[ please distribute - apologies for multiple postings ] CriES 2010: Deadline Extension ============================== Due to deadline extensions given for the CriES Pilot Challenge we also extend submission deadline for the CriES Workshop to July 4, 2010 The date for notification of acceptance will be July 18. CriES 2010: Final Call for Papers ================================= Cross-lingual Expert Search - Bridging CLIR and Social Media - http://www.multipla-project.org/cries Workshop at CLEF 2010 Conference on Multilingual and Multimedia Information Access Evaluation Padua, Italy, 20-23 September 2010 http://clef2010.org Important Dates and Deadlines ============================= 04.07.2010: Submission deadline for papers 18.07.2010: Notification of acceptance 15.08.2010: Camera ready deadline Description =========== This workshop addresses the problem of multi-lingual expert search in the context of social media. The main topics are multi-lingual expert retrieval methods, social media analysis for expert search, selection of datasets and evaluation of expert search results. We also define a pilot challenge which will help to identify problems ranging from IPR issues to result assessment. We expect the following types of submissions: * Description of experiments and results on the pilot expert search challenge (for more information see http://www.multipla-project.org/cries:challenge) * Scientific papers addressing the following research questions: * User characterization: the use of multi-lingual evidence of social media for building expert profiles * Community analysis: mining of social relationships in collaborative environments for multi-lingual retrieval scenarios * User-centric recommender algorithms: development of retrieval and recommendation algorithms that allow for similarity search and ranked retrieval of experts in online communities (in contrast to more common document retrieval tasks). * Proposals of new social media datasets for cross-lingual expert search * Analysis of problems and challenges in evaluation of cross-lingual expert search Motivation ========== Online communities generate major economic value and form pivotal parts of corporate expertise management, marketing, product support, CRM, product innovation and advertising. In many cases, large-scale online communities are multi-lingual by nature (e.g. developer networks, corporate knowledge bases, blogospheres, Web 2.0 portals). Nowadays, novel solutions are required to deal with both the complexity of large-scale social networks and the complexity of multi-lingual user behavior. At the same time, it becomes more and more important to efficiently identify and connect the right experts for a given task across locations, organizational units and languages. The key objective of this workshop is to consider the problem of multi-lingual retrieval in the novel setting of modern social media leveraging the expertise of individual users. Paper Formatting and Submission =============================== Submission to the CriES Workshop should not exceed 10 pages in Springer LNCS format. Submissions are managed on the CriES EasyChair page. Publishing of the papers is organized by the CLEF conference: Camera ready versions of accepted paper have to be submitted at the conference submission page. Additionally to the full paper, the submission of an extended abstract summarizing the main details and results is mandatory (no longer than 400 words). The workshop papers will be published electronically on the CLEF website. Additionally the extended abstract will be included in the Book of Abstracts. Both workshop papers and Book of Abstracts will be assigned ISBN numbers. The papers will also be indexed by DBLP. Organizing Committee, Contact and PC ==================================== Main contacts: -------------- Philipp Sorg - sorg@kit.edu Institute AIFB, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology Sergej Sizov - sizov@uni-koblenz.de Information Systems and Semantic Web, University of Koblenz Organizing Committee: --------------------- Philipp Cimiano Center of Excellence, Bielefeld University Antje Schultz Information Systems and Semantic Web, University of Koblenz Program Committee: ------------------ Eneko Agirre IXA Research Group, University of the Basque Country, Spain Krisztian Balog Intelligent Systems Lab, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands Paul Buitelaar DERI Galway, Irland Iryna Gurevych Ubiquitous Knowledge Processing Lab, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany Alberto Lavelli Human Language Technology, Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy Pavel Smrz Computer Graphics and Multimedia, Brno University of Technology, Czech Republic Paola Velardi University of Roma "La Sapienza", Italy