7th Dutch-Belgian Information Retrieval Workshop (DIR 2007)

The primary aim of the DIR workshops is to provide an international meeting place where researchers from the domain of information retrieval and related disciplines, can exchange information and present new research developments. This year, the program committee especially welcomes contributions focusing on multimedia and multilingual information retrieval. Read more...

Best student paper award

The Dutch Working Community on Information Sciences (WGI) awards the best student paper submitted to DIR. The winner is granted free registration to the SIGIR conference.

This year's winner is Tobias Blanke, with his paper Theoretical Benchmarks of Evaluation Methodologies in XML Retrieval.

Dates:	Deadline for papers: January 10, 2007 Notification of acceptance: February 15, 2007 Deadline for final versions: March 2, 2007 Workshop: March 28-29, 2007
Venue:	K.U.Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
Website:	http://www.cs.kuleuven.be/~liir/conferences/dir2007
E-mail:	dir2007@kuleuven.be

We proudly announce the following guest speakers:

Prof. Dr. Thomas Hofmann
  from Google Research
Prof. Dr. Douglas Oard
  from University of Maryland
Dr. Nick Craswell
  from Microsoft Research Cambridge
Dr. Joseph Sivic
  from University of Oxford

The workshop is organised under the auspices of the Dutch Working Community on Information Sciences (WGI) and the Dutch research school for Information and Knowledge Systems (SIKS). We are deeply grateful to our diamond sponsors; the audiovisual research community (AVS), the STEVIN program of the Dutch Language Union (NTU), and the Flemish Interdisciplinary Institute for Broadband Technology (IBBT). We wish to mention the IRSG, the Information Retrieval Specialist Group of the British Computer Society (BCS), an organisation associated to WGI. Katholieke Universiteit Leuven is the organising institute.

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7th Dutch-Belgian Information Retrieval Workshop (DIR 2007)