[Asis-l] CfP: Social Book Search Lab @ CLEF 2015, Interactive and Suggestion Tracks

[Marijn Koolen]

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       FIRST CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
       Social Book Search Lab @ CLEF 2015

Please visit the Social Book Search Lab website:
http://social-book-search.humanities.uva.nl/

CLEF conference: 8-11 september 2015, Toulouse, France
CLEF website: 
http://clef2015.clef-initiative.eu/CLEF2015/<http://clef2014.clef-initiative.eu/>

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### OVERVIEW ###

The Social Book Search (SBS) Lab investigates book search in scenarios 
where users search with more than just a query, and look for more than 
objective metadata. Real-world information needs are generally complex, 
yet almost all research focuses instead on either relatively simple 
search based on queries or recommendation based on profiles. The goal is 
to research and develop techniques to support users in complex book 
search tasks.

The Social Book Search Lab consists of two tracks:

Interactive Track 
<http://social-book-search.humanities.uva.nl/#/interactive>: a 
user-oriented interactive task investigating systems that support users 
in each of multiple stages of a complex search tasks. The track offers 
participants a complete experimental interactive IR setup and an 
exciting new multistage search interface to investigate how users move 
through search stages.

Suggestion Track 
<http://social-book-search.humanities.uva.nl/#/suggestion>: a 
system-oriented task to suggest books based on rich search requests 
combining several topical and contextual relevance signals, as well as 
user profiles and real-world relevance judgements.

For more information on the SBS Lab, visit the SBS Lab homepage 
<http://social-book-search.humanities.uva.nl/>. Please also consider 
joining the SBS mailing list 
<https://groups.google.com/forum/#%21forum/social-book-search>. To 
participate in the SBS Lab, please register at the CLEF 2015 Labs 
<http://clef2015.clef-initiative.eu/CLEF2015/labs_registration.php>.

### SCHEDULE ###

Interactive Track:
- Data gathering period: 10 December 2014 - 31 March 2015
- Shared data pool distributed: late April 2015

Suggestion Track:
- Topics and collection available: 1 February 2015
- Run submission: 20 April 2015
- Evaluation results released: 23 April 2015

CLEF Labs working notes deadline: 31 May 2015
CLEF conference and SBS Lab: 8-11 September 2015
CLEF website: http://clef2015.clef-initiative.eu/CLEF2015/

### HOW TO PARTICIPATE ###

Register at CLEF 2015:
http://clef2015.clef-initiative.eu/CLEF2015/labs_registration.php

Amazon/LibraryThing corpus licence agreement:
http://social-book-search.humanities.uva.nl/data/ALT_Nondisclosure_Agreements.html 


For registered participants, the  document collections, topics, user 
profiles and training material are available here:
http://social-book-search.humanities.uva.nl/#/data

### ORGANISERS ###

Marijn Koolen (University of Amsterdam)
Toine Bogers (Aalborg University Copenhagen)
Maria Gäde (Humboldt University Berlin)
Mark Hall (Edge Hill University)
Hugo Huurdeman (University of Amsterdam)
Jaap Kamps (University of Amsterdam)
Michael Preminger (Oslo and Akershus University College of Applied Sciences)
Mette Skov (Aalborg University Copenhagen)
Elaine Toms (University of Sheffield)
David Walsh (Edge Hill University)

### CONTACT ###

For questions, please contact Marijn Koolen at marijn.koolen at uva.nl.

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Marijn Koolen

Assistant professor of Digital Humanities
University of Amsterdam
Institute for Logic, Language & Computation
Department of Media Studies
Turfdraagsterpad 9
Room BG1 1.03
1012 XT Amsterdam
The Netherlands
Tel: 020 525 7256

E-mail: marijn.koolen at uva.nl
Web: http://humanities.uva.nl/~mkoolen1/

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