Call for Papers

3rd Conference on on Theory of Information Retrieval
(ICTIR'11)

Bertinoro, Italy
September 12-14, 2011

http://www.ictir11.org/

The International Conference on the Theory of Information Retrieval (ICTIR) aims to provide a forum for discussion and interaction among those with theoretical and applicative research interests in mathematical/formal aspects of Information Retrieval (IR), including, e.g., foundational issues, description or integration of models, retrieval applications, mathematical/formal techniques, existing and/or new theories and theoretical aspects.

The third ICTIR conference aims to continue in the same spirit, promoting research in the wider contexts of IR. Reflecting this, in addition to the established fields and approaches in IR, research papers on new approaches inspired from sociology, mathematics, physics, linguistics, biology, philosophy, and other areas are sought. Papers that demonstrate a high level of research adventure or which break out of the traditional IR paradigms are particularly welcome. Experimental and/or practical results from new paradigms are also of interest.

Indicative topics of interest

Foundations
• Mathematical Foundations of IR
• Probabilistic, logical, language, information theoretic, social IR models, and quantum mechanics Based IR models
• Concepts, properties and structures in IR
• Properties and structures in IR
• IR architectures: peer-to-peer, distributed IR, grid
• Content representation and indexing
• Algorithms, complexity
• New models, frameworks and approaches to IR
Techniques
• Evaluation methodologies, test collections, metrics
• User modelling and user interactions
• Context issues
• Browsing, semantic search, meta-search
• Bibliometrics for IR and citation analysis
• Social networks and media, on-line community analysis, social tagging
• Classification, categorization, and clustering
• Machine learning
• Visualization
Applications
• Web IR
• Enterprise search
• Expert search
• Interactive IR
• Text mining
• Digital libraries
• XML retrieval
• Multimedia retrieval
• Domain-specific IR (blog, legal, biomedical, book, etc.)
• Recommender systems
• Filtering
• Semantic Web
• Mobile IR
Wider context
• Philosophy of IR
• Sociology of IR
• Pedagogy of IR
• Linguistics of IR

Important dates

April 3, 2011: Research papers submissions due
April 17, 2011: Posters submissions due
May 29, 2011: Notification of acceptance
June 12, 2011: Final papers due
September 12-14, 2011: Conference days

All accepted papers and posters will be published by Springer in the Proceedings of ICTIR'11, as part of the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series.