2nd International Workshop on Advances in Semantic Information Retrieval (ASIR’2012)
Wrocław, Poland, September 9-12, 2012
Recent advances in semantic technologies form a solid basis for a variety of methods and instruments that support information retrieval, knowledge representation, and text analysis. They influence the way and form of representing documents in the memory of computers, approaches to analyze documents, techniques to mine and retrieve knowledge. The abundance of video, voice and speech data also raises new challenging problems to information retrieval systems.
We believe that our workshop will facilitate discussion of new research results in this area, and will serve as a meeting place for researchers from all over the world. Our aim is to create an atmosphere of friendship and cooperation for everyone, interested in computational linguistics and information retrieval. The second ASIR workshop will continue to maintain high standards of quality and organization, set in the previous year. We welcome all the researchers, interested in semantics and information retrieval, to join our event.
Topics
The workshop addresses semantic information retrieval theory and important matters, related to practical Web tools. The topics and areas include, but not limited to:
- Models for document representation.
- Ontology for semantic information retrieval.
- Ontology alignment, mapping and merging.
- Searching and ranking.
- Semantic multimedia retrieval.
- Natural language semantic processing.
- Evaluation methodologies for semantic search and retrieval.
- Query interfaces.
- Visualization of retrieved results.
- Domain-specific semantic applications.
Paper Submission and Publication
- Papers will be refereed and accepted on the basis of their scientific merit and relevance to the workshop.
- Only papers presented at the conference will be included in the IEEE Xplore® database and submitted for indexation in: DBLP Computer Science Bibliography, Google Scholar, Inspec, Scirus, SciVerse Scopus and Thomson Reuters - Conference Proceedings Citation Index
- Authors should submit draft papers (as Postscript, PDF of MSWord file)
- The total length of a paper should not exceed 8 pages (IEEE style). IEEE style templates are available here.
- Extended versions of selected papers presented during the conference will be published as Special Issue(s) journal(s) to be announced later.
- Organizers reserve right to move accepted papers between FedCSIS events.
All papers submitted to the ASIR workshop will be considred for the Zdzislaw Pawlak Award for the Best Paper and the Best Student Paper. Furthermore, papers matching the focus of the award wil be considered for the International Fuzzy Systems Association Award for Young Scientist.
Important Dates
- Paper submission: May 14, 2012
- Author notification: June 17, 2012
- Final submission and registration opening: July 8, 2012
- Conference date: September 9-12, 2012