[Asis-l] CfP: Social Book Search Lab @ CLEF 2016

[Marijn Koolen]

Apologies for cross-posting.

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       CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
       Social Book Search Lab @ CLEF 2016

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

CLEF conference: 5-8 september 2016, Évora, Portugal
CLEF website: 
http://clef2016.clef-initiative.eu/<http://clef2015.clef-initiative.eu/CLEF2015/>

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### OVERVIEW ###

The Social Book Search (SBS) Lab investigates book search and linking in 
online forums. Online book discussions provide challenging realistic 
scenarios for both book search, with complex information needs that go 
well beyond keyword query and objective metadata, and book linking, to 
identify which books are discussed and link these discussions to other 
book information. The goal is to research and develop techniques to 
support users in complex book search tasks.

The Social Book Search Lab consists of three 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 with 
query-by-example, as well as user profiles and real-world relevance 
judgements.

Mining Track <http://social-book-search.humanities.uva.nl/#/mining>: an 
NLP/Text Mining track focussing on detecting and linking book titles in 
online book discussion forums, as well as detecting book search research 
in forum posts for automatic book recommendation.

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 2016 Labs 
<http://clef2016.clef-initiative.eu/index.php?page=Pages/labsRegistration.html>.

### SCHEDULE ###

Interactive Track:
- Data gathering period: 15 February 2016 - 15 April 2016
- Shared data pool distributed: 25 April 2016

Suggestion Track:
- Topics and collection available: 1 February 2016
- Run submission: 20 April 2016
- Evaluation results released: 25 April 2016

Mining Track:
- Training data released: 15 January 2016
- Test data released: 1 April 2016
- Result submission: 5 April 2016
- Evaluation results released: 25 April 2016

CLEF Labs working notes deadline: 25 May 2016
CLEF conference and SBS Lab: 5-8 September 2016
CLEF website: http://clef2016.clef-initiative.eu/

### HOW TO PARTICIPATE ###

Register at CLEF 2016:
http://clef2016.clef-initiative.eu/index.php?page=Pages/labsRegistration.html

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)
Antal van den Bosch (Radboud University Nijmegen)
Antoine Doucet (University of Caen)
Maria Gäde (Humboldt University Berlin)
Preben Hansen (Stockholm University)
Mark Hall (Edge Hill University)
Iris Hendrickx (Radboud University Nijmegen)
Hugo Huurdeman (University of Amsterdam)
Jaap Kamps (University of Amsterdam)
Birger Larsen (Aalborg University Copenhagen)
Vivien Petras (Humboldt University Berlin)
Michael Preminger (Oslo and Akershus University College of Applied Sciences)
Mette Skov (Aalborg University Copenhagen)
Suzan Verberne (Radboud University Nijmegen)
David Walsh (Edge Hill University)

### CONTACT ###

For questions, please contact Marijn Koolen at marijn.koolen at gmail.com.

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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 2096

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

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