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Program and Proceedings online

Only a few days to go until the start of iConference here in Berlin. We wish all attendees a safe journey and hope to see you at the MindTheGap workshop on March, 4th. We are very happy that we have three interesting keynote presentations, five research presentations as well as three presentations of position papers. If you want to plan your attendance, please have a look at the workshop schedule. For those of you who cannot wait to learn more about MindTheGap, we highly recommend having a look at the proceedings which are available online at CEUR-WS.org.

List of accepted papers

We are pleased to announce the list of accepted papers that will be presented at MindTheGap’14 in Berlin. All papers went through a rigorous reviewing process in which each paper was assessed by four members of the Program Committee. Congratulations to all authors. We are looking forward to seeing you in Berlin.

Anastasia Giachanou, Michail Salampasis, Maya Satratzemi and Nikolaos Samaras	A User-Centered Evaluation of a Web Based Patent Classification Tool
Jing Yuan, Fikret Sivrikaya, Stefan Marx, and Frank Hopfgartner	When to recommend What? A study on the role of contextual factors in IP-based TV Services
Orland Hoeber	Visual Search Analytics: Combining Machine Learning and Interactive Visualization to Support Human-Centred Search
Ying-Hsang Liu, Paul Scifleet and Lisa Given	Contexts of Information Seeking for Designing Lifelogging Systems
Steffen Hennicke	Modeling Patterns in Written Natural Language Questions to Archives
Bryan Jurish, Christian Thomas and Frank Wiegand	Querying the Deutsches Textarchiv
Timo Lüddecke, Markus Jüttner, Marcus Nitsche and Andreas Nürnberger	An Exploratory Search User Interface Concept Supporting Vague Querying and a Novel Result Representation
Jon Chamberlain and Cliff O’Reilly	User Performance Indicators In Task-Based Data Collection Systems

FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS (+++ Deadline extended until 17 January +++)

Beyond Single-Shot Text Queries: Bridging the Gap(s) Between Research Communities (MindTheGap’14)
Workshop held in conjunction with iConference’14 in Berlin, Germany
4 March 2014

http://mindthegap2014.dai-labor.de

— Aim of the workshop —

Our research communities are remarkably scattered. For an outsider it must seem obvious that information science (IS), information retrieval (IR), human-computer interaction (HCI) and natural language processing (NLP) go hand in hand. However, there is surprisingly little overlap between these communities. This workshop intends to bring together researchers from different streams and communities that deal with information access in the widest sense. The general goal is to foster collaboration between the different communities and to showcase research that sits at the border between different areas of research. The workshop will be a mix of keynotes, submitted research papers/posters/demos and a panel discussion. The workshop will be very interactive throughout the day.

— Topics of Interest —

We invite the submission of position papers as well as novel research papers and posters/demos addressing problems at the interface of IS, IR, HCI and NLP. Topics include but are not limited to:

– Interactive IR
– Adaptive IR
– Recommender Systems
– Knowledge description and representation
– Linked Data
– Novel methods to access to digital libraries
– User studies
– User/group profiling
– Lifelogging
– Multimedia Information Access

In particular we are looking for:

– Academic contributions that challenge the paradigm of information access as being a single-shot search request submitted to a Web search engine.
– Industry contributions that represent case studies or position papers.
– Demonstrations from both academia and industry.

— Confirmed Keynotes —

We are pleased to confirm that Professor Nicholas Belkin (Rutgers University) will be one of our keynote speakers.
The second keynote will be given by Miguel Martinez-Alvarez, Head of Research at Signal (United Kingdom) who will talk on Profile-based Information Filtering for Chief Executives.

— Submission Details —

All papers should be 2-5 pages long (in PDF format) following the ACM proceedings format and must be submitted electronically by 17 January 2014 through the EasyChair submission page:

https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=mindthegap14

The submissions will be peer-reviewed by members of the program committee. There will be a best paper award, as chosen by the program committee. This will be announced at the workshop.

— Program Committee —

Leif Azzopardi, University of Glasgow (United Kingdom)
Paul Clough, University of Sheffield (United Kingdom)
Martin Halvey, Glasgow Caledonian University (United Kingdom)
Hideo Joho, University of Tsukuba (Japan)
Evangelos Kanoulas, Google (Switzerland)
Jussi Karlgren, Gavagai (Sweden)
Birger Larsen, Aalborg University (Denmark)
Jochen Leidner, Thomson Reuters (United Kingdom)
Gary Marchionini, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (USA)
Alan Said, CWI (The Netherlands)
Klaus Schoeffmann, Klagenfurt University (Austria)
Pavel Serdyukov, Yandex (Russia)
Jialie Shen, Singapore Management University (Singapore)
Ryen White, Microsoft Research (USA)
Max Wilson, University of Nottingham (United Kingdom)

— Organizing Committee —

Frank Hopfgartner, TU Berlin (Germany)
Udo Kruschwitz, University of Essex (United Kingdom)
Cathal Gurrin, Dublin City University (Ireland)

— Important Dates —

Submission: +++ 17 January 2014 +++
Notification: 1 February 2014
Camera-ready: 15 February 2014
Workshop: 4 March 2014

First Call for Papers

Beyond Single-Shot Text Queries: Bridging the Gap(s) Between Research
Communities (MindTheGap’14)
Workshop held in conjunction with iConference’14 in Berlin(!), Germany
4 March 2014

http://mindthegap2014.dai-labor.de

— Aim of the workshop —

Our research communities are remarkably scattered. For an outsider it
must seem obvious that information science (IS), information retrieval
(IR), human-computer interaction (HCI) and natural language processing
(NLP) go hand in hand. However, there is surprisingly little overlap
between these communities. This workshop intends to bring together
researchers from different streams and communities that deal with
information access in the widest sense. The general goal is to foster
collaboration between the different communities and to showcase research
that sits at the border between different areas of research. The
workshop will be a mix of keynotes, submitted research
papers/posters/demos and a panel discussion. The workshop will be very
interactive throughout the day.

— Topics of Interest —

We invite the submission of position papers as well as novel research
papers and posters/demos addressing problems at the interface of IS, IR,
HCI and NLP. Topics include but are not limited to:

In particular we are looking for:

– Academic contributions that challenge the paradigm of information
access as being a single-shot search request submitted to a Web search
engine.
– Industry contributions that represent case studies or position papers.
– Demonstrations from both academia and industry.

— Confirmed Keynote —

We are pleased to confirm that Professor Nicholas Belkin (Rutgers
University) will be one of our keynote speakers.

— Submission Details —

All papers should be 2-5 pages long (in PDF format) following the ACM
proceedings format and must be submitted electronically by 10 January
2014 through the EasyChair submission page:

https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=mindthegap14

The submissions will be peer-reviewed by members of the program committee. There will be a best paper award, as chosen by the program committee. This will be announced at the workshop.

— Program Committee —

— Organizing Committee —

Frank Hopfgartner, TU Berlin (Germany)
Udo Kruschwitz, University of Essex (United Kingdom)
Cathal Gurrin, Dublin City University (Ireland)

— Important Dates —

Submission: 10 January 2014
Notification: 1 February 2014
Camera-ready: 15 February 2014
Workshop: 4 March 2014

MindTheGap’14 Workshop accepted

We are pleased to announce that the workshop ‘MindTheGap’14: Beyond single-shot text queries: bridging the gap(s) between research communities” has been accepted to be organized in conjunction with iConference’14 in Berlin, Germany.

This website will be continuously updated with information regarding the workshop.