First International Workshop on Adaptive Information Retrieval http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/workshops/air/ 14th October 2006 @ Glasgow, UK Co-located with SPIRE 2006 Important dates * Submissions due: 1st Sep 2006 * Acceptance notification: 15th Sep 2006 * Workshop: 14th Oct 2006 Themes Information retrieval is a challenging process. Increasingly information is sought from collections with multiple media and genres using multiple modalities and languages. A number of factors affect the retrieval process such as query formulation, matching process and result presentation. However, the importance of context in the retrieval process has been identified. Adaptive retrieval, a process in which the search process is adapted towards the user needs/context, has become more and more important. We are organising an international workshop on adaptive information retrieval. The workshop will be revolved around the following themes: * Adaptive retrieval and result presentation * Interactive multimedia retrieval * Test collection building for the evaluation of adaptive systems. The workshop focuses especially on researchers who have interest in context sensitive retrieval, personalization systems, adaptive retrieval models, implicit feedback systems, test collection building for interactive evaluation, interactive and adaptive multimedia retrieval and evaluation methodologies. The workshop will feature the following keynote speakers: * Nick Belkin, Rutgers University, USA * Kalervo Järvelin, Tampere University, Finland * Noriko Kando, National Institute of Informatics, Japan In addition, a number of short provocative position paper presentations (invited), discussion sessions and a panel session will be organized. Posters will be presented during the coffee and lunch breaks. Call for Poster papers We are soliciting poster papers from researchers who are interested in adaptive retrieval systems and specifically on issues related to the above themes. Authors of high quality submissions will be invited to submit to a special journal issue on Adaptive Information Retrieval. In order to facilitate interaction and discussion the maximum attendance will be 50 participants. For the further information on the workshop, please visit http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/workshops/air/