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Call for Papers
4th Italian Information Retrieval Workshop
IIR 2013
http://iir2013.isti.cnr.it/

January 16-17, 2013

Area della Ricerca di Pisa
Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche
Via Giuseppe Moruzzi, 1
56124 Pisa, Italy
http://www.area.pi.cnr.it/

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AIMS

The purpose of the Italian Information Retrieval Workshop (IIR)
is to provide a meeting forum for stimulating and disseminating
research in Information Retrieval, where Italian researchers
(especially young ones) and researchers affiliated with Italian
institutions can network and discuss their research results in
an informal way.


HISTORY

The first three editions of the Italian Information Retrieval
Workshop series took place in Padova (2010 --
http://ims.dei.unipd.it/websites/iir10/), Milano (2011 --
http://www.ir.disco.unimib.it/iir2011/), and Bari (2012 --
http://www.di.uniba.it/~swap/iir2012).


TOPICS

IIR 2013 will offer an opportunity to present and discuss both
theoretical and empirical research. Relevant topics include,
but are not restricted to, the following subjects:

* Ranking (e.g., retrieval models, learning to rank, diversity, combining searches);
* Queries (e.g., query intent, query log analysis, query reformulation, question answering);
* Content analysis (e.g., document representation, information extraction, clustering, classification, sentiment analysis, cross-lingual IR);
* Efficiency (e.g., indexing, compression, distributed IR);
* Filtering (e.g., content-based filtering, collaborative filtering, recommender systems);
* Evaluation (e.g., test collections, effectiveness measures, experimental design);
* Users (e.g., user models, user studies, search interface, personalized search, human-computer IR);
* Web IR (e.g., link analysis, social network analysis, blog search, computational advertising);
* Multimedia IR (e.g., image search, video search, music IR);
* Structured IR (e.g., XML search, desktop search, entity search);
* Other applications (e.g., genomics IR, legal IR, mobile IR, patent search, digital libraries, IR for cultural heritage, enterprise search, geographic IR).


SUBMISSIONS

Papers may range from theoretical works to system descriptions.
We particularly encourage PhD students or early-stage
researchers to submit their research; we also welcome
contributions from the industry. The conference languages are
Italian and English. Submissions must be written in English or
Italian and follow the guidelines set by Springer at
http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-7-72376-0.
Papers must be submitted through EasyChair at the address
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iir2013 . Each
paper will be reviewed by at least two PC members.

Authors are invited to submit:

* Full original papers (up to 12 pages)
* Short original papers (up to 8 pages)
* Extended abstracts containing descriptions of ongoing projects or presenting already published results (up to 4 pages)

Authors of accepted papers will be invited to submit their
paper for publication in the on-line proceedings, which will
appear in the CEUR-WS on-line proceedings series
(http://ceur-ws.org); the proceedings will be indexed by DBLP
(in line with the IIR 2010, 2011 and 2012 editions -- see
http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/db/conf/iir/index.html).
Submission details will be published on the IIR 2013 website.
** Accepted papers whose authors have not shown up at the
workshop to present the paper, will not be published in the
proceedings. **


IMPORTANT DATES

* Submission deadline: November 25, 2012
* Notification of acceptance: December 11, 2012
* IIR 2013: January 16-17, 2013


GENERAL CHAIR

* Fabrizio Sebastiani (ISTI-CNR, Pisa)


PROGRAM CHAIRS

* Roberto Basili (Università di Roma "Tor Vergata")
* Giovanni Semeraro (Università di Bari "Aldo Moro")


IIR STEERING COMMITTEE

* Gianni Amati (Fondazione Ugo Bordoni)
* Claudio Carpineto (Fondazione Ugo Bordoni)
* Massimo Melucci (Università di Padova)
* Stefano Mizzaro (Università di Udine)
* Gabriella Pasi (Università di Milano Bicocca)
* Giovanni Semeraro (Università di Bari "Aldo Moro")


PROGRAM COMMITTEE

(to be announced)


LOCAL ORGANIZERS

* Webmaster: Giacomo Berardi (ISTI-CNR)
* Local arrangements: Catherine Bosio (ISTI-CNR)


REGISTRATION

Participation to the IIR 2013 workshop will be free of charge. However, advance registration will be strictly required.