CfP: Information Retrieval Facility Conference

[Hamish Cunningham <ha...@dcs.shef.ac.uk>]

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  INFORMATION RETRIEVAL CONFERENCE 2010
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The 1st Information Retrieval Facility Conference provides a
multi-disciplinary, scientific forum for researchers and aims at
bringing young researchers into contact with industry at an early stage.
The IRF is a unique organisation based around a supercomputing
facility in Vienna and a growing community of IR scientists.

The 1st IRF Conference tackles 4 complementary research areas:
   * Information retrieval
   * Semantic web technologies for IR
   * Natural language processing for IR
   * Large-scale or distributed computing for the above areas

*The conference proceedings will be published in Springer LNCS.*

General Chair: Hamish Cunningham, University of Sheffield
Programme Chair: Stefan Rueger, The Open University
Programme Committee: see
   http://www.ir-facility.org/events/irf-conference/programme-committee

The conference takes place in Vienna on the 31st of May 2010, one day
before the IRF Symposium 2010.

More information available here:
   * IRF Conference: http://www.ir-facility.org/events/irf-conference
   * IRF Symposium: http://www.ir-facility.org/events/irf-symposium/2010

IMPORTANT DATES:
Paper submission: 8 January 2010
Notification of acceptance: 22 February 2010
Final paper submission: 22 March 2010
IRF Conference: 31 May 2010