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***** DEADLINE EXTENDED TO
APRIL 2 (timezone: GMT-12)! ***** The Third International
Workshop on Evaluating Information Access (EVIA 2010), a Satellite
Workshop of NTCIR-8 http://research.nii.ac.jp/ntcir/ntcir-ws8/EVIA-2010/ June 15, 2010 at NII, Tokyo,
Japan. ***************************************************************** Information Access
technologies provide the interface between human information needs and
digital information resources. The reliable evaluation of these
technologies has been recognized for decades as central to the
advancement of the field. As information retrieval becomes more
pervasive, the forms of retrieval more diverse, and retrieval
tools richer, the importance of effective, efficient, and
innovative evaluation grows as well. In recognition of the need
for a forum dedicated to the intensive discussion of evaluation
issues, we have held two successful International Workshops on
Evaluating Information Access (EVIA 2007 and 2008).
Proceedings and reports can be found below: EVIA 2007 online proceedings: http://research.nii.ac.jp/ntcir/workshop/OnlineProceedings6/EVIA/ EVIA 2008 online proceedings: http://research.nii.ac.jp/ntcir/workshop/OnlineProceedings7/toc_evia.html SIGIR Forum Report on EVIA
2007: http://sigir.org/forum/2007D/2007d_sigirforum_sanderson.pdf SIGIR Forum Report on EVIA
2008: http://sigir.org/forum/2009J/2009j-sigirforum-sakai.pdf Following these successes, we
are happy to announce the Third International Workshop on
Evaluating Information Access (EVIA 2010) on June 15, 2010
(coinciding with Day 1 of the NTCIR-8 Workshop Meeting) at the
National Institute of Informatics (NII), Tokyo, Japan. We invite
papers addressing one or more of the following topics: - Test collection formation,
evaluation metrics, and evaluation environments - Statistical issues in
retrieval evaluation - User studies and the
evaluation of human-computer interaction in information
retrieval (HCIR) - Evaluation methods for
multilingual, multimedia, or mobile information access - Novel information access
tasks and their evaluation - Evaluation and assessment
using implicit user feedback, crowdsourcing, living
labs, or inferential methods - Evaluation issues in
industrial and enterprise retrieval systems *** SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS
*** Submissions will be subject
to double-blind reviewing. Accepted papers will be included in
the EVIA 2010 online proceedings, and summarized in a report to
SIGIR Forum. We invite submissions of
regular papers (up to 9 pages) and short papers (up to 5 pages). Submission upload page: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=evia2010 *** IMPORTANT DATES (NEW!)
*** - April 2, 2010 *submissions
due* - April 20, 2010 notification
of acceptance - May 10, 2010 final
manuscripts due - June 15, 2010 EVIA
2010@NII, Tokyo, Japan - June 15-18, 2010 NTCIR-8@NII,
Tokyo, Japan *** EVIA 2010 PROGRAM
COMMITTEE *** Akiko
Aizawa
NII
Japan Javed
Aslam Northeastern
University USA Nicholas
Belkin Rutgers
University
USA Ben
Carterette University of
Delaware USA Charlie
Clarke University of
Waterloo Canada Georges
Dupret Yahoo!
Research
Chile Norbert
Fuhr Universitaet
Duisburg-Essen Germany Atsushi
Fujii Tokyo Institute of
Technology Japan Donna
Harman
NIST
USA Hideo
Joho University of
Tsukuba Japan Gareth
Jones Dublin City
University Ireland Noriko
Kando
NII
Japan Evangelos Kanoulas University
of Sheffield UK Jaana Kekalainen
University of
Tampere
Finland Mounia
Lalmas University of
Glasgow UK Gary Geunbae Lee
POSTECH
Korea Mun-Kew
Leong National Library
Board Singapore Jimmy
Lin University of
Maryland USA Chin-Yew
Lin Microsoft Research
Asia China Iadh
Ounis University of
Glasgow UK Carol
Peters
IEI-CNR
Italy Ian
Ruthven University of
Strathclyde UK Tetsuya Sakai Microsoft
Research Asia China Mark
Sanderson University of
Sheffield UK Falk
Scholer RMIT
University
Australia Ian
Soboroff
NIST
USA Paul
Thomas
CSIRO
Australia William
Webber University of
Melbourne Australia Emine
Yilmaz Microsoft Research
Cambridge UK *** EVIA 2010 CO-CHAIRS *** William Webber (University of
Melbourne, Australia)
wew@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Mark Sanderson (University of
Sheffield, UK)
m.sanderson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Tetsuya Sakai (Microsoft
Research Asia, China) tetsuyasakai@xxxxxxx |