[ntcir:123] Special Issue of IP&M on CLIR: Contribution deadline extended to 7th April.

[Noriko Kando <kando@xxxxxxxxx>]

APOLOGIES FOR CROSS-POSTING

In response to a number of requests, we have agreed a deadline extension 
for submission of contributions for a special issue of Information 
Processing and Management on Cross-Language Information Retrieval (see 
Call below).

The new deadline is now 7 April 2003.

Submissions should follow the style indicated in the IP&M Guide for 
Authors (see: http://www.elsevier.nl/locate/infoproman) but should be 
submitted in electronic form to all three 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
NEW DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION APRIL 7, 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 INCLUDES, BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO:

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

o Unified models for cross-language information retrieval

o 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.

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

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

o Multilingual web retrieval.

o CLIR for languages for which there are limited linguistic
resources, such as
- Indian subcontinent languages
- Eastern European languages
- African continent languages
- South-East Asian languages

o 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 7, 2003: Papers submitted electronically to editors.
July 15, 2003: Notice of acceptance of papers sent to Authors
Sept. 1, 2003: Final version of paper submitted
Fall 2003:     Issue published
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