Mendeley challenge may be of interest--see below. -Jodi
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> From: Gene Golovchinsky <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: July 27, 2012 10:01:26 PM GMT+01:00
> To: "[log in to unmask]" <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: [Asis-l] Deadline extended: CfP: HCIR 2012 Symposium on Human-Computer Interaction & Information Retrieval
>
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> *
> * CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
> * **** Extended submission deadline: Sunday, August 5, 2012 ****
> *
> * HCIR 2012
> * Symposium on Human-Computer Interaction & Information Retrieval
> * http://hcir.info/hcir-2012
> *
> * IBM Research, Cambridge, MA
> * October 4-5, 2012
> *
> * Full papers, Position papers, HCIR Challenge
> *
> *****************************************************************************
>
> * OVERVIEW
>
> Building on the success of prior HCIR workshops, the HCIR 2012 Symposium
> on Human-Computer Interaction and Information Retrieval will be held on
> Thursday, October 4th and Friday October 5th, 2012, at IBM Research,
> Cambridge, MA. There will be a reception on Thursday evening.
>
> We are very pleased that our keynote speaker this year will be Marti
> Hearst, Professor in the UC Berkeley School of Information.
>
> We are also excited to continue the HCIR Challenge, this year focusing
> on the problem of people and expertise finding. We are grateful to
> Mendeley for providing this year's corpus: a database of over a million
> researcher profiles with associated metadata including published papers,
> academic status, disciplines, awards, and more taken from Mendeley's
> network of 1.6M+ researchers and 180M+ academic documents. Participants
> will build systems to enable efficient discovery of experts or expertise
> for applications such as collaborative research, team building, and
> competitive analysis.
>
> In addition to the Challenge and a small number of research
> presentations, we will leave plenty of time for what participants have
> consistently told us that they find extremely valuable: informal
> discussions, posters and directed group discussions. Finally, we are
> extending our previous format to include a few full-length,
> fully-refereed archival quality papers that will be indexed in the ACM
> Digital Library. We have extended the event to a second day to
> accommodate more presentations (including the full papers), and to leave
> plenty of time for discussion and for interaction around the poster session.
>
> *FORMAT: THREE SUBMISSION CATEGORIES
>
> This year we invite three types of papers: full papers, position
> papers/posters, and challenge reports.
> * Full papers will be peer-reviewed for novelty, rigor, and
> quality of presentation according to standards of first-tier
> conferences. They will be published through arxiv.org and indexed in the
> ACM digital library. Full papers should be 10 pages long in the CHI
> two-column format. Please see http://www.sigchi.org/chipubform for
> templates on this format.
> * Position papers will be judged by members of the organizing
> committee, based on relevance to HCIR. Idea diversity across all
> submissions may also be considered. Position papers should be up to four
> pages long in the CHI two-column format. Position papers will be
> published on the symposium web site.
> * Challenge reports will be reviewed by the organizing committee,
> based on how well they address the challenge criteria. Reviewers will
> select challenge systems for demonstration at the symposium, where a
> panel of judges will evaluate the systems and a winner will be
> determined live. Challenge reports should be four pages long in the CHI
> two-column format, and may also include a video demonstration of the
> system. Challenge reports will be published on the symposium web site.
>
> Acceptance of a full paper, position paper, or challenge report earns
> the author(s) admission to the symposium and the opportunity to present
> a poster.
>
> Please submit papers using our EasyChair site:
>
> https://www.easychair.org/account/signin.cgi?conf=hcir2012
>
> * TOPICS
>
> Possible topics for discussion and presentation at the symposium
> include, but are not limited to:
>
> * Novel interaction techniques for information retrieval.
> * Modeling and evaluation of interactive information retrieval.
> * Exploratory search and information discovery.
> * Information visualization and visual analytics.
> * Applications of HCI techniques to information retrieval needs
> in specific domains.
> * Ethnography and user studies relevant to information retrieval
> and access.
> * Scale and efficiency considerations for interactive information
> retrieval systems.
> * Relevance feedback and active learning approaches for
> information retrieval.
>
> Demonstrations of systems and prototypes are particularly welcome. If
> you are interested in participating in the HCIR Challenge, please refer
> to the instructions at this link:
>
> http://hcir.info/hcir-2012/challenge
>
> * IMPORTANT DATES
>
> Submission deadline (position and research papers): Sunday, July 29
> HCIR Challenge:
> Request access to corpus: Friday, June 1
> Freeze system and submit brief description: Friday, August 31
> Submit videos or screenshots demonstrating systems on
> example tasks: Friday, September 14
> Live demonstrations at symposium: October 4-5
> Notification date for position and research papers: Thursday,
> September 6
> Final versions of accepted papers due: Sunday, September 16
> Presentations and poster session at symposium: Thursday, October 4-5
>
> * STUDENT TRAVEL AWARDS
>
> We are pleased to be able to offer a limited number of student travel
> awards based on the generous contributions of Microsoft Research.
> Information about these awards and how to apply for them will be made
> available at the following link:
>
> http://hcir.info/hcir-2012/student-travel
>
> * SYMPOSIUM ORGANIZERS
>
> Robert Capra, UNC Chapel Hill
> Gene Golovchinsky, FX Palo Alto Laboratory
> Bill Kules, The Catholic University of America
> Catherine Smith, Kent State University
> Daniel Tunkelang, LinkedIn
> Ryen White, Microsoft Research
>
>
> * SUPPORTERS
>
> IBM Research
> MIT
> Oracle
> LinkedIn
> Microsoft Research
>
>
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