[ntcir:322] Final CFP SIGIR Workshop: Info Access in a Multilingual World

[Noriko Kando <kando@xxxxxxxxx>]

FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS

INFORMATION ACCESS IN A MULTILINGUAL WORLD:

TRANSITIONING FROM RESEARCH TO REAL WORLD APPLICATIONS

A Workshop at SIGIR 2009 (http://www.sigir2009.org/): 23 July 2009,
Boston, USA.

Workshop Web Site: http://www.sics.se/events/clir2009

In cooperation with: Info-plosion



OPENING INVITED TALK

Dr Ralf Steinberger, Joint Research Centre of the European Commission,
presenting the JRC's multilingual media monitoring and analysis
applications, (http://press.jrc.it/overview.html)

IMPORTANT DATES -- Deadline extended to conform with other SIGIR-2009
workshops

June 15, 2009 Papers submitted electronically to clir@xxxxxxxx See web
site for formatting. Please include authors names/affiliation

June 22, 2009 Notice of acceptance or rejections of papers sent to authors

June 30, 2009 Final papers submitted for workshop notebook

July 23, 2009 Workshop held in Boston, Massachusetts, USA


TOPICS FOR THIS WORKSHOP are focused on transition of technology into
use: Practical implementation of multilingual information access. User
studies and interfaces for effective multilingual information access.
Requirements for practicable multilingual information access systems.
Tasks and challenges for multilingual technology. Uses of Machine
Translation (MT) in multilingual information access. Moving from common
language pairs to less-commonly taught languages. Multilingual digital
libraries. Scalability issues in multilingual information access.

TWO KINDS OF PAPERS are sought: Short position papers (2-5 pages) which
focus on particular areas and argue a vision of the future in the area,
either as necessary development to further multilingual information
access or as necessary research to further practical development and
implementation of multilingual information access. As many position
papers as possible will be accepted within time constraints of the
workshop. Longer research scope papers (up to 10 pages) which provide
depth and background as well as a research or development vision. All
papers will be reviewed by a program committee and a small number
research and development papers will be selected for presentation at the
workshop.

ORGANIZERS:
Fredric C. Gey, University of California, Berkeley, USA
Noriko Kando, National Institute of Informatics, JAPAN
Jussi Karlgren, Swedish Institute of Computer Science, SWEDEN

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