From rhill at asis.org Tue Dec 1 11:22:10 2015 From: rhill at asis.org (Richard Hill) Date: Tue, 1 Dec 2015 11:22:10 -0500 Subject: [Sigdl-l] CFP ASIS&T 2016 Annual, Copenhagen, Oct 14-18, 2016 Message-ID: <388-220151221162210840@LEN-dick-2011> 2016 Annual Meeting of the Association for Information Science and Technology Copenhagen, Denmark | Oct. 14-18, 2016 https://www.asist.org/events/annual-meeting/annual-meeting-2016/\ Creating Knowledge, Enhancing Lives through Information & Technology Information science and technology shape, and are shaped by, decisions, practices and policies that impact people, groups, organizations, governments and societies throughout the world. The Annual Meeting (AM) of the Association for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T) is a premier, peer-reviewed international conference that gathers scholars and practitioners from around the globe to share research, innovations, and insights regarding how information and technology mediate the creation and use of knowledge within and across cultures and enhance lives. Paper, poster, panel and workshop submissions that focus on the production, discovery, recording, storage, representation, retrieval, presentation, manipulation, dissemination, use, and evaluation of information and on the tools and techniques associated with these processes are welcome. The conference embraces plurality in methods and theories, and encompasses research and development from a broad spectrum of domains, as encapsulated in ASIS&T?s many special interest groups (SIGs). Important Dates: (all deadlines are midnight, Greenwich Mean Time) Paper Mentoring Service Submission of complete draft papers to the mentor service due: 10 March 2016 Mentors? feedback on drafts: 4 April 2016 Papers Submission of papers due: 17 April 2016 Notification regarding submitted papers: 23 May 2016 Submission of ?revise & re-submit? papers due: 3 June 2016 Notification regarding ?revise & re-submit? papers: 23 June 2016 Camera-ready accepted papers due: 25 July 2016 Panels and Workshops Submission of panels and workshop proposals due: 3 May 2016 Notifications regarding submitted panels and workshops: 15 June 2016 Camera-ready accepted panels and workshop descriptions are due: 25 July 2016 Posters Submission of posters due: 24 June 2016 Notifications regarding submitted posters: 30 July 2016 Camera-ready accepted posters are due: 10 August 2016 Submission site: https://www.conftool.pro/asist2016/ Final versions of accepted workshops and tutorials must be formatted according to guidelines provided at: https://www.asist.org/files/meetings/am16/AM16-Template-proceedings.pdf . Richard Hill Executive Director Association for Information Science and Technology 1320 Fenwick Lane, Suite 510 Silver Spring, MD 20910 FAX: (301) 495-0810 (301) 495-0900 From birger at hum.aau.dk Fri Dec 4 15:32:39 2015 From: birger at hum.aau.dk (Birger Larsen) Date: Fri, 4 Dec 2015 20:32:39 +0000 Subject: [Sigdl-l] CLEF'16: Call for Papers on Information Access, deadlines April 8 (long) April 15 (short) Message-ID: <1FE55AA8C30F694B820C89B197411E7131D9BE07@AD-EXCHMBX4-1.aau.dk> CLEF 2016: Conference and Labs of the Evaluation Forum Information Access Evaluation meets Multilinguality, Multimodality and Interaction 5-8 September 2016, ?vora - Portugal Submission Deadlines: - Friday April 8, 2016 (long papers), - Friday April 15 (short papers) http://clef2016.clef-initiative.eu/ CALL FOR PAPERS The CLEF Conference addresses all aspects of Information Access in any modality and language. The conference is teamed up with a series of workshops presenting the results of lab-based comparative evaluation. CLEF 2016 is the 7th year of the CLEF Conference and the 17th year of the CLEF initiative as a forum for IR Evaluation. The CLEF conference has a clear focus on experimental IR as done at the evaluation forums (CLEF Labs, TREC, NTCIR, FIRE, MediaEval, RomIP, SemEval, TAC, ...) with special attention to the challenges of multimodality, multilinguality, and interactive search. We invite submissions on significant new insights demonstrated on the resulting IR test collections, on analysis of IR test collections and evaluation measures, as well as on concrete proposals to push the boundaries of the Cranfield/TREC/CLEF paradigm. All submissions to the CLEF main conference will be reviewed on the basis of relevance, originality, importance, and clarity. CLEF welcomes papers that describe rigorous hypothesis testing regardless of whether the results are positive or negative. Methods are expected to be written so that they are reproducible by others, and the logic of the research design is clearly described in the paper. The conference proceedings will be published in the Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS). TOPICS