Final CfP, DIR 2007

From: Sien Moens [marie-france.moens@law.kuleuven.be]
Subject: DIR 2007

*FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS*
7th Dutch-Belgian Information Retrieval Workshop (DIR 2007)

Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium

March 28-29, 2007

http://law.kuleuven.be/icri/liir/dir2007/

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:

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   * 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 数据挖掘实验室
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 3, 2007

Notification of acceptance
February 9, 2007

Deadline for final versions
February 25, 2007

Workshop
March 28 and 29, 2007

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*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/).


*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 organized under the auspices of the Dutch Working
Community on Information Sciences (WGI
<http://www.informatiewetenschap.org/>) and the FWO research community
on audio-visual systems. We wish to mention the IRSG
<http://irsg.bcs.org/>, the Information Retrieval Specialist Group of

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BCS, an organisation associated to WGI. Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
<http://www.kuleuven.be> is the organizing institute.

Questions? Send an e-mail to

_dir2007@kuleuven.be <mailto:dir2007@kuleuven.be>_.