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Apologies for multiple posts. Please distribute. ***** Preliminary CALL FOR PAPERS ***** The Third International Workshop on Evaluating Information Access (EVIA 2010), a Satellite Workshop of NTCIR-8 http://research.nii.ac.jp/ntcir/ntcir-ws8/EVIA-2010/ June 15, 2010 at NII, Tokyo, Japan. *************************************** Information Access technologies provide the interface between human information needs and digital information resources. The reliable evaluation of these technologies has been recognized for decades as central to the advancement of the field. As information retrieval becomes more pervasive, the forms of retrieval more diverse, and retrieval tools richer, the importance of effective, efficient, and innovative evaluation grows as well. In recognition of the need for a forum dedicated to the intensive discussion of evaluation issues, we have held two successful International Workshops on Evaluating Information Access (EVIA 2007 and 2008). Proceedings and reports can be found below: EVIA 2007 online proceedings: http://research.nii.ac.jp/ntcir/workshop/OnlineProceedings6/EVIA/ EVIA 2008 online proceedings: http://research.nii.ac.jp/ntcir/workshop/OnlineProceedings7/toc_evia.html SIGIR Forum Report on EVIA 2007: http://sigir.org/forum/2007D/2007d_sigirforum_sanderson.pdf SIGIR Forum Report on EVIA 2008: http://sigir.org/forum/2009J/2009j-sigirforum-sakai.pdf Following these successes, we are happy to announce the Third International Workshop on Evaluating Information Access (EVIA 2010) on June 15, 2010 (coinciding with Day 1 of the NTCIR-8 Workshop Meeting) at the National Institute of Informatics (NII), Tokyo, Japan. We invite papers addressing one or more of the following topics: - Test collection formation, evaluation metrics, and evaluation environments - Statistical issues in retrieval evaluation - User studies and the evaluation of human-computer interaction in information retrieval (HCIR) - Evaluation methods for multilingual, multimedia, or mobile information access - Novel information access tasks and their evaluation - Evaluation and assessment using implicit user feedback, crowdsourcing, living labs, or inferential methods - Evaluation issues in industrial and enterprise retrieval systems *** SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS *** Submissions will be subject to double-blind reviewing. Accepted papers will be included in the EVIA 2010 online proceedings, and summarized in a report to SIGIR Forum. We invite submissions of regular papers (up to 9 pages) and short papers (up to 5 pages). Details will soon be announced on the EVIA 2010 website: http://research.nii.ac.jp/ntcir/ntcir-ws8/EVIA-2010/ *** IMPORTANT DATES *** - March 31, 2010 *submissions due* - April 18, 2010 notification of acceptance - May 10, 2010 final manuscripts due - June 15, 2010 EVIA 2010@NII, Tokyo, Japan - June 15-18, 2010 NTCIR-8@NII, Tokyo, Japan *** EVIA 2010 PROGRAM COMMITTEE *** Akiko Aizawa NII Japan Javed Aslam Northeastern University USA Nicholas Belkin Rutgers University USA Ben Carterette University of Delaware USA Charlie Clarke University of Waterloo Canada Georges Dupret Yahoo! Research Chile Norbert Fuhr Universitaet Duisburg-Essen Germany Atsushi Fujii Tokyo Institute of Technology Japan Donna Harman NIST USA Hideo Joho University of Tsukuba Japan Gareth Jones Dublin City University Ireland Noriko Kando NII Japan Evangelos Kanoulas University of Sheffield UK Jaana Kekalainen University of Tampere Finland Mounia Lalmas University of Glasgow UK Gary Geunbae Lee POSTECH Korea Mun-Kew Leong National Library Board Singapore Jimmy Lin University of Maryland USA Chin-Yew Lin Microsoft Research Asia China Iadh Ounis University of Glasgow UK Carol Peters IEI-CNR Italy Ian Ruthven University of Strathclyde UK Tetsuya Sakai Microsoft Research Asia China Mark Sanderson University of Sheffield UK Falk Scholer RMIT University Australia Ian Soboroff NIST USA Paul Thomas CSIRO Australia William Webber University of Melbourne Australia Emine Yilmaz Microsoft Research Cambridge UK *** EVIA 2010 CO-CHAIRS *** William Webber (University of Melbourne, Australia) wew@csse.unimelb.edu.au Mark Sanderson (University of Sheffield, UK) m.sanderson@sheffield.ac.uk Tetsuya Sakai (Microsoft Research Asia, China) tetsuyasakai@acm.org |
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