====================================================================== Call for Papers Compiegne, France OSWIR 2005 First International Workshop on September 19, 2005 === Open Source Web Information Retrieval http://www.emse.fr/OSWIR05/ In conjunction with WI & IAT 2005 (http://www.hds.utc.fr/WI05/) the 2005 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence & Intelligent Agent Technology === The World Wide Web has grown to be a primary source of information for millions of people. Due to the size of the Web, search engines have become the major access point for this information. However, "commercial" search engines use hidden algorithms that put the integrity of their results in doubt, so there is a need for some open source Web search engines. On the other hand, the Information Retrieval (IR) research community has a long history of developing ideas, models and techniques for finding results in data sources, but finding one's way through all of them is not an easy task. Moreover their applicability to the Web search domain is uncertain. The goal of the workshop is to survey the fundamentals of the IR domain and to determine the techniques, tools, or models that are applicable to Web search. Presentations should include either strong arguments or report results supported by large-scale experiments that demonstrate the applicability of the technique to the Web domain as well as its advantage over similar techniques. Relevant topics include, but are not restricted to: . Information Retrieval Models and Matching Function Models - vector space, probabilistic, Boolean models and their extensions - passage retrieval - normalization . Utilities for IR - relevance feedback - clustering - indexing entities (N-grams, words, stemming, stop word removal, compound nouns, named entities, concepts, etc.) - statistical regression - query expansion (e.g. with thesaurus) - natural language processing (syntactical analysis, etc.) - disambiguation . Web (and hypertext) particulars - links - anchors - HTML and/or XML structure - document identification (URL) - duplicates - hidden documents - dynamic documents - site . Evaluation of models . User Interface - Query language - Results presentation ========== Organizers ========== Michel BEIGBEDER e-mail: mbeig@emse.fr Ecole Nationale Superieure des Mines de Saint-Etienne, France Wai Gen YEE e-mail: yee@iit.edu Illinois Institute of Technology, USA ================== How to participate ================== Every interested person is invited to apply for attendance by sending either . a position paper concerning the recommended choice for a method (tool, technique, model) . a survey on a topic listed upward . a report on an experiment related to some Web characteristic (size, heterogeneity, multi-linguism, hyperlinks, etc.) and its relation to IR The submission should be in IEEE CS format and its length is limited to 4 pages. Instructions and style files for Word and Latex are available on http://www.comp.hkbu.edu.hk/WI05/download/ The submission has to be mailed to both organizers: mbeig@emse.fr AND yee@iit.edu At least one author of each accepted paper must register for the workshop. ===== Dates ===== Papers due Thursday, July 21, 2005 Notification of acceptance Tuesday, August 9, 2005 Final versions of papers due Friday, August 19, 2005 Presentation slides and questions on other Friday, September 9, 2005 papers due Workshop Monday, September 19, 2005 ===================== Workshop Organization ===================== The workshop is scheduled for a full day. Before the workshop, each participant will have to review everyone else's paper and highlight one main idea and write down one question about it. In the morning, each participant will briefly present his paper and then answer the questions collected before the workshop. The afternoon will be dedicated to a discussion about some of the topics raised by the presented papers and to prepare a schedule for follow-up activities, for instance, joint research. ================= Program Committee ================= Michel Beigbeder, Ecole des Mines de Saint-Etienne, France Abdur Chowhury, America Online Search and Navigation, USA Ophir Frieder, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA David Grossman, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA Donald Kraft, Louisianna State University, USA Clement Yu, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA Wai Gen Yee, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA =========== Proceedings =========== A hardcopy of the proceedings will be distributed to workshop participants. A summary of the workshop and its follow-up activities will be published on the web page. ======================================================================