Call for Papers
2nd IRFC Conference: 6 June 2011, Vienna
General Chair: Bruce Croft, Professor, University of Massachusetts, US
Programme Chair: Arjen de Vries, Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica, NL
Programme Co-Chair: Andreas Rauber, Professor, Technical University Vienna, AT
Important Dates
Deadline for Abstract Submission: (optional) | 10 January 2011 |
| Deadline for paper submission: | 23 January 2011 |
| Acceptance decision and reviews to authors: | 3 March 2011 |
| Deadline for submission of final paper and speaker registration: | 22 March 2011 |
| Early registration deadline: | 22 March 2011 |
| IRF Conference: | 6 June 2011 |
Topics to be addressed
Paper topics should fall into one or more of the following areas:
- Information Retrieval (IR), including but not limited to
- IR Theory and Models
- IR Evaluation
- User Modeling, Personalization and Interactive IR
- Machine Learning, Categorization, Clustering, and Filtering for IR
- Cross-Language IR
- Visualization of search results
- Semantic Web Technologies for IR, including but not limited to
- Ontologies
- Reasoning
- Semantic Annotation
- Natural Language Processing for IR, including but not limited to
- Information Extraction and Summarization
- Named Entity Recognition
- Machine Translation
- Question Answering
- Large-scale or distributed computing for the above areas, including
- Grid Computing
- Cloud Computing
- GPU and FPGA Processing
- Parallel Computing
- Applications of IR, including but not limited to
- Patent processing for Intellectual Property
- Scientific Paper Search
- Biomedical Information Search
- Enterprise Search
- Web Search
Multi-disciplinary papers combining topics from multiple areas are particularly welcome.
