%---------------------------------------------------------------------- PRELIMINARY CALL FOR PAPERS 25th European Conference on Information Retrieval Research (ECIR-03) April 14-16, 2003 -- Pisa, Italy http://ecir03.isti.cnr.it/ %---------------------------------------------------------------------- The annual European Conference on Information Retrieval Research, organized by the Information Retrieval Specialist Group of the British Computer Society (BCS-IRSG), is the main European forum for the presentation of research results in the field of information retrieval. We encourage the submission of papers reporting original, unpublished research results in information retrieval, broadly intended to cover all aspects of computer-based access to data with poorly specified semantics. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): * Text search and browsing * Text representation and indexing * Formal models and language models for information retrieval * Cross-lingual and multilingual information retrieval * Metasearching, rank aggregation and data fusion * Text classification (categorization or clustering) * Text mining and information extraction * Content-based adaptive filtering and routing * Collaborative filtering and recommender systems * Topic detection and tracking * Text summarization * Question answering * Information retrieval on the Web * Retrieval of structured documents, including XML documents * Usability, interactivity, and visualization issues in information retrieval * User modelling and user studies for information retrieval * Evaluation issues and test collections * Distributed information retrieval and source selection * Compression, scalability, and other performance issues in information retrieval * Architectures for information retrieval * Spoken text retrieval and music retrieval * Image and video retrieval * Optical character recognition and information retrieval * Natural language processing for information retrieval * Information retrieval on mobile platforms * Information retrieval for lexical acquisition * Information retrieval for digital libraries SUBMISSIONS Papers should be submitted through the Web site of the conference (http://ecir03.isti.cnr.it/) only. Papers must be in English, which is the official language of the conference. Since no more than 15 proceedings pages will be allocated to each paper, it is strongly encouraged that the format of SUBMITTED papers complies with the guidelines specified at http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html in the section "Proceedings and Other Multi-author Volumes"; this will allow both authors and reviewers to check that the paper does not exceed the page number limit. IMPORTANT DATES Paper submission: 20 November, 2002 Acceptance/rejection notification: 20 December, 2002 Submission of camera-ready copy: 20 January, 2003 Conference: 14-16 April, 2003 PUBLICATION All papers will be refereed according to the usual scientific standards. Accepted papers will appear in the proceedings published by Springer-Verlag in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series (http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/index.html), which will be distributed to all delegates at the Conference. Awards will be presented to the author of the Best Paper and to the author of the Best Student Paper. LOGISTICS The conference will take place in Pisa, Italy, at the congress facilities of the Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche. Detailed information about the ECIR-03 logistics will be published at http://ecir03.isti.cnr.it/ as soon as they become available. GRANTS A number of grants will probably be available in order to help students to take part in the conference. Priority will be given to authors of accepted papers. Proof of student status will be required. FURTHER INFORMATION Address any further inquiry to: Fabrizio Sebastiani (Chair of ECIR-03) Istituto di Scienza e Tecnologie dell'Informazione Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche Via Giuseppe Moruzzi, 1 56124 Pisa (ITALY) Phone: +39.050.3152892 Fax: +39.050.3153464 E-mail: ecir03info@isti.cnr.it -- +-------------------------------------------------------+ | Fabrizio Sebastiani | | Istituto di Scienza e Tecnologie dell'Informazione | | Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche | | Via Giuseppe Moruzzi, 1 | | 56124 Pisa (ITALY) | | | | Phone: +39.050.3152892 | | Fax: +39.050.3153464 | | E-mail: fabrizio@iei.pi.cnr.it | | WWW: http://faure.iei.pi.cnr.it/~fabrizio/ | +-------------------------------------------------------+