NTCIR-11 Conference

EVIA 2014

EVIA 2014
The Sixth International Workshop on Evaluating Information Access (EVIA 2014), a Satellite Workshop of the NTCIR-11 Conference
December 9, 2014 at National Institute of Informatics, Tokyo, Japan.

EVIA 2014: CALL FOR PAPERS

Submission Instructions  Important Dates  Contact

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 five successful sesquiannual International Workshops on Evaluating Information Access (EVIA2007, 2008, 2010, 2011, and 2013). Proceedings and reports can be found below:

EVIA 2007 online proceedings
EVIA 2008 online proceedings
EVIA 2010 online proceedings
EVIA 2011 online proceedings
EVIA 2013 online proceedings

Following these successes, we are happy to announce the Sixth International Workshop on Evaluating Information Access (EVIA2014) on December 9, 2014 (coinciding with Day 1 of the NTCIR-11 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

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SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS

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Submissions will be subject to double-blind reviewing. Accepted papers will be included in the EVIA 2014 online proceedings.

We invite submissions of regular papers (up to 8 pages) and short papers (up to 4 pages). Submissions must be in the ACM Conference style and must be submitted as pdf files.

Templates are available here.

For Latex users, please use the "Option 2" style.

Submissions must be made through the EVIA2014 submission management system.

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NTCIR Project Office:
National Institute of Informatics, Rm 1309
2-1-2 Hitotsubashi, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, 101-8430 Japan
Phone: +81-3-4212-2750
Fax: +81-3-4212-2751
Email: ntc-proc@nii.ac.jp

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IMPORTANT DATES

September1020,2014
submissions due ("anywhere on Earth timezone")
October 15, 2014
notification of acceptance
October 22, 2014
copyright form submission deadline
October 29, 2014
final manuscripts due
December 9, 2014
EVIA 2014@NII, Tokyo, Japan
December 9-12, 2014
NTCIR-11@NII, Tokyo, Japan

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EVIA2014 PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Nicholas Belkin
Rutgers University
USA
Hsin-Hsi Chen
National Taiwan University
Taiwan
Charles L. A. Clarke
University of Waterloo
Canada
Georges Dupret
Yahoo! Labs
Chile
Atsushi Fujii
Tokyo Institute of Technology
Japan
Hideo Joho
University of Tsukuba
Japan
Gareth Jones
Dublin City University
Ireland
Kazuaki Kishida
Keio University
Japan
Yiqun Liu
Tsinghua University
China
Stefano Mizzaro
University of Udine
Italy(Chair
Tetsuya Sakai
Waseda University
Japan
Falk Scholer
RMIT University
Australia
Ian Soboroff
NIST
USA
Ruihua Song
Microsoft Research Asia
China (Chair)
Paul Thomas
CSIRO
Australia
Emine Yilmaz
University College London
UK

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EVIA2014 CO-CHAIRS

Stefano Mizzaro (University of Udine, Italy)
mizzaro@uniud.it
Ruihua Song (Microsoft Research Asia, Beijing, China)
song.ruihua@microsoft.com

Last Modified: 2014-10-09