[Asis-l] Workshop on Evaluation of Personalisation in Information Retrieval: Call for Participation

[Nicholas J Belkin]

*WEPIR 2018: Workshop on Evaluation of Personalisation in Information 
Retrieval*

*Call for Participation*
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. (Workshop date 15 
March).

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, short paper contributions are 
sought in the form of 2 to 4 page papers in the standard ACM conference 
format. Contributions can be in the form of either reports on current 
research efforts in evaluation of personalization, or position papers on 
the issues at hand.

*Participation*:
Participation in WEPIR is open to all those interested in 
personalization of IR and its evaluation. Participants may choose to 
submit papers for presentation at the Workshop. Please register for the 
workshop at the CHIIR website: http://sigir.org/chiir2018/

*Workshop format:*
* Invited talks: focusing on user-centered interactive issues, and on 
evaluation of the algorithmic component of search.
* 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. These can be in the form of reports on current research, 
or position papers.
Submissions should be in ACM Standard SIGCONF format. LaTeX and Word 
templates are available at

(http://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template).

Papers should be submitted in pdf format through the EasyChair system

(https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wepir2018)

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.

*Topics for contributions *include but are not 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

*Important Dates* (Anywhere on Earth Time Zone):
* Midnight Sunday 11th of February : Deadline for paper submission
* Midnight Thursday 22nd of February: Notification to authors
* Midnight Thursday 1st of March: Camera-ready paper due
* Thursday, 15 March, 0900-1700 EDT: WEPIR at CHIIR

Further information is available by emailing the workshop organizers at 
wepir at adaptcentre.ie.

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


-- 
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
http://wp.comminfo.rutgers.edu/belkin/