IIR 2013 - IIR 2013 : Italian Information Retrieval Workshop

The purpose of the Italian Information Retrieval Workshop (IIR) is to provide a meeting forum for stimulating and disseminating research in Information Retrieval, where Italian researchers (especially young ones) and researchers affiliated with Italian institutions can network and discuss their research results in an informal way.
IIR 2013 will offer an opportunity to present and discuss both theoretical and empirical research. Relevant topics include, but are not restricted to, the following subjects:
Ranking (e.g., retrieval models, learning to rank, diversity, combining searches);
Queries (e.g., query intent, query log analysis, query reformulation, question answering);
Content analysis (e.g., document representation, information extraction, clustering, classification, sentiment analysis, cross-lingual IR);
Efficiency (e.g., indexing, compression, distributed IR);
Filtering (e.g., content-based filtering, collaborative filtering, recommender systems);
Evaluation (e.g., test collections, effectiveness measures, experimental design);
Users (e.g., user models, user studies, search interface, personalized search, human-computer IR);
Web IR (e.g., link analysis, social network analysis, blog search, computational advertising);
Multimedia IR (e.g., image search, video search, music IR);
Structured IR (e.g., XML search, desktop search, entity search);
Other applications (e.g., genomics IR, legal IR, mobile IR, patent search, digital libraries, IR for cultural heritage, enterprise search, geographic IR).
Papers may range from theoretical works to system descriptions. We particularly encourage PhD students or early-stage researchers to submit their research; we also welcome contributions from the industry. The conference languages are Italian and English. Submissions must be written in English or Italian and follow the guidelines set by Springer for their LNCS series. Papers must be submitted through EasyChair. Each paper will be reviewed by at least two PC members.
Authors are invited to submit:
Full original papers (up to 12 pages);
Short original papers (up to 8 pages);
Extended abstracts containing descriptions of ongoing projects or presenting already published results (up to 4 pages).
Authors of accepted papers will be invited to submit their paper for publication in the on-line proceedings, which will appear in the CEUR-WS on-line proceedings series; the proceedings will be indexed by DBLP (as happened for IIR 2010, 2011, and 2012 ? see here). Submission details will be published on the IIR 2013 website. At least one author of each accepted paper must attend the event in order to present the paper; accepted papers whose authors have not shown up at the workshop to present the paper will not be published in the proceedings.
Important dates:
Submission deadline: November 18, 2012
Notification of acceptance: December 11, 2012
IIR 2013: January 16-17, 2013
Participation to the IIR 2013 workshop will be free of charge. However, advance registration will be strictly required.