ECIR 2012: 34th European Conference on Information Retrieval

The British Computer Society's Information Retrieval Specialist Group's annual European Conference on Information Retrieval is the main European forum for the presentation of new research results in the field of Information Retrieval. ECIR 2012 is the 34th anniversary of this conference series and will take place in Barcelona, Spain, from the 1st to the 5th of April 2012. The conference is organised by Yahoo! Research and Universitat Pompeu Fabra, supported by BCS IRSG.
Topics of interest include but are not limited to the areas listed below.
IR Theory and Formal Models

• Searching, browsing, meta-searching, data fusion, filtering and indexing
• Text and content classification, categorisation, clustering
• Relevance feedback, query expansion
• Topic detection and tracking, novelty detection
• Content-based filtering, collaborative filtering, Spam filtering
• Personalised, collaborative or user-adaptive IR, recommender systems
• Adversarial IR
• Privacy in IR
• Mobile, Geo and Local Search

Web and Social Media IR

• Link analysis
• Query log analysis
• Advertising and ad targeting
• Spam detection
• Authority, Reputation, Ranking
• Blog and online-community search
• Social Tagging

User aspects

• User modelling, user studies, user interaction in IR systems
• Interactive IR, User studies, User models, Task-based IR
• Novel user interfaces for IR systems
• User interfaces, visualisation and presentation of queries, search results or content
• Multimodal aspects

IR system architectures

• Distributed and peer to peer IR
• Parallel IR
• Fusion/Combination
• Open, interoperable and flexible
• Performance, Scalability, Architectures, Efficiency, Platforms
• Compression, performance, optimisation

Content representation and processing

• IR for semi-structured documents
• IR for semantically annotated collections, semantic search
• Meta information and structures, metadata
• Query representation, Query reformulation
• Text Categorization and clustering
• Text data mining
• Opinion mining
• Cross-language retrieval, Multilingual retrieval
• Machine translation for IR
• Question answering, Natural language processing for IR, Summarization

Evaluation

• Evaluation methods and metrics
• Building test collections and metrics
• Experimental design
• Crowdsourcing for evaluation
• User-oriented and user-centered test and evaluation

Multimedia and cross-media IR

• Speech retrieval
• Image and video retrieval
• Digital music, radio and broadcast retrieval

Applications

• Digital libraries
• Enterprise Search, Intranet search, Desktop search
• Mobile IR
• Genomic IR, IR for chemical structures, etc.
• Medical IR, legal IR, patent search