Call for Papers
Special Topic Issue of JASIST
Mining Web Resources for Enhancing Information Retrieval

*Extended Deadline: March 31 2006*

The next Special Topics Issue of the Journal of the American Society for
Information Science and Technology (JASIST) is scheduled to come out in
early 2007 on the topic of Mining Web Resources for Enhancing Information
Retrieval.  The guest editors for this special issue will be Wai Lam (
http://www.se.cuhk.edu.hk/people/wlam.html) and Christopher C. Yang (
http://www.se.cuhk.edu.hk/people/yang.html) of the Chinese University of
Hong Kong and Filippo Menczer (http://informatics.indiana.edu/fil) of
Indiana University.

The amount of information on the Web has been expanding at an enormous
pace. There are a variety of Web documents in different genres such as
news, reports, reviews, and so on. Traditionally, the information displayed
on Web sites has been static.  Recently, there are many Web sites offering
content that is dynamically generated and frequently updated. It is also
common for Web sites to contain information in different languages since
many countries adopt more than one language.  Moreover, content may exist
in multimedia formats including text, images, video, and audio.  Although
the Web contains a rich amount of valuable resources, raw Web pages are
mainly designed for supporting information browsing.  Intelligent text
mining techniques have recently been applied to the Web environment to
harvest or generate novel patterns or knowledge that can be useful in
different information seeking situations. For example, one can employ a
mining method to harvest terms from bilingual Web sites to discover
candidates for the task of term translation in cross-lingual information
retrieval. Another example is to make use of text mining methods for
analyzing and extracting informative content from Web pages to improve the
precision of search.

This special topic issue solicits high-quality innovative papers addressing
significant research questions related to the broad research area of mining
Web resources for enhancing information retrieval. Special topics of
interest include, but are not limited to, the following:
* mining multilingual lexicons from the Web
* name entities mining
* ontology mining
* Web semantics
* Web page mining
* metadata generation from the Web
* Web information exploration
* Web services for IR
* infomediaries
* Web page classification
* advanced Web search
* personalized Web searching
* hidden Web

The guest editors seek papers that discuss research in the area of Mining
Web Resources for Enhancing Information Retrieval.  Inquiries can be made
to the guest editors at wlam@se.cuhk.edu.hk. Manuscript submissions for
this special issue should be emailed to wlam@se.cuhk.edu.hk. The format for
submissions can be found at
http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/jabout/76501873/ForAuthors.html.
The deadline for accepting manuscripts for consideration for publication in
this special issue is extended to March 31 2006. A select panel of referees
will review all manuscripts, and those accepted will be published in a
special issue of JASIST. Original artwork and a signed copy of the
copyright release form will be required for all accepted papers.   A copy
of the call for papers will be available on the World Wide Web as is
further information about JASIST, at http://www.asis.org/.