[ntcir:101] CFP: IP&M Special Issue on CLIR

[Noriko Kando <kando@xxxxxxxxx>]

APOLOGIES FOR CROSS-POSTING

Please find "Call for Papers for a special issue of Information
Processing and Management (IP&M) on Cross-Language Information
Retrieval (CLIR)".

Since the first international workshop on CLIR (SIGIR '96),
we have run through very much exciting years and research
on CLIR has been enhanced tremendously in many ways. To sum up
such excitement and acute progress of this area we have
made so far, the Editorial Board of the journal would like
to make this special issue as a "good reference volume on
CLIR".  So your contribution is most welcome.

Authors Guides and style instruction are found on
http://www.elsevier.nl/locate/infoproman

Manuscripts should be submitted in electronic form to
the guest editors listed below:

Fredric C.Gey
University of California, Berkeley
gey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Noriko Kando
National Institute of Informatics
kando@xxxxxxxxx

Carol Peters
Italian National Research Council
carol@xxxxxxxxxxxxx

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Call for Papers:
Special Issue of Information Processing and Management on
CROSS LANGUAGE INFORMATION RETRIEVAL

DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION APRIL 1, 2003


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
in 2001 and 2002 focused on the Arabic language.   This Special Issue of
Information Processing and Management aims at presenting a landmark set
of research papers which review and present the best research in the
field on different aspects of multilingual information access and
cross-language information retrieval.

Suggested topics include, but are not limited to:

- Cross-language retrieval methodologies, including utilization of
  bi-lingual dictionaries, machine translation, multilingual thesauri
  and aligned parallel corpora, n-gram monolingual retrieval

- Unified models for cross-language information retrieval

-  Multilingual information access for video, image, sounds and music
  collections, where users can understand the content without expertise
  but need assistance in accessing it. Cross-language speech retrieval.

- Interactive CLIR systems, including issues regarding query formulation
  and results presentation

- Multilingual summarization, cross-language clustering, and cross-
  language question answering.

- Multilingual web retrieval.

- 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

- Role of linguistic resources such as stemmers, stop word lists,
  corpora, transliteration techniques in multiple language processing

The special issue follows up from the workshop:  Cross-Language
Information Retrieval: A Research Roadmap
(http://ucdata.berkeley.edu/sigir-2002/)  held at the SIGIR-2002
conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval,
Tampere, Finland, August 15, 2002.

Submissions should follow the style stipulated in the Guide for Authors
prepared by “Information Processing and Management”
(http://www.elsevier.nl/locate/infoproman) but should be submitted in
electronic form to the guest editors listed below:



Special Issue Editors:

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:
April 1, 2003     Papers submitted electronically to editors.
July 15, 2003     Notice of acceptance of papers sent to Authors
September 1, 2003 Final version of paper submitted
Fall  2003        Issue published
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重複して受け取られた方は申し訳ありません

インタナショナルジャーナルInformation Processing and
Management (IP&M)の言語横断検索（CLIR)・多言語情報ア
クセスの特集号のCFPをお送りします。

IP&Mは査読付きのインタナショナルジャーナルで、SCI,SSCI
を含む多くの二次情報サービスにも収録されています。

ACM-SIGIR'96で、最初にCLIRのワークショップが開催されて
以来、CLIRの研究はめざましい発展を遂げていました。そこで
この6年間の発展をまとめるような特集号を企画しました。
どうぞ、奮って投稿してください。

NTCIRのCLIRの研究成果はもちろんのこと、検索に限らず、
多言語質問応答、多言語要約など、情報活用を支援する情報アクセス
技術に関連するものを広く受け付けます。

執筆要綱等は、下記のIP&Mのサイトをご参照ください。
http://www.elsevier.nl/locate/infoproman

原稿は、下記の特集号ゲストエディタに電子的なファイルで
お送りください。

Fredric C.Gey
University of California, Berkeley
gey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

神門 典子（かんど のりこ）
Noriko Kando
国立情報学研究所
National Institute of Informatics
kando@xxxxxxxxx

Carol Peters
Italian National Research Council
carol@xxxxxxxxxxxxx

よろしくお願いいたします。

神門　典子
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