ECIR 2011 - European Conference on Information Retrieval

THE 33RD EUROPEAN CONFERENCE ON INFORMATION RETRIEVAL
The annual BCS-IRSG European Conference on Information Retrieval is the main European forum for the presentation of new research results in the field of Information Retrieval. The conference encourages the submission of high quality research papers reporting original, previously unpublished results.

The 33rd European Conference on Information Retrieval will be held in Dublin, Ireland from the 18th to the 21st of April 2011. The conference is organised by Dublin City University in co-operation with the University of Sheffield, supported by BCS IRSG and ACM SIGIR.

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
Performance, Scalability, Architectures, Efficiency, Platforms
Indexing, Query representation, Query reformulation, Structure-based representation, XML
Metadata, Social tagging
Evaluation methods and metrics, Experimental design, Test collection
Interactive IR, User studies, User models, Task-based IR
User interfaces and visualization
Web IR (e.g. link analysis, query log analysis, ad targeting)
Digital libraries
Enterprise Search, Intranet, Desktop, Adversarial IR
Distributed IR, peer to peer IR, Mobile IR, Fusion/Combination
Cross-language retrieval, Multilingual retrieval, Machine translation for IR
Multimedia IR
Topic detection and tracking, Routing, Content-based filtering, Collaborative filtering, Agents, Spam filtering
Question answering, Natural language processing for IR, Summarization, Lexical acquisition
Text Data Mining
Text Categorization, Clustering
Other domain-specific IR (e.g., Genomic IR, legal IR, IR for chemical structures)
Blog and online-community search