8th Italian Information Retrieval Workshop - IIR 2017 - Preliminary Call for Papers

[Raffaele Perego]

*** Preliminary Call for Papers ***

8th Italian Information Retrieval Workshop - IIR 2017
http://iir2017.usi.ch/

June 5-7, 2017
Università della Svizzera Italiana
Via G. Buffi, 13
Lugano, Switzerland

SCOPE
The purpose of the Italian Information Retrieval Workshop (IIR) is to
provide a meeting forum for stimulating and disseminating research in
Information Retrieval are related areas. It aims at being a place where
Italian-speaking researchers (especially young ones) and researchers
affiliated with Italian-speaking institutions can network and discuss their
research results in an informal way.

IIR 2017 is the 8th edition of the Italian Information Retrieval Workshop.
The event has been held annually in Italy since 2010. This year it will
take place outside of Italy, but still in an Italian speaking region, on
June 5-7, 2017 at the Università della Svizzera Italiana (USI) in Lugano,
Switzerland.

!!! For its 8th edition, IIR will host a track completely devoted to
Recommender Systems together with the first meeting of the RecSys Italian
chapter !!!

TOPICS
IIR 2017 offers an opportunity to present and discuss both theoretical and
empirical research. Relevant topics include, but are not restricted to, the
following subjects:

   - Document Representation and Content Analysis (text representation,
   document structure, linguistic analysis, NLP for IR, cross- and
   multi-lingual IR, information extraction, sentiment analysis, clustering,
   classification, topic models, facets, text streams).
   - Document Indexing (index granularity, distributed indexing,
   compression).
   - Queries and Query Analysis (query intent, query suggestion and
   prediction, query representation and reformulation, query log analysis,
   conversational search and dialogue, spoken queries, summarization, question
   answering, query log mining).
   - Retrieval Models and Ranking (IR theory, language models,
   probabilistic retrieval models, learning to rank, combining searches,
   diversity and aggregated search).
   - Search Engine Architectures (gathering, indexing, distributed IR,
   mobile IR, cloud IR).
   - Users and Interactive IR (user studies, user and task models,
   interaction analysis, session analysis, exploratory search, personalized
   search, social and collaborative search, search interface, whole-session
   support, user engagement).
   - Filtering and Recommending (content-based filtering, collaborative
   filtering, recommender systems).
   - IR and the Web of Data (Linked Data, Open Data, data mashups)
   - Knowledge-enabled IR (Knowledge graphs, ontologies, Semantic Web,
   entity extraction and linking)
   - Evaluation (test collections, experimental design, effectiveness
   measures, session-based evaluation, simulation).
   - Web IR and Social Media Search (link analysis, click models/behavioral
   modeling, social tagging, social network analysis, blog and microblog
   search, forum search, community-based QA, adversarial IR and spam, vertical
   and local search, expert finding).
   - IR and Structured Data (XML search, ranking in databases, desktop
   search, entity search)
   - Multimedia IR (image search, video search, speech/audio search, music
   search).
   - Application of neural network models in IR tasks.
   - Other Applications (digital libraries, enterprise search, genomics IR,
   legal IR, patent search, text reuse, new retrieval problems).


SUBMISSIONS
Submissions must be written in English and follow the guidelines set by
Springer in the LNCS series (see the web site for details). Submissions
will be peer-reviewed and accepted papers will appear in the CEUR-WS
on-line proceedings series (indexed by DBLP), as happened for all previous
IIR editions. Authors of accepted papers can choose not to have their
papers published in the CEUR-WS collection.

We particularly encourage PhD students or early-stage researchers to submit
their work and also welcome contributions from industry. The conference
languages are Italian and English.
Authors are invited to submit one of the following types of contributions:

* Full original papers (up to 12 pages);
* Short original papers (up to 8 pages);
* Extended abstracts containing descriptions of ongoing projects or
presenting already published results (up to 4 pages).

Submission page : https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iir2017

IMPORTANT DATES

* Submission deadline        : 31 March 2017
* Notification of acceptance : 5 May 2017
* IIR 2017 takes place on    : 5-7 June 2017

REGISTRATION
For the first time since the first edition in 2010, this year IIR will
require a small registration fee to cover the costs of coffee breaks and
social dinner. Università della Svizzera Italiana will organize and host
the workshop for free.

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R. Perego, ISTI-CNR, Pisa, Italy
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