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*TIR'19 - 16th International Workshop on Technologies for Information Retrieval*
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In conjunction with the DEXA 2019
30th International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications
Linz, Austria
August 26 - August 29, 2019

http://tir.webis.de


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About this Workshop
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The development of advanced retrieval solutions requires the understanding and the
combination of methods from different research areas, including machine learning,
(big) data mining, natural language processing, artificial intelligence, user
interaction and modeling, and Web engineering. In addition, societal challenges
such as information quality, bias, or the trustworthiness of the stated facts and
arguments have come into focus.

In this regard the TIR workshop provides a platform for presenting and discussing
new solutions, novel ideas, or specific tools for future retrieval and text
understanding systems. The following list organizes classic and recent topics for
which contributions are welcome, but not limited to:


- Theory. Retrieval models, similarity measures, formal analysis

- Evaluation. Corpus construction, experiment design, performance measures,
reproducibility, benchmarking of Information Retrieval and Machine Learning
algorithms

- Information Quality and Provenance. Text quality assessment, text reuse,
trust and author reputation, provenance analytics

- Natural Language Technologies for IR Applications. Opinion mining, text
summarization and simplifi-cation, question answering, discourse and argument
mining

- Personalization. Personalized retrieval, context detection, user profiling,
user modeling

- Web Search. Ranking and recommendation, query classification and segmentation,
vertical search, dynamic taxonomy generation

- Social Media Analytics. People analytics, social network analysis, trend analysis

- Semantic Web. Meta data analysis and tagging, knowledge extraction,
inference and linking

- Machine Learning. Representation learning for text mining

- Explanations. Explainable IR models, result explanations, evaluation of
explanations



The TIR workshop is held for the sixteenth time. Past workshops could attract
high-quality and innovative contributions and were characterized by an open
and stimulating atmosphere.

Accepted papers will appear in the proceedings of DEXA’19 Workshops published
by the Conference Publishing Services (CPS) of IEEE Computer Society.


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Important Dates
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April 05, 2019: Deadline for paper submission (23:59 CET)
May 23, 2019: Notification to authors
June 08, 2019: Camera-ready copy due


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Workshop Organizers
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Christin Seifert (Co-Chair), University of Twente, The Netherlands
Benno Stein (Co-Chair), Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, Germany
Michael Granitzer (Co-Chair), University of Passau, Germany

Contact: tir [AT] webis.de
Information about the workshop can be found at http://tir.webis.de