[Asis-l] Special Issue of IP&M on CLIR, due april 1

[Fred Gey]

Call for Papers: Special Issue on Cross-Language Information Retrieval
April 1, 2003 
APOLOGIES FOR CROSS-POSTING
 
Please find below the Call for Contributions for a special issue of
Information Processing and Management on Cross-Language Information
Retrieval. Submissions should follow the style indicated in the IP&M
Guide for Authors (see: http://www.elsevier.nl/locate/infoproman
<http://www.elsevier.nl/locate/infoproman> ) but should be submitted in
electronic form to the guest editors listed below:
 
Fredric C.Gey
University of California, Berkeley
gey at ucdata.berkeley
 
Noriko Kando
National Institute of Informatics
kando at nii.ac.jp
 
Carol Peters
Italian National Research Council
carol at iei.pi.cnr.it
 
 
 
 
 
Call for Papers: Special Issue of Information Processing and Management
on
 CROSS LANGUAGE INFORMATION RETRIEVAL
DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION APRIL 1, 2003
 
Cross-Language Information Retrieval (CLIR) has been a research subfield
for more than a decade now.  The field has sparked three major
evaluation efforts: the Cross-Language Evaluation Forum (CLEF) covering
many European languages, the NTCIR Asian Language Evaluation (covering
Chinese, Japanese and Korean), and the TREC Cross Language Track which
in 2001 and 2002 focused on the Arabic language.   This Special Issue of
Information Processing and Management aims at presenting a landmark set
of research papers which review and present the best research in the
field on different aspects of multilingual information access and
cross-language information retrieval. 
Suggested topics include, but are not limited to:
*         Cross-language retrieval methodologies, including utilization
of bi-lingual dictionaries, machine translation, multilingual thesauri
and aligned parallel corpora, n-gram monolingual retrieval
*         Unified models for cross-language information retrieval
*         Multilingual information access for video, image, sounds and
music collections, where users can understand the content without
expertise but need assistance in accessing it. Cross-language speech
retrieval.
*         Interactive CLIR systems, including issues regarding query
formulation and results presentation
*         Multilingual summarization, cross-language clustering, and
cross- language question answering. 
*         Multilingual web retrieval.
*         CLIR for languages for which there are limited linguistic
resources, such as 


o        Indian subcontinent languages 
o        Eastern European languages
o        African continent languages
o        South-East Asian languages


*         Role of linguistic resources such as stemmers, stop word
lists, corpora, transliteration techniques in multiple language
processing
The special issue follows up from the workshop:  Cross-Language
Information <http://ucdata.berkeley.edu/sigir-2002>  Retrieval: A
Research Roadmap (http://ucdata.berkeley.edu/sigir-2002/)  held at the
SIGIR-2002 conference on Research and Development in Information
Retrieval, Tampere, Finland, August 15, 2002. 
Submissions should follow the style stipulated in the Guide for Authors
prepared by "Information Processing and Management"
(http://www.elsevier.nl/locate/infoproman) but should be submitted in
electronic form to the guest editors listed below:


Special Issue Editors: 


Fredric C. Gey
University of California, Berkeley
gey at ucdata.berkeley.edu
Noriko Kando
National Institute of Informatics
kando at nii.ac.jp <mailto:gey at ucdata.berkeley.edu> 
 <mailto:ray at sherlock.berkeley.edu> Carol Peters
 <mailto:ray at sherlock.berkeley.edu> Italian National Research Council
carol at iei.pi.cnr.it <mailto:gey at ucdata.berkeley.edu> 




IMPORTANT DATES: 
 
April 1, 2003              Papers submitted electronically to editors.
July 15, 2003                       Notice of acceptance or rejection of
papers sent to Authors 
September 1, 2003              Final version of paper submitted 
Fall  2003     Issue published
 
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