[Sigcr-l] FWD: Dynamic taxonomies and faceted search: Regensburg (D): Sept '07

[mzeng at kent.edu]

Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2007 12:07:02 +0100
From: Giovanni Maria Sacco <sacco at di.unito.it>
To: seweb-list at lists.deri.org

[apologies for cross-posting]

**** SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS ****

FIND07 -- International Workshop on Dynamic Taxonomies and Faceted 
Search

Regensburg, Germany, September 3-7, 2007 in conjunction with DEXA 2007

Workshop Site: www.di.unito.it/~sacco/find07

Current search paradigms for the web, direct access via search
engines and navigational access via static taxonomies, have recently
been strongly criticized. A third approach, dynamic taxonomies or
faceted search, was proposed exactly 20 years ago and is finally
gaining acceptance to the extent that it is now the de facto standard
in product selection for e-commerce.

Dynamic taxonomies work on multidimensional taxonomies (usually
organized by facets) and provide a single, coherent visual framework
in which users can focus on one or more concepts in the taxonomy, and
immediately see a conceptual summary of their focus, in the form of a
reduced taxonomy derived from the original one by pruning unrelated
concepts. Concepts in the reduced taxonomy can be used to set
additional, dependent foci and users iterate in a guided yet
unconstrained way until they reach a result set sufficiently small
for manual inspection.

The access paradigm supported is a conceptual exploration, far more
frequent in search tasks than the retrieval by exact specification
supported by search engines and database queries. The underlying
model is simple and easily understood by users, offers substantial
benefits over traditional approaches and has an extremely wide
application range and a potential for important extensions.

Following the spirit of the workshop on faceted search at SIGIR
2006, this 1-day workshop will discuss all aspects of dynamic
taxonomies and faceted search, from underlying technology to user
interfaces and commercial use, including demo systems and applications.


**** TOPICS
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to the following
areas:

* Multidimensional/faceted taxonomy design
* Automatic or semiautomatic multidimensional/faceted taxonomy
creation from meta-data, from structured and unstructured documents
or by social tagging
* Extensions of dynamic taxonomies
* Efficient and scalable indexing and retrieval
* User interface issues
* Emerging applications
* Evaluation approaches and metrics


**** IMPORTANT DATES:
Submission of papers: 1 March 2007
Notification of acceptance: 16 April 2007 Camera-ready copies: 15 May
2007


**** SUBMISSION DETAILS:
Authors are invited to submit research contributions, practical
experience reports and demos via the submission system at
www.di.unito.it/~sacco/find07
Submissions must be in pdf and consist of no more than 5 pages in IEEE
double column A4 format (www.computer.org/portal/site/cscps/index.jsp)
Accepted papers will be published by IEEE CS Press.

Chair:
Giovanni Maria Sacco, Universita' di Torino, Italy

Program Committee:
* Holger Bast, Max-Plank Institut fur Informatik, Germany
* Giuseppe Berio, Universita' di Torino, Italy
* Eero Hyvonen, Helsinki University of Technology (TKK), Finland
* Panagiotis Ipeirotis, New York University, USA
* Stefano Levialdi, Universita' di Roma "La Sapienza", Italy
* Saverio Perugini, University of Dayton, USA
* Jan Pieper, IBM Almaden Research Center, USA
* Yannis Tzitzikas, University of Crete, Greece
* Ingmar Weber, Max-Plank Institut fur Informatik, Germany
* Yi Zhang, University of California at Santa Cruz, USA

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