IR 2012 - The Workshop "Information Retrieval 2012" (IR-2012)

The ubiquity of search systems has led to the application of information retrieval technology in many new contexts (e.g. mobile and international) and for new object types (products, patents, music, microblogs). To develop appropriate products, basic knowledge on information retrieval needs to be revisited and innovative approaches need to be applied, for example by allowing for more user interaction or by taking the user's situational context and the overall task into account. The quality of information retrieval needs to be evaluated for each context. Large evaluation initiatives respond to these challenges and develop new benchmarks.
The workshop Information Retrieval 2012 of the Special Interest Group on Information Retrieval within the German Gesellschaft für Informatik (GI) provides a forum for scientific discussion and the exchange of ideas. The workshop takes place in the context of the LWA "Learning, Knowledge and Adaptivity" workshop week (LWA, Sep 12-14, 2012) at the Technical University Dortmund in Germany. This workshop continues a successful series of conferences and workshops of the Special Interest Group on Information Retrieval (http://www.fg-ir.de/). The workshop addresses researchers and practitioners from industry and universities. Especially Doctorate and Master students are encouraged to participate and discuss their ideas with world renowned experts. An Industry Session will stimulate the exchange between information retrieval professionals and academics. The workshop is expected to include German as well as English presentations.
PROGRAM CHAIRS
Dr. Claus-Peter Klas, Fernuniversität in Hagen, Germany
Dr. Ingo Frommholz, University of Bedfordshire, UK
TOPICS OF INTEREST
Submission should address current issues in Information Retrieval. They include (but are not limited to):
Development and optimization of retrieval systems
Information retrieval theory
Retrieval with structured and multimedia documents
Evaluation and evaluation research
Text mining and information extraction
Cross-lingual and cross-cultural IR
Digital libraries
User interfaces and user behavior, HCIR
Interactive IR
Machine learning in information retrieval
Information retrieval and knowledge management
Information retrieval and the semantic web
Databases and information retrieval
Social Search
Task-based IR
Web information retrieval (including blogs and microblogs)
Clustering
Patent retrieval
Plagiarism detection
Enterprise search
Expert search
Innovative concepts in IR teaching