[Asis-l] DEADLINE EXTENSION: Call for Papers: Workshop on Evaluation of Personalisation in Information Retrieval - WEPIR 2018

Sun Feb 11 00:00:52 EST 2018

*WEPIR 2018: Workshop on Evaluation of Personalisation in Information 
Retrieval*
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To be held in conjunction with the *ACM SIGIR Conference on Human 
Information Interaction and Retrieval, **CHIIR 2018*
March 11-15, 2018 in New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA.
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***** Extended Paper Submission Deadline: Midnight FRIDAY16th FEBRUARY ****

*_Call for Papers_*
The purpose of the WEPIR 2018 workshop is to bring together researchers 
from different backgrounds, interested in advancing the evaluation of 
personalisation in information retrieval. The workshop focus is on the 
development of a common understanding of the challenges, requirements 
and practical limitations of meaningful evaluation of personalisation in 
information retrieval. The planned outcome of the workshop is the 
proposal of methodologies to support evaluation of personalised 
information retrieval from both the perspectives of the user experience 
in interactive search settings, and of user models for personalised 
information retrieval and their algorithmic incorporation in the search 
process.

Since the focus of the workshop is primarily on exchange of ideas and 
development of new research activities, only short paper contributions 
will be sought in the form of 2 to 4 page papers in the standard ACM 
conference format.

*Topics* for contributions include but not be limited to:

  * Task design for evaluation of personalised information retrieval
  * Test collections for personalised information retrieval
  * Evaluation metrics for peronsalised information retrieval
  * Protocols for evaluation of interactive personalised information
    retrieval
  * User modeling for personalised information retrieval
  * Search algorithms for personalised information retrievaL
  * Submitted contributions will be selected for inclusion in the
    workshop on the basis of reviews by the programme committee

*Workshop format*
The topic of evaluation of the incorporation of personalisation within 
search applications and algorithms and their impact on user engagement 
and experience of search is currently underexplored within the 
information retrieval community. This is particularly the case from the 
perspective of comparative evaluation of interactive and algorithmic 
elements of personalised search systems, and the representation and 
exploitation of user models. To reflect this, the workshop will focus on 
establishing and exploring the principles working towards the outcome of 
a proposed framework. The workshop will have the following elements:

  * Invited talks: focusing on user-centered interactive issues, and on
    evaluation of the algorithmic component of search.
  * Presentations of papers submitted in response to an open call for
    research and position papers. Papers will be presented as short oral
    and poster format. The number of oral presentations will be limited
    to allow for the maximum of time for interactive activities, with
    other papers being presented as posters.
  * Working groups focusing on relevant topics for the evaluation of
    personalised information retrieval, including experimental
    protocols, test collection development, evaluation metrics.
  * Consolidation session: integration of the activities of the working
    groups, and proposal of agreed framework or frameworks for the
    evaluation of personalised information retrieval

*Paper Submissions*
The workshop is accepting short papers from 2 to 4 pages (including 
references) describing approaches or ideas/challenges on the topics of 
the workshop. Submissions do not need to be anonymized.

Submissions should be in ACM Standard SIGCONF format. LaTeX and Word 
templates are available at (http://www.acm.org/publications 
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Papers should be submitted in pdf format through the EasyChair system 
(https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wepir2018 
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no later than midnight Sunday 11th of February, 2018 (AoE). Submissions 
will be reviewed by members of the workshop program committee. Accepted 
papers will be included in the extended CHIIR 2018 Proceedings and will 
be available via the ACM Digital Library. In addition, the WEPIR 
workshop proceedings will be indexed with CEUR. Authors of select papers 
may be invited to contribute to a journal publication which describes 
the outcomes of the workshop.

*Important Dates*
Anywhere on Earth Time Zone

*Midnight Friday 16th of February : Deadline for paper submission 
(EXTENDED DEADLINE)*

Midnight Thursday 22nd of February: Notification to authors

Midnight Thursday 1st of March: Camera-ready paper due

Midnight Thursday, 15th of March 2018: WEPIR Workshop at CHIIR

Further information is available by emailing the workshop organizers at 
wepir at adaptcentre.ie <mailto:wepir at adaptcentre.ie>

*Workshop Organizers*
Gareth J. F. Jones, ADAPT Centre, Dublin City University, Ireland
Nicholas J. Belkin, Rutgers University, USA
Gabriella Pasi, University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy
Séamus Lawless, ADAPT Centre, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland

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Nicholas J. Belkin
Distinguished Professor of Information Science
Department of Library & Information Science
School of Communication & Information
Rutgers University
4 Huntington Street
New Brunswick, NJ 08901-1071 USA
belkin at rutgers.edu
+1 848-932-7608
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