[PIUG List] FW: [SIG-IRList] SIGIR 2008 Workshop on Focused Retrieval: QA, XML-IR and Passage Retrieval; Singapore, 24 July 2008

FYI
One might glimpse a technology which is developing for automatic
extraction of relevant parts of long documents [patents included?] which
goes beyond a widely used "KWIC" feature.
See specifically
http://www.cs.otago.ac.nz/sigirfocus2008/call.html

Thanks,
Alex
Aleksandr Belinskiy
sanofi-aventis

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Subject: SIGIR 2008 Workshop on Focused Retrieval: QA, XML-IR and
Passage Retrieval

Call for Papers (and Participation)

THE SIGIR 2008 WORKSHOP ON FOCUSED RETRIEVAL:
QUESTION ANSWERING, PASSAGE RETRIEVAL, ELEMENT RETRIEVAL

Singapore, 24 July 2008 (part of SIGIR 2008)
http://www.cs.otago.ac.nz/sigirfocus2008/

DETAILS
Standard document retrieval finds atomic documents, and leaves it to the
end-user to locate the relevant information inside the document. Focused
retrieval removes this latter task from the end user by providing more
direct access to relevant information. That is, focused retrieval
addresses information retrieval and not simply document retrieval.
Focused retrieval has been used to extract relevant sections from
academic documents; and the application to text book searching is
obvious (such commercial systems already exist).

The purpose of this workshop is to raise issues and promote discussion
on focused retrieval - that is, Question Answering (QA), Passage
Retrieval, and Element Retrieval (XML-IR).

Papers discussing focused retrieval and related issues are sought.
Topics may include but are not limited to: Theory, Experimentation,
Application, Interaction, and Experience. Please refer to the full call
( http://www.cs.otago.ac.nz/sigirfocus2008/ ) for further details.

LOCATION
The workshop was part of SIGIR 2008 in Singapore.

SCHEDULE
 May 16, 2008 Deadline for Paper Submissions
 June 6, 2008 Notification of Acceptance
June 20, 2008 Deadline for Camera Ready Copies
July 24, 2008 SIGIR 2008 Workshop on Focused Retrieval

MORE INFORMATION
http://www.cs.otago.ac.nz/sigirfocus2008/


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