Call for Papers
The primary aim of the DIR 2007 Workshop is to provide an international meeting place where researchers from the domain of information retrieval (IR) and related disciplines can exchange and present innovative research developments. This year, the program committee especially welcomes contributions focusing on multimedia information retrieval.
Conference themes will include, but are not limited to the following topics:
- Multimedia IR, video retrieval, audio and music retrieval, cross-media retrieval
- Multilingual and cross-lingual retrieval
- Structured document retrieval, XML-IR
- Retrieval models, language models
- Image processing for IR, audio processing for IR
- Natural language processing for IR, information extraction, text summarization
- Processing and search of e-mail, spam, blogs,...
- Categorization, topic tracking and event detection
- Query processing, thesaurus construction, user models
- Web IR, distributed IR, enterprise search, search of digital libraries, intranets or desktops
- Collaborative filtering, recommendation systems
- Efficiency and performance
- IR evaluation
Papers may range from theoretical work to system descriptions. We encourage Ph.D. students to submit their research. We also welcome contributions from the industry when they focus on novel research directions. Submissions will be reviewed by at least three domain experts. Following the tradition of DIR, highly ranked papers will be considered for publication in an international journal or book. The conference language is English.
Important dates
| Deadline for papers: | January 10, 2007 |
| Notification of acceptance: | February 15, 2007 |
| Deadline for final versions: | March 2, 2007 |
| Workshop: | March 28 and 29, 2007 |
Submission details
Papers describe original research, have a length of maximum 8 pages, and are formatted in ACM SIG Proceedings style (http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html). They are submitted in pdf-format via the DIR 2007 website (http://law.kuleuven.be/icri/liir/dir2007/). Please anonymise the papers (i.e., omitting the author and affiliation details) before submission, as is necessary for the reviewing process.
Program chairs
- Marie-Francine Moens, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
- Tinne Tuytelaars, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
- Arjen de Vries, Centrum voor Wiskunde en Informatica (CWI), Amsterdam
Program committee
- Remko Bonnema, Textkernel
- Gosse Bouma, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen
- Walter Daelemans, Universiteit Antwerpen
- Martine De Cock, Ghent University
- Maarten de Rijke, University of Amsterdam
- Guy De Tré, Ghent University
- Anne Diekema, Syracuse University
- Cédrick Fairon, Université catholique de Louvain
- Theo Gevers, University of Amsterdam
- Djoerd Hiemstra, University of Twente
- Eduard Hoenkamp, University of Maastricht
- Geert-Jan Houben, Vrije Universiteit Brussel
- Theo Huibers, University of Twente
- Stephan Raaijmakers, TNO Delft
- Antal van den Bosch, Tilburg University
- Theo van der Weide, Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen
- Roelof van Zwol, Yahoo!, Barcelona
- Werner Verhelst, Vrije Universiteit Brussel
- Jun Wang, Technische Universiteit Delft
- Thijs Westerveld, Centrum voor Wiskunde en Informatica (CWI), Amsterdam
Organizing committee
- Jan De Beer, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
- Tine Cornelis, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
The workshop is organised under the auspices of the Dutch Working Community on Information Sciences (WGI).
Questions?
Send an e-mail to dir2007@kuleuven.be.