7th Dutch-Belgian Information Retrieval Workshop (DIR 2007)
 

The primary aim of the DIR 2007 Workshop is to provide an
international meeting place where researchers from the domain of
information retrieval (IR) and related disciplines can exchange and
present innovative research developments. This year, the program
committee especially welcomes contributions focusing on multimedia
information retrieval.

Conference themes will include, but are not limited to the following topics:
Multimedia IR, video retrieval, audio and music retrieval, cross-media retrieval
Multilingual and cross-lingual retrieval
Structured document retrieval, XML-IR
Retrieval models, language models
Image processing for IR, audio processing for IR
Natural language processing for IR, information extraction, text summarization
Processing and search of e-mail, spam, blogs,...
Categorization, topic tracking and event detection
Query processing, thesaurus construction, user models
Web IR, distributed IR, enterprise search, search of digital libraries, intranets or desktops
Collaborative filtering, recommendation systems
Efficiency and performance
IR evaluation

Papers may range from theoretical work to system descriptions. We
encourage Ph.D. students to submit their research. We also welcome
contributions from the industry when they focus on novel research
directions. Submissions will be reviewed by at least three domain
experts. Following the tradition of DIR, highly ranked papers will be
considered for publication in an international journal or book. The
conference language is English.

Important dates
Deadline for papers: January 3, 2007
Notification of acceptance: February 9, 2007
Deadline for final versions: February 25, 2007
Workshop: March 28 and 29, 2007

Submission details

Papers describe original research, have a length of maximum 8 pages,
and are formatted in ACM SIG Proceedings style
(http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html). They are
submitted in pdf-format via the DIR 2007 website
(http://law.kuleuven.be/icri/liir/dir2007/).
 

    * http://law.kuleuven.be/icri/liir/dir2007/