[InetBib] 1st CfP - Workshop Information Retrieval at LWDA 2019, Humboldt University, Berlin

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The Workshop “Information Retrieval 2019” held by the GI Special Interest Group 
on Information Retrieval of the Gesellschaft für Informatik (German Computing 
Society) in cooperation with LWDA 2019,

September 30 to October 2, 2019, Humboldt University Berlin, Germany.

http://hu.berlin/lwda2019

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The workshop Information Retrieval 2019 of the Special Interest Group on 
Information Retrieval within the German Gesellschaft für Informatik (GI) 
provides a forum for scientific discussion and the exchange of ideas. It takes 
place in the context of the LWDA "Learning, Knowledge, Data, Analysis" workshop 
week at Humboldt University Berlin, Germany. This workshop continues a 
successful series of conferences and workshops of the GI Special Interest Group 
on Information Retrieval (http://fg-retrieval.gi.de/). 

Submission should address current issues in Information Retrieval. They include 
(but are not limited to):

* Development and optimization of retrieval systems
* Information retrieval theory
* Retrieval with structured and multimedia documents
* Evaluation and evaluation research
* Text mining and information extraction
* Cross-lingual and cross-cultural IR
* Digital libraries
* User interfaces and user behavior, HCIR, and Interactive IR
* Collaborative Information Seeking and Searching
* Machine learning in information retrieval
* Information retrieval and knowledge management
* Information retrieval and the semantic web
* Social Search
* Patent retrieval
* Plagiarism detection
* Fake News detection
* Enterprise search
* Expert search
* Innovative concepts in IR teaching
* Visualization in Information Retrieval
* Digital Humanities and Information Retrieval
* Search for Learning
* Argument mining
* Data retrieval

We especially invite descriptions of running projects. Besides new work, we 
also invite resubmissions of articles published or disseminated at 
international conferences or journals no earlier than 2018.

## Intended Audience ##

The target group includes researchers and practitioners who are interested in 
developing, applying and analyzing information retrieval systems as well as 
application scenarios. The workshop is also a great and affordable platform for 
young researchers to present their work to a larger group of researchers and 
get valuable feedback. Especially Doctorate and Master students are encouraged 
to participate and discuss their ideas with world renowned experts. 

## Types of Submissions  ##

* Full Papers (up to 12 pages)
* Short Papers (up to 6 pages): Position papers or work in progress
* Poster and Demonstrations (2 pages): Poster and Presentation of systems or 
prototypes
* Abstracts or Resubmissions (up to 1 page): Summaries for resubmissions 
recently published at other renowned conferences

Submissions are welcome in English and German. They have to follow the 
conference format (Springer LNCS Style 
http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0) and should be 
submitted as PDF files to EasyChair 
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lwda2019. 

All submissions will be reviewed by at least two independent reviewers. The 
proceedings will be published at http://ceur-ws.org/ and indexed within DBLP. 
All workshop participants have to register for the LWDA 2019 conference.

## Important Dates ##

* Submission: June 14, 2019
* Notification: July 19, 2019
* Camera-ready copy: August 23, 2019
* Workshop: September 30 to October 2, 2019

## Program Chairs ##

* Philipp Schaer, Technische Hochschule Köln, Germany
* Claus-Peter Klas, GESIS - Leibniz Institute for Social Sciences, Germany

Would be great to see you in Berlin!