[Corpora-List] DIR-2003: Call for papers

From: Information Retrieval (ir@science.uva.nl)
Date: Wed Sep 03 2003 - 14:58:24 MET DST

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    DIR-2003
    4th Dutch-Belgian Information Retrieval Workshop
    8 and 9 December 2003
    http://lit.science.uva.nl/DIR/

    The fourth Dutch-Belgian Workshop on Information Retrieval will take
    place on 8 and 9 December 2003 at CWI in Amsterdam. The primary aim of
    the workshop is to provide a meeting place where researchers from the
    Netherlands and Belgium (and neighboring countries) who are working
    in the domain of information retrieval and related disciplines can
    exchange information and present new research developments.

    Call for papers

    Authors who are interested in presenting original research at the
    workshop are invited to submit papers on or before October 1,
    2003. Papers should be maximum 6 pages long, and formatted in ACM SIG
    Proceedings style (available here). Submissions will be reviewed by at
    least two domain experts. Papers can cover any topic related to IR,
    including

         * Retrieval models, language models
         * Text representation, information extraction, text summarization,
           text categorization, topic tracking and event detection
         * Query processing, thesaurus construction, user models
         * Cross-language IR
         * IR for the Web, XML and metadata, link analysis
         * Multimedia IR, video retrieval, audio retrieval
         * Question answering systems
         * Domain-specific IR applications
         * IR evaluation

    Papers may range from theoretical work to system-descriptions. We
    especially welcome contributions from industry.

    Submit papers electronically, preferably in PDF format, to
    ir@science.uva.nl .

    Important dates

    Deadline for papers: October 1, 2003
    Notification of acceptance: November 1, 2003
    Deadline for final versions: November 25, 2003
    Workshop: December 8 and 9, 2003

    Program committee

    Anne Diekema (Syracuse University)
    Theo Huibers (University of Twente & KPMG)
    Jaap Kamps (University of Amsterdam)
    Maarten de Rijke (University of Amsterdam, co-chair)
    Erik Tjong Kim Sang (University of Antwerp)
    Arjen de Vries (CWI Amsterdam, co-chair)

    Practical information

    Price: free (but there is no such thing as a free lunch...)
    Registration details will follow shortly.

    Venue

    The workshop will be held at CWI, Room Z 011

         * Monday December 8, 11:00-18:00.
         * Tuesday December 9, 9:00-15:00.

    CWI, Kruislaan 413, 1090 GB Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

    Organisation

    The workshop is organised by CWI Amsterdam, with additional sponsoring
    by the Institute for Logic, Language and Computation (ILLC, University
    of Amsterdam), the the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific
    Research (NWO), and the Dutch Research School for Information and
    Knowledge Systems (SIKS).



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