European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2016)
When : 2016-03-20
Where : Italy
Submission Deadline : 2015-10-09
Categories : Computer Science & Information Technology , Informatics
European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2016)
Mar 20-23, 2016
Italy
Call For Papers
The 38th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2016) will take place in Padua, Italy, 20-23 March 2016. ECIR is the main European forum for the presentation of new research results in the field of Information Retrieval (IR). ECIR encourages the submission of high quality research papers reporting original, previously unpublished results. With the rapidly increasing amount of data produced in the world and the increasing adoption of IR techniques beyond the traditional search for documents, papers on IR applied to eScience and to the Internet of Things are particularly encouraged. ECIR has a strong student focus, hence papers whose sole or main author is a postgraduate student are especially welcome. Through the student mentoring programme, PhD students can request the assistance of a mentor, who can give advice and suggest improvements to an almost complete paper. More details on the student mentoring programme are on the website.
Topics
* 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
* 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
- Summarization 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