Analysis
Experimentation
Recommendation
Search in Digital Libraries
Search in the Semantic Web
Classification, Categorization, and Clustering
Topic Modeling
Filtering (collaboratve, content-based, etc.)
Summarization
Data Mining
Evaluation methodologies, test collections, metrics

MEDIA
Text
Images
Video
Music, Speech and Sound
Human Gestures (e.g. eye movement)
Unstructured, Semi-Structured, and Structured DataWeb IR

USERS
User Modelling
Personal Interest Identification
Query Intent Identification
Contextual Search Issues
Social Networks and Media Tagging
Evaluation using User Studies
Human-Computer Interaction Issues


IMPORTANT DATES
April 22, 2013: Papers submissions
April 29, 2013: Posters submissions
June  7, 2013: Notification of acceptance for papers and posters
June 28, 2013: Final papers and posters are due


All accepted papers and posters will be published by ACM in the 
Proceedings of ICTIR 2013.


GENERAL CHAIRS
Peter Ingwersen Royal School of Library and Information
                 Science, Copenhagen, Denmark
Birger Larsen   Royal School of Library and Information
                 Science, Copenhagen, Denmark
Christina Lioma University of Copenhagen, Denmark


PC CHAIRS
Oren Kurland, Technion --- Israel Institute of Technology
Donald Metzler, Google



SUBMISSION GUIDELINES FOR PAPERS AND POSTERS


General Guidelines
Authors are invited to submit research papers up to 8 pages, or posters of
up to 2 pages, representing original and previously unpublished work.

Submissions must be written in English, and should be in the ACM Conference
style (for LaTeX, use the "Option 2" style). This is also the style that
will be required for final papers. Papers must be submitted as PDF files.

Papers submitted to ICTIR must be original. Submissions that have been
previously published, or are highly similar to previously published works,
and papers that have been concurrently submitted to other venues are
strictly prohibited.

Submissions will go through a double-blind review process. Therefore,
please anonymize your submission. This means that submissions should not
contain any information identifying the author(s) or their organization(s):
do not put the author(s) names or affiliation(s) at the start of the paper,
anonymize citations to and mentions of own prior work in the paper, and do
not include funding or other acknowledgments in papers submitted for
review.

Papers that do not follow the guidelines specified here will be rejected
without review.

All accepted papers and posters will be published by ACM in the Proceedings
of ICTIR'13.

Papers should be submitted through the EasyChair conference web site at
https://www.easychair.org/**conferences/?conf=ictir2013<https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ictir2013>.



Experimental Evaluation Policy

Experimental evaluation plays an important role in information retrieval.
For this reason, it is important for papers to include experimental
evaluations, when appropriate.

Given the theoretical nature of ICTIR, there will be certain types of
papers for which such evaluations do not make sense (e.g., papers focused on
proofs, derivations, mathematical analyses, etc.). However, papers that
propose new models or algorithms that can be empirically tested should
include an experimental evaluation.

For such papers, the goal of the evaluation is not to necessarily improve
upon the state-of-the-art, but rather to provide an empirical comparison
against existing techniques that will demonstrate the pros and cons of
applying the new model or algorithm in practice.

Reviewers will be explicitly instructed that negative results are
acceptable, as long as: 1) the theoretical contribution is strong, and 2)
the experimental evaluation is carried out in a meaningful (i.e.,
scientifically valid and reproducible) manner. The PC Chairs will ensure
that this policy is consistently and fairly enforced.