[NORSLIS] ICTIR2013 Call for Participation - Early bird 31 Aug 2013

[Birger Larsen]

ICTIR 2013, first Call for Participation

The 4th International Conference on the Theory of Information
Retrieval (ICTIR 2013) - in cooperation with ACM SIGIR
http://ictir2013.org

29 September - 2 October, 2013, University of Copenhagen, Denmark

*** Early bird deadline 31 August 2013 ***

The International Conference on the Theory of Information
Retrieval (ICTIR) aims to provide a forum for discussion and
interaction among those with theoretical and applicative
research interests in mathematical/formal aspects of
Information Retrieval (IR).

We have a very strong program of keynotes, scientific papers, tutorials
and a panel discussion - all by key researchers in the field. For details
of the technical Program see http://ictir2013.org/conferenceprogram.html.
Note that tutorials are included in the registration fee to allow both
students and senior researchers to attend and debate the tutorial themes.

KEYNOTES
* The Roots of the Theoretical Basis for Information Retrieval by
  Keith van Rijsbergen, University of Cambridge
* Is there Space for Theory in Modern Search Engines? by
  Ricardo Baeza-Yates, Yahoo! Research
* Compositional Vector Semantics Over Different Ground Fields by
  Dominic Widdows, Serendipity

Panel discussion on 'IR Research: Long Range Challenges and Opportunities'
with Peter Ingwersen (chair), Stephen Robertson, Ricardo Baeza-Yates,
Thomas Roelleke, Peiling Wang.

TUTORIALS
* 'Axiomatic Analysis and Optimization of Information Retrieval Models' by
  ChengXiang Zhai, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, US and
  Hui Fang, University of Delaware, US
* 'IR Models: Foundations and Relationships' by
  Thomas Roelleke, Queen Mary, University of London, UK
* 'Quantum Mechanics and Information Retrieval: From Theory to Application'
  by Massimo Melucci, University of Padua, Italy and
  Benjamin Piwowarski, CNRS, France
* 'Statistical Signficance Testing in Information Retrieval: Theory and
  Practice' by Ben Carterette, University of Delaware, US

EARLY BIRD REGISTRATION (until 31 August 2013):
ACM SIGIR/BCS IRSG members: EUR 225
Non-ACM SIGIR/BCS IRSG members: EUR 250
Students: EUR 180

GENERAL CHAIRS
Christina Lioma, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Birger Larsen, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Peter Ingwersen, University of Copenhagen, Denmark

HONORARY CHAIR
Keith van Rijsbergen, University of Cambridge, UK

PC CHAIRS
Oren Kurland, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
Donald Metzler, Google

Sponsors: Google, Yahoo!, FINDWISE, Spinque, Centre for Communication and
Computing (UCPH), LARM Audio Research Archive, Department of Computer
Science (UCPH), Royal School of Library and Information Science (UCPH).

Supported by: BCS-IRSG, ACM SIGIR, Wonderful Copenhagen

_______________________________________________________
Birger Larsen, PhD
Associate Professor, Research group leader, International Coordinator
Information Systems and Interaction Design
Royal School of Library and Information Science
University of Copenhagen
Birketinget 6, DK-2300 Copenhagen S, Denmark
Tel. +45 3258 6066 / +45 32341520, Fax. +45 32840201
Email: blar at iva.dk<mailto:blar at iva.dk>, Homepage: http://www.iva.dk/blar

ICTIR 2013: http://ictir2013.org<http://ictir2013.org/>




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