------------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Papers Kluwer Academic Publishers Journal of Information Retrieval Special Issue Web Information Retrieval Abstract due: February 8, 2004 Full paper due: March 28, 2004 The Journal of Information Retrieval is pleased to announce a special issue on Web information retrieval - methods and tasks. High quality papers with theoretical and/or experimental orientation are sought. A theoretical paper will report a significant advance in the design of methods. The validity of the proposed methods will be established in terms of their originality and ability to provide a deep understanding of the domain. An experimental paper will report on a test of one or more theoretical ideas. Experimental papers will be assessed for both the quality of the analysis and the generality of the reported results. Topics of interest (in a web context, of course) include, but are not limited to: - adversarial IR (spam rejection) - categorization - characteristics of web collections - context-dependent search - clustering - efficiency - enterprise webs - evaluation - indexing - information extraction - link and topology analysis - machine learning - natural language processing - new search applications and interfaces - question answering - resource finding - retrieval formal models - types of web search - semi-structured data - summarization - topic distillation - user behaviour - web communities Important dates: Abstract submission: February 8, 2004 Paper submission: March 28, 2004 Notification: July 18, 2004 Guest Editors: - Massimo Melucci, Department of Information Engineering, University of Padova, Italy. - David Hawking, CSIRO Mathematical and Information Sciences, Canberra, Australia. Contacts: Massimo.Melucci@unipd.it David.Hawking@csiro.au Submission Instructions: Both the abstract and the full-text paper should report title, authors, affiliation, contact author, and should be sent to both guest editors. The abstract should be a 500-word plain text, whereas the full-text paper should also include a 200-word abstract, should range between 5000 and 7000 words, and it should be double spaced and written as a PDF or PS file.