Workshops

4th International Workshop on Patent Information Retrieval (PaIR '11)

Patent Information Retrieval specialists in the 21st century face many challenges. They must search very large numbers of documents in multiple languages, which express complex technological concepts through sophisticated legal clauses. Despite a great deal of theoretical development in Information Retrieval techniques, advanced search tools for patent professionals are still in their infancy. Since 2008, the PaIR Workshop brings together the IP and the IR communities and promotes a better understanding of the needs of the industry and of the available scientific tools.

Website: http://www.ifs.tuwien.ac.at/pair2011

Date: Monday 24th October 2011

5th International Workshop on Data and Text Mining in Biomedical Informatics (DTMBIO'11)

The focus of this workshop is to bring together researchers who are interested in applying advanced data and text mining techniques to improve communication, understanding and management of medical information.

Website: http://biosoft.kaist.ac.kr/dtmbio/dtmbio2011/home.html

Date: Monday 24th October 2011

BooksOnline'11: Online Books, Complementary Social Media and Crowdsourcing

In recent years online book content has increased dramatically through the digitization of physical books and electronic publishing. Such collections present a great value to humanity and to commercial organizations. To match the great momentum in creating on-line book repositories, the BooksOnline workshop series aims to foster research initiatives that are focused on innovation opportunities and challenges created by large collections of digital books. This year, the workshop focuses more explicitly and deliberately on exploring the role of social media and crowdsourcing in the context of online books. Both have been key in defining new user experiences on the Web and thus we aim to jump-start the BooksOnline community into embracing and exploiting these phenomena. Examples of where social media is promoting online book usage include LibraryThing.com and Amazon’s book service that integrates with Kindle. Crowdsourcing has also been used in building benchmarks for the evaluation of book search engines at INEX. However, these are merely the tip of the potential opportunities that such social engagement models and platforms can offer to online book services. Since social engagement and supporting infrastructure are clearly vital to the future of digital library platforms, the workshop will aim to unearth these potentials to advance both theory and development in designing user experiences and developing the technology for supporting such experiences. The one day workshop will include keynote presentations, paper presentations in panel sessions covering both ongoing research efforts and proposals for new initiatives, a poster session, and a break-out session to brainstorm around new ideas and research directions.

Website: http://research.microsoft.com/booksonline11/

Date: Monday 24th October 2011

DETecting and Exploiting Cultural diversiTy on the Social Web (DETECT 2011)

The workshop DETECT (an acronym for DETecting and Exploiting Cultural diversiTy on the social web) aims to facilitate inter-disciplinary research on complex dependencies between culture, language, and content on the social web. We aim at bringing together researchers and practitioners dealing with inter-cultural, multi-lingual and multi-national information environments in distinct contexts, and discover synergies between their research fields.

Website: http://detect.uni-koblenz.de/

Date: Monday 24th October 2011

3rd International Workshop on Search and Mining User-generated Contents (SMUC 2011)

The 3rd International Workshop on User-generated Contents (SMUC 2011) represents a multidisciplinary forum for researchers and practitioners that work on knowledge extraction, management and exploitation approaches in Social Media, and belong to different, but complementary fields such as Web (content/structure/usage) mining, information retrieval and filtering, opinion mining and sentiment analysis, user modeling, personalization and recommendation, and multimedia processing and retrieval.

Website: http://ir.ii.uam.es/smuc2011/

Date: Friday 28th October 2011

2nd International Workshop on Web Science and Information Exchange in the Medical Web (MedEx 2011)

The amount of Social Media Data dealing with medical and health issues increased significantly in the last couple of years. Medical Social Media Data now provides a new source of information within information gaining contexts. Facts, experiences, opinions or information on behaviour can be found in the Medicine 2.0 and could support a broad range of applications. Health organizations monitor online news repositories and web pages for relevant data on epidemiological events. Physicians learn about the experiences of their colleagues provided through social media platforms: such as weblogs, or forums. Moreover, patients can search for information or experiences of others which can lead to patient empowerment. This workshop is devoted to the technologies for dealing with social- and multi media for medical information gathering and exchange. This specific data and the processes of information gathering poses many challenges given the increasing content on the Web and the trade off of filtering noise at the cost of losing information which is potentially relevant. These issues are compounded by their impact on both information producers and consumers in the health care community.

Date: Friday 28th October 2011

3rd International Workshop on Collaborative Information Retrieval (CIR2011)

Support for explicit collaboration is an essential part of many information seeking activities. Explicit collaboration differs from recommendation systems and collaborative filtering in that the people engaged in information seeking have an explicitly shared information need. In this third installment in our workshop series, we focus on various aspects of collaboration information retrieval related to algorithms and interfaces, and explore how various aspects of these systems can support collaboration, including aspects of awareness, synergy, effectiveness, and efficiency. We invite participation through posters, presentations, and demonstrations. One key aspect of this workshop will involve hands-on demonstrations of collaborative search systems on real datasets to build a collective experience with such systems. For more information on the workshop, please see our web site at http://cir2011.fxpal.com . Follow our progress on Twitter at #cir2011 .

Website: http://cir2011.fxpal.com

Date: Friday 28th October 2011

Data infrastructurEs for Supporting Information Retrieval Evaluation (DESIRE 2011)

Over the years, the information retrieval area has produced a vast set of large test collections which have become the main benchmark tools of the area and ensure reproducible and comparable experiments. However, these same collections have not been organised into coherent and integrated infrastructures which make them accessible, searchable, citable, exploitable, and re-usable to all possibly interested researchers, developers, and user communities. It is thus time for these three communities – information retrieval, databases, and knowledge management – to join efforts, meet, and cooperate to address the problem of envisaging and designing useful infrastructures able to coherently manage pertinent data collections and sources of information, and so take concrete steps towards developing them. Therefore, the main objective of the workshop is to gather together experts from these three areas, to encourage them to recognise the urgency of addressing the problem in an integrated and coherent way, and to coordinate efforts towards drawing a roadmap and suggesting best practices for an effective solution of the problem.

