DIR2010

Call for Papers
The primary aim of the Dutch-Belgian Information Retrieval (DIR) workshop is to provide an international meeting place where researchers from the domain of information retrieval and related disciplines can exchange information and present innovative research developments.

DIR 2010 will take place at the Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands, on January 25, 2010 (contrary to the earlier announcement it will be only one day).

Topics
DIR 2010 welcomes contributions related to any aspect of IR, including but not limited to:


 * Forensic Search
 * Privacy aspects of IR
 * Retrieval models, language models
 * Natural language processing for IR, text summarization
 * Information extraction, question answering
 * Machine Learning for IR
 * Query processing, thesaurus construction, user models
 * Multimedia IR, video retrieval, audio and music retrieval, cross-media retrieval
 * Multilingual and cross-lingual retrieval
 * Structured document retrieval, XML-IR
 * Image processing for IR, audio processing for IR
 * Processing and search of e-mail, spam, blogs
 * Categorization, topic tracking and event detection
 * Web IR, distributed IR, enterprise search, search of digital libraries, intranet search, desktop search
 * Collaborative filtering, recommender systems
 * Efficiency and performance
 * IR evaluation

Submissions
Papers may range from theoretical work to system descriptions. We encourage Ph.D. students to submit their research. We also welcome contributions from the industry when they focus on novel research directions. Submissions will be reviewed by at least two domain experts. The conference language is English. Papers should describe original research. Please submit papers in pdf-format, using the ACM SIG Proceedings style (http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html), with a maximum length of 8 pages. DIR2010 uses the Easychair system for submitting, please use the form found at this url: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dir2010

Important Dates
Paper submission deadline: November 13, 2009

Notification of acceptance: December 11, 2009

Conference at Radboud University Nijmegen: January 25, 2010