Relevant topics for the CLEF 2016 Conference include but are not limited to: - Information Access in any language or modality: Information retrieval, image retrieval, question answering, search interfaces and design, infrastructures, etc. - Analytics for Information Retrieval: theoretical and practical results in the analytics field that are specifically targeted for information access data analysis. - Evaluation Initiatives: Conclusions, lessons learned, impact and projection of any evaluation initiative after completing their cycle. - Evaluation: methodologies, metrics, statistical and analytical tools, component based, user groups and use cases, ground-truth creation, impact of multilingual/multicultural/multimodal differences, etc. - Technology Transfer: Economic impact/sustainability of information access approaches, deployment and exploitation of systems, use cases, etc. - Interactive Information Retrieval Evaluation: the interactive evaluation of IR systems using user-centered methods, evaluation of novel search interfaces, novel interactive evaluation methods, simulation of interaction, etc. - Specific Application Domains: Information access and its evaluation in application domains such as cultural heritage, digital libraries, social media, expert search, health information, legal documents, patents, news, books, plants, etc. FORMAT Authors are invited to submit electronically original papers, which have not been published and are not under consideration elsewhere, using the LNCS proceedings format: http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-7-72376-0 Two types of papers are solicited: - Long papers: 12 pages max. Aimed to report complete research works. - Short papers: 6 pages max. Position papers, new evaluation proposals, developments and applications, etc. Papers will be peer-reviewed by at least 3 members of the program committee. Selection will be based on originality, clarity, and technical quality. Papers should be submitted in PDF format to the following address: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=clef2016 DATES - Submission of Long Papers: April 8, 2016 - Submission of Short Papers: April 15, 2016 - Notification of Acceptance: May 15, 2016 - Camera Ready Copy due: June 17, 2016 - Conference: September 5-8, 2016 ORGANIZATION Conference Chairs - Norbert Fuhr, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany - Paulo Quaresma, University of ?vora, Portugal Program Chairs - Birger Larsen, University of Aalborg, Denmark - Teresa Gon?alves, University of ?vora, Portugal Lab Chairs - Craig Macdonald, University of Glasgow, UK - Krisztian Balog, Uinversity of Stavenger, Norway Proceedings Chairs - Linda Cappellato, University of Padua, Italy - Nicola Ferro, University of Padua, Italy -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From ferro at dei.unipd.it Mon Dec 7 06:45:26 2015 From: ferro at dei.unipd.it (Nicola Ferro) Date: Mon, 7 Dec 2015 12:45:26 +0100 Subject: [Sigdl-l] Call for Papers: 1st International Workshop on System And User Centered Evaluation Approaches in Interactive Information Retrieval (SAUCE 2016) Message-ID: <68094EF4-2A16-4006-AA45-4759827241F1@dei.unipd.it> ** Apologies for cross-postings ** Call for Papers: 1st International Workshop on System And User Centered Evaluation Approaches in Interactive Information Retrieval (SAUCE 2016) co-located with 1st ACM SIGIR Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval (CHIIR 2006) 17 March 2016, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA http://sauce2016.dei.unipd.it/ Nowadays, IIR continues to increase in complexity: user tasks and needs are demanding; data and information systems are rapidly evolving and greatly heterogeneous; and the interaction between users and IR systems is much more articulated. For example, consider what Web search is today: highly diversified results are returned from Web pages, news, social media, image and video search, products and more, and all are merged through adaptive strategies driven by current and previous user-systems interactions. As a result, experimental evaluation needs to appropriately model these evolving tasks, needs, data sources and user interactions. An additional challenge pertains to the anticipated outcome of IIR research and application. It is no longer sufficient to focus solely on precision, recall and satisfaction: successful IIR systems must engage, inform, and relate to users, taking into account single session and more long-term use and re-use. To progress current evaluation methodologies and ensure they are able to effectively support the development of next generation IIR systems, one of the most compelling prospects is to bridge system-oriented and user-oriented evaluation methods. Both methodological approaches