INEWS 2008

2nd ACM International Workshop "Improving Non English Web Searching" iNEWS'08

held in conjunction with ACM CIKM 2008

http://rea.teimes.gr/lazarinf/iNEWS08/

Fotis Lazarinis, Efthimis Efthimiadis, Jesus Vilares, John Tait

October 30, 2008, Napa Valley, California

July 20, 2008 (** new date **)   Paper submissions due August 10, 2008   Notifications of acceptance August 15, 2008   Camera-ready copy due October 30, 2008 Workshop
 * Key dates

The main aims of this workshop are to identify the problems in web searching when working with non-English languages and to propose solutions and tools so as to improve web retrieval systems.
 * Workshop Theme

The specific aims of the workshop are to promote better understanding of: - the problems of search engines in non-English queries. - methodologies for evaluating the effectiveness of search engines in non-English queries. - the user query patterns in non-English Web retrieval. - the factors that influence utilization of search engines in a multicultural world. - the needed improvements to the search engines with respect to non-English Web retrieval. - teaching strategies to help users improve their searching behaviour. - how standard IR techniques (Indexing, Query representation, Query reformulation, etc) can be adapted in Web retrieval for non-English languages. - the application of natural language processing techniques for non-English Web IR.
 * Aims and Topics

Workshop areas of interest include, but are not limited to: - Localization of search engine interfaces - Creation of multi-lingual web collections - Cross language and multilingual retrieval - Digital libraries - Evaluation methodologies - Image and video retrieval services - Indexing - Concept based image retrieval - Information extraction - Intranet/enterprise search - Natural language processing - Performance issues of local search engines - Query log analysis - Question answering - Retrieval models - Summarization - Teaching - Text categorization and clustering - User behaviour - User studies - Web information access

The 1-day workshop will begin with a morning keynote speaker; and follow with paper presentations; poster presentations; group break-outs, and groups reporting back to the workshop. This structure is chosen in order to increase the interactivity and to promote the discussion among the participants. Keynote Speaker(s): Our aim is to provide a panel of 2-3 representatives from the major Search Engines to discuss issues relating to non-English language search. Group-breakouts: Participants will join teams to discuss research challenges and directions on a topic. Papers: We solicit three types of paper submissions: (a) Full Papers for presentation (6-8 pages, refereed, published in CIKM proceedings) (b) short papers or posters (2-4 pages, refereed, published in CIKM proceedings) (c) one-page position papers (Not refereed, published in print workshop proceedings and online) We also intend to write a journal paper synthesizing the ideas and the conclusions of the workshop, referencing the papers of the workshop.
 * Workshop Format / Papers

Please visit the workshop site for more details on formatting and submission of papers:

http://rea.teimes.gr/lazarinf/iNEWS08/

Fotis Lazarinis, lazarinf [at] teimes [dot] gr Efthimis N. Efthimiadis, efthimis [at] u [dot] washington [dot] edu Jesus Vilares, jvilares [at] udc [dot] es John Tait, john.tait [at] ir-facility [dot] org This CfP was obtained from WikiCFP
 * Contact details of the workshop organizers