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The previous four workshops (ACM SIGIR MF/IR 2000, Athens, Greece; ACM SIGIR MF/IR 2001, New Orleans, USA; ACM SIGIR MF/IR 2002, Tampere, Finland; ACM SIGIR MF/IR 2003, Toronto, Canada; ACM SIGIR MF/IR 2004, Sheffield, U.K.) showed that the mathematical/formal results achieved in Information Retrieval (IR) could be organized into a coherent theoretical framework, that they brought new knowledge to IR, and that mathematical/formal research in IR has established itself as a specialized research area of IR. The increased attendance and rising interest indicate that MF/IR is viable.
The purpose of the MF/IR 2005 workshop is, on the one hand, to enhance the results obtained so far, and on the other hand, to present, discuss, analyze, integrate the newest results including interdisciplinary approaches, too, coming from, e.g., physics, linguistics, biology and other areas. Therefore MF/IR 2005 also aims at promoting discussion and interaction among those with theoretical and applicative research interests in mathematical/formal aspects of Information Retrieval coming from a potentially and relatively large spectrum of different IR fields, and also at being a forum for the presentation of both theoretical and applicative results (e.g., foundational issues; description and/or integration of models; retrieval applications; mathematical/formal techniques, properties and structures in IR; existing and/or new theories and theoretical aspects, interdisciplinary approaches).
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20 May 2005: | Submission of full paper |
| 1 July 2005: | Notification of acceptance |
| 15 July 2005: | Revised full paper for workshop proceedings/web |
Contributions are solicited dealing with, but not limited to, the following areas:
- World Wide Web Retrieval
- Web Link Topology
- Mathematics of WWW
- Physics of WWW
- Information Filtering
- Information Mining
- Indexing and Retrieval
- Hypermedia
- Digital Libraries
- Evaluation
- User Modelling, and User Tasks
- Semantic Web and Ontologies
where the different entities involved (e.g., documents, queries, relevance, effectiveness, users, etc.) are modeled using any of, but not necessarily limited to, the following approaches:
- Classical Sets
- Fuzzy Sets
- Rough Sets
- Vectors
- Linear Space
- Probability
- Theory of Uncertainty
- Functional Analysis
- Algebra
- Topology
- Metric Spaces
- Euclidean Geometry
- Non-Euclidean Geometries
- Non-standard Logics
- Fuzzy Logic
- Quantum Logic
- Statistical and Physical Methods
- Statistical Mechanics
- Matroid Theory
- Graph Theory
- Theory of Computation
- Recursion Theory
- Information Theory
- Artificial Intelligence
Workshop attendance is open to all who register for it.
Email full papers in English (ideally in the ACM SIG Proceedings style) to ounis@dcs.gla.ac.uk with the following information:
- Title of paper and its abstract
- Authors, their affiliation and the main contact
- Paper in PDF format
Papers are limited to a maximum length of 9 pages. All submissions will be reviewed by at least two referees. All accepted papers will be made available in a printed and/or electronic proceedings. It is planned that a selected number of accepted papers, once expanded and revised, be included in a post-workshop journal issue.
Sandor Dominich (dominich@dcs.vein.hu)
University of Veszprem (Hungary)
Iadh Ounis (ounis@dcs.gla.ac.uk)
University of Glasgow (UK)
Programme Committee |
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- Gianni Amati, Fondazione Ugo Bordoni, Italy
- Peter Bruza, Distributed Systems Technology Centre, Australia
- Steven Cater, Kettering University, U.S.A.
- Sandor Daranyi, University of Gothenburg, Boras, Sweden
- Leo Egghe, Limburgs Universitair Centrum, Belgium
- Norbert Fuhr, University of Dortmund, Germany
- Donald H. Kraft, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, U.S.A.
- Eduard Hoenkamp, A.C.M., the Netherlands
- Theo Huibers, KPMG Bus. Adv. Serv., the Netherlands
- April Konthostathis, Ursinus College, U.S.A.
- David Losada, Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, Spain
- Jian-Yun Nie, University of Montreal, Canada
- Gabriella Pasi, ITIM-CNR, Milan, Italy
- Vijay Raghavan, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, U.S.A.
- Michael Wong, University of Regina, Canada
- Keith van Rijsbergen, University of Glasgow, UK
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9:00 - 09:15 |
Welcome |
| 09:15 - 10:45 |
Keynote speaker -TBA
"Parsimonious Translation Models for Information Retrieval" by Seung-Hoon Na, In-Su Kang, Jong-Hyeok Lee
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| 10:45 - 11:15 |
Coffee/Tea break |
| 11:15 - 12:15 |
"Extracting Template for Knowledge-based Question-Answering Using Conditional Random Fields", by Changki Lee, Ji-Hyun Wang, Hyeon-Jin Kim, Myung-Gil Jang
"Searching the Future", by Ricardo Baeza-Yates
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| 12:15 - 12:45 |
Open discussion |
| End of Workshop |
Further Information |
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Questions about the workshop can be sent directly to any of the organisers. Addtional information about the workshop venue and local arrangements (travel, accomodation, etc.) can be found at the ACM SIGIR 2005 Conference main Web page.
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