IPM 2015 - special issue of Information Processing and Management

With the rapid growth of digitised document resources, both on and off the web, and increased variety in types of document collections, future search systems will face growing difficulties in providing reliable, useful, and timely results. The web already archives a lot of content; organizing and searching by time will only become more critical as we move forward.
This issue aims to explore opportunities and novel research on the intersection of time and information retrieval. Unlike existing work that focuses exclusively on the interesting problems related to adding time to established methods of information retrieval (such as, e.g., how to incorporate temporal relevance in ranking of retrieved results), we aim to stimulate discussion on new or powerful uses of temporality in all kinds of information systems.
Scope & Topics of Interest
We are particularly interested in work that describes novel advances on the intersection of temporality and IR. For example, work that goes deeper than metadata-level time (e.g. document creation timestamp), or that does temporal analysis of document collections for, e.g., event identification, tracking and prediction, or that works on temporal-based relevancy.
We especially welcome papers on the following topics:
Time as a dimension of relevance
Time-aware ranking models
Opinion tracking
Media temporal similarity (e.g. text, video)
Longitudinal analysis
Document and sub-document timestamping
Time as context
Time-sensitive search
Searching for temporal bounds
Future Information Retrieval
Time as a query topic
Event-oriented Search
Temporal web image and video retrieval
Temporal clustering
Collective memory and web archiving
Cross-temporal information retrieval
General issues
In-document temporality
Temporal query understanding
Temporal indexing
Evaluation metrics for temporal IR
Important dates
*Tentative*
Call for papers: April 3, 2014
Manuscript due date: September 8th 2014
Acceptance Notification Date: December 2nd 2014
Final Manuscript Due Date: Jan 30th, 2015 (for all revisions)
Publication date: Spring 2015
Substantial, creative articles are welcomed, according to the journal format. After submission, we envisage a smooth and on-time progression through review and toward publication of this special issue.
Contributions must not have been previously published or be under consideration for publication elsewhere, although substantial extensions of conference or workshop papers will be considered. All submissions should be prepared according to the Guide for Authors at http://www.elsevier.com/journals/information-proce....
Submissions should be made through EES at http://ees.elsevier.com/ipm/default.asp
Guest Editors
Leon Derczynski, University of Sheffield
Jannik Strötgen, Heidelberg University
Ricardo Campos, Polytechnic Institute of Tomar / LIAAD?INESC TEC
Omar Alonso, Microsoft Corporation
Primary contact: leon-AT-dcs.shef.ac.uk
Guest Editorial Board
partial list - confirmed board below:
Ismail Sengor Altingovde, Middle East Technical University
Krisztian Balog, U Stavanger
Roi Blanco, Yahoo! Labs
António Branco, Lisbon U
Matteo Brucato, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Gaël Dias, U Caen
Michael Gertz, U Heidelberg
Daniel Gomes, FCCN Lisboa
Adam Jatowt, Kyoto U
Alípio Jorge, U Porto
Nattiya Kanhabua, L3S Research Center
Hector Llorens, Nuance
Sérgio Nunes, U Porto / INESC TEC
Kjetil Nørvåg, Norwegian University
Ian Ruthven, U Strathclyde
Ian Soboroff, National Institute of Standards and Technology
Marc Spaniol, Max Planck Institut für Informatik
Partha Pratim Talukdar, Carnegie Mellon University
Christoph Trattner, Graz University of Technology