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Full Papers and Short Papers
We are seeking the submission of high-quality and original full papers and short papers. Submissions will be reviewed by experts on the basis of the originality of the work, the validity of the results, chosen methodology, writing quality and the overall contribution to the field of IR.
Short Paper submissions addressing any of the areas identified in the conference topics are also invited. Authors are encouraged to describe work in progress and late-breaking research results.
Reproducible IR Research Track
We are happy to announce the Reproducible IR Research Track introduced at ECIR 2015 will continue for ECIR 2016.
Reproducibility is key for establishing research to be reliable, referenceable and extensible for the future. Experimental papers are therefore most useful when their results can be tested and generalised by peers. This track specifically invites submission of papers reproducing a single or a group of papers, from a third-party where you have *not* been directly involved (e.g., *not* been an author or a collaborator). Emphasise your motivation for selecting the paper/papers, the process of how results have been attempted to be reproduced (successful or not), the communication that was necessary to gather all information, the potential difficulties encountered and the result of the process. A successful reproduction of the work is not a requirement, but it is important to provide a clear and rigid evaluation of the process to allow lessons to be learned for the future.
Topics
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- IR Theory and Practice
- Searching, browsing, meta-searching
- Data fusion, filtering and indexing
- Language models, probabilistic IR, neural network based models
- Learning to rank
- Content classification, categorisation, clustering
- Relevance feedback, query expansion, faceted retrieval
- Topic detection and tracking, novelty detection
- Recommender systems
- Content-based filtering, collaborative filtering
- Spam detection and filtering
- Personalised, collaborative or user-adaptive IR
- Adversarial IR
- Privacy in IR
- Contextual IR
- Mobile, Geo and local search
- Temporal IR, time-based modelling
- Entity IR
- Web and Social Media IR
- Link analysis
- Query log analysis
- Advertising and ad targeting
- Spam detection
- Trust, authority, reputation, ranking
- Blog and online-community search, microblogs
- Social search
- Social tagging
- Social networking and Web based communities
- Trend identification and tracking
- Time series and forecasting
- User aspects
- User modelling, user studies, user interaction and history
- Interactive IR
- Task-based IR
- Click models
- Novel user interfaces for IR systems
- Visualisation of queries, search results or content
- Multimodal aspects, multimodal querying
- IR system architectures
- Distributed and peer to peer IR
- Cloud IR
- Federated IR
- Aggregated Search
- Fusion/Combination
- Open, interoperable and flexible systems
- Performance, scalability, efficiency
- Architectures and platforms
- Crawling and indexing
- Compression, optimisation
- Map/Reduce for IR
- Content representation and processing
- IR for semi-structured documents
- IR for semantically annotated collections, semantic search
- Reasoning for IR
- Meta information and structures, metadata
- Query representation, query reformulation
- Text categorisation and clustering
- Text data mining
- Opinion mining, sentiment analysis, argumentation mining
- Cross-language retrieval, multilingual retrieval
- Machine translation for IR
- Question answering
- Natural language processing
- Summarization for IR
- Evaluation
- Evaluation methods and metrics
- Building test collections
- Experimental design
- Crowdsourcing for evaluation, human computing
- User-oriented and user-centred test and evaluation
- Metric comparison and evaluation
- Offline vs online evaluation
- Multimedia and cross-media IR
- Speech retrieval
- Image and video retrieval
- Entity retrieval
- Digital music, radio and broadcast retrieval
- Virtual reality and information access
- Cross-modal processing and search
- Applications
- Digital libraries
- Enterprise and intranet search
- Desktop search
- Mobile IR
- Genomic IR, IR for chemical structures
- Medical IR
- Legal IR, patent search
- eScience
- The Internet of Things
Submission instructions are available here: Submission instructions
- Program Chairs
- Fabio Crestani, University of Lugano, Switzerland
- Marie-Francine Moens, KU Leuven, Belgium
- Short Paper Chairs
- Josiane Mothe, ESPE, IRIT, Université de Toulouse, France
- Fabrizio Silvestri, Yahoo! Labs, London