Call for Papers

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            International Workshop on

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Context-Based Information Retrieval (CIR-05)

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Held in conjunction with the 5th International and=20

Interdisciplinary Conference on Modeling and Using Context

(CONTEXT-05)

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July 5, 2005 =96 Paris, France (one day)

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With the explosion of the volume of available information on the Web,=20

the information retrieval systems (IRSs) have become necessary to help=20

the users to find relevant documents. Traditional IRSs may be =
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different if they may take into account the context of the information=20

and the context of the query. Contextual information includes both =
explicit=20

and implicit knowledge about intentions of the user, environment the =
user=20

is attached to and the system itself. Such factors constrain the search=20

without intervening in it explicitly. One idea to improve the efficiency =
of
IRSs=20

is to make explicit the contextual information in order to enhance the
retrieval=20

performance.=20

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The workshop audience is intended to explore related work, theoretical
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and applications which focus on contextual IRSs. It is intended for
researchers=20

in the area of computer science, information retrieval, and digital
libraries.=20

The workshop's aim is to promote exchanges in these fields, to establish =
the

current state of the art, to identify the emerging problems and to =
propose=20

future research directions. Besides, we encourage interested researchers
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related areas to attend the workshop.=20

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Relevant topics include but are not limited to: =20

* Contextual information retrieval modeling

* Contextual information retrieval metrics and assessments

* Use of contextual graph to model information retrieval systems

* Theory in context and information retrieval=20

* Multiple contexts in information retrieval

* Adaptive and interactive information retrieval

* Multi-context based browsing

* Use of ontology and thesaurus to contextualize the querying and =
indexing

* Querying contextual information retrieval systems

* Experiments with test collection of contextual information retrieval
systems

* Tools to support contextual information retrieval

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Papers and Evaluations

Authors are invited to submit electronically original papers through the
CONTEXT=9205 web site,=20

http://www.context-05.org. Papers should be single-spaced with a font =
size
of 11.=20

Two types of papers are solicited:=20

full paper : 8-12 pages

short paper: 4-6 pages

The organizers will oversee a peer-review process for all the submitted
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Selection will be based on originality, clarity, and technical quality.=20

A synopsis of the presentations and discussions will be posted on the
workshop web page.=20

Revised versions of research papers will appear in the CEUR Workshops
Proceedings (http://ceur-ws.org).=20

At least one author of each paper should attend the workshop to present =
the
paper.=20

For more information, please contact the workshop chairs.=20

Please send all submissions to workshop chairs at: =
Bich-Lien.Doan@supelec.fr

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Key dates

            Submissions due:                     March 25th, 2005

            Acceptance notification:           April 15th, 2005=20

            Camera-ready papers received:            April 30th, 2005=20

            Program on line:                      May 5th, 2005=20

            Workshop:                               July 5th, 2005

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Workshop Organizers

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Bich-Li=EAn DOAN,     Sup=E9lec, France

Patrick BREZILLON,     LIP6, France=20

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Scientific Committee

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Maristella Agosti, university of Padua, Italy

Patrick Br=E9zillon, LIP6, France

Bich-Li=EAn Doan, Sup=E9lec, France

Gilles Falquet, University of Geneva, Switzerland

Norbert Fuhr, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany

Joemon Jose, University of Glasgow, UK

Mounia Lalmas, University of London, UK

Massimo Melucci, University of Padua, Italy

Iadh Ounis, University of Glasgow, UK

Fran=E7ois Paradis, University of Montreal, Canada

Ian Ruthven, University of Strathclyde, UK

Rohini K. Srihari, University of New-York, US

Amanda Spink, University of Pittsburgh, US

Julien Tane, University of Kassel, Germany

Anne-Marie Vercoustre, INRIA, France

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Contact information

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Bich-Li=EAn DOAN,     Sup=E9lec, France

Email : Bich-Lien.Doan@supelec.fr




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