Call for Papers

The primary aim of the workshop is to provide an international meeting place where researchers from the domain of information retrieval and related disciplines, can exchange information and present new research developments. This year, the programme committee especially welcomes contributions focusing on retrieval tasks specific to certain domains, e.g., biomedical, enterprise or cultural heritage information.

Authors who are interested in presenting original research at the workshop are invited to submit papers on or before January 15, 2004. Papers should be maximum 8 pages long, and formatted in ACM SIG Proceedings style. Submissions will be reviewed by at least two domain experts. Papers can cover any topic related to IR, including:

  • Domain-specific IR applications
  • Access to audio recordings e.g. interviews or meeting recordings
  • Multimedia IR, video retrieval
  • Structured document retrieval, XML-IR
  • Retrieval models, language models
  • Text representation, information extraction, text summarisation,
  • Text categorisation, topic tracking and event detection
  • Query processing, thesaurus construction, user models
  • Cross-language IR
  • IR for the Web, XML and meta-data, link analysis
  • Question answering systems
  • IR evaluation
  • Papers may range from theoretical work to system descriptions. We especially welcome contributions from industry. Best ranked papers will be considered for a special issue of an international journal (under negotiation). The conference language is English.

    Important dates

    Deadline for papersJanuary 15, 2006
    Notification of acceptanceFebruary 13, 2006
    Deadline for final versionsFebruary 26, 2006
    WorkshopMarch 13 and 14, 2006

    Submission details

    Papers should be in English, maximum 8 pages long, and formatted in ACM SIG Proceedings style (http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html). Papers can be submitted in pdf-format via email to: dir2006@ewi.utwente.nl with subject line "DIR2006 submission".

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    6th Dutch-Belgian Information Retrieval Workshop (DIR 2006)