Call For Papers

Web Information Retrieval
Special Issue - Journal of Digital Information Management - 2006
(http://www.dirf.org/jdim)

Issue Editors:

Keith van Rijsbergen (keith@dcs.gla.ac.uk)
Iadh Ounis    (ounis@dcs.gla.ac.uk)
Pit.Pichappan  (pichappan@dirf.org or ppichappan@gmail.com)

Scope of the Issue/Significance of Web information retrieval


The amount of available information on the Web is continuously increasing.
Web search techniques were initially based on the analysis of the Web
structure, as well as the documents’ textual content. Recent applications,
such as the retrieval from blogs, enterprise and intranet searching, or
context-dependent searching, require new retrieval techniques.

This special issue of the Journal of Digital Information Management will
address recent and original developments in the Web information retrieval
field, including those described above. We welcome high-quality papers
addressing the theoretical and/or the practical issues underlying the
retrieval of information from the Web.

Submissions to the special issue should not be under consideration in any
other journal or conference and will be evaluated according to the Journal
of Digital Information Management reviewing criteria and appropriateness to
the special issue. Papers will be reviewed for their content, technical
feature, methodology, originality and results.


Themes:

Topics of interest include but are not limited to the following areas:

Adversarial search (anti-spamming techniques)
Blog and online-community search
Building Web test collections
Clustering and categorization
Context-dependent Web search
Data fusion and metasearch engines
Distributed and P2P retrieval techniques
Enterprise/Intranet search
Evaluation
Formal Web retrieval models
Machine learning
Natural language processing techniques
New Web search applications
News search and filtering
Open source architectures and systems
Performance, compression and scalability
Personalisation and information filtering
Question answering
Semi-structured data
Summarisation
Types of web search
User interfaces and visualization
User behaviour
Web mining and Web usage mining
Web structure analysis

Submission of Papers:

The papers can be submitted to any of the editors electronically either in
pdf or doc format.

Important Dates:

Paper Submission Due: 30 March 2006
Review and acceptance or revision notification: 30 May 2006
Camera Ready Papers: 30 July 2006
Publication: Sep. - Dec. 2006

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