INFORMATION RETRIEVAL CONFERENCE 2010


The 1st Information Retrieval Facility Conference provides a
multi-disciplinary, scientific forum for researchers and aims at bringing
young researchers into contact with industry at an early stage. The IRF is
a unique organisation based around a supercomputing facility in Vienna and a
growing community of IR scientists.

The 1st IRF Conference tackles 4 complementary research areas:
* Information retrieval
* Semantic web technologies for IR
* Natural language processing for IR
* Large-scale or distributed computing for the above areas


The conference proceedings will be published in Springer LNCS

General Chair: Hamish Cunningham, University of Sheffield
Programme Chair: Stefan Rueger, The Open University
Programme Committee: see
http://www.ir-facility.org/events/irf-conference/programme-committee


The conference takes place in Vienna on the 31st of May 2010, one day
before the IRF Symposium 2010.

More information available here:
* IRF Conference: http://www.ir-facility.org/events/irf-conference
* IRF Symposium: http://www.ir-facility.org/events/irf-symposium/2010


Important dates
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Paper submission: 8 January 2010
Notification of acceptance: 22 February 2010
Final paper submission: 22 March 2010
IRF Conference: 31 May 2010