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Springer Academic Publishers
'Journal of Information Retrieval'
Special Issue on: "Non-English Web Retrieval"
Important dates:
Abstract submission: May 4, 2008
Paper submission: May 11, 2008, 11:50pm Hawaii Standand
Time
Notification of acceptance/rejection: June 25, 2008
Guest Editors:
Fotis Lazarinis, Technological Education Institute,
Mesolonghi, Greece
Jesus Vilares, Department of Computer Sciences, University
of ACoruna, Spain
John Tait, Information Retrieval Facility, Austria
Efthimis N. Efthimiadis, The Information School, University
of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
Contacts:
lazarinf [at] teimes [dot] gr
jvilares [at] udc [dot] es
john.tait [at] ir-facility [dot] org
efthimis [at] u [dot] washington [dot] edu
Site: http:/
/rea.teimes.gr/lazarinf/NonEnglishWebIR/
Since its conception, the World Wide Web (WWW or Web) has
rapidly
become one of the most widely used services of the Internet.
Its
friendly interface and its hypermedia features attract
virtually
every computer user around the globe. As a result, the Web
has become
a dominant global multicultural and multilingual pool of
various
types of data. Further it continues to grow. Finding
information that
satisfies specific criteria is a regular daily activity of
almost
every Web user. Recent Web statistics showed that almost 65%
of the
online citizens are non-English language users. As the Web
population
continues to grow, especially in Asia, Africa, and South
America,
more non-English users will be amassed online. Recent
studies showed
that non-English queries and unclassifiable queries have
nearly
tripled in the last decade. The main conclusion from
previous
research is that most search engine features are primarily
focused on
the English language.
Based on previous studies and on the experiences and
conclusions of
the iNEWS07 (Improving Non-English Web Searching) ACM
SIGIR'07
Workshop, the special issue aims to address the challenges
and
directions in Non-English Web retrieval.
For the special issue we seek high quality papers with
theoretical
and/or experimental orientation. Topics of interest for the
special
issue, as applied to Non-English Web searching, include, but
are not
limited to:
Evaluation
User search behaviour
Query log analysis
Indexing
Information extraction
Summarization
User studies
Retrieval models
Question answering
Natural language processing
Concept based image retrieval
Creation of multi-lingual web collections
Intranet/enterprise search
Text categorization and clustering
Digital libraries
Cross language and multilingual retrieval
Submission Instructions:
Please visit http:/
/rea.teimes.gr/lazarinf/NonEnglishWebIR/
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2008 Annual Meeting
People Transforming Information - Information Transforming
People
October 24-29, 2008, Columbus, Ohio
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