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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-NZ link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>ACM SIGIR 2012 WORKSHOP ON OPEN SOURCE INFORMATION RETRIEVAL<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>16 August 2012, Portland, Oregon, USA<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>http://opensearchlab.otago.ac.nz/<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>NEWS<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Grant Ingersoll and Jamie Callan confirmed as invited speakers.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>OVERVIEW <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>This workshop is providing a venue for users and authors of open source IR tools to get together and discuss their joint future. Of particular interest is how to work together to build OpenSearchLab, an open source, live and functioning, online web search engine for research purposes.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Short papers (posters) and Demonstrations are encouraged.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>SCHEDULE<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>July 2, 2012 Deadline for Paper, Poster, and Demo Submissions<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>August 16, 2012 SIGIR 2012 Workshop on Open Source Information Retrieval <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>SUBMISSION DETAILS<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Submission must be original work, not previously published, and not currently submitted elsewhere. 8 page full papers, 4 page short papers and demos submitted as PDFs in the ACM format. Submitted works will be fully peer-reviewed by an international Program Committee.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>