Call for DEMOS: ACM SIGIR 2012 Workshop on Open Source Information Retrieval

16 August 2012, Portland, Oregon, USA

http://opensearchlab.otago.ac.nz/

OVERVIEW

The open source IR community has been strong for many years. Early search engines (such as MG) continue to be used in larger open source projects (such as Greenstone). More recent open source search engines (such as Apache Lucene) are used to power the search facilities of some of the largest technology companies (such as IBM, AOL, and Apple). In the academic community, such search engines are routinely used to test ranking functions, compression algorithms, user interfaces, and so on. Open Source IR is now an essential component of research and commerce. This workshop is providing a venue for users and authors of open source IR tools to get together and discuss their work.

CALL FOR DEMOS

Workshop will provide an opportunity for authors of open source information retrieval tools, and authors of novel uses of open source information retrieval tools, to demonstrate those tools.

Authors wishing to demonstrate their work at the workshop should submit a two paragraph abstract.  The first paragraph must be a description of what you would like to demonstrate; the second paragraph must be a description of the resources you need for the demonstration including any of: table; power; wired-Ethernet; WiFi; etc..  We cannot supply computers or "unusual" equipment.  Demos will be reviewed by the workshop chairs to ensure they are appropriate and on topic.  Descriptions of accepted demos will be posted to the workshop web site (but will not appear in the workshop proceedings).

IMPORTANT DETAILS

Submit via the Easychair system: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=osir2012

Submissions due: 6  August 2012

Notification date: 8 August 2012

Workshop date: 16 August 2012