Call for Papers for CROSS LANGUAGE INFORMATION RETRIEVAL: A RESEARCH ROADMAP A Workshop at SIGIR-2002: 22nd Internationl Conference On Research And Development in Information Retrieval August 15, 2002, Tampere Finland http://www.sigir2002.org Cross-Language Information Retrieval (CLIR) has been a research subfield for more than a decade now. The field has sparked three major evaluation efforts: the Cross-Language Evaluation Forum (CLEF) covering many European languages, the NTCIR Asian Language Evaluation (covering Chinese, Japanese and Korean), and the TREC Cross Language Track which currently focuses on the Arabic language. This workshop proposes to review and assess the progress that has been made and to prepare a roadmap for the next five years of research and development. Presentations will summarize the major techniques and accomplishments of the field (e.g. utilization of corpus, dictionary, and machine translation techniques for crossing language barriers, strategies for sense disambiguation and query expansion) and position papers will argue the directions the research should go in the next half decade. The expectation is to develop a step-by-step, year-by-year roadmap of research to be undertaken, with each year addressing progressively more difficult goals and expected accomplishments. Suggested topics include, but are not limited to: * The role of cross-language retrieval for video, image, sounds and music collections, since users can understand the content without expertise. Cross-language speech retrieval. * Interactive CLIR systems, including issues regarding results presentation * Cross-language summarization, cross-language clustering, and cross- language question answering. * Multilingual web retrieval, including development of a web corpus in 25 or more languages * CLIR for languages for which there are limited linguistic resources, such as * o Indian subcontinent languages o Eastern European languages o African continent languages o South-East Asian languages * Shareability of linguistic resources such as stemmers, stop word lists, corpora, transliteration techniques Two kinds of papers are sought: Short position papers (maximum 4 pages) which focus on particular areas and argue a vision of future research in the area. We will accept as many of these as can be fit into the workshop schedule. Longer research scope papers, invited based upon short papers (up to 10 pages) which provide depth and background as well as a research vision; these papers will be reviewed and a limited number selected for presentation at the workshop. Workshop Co-Chairs Fredric C. Gey University of California, Berkeley gey@ucdata.berkeley.edu Noriko Kando National Institute of Informatics kando@nii.ac.jp Carol Peters Italian National Research Council carol@iei.pi.cnr.it IMPORTANT DATES: May 24, 2002 Papers submitted electronically to Chairs. June 20, 2002 Notice of acceptance or rejections of papers sent to Authors July 15, 2002 Final papers submitted for workshop notebook to be distributed at workshop August 15, 2002 Workshop held in Tampere, Finland . CLIR Research Roadmap April 18, 2002