have their advantages and drawbacks: while system-centered methods ensure greater internal validity, they may fail to take into account user and contextual factors that influence IIR; user-oriented methods may better approximate actual user behavior, affect and cognition, but provide less experimental control of independent variables. The goal of this workshop is to unite system- and user-centered IIR researchers for the purposes of: ? Sharing different user-centered and system-centred research methods, measures, and tools in order to foster knowledge exchange; ? Exploring the addition of user-centered evaluation strategies to system-oriented studies, and vice versa; and ? Initiating collaborations between user- and system-oriented researchers to further IIR research. Important Dates Submission deadline: January 8, 2016 Notification of acceptance: January 22, 2016 Camera ready: February 12, 2016 Workshop day: March 17, 2016 Conference days: March 13-17, 2016 Call for Position Papers General areas of interests include, but are not limited to, the following topics: ? User-centred approaches that incorporate elements of system-centred evaluation ? System-centred approaches that incorporate elements of user-centred evaluation ? Phenomenon of interest or problems in interactive information retrieval that could be best approached using a combination of user- and system-centred evaluation ? Descriptions of research or system design that are incorporate system- and user-centred methods ? Correlation between system-centred and user-centred evaluation ? Prediction of user behaviour, satisfaction, engagement, ... from system-centred evaluation Papers should be formatted according to the ACM SIG Proceedings Template. Papers should be two-four pages (maximum) in length. Papers will be peer-reviewed by members of the program committee through double-blind peer review, i.e. authors must be anonymized. Selection will be based on originality, clarity, and technical quality. Papers should be submitted in PDF format to the following address: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sauce2016 Accepted papers will be published online as a volume of the CEUR-WS proceeding series. Organizers Heather L. O'Brien, University of British Columbia, Canada, h.obrien at ubc.ca Nicola Ferro, University of Padua, Italy ferro at dei.unipd.it Hideo Joho, University of Tsukuba, Japan hideo at slis.tsukuba.ac.jp Dirk Lewandowski, Hamburg University of Applied Sciences, Germany dirk.lewandowski at haw-hamburg.de Paul Thomas, CSIRO, Australia, paul.thomas at csiro.au Keith van Rijsbergen, University of Glasgow, UK, cornelis.vanrijsbergen at glasgow.ac.uk From RVanDuinen at clir.org Thu Dec 10 13:21:30 2015 From: RVanDuinen at clir.org (Rita Van Duinen) Date: Thu, 10 Dec 2015 18:21:30 +0000 Subject: [Sigdl-l] Apply Now: CLIR/DLF Data Curation Postdoctoral Fellowships Message-ID: CLIR/DLF is currently seeking applicants for two-year fellowships (2016-2018) for recent PhDs in any science or social science disciplines interested in working in data curation, software curation. Fellowships provide professional development, education, and training opportunities in data curation, software curation for the sciences and social sciences. Through these fellowships, CLIR/DLF seeks to raise awareness and build capacity for sound data management practice throughout the academy. Deadline: December 30, 2015. For host institutions and positions descriptions:http://www.clir.org/fellowships/postdoc/applicants/dc-science Rita Van Duinen Curriculum and Research Strategist Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) www.clir.org rvanduinen at clir.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From brad.eden at valpo.edu Tue Dec 15 09:04:50 2015 From: brad.eden at valpo.edu (Brad Eden) Date: Tue, 15 Dec 2015 08:04:50 -0600 Subject: [Sigdl-l] Call for articles: Digital Library Perspectives (DLP) Message-ID: Please excuse duplication. Please forward to interested colleagues and other listservs. *Digital Library Perspectives* (*DLP*)(formerly known as *OCLC Systems & Services: International Digital Library Perspectives*) is looking for articles related to its new aims and scope (below). The editor is looking for articles on all aspects of topics indicated below.. Articles can be of any length, and figures and screen shots are encouraged. *DLP* is a peer-reviewed journal. Inquiries can be sent directly to the editor's email listed below (please do not reply to the list). Articles for review can be submitted directly to the Emerald ScholarOne system at http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/dlp. Bradford Lee Eden, Ph.D. Editor, *Digital Library Perspectives* Dean of Library Services Christopher Center for Library and Information Resources