2nd CFP: Workshop on Collaborative Information Retrieval

Reminder: Workshop submission deadline (May 2) is
approaching!

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*1st International Workshop on Collaborative Information
Retrieval*
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In conjunction with JCDL 2008
Joint Conference on Digital Libraries

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA June 16-20, 2008
http://workshops.
fxpal.com/jcdl2008

Workshop Date: June 20, 2008


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About this Workshop:
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Support for explicit collaboration is becoming increasingly
important
for certain kinds of collection-building activities in
digital
libraries. In the last few years, several research groups
have pursued
various issues related to collaboration during search. We
can represent
collaboration in search on two dimensions - synchrony and
intent.

Synchronous, explicit search has some interesting
characteristics that
distinguish it from asynchronous, implicit collaborative
search (e.g.,
collaborative filtering, recommendation engines). There is
much more
emphasis on interaction, as the system has to not only
communicate
search results to users, but also mediate some forms of
communication
and data sharing among its users in near real time. There
are new
algorithms that need to be invented that use inputs from
multiple people
to produce search results, and new evaluation metrics need
to be
invented that reflect the collaborative and interactive
nature of the
task. Finally, we need to integrate the expertise of library
and
information science researchers and practitioners by
revisiting
real-world information seeking situations with an eye for
explicit,
synchronous collaborative search.

The goal of the workshop is to bring together researchers
interested in
various aspects of small-team collaborative search to share
ideas, to
stimulate research in the area, and to increase the
visibility of this
emerging area. We expect to identify promising directions
for further
exploration and to establish collaborative links among
research groups.

We are looking for previously-unpublished contributions in
the following
areas of collaborative search:

- *User Interfaces*: Shared awareness, coordination,
communication,
interaction design, input and display devices, etc.
- *Retrieval Algorithms*: Coordination of input, fusion,
distribution of
search results, modified ranking algorithms, etc.
- *Evaluation*: Novel evaluation methodology to assess
collaborative
system performance and to compare different systems, novel
metrics,
empirical study (qualitative and quantitative) of potential
user groups
and applications, etc.

Please submit your position papers in PDF format by e-mail
to
jeremyfxpal.com. Papers should be in ACM format, and should
be two to
four pages long.


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Important Dates:
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May 2, 2008 Deadline for paper submission
May 9, 2008 Notification to authors
May 16, 2008 Camera-ready copy due
May 19, 2008 JCDL Early Registration deadline
June 20, 2008 Workshop

Contributions will be peer-reviewed by at least two members
of our
program committee.


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Workshop Organization:
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Jeremy Pickens, FX Palo Alto Laboratory, Inc.
Gene Golovchinsky, FX Palo Alto Laboratory, Inc.
Meredith Ringel Morris, Microsoft Research

Contact: jeremyfxpal.com
Information about the workshop can be found at
http://workshops.
fxpal.com/jcdl2008


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Tentative program Committee:
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Colum Foley, Dublin City University
Gene Golovchinsky, FX Palo Alto Laboratory, Inc.
Diane Kelly, UNC Chapel Hill
Gary Marchionini, UNC Chapel Hill
Meredith Ringel Morris, Microsoft Research
Jeremy Pickens, FX Palo Alto Laboratory, Inc.
Alan Smeaton, Dublin City University


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