Friday, August 21, 2009

CFParticipation: Information Access Symposium 2009

This is a new event run by IPSJ SIGFI.
It will be held on Day 0 of AIRS 2009 (Oct 20) in Sapporo.

*** 参加案内 ***

情報処理学会 情報学研究会(FI研)主催
「情報アクセスシンポジウム(IAS)2009」
日時:2009年10月20日(火)13:00-17:30
会場:北海道大学(札幌)
http://www.hokudai.ac.jp/footer/ft_access.html


国際会議Asia Information Retrieval Symposium (AIRS) 2009
http://www-kb.ist.hokudai.ac.jp/AIRS2009/
と連続開催(IASの公用語は日本語です)
★是非IASとAIRSにまとめてご参加ください!★


【IAS参加費】
・FI研会員:★無料★
・その他の情報処理学会会員:2000円
・非会員:4000円
(当日受付にて現金払。お釣りのないようお願いします)


【プログラム】
13:00 開会のことば(酒井哲也)

13:10-14:00 招待講演1
神門典子氏(国立情報学研究所)
14:00-14:50 招待講演2
黒橋禎夫氏(京都大学)
<休憩20分>
15:10-16:00 招待講演3
稲垣陽一氏(きざしカンパニー)
16:00-16:50 招待講演4
金田直之氏(ニューズウォッチ)

16:50-17:20
パネル:「学界と産業界から見た情報アクセス技術の今後」
パネリスト:
 神門典子氏(国立情報学研究所)
 黒橋禎夫氏(京都大学)
 稲垣陽一氏(きざしカンパニー)
 金田直之氏(ニューズウォッチ)
司会:吉岡真治(北海道大学)

17:20 閉会のことば(吉岡真治)

★詳細はFI研ホームページに
http://www.ipsj.or.jp/katsudou/sig/sighp/fi/

掲載予定★


【お問い合わせ】
IAS実行委員長:吉岡真治(北海道大学、AIRS 2009 conference co-chair)
yoshioka(at)ist.hokudai.ac.jp
FI研主査:酒井哲也(Microsoft Research Asia、AIRS 2009 conference co-chair)
tetsuyasakai(at)acm.org

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Thursday, August 13, 2009

CFP: IPSJ 96th SIGFI / 37th Digital Library Workshop

情報処理学会 第96回 情報学基礎研究会
第37回 ディジタル図書館ワークショップ 合同研究会
開催のご案内と論文募集

日 程: 平成21年11月19日(木)
会 場: 筑波大学東京キャンパス(秋葉原地区)
(千代田区外神田1-18-13 秋葉原ダイビル14階)
http://www.lawschool.tsukuba.ac.jp/gaiyo/access.html
交通手段:
JR秋葉原駅 徒歩1分
つくばエクスプレス秋葉原駅 徒歩3分
東京メトロ日比谷線秋葉原駅 徒歩4分

テーマ:「クラウドコンピューティングとディジタル図書館」および一般

発表申込締切: 平成21年 9月18日(金)
原稿締切:   平成21年10月16日(金)

原稿ページ数制限予定: 6~8ページ
発表時間予定: 1件30分
(質疑応答を含みます.多少変わることもあります.)

発表申込方法:
発表題目,発表者名(登壇者に○),略称所属,概要(80字以上100字程度),
発表申込者連絡先(住所,氏名,Tel,Fax,E-mail),発表に必要な機材を
明記の上,下記の照会先まで E-mailで直接お申し込みください.

照会先:
宇陀 則彦(筑波大学大学院 図書館情報メディア研究科)
E-mail: uda
(at) slis.tsukuba.ac.jp
Tel(029)859-1481 Fax(029)859-1093

備考:
・受け付けは先着順で行なっております.
締切間際になりますと,申し込み件数によりましては
次回ワークショップにまわって頂くようお願いする場合がございます.
申し込みを予定しておられます方はなるべく早めにお申し込み下さい.
・締切後の発表キャンセルは原則としてできません.
十分検討の上お申し込み下さい.
万一締切後にキャンセルの必要が生じた場合にはなるべく早く御連絡下さい.
・最新情報は下記URLをご覧ください。
情報学基礎研究会 http://www.ipsj.or.jp/katsudou/sig/sighp/fi/
DLワークショップ http://www.dl.slis.tsukuba.ac.jp/DLworkshop/

Tuesday, August 11, 2009

AIRS 2009 conference program

Now available here.
The conference proceedings will be published as LNCS 5839.

