4th CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
** Early Bird Registration Deadline: 29th February 2008 **
**Full Programme and Accommodation Details Now Online **
30th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR
2008) 30th March -
3rd April University of Glasgow
http://ecir2008.dcs.gl
a.ac.uk/
Organized by: University of Glasgow
In cooperation with: BCS-IRSG, ACM SIGIR
* Conference programme (31st March - 2nd April) The
technical program
includes 33 full research papers, 19 short papers, and 28
posters. Full
programme is available at http://e
cir2008.dcs.gla.ac.uk/programme.html
Tutorials and workshops (30th March)
http://ecir2008.dcs.gla.ac.uk/tutorials_workshops.html
ECIR 2008 will host three half-day tutorials and three
full-day workshops
Tutorial: Advanced language modeling approaches (case study:
expert
search) - Djoerd Hiemstra, University of Twente, The
Netherlands
Tutorial: Search and discovery in user-generate text content
- Maarten
de Rijke and Wouter Weerkamp, ISLA, University of Amsterdam,
The Netherlands
Tutorial: Research and building IR applications using
Terrier - Craig
Macdonald and Ben He, University of Glasgow, UK
Workshop: Workshop on novel methodologies for evaluation in
Information
Retrieval - organized by Mark Sanderson, University of
Sheffield, UK,
Martin Braschler, Zurich University of Applied Sciences,
Switzerland,
Nicola Ferro, University of Padova, Italy, and Julio
Gonzalo, UNED, Spain
Workshop: Efficiency issues in Information Retrieval
Workshop -
organized by Roi Blanco, Universidade da Coruņa, Spain and
Fabrizio
Silvestri, ISTI CNR, Italy
Workshop: Exploiting semantic annotations in Information
Retrieval -
Omar Alonso, A9.com, USA and Hugo Zaragoza, Yahoo! Research
Barcelona,
Spain
*Industry day (3rd April)
http://ec
ir2008.dcs.gla.ac.uk/industry.html
A day of presentations and discussion dedicated to the
interests and
needs of Information Retrieval practitioners.
* Keynote speakers
ECIR 2008 is pleased to announce the following three keynote
speakers:
Nicholas J. Belkin Rutgers, University, USA - Some(what)
Grand
Challenges for Information Retrieval
Bettina Berendt, K.U. Leuven, Belgium - You are a document
too: Web
mining and IR for next-generation information literacy
Amit Singhal, Google Research Fellow, Google, USA - Web
Search:
Challenges and Directions
* Paper awards
Best paper award, best student paper award and best poster
award, all
sponsored by Yahoo! Research
* Social events
A social event every day, including a Banquet reception on
31st March at
the Kelvingrove Museum, and a civic reception at the City
Chambers on
1st April. Further details are available on the ECIR 2008
Web site.
* Registration
For registration and other information, please visit the
ECIR 2008 home
page at http:
//ecir2008.dcs.gla.ac.uk/registration.html
* Main sponsors
Google http://www.google.com
Microsoft Research http://research.microso
ft.com
Yahoo! Research http://research.yahoo.com
MatrixWare Information Services http://www.matrixware.com
We are looking forward to welcoming you in Glasgow,
The ECIR 2008 Chairs
(Ian Ruthven, Vassilis Plachouras, Ryen White and Iadh
Ounis)
--
Ian Ruthven
Department of Computer and Information Sciences
University of Strathclyde
Glasgow G1 1XH
Email: Ian.Ruthven cis.strath.ac.uk
Tel: +44 141 548 3098
Fax: +44 141 548 4523
http://www.cis.strath
.ac.uk/~ir
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