Towards Genre-Enabled Search Engines: The Impact of NLP AIMS The main aims of the workshop are as follows: To identify the key features that help classify documents by genre, and their efficiency and effectiveness within an IR framework. To explore how genres can improve search engines, and in particular how it can be integrated with topic-based retrieval. To bring together researchers working on genre in different communities – such as Computational Linguistics, NLP, Information Retrieval and Extraction, Text and Web Mining, or Summarization – in order to investigate the extent to which NLP can assist or enable automatic genre identification. TOPICS The topics of interests include but are not limited to: Computational modelling of genres for web applications; Implementation of genre-based applications for retrieval; The impact of lexis, morphology and syntax on automatic genre identification; Genre-revealing features and their automatic extraction; Genre-driven NLP tools, such as genre-driven taggers, parsers, or discourse annotation; Genre classification schemes accounting for multi-genre and no-genre documents; Test collections and evaluation metrics for genre-enabled applications; Clustering and visualization of results based on genre. CATEGORIES OF PAPERS Papers can be submitted to one of two categories: REGULAR PAPER and POSTER. Authors must designate one of these categories at submission time. REGULAR PAPERS are full-length papers and must NOT exceed 8 pages. POSTERS are submitted as extended abstracts (MAX 4 pages). If accepted, a poster is presented in the workshop poster session. Both regular papers and poster papers are included in the workshop proceedings. IMPORTANT DATES First Call for papers: March 20, 2007 Second Call for papers: May 2, 2007 Workshop paper submission deadline: June 15, 2007 Workshop paper acceptance notification: July 25, 2007 Camera-ready papers for workshop proceedings due: August 31, 2007 Workshop date: September 30, 2007 http://www.sics.se/use/genre-ws/