1st CALL FOR PAPERS
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"2nd International Workshop on Text-Based Information Retrieval" (TIR-05)

A Workshop in conjunction with the 28th edition of the annual German 
Conference
on Artificial Intelligence, University of Koblenz, September 11-14, 2005.
URL: http://www.aisearch.de/tir-05


ABOUT THIS WORKSHOP:

Being in the age of information---so to speak: information
flooding---intelligent technologies for information mining and
retrieval have become an important as well as exciting field of
research. In this connection, methods of text-based information
retrieval receive special attention, which results from the
fundamental role of written text, but also because of the high
availability of the Internet. E.g., information retrieval methods have
the potential to improve the quality of the standard keyword search;
moreover, they strike a path to the new developments from the field of
the Semantic Web. In this sense, text-based information retrieval can
be regarded as the heart of many IR applications.

There are various techniques and methods being used for text-based
information retrieval tasks, which stem from different research areas:
machine learning algorithms, models from computer linguistics and
psychology, paradigms from the field of user interaction and modeling,
or algorithms for information visualization. The development of
powerful retrieval tools requires the combination of these
developments, and in this sense the workshop shall provide a platform
that spans the different views and approaches.

The following list gives examples from classic and ongoing topics from
the field of text-based information retrieval for which contributions
are welcome (but not restricted to):

- document models and similarity measures for special retrieval tasks
- automatic category formation in document corpora, search results, etc.
- topic identification and auto-abstracting: characterization of 
documents by keywords
- plagiarism analysis: identification and evaluation of similar text 
sections
- ontologies and the Semantic Web: analysis of annotated texts (RDF, 
RDFS, DAML+OIL);
  usage, construction, and maintenance of ontologies for retrieval 
tasks, OWL
- cross-language retrieval, multilingual retrieval, and machine 
translation for IR
- concepts and techniques for information visualization, user modeling, and
  interaction in the context of particular retrieval tasks
- link analysis and Web dynamics
- relevance feedback and personalization
- evaluation; construction of test collections; user studies

In particular, we would like to encourage potential participants to present
(prototypic) implementations of their ideas.


IMPORTANT DATES:

Deadline for paper submission     July 11, 2005
Notification to authors           August 8, 2005
Camera-ready copy due             August 15, 2005


Contributions will be peer-reviewed by at least two experts from the
related field. In particular we encourage participants to present
(prototypic) realizations of their ideas in the field of information
retrieval.


WORKSHOP ORGANIZATION:

Benno Stein, Bauhaus University Weimar
Sven Meyer zu Eissen, Bauhaus University Weimar

We welcome you to attend and participate in the meeting!
Information about the workshop can be found at 
http://www.aisearch.de/tir-05.