Final CfP / Deadline Extension: Time and Information Retrieval - Special Issue

Final CfP / Deadline Extension: Time and Information Retrieval - Special
Issue

CALL FOR PAPERS: TIME AND INFORMATION RETRIEVAL


Deadline Extension: SEPT 22


A special issue of Information Processing and Management

  http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/~leon/time_and_ir_ipm.html

We invite submissions for a special issue of Information Processing and
Management on “Time and Information Retrieval”.

===== Motivation =====

With the rapid growth of digitised document resources, both on and off the
web, and increased variety in types of document collections, future search
systems will face growing difficulties in providing reliable, useful, and
timely results. The web already archives a lot of content; organizing and
searching by time will only become more critical as we move forward.

This issue aims to explore opportunities and novel research on the
intersection of time and information retrieval. Unlike existing work that
focuses exclusively on the interesting problems related to adding time to
established methods of information retrieval (such as, e.g., how to
incorporate temporal relevance in ranking of retrieved results), we aim to
stimulate discussion on new or powerful uses of temporality in all kinds of
information systems.

===== Scope & Topics of Interest =====

We are particularly interested in work that describes novel advances on the
intersection of temporality and IR. For example, work that goes deeper than
metadata-level time (e.g. document creation timestamp), or that does
temporal analysis of document collections for, e.g., event identification,
tracking and prediction, or that works on temporal-based relevancy.

We especially welcome papers on the following topics:

* Time as a dimension of relevance
    - Time-aware ranking models
    - Opinion tracking
    - Media temporal similarity (e.g. text, video)
    - Longitudinal analysis
    - Document and sub-document timestamping
* Time as context
    - Time-sensitive search
    - Searching for temporal bounds
    - Future Information Retrieval
* Time as a query topic
    - Event-oriented Search
    - Temporal web image and video retrieval
    - Temporal clustering
    - Collective memory and web archiving
    - Cross-temporal information retrieval
* General issues
    - Evaluation metrics for temporal IR
    - Visualising and presenting time
    - In-document temporality
    - Temporal query understanding
    - Temporal indexing

===== Important dates =====

CFP: April 3, 2014
Manuscript due date: SEPTEMBER 22 ND 2014
Acceptance Notification Date: December 2nd 2014
Final Manuscript Due Date: Jan 30th, 2015 (for all revisions)
Publication date: Spring 2015

Substantial, creative, articles are welcomed, according to the journal
format. After submission, we envisage a smooth and on-time progression
through review and toward publication of this special issue.

Contributions must not have been previously published or be under
consideration for publication elsewhere, although substantial extensions of
conference or workshop papers will be considered. All submissions should be
prepared according to the Guide for Authors at
http://www.elsevier.com/journals/information-processing-and-management/0306-4573/guide-for-authors
.

Submissions should be made through EES at
http://ees.elsevier.com/ipm/default.asp , specifying this special issue.

===== Guest Editors =====

Leon Derczynski, University of Sheffield
Jannik Strötgen, Heidelberg University
Ricardo Campos, Polytechnic Institute of Tomar / LIAAD–INESC TEC
Omar Alonso, Microsoft Corporation

Primary contact: leon@dcs.shef.ac.uk

===== Guest Editorial Board =====


Ismail Sengor Altingovde, Middle East Technical University
Krisztian Balog, U Stavanger
Roi Blanco, Yahoo! Labs
António Branco, Lisbon U
Matteo Brucato, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Gaël Dias, U Caen
Michael Gertz, U Heidelberg
Daniel Gomes, FCCN Lisboa
Adam Jatowt, Kyoto U
Alípio Jorge, U Porto
Nattiya Kanhabua, L3S Research Center
Hector Llorens, Nuance
Sérgio Nunes, U Porto / INESC TEC
Kjetil Nørvåg, Norwegian University
Ian Ruthven, U Strathclyde
Ian Soboroff, National Institute of Standards and Technology
Marc Spaniol, Max Planck Institut für Informatik
Partha Pratim Talukdar, Carnegie Mellon University
Christoph Trattner, Graz University of Technology

===== Note on open access policy =====

Posting of author accepted manuscripts IS PERMITTED on author websites,
uploading to arXiv, etc., as stated in the publisher’s open access
policies. See also:
http://www.elsevier.com/journal-authors/policies/open-access-policies/article-posting-policy


-- 
Leon R A Derczynski
Research Associate, NLP Group

Department of Computer Science
University of Sheffield, UK

Voted number one for student experience
Times Higher Education Student Experience Survey 2014-2015

http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/~leon/