The primary aim of the Italian Information Retrieval (IIR) workshop is to provide an international meeting forum where researchers, and especially early stage researchers, from the domain of Information Retrieval and related disciplines can exchange information and present past results and innovative research developments in an informal way.

IIR 2010 will take place at the University of Padova, Italy, on January 27-28, 2010 in conjunction with the Italian Research Conference on Digital Libraries (IRCDL, January 28-29, 2010).

Submissions

Papers may range from theoretical work to system descriptions. We particularly encourage Ph.D. students or early stage researchers 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. The conference language is English. Please, submit papers in PDF, using the ACM SIG Proceedings style. Papers have a length of maximum 5 pages. Moreover, extended abstract containing descriptions of on-going projects or presenting results already published are also welcome and should be at most 2 pages long. Accepted papers will be published in on-line proceedings on CEUR-WS.

Submissions can be sent to the Programme Chairs:

* Stefano Mizzaro (Università di Udine)
mizzaro (at) dimi (dot) uniud (dot) it
* Gabriella Pasi (Università di Milano Bicocca)
pasi (at) disco (dot) unimib (dot) it

We welcome contributions relevant to the following topics (but not limited to):

* Theoretical retrieval models
* Relevance feedback, user models and query processing
* Multimedia and cross-media retrieval: image, video, audio and music
* Multilingual and cross-lingual retrieval
* Structured document retrieval, XML-IR
* Natural language processing, information extraction, text summarization
* Processing and search of e-mail, spam, blogs
* Categorization, topic tracking and event detection
* Thesauri and ontologies for IR
* Web IR, distributed IR, enterprise search, search of digital libraries, intranet search, desktop search
* Collaborative filtering, recommender systems
* Efficiency and performance
* Evaluation of IR
* Machine Learning for IR
* Domain-specific IR (e.g., IR for cultural heritage data)
* IR for Children
* Mobile IR

Important Dates

* Submission Deadline: December 1, 2009
* Notification of Acceptance: December 21, 2009
* Conference: January 27-28, 2010

Venue

Aula Magna "A. Lepschy", Department of Information Engineering, University of Padova
Via Gradenigo 6/b, 35131 Padova, Italy