CIRCLE 2022 | 2nd edition of the Joint Conference of the Information Retrieval Communities in Europe

When:
04/07/2022 – 07/07/2022 all-day
2022-07-04T02:00:00+02:00
2022-07-07T02:00:00+02:00

Date : 2022-07-04 => 2022-07-07
Lieu : Samatan, Gers, France





Call for Papers







Call for
Papers


SCOPE


The
second edition of CIRCLE will take place on
July
4-7, 2022

at Samatan, Gers, south of France (50 minutes from Toulouse). More
information at https://www.irit.fr/CIRCLE/.


CIRCLE
arose
from a twofold wish to gather three national Information Retrieval
(IR) conferences and to offer young researchers the opportunity to
meet and discuss with senior researchers. CIRCLE is supported by the
ARIA French conference (CORIA, COnférence en Recherche
d’Information et Applications), the Spanish Conference on
Information Retrieval (CERI, Congreso Español de Recuperación
de Información), the Italian Information Retrieval Workshop,
and the Swiss IR community. The main objective of CIRCLE is to
propose a unique place for stimulating and disseminating research in
IR, where senior/industrial and early stage researchers (including
MSc and PhD students) can network and discuss their research results
in a friendly environment.






KEY
DATES



  • 25
    February 2022
    :
    Long paper deadline


  • 18
    March 2022
    :
    Short, resource, demo papers and extended abstracts deadline


  • 29
    April 2022:

    Papers notifications


  • 27
    May 2022
    :
    Camera-Ready deadline







TOPICS
OF
INTEREST


CIRCLE
2022 welcomes both theoretical and experimental papers on core IR and
papers on connections between IR and close disciplines including but
not limited to natural language understanding and information
extraction.
Relevant
topics include, but are not restricted to:



  • Search
    and ranking
    .
    Research on core IR algorithmic topics, including IR at scale,
    covering topics such as:



    • Queries
      and query analysis


    • Web
      search, including link analysis, sponsored search, search
      advertising, adversarial search and spam, and vertical search


    • Retrieval
      models and ranking, including diversity and aggregated search


    • Efficiency
      and scalability


    • Theoretical
      models and foundations of information retrieval and access



  • Content
    analysis, recommendation and classification
    .
    Research focusing on recommender systems, rich content
    representations and content analysis, covering topics such as:



    • Filtering
      and recommender systems


    • Document
      representation


    • Content
      analysis and information extraction, including summarization, text
      representation, readability, sentiment analysis, and opinion mining


    • Cross-
      and multilingual search


    • Clustering,
      classification, and topic models


    • IR
      and natural language processing



  • Domain-specific
    applications
    .
    Research focusing on domain-specific IR challenges, covering topics
    such as:



    • Social
      search


    • Search
      in structured data including email search and entity search


    • Multimedia
      search


    • Education


    • Legal


    • Health,
      including genomics and bioinformatics


    • IR
      and digital libraries


    • IR
      and databases


    • Other
      domains such as enterprise, news search, app search, archival
      search



  • Artificial
    intelligence, semantics and dialog
    .
    Research bridging AI and IR, especially toward deep semantics and
    dialog with intelligent agents, covering topics such as:



    • Question
      answering


    • Conversational
      systems and retrieval, including spoken language interfaces, dialog
      management systems, and intelligent chat systems


    • Semantics
      and knowledge graphs


    • Deep
      learning for IR, embeddings, and agents



  • Human
    factors and interfaces
    .
    Research into user-centric aspects of IR, including user interfaces,
    behavior modeling, privacy, and interactive systems, covering topics
    such as:



    • Mining
      and modeling search activity, including user and task models, click
      models, log analysis, behavioral analysis, and attention modeling


    • Interactive
      and personalized search


    • Collaborative
      search, social tagging and crowdsourcing


    • Information
      privacy and security



  • Evaluation.
    Research that focuses on the measurement and evaluation of IR
    systems, covering topics such as:



    • User-centered
      evaluation methods, including measures of user experience and
      performance, user engagement and search task design


    • Test
      collections and evaluation metrics, including the development of
      new test collections


    • Eye-tracking
      and physiological approaches, such as fMRI


    • Evaluation
      of novel information access tasks and systems such as multi-turn
      information access


    • Statistical
      methods and reproducibility issues in information retrieval
      evaluation



  • IR
    architectures
    .
    Research
    dealing with IR system architectures and scalability, covering
    topics such as:



    • String
      processing for IR


    • IR
      system scalability


    • Efficient
      text representations, indexing and ranking





Future
directions
.
Research with theoretical or empirical contributions on new technical
or social aspects of IR, especially in more speculative directions or
with emerging technologies, covering topics such as:




    • Novel
      approaches to IR


    • Ethics,
      economics, and politics


    • Applications
      of search to social good


    • IR
      with new devices, including wearable computing, neuroinformatics,
      sensors, Internet-of-Things, vehicles




PAPER
SUBMISSIONS


Authors
are invited to submit one of the following
types
of contributions
:



  • Long
    original papers (from 6 to 9 pages including references) describing
    mature and original research results


  • Short
    original papers (from 3 to 5 pages including references) which
    typically discuss exciting new work that is not yet mature enough
    for a long paper, such as for example “doctoral papers”.
    In particular, novel but significant proposals will be considered
    for acceptance into this category despite not having gone through
    sufficient experimental validation or lacking strong theoretical
    foundation.


  • Resource
    and demo papers

    (from 3 to 7 pages including references). A
    resource
    paper
    describes
    IR test collections software tools made available to the IR research
    community.
    Demo
    papers showcasing new technologies and prototypes in the cope of
    CIRCLE


  • Extended
    abstracts

    (up to 3 pages including references) containing descriptions of
    ongoing projects or presenting already published results







Manuscripts
should be submitted to CIRCLE’22’s Easychair site
(https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=circle2022)
in PDF format and must be in English using the current
ACM
two-column conference format
.
Suitable LaTeX, Word, and Overleaf templates are available from the
ACM
Website

(use the“sigconf”proceedings template).


Long
and
short
submissions must be
anonymous
and will
be
peer reviewed by at least 3 reviewers in a double-blind process by
the CIRCLE common program committee.
Resource
and
demo
submissions
as well as
extended
abstracts

are
not
anonymous

and will be peer reviewed by at least 3 reviewers in a single-blind
process by the CIRCLE common program committee


The
conference language for this track will be English. Each accepted
paper will be orally presented and will be part of the proceedings
which will be sent to CEUR-WS.org for online publication.










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