- From: Klemens Boehm <boehm@inf.ethz.ch>
- Date: Tue, 08 Aug 2000 11:33:55 +0200
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C A L L F O R C O N T R I B U T I O N S First NSF - DELOS Network of Excellence Workshop on "Information Seeking, Searching and Querying in Digital Libraries" Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Switzerland, 11-12 December, 2000 The question of how to extract useful information from a Digital Library is crucial. Recently, a number of paradigms and approaches for doing so have been devised. These include, for instance, - similarity search, based on one or several high-dimensional feature representations; approximative evaluation techniques for similarity queries, - semistructured data models and respective query mechanisms, - information retrieval based on vague query formulation and uncertain document representations, considering document structure and hyperlinks, - approaches to cluster documents based on content and other novel IR techniques, - relevance feedback and other interaction mechanisms for supporting implicit query reformulation, both for text and multimedia document collections. These approaches are currently maturing. However, query evaluation schemes based on only one such approach are not always sufficient to cover an information need. Instead, it is promising to integrate the different approaches to obtain better results, though there are a number of open problems, in particular - semantics of such complex queries, - good models for relevance feedback, - efficient evaluation, be it over independent components, be it in a more monolithic setting, - quality aspects, e.g., which combination of techniques yields better results under which circumstances, - user interfaces to formulate complex similarity queries and to express relevance feedback, - system support, architectural and implementation issues. The goal of the workshop is to bring together researchers and practitioners interested in Digital Libraries to present and discuss recent results as well as future research directions. The workshop will feature invit ed talks by the following speakers: Bruce Croft (U Mass., USA) Ophir Frieder (IIT, USA) John R. Smith (IBM Research, USA) Furthermore, it will consist of presentations of accepted submissions and demo sessions. Ample time will be allowed for discussion of the issues raised. We invite contributions in the form of position papers addressing topics relevant to the theme of the workshop. Submissions: Short position paper (2 pages) outlining the work or ideas to be presented. To: boehm@inf.ethz.ch Before: 29 September 2000 Format: plain text or HTML Notification of acceptance will be e-mailed by 6 November 2000. Each presentation should provide a technical note of not more than five or six pages by 22 November. The final programme with workshop project notes will be posted on the web by 30 November. Revised versions of the technical notes will be published in the workshop proceedings. Formatting instructions: size: A4 format: ps, pdf, HTML or MS Word (rtf) borders: top, left, right 2.5 cm; bottom 3 cm title: Times 14 pt bold centered author(s): Times 10 pt centered abstract: Times 10 pt justified body text: Times 10 pt justified headlines: Times 12 pt bold left aligned emphasis: Times 10 pt italic The workshop will be held in the premises of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Switzerland, 11-12 December, 2000. Information on registration and hotel reservations will be available shortly. Any enquiries should be addressed to: Antoinette Foerster ETH Zurich E-mail: foerster@inf.ethz.ch Tel: ++41 1 63 27241 This workshop is an activity of the DELOS Network of Excellence on Digital Libraries funded by the European Union. The workshop is also supported by NSF. See http://www.ercim.org/delos/ for more information on DELOS in general and http://www.lib.uoa.gr/delos for more information on the DELOS Research Forum. DELOS will be able to reimburse the costs of one or more researchers per DELOS member. For non-DELOS members, partial reimbursement will depend on availability of funds. ORGANIZING COMMITTEE: Klemens Böhm (ETH Zurich, Switzerland; co-chair) Ophir Frieder (IIT, USA) Norbert Fuhr (U Dortmund, Germany) Preben Hansen (SICS, Sweden) Silvia Hollfelder (GMD-IPSI, Germany) Yannis Ioannidis (U Athens, Greece) Daniel Keim (U Halle, Germany) Wolfgang Klas (U Vienna, Austria) Tamer Ozsu (U Waterloo, Canada) Fausto Rabitti (CNR, Italy) M.V. Ramakrishna (Monash Univ., Australia) Ron Sacks-Davis (RMIT, Australia) Giuseppe Santucci (U. of Rome, Italy) Hans Schek (ETH Zurich, Switzerland; co-chair) Pavel Zezula (U Brno, Czech Republic)
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