[Corpora-List] Call for particiaption to the Dutch-Belgian Information Retrieval Workshop (DIR 2009)

[Djoerd Hiemstra]

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                    Call for Participation to the
      The 9th Dutch-Belgian Information Retrieval Workshop (DIR)
            February 2-3, 2009, Enschede, The Netherlands
                    http://dir2009.cs.utwente.nl

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See also our call for 2 Page Poster Papers (deadline: January 16, 2009)

DIR 2009 will take place at the University of Twente, Enschede,
the Netherlands, on February 2-3, 2009. The workshop is organised under
the auspices of the Working Community on Information Sciences (WGI)
and the School for Information and Knowledge Systems (SIKS).
The workshop is sponsored by NWO, CTIT and the University of Twente.

Keynote Speaker: prof. Gerhard Weikum (MPII, Saarbruecken, Germany)
Gerhard Weikum is Research Director at the Max-Planck Institute for
Informatics (MPII) in Saarbruecken, Germany, where he is leading the
department on databases and information systems. Prof. Weikum is
ACM fellow and a renowned expert in the field of Databases. He
received the VLDB 10-Year Achievement Award in 2002. Since then, he
focused on several information retrieval problems such as peer-to-peer
search, search efficiency, and database and search integration,
resulting in for instance 6 full papers at the last SIGIR conferences.

Due to the cooperation between SIKS, SIKS-members can participate
without paying entrance fee. Especially PhD-students working on the
SIKS-focus "Web based Information Systems" and "Data management,
Storage and Retrieval" are strongly encouraged to participate.
There is a limited number of registrations for SIKS members.
Registrations will be honored in a first come-first serve manner.

Participants of DIR are invited to the Annual Meeting of the
Werkgemeenschap Informatieschap which is directly following DIR on
Tuesday.

Tentative Program:

Monday February 2nd

10:30 - 11:00	Welcome and registration
11:00 - 12:00	SESSION 1: INDUSTRY KEYNOTE
		(To be announced)
12:00 - 12:30	Lunch
12:30 - 13:45 	SESSION 2: CULTURAL SANDWICH
		 * Daniel van Veen,
		   Van Veen alleen
13:45 - 15:15	SESSION 3: MULTIMEDIA & XML
		 * Marco A. Palomino, Michael P. Oakes and Tom Wuytack,
		   Automatic Extraction of Keywords for a Multimedia
		   Search Engine 	
		 * Thomas Geerinck, Hichem Sahli and Iris Vanhamel,
		   Spatiotemporal Region-oriented Attentional Selection
		   of Active Salient Objects 	
		 * Maarten Marx and Tim Gielissen,
		   XML-ification of Parliamentary Debates
15:15 - 15:45 	Coffee
15:45 - 17:15	SESSION 4: QUESTION ANSWERING & QUERY FORMULATION
		 * Almer S. Tigelaar, Rieks op den Akker, and Fenne
		   Verhoeven, Matching Queries to Frequently Asked
		   Questions.
		 * Suzanne Verberne, Stephan Raaijmakers and Daphne
		   Theijssen, Learning to rank answers to why-questions
		 * Nikolai Buzikashvili,
		   Non-Linear Query Reformulation Behavior 	
17:15 - 18:15 	SESSION 5: POSTERS & DEMONTRATIONS
18:30 - 20:30 	Dinner

Tuesday February 3rd

09:00 - 10:00 	SESSION 6: ACADEMIC KEYNOTE
		 * Prof. Gerhard Weikum
10:00 - 10:30 	Coffee
10:30 - 12:00 	SESSION 7: CONTENT MODELING & KEYWORD EXTRACTION
		 * Javier Arias Moreno, Koen Deschacht, and Marie
		   Francine Moens, Content Extraction from Multilingual
		   Web Pages
		 * John Tait, Mihai Lupu, Helmut Berger, Giovanna Roda,
		   Michael Dittenbach, Andreas Pesenhofer, Erik Graf,
		   and Keith van Rijsbergen, Patent Search: An important
		   new test bed for IR 	
		 * Inga Kohlhof, Mario Diwersi, Semi-automatic
		   construction of domain-specific thesauri 	
12:00 - 13:00 	Lunch
13:00 - 14:30	SESSION 8: SPAM DETECTION, TOPIC MODELING & EXTRACTION
		 * Mario Diwersi and Michaela Geierhos, Business
		   Specific Online Information Extraction from German
		   Websites	
		 * Rianne Kaptein and Jaap Kamps
		   Web Directories as Topical Context
		 * Toine Bogers and Antal van den Bosch
		   Using language modeling for spam detection 	
14:30 - 14:45 	Closing
15:00 - 16:30	Annual Meeting of the Werkgemeenschap
		Informatiewetenschap



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