DIR 2009

The primary aim of the DIR workshops is to provide an international meeting place where researchers from the domain of information retrieval and related disciplines, can exchange information and present new research developments. This year, there is a special interest in contributions focusing on domain-specific retrieval tasks.

Topics of interest:

• Multimedia IR, video retrieval, audio and music retrieval, cross-media retrieval
• Multilingual and cross-lingual retrieval
• Structured document retrieval, XML-IR
• Retrieval models, language models
• Image processing for IR, audio processing for IR
• Natural language processing for IR, information extraction, text summarization
• Processing and search of e-mail, spam, blogs
• Categorization, topic tracking and event detection
• Query processing, thesaurus construction, user models
• Web IR, distributed IR, enterprise search, search of digital libraries, intranet search, desktop search
• Collaborative filtering, recommender systems
• Efficiency and performance
• IR evaluation
• Machine Learning for IR
• Domain-specific IR, IR for cultural heritage data
• IR for Children

Submission details

Papers may range from theoretical work to system descriptions. We encourage Ph.D. students to submit their research. We also welcome contributions from the industry when they focus on novel research directions. Submissions will be reviewed by at least three domain experts. The conference language is English. Papers describe original research, have a length of maximum 8 pages, Please, submit papers in pdf-format, using the ACM SIG Proceedings style (http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html). Submissions can be sent to dir2009@lists.utwente.nl

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