SIGIR 2007 Workshop

"Improving Web retrieval for non-English queries"

Amsterdam - 27 July 2007

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" iNEWS  07 " (improving Non English Web Searching) - a SIGIR 2007 Workshop

INTRODUCTION

Over 60% of the online population are non-English speakers and it is probable the number of non-English speakers is growing faster than English speakers. Recent studies showed that non-English queries and unclassifiable queries have nearly tripled since 1997. Most search engines were originally engineered for English.

The main objectives of the workshop are to propose techniques and to evaluate tools which improve the effectiveness of the existing search engines in non-English searching (please see the full Call for Papers or get the CFP in PDF format).

LOCATION

The workshop will be held as part of SIGIR 2007 in Amsterdam.

KEY DATES

25 May 2007 Deadline for Submissions
 

Please submit full papers (not exceeding 8 pages) in PDF format using the ACM template page. Please use the online submission system (http://www.easychair.org/iNEWS07/) to submit your paper.

PDFs should not contain author information. So please exclude author names and affiliations and all other information associated with the authors.

  
21 June 2007 Acceptance notification
  
25 June 2007Camera-ready copy due
  
27 July 2007 SIGIR 2007 Workshop in Amsterdam

Comments

If you have any questions, comments, suggestions, please contact Fotis Lazarinis (lazarinf AT teimes.gr) and/or Jesus Vilares (jvilares AT udc.es).

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