Valparaiso University Valparaiso, Indiana 46383 brad.eden at valpo.edu 219-464-5099 ___________________________________________________ *Digital Library Perspectives (DLP)* Journal history Previously published as *OCLC Systems & Services: International Digital Library Perspectives* *Aims & Scope* *Digital Library Perspectives (DLP) *is a peer-reviewed journal concerned with digital content collections. It publishes research related to the curation and web-based delivery of digital objects collected for the advancement of scholarship, teaching and learning. And which advance the digital information environment as it relates to global knowledge, communication and world memory. The journal aims to keep readers informed about current trends, initiatives, and developments. Including those in digital libraries and digital repositories, along with their standards and technologies. The editor invites contributions on the following, as well as other related topics: - ? Digitization - ? Data as information - ? Archives and manuscripts - ? Digital preservation and digital archiving - ? Digital cultural memory initiatives - ? Usability studies - ? K-12 and higher education uses of digital collections -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From ferro at dei.unipd.it Wed Dec 23 12:23:56 2015 From: ferro at dei.unipd.it (Nicola Ferro) Date: Wed, 23 Dec 2015 18:23:56 +0100 Subject: [Sigdl-l] Call for Papers: 1st International Workshop on System And User Centered Evaluation Approaches in Interactive Information Retrieval (SAUCE 2016) Message-ID: <6E08D419-C032-4F9C-8691-8AF55A7DEBB8@dei.unipd.it> ** Apologies for cross-postings ** Call for Papers: 1st International Workshop on System And User Centered Evaluation Approaches in Interactive Information Retrieval (SAUCE 2016) co-located with 1st ACM SIGIR Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval (CHIIR 2006) 17 March 2016, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA http://sauce2016.dei.unipd.it/ Nowadays, IIR continues to increase in complexity: user tasks and needs are demanding; data and information systems are rapidly evolving and greatly heterogeneous; and the interaction between users and IR systems is much more articulated. For example, consider what Web search is today: highly diversified results are returned from Web pages, news, social media, image and video search, products and more, and all are merged through adaptive strategies driven by current and previous user-systems interactions. As a result, experimental evaluation needs to appropriately model these evolving tasks, needs, data sources and user interactions. An additional challenge pertains to the anticipated outcome of IIR research and application. It is no longer sufficient to focus solely on precision, recall and satisfaction: successful IIR systems must engage, inform, and relate to users, taking into account single session and more long-term use and re-use. To progress current evaluation methodologies and ensure they are able to effectively support the development of next generation IIR systems, one of the most compelling prospects is to bridge system-oriented and user-oriented evaluation methods. Both methodological approaches have their advantages and drawbacks: while system-centered methods ensure greater internal validity, they may fail to take into account user and contextual factors that influence IIR; user-oriented methods may better approximate actual user behavior, affect and cognition, but provide less experimental control of independent variables. The goal of this workshop is to unite system- and user-centered IIR researchers for the purposes of: ? Sharing different user-centered and system-centred research methods, measures, and tools in order to foster knowledge exchange; ? Exploring the addition of user-centered evaluation strategies to system-oriented studies, and vice versa; and ? Initiating collaborations between user- and system-oriented researchers to further IIR research. Important Dates Submission deadline: January 8, 2016 Notification of acceptance: January 22, 2016 Camera ready: February 12, 2016 Workshop day: March 17, 2016 Conference days: March 13-17, 2016 Call for Position Papers General areas of interests include, but are not limited to, the following topics: ? User-centred approaches that incorporate elements of system-centred evaluation ? System-centred approaches that incorporate elements of user-centred evaluation ? Phenomenon of interest or problems in interactive information retrieval that could be best approached using a combination of user- and system-centred evaluation ? Descriptions of research or system design that are incorporate system- and user-centred methods ? Correlation between system-centred and user-centred evaluation ? Prediction