CALL FOR PAPERS ================================================================================ "3rd International Workshop on Text-Based Information Retrieval" (TIR-06) A Workshop in conjunction with the 17th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence, ECAI 2006, Riva del Garda, Italy / Aug 28th - Sept 1st URL: http://www.aisearch.de/tir-06 ABOUT THIS WORKSHOP: Intelligent technologies for information mining and retrieval have become an important and exciting field of research in our information-flooded society. 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. There are various techniques and methods being used for text-based information retrieval tasks, which stem from different research areas: machine learning, computer linguistics and psychology, user interaction and modeling, information visualization, or distributed systems. The development of powerful retrieval tools requires the combination of these developments, and in this sense the workshop shall provide a platform that spans 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): - formal models for text representation, document models, similarity measures for special retrieval tasks - category formation and clustering, document classification - distributed IR - topic identification, auto-abstracting, keyword extraction, natural language processing for IR - plagiarism analysis, author identification, style analysis - IR for the Semantic Web: usage, construction, and maintenance of ontologies for retrieval tasks - cross-language retrieval, multilingual retrieval, and machine translation for IR - concepts and techniques for information visualization, user modeling, and interaction for particular retrieval tasks - citation and link analysis, Web dynamics - relevance feedback and personalization - IR in business and engineering applications - evaluation, building of test collections, experimental design and user studies The workshop addresses researchers, users, and practitioners from different fields: data mining, machine learning, document and knowledge management, semantic technologies, and information retrieval in general. In particular, we encourage potential participants to present research prototypes and tools of their ideas. IMPORTANT DATES: Deadline for paper submission April 15, 2006 Notification to authors May 10, 2006 Camera-ready copy due May 24, 2006 Workshop opens August 29th, 2006 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 Odej Kao, University of Paderborn Contact: benno.stein@medien.uni-weimar.de We welcome you to attend and participate in the meeting! Information about the workshop can be found at http://www.aisearch.de/tir-06