Workshop on
Text Information Retrieval: Soft computing and ecological aspects



Aim and Scope

Text information retrieval is a communication process by which users
of an information system or device look for documents or records that
meet their needs or interests. Computers provide retrieval information
facilities when we face a huge of information, as that contained in
the Web. In this area, descriptive information often is incomplete or
imprecise. To face this problem, several methodologies, general
labelled as "soft computing", have been defined based on the
computation of the significance degrees of the terms in documents or
on the importance of each term of the query. Soft computing provides
flexibility algorithms for ranking responses on the basis of the
documents relevance. So, from a practical point of view, it
contributes to make better search engines.

The Web consists of pages that are connected to each other through
hyperlinks. The way the pages link to each other creates or induces a
structure. The discovery of regularities on how information is stored
and linked within the Web show how individuals use it and how people
interact in a massive scale when foraging for information in this new
medium. From a practical perspective, to know the properties of the
Web agents can contribute to improve search strategies.  So, in this
Workshop we will try to discuss some of the hot topics about soft
computing and ecological aspects of Text Information Retrieval, with
special focus on the Web.


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Agenda (tentative):


Workshop on
Text Information Retrieval: Soft computing and ecological aspects
June, 8-10 2005


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Day 1: 
Models for representing soft information

 9:15- 9:30 Presentation

 9:30-10:30 Conference: E. Trillas 

10:30-13:00 Contributions

17:00-19:00 Debate: Retrieval Models for soft information
            Conductor/Narrator: E. Herrera

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Day 2: 
Search engines for recovering soft information

 9:30-10:30 Conference: D. Kraft

10:30-13:00 Contributions

17:00-19:00 Debate: Retrieval models for Web documents
            Conductor/Narrator: M. J. Martín

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Day 3:
Ecological aspects of the information stored and linked within the Web

 9:30-10:30 Conference: R. Pastor

10:30-13:00 Contributions

17:00-19:00 Debate: Ethical, Social and Ecological Aspects of the Internet
            Conductor/Narrator: S. Guadarrama

      19:05 Closure



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Scientific Committee:

R. Baeza-Yates (ICREA & University Pompeu Fabra, Spain)
A. Bugarín (University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain)
O. Cordón (University of Granada, Spain)
S. Guadarrama (University of Rey Juan Carlos, Spain)
E. Herrera-Viedma (University of Granada, Spain)
D. Kraft (Louisiana State University, USA)
M. J. Martín Bautista (University of Granada, Spain)
M. Nikravesh (Berkeley Initiative in Soft Computing (BISC), USA)
J. A. Olivas (University of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain)
R. Pastor (Technical University of Cataluña, Spain)
E. Renedo (Technical University of Madrid, Spain)
M. A. Sicilia (Univeristy of Alcalá de Henares, Spain) 
T. Takagi (Meiji University, Japan)
E. Trillas (Technical University of Madrid, Spain)
M. Vilares (University of Vigo, Spain)

Organizing Committee

A. Sobrino (University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain)
J. A. Olivas (University of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain)


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Deadline for submitting papers

Submitted papers must be sent by e-mail before April, 10, 2005 to the
Organizing Committee contact, Alejandro Sobrino, lflgalex@usc.es

Authors will be notified of acceptance by April, 30, 2005. For each
session four full papers will be selected. Full papers are required
before June, 1, 2005 attending instructions that will be noticed. The
Organizing Committee will intend to publish the conferences, papers
and narrations in a journal or a collective book.

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Registration fee: 150 euros

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Conference Language

English (preferably)