[Corpora-List] CFP: SIGIR 2013 Workshop on Time-aware Information Access (TAIA)

[Kira Radinsky]

 -- CALL FOR PAPERS - Deadline for submissions:  Friday, June 14, 2013 --

SIGIR 2013 Workshop on Time-aware Information Access

Dublin, Ireland, August 1st 2013
(http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/people/milads/taia2013.aspx)


* Workshop background and goals
Web content increasingly reflects the current state of the physical and
social world, manifested both in traditional news media sources along with
user-generated publishing sites such as Twitter, Foursquare, and Facebook.
 At the same time, web searching increasingly reflects problems grounded in
the offline world. As a result of this blending of the online world with
the offline world, we observe that the web, both in its composition and
use, has incorporated many of the dynamics of the offline world. Few of the
problems associated with searching dynamic collections are well understood,
such as defining time-sensitive relevance, understanding user query
behavior over time and understanding why certain web content changes.

Just as static collections often benefit from modeling topics, dynamic
collections will likely benefit from temporal modeling of events and
time-sensitive user interests and intents, which were rarely addressed in
the literature. There have been preliminary efforts in the research and
industrial communities to address algorithms, architectures, evaluation
methodologies and metrics.

We aim to bring together practitioners and researchers to discuss their
recent breakthroughs and the challenges with addressing time-aware
information access, both from the algorithmic and the architectural
perspectives.

This workshop is a successor to the successful SIGIR 2012 Workshop on Time
Aware Information Access (#TAIA2012,
http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/people/milads/taia2012.aspx). Where the
2012 edition was the first to bring together a broad set of academic and
industrial researchers around the topic of time-aware information access,
the specific focus of this workshop is on the many time-aware benchmarking
activities that are ongoing in 2013.


* Format of the Workshop
The workshop will comprise of invited talks, oral and poster presentations
and open-forum discussions.


* Types of submissions
The submissions will be peer reviewed and must be formatted according to
the ACM SIG proceedings template with a maximum length of 4 pages. We
welcome both position papers and ongoing research. The paper should be
submitted online on:
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=taia2013 by Friday, June 14th
2013 (23:59 UTC-11; Samoa time zone). Acceptance notifications will be on
Monday, June 28th 2013.


* We will welcome submissions related to all aspects of time-sensitive
information access.
TAIA 2013 will have a special focus on evaluation and on the collaborative
benchmarking activities that are happening this year:
1. Temporal summarization (or work in progress for the TREC 2013 task).
2. Real-time search (or work in progress for the TREC 2013 task),
including, real-time trends in social circles, real time events vs. real
time queries, aggregated search answers for real-time searches, and other
related issues.
3. Dynamic information extraction and updating (or work in progress for
TREC 2013 Knowledge Base Acceleration (KBA) and Temporal Summarization
tracks).
4. Evaluation methodologies for time-sensitive tasks: How can these tasks
be approached? Are they measuring the right thing? What do they teach us?
What is missing?

In addition, TAIA 2013 welcomes contributions on the following issues that
complement today's benchmarking activities and that may inform future
versions of these activities:
1. Publicly available dynamic collections (e.g. Wikipedia edits, Wikipedia
page requests, Twitter and news streams)
2. Temporal changes in document contents
3. Timeline creations and summarizations
4. Temporal natural language processing tasks and techniques
5. Time-sensitive ranking, including, effective ranking for time-sensitive
queries, optimizing for both freshness and relevance, evaluating the
results for time sensitive queries, etc.
6. Understanding Web dynamics, including trends and other temporal analysis
on web and social graphs
7. Mining and correlating multiple temporal signals (e.g., news streams and
query streams)


* Workshop Organizers
Fernando Diaz
Susan Dumais
Miles Efron
Kira Radinsky
Maarten de Rijke
Milad Shokouhi
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