Website: http://www.promise-noe.eu/events/desire-2011/

Date: Friday 28th October 2011

Workshop for Ph.D. Students in Information and Knowledge Management (PIKM 2011)

This workshop is for doctoral students conducting research in one or more of the areas at CIKM, i.e., databases, information retrieval and knowledge management. Papers submitted to this workshop should consist of dissertation proposals of Ph.D. students or sub-problems of their dissertation, and should include a proposed solution with preliminary evaluation. Interdisciplinary works across the three ACM CIKM tracks is particularly encouraged.

Website: http://webdam.inria.fr/PIKM2011/

Date: Friday 28th October 2011

Managing Interoperability and Complexity in Health Systems (MIXHS’11)

MIXHS’11, will be a forum focussing on the latest advances in bio-medical semantics and electronic health information & knowledge management research. Issues of biomedical data-mining in large heterogeneous clinical data-sets, information retrieval and extraction in multiple medical repositories, the management of complexity and the coherent update of knowledge in medicine, clinical standards interoperability in distributed health systems and the patient Electronic Health Record (EHR) are now becoming critical to implementing enterprise and nationwide health systems. Topics of interest will include knowledge management activities seeking to address these issues by: (i) using clinical data mining, information extraction and retrieval (ii) standardisation of clinical classifications, large scale biomedical terminologies and ontologies development (i.e. SNOMED CT), (iii) the standardisation of clinical information transfer formats (i.e. HL7) and (iv) structuring of clinical documents (Clinical Document Architecture, CDA & EHR). The workshop will provide a forum for sharing design and implementation solutions for managing clinical data and integrating current and future e-health systems infrastructures.

Website: http://informatics.mayo.edu/CNTRO/index.php/Events/MIXHS11

Date: Friday 28th October 2011

3rd International Workshop on Cloud Data Management (CloudDB 2011)

This workshop is dedicated to address the challenges in managing large collections of data in cloud computing environment, and identifying information of value to business, science, government, and society. The huge size of data in cloud computing environments poses big challenges on the infrastructure for data storage which can achieve economical scaling to more than Petabyte, massively parallel query execution, and facilities for analytical processing. Meanwhile, the emergence of large data centers and cluster computers has created a new business model, cloud-based computing, where businesses and individuals can rent storage and computing capacities, rather than making significant capital investments to construct and provision large-scale computer facilities. As cloud computing is becoming increasingly popular over the world, data management in cloud computing environment is becoming a hot research issue. The CloudDB'2011 workshop aims to provide a forum for researchers and practitioners to exchange ideas and progresses in the cloud data management area.

Website: http://www.clouddb.org/CloudDB11

Date: Friday 28th October 2011

Search and Mining Entity-Relationship Data (SMER'11)

This workshop shall serve as an open forum for discussing the new research challenges in search and mining of large scale entity-relationship (ER) data extracted from multitude of unstructured and semi-structured data sources, driven by recent industry trends and requirements in various domains and increasing academic interest. The workshop will bring together researchers from different communities working on similar problems in the context of ER and other semantic data, allowing for cross-fertilization between areas. During the workshop, we will identify common problems and their various solution approaches in DB, KM, and IR.

Website: http://sysrun.haifa.il.ibm.com/hrl/smer2011/

Date: Friday 28th October 2011

4th Workshop on Exploiting Semantic Annotations in Information Retrieval (ESAIR 2011)

This workshop will be about application of semantic annotation of information objects and information streams for for information access tasks such as search, retrieval, categorisation and related information refinement tasks. By semantic annotations we refer to both manual and automatic linguistic annotations (such as named entities, semantic classes or roles, etc.) as well as user annotations (such as microformats, RDF, tags, etc.); geo-positional markers; temporal information; opinion, sentiment, and attitude; certainty and hedging and many other similar analyses. In some cases semantic technologies are being deployed in active tasks, but there is no common direction to research initiatives nor in general technologies for exploitation of non-immediate textual information, in spite of a clear family resemblance both with respect to theoretical starting points and methodology. We believe further research is needed before we can unleash the potential of annotations! This workshop is intended to provide a path to formulate such research!

Website: https://www.sics.se/events/esair2011

Date: Friday 28th October 2011

Large-Scale and Distributed Information Retrieval (LSDS-IR 2011)

The growth of the Web and user bases lead to important performance problems for large-scale distributed information retrieval (IR) systems. Scalability and efficiency of these systems also have an impact on their effectiveness. The LSDS-IR'11 workshop expects research contributions that aim to create scalable and efficient large scale IR systems. The workshop also expects contributions that propose different ways of leveraging diversity and multiplicity of resources available in distributed systems.

Website: http://www.lsdsir.org/

Date: Friday 28th October 2011

14th International Workshop on Data Warehousing and OLAP (DOLAP 2011)

This workshop synergistically connects the academic community and industry practitioners working on data warehousing and on-line analytical processing. It provides an international forum where both researchers and practitioners can share their findings in theory, systems and practical experiences.

Website: http://si.deis.unical.it/~cuzzocrea/DOLAP2011/

Date: Friday 28th October 2011