GRUMPS 2013 - International Workshop on From Republicans to Teenagers: Group Membership and Search (GRUMPS)

In the early years of information retrieval (IR), the focus of research was on systems aspects such as crawling, indexing, and relevancy ranking. Over the years, more and more user-related information such as click information or search history has entered the equation, creating more and more personalized search experiences, though still within the scope of the same overall system.
Though fully personalized search is probably desirable, this individualistic perspective does not exploit the fact that a lot of a user's behavior can be explained through their group membership. Children, despite individual differences, share many challenges and needs; as do men, Republicans, Chinese or any user group.
This workshop takes a group-centric approach to IR and invites contributions that either (i) propose and evaluate IR systems for a particular user group or that (ii) describe how the search behavior of specific groups differ, potentially requiring a different way of addressing their needs.
Topics of Interest
GRUMPS welcomes contributions on any issue concerning adapting search for specific user groups and, in particular, on:
Understanding of search behavior and relevance criteria of specific user groups
Identifying labeled user groups from search behavior
Using specific user features (e.g. demographic) for personalized advertising/sponsored search
Understanding the effects of domain expertise, age, user experience and cognitive abilities on search goals and results evaluation
Development of test collections for evaluation of personalized search systems focused on users with specific features
Search interfaces and result representation for people with specific needs and specific interests
Important Dates
Papers deadline: January 7, 2013
Acceptance notification: January 21, 2013
Camera-ready version: February 4, 2013
Workshop: March 24, 2013