[Corpora-List] ** Call for Papers SIGIR Workshop on Enriching Information Retrieval: 28th July 2011 **

[Khalid El-Arini]

Call for Papers:  Enriching Information Retrieval workshop at SIGIR 2011
(ENIR 2011)

Workshop website: http://select.cs.cmu.edu/meetings/enir2011/


Topic
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Most information retrieval tasks are now embedded in a rich context.
Documents no longer exist on their own; they are connected to other
documents, they are associated with users and their position in a social
network, and they can be mapped onto a variety of ontologies. Similarly,
retrieval tasks have become more interactive and are solidly embedded in a
user's geospatial, social, and historical context. We conjecture that new
breakthroughs in information retrieval will not come from smarter algorithms
that better exploit existing information sources, but from new retrieval
algorithms that can intelligently use and combine new sources of contextual
metadata.
With the rapid growth of web-based applications, such as search engines,
Facebook, and Twitter, development of effective and personalized information
retrieval techniques and user interfaces is essential. The amount of shared
information and social networking on the web has also grown, exposing new
metadata sources like Wikipedia and ODP, which provides classification
information for a wide range of topics, as well as tagging and social
networking sites like Flickr, Twitter, and Facebook, each of which provides
additional metadata and social context. Due to the explosion of social
networks and other metadata sources, it is an opportune time to identify
ways to exploit such metadata in IR tasks such as user modeling, query
understanding, and personalization, to name a few. Although the use of
traditional metadata such as html text, web page titles, and anchor text, is
fairly well-understood, the use of category information, user behavior data,
and geographical information is just beginning to be studied.


Themes
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The goal of Enriching Information Retrieval is to explore how new and
emerging sources of contextual metadata can be used for improving
information retrieval - including ranking, personalization, diversification,
and faceted search. In particular, we aim to focus on three themes: the
identification of novel types and sources of contextual metadata (e.g., new
ontologies, usage patterns, locality information, readability, temporal
information), the automatic acquisition and distillation of metadata (e.g.,
via learning or through implicit data), and the design of methods for
exploiting new metadata sources in IR tasks. We encourage participants and
submissions from a variety of backgrounds including machine learning,
information retrieval, natural language processing, and human-computer
interaction. Submissions that address the following questions and example
topics will be encouraged (but not limited to):
 * What new sources of metadata can inform retrieval?
     o Social network graphs, user interaction data, temporal data, ODP,
Wikipedia, etc.
 * What retrieval algorithms can exploit metadata?
     o Ranking, classification, summarization algorithms
 * What usability impact will new metadata have on information retrieval
tasks?
     o Building user profiles using novel metadata sources
     o Query understanding or session intent identification using novel
metadata sources
     o Faceted interfaces

Submission Information:
Submissions should be identified for consideration as a research paper or
position paper. All submissions should be 2 pages, with an additional page
for references, tables, and/or figures, and formatted in double-column ACM
SIG proceedings format and submitted as PDF files through EasyChair.
Submissions will be 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 results.

Important Dates:
  May 3, 2011, 11:59 EDT Paper submission due
  May 24, 2011 Acceptance announcement
  May 31, 2011 Camera-ready paper submission due
  July 24-28, 2011 Full-day workshop at SIGIR 2011 (exact date TBA)


Organizers
  Paul N. Bennett, Microsoft Research
  Khalid El-Arini, Carnegie Mellon University
  Thorsten Joachims, Cornell University
  Krysta M. Svore, Microsoft Research (Contact)


Program Committee:
  Eytan Adar, University of Michigan
  Lars Backstrom, Facebook
  Ben Carterette, University of Delaware
  Key-Sun Choi, KAIST
  Kevyn Collins-Thompson, Microsoft Research
  Fernando Diaz, Yahoo! Research
  Jacob Eisenstein, Carnegie Mellon University
  Susan Gauch, University of Arkansas
  Ralf Herbrich, Microsoft
  Matthew Hurst, Microsoft
  Chao Liu, Microsoft Research
  Yoelle Maarek, Yahoo! Research
  Donald Metzler, University of Southern California
  Jennifer Neville, Purdue University
  Bo Pang, Yahoo! Research
  Filip Radlinski, Microsoft
  Patrick Schmitz, Ludicrum Enterprises
  Xuehua Shen, BlueKai
  Pu Wang, George Mason University
  Yisong Yue, Carnegie Mellon University

Contact email: enir2011 at easychair.org or ksvore at microsoft.com
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