Friday, August 7, 2009

IPSJ SIGFI reform

As the chair of IPSJ SIGFI (Fundamental Informatics),
I plan to rename this group and to revise its research scope definition next year.
Thanks to the SIGFI committee members who participated in the discussion.

I hope IPSJ will approve.

SIGIR 2009 workshop relevance feedback

Reading the feedback forms for
the SIGIR workshop on the Future of IR Evaluation
(Thanks to Diane Kelly).
18 people were kind enough to fill out the form.
Overall, people seemed to have enjoyed it.

Here's part of one person's response:
Q: Was the content of this workshop what you expected? (1=not at all; 5=absolutely)
A: 2
Q:How much did you enjoy this workshop? (1=not at all; 5=a lot)
A: 4
Q: If this workshop were offered next year at SIGIR, would you attend? (1=no way; 5=absolutely)
A: 1
So he's not coming back, but I'm glad that he enjoyed it this time!

And here's an interesting question:
Q:Did you tweet/blog about this workshop?

Only 2 said yes. 14 said no.
2 said "What's a tweet?"

Tuesday, August 4, 2009

CFP: RIAO 2010

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First Call for Papers RIAO 2010 - 9th RIAO Conference
Adaptivity, Personalization and Fusion of Heterogeneous Information
28-30 April, 2010
Paris, France (Bibliotheque Nationale de France)
http://www.riao2010.org/

Important dates:
Paper submission deadline November 30, 2009
Notification to authors February 5, 2010
Camera-Ready copies due March 1, 2010
Conference dates April 28-30, 2010
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History
The RIAO conference is a triennial conference, which addresses research
topics related to the design of robust and large-scale scientific
and industrial solutions to information processing.
Previous RIAO editions were held at Grenoble (1985), MIT (1988), Barcelona
(1991), Rockefeller University (1994), Montreal (1997), Paris (2000),
and Avignon (2004), and Carnegie Mellon University (2007).
Past RIAO conferences were constituted by both peer-reviewed scientific
sessions and demonstrations of innovative industrial applications and
advanced research prototypes.

Scope of RIAO 2010
Submissions are invited which present recent, original and unpublished
research on the theme of RIAO 2010: adapting, personalizing and merging
heterogeneous information.

Submissions may address one or more of the following subjects:

Information filtering
* Content based filtering
* Collaborative filtering
* Recommender systems
* Spam, protection of minors
Social networks
* Folksonomies, tagging
* Blogs
* Social search
* Communities
* Opinion and sentiment
Personalized IR and User modelling
* Adaptive IR
* Collaborative IR
* Interfaces
Information fusion
* Mash Ups
* Aggregated search
* Systems for watch, business decision
Formal models, theory
Information extraction and natural language processing, multilinguality
* Summarization
* Question answering
* Entity/relation extraction
* Cross-Language IR, Machine translation for IR
Multimedia Information Retrieval
* Image IR
* Video IR
* Speech/audio IR
* Music IR, analysis of multimedia content
Web Search and Advertising
* Adversial IR
* Advertising
* Link analysis
Applications
* Cultural heritage
* Trademark search
* Scientific media
* Bio-computing and medical
* Database offloading

Evaluation, benchmarking

Machine Learning for IR
* Learning to rank
* Probabilistic topic models
* All kinds of learning techniques applied to IR

Program Chairs
Gabriella Pasi (Europe)
Tie-Yan Liu (Asia)
Prabhakar Raghavan (Americas)

Paper Submission

We welcome submissions from both research and industrial communities
addressing the main conference theme.
Submitted papers must describe an unpublished original work, emphasizing
completed or advanced research, possibly with releted experiments.
A parallel submission to other venues should be clearly indicated to the
program committee.
The submissions (which have to be blind) will be reviewed by at least
three program committee members. The submissions will be evaluated on
the basis of
originality, relevance, technical quality, and presentation.
Papers can be submitted in two categories: full papers and short papers,
where full papers are appropriate for describing
substantial research with related evaluations and short papers will
typically describe ongoing research and preliminary results. All
accepted papers in both categories will be published in the conference
proceedings. At the conference, full papers will be presented as a talk
and short papers will be presented as a poster.
Long papers must not exceed 12 pages (5000 words), in one column format,
starting with an abstract.
Short papers must not exceed 6 pages (2500 words), in one column,
starting with an abstract.
Submissions should be in Microsoft Word format or in PDF.

The conference proceedings will be available to conference attendees,
and through the CID after the conference.