21.2102, Calls: Applied Ling, Comp Ling/Switzerland

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Subject: 21.2102, Calls: Applied Ling, Comp Ling/Switzerland

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Date: 03-May-2010
From: MIchael Bendersky < bemike at cs.umass.edu >
Subject: Query Representation and Understanding Workshop

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Date: Wed, 05 May 2010 11:06:30
From: MIchael Bendersky [bemike at cs.umass.edu]
Subject: Query Representation and Understanding Workshop

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Full Title: Query Representation and Understanding Workshop 
Short Title: QRU 2010 

Date: 23-Jul-2010 - 23-Jul-2010
Location: Geneva, Switzerland 
Contact Person: Michael Bendersky
Meeting Email: bemike at cs.umass.edu
Web Site: http://ciir.cs.umass.edu/sigir2010/qru/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; Computational Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 02-Jun-2010 

Meeting Description:

Understanding the user's intent or information need that underlies a query 
has long been recognized as a crucial part of effective information retrieval.
Despite this, retrieval models, in general, have not focused on explicitly
representing intent, and query processing has been limited to simple
transformations such as stemming or spelling correction. With the recent
availability of large amounts of data about user behavior and queries in web
search logs, there has been an upsurge in interest in new approaches to 
query understanding and representing intent. 

Call For Papers

This workshop has the goal of bringing together the different strands of
research on query understanding, increasing the dialogue between 
researchers working in this relatively new area, and developing some 
common themes and directions, including definitions of tasks and evaluation 
methodology. We hope the workshop could bring together researchers from 
IR, ML, NLP, and other areas of computer and information science who are 
working on or interested in this area, and provide a forum for them to 
identify the issues and the challenges, to share their latest research results, 
to express a diverse range of opinions about this topic, and to discuss 
future directions.

We believe that this call for short papers will be of interest to linguists who 
study (or are interested in studying) the way people use language on the 
web in general, and specifically in queries issued to the search engines. 
Syntactic and semantic structure of web search queries is very different 
from other available textual corpora. There is still no general consensus on 
the principles of how people formulate their search queries and what is the 
best way to build their syntactic and semantic representations. However, 
working toward finding such principles is of great interest to both Information 
Retrieval research community and web search companies, as this work can 
significantly improve the performance of current web search engines (which 
are generally geared toward short "keyword queries") on longer, more 
complex queries. We believe that the involvement of the linguistics 
community can be a key factor in the success of this endeavor.

We solicit short papers that would be presented as posters during the 
workshop.
Relevant topics include, but are not limited to:
-Models and algorithms for query understanding and representing user 
intent   
-Empirical studies on user behavior and different types of queries   
-Applications or user scenarios using query understanding and modeling   
-New retrieval models or systems incorporating query representation and 
query understanding   
-Evaluation methodologies for various query processing tasks
The workshop will include invited talks, poster session and panel 
discussions.

Submission:
Submitted papers should be in the ACM Conference style (for LaTeX, use 
the "Option 2" style) and not exceed 4 pages in 9 point font. Papers must be
submitted in PDF electronically via the submission page 
(https://cmt.research.microsoft.com/QRU2010/). Submissions of papers 
must not substantially duplicate work that any of the authors have published 
elsewhere or have submitted in parallel to any other conferences or 
journals. 
All submissions must be in English and will be reviewed by at least three 
members of the program committee. At least one author of each accepted 
paper will be expected to attend and prepare a poster as well as a short 
presentation at the workshop.

Important Dates:
Deadlines for workshop poster submissions are:
Submissions Due: June 2, 2010   
Acceptance Notification: June 23, 2010   
Camera-ready Submission: July 5, 2010   
Workshop: July 23, 2010

Organizing Committee:
Bruce Croft and Michael Bendersky, University of Massachusetts Amherst 
Hang Li and Gu Xu, Microsoft Research Asia

Program Committee:
Claudia Hauff, University of Twente 
Dou Shen, Microsoft 
Evgeniy Gabrilovich, Yahoo Research 
Hema Raghavan, Yahoo Labs 
Iadh Ounis, University of Glasgow 
Jian-Yun Nie, University of Montreal 
Kaushik Chakrabarti, Microsoft Research 
Kevyn Collins-Thompson, Microsoft Research 
Matt Lease, UT, Austin 
Nan Sun, NUS, Singapore
Oren Kurland, Technion, Israel Institute of Technology
Pu-Jen Cheng, National Taiwan University 
Ruihua Song, Microsoft Research Asia 
Steven M. Beitzel, Illinois Institute of Technology 
Yuanhua Lv, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 
Yumao Lu, Yahoo Labs

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