Call for Participation to the
The 9th Dutch-Belgian Information Retrieval Workshop (DIR)
February 2-3, 2009, Enschede, The Netherlands
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See also our call for 2 Page Poster Papers (deadline: January 16, 2009)
DIR 2009 will take place at the University of Twente, Enschede, the Netherlands, on February 2-3, 2009. The workshop is organised under the auspices of the Working Community on Information Sciences (WGI) and the School for Information and Knowledge Systems (SIKS). The workshop is sponsored by NWO, CTIT and the University of Twente.
Keynote Speaker: prof. Gerhard Weikum (MPII, Saarbruecken, Germany) Gerhard Weikum is Research Director at the Max-Planck Institute for Informatics (MPII) in Saarbruecken, Germany, where he is leading the department on databases and information systems. Prof. Weikum is ACM fellow and a renowned expert in the field of Databases. He received the VLDB 10-Year Achievement Award in 2002. Since then, he focused on several information retrieval problems such as peer-to-peer search, search efficiency, and database and search integration, resulting in for instance 6 full papers at the last SIGIR conferences.
Due to the cooperation between SIKS, SIKS-members can participate without paying entrance fee. Especially PhD-students working on the SIKS-focus "Web based Information Systems" and "Data management, Storage and Retrieval" are strongly encouraged to participate. There is a limited number of registrations for SIKS members. Registrations will be honored in a first come-first serve manner.
Participants of DIR are invited to the Annual Meeting of the Werkgemeenschap Informatieschap which is directly following DIR on Tuesday.
Tentative Program:
Monday February 2nd
10:30 - 11:00 Welcome and registration 11:00 - 12:00 SESSION 1: INDUSTRY KEYNOTE
(To be announced) 12:00 - 12:30 Lunch 12:30 - 13:45 SESSION 2: CULTURAL SANDWICH
* Daniel van Veen,
Van Veen alleen 13:45 - 15:15 SESSION 3: MULTIMEDIA & XML
* Marco A. Palomino, Michael P. Oakes and Tom Wuytack,
Automatic Extraction of Keywords for a Multimedia
Search Engine
* Thomas Geerinck, Hichem Sahli and Iris Vanhamel,
Spatiotemporal Region-oriented Attentional Selection
of Active Salient Objects
* Maarten Marx and Tim Gielissen,
XML-ification of Parliamentary Debates 15:15 - 15:45 Coffee 15:45 - 17:15 SESSION 4: QUESTION ANSWERING & QUERY FORMULATION
* Almer S. Tigelaar, Rieks op den Akker, and Fenne
Verhoeven, Matching Queries to Frequently Asked
Questions.
* Suzanne Verberne, Stephan Raaijmakers and Daphne
Theijssen, Learning to rank answers to why-questions
* Nikolai Buzikashvili,
Non-Linear Query Reformulation Behavior 17:15 - 18:15 SESSION 5: POSTERS & DEMONTRATIONS 18:30 - 20:30 Dinner
Tuesday February 3rd
09:00 - 10:00 SESSION 6: ACADEMIC KEYNOTE
* Prof. Gerhard Weikum 10:00 - 10:30 Coffee 10:30 - 12:00 SESSION 7: CONTENT MODELING & KEYWORD EXTRACTION
* Javier Arias Moreno, Koen Deschacht, and Marie
Francine Moens, Content Extraction from Multilingual
Web Pages
* John Tait, Mihai Lupu, Helmut Berger, Giovanna Roda,
Michael Dittenbach, Andreas Pesenhofer, Erik Graf,
and Keith van Rijsbergen, Patent Search: An important
new test bed for IR
* Inga Kohlhof, Mario Diwersi, Semi-automatic
construction of domain-specific thesauri 12:00 - 13:00 Lunch 13:00 - 14:30 SESSION 8: SPAM DETECTION, TOPIC MODELING & EXTRACTION
* Mario Diwersi and Michaela Geierhos, Business
Specific Online Information Extraction from German
Websites
* Rianne Kaptein and Jaap Kamps
Web Directories as Topical Context
* Toine Bogers and Antal van den Bosch
Using language modeling for spam detection 14:30 - 14:45 Closing 15:00 - 16:30 Annual Meeting of the Werkgemeenschap
Informatiewetenschap