EVIA 2008

The Second International Workshop on Evaluating Information Access (EVIA 2008), A Satellite Workshop of NTCIR-7 http://ntcir.nii.ac.jp/index.php/EVIA-2008/

December 16, 2008 at NII, Tokyo, Japan.

Evaluation of Information Retrieval, Question Answering and Text Summarisation systems has been central to Information Access research for decades. As retrieval becomes more pervasive and diverse, the need for effective and efficient evaluation has never been more important. Recognising a need to provide a forum for discussing the evaluation issues intensively,The First International Workshop on Evaluating Information Access (EVIA 2007) was held on May 15, 2007 -- Day 1 of the NTCIR-6 Workshop Meeting -- at the National Institute of Informatics (NII), Tokyo, Japan. The EVIA 2007 Workshop consisted of invited paper sessions, a regular paper session and a poster session, and attracted participants from Asia, Europe and America. All the papers are available online:

http://research.nii.ac.jp/ntcir/workshop/OnlineProceedings6/EVIA/

A SIGIR Forum report on EVIA 2007 is available at: http://sigir.org/forum/2007D/2007d_sigirforum_sanderson.pdf

Following the success of EVIA 2007, The Second International Workshop on Evaluating Information Access (EVIA 2008) will be held on December 16, 2008 -- Day 1 of the NTCIR-7 Workshop Meeting -- at NII again. We will welcome papers addressing one or more of the following topics: - Test collections, their formation, evaluation metrics and evaluation environments - Cross-conference comparison: NTCIR, CLEF, TREC, DUC and others - Evaluation of specific information access tasks, e.g., for education and training - Evaluation of query-specific approaches - Evaluation of multilingual, multimedia and/or mobile information access - Real-world search topics and/or evaluation in vivo - Novel information access tasks and their evaluation

Submission instructions can be found on the EVIA 2008 webpage: http://ntcir.nii.ac.jp/index.php/EVIA-2008/


 * IMPORTANT DATES ***

September 1, 2008 Submissions due October 10, 2008 Notification of acceptance November 1, 2008 Final manuscripts due December 2008 EVIA 2008 / NTCIR-7


 * EVIA 2008 PROGRAM COMMITTEE ***

Iadh Ounis Diane Kelly Norbert Fuhr James Allan Nicholas Belkin Noriko Kando Akiko Aizawa Javed Aslam Jaana Kekalainen Maarten de Rijke Djoerd Hiemstra Gareth Jones Gary Geunbae Lee Mun-Kew Leong Ian Ruthven Ian Soboroff Andrew Turpin Ross Wilkinson Carol Peters Fred Gey Mounia Lalmas Donna Harman Ben Carterette Mark Sanderson Tetsuya Sakai


 * EVIA 2008 CO-CHAIRS ***

Mark Sanderson (University of Sheffield, UK) and Tetsuya Sakai (NewsWatch, Inc.)

If you have any questions, please contact m.sanderson@sheffield.ac.uk or tetsuyasakai@acm.org

-- Mark Sanderson Reader in Information Retrieval

Room 225, Dept. of Information Studies University of Sheffield, Regent Court Portobello St, Sheffield, S1 4DP, UK Tel: +44 (0) 114 22 22648, Fax: +44 (0) 114 27 80300 mailto:m.sanderson@shef.ac.uk, http://dis.shef.ac.uk/mark

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