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*TIR'18  -  15th International Workshop on Technologies for Information Retrieval*
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                       In conjunction with the DEXA 2018
   29th International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications
                            Regensburg, Germany
                        September 03 - September 06

                            http://tir.webis.de


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About this Workshop
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In recent years, information channels have become increasingly distributed, 
opinionated, and vary in their infor-mation quality and trustworthiness of 
the stated facts and arguments. The development of advanced retrieval solutions 
requires the understanding and the combination of methods from different 
research areas, including machine learning, (big) data mining, natural language 
processing, artificial intelligence, user interaction and modeling, and Web 
engineering. 

The TIR workshop provides a platform for presenting and discussing new solutions, 
novel ideas, or specific tools for future retrieval systems. The following list 
organizes classic and recent topics for which contributions are welcome, but 
not limited to:


- Theory. Retrieval models, similarity measures, formal analysis

- Evaluation. Corpus construction, experiment design, performance measures, 
  reproducibility, benchmarking of Information Retrieval and Machine Learning
  algorithms

- Information Quality and Provenance. Text quality assessment, text reuse, trust 
  and author reputation, provenance analytics

- Natural Language Technologies for IR Applications. Opinion mining, text 
  summarization and simplifica-tion, question answering, discourse and 
  argument mining

- Personalization. Personalized retrieval, context detection, user profiling, 
  user modeling
  
- Search User Interfaces. General purpose search, special purpose search, 
  adaptive interfaces, retrieval in cognitive settings

- Web Search. Ranking and recommendation, query classification and segmentation, 
  vertical search, dynamic taxonomy generation

- Social Media Analytics. People analytics, social network analysis, trend analysis

- Semantic Web. Meta data analysis and tagging, knowledge extraction, 
  inference and linking

- Deep Learning. Representation learning for text mining


The TIR workshop is held for the fifteenth time. Past workshops could attract 
high-quality and innovative contributions and were characterized by an open and 
stimulating atmosphere. 
Accepted papers will appear in the proceedings of DEXA’18 Workshops published 
by the Conference Publishing Services (CPS) of IEEE Computer Society.


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Important Dates
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April 16, 2018: Deadline for paper submission (23:59 CET), extended
May 23, 2018: Notification to authors
June 08, 2018: Camera-ready copy due


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Workshop Organizers
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Christin Seifert  (Co-Chair), University of Twente, The Netherlands
Benno Stein (Co-Chair), Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, Germany
Michael Granitzer (Co-Chair), University of Passau, Germany

Contact: tir@webis.de
Information about the workshop can be found at http://tir.webis.de