The Program Chairs invite for the submission of original research papers and posters in all areas of Information Retrieval, including but not limited to:

IR Theory and Formal Models

Searching, browsing, meta-searching, data fusion, filtering and indexing
Text and content classification, categorisation, clustering
Relevance feedback, query expansion
Topic detection and tracking, novelty detection
Content-based filtering, collaborative filtering, Spam filtering
Personalised, collaborative or user-adaptive IR, recommender systems

Web IR

Link analysis
Query log analysis
Ad targeting
Spam detection
Blog and online-community search

User aspects

User modelling, user studies, user interaction in IR systems
Interactive IR, User studies, User models, Task-based IR
Novel user interfaces for IR systems
User interfaces, visualisation and presentation of queries, search results or content
Multimodal aspects

IR system architectures

Distributed and peer to peer IR
Parallel IR
Fusion/Combination
Open, interoperable and flexible
Performance, Scalability, Architectures, Efficiency, Platforms
Compression, performance, optimisation

Content representation and processing

IR and structured contents, e.g. XML based
Unstructured contents
Meta information and structures, metadata
Indexing, Query representation, Query reformulation, Structure-based representation, XML
Text Categorization and clustering
Text data mining
Social tagging
Cross-language retrieval, Multilingual retrieval
Machine translation for IR
Question answering, Natural language processing for IR, Summarization

Evaluation

Evaluation methosd and metrics
Building test collections and metrics
Experimental design
User-oriented and user-centered test and evaluation

Multimedia and cross-media IR

Speech retrieval
Image and video retrieval
Digital music, radio and broadcast retrieval

Applications

Digital libraries
Enterprise Search, Intranet search, Desktop search
Mobile IR
Genomic IR, legal IR, IR for chemical structures, etc.
Legal IR, patent search