[Sigiii-l] ECIR 2017 - CFP: Deadline Extended for Short Paper & Demo Tracks

Fri Oct 21 07:44:41 EDT 2016

*DEADLINE EXTENSION - Short papers and demonstrations now due on 30th
October 2016*

The 39th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2017) (
http://www.ecir2017.org/) will take place in Aberdeen, Scotland from 8 - 13
April 2017. ECIR is the main European forum for the presentation of new
research results in the field of Information Retrieval (IR).

ECIR 2017 encourages the submission of high quality research papers
reporting original and previously unpublished results. With the rapidly
increasing amount of data produced at present, and the increasing adoption
of IR techniques beyond the traditional search for documents, papers on IR
applied to real-life information problems (e.g., eScience, the Internet of
Things, User behaviours and analyses etc.) are particularly encouraged.

ECIR has a strong student focus, hence papers whose sole or main author is
a postgraduate student or a postdoctoral researcher are especially welcome.
Through the Doctoral Consortium, PhD students can introduce their current
work and receive advice and feedback from members of the IR Community.

*Short Papers*

We are seeking the submission of high-quality and original short papers.
Short Paper submissions addressing any of the areas identified in the
conference topics are welcome. Authors are encouraged to describe work in
progress and late-breaking research.

*Demonstrations*

Demonstrations present research prototypes or operational systems. They
provide opportunities to exchange ideas gained from implementing IR systems
and to obtain feedback from expert users. Demonstration submissions are
welcome in any of the areas related to aspects of Information Retrieval
(IR), as identified in the Topics of Interest listed below. The
demonstration submission should address clear research questions like: What
problem does my system solve? Who is my target user? Demonstrations that
make their source code freely available are especially encouraged. We ask
all authors to either provide a URL to a live online version of their demo
or, alternatively, provide a URL to a video showcasing the main features of
their demo.

*Paper Submission Guidelines*

All submissions must be written in English following the ECIR guidelines (
http://irsg.bcs.org/proceedings/ECIR_Draft_Guidelines.pdf) and the LNCS
author guidelines (http://www.springer.com/compu
ter/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0) and submitted electronically through the
conference submission system. Full papers/ reproducible IR track papers
must not exceed 12 pages, short papers must not exceed 6 pages, and
demonstration papers must not exceed 4 pages, including references and
figures. Full, short and reproducible IR track paper submissions will be
refereed through double-blind peer review. Demonstration papers will
undergo single-blind review. Accepted full papers, short papers, demos and
reproducible IR track papers will be published in the conference
proceedings published in the Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science
series. The proceedings will be distributed to all delegates at the
Conference. Accepted full papers, short papers, demos and reproducible IR
track papers will have to be presented at the conference. Short papers and
reproducible IR track papers will either be presented as a poster or as an
oral presentation.

*Important Dates*

· Full papers: 15 October 2016 (submission closed.)

· Short papers/Demos: *30 October 2016*

· Doctoral Consortium papers - 1st November 2016

· Notification of acceptance for workshops/tutorials: 17 October 2016

· Notification of acceptance for papers/posters/demos: 2 December 2016

· Notification of Doctoral Consortium papers: 16 December 2016

· Full papers/posters/demos camera ready: 16 January 2017

· Author registration end: 16 January 2017

· Early registration end: 18 February 2017

AoE deadline “means that the deadline has not passed if, anywhere on earth,
the deadline date has not yet passed” [http://www.ieee802.org/16/aoe.html]

*Topics* *of Interest*

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

*IR Theory and Practice*

· Searching, browsing, meta-searching

· Data fusion, filtering and indexing

· Language models, probabilistic IR, neural network based models

· Learning to rank

· Content classification, categorisation, clustering

· Relevance feedback, query expansion, faceted retrieval

· Topic detection and tracking, novelty detection

· Recommender systems

· Content-based filtering, collaborative filtering

· Spam detection and filtering

· Personalised, collaborative or user-adaptive IR

· Adversarial IR

· Privacy in IR

· Contextual IR

· Mobile, Geo and local search

· Temporal IR, time-based modelling

· Entity IR

*Deep Learning and IR*

· Neural Networks and IR

· Word embedding and IR

· Semantics and IR

· Topic Modelling and IR

*Web and Social Media IR*

· Link analysis

· Query log analysis

· Advertising and ad targeting

· Spam detection

· Trust, authority, reputation, ranking

· Blog and online-community search, microblogs

· Social search

· Social tagging

· Social networking and Web based communities

· Trend identification and tracking

· Time series and forecasting

*User Aspects*

· User modelling, user studies, user interaction and history

· Interactive IR

· Task-based IR

· Click models

· Novel user interfaces for IR systems

· Visualisation of queries, search results or content

· Multimodal aspects, multimodal querying

*IR System Architectures*

· Distributed and peer to peer IR

· Cloud IR

· Federated IR

· Aggregated Search

· Fusion/Combination

· Open, interoperable and flexible systems

· Performance, scalability, efficiency

· Architectures and platforms

· Crawling and indexing

· Compression, optimisation

· Map/Reduce for IR

*Content Representation and Processing*

· IR for semi-structured documents

· IR for semantically annotated collections, semantic search

· Reasoning for IR

· Meta information and structures, metadata

· Query representation, query reformulation

· Text categorisation and clustering

· Text data mining

· Opinion mining, sentiment analysis, argumentation mining

· Cross-language retrieval, multilingual retrieval

· Machine translation for IR

· Question answering

· Natural language processing

· Summarisation for IR

*Evaluation*

· Evaluation methods and metrics

· Building test collections

· Experimental design

· Crowdsourcing for evaluation, human computing

· User-oriented and user-centred test and evaluation

· Metric comparison and evaluation

· Offline vs online evaluation

*Multimedia and Cross-Media IR*

· Speech retrieval

· Image and video retrieval

· Entity retrieval

· Digital music, radio and broadcast retrieval

· Virtual reality and information access

· Cross-modal processing and search

*Applications*

· Digital libraries

· Enterprise and intranet search

· Desktop search

· Mobile IR

· Genomic IR, IR for chemical structures

· Medical IR

· Legal IR, patent search

· eScience

· The Internet of Things

· User Behaviour Analyses

*General Chair:*

Ayşe Göker (Robert Gordon University, UK)

*Program Chairs:*

Joemon Jose (University of Glasgow, UK)

Claudia Hauff (TU Delft, NL)

*Short Paper Chairs:*

Dawei Song (Open University, UK)

Ismail Sengor Altıngövde (Middle East Technical University, Turkey)

*Demo Chairs:*

Dyaa Albakour (Signal Media, UK)

Stuart Watt (Turalt / University Health Network, Toronto, Canada)

-- 
Dr. Ismail Sengor Altingovde, Assoc. Prof.

Dept. of Computer Engineering
Middle East Technical University (METU),
Ankara TURKEY
http://www.ceng.metu.edu.tr/~altingovde/
Tel:  + 90 - 312 - 210 5580
Fax:  +90 - 312 - 210 5544
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