The Call for Submissions for the SIGIR 2012 Doctoral Consortium is available now at http://sigir.org/sigir2012/callforcoctoralconsortium.php. The deadline is March 26, 2012.

ICWSM 2012 will feature a workshop on real-time analysis and mining of social streams. The workshop aims to bring together experts in real-time analysis and mining of social streams and to further develop and exchange knowledge around these tasks. More details will become available on the ICWSM 2012 site.

LREC 2012 will feature a workshop on language engineering for online reputation management. The aim of the workshop is to bring together the language engineering community (including researchers and developers) with representatives from the online reputation management industry, with the ultimate goal of establishing a five-year roadmap on the topic plus a description of the language technologies required to get there in terms of resources, algorithms and applications. Deadline: February 15, 2012. Workshop date: May 26 (at LREC 2012, Istanbul). See the call for papers for more details.

CCCT Seminar, November 25, 16-17 (followed by drinks)

The next meeting of the CCCT seminar is devoted to information visualization. As usual, there will be two speakers, from two faculties, who will highlight different angles of the topic at hand.

Marcel Worring from the Informatics Institute will talk about “Multimedia Analytics: Easy Categorization of Large Multimedia Collections.” Bernhard Rieder from Media Studies will talk about “Between Tool and Research Object: Data Visualization in the Humanities”.

Location: Universiteitstheater, Nieuwe Doelenstraat 16, Amsterdam, room 301.

For more information, visit http://ccct.uva.nl

CALL FOR PAPERS

CLEF 2011 Conference on Multilingual and Multimodal Information Access Evaluation

SUBMISSION DEADLINE: 1 MAY 2011

CLEF2011 is the second CLEF conference continuing the popular CLEF campaigns. It will cover a broad range of issues in the fields of multilingual and multimodal information access evaluation. It will consist of two main parts: a peer-reviewed conference on research papers, and a series of labs, which will continue the CLEF tradition of community-based evaluation and discussion on evaluation issues.

AIMS AND SCOPE

The CLEF2011 conference aims at advancing the evaluation of complex multimodal and multilingual information systems in order to support individuals, organizations, and communities who design, develop, employ, and improve such systems. The growth of the Internet has been exponential with respect to the number of users, media, and languages used regularly for global information dissemination. Language and media barriers are no longer seen as inviolable and they are constantly crossed and mixed to provide content that can be accessed on a global scale within a multicultural and multilingual setting.

Users need to be able to co-operate and communicate across language and media boundaries, going beyond separate search in diverse media/languages and exploiting interactions between different languages and media.

Experimental evaluation — both laboratory and interactive — is a key to fostering the development of multilingual and multimodal information systems that address increasingly complex information needs.

We invite submissions for presentation at the CLEF2011 conference. We welcome submissions on all aspects of multilingual and multimodal information access evaluation. All submissions will be reviewed on the basis of relevance, originality, importance, and clarity.

FORMAT

The conference proceedings will be published in the Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series.

Authors are invited to submit electronically original papers, which have not been published and are not under consideration elsewhere, using the LNCS proceedings format.http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-7-72376-0

Two types of papers are solicited:
• full papers: 12 pages max;
• short papers: 6 pages max.

Papers will be peer-reviewed by at least 3 members of the program committee. Papers should be submitted in PDF format to the following address:

http://senldogo0039.springer-sbm.com/CLEF2011/servlet/Conference/

IMPORTANT DATES

• May 1st, 2011 Submission deadline
• June 10th, 2011 Notification of acceptance
• June 17th, 2011 Camera ready versions
• September 19th-22nd, 2011 CLEF Conference


TOPICS

Relevant topics for the CLEF2010 conference include but are not limited to:
• Novel methodologies for the design of evaluation tasks, especially user-centric ones;
• Analysis of the impact of multilingual/multicultural/multimodal differences in interface and search design;
• Assessing multilinguality and multimodality in relevant application communities, e.g. digital libraries, intellectual property, medical, music, video, and social media;
• Testing and evaluation of translation and summaries over documents and of linked documents in multilingual information retrieval;
• Benefits of multilingual information retrieval methods for different user groups or in different use cases, including those relevant to the developing world;
• Alternative methods for improving and automating ground-truth creation, for example crowd-sourcing or log-based;
• Alternatives and comparison of item-based, list-based, set-based, and session-based evaluation;
• Prediction of success and satisfaction rate;
• Task-oriented metrics of success and failure;
• Simulation (of queries, sessions, users) and information retrieval;
• Innovative and easy to communicate techniques for analysing the experimental results, including statistical analyses, data mining, and information visualization;
• Infrastructures for bringing automation and collaboration in the evaluation process;
• Living laboratories and evaluating live systems;
• Economic impact/sustainability of multilingual and multimodal information approaches, evaluation methodologies, and deployed systems.

ORGANIZATION

http://clef2011.org/index.php?page=pages/organizers.html