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<p class="MsoNormal">ECIR Workshop on Task-Based and Aggregated Search TBAS 2012<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">1 April 2012, Barcelona, Spain.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">WEBSITE: http://itlab.dbit.dk/~tbas2012/<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">TABLE OF CONTENTS<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">- Workshop themes<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">- Important dates<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">- Keynote speaker<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">- Organisation<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">WORKSHOP THEMES<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">This workshop aims to stimulate exploratory research in task-based and
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<p class="MsoNormal">aggregated search, and to investigate synergies between these two areas.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Research into task-based search aims to understand the user's current
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<p class="MsoNormal">task and desired outcomes, and how this may provide useful context for
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<p class="MsoNormal">the Information Retrieval (IR) process. The challenge is when and how
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<p class="MsoNormal">to capture and filter this context. Research into aggregated search
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<p class="MsoNormal">(also known as integrated search) addresses the increasingly common IR
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<p class="MsoNormal">paradigm of presenting to the user a result list with information from
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<p class="MsoNormal">heterogeneous document and media types, such as Webpages, user-authored
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<p class="MsoNormal">content, Wikipedia entries, images, locations, etc. The challenge is when
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<p class="MsoNormal">and how to fuse different document and media types, and how to present
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<p class="MsoNormal">results to the user. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">A test collection (iSearch) that was designed to facilitate aspects of
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<p class="MsoNormal">task-based and aggregated search is now freely available as part of the
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<p class="MsoNormal">workshop (see http://itlab.dbit.dk/~isearch). Submissions using any
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<p class="MsoNormal">other dataset are welcome. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Full paper and poster submissions are now invited (submission details:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">http://itlab.dbit.dk/~tbas2012/submit.htm)<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">IMPORTANT DATES<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Submission Deadline: 19 February 2012<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Author Notifications: 4 March 2012<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Camera-Ready Papers Due: 11 March 2012<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Workshop: 1 April 2012<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">KEYNOTE SPEAKER<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Kalervo Jarvelin (University of Tampere, Finland)<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">ORGANISERS<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Birger Larsen, Royal School of Library and Information Science, Denmark<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Christina Lioma, Technical University of Denmark<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Arjen de Vries, Centrum Wiskunde and Informatica, The Netherlands
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<p class="MsoNormal">PROGRAM COMMITTEE<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">http://itlab.dbit.dk/~tbas2012/pc.htm<o:p></o:p></p>
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