DIR-2003
4th Dutch-Belgian Information Retrieval Workshop
8 and 9 December 2003
http://lit.science.uva.nl/DIR/
The fourth Dutch-Belgian Workshop on Information Retrieval will take
place on 8 and 9 December 2003 at CWI in Amsterdam. The keynote
speakers will include Charlie Clarke (University of Waterloo) on
`Robust and Reliable Information Retrieval,' Bjørn Olstad (FAST
Search, to be confirmed), and Bonnie Webber (University of
Edinburgh) on `QA Research at the University of Edinburgh.'
The primary aim of the workshop is to provide a meeting
place where researchers from the Netherlands and Belgium (and
neighboring countries) who are working in the domain of information
retrieval and related disciplines can exchange information and present
new research developments.
Final call for papers
Authors who are interested in presenting original research at the
workshop are invited to submit papers on or before October 1,
2003. Papers should be maximum 6 pages long, and formatted in ACM SIG
Proceedings style (available from
http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html). Submissions will
be reviewed by at least two domain experts. Papers can cover any topic
related to IR, including
* Retrieval models, language models
* Text representation, information extraction, text summarization,
text categorization, topic tracking and event detection
* Query processing, thesaurus construction, user models
* Cross-language IR
* IR for the Web, XML and metadata, link analysis
* Multimedia IR, video retrieval, audio retrieval
* Question answering systems
* Domain-specific IR applications
* IR evaluation
Papers may range from theoretical work to system-descriptions. We
especially welcome contributions from industry.
Submit papers electronically, preferably in PDF format, to
ir@science.uva.nl .
Important dates
Deadline for papers: October 1, 2003
Notification of acceptance: November 1, 2003
Deadline for final versions: November 25, 2003
Workshop: December 8 and 9, 2003
Program committee
Anne Diekema (Syracuse University)
Theo Huibers (University of Twente & KPMG)
Jaap Kamps (University of Amsterdam)
Maarten de Rijke (University of Amsterdam, co-chair)
Erik Tjong Kim Sang (University of Antwerp)
Arjen de Vries (CWI Amsterdam, co-chair)
Practical information
Price: free (but there is no such thing as a free lunch...)
Registration details will follow shortly.
Venue
The workshop will be held at CWI, Room Z 011
* Monday December 8, 11:00-18:00.
* Tuesday December 9, 9:00-15:00.
CWI, Kruislaan 413, 1090 GB Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
Organisation
The workshop is organised by CWI Amsterdam, with additional sponsoring
by the Institute for Logic, Language and Computation (ILLC, University
of Amsterdam), the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research
(NWO), and the Dutch Research School for Information and Knowledge
Systems (SIKS).
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