ASIR 2012 - ASIR’2012 - 2nd International Workshop on Advances in Semantic Information Retrieval

Bag-of-words document representation is still the basis for many information retrieval models. Recent advances in semantic technologies have resulted in methods and tools that allow creating and managing domain knowledge. They influence the way and form of representing documents in the memory of computers, approaches to analyze documents, techniques to mine and retrieve, etc. Searching for video, voice and speech raises new challenging problems to retrieval systems.
The aim of this workshop is to discover new challenges in various branches of Internet technologies applied to semantic information retrieval, to foster opportunities for international collaboration between scientists all over the world, and to explore directions for further research. The workshop addresses semantic information retrieval theory, as well as important matters related to Web tools used in practice.
Topics
The topics and areas include but are not limited to:
Models for document representations
Ontology for semantic information retrieval
Ontology alignment, mapping and merging
Search and ranking
Semantic multimedia retrieval
Natural language semantic processing
Evaluation methodologies for semantic search and retrieval
Query interfaces
Visualization of the retrieved results
Domain-specific semantic applications