ACM Transactions on Information Systems
www.acm.org/pubs/tois/

Call for Papers
Special issue on XML Retrieval

Special issue Editors:
- Ricardo Baeza-Yates, Universidad de Chile
  (Chile) & ICREA-Univ. Pompeu Fabra (Spain)
- Norbert Fuhr, University of Duisburg-Essen (Germany)
- Yoelle Maarek, IBM Research Haifa (Israel)

Schedule

* Submission deadline: September 30, 2005
* Author Notification: January 15, 2006

Theme
Submissions are sought for a special edition of ACM TOIS on  XML
Information Retrieval

With the increased availability of XML documents, the development of
appropriate information retrieval methods has recently become an
active research area. The explicit representation of the logical
structure of XML documents represents a new source of information,
which can potentially be exploited by retrieval methods for better
information discovery. In addition to structural information, XML
tagging can also indicate the data type as well as the role of an
element. Novel methods and approaches, which take advantage of the
various sources of information are needed. These new XML information
retrieval techniques will probably evolve from classical text
retrieval as well as from the management of semi-structured data.

We seek original publications describing models, methods or systems
including but not limited to the following aspects of XML retrieval:

- algorithms and data structures
- ad-hoc/interactive retrieval
- filtering and categorization
- clustering and browsing
- document mining
- evaluation mechanisms
- indexing and retrieval
- applications of XML retrieval
- novel user experiences for XML retrieval


Submission

Authors should submit their papers in electronic form at
http://acm.manuscriptcentral.com, following the author guidelines described
at http://www.acm.org/pubs/tois/authors.html.

Please add a comment to the Editor-in-Chief stating that this is a
submission for the Special Issue on XML Retrieval

All submissions will be subject to peer review. Authors of accepted
papers will be notified by January 15, 2006.