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<div link="blue" vlink="purple" lang="EN-GB"><div><div><pre><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""> </span></pre><pre><a name="13c242fb1b7f9199_13bad15efe309ce4__GoBack"></a><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Integrating IR technologies for Professional Search</span></b></pre>


<pre><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><a href="http://irps.it.teithe.gr" target="_blank">http://irps.it.teithe.gr</a></span></b><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""></span></pre>


<pre><b><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""> </span></b><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""></span></pre><pre><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">An ECIR 2013 workshop, 24 March 2013, Moscow, Russia</span></b><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""></span></pre>


<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">This workshop aims to stimulate exploratory research, and to bring together various facets of IR research and promote the discussion between researchers towards the development of a generalised framework facilitating the integration of IR technologies and search tools into next generation professional search systems.</span></p>


<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">The organisers invite you to submit academic research (6-8 pages), industry experience (2-4 pages), or position papers (2-4 pages). Submissions may describe completed work, work in progress, or the author's position on one or more of the workshop topics. Submissions based on previously published work are permitted. Submitted work will be peer-reviewed by the program committee, and acceptance will be based on the submission's relevance to the workshop and the novelty and impact of the ideas and results presented. The authors of accepted work will be invited to present their ideas by giving short talks or in a poster session.</span></p>


<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Papers are invited for the following topics:</span></p><p><span>-<span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman"">          </span></span>Interactive Information Access , Exploratory search, Long-session or multi-session search</p>


<p><span>-<span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman"">          </span></span>Integrating search tools and UIs, Associating, pipelining, synchronising search results</p><p><span>-<span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman"">          </span></span>Federated search, aggregated search, Parallel and distributed IR</p>


<p><span>-<span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman"">          </span></span>Integrated Systems for Richer Searching Experience, Cognitive aspects of search behaviour</p><p><span>-<span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman"">          </span></span>Query suggestion</p>


<p><span>-<span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman"">          </span></span>Task-oriented evaluation, Large-scale information retrieval experiments</p><p><span>-<span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman"">          </span></span>Multimodal search</p>


<p><span>-<span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman"">          </span></span>Integration standards</p><p><span>-<span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman"">          </span></span>Prototypical use-cases / Search workflows, Unmet needs, Deployed systems</p>


<p><span>-<span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman"">          </span></span>Information life-cycles, Data quality issues</p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Important Dates</span></b><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""></span></p>


<p><span>-<span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman"">          </span></span><b>Friday January 18, 2013</b>, Submissions due (for every type of submission: full papers, position papers).</p><p><span>-<span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman"">          </span></span>Monday January 28, 2013, Notification of acceptance for all submissions.</p>


<p><span>-<span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman"">          </span></span>Monday February 11, 2013, Camera Ready Paper Submission.</p><p><span>-<span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman"">          </span></span>Sunday 24 March, 2013, Workshop in Moscow, Russia.</p>


<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">For details on how to submit, please visit </span><b><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><a href="http://irps.it.teithe.gr" target="_blank">http://irps.it.teithe.gr</a></span></b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">.</span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Organisers</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Michail Salampasis, Department of Informatics,  Technological Educational Institute of Thessaloniki, Greece</span></p>


<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Norbert Fuhr, Department of Computer Science and Applied Cognitive Science, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany</span></p><p class="MsoNormal">


<span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Allan Hanbury, Institute of Software Technology and Interactive Systems, Vienna University of Technology, Austria</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Mihai Lupu, Institute of Software Technology and Interactive Systems, Vienna University of Technology, Austria</span></p>


<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Henrik Strindberg, Findwise AB, Sweden</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Birger Larsen, Royal School of Library and Information Science, Copenhagen, Denmark</span></p>

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