2nd International ACM Workshop
Improving Non-English Web Searching (iNEWS08)
Fotis Lazarinis*, Efthimis Efthimiadis*, Jesus Vilares, John Tait
* Invited chairs
Keynote speakers
Dr Trystan Upstill, Google (http://cs.anu.edu.au/~Trystan.Upstill/)
- Keynote title: Providing effective search for everyone, everywhere
Dr Belle Tseng, Yahoo (http://www.linkedin.com/in/belletseng)
- Keynote title: International Web Search Relevance
Workshop Theme
During the last decade the Web technology became more accessible. As a result, users of various cultural backgrounds, spoken languages and computer knowledge are amassed online worldwide. One of their main daily operations is the discovery of information with the aid of search engines and textual queries. Although search engines are quite simple to use, recent papers highlighted a number of issues that influence negatively the retrieval of relevant information in non-English queries.
Like the previous ACM SIGIR iNEWS07 workshop the main aims of this workshop are to identify the problems in web searching when working with non-English languages and to propose solutions and tools so as to improve web retrieval systems.
Aims and Topics
The specific aims of the workshop are to promote better understanding of:
- the problems of search engines in non-English queries.
- methodologies for evaluating the effectiveness of search engines in non-English queries.
- the user query patterns in non-English Web retrieval.
- the factors that influence utilization of search engines in a multicultural world.
- the needed improvements to the search engines with respect to non-English Web retrieval.
- teaching strategies to help users improve their searching behaviour.
- how standard IR techniques (Indexing, Query representation, Query reformulation, etc) can be adapted in Web retrieval for non-English languages.
- the application of natural language processing techniques for non-English Web IR.
Workshop areas of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Evaluation methodologies
- Creation of multi-lingual web collections
- Cross language and multilingual retrieval
- Information extraction
- Digital libraries
- Image and video retrieval services
- Indexing
- Intranet/enterprise search
- Localization of search engine interfaces
- Concept based image retrieval
- Natural language processing
- Performance issues of local search engines
- Query log analysis
- Question answering
- Retrieval models
- Summarization
- Teaching
- Text categorization and clustering
- User behaviour
- User studies
- Web information acces
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