Call for Papers

The primary aim of the Dutch-Belgian Information Retrieval (DIR) workshop is to provide an international meeting place where researchers from the domain of information retrieval and related disciplines can exchange information and present innovative research developments.

DIR 2010 will take place at the Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands, on January 25, 2010 (contrary to the earlier announcement it will be only one day).

DIR 2010 welcomes contributions related to any aspect of IR, including but not limited to:

* Forensic Search
* Privacy aspects of IR
* Retrieval models, language models
* Natural language processing for IR, text summarization
* Information extraction, question answering
* Machine Learning for IR
* Query processing, thesaurus construction, user models
* Multimedia IR, video retrieval, audio and music retrieval, cross-media retrieval
* Multilingual and cross-lingual retrieval
* Structured document retrieval, XML-IR
* Image processing for IR, audio processing for IR
* Processing and search of e-mail, spam, blogs
* Categorization, topic tracking and event detection
* Web IR, distributed IR, enterprise search, search of digital libraries, intranet search, desktop search
* Collaborative filtering, recommender systems
* Efficiency and performance
* IR evaluation

Submission details

Papers may range from theoretical work to system descriptions. We
encourage Ph.D. students 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 two domain
experts. The conference language is English. Papers should describe original
research. Please submit papers in pdf-format, using the ACM SIG
Proceedings style (http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html), with a maximum
length of 8 pages.
DIR2010 uses the Easychair system for submitting, please use the form found at this url:
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dir2010

Up-to-date information can be found at the DIR-website:
http://www.ru.nl/ds/ifl/dir_2010/

Important dates
Paper submission deadline: November 13, 2009
Notification of acceptance: December 11, 2009
Conference at Radboud University Nijmegen: January 25, 2010