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[ntcir:86] CFP:ACM-SIGIR Workshop on CLIR: A Research Roadmap



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Call for Papers for CROSS LANGUAGE INFORMATION RETRIEVAL: A RESEARCH
ROADMAP
A Workshop at
 SIGIR-2002: 22nd Internationl Conference On Research And Development in

Information Retrieval

August 15, 2002, Tampere Finland http://www.sigir2002.org

Cross-Language Information Retrieval (CLIR) has been a research subfield

for more
than a decade now.  The field has sparked three major evaluation
efforts: the
Cross-Language Evaluation Forum (CLEF) covering many European languages,

the NTCIR
Asian Language Evaluation (covering Chinese, Japanese and Korean), and
the TREC
Cross Language Track which currently focuses on the Arabic language.
This
workshop proposes to review and assess the progress that has been made
and to
prepare a roadmap for the next five years of research and development.
Presentations will summarize the major techniques and accomplishments of

the field
(e.g. utilization of corpus, dictionary, and machine translation
techniques for
crossing language barriers, strategies for sense disambiguation and
query
expansion) and position papers will argue the directions the research
should go in
the next half decade. The expectation is to develop a step-by-step,
year-by-year
roadmap of research to be undertaken, with each year addressing
progressively more
difficult goals and expected accomplishments.  Suggested topics include,

but are
not limited to:
* The role of cross-language retrieval for video, image, sounds and
music
collections, since users can understand the content without expertise.
Cross-language speech retrieval.
* Interactive CLIR systems, including issues regarding results
presentation
* Cross-language summarization, cross-language clustering, and cross-
language
question answering.
* Multilingual web retrieval, including development of a web corpus in
25 or more
languages
* CLIR for languages for which there are limited linguistic resources,
such as
*
o Indian subcontinent languages
o Eastern European languages
o African continent languages
o South-East Asian languages
* Shareability of linguistic resources such as stemmers, stop word
lists, corpora,
transliteration techniques

Two kinds of papers are sought:  Short position papers (maximum 4 pages)

which
focus on particular areas and argue a vision of future research in the
area.  We
will accept as many of these as can be fit into the workshop schedule.
Longer
research scope papers, invited based upon short papers (up to 10 pages)
which
provide depth and background as well as a research vision; these papers
will be
reviewed and a limited number selected for presentation at the workshop.

Workshop Co-Chairs

Fredric C. Gey
University of California, Berkeley
gey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Noriko Kando
National Institute of Informatics
kando@xxxxxxxxx
Carol Peters
Italian National Research Council
carol@xxxxxxxxxxxxx


IMPORTANT DATES:

May 24, 2002    Papers submitted electronically to Chairs.
June 20, 2002           Notice of acceptance or rejections of papers
sent to
Authors
July 15, 2002           Final papers submitted for workshop notebook to
be
distributed at workshop
August 15, 2002         Workshop held in Tampere, Finland


WORKSHOP PROGRAM COMMITTEE

James Allan              (USA)
Martin Braschler         (Switzerland)
Hsin-Hsi Chen    (Taiwan)
Kuang-Ha Chen    (Taiwan, pending)
Bruce Croft                      (USA)
Julio Gonzalo            (Spain)
Djoerd Hiemstra          (Netherlands)
Gareth Jones             (United Kingdom)
Jussi Karlgren           (Sweden)
Wessel Kraaij            (Netherlands)
Chin-Yew Lin             (USA)
Paul McNamee             (USA)
Doug Oard                (USA)
Ari Pirkola                      (Finland)
Mark Sanderson           (United Kingdom)