International Workshop on the Evaluation on Collaborative Information Seeking and Retrieval (ECol 2017)

Oslo Norway

March 11, 2017

Call for Papers :

The ECol workshop mainly addresses challenges related to collaborative information retrieval (CIR) or seeking (CIS) which refer to methodologies and technologies that support collective-knowledge sharing within a work team in order to solve a shared complex problem. Collaborative search is also known as a social process in which users leverage from other users’ interactions and social signals (e.g., bookmarks and annotations).

Topics of Interest

Evaluation and Methodologies

• Studies on collective relevance judging.
• Studies of collaborative behavior applicable to evaluation.
• Simulation vs. log-studies vs. user-studies for collaborative search.
• Evaluation of single vs. collaborative search session.
• Novel or extended traditional evaluation measures, test collections, methodologies of operational evaluation.
• Evaluation Concerns and Issues: Reliability, Repeatability, Reproducibility, Replicability.

Tasks

• Exploratory search (knowledge acquisition, multi-faceted search)
• Recommending social collaborators (experts, answerers, sympathizers)
• Collaborative ranking on social platforms
• Collaborative intent understanding
• New tasks

Application Areas

• Medical CIS/CIR e.g. Systematic Review
• Legal CIS/CIR
• Academic Search
• E-science and digital libraries
• Leisure Search
• Security and Vetting

Important Dates

• Submission date: January 27, 2017

• Notification of Acceptance: February 20, 2017

• Camera-Ready on ArXiv: March 7, 2017

• Workshop: March 11, 2017

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Posted 02-12-2016 on 10:17:58 AEDT

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