39th European Conference on Information Retrieval(ECIR 2017)

April 10 - 12,2017.

Aberdeen,Scotland UK

Call For Papers

ECIR is the premier European forum for the presentation of new research in the field of Information Retrieval. Robert Gordon University is very pleased to host this important event.  We are delighted to announce that ECIR 2017 (European Conference on Information Retrieval) will be returning to Aberdeen, Scotland for the first time since 1997.

Topics of Interest

IR Theory and Practice

• Searching, browsing, meta-searching
• Data fusion, filtering and indexing
• Language models, probabilistic IR, neural network based models
• Learning to rank
• Content classification, categorisation, clustering
• Relevance feedback, query expansion, faceted retrieval
• Topic detection and tracking, novelty detection
• Recommender systems
• Content-based filtering, collaborative filtering
• Spam detection and filtering
• Personalised, collaborative or user-adaptive IR
• Adversarial IR
• Privacy in IR
• Contextual IR
• Mobile, Geo and local search
• Temporal IR, time-based modelling
• Entity IR

Deep Learning and IR

• Neural Networks and IR
• Word embedding and IR
• Semantics and IR
• Topic Modelling and IR

Web and Social Media IR

• Link analysis
• Query log analysis
• Advertising and ad targeting
• Spam detection
• Trust, authority, reputation, ranking
• Blog and online-community search, microblogs
• Social search
• Social tagging
• Social networking and Web based communities
• Trend identification and tracking
• Time series and forecasting

User Aspects

• User modelling, user studies, user interaction and history
• Interactive IR
• Task-based IR
• Click models
• Novel user interfaces for IR systems
• Visualisation of queries, search results or content
• Multimodal aspects, multimodal querying

IR System Architectures

• Distributed and peer to peer IR
• Cloud IR
• Federated IR
• Aggregated Search
• Fusion/Combination
• Open, interoperable and flexible systems
• Performance, scalability, efficiency
• Architectures and platforms
• Crawling and indexing
• Compression, optimisation
• Map/Reduce for IR

Content Representation and Processing

• IR for semi-structured documents
• IR for semantically annotated collections, semantic search
• Reasoning for IR
• Meta information and structures, metadata
• Query representation, query reformulation
• Text categorisation and clustering
• Text data mining
• Opinion mining, sentiment analysis, argumentation mining
• Cross-language retrieval, multilingual retrieval
• Machine translation for IR
• Question answering
• Natural language processing
• Summarisation for IR

  Evaluation

• Evaluation methods and metrics
• Building test collections
• Experimental design
• Crowdsourcing for evaluation, human computing
• User-oriented and user-centred test and evaluation
• Metric comparison and evaluation
• Offline vs online evaluation

Multimedia and Cross-Media IR

• Speech retrieval
• Image and video retrieval
• Entity retrieval
• Digital music, radio and broadcast retrieval
• Virtual reality and information access
• Cross-modal processing and search

Applications

• Digital libraries
• Enterprise and intranet search
• Desktop search
• Mobile IR
• Genomic IR, IR for chemical structures
• Medical IR
• Legal IR, patent search
• eScience
• The Internet of Things
• User Behaviour Analyses

Important Dates

• 15 October 2016 (AoE time zone): Full Paper submission deadline
• 15 October 2016 (AoE time zone): Reproducible IR Track submission deadline   
• 17 October 2016 (AoE time zone): Notification of acceptance of Workshops / Tutorials
• 30 October 2016 (AoE time zone): Short paper/Demo paper submission deadline(Extension)
• 1 November 2016 (AoE time zone):  Doctoral Consortium papers
• 2 December 2016 (AoE time zone): Notification of Full/Short Papers, Demos, Reproducible IR Track Papers

Conference dates

• Doctoral Consortium: 8th April 2017
• Workshops/Tutorials: 9th April 2017
• Main conference: 10th – 12th April 2017
• Industry day: 13th April 2017

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Posted 24-10-2016 on 11:29:32 AEDT

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