CIRSE 2010: The 2nd International Workshop on
Contextual Information Access, Seeking and Retrieval Evaluation
http://www.irit.fr/CIRSE
Milton Keynes, UK, March 28, 2010
in conjunction with ECIR 2010
http://kmi.open.ac.uk/events/ecir2010
IMPORTANT DATES
Paper Submission: January, 4, 2010
Notification of Acceptance: January, 25, 2010
Camera-Ready papers due: February, 8, 2010
KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Stephen Robertson
(Microsoft Research, Cambridge, and City University, London, UK)
OVERVIEW
Since the 1990s, the interest in the notion of context in Information Access, Seeking and Retrieval increased. Many researchers have been concerning with the use of context in adaptive, interactive, personalized or collaborative systems, the design of explicit and implicit feedback techniques, the investigation of relevance, the
application of a notion of context to problems like advertising or mobile search.
The previous edition of this workshop held in Toulouse (CIRSE 2009) and other workshops and conferences, i.e. IR in Context (IRiX, 2005), Adaptive IR (AIR, 2006, 2008), Context-based IR (CIR, 2005, 2007) and Information Interaction in Context (IIiX, 2006, 2008) gathered researchers exploring theoretical frameworks and applications which have focussed on contextual IR systems.
An important issue which gave raise to discussion has been Evaluation. It is commonly accepted that the traditional evaluation methodologies used in TREC, CLEF, NTCIR and INEX campaigns are not always suitable for considering the contextual dimensions in the information seeking/access process. Indeed, laboratory-based or system oriented
evaluation is challenged by the presence of contextual dimensions such as user interaction, profile or environment which significantly impact on the relevance judgments or usefulness ratings made by the end user.
Therefore, new research is needed to understand how to overcome the challenge of user-oriented evaluation and to design novel evaluation methodologies and criteria for contextual information retrieval evaluation.
This workshop aims to have a major impact on future research by bringing together IR researchers working on or interested in the evaluation of approaches to contextual information access, seeking and retrieval to foster discussion, exchange ideas on the related issues. The main purpose is to bring together IR researchers, to promote
discussion on the future directions of evaluation.
TOPICS
Both theoretical and practical research papers are welcome from both research and industrial communities addressing the main conference theme. Original and unpublished papers are welcome on any aspect including:
* User system, context and task modelling for information access seeking and retrieval evaluation.
* Novel techniques for implicit or explicit feedback evaluation.
* Learning algorithms that use non-traditional relevance judgments (such as click through data, query streams, user interactions).
* Novel or extension of traditional evaluation measures, test collections, methodologies of operational evaluation.
* Contextual and user simulation algorithms.
* Accuracy evaluation of personal profiles built using implicit set-level responses.
* Merging ranking from collaborative system outputs.
* Application and evaluation of context-based systems for distributed retrieval, personal search, mobile search, digital libraries, archives and museums.
* Application and evaluation of context-based access to television broadcasted recordings, images, videos and music collections
SUBMISSIONS
To facilitate the presentation of research activities having a different maturity, the workshop programme will include both long and short papers covering a range of evaluation methods, techniques and tools for contextual information access seeking and retrieval.
To give the young researchers an opportunity to present their results and on-going research, they will be invited to submit short papers and discuss their contributions in a less formal way. To this end, a short time will be devoted to the presentation and a longer time will be devoted to the discussion. Short papers and long papers will be respectively 2 pages and 4 pages long using ACM format (
http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates ). All
submitted papers will be peer-reviewed by the workshop programme committee. At least one author of each paper must attend the workshop to present the paper. All accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings.
For more information, please see the workshop website
http://www.irit.fr/CIRSE
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