Call for Papers - ECIR 2010

32nd European Conference on Information Retrieval
The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK.
28 - 31 March 2010

In cooperation with: BCS-IRSG, ACM SIGIR, The Open University, Dublin City University, University of Essex

The European Conference on Information Retrieval provides an opportunity for both new and established researchers to present research papers reporting new, unpublished, and innovative research results within information retrieval.

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

• Enterprise Search, Intranet, Desktop, Adversarial IR
• Web IR
• Digital libraries
• IR Theory and Formal Models
• Web log analysis
• Distributed IR, peer to peer IR, Mobile IR, Fusion/Combination
• Multimedia IR
• Cross-language retrieval, Multilingual retrieval, Machine translation for IR
• Topic detection and tracking, Routing, Content-based filtering, Collaborative filtering, Agents, Spam filtering
• Question answering, NLP for IR, Summarization, Lexical acquisition
• Text Data Mining
• Opinion Mining, Sentiment Analysis
• Text Categorization, Clustering
• Performance, Scalability, Architectures, Efficiency, Platforms
• Indexing, Query representation, Query reformulation, Structure-based representation, XML
• Metadata, Social networking/tagging
• Evaluation methods and metrics, Experimental design, Test collection
• Interactive IR, User studies, User models, Task-based IR
• User interfaces and visualization
• Other domain-specific IR (e.g., Genomic IR, legal IR, IR for chemical structures)
• Blog and online-community search

Important dates

• 01 Oct 2009: Paper submission deadline
• 10 Sep 2009: Workshop/tutorial submission deadline
• 22 Oct 2009: Poster and demo submission deadline
• 31 Oct 2009: Notification of acceptance (workshops/tutorials)
• 23 Nov 2009: Notification of acceptance for Papers
• 20 Dec 2009: Camera-ready copy of papers due
• 28 Mar 2010: ECIR Workshops/Tutorials
• 29-31 Mar 2010: Main conference

Via the IRList.