Corpora: Call for Participation: ACM SIGIR 2000 Workshop on XML and Information Retrieval

[carmel at il.ibm.com]

                    Call for Participation

                        ACM SIGIR 2000 Workshop On
                       XML and Information Retrieval
                       Athens, Greece, July 28, 2000
                  http://www.haifa.il.ibm.com/sigir00-xml



 XML - the eXtensible Markup Language has recently emerged as a new
standard for data representation and exchange
on the Internet. It has thus become crucial to address the question of how
can we efficiently query and search large corpora
 of XML documents. To date,  most work on storing, indexing, querying, and
searching documents in XML has
stemmed from the database community's work on semi-structured data. An
alternative approach, which has
received less attention to date, is to view XML documents as a collection
of text documents with additional tags
and relations between these tags. In this workshop, we will explore both
approaches and investigate the relationship
between IR and XML. Topics may include:

   Extending IR technologies to search XML documents and integrating XML
   structure in IR indexing structures
   Querying XML documents both on content and structure
   Leveraging the semantics inherent to XML for the search process
   Relationships between XML and other text encoding and metadata standards

   Definition of standard DTDs/Schemas for IR tools such as search results
   and clustering outputs

The goal of the workshop is to bring together researchers and practitioners
 interested in XML and IR to discuss
and define the most relevant topics in the relation between these two
technologies, present recent results,
propose future directions for research, and possibly standardization.
Activities will include invited talks,
presentation sessions (accepted submissions from candidate participants)
demo sessions on XML tools
(e.g., search engines, editors,  schema definition tools), and panel
discussions.

Preliminary Technical Program
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   09:00  -- 09:15:   Opening

   09:15 -  09:45:   A survey of search engines for XML documents -    Luk,
   Dillon, Leong, HongKong Polytechnic University

   Session I:  Query languages
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   09:45 -- 10:15:   XIRQL -                       Fuhr and Grossjohann,
   Dortmund University, Germany

   10:15 - 10:45:    A Type System for Querying XML documents -   A.
   Albano, D. Colazzo, G. Ghelli, P. Manghi, C. Sartiani, University di
   Pisa ,Italy

   10:45 - 11:15     Break

   Session II: Retrieval algorithms
   -----------------------------------------------

   11:15 - 11:45     Searching text-rich XML documents -          Hayashi,
   Tomita, Kikui , NTT Cyberspace Laboratories, Japan

   11:45 - 12:15     XQL and Proximal nodes -           Baeza-Yates and
   Navarro,  Universidad de Chile,  Chile

   12:15 - 12:45          Approximate Tree Embedding for querying XML data
   ,  Schlieder and Naumann, Freie Universitat Berlin

   12:45 - 13:45      Lunch

   Session III: IR systems for XML documents
   ---------------------------------------------------------------

   13:45 - 14:10     XYZfind: Searching in Context with XML  -
   Egnor and Lord, XYZFind Corporation, Seattle, Washington, USA

   14:10 - 14:35     Querying XML Documents in Xyleme  -          Vincent
   Aguilera Sophie Cluet Pierangelo Veltri Fanny Wattez
   INRIA, project , France

   14:35 - 15:00     XMLFS: An XML-Aware File System         Azagury,
   Factor, and Mandler , IBM Research Lab in Haifa, Israel

   15:00 - 15:30     Break


   15:30 - 16:00      Searching Annotated Language Resources in XML
   Nancy Ide, ,Vassar College, USA

   16:00 - 16:30     What's next - an open discussion



Organizing Committee
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IBM Research in Haifa:
     David Carmel carmel at il.ibm.com
     Yoelle Maarek yoelle at il.ibm.com
     Aya Soffer ayas at il.ibm.com
Program Committee
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     Ricardo Baeza-Yates. Universidad de Chile, Chile
     Norbert Fuhr, Dortmund University, Germany
     Ron Sacks-Davis, RMIT, Australia
     Ross Wilkinson, CSIRO, Division of Mathematical and Information
Science, Australia

Further information
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Information on the workshop venue and local arrangements (hotel reservation
 etc.) as well as the sponsoring conference
can be found at http://sigir2000.aueb.gr. Additional information is also
available at  http://www.haifa.il.ibm.com/sigir00-xml.
Questions can be sent directly to any of the organizers above.


Important Dates:
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Final Version: July 10, 00
SIGIR tech. program: July 24-27, 00
XML-IR Workshop: July 28, 00

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David Carmel, PhD
Information Retrieval and Organization, IBM - HRL
E-mail: carmel at il.ibm.com
Phone: 972-4-8296223, Fax: 972-4-8296114
Address: IBM, Haifa Research Lab, Matam, Haifa 31905, Israel
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