ECIR 2009

The European Conference on Information Retrieval provides an opportunity for both new and established researchers to present research papers reporting new, unpublished, and innovative research results within information retrieval. Poster submissions addressing any of the areas identified in the conference topics are also invited. Authors are encouraged to demonstrate work in progress and late-breaking research results.

Topics of interest include but are not limited to the following areas:

•  IR Theory and Formal Models
• Performance, Scalability, Architectures, Efficiency, Platforms
• Indexing. Query representation, Query reformulation, Structure-based representation, XML, Metadata, Social tagging. Summarization. Natural language processing for IR.
• Evaluation methods and metrics, Experimental design, Test collection
• Interactive IR, User interfaces and visualization, User studies, User models, Task-based IR, User/Task-based IR theory
• Web IR, Digital libraries. Intranet, Desktop, Enterprise and Blog Search. Adversarial IR
• Distributed IR, Fusion/Combination. Mobile IR
• Cross-language retrieval, Multilingual retrieval, Machine translation for IR
• Multimedia IR
• Topic detection and tracking, Routing, Content-based filtering, Collaborative filtering, Agents, Spam filtering
• Question answering, Information extraction, Summarization, Lexical acquisition
• Text Data Mining
• Text Categorization, Clustering
• Other domain-specific IR (e.g., Genomic IR, legal IR, IR for chemical structures)
• Blog and online-community search

Important dates

• Paper submission deadline: 5th Oct. 2008
• Poster submission deadline: 19th Oct. 2008
• Workshop and tutorial submission: 19th Oct. 2008
• Acceptance notifications (papers and posters): 12th Dec. 2008
• Workshop and Tutorial: 6th April 2009
• Technical papers: 7, 8 and 9 April, 2009