of user behaviour, satisfaction, engagement, ... from system-centred evaluation Papers should be formatted according to the ACM SIG Proceedings Template. Papers should be two-four pages (maximum) in length. Papers will be peer-reviewed by members of the program committee through double-blind peer review, i.e. authors must be anonymized. Selection will be based on originality, clarity, and technical quality. Papers should be submitted in PDF format to the following address: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sauce2016 Accepted papers will be published online as a volume of the CEUR-WS proceeding series. Organizers Heather L. O'Brien, University of British Columbia, Canada, h.obrien at ubc.ca Nicola Ferro, University of Padua, Italy ferro at dei.unipd.it Hideo Joho, University of Tsukuba, Japan hideo at slis.tsukuba.ac.jp Dirk Lewandowski, Hamburg University of Applied Sciences, Germany dirk.lewandowski at haw-hamburg.de Paul Thomas, CSIRO, Australia, paul.thomas at csiro.au Keith van Rijsbergen, University of Glasgow, UK, cornelis.vanrijsbergen at glasgow.ac.uk From ferro at dei.unipd.it Tue Dec 29 04:59:49 2015 From: ferro at dei.unipd.it (Nicola Ferro) Date: Tue, 29 Dec 2015 10:59:49 +0100 Subject: [Sigdl-l] Call for Bids to Host CLEF 2018 Message-ID: <7B524547-E4F1-44FE-9682-6E4362F64C69@dei.unipd.it> INTRODUCTION The CLEF Initiative (Conference and Labs of the Evaluation Forum) is a self-organized body whose main mission is to promote research, innovation, and development of information access systems with an emphasis on multilingual and multimodal information with various levels of structure. The CLEF Initiative is structured in two main parts: - a series of Evaluation Labs, i.e. laboratories to conduct evaluation of information access systems and workshops to discuss and pilot innovative evaluation activities; - a peer-reviewed Conference on a broad range of issues, including - investigation continuing the activities of the Evaluation Labs; - experiments using multilingual and multimodal data; in particular, but not only, data resulting from CLEF activities; - research in evaluation methodologies and challenges. Since 2000 CLEF has played a leading role in stimulating investigation and research in a wide range of key areas in the information retrieval domain. It has promoted the study and implementation of appropriate evaluation methodologies for diverse types of tasks and media. Over the years, a wide, strong, and multidisciplinary research community has been built, which covers and spans the different areas of expertise needed to deal with the breadth of CLEF activities. CALL FOR BIDS The CLEF Steering Committee solicits proposals from groups interested in organizing the CLEF conference and labs in September 2018. Groups submitting a bid for CLEF 2018 also commit themselves to collect membership fees on behalf of the CLEF Association and to pass them to the CLEF Association. Guidelines on submitting a bid can be found in the Template for Bids available at: http://www.clef-initiative.eu/documents/71612/87713/CLEF-Initiative-Template_for_bids.docx Bids must be submitted by *Tuesday, May 31st 2016* by email to the Steering Commitee Chair Nicola Ferro (chair at clef-initiative.eu ). The Steering Committee will review and select the proposals. The Steering Committee can ask for modifications and changes to the proposals, if deemed necessary. Interested parties can contact the Steering Committee Chair Nicola Ferro (chair at clef-initiative.eu ) to receive further details. IMPORTANT DATES - Bid submission deadline: May 31st, 2016 - Feedback to bidders and discussion: June - July 2016 - Bid selection: July 2016 STEERING COMMITTEE - Martin Braschler, Zurich University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland - Khalid Choukri, Evaluations and Language resources Distribution Agency (ELDA), France - Paul Clough, University of Sheffield, United Kingdom - Nicola Ferro, University of Padua, Italy - Julio Gonzalo, National Distance Education University (UNED), Spain - Donna Harman, National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST), USA - Djoerd Hiemstra, University of Twente, The Netherlands - Evangelos Kanoulas, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands - Mihai Lupu, Vienna University of Technology, Austria - Josiane Mothe, IRIT, Universit? de Toulouse, France - Henning M?ller, University of Applied Sciences Western Switzerland (HES-SO), Switzerland - Maarten de Rijke, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands - Paolo Rosso, Universitat Polit?cnica de Val?ncia, Spain - Giuseppe Santucci, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy - Jacques Savoy, University of Neuch?tel, Switzerland - Christa Womser-Hacker, University of Hildesheim, Germany