General Chair:
Norbert Fuhr (University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany)
Programme Chairs:
Birger Larsen (Royal School of Library and Information Science, DK)
Michail Salampasis (Vienna University of Technology, AT)
Venue: Vienna University of Technology
Dates: 2-3 July 2012
Extended deadline for paper submission: 4 March 2012
The 5th Information Retrieval Facility Conference 2012 provides once again a multidisciplinary scientific forum for researchers in Information Retrieval and related areas. Furthermore, the conference aims at bringing young researchers into contact with the industry at an early stage. Another emphasis is put on the applicability of IR solutions to real industry cases and the respective challenges. A panel of experts from both academia and industry will discuss the relevance of the presented papers for current challenges faced by information professionals at the end of the conference.
The 5nd IRF Conference addresses 3 complementary research areas:
- Information Retrieval
- Machine Translation for search solutions
- Interactive Information Access
The 5th IRF Conference targets researchers who are interested in:
- Learning about complementary technologies
- Applying their results to real business needs
- Joining the international research network of the MUMIA Cost Action
- Discussing results obtained by using the IRF data resources
as well as technology providers and information search professionals who are interested in
- harnessing the know-how transfer from academic research
- discovering new technologies on the market
- discussing about still unsolved challenges in professional information search
All papers will undergo a review process with each paper being
reviewed by at least three members of the programme committee. The
proceedings of the 5th IRF Conference will be published by Springer in the LNCS series.
The attendees of the IRF Conference 2012 are also invited to
participate in the PatOlympics, a half-day event that provides an
interactive evaluation platform where prototypes of state-of-the-art
patent retrieval systems will be tested and driven to their limits by
patent retrieval professionals.
