1st CALL FOR PAPERS
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"4th International Workshop on Text-Based Information Retrieval" (TIR-07)

A Workshop in conjunction with the
18th International Conference on Database and Expert Systems
Applications, DEXA 2007,
Regensburg, Germany, September 3rd to 7th
http://www.aisearch.de/tir-07

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, from the high availability of the
Internet, and from the rising importance of the different forms of Web
communities.

Various techniques and methods are 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, Web engineering,
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
- IR and natural language processing: topic identification, text
summarization, keyword extraction
- Web community mining, social network analysis, collaborative
tagging and IR
- plagiarism analysis, author identification, style analysis
- concepts and techniques for information visualization, user
modeling, and interaction for particular retrieval tasks
- relevance feedback and personalization
- evaluation, building of test collections, experimental design and
user studies
- multilingual issues in IR: cross-language retrieval, multilingual
retrieval, machine translation for IR
- IR for the Semantic Web: usage, extraction, and maintenance of
knowledge
- IR and software engineering: frameworks, architectures, distributed IR
- IR in business and engineering applications

The workshop addresses researchers, users, and practitioners from
different fields: data mining and machine learning, document and
knowledge management, semantic technologies, computer linguistics, 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 12, 2007
Notification to authors April 28, 2007
Camera-ready copy due May 31, 2007
Workshop opens September 3, 2007

Contributions will be peer-reviewed by at least two experts from the
related field. Accepted papers will be published as IEEE proceedings
by IEEE CS Press.

WORKSHOP ORGANIZATION:

Benno Stein, Bauhaus University Weimar
Harald Sack, Friedrich Schiller University Jena

Contact: benno.stein@medien.uni-weimar.de
Information about the workshop can be found at
http://www.aisearch.de/tir-07