ECIR 2012 - European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2012)

The Conference encourages the submission of high-quality research papers reporting original and innovative research within Information Retrieval. The conference intends to cover all aspects of accessing digital information with or without explicitly specified semantics. Papers solely or mainly authored by a student are especially welcome. Submissions will be reviewed by experts on the basis of the originality of the work, the validity of the results, chosen methodology, writing quality and the overall contribution to the field of Information Retrieval. Topics of interest include but are not limited to the areas listed below. All papers will be refereed through double blind peer reviewing.

Authors are invited to submit research papers presenting original, previously unpublished, work on or before 2 October 2011. Submissions must be written in English following the LNCS guidelines and must not exceed 12 pages in long papers including references and figures, or 6 pages in short papers. All papers will be refereed through double-blind peer review. Accepted papers will be published by Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS), Springer Verlag-Germany.

Important dates

Full and short papers submission deadline is 2 October 2011. See the Important dates section, or visit the workshops, tutorials, poster and demos, and Industry Day sections for specific information.

Topics

The Program Chairs invite for the submission of original research papers and posters in all areas of Information Retrieval, including but not limited to:

IR Theory and Formal Models

Searching, browsing, meta-searching, data fusion, filtering and indexing
Text and content classification, categorisation, clustering
Relevance feedback, query expansion
Topic detection and tracking, novelty detection
Content-based filtering, collaborative filtering, Spam filtering
Personalised, collaborative or user-adaptive IR, recommender systems
Adversarial IR
Privacy in IR
Mobile, Geo and Local Search

Web and Social Media IR

Link analysis
Query log analysis
Advertising and ad targeting
Spam detection
Authority, Reputation, Ranking
Blog and online-community search
Social Tagging

User aspects

User modelling, user studies, user interaction in IR systems
Interactive IR, User studies, User models, Task-based IR
Novel user interfaces for IR systems
User interfaces, visualisation and presentation of queries, search results or content
Multimodal aspects

IR system architectures

Distributed and peer to peer IR
Parallel IR
Fusion/Combination
Open, interoperable and flexible
Performance, Scalability, Architectures, Efficiency, Platforms
Compression, performance, optimisation

Content representation and processing

IR for semi-structured documents
IR for semantically annotated collections, semantic search
Meta information and structures, metadata
Query representation, Query reformulation
Text Categorization and clustering
Text data mining
Opinion mining
Cross-language retrieval, Multilingual retrieval
Machine translation for IR
Question answering, Natural language processing for IR, Summarization
Evaluation

Evaluation methosd and metrics
Building test collections and metrics
Experimental design
Crowdsourcing for evaluation
User-oriented and user-centered test and evaluation

Multimedia and cross-media IR

Speech retrieval
Image and video retrieval
Digital music, radio and broadcast retrieval

Applications

Digital libraries
Enterprise Search, Intranet search, Desktop search
Mobile IR
Genomic IR, legal IR, IR for chemical structures, etc.
Medical IR, legal IR, patent search