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                                 *TIR 2012* 9th International
                                 Workshop on Text-based
                                 Information Retrieval in
                                 conjunction with DEXA 2012

        Vienna University of Technology, Vienna, Austria
        September 3 - 7, 2012 http://tir.webis.de

Call for Papers:
============

Intelligent algorithms for mining and retrieval are the key
technology to cope with the information need challenges in our
media-centered society. Methods for text-based information
retrieval receive special attention, which results from the
important role of written text, from the high availability of the
Internet, and from the enormous importance of Web communities.

Advanced information retrieval and extraction uses methods from
different areas: machine learning, computer linguistics and
psychology, user interaction and modeling, information
visualization, Web engineering, artificial intelligence, or
distributed systems. The development of intelligent retrieval
tools requires the understanding and combination of the
achievements in these areas, and in this sense the workshop
provides a common platform for presenting and discussing new
solutions.

The following list organizes classic and ongoing topics from the
field of text-based IR for which contributions are welcome:

    - Theory. Retrieval models, language models, similarity
      measures, formal analysis
    - Mining and Classification. Category formation, clustering,
      entity resolution, document classification
    - Web. Community mining, social network analysis, structured
      retrieval from XML documents
    - Information Quality. Quality assessment, information
      diffusion in social media
    - NLP. Text summarization, keyword extraction, topic
      identification
    - User Interface. Paradigms and algorithms for information
      visualization, personalization, privacy issues
    - User Context. Context models for IR, context analysis from
      user behavior and from social networks
    - Multilinguality. Cross-language retrieval, multilingual
      retrieval, machine translation for IR
    - Evaluation. Corpus construction, experiment design,
      conception of user studies
    - Semantic Web. Meta data analysis and tagging, knowledge
      extraction, inference, and maintenance
    - Software Engineering. Frameworks and architectures for
      retrieval technology, distributed IR

The workshop is held for the ninth time. In the past, it was
characterized by a stimulating atmosphere, and it attracted high
quality contributions from all over the world. In particular, we
encourage participants to present research prototypes and
demonstration tools of their research ideas.

Submission Guideline
=================
    - Research papers submitted to TIR-12 must be original
      contributions.
    - Submissions will be peer-reviewed by at least two experts
      from the related field.
    - The review process will be single-blind (the identity of
      authors is known to the reviewers).
    - Accepted papers will be published as IEEE proceedings by
      IEEE CS Press.
    - At least one author of each accepted paper must register
      for the conference and present the contribution.
    - The camera ready papers are limited to 5 (five) pages in
      IEEE format (two columns in A4).
    - Papers must be written in English.

Submit a Contribution
=================
Submissions must generally be in electronic form using the
Portable Document Format (PDF) or Postscript. It is the
responsibility of authors to ensure that their papers use no
unusual format features and are printable on a standard
Postscript printer. Please use our conference management system
ConfDriver to submit your paper. Important Dates

    - Mar 30, 2012, 24:00 (CET): Deadline for paper submission
    - Apr 26, 2012: Notification to authors
    - May 23, 2012: Camera-ready copy due

Organizing Committee
=================
    - Benno Stein (Co-Chair), Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, Germany
    - Michael Granitzer (Co-Chair), University of Passau
    - Maik Anderka, Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, Germany

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