First announcement and call for papers BCS-IRSG ECIR-05 27th European Conference on Information Retrieval 21-23 March, 2005 Santiago de Compostela, Spain http://www-gsi.dec.usc.es/ecir05/ ecir05@usc.es Sponsored by: -European Research Consortium for Informatics & Mathematics (ERCIM) -Microsoft Research -Sharp Laboratories of Europe Call for Papers The annual European Conference on Information Retrieval is the main European forum for the presentation of new research results in the field of Information Retrieval. We encourage the submission of high-quality research papers reporting new, unpublished, and innovative research results within information retrieval. The conference intends to cover all aspects of accessing digital information without explicitly specified semantics. Papers whose sole or main author is an MSc, PhD, or postdoctoral student are especially welcome. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): IR models, techniques, and algorithms Searching, browsing, meta-searching, data fusion, filtering, and indexing Text and content classification, mining, extraction, and summarisation Topic detection, and tracking Personalised, collaborative, recommender, user-adaptive IR Improvements on existing and new IR models Compression, performance, optimisation Users, society, and IR User modelling, user studies, user interaction in IR systems Novel user interfaces for IR systems Visualisation and presentation of queries, search results, and content Information management Cross-language and multi-language IR IR applications Web IR Mobile and ubiquitous IR Digital libraries IR system architectures Distributed Parallel Mobile Multimodal Open, interoperable, and flexible Content representation, and processing IR and structured content e.g. XML based Unstructured content Meta information and structures Test and evaluation methods for IR systems Test collections and bench marking User-oriented and user-centred test and evaluation Multimedia and cross-media IR Speech and IR Image and video IR Digital music, radio, and TV All papers will be refereed through blind peer review. Accepted papers will appear in the proceedings published by Springer-Verlag in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series, which will be distributed to all delegates at the Conference. Poster submissions addressing any of the areas identified in the conference topics are also invited. Authors are encouraged to demonstrate work in progress and late-breaking research results. Poster abstracts (3 pages) will be included in the proceedings. An award will be presented to the author of the Best Student Paper. Submission details ------------------- Manuscripts should be submitted electronically, in PS or PDF format in close accord with the Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science Guidelines ( http://www.springeronline.com/sgw/cda/frontpage/0,10735,5-164-2-72376-0,00.html ). Authors are encouraged to use Latex2e for preparing the manuscript (using the llncs template available from the springer website). Papers prepared under different text processing systems are also acceptable provided that the springer lncs instructions are strictly observed. Papers cannot exceed 15 pages in length (including references). Poster abstracts, which should follow the same formatting instructions, cannot exceed 3 pages (including references). One author per paper is required to register and attend the conference to present the paper if accepted for publication. Important Dates: ---------------- Paper submission: 1 November, 2004 Poster submission: 8 November, 2004 Notification for all submissions: 9 December, 2004 Final copy due: 22 December, 2004 Contacts: --------- If you have any queries or problems concerning submitting a paper, please contact any of the conference chairs: Dr. David E. Losada Grupo de Sistemas Inteligentes Dept. Electrónica y Computación Universidad de Santiago de Compostela Campus sur s/n 15782 Santiago de Compostela Spain Tel: +34 981563100 x13572 Fax: +34 981528012 email: dlosada@usc.es Dr. Juan M. Fernández Luna Grupo de Tratamiento de Incertidumbre en Inteligencia Artificial Dept. Computación e Inteligencia Artificial Universidad de Granada Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingeniería Informática C/ Periodista Daniel Saucedo Aranda, s/n. 18071 Granada Spain Tel: +34 958 240465 Fax: +34 958 243317 email: jmfluna@decsai.ugr.es