[Corpora-List] CFP: 3d Dutch-Belgian Information Retrieval Workshop

[Rik De Busser]

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*                      2d Call for Abstracts                        *
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*         Third Dutch-Belgian Information Retrieval Workshop        *
*                          December 6, 2002                         *
*               http://www.law.kuleuven.ac.be/icri/dir2002/         *
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The third Dutch-Belgian Workshop on Information Retrieval will take
place on Friday 6/12/2002 at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
(Belgium). The keynote speaker will be Prof. Dr. Karen Sparck-Jones
(Computer Laboratory, Cambridge University). The primary aim of the
workshop is to provide a meeting place where researchers from the Low
Countries (and neighbouring countries) who are working in the domain of
information retrieval and related disciplines can exchange information
and present new research developments.

Call for abstracts

Authors who are interested in presenting original research at the
workshop are invited to submit an extended abstract. Abstracts should be
maximum 2 pages long and should be submitted September 16, 2002.
Depending on their number, the submissions will be reviewed by two or
three domain experts. Abstracts can cover any topic related to IR:
- Retrieval models, language models
- Text representation, information extraction, text summarization, text
categorization, topic tracking and event detection
- Query processing, thesaurus construction, user models
- Cross-language IR
- IR for the Web, XML and metadata, link analysis
- Multimedia IR, video retrieval, audio retrieval
- Question answering systems
- Domain-specific IR applications
- IR evaluation
Abstracts should be sent to rik.debusser at law.kuleuven.ac.be as a
postscript or PDF file.

Important dates

Deadline for abstracts: September 16, 2002
Notification of acceptance: October 7, 2002
Deadline for final copies: November 7, 2002
Workshop: December 6, 2002

Registration

Participants are kindly asked to register online on the workshop home
page. Attendance to the workshop is free. For participation at the
lunch, a fee of EUR 20 will be asked. In exchange for publicity on the
workshops announcements and website, company representatives who attend
the workshop are invited to donate a contribution of EUR 100.

Program committee

Marie-Francine Moens (K.U.Leuven, Belgium)
Djoerd Hiemstra (University of Twente, the Netherlands)
Wessel Kraaij (TNO Delft, the Netherlands)

This workshop is organized by the Interdisciplinary Centre for Law and
IT in cooperation with
- IWT Vlaanderen
- Research school SIKS.