ECIR 2021 workshops provide a platform for presenting novel ideas and research results in a focused and interactive way. ECIR 2021 encourages the submission of workshops on the theory, experimentation, and practice of retrieval, representation, management, and usage of textual, visual, audio, and multi-modal information.
Relevant topics include, but are not limited to:
- User aspects, including information interaction, contextualisation, personalisation, simulation, characterisation, and behaviours.
- System and foundational aspects, including retrieval models and architectures, content analysis and classification, recommendation algorithms, query processing and ranking, efficiency and scalability.
- Machine learning, deep learning, neural IR, natural language processing, as applied to textual, visual, audio, and multi-modal information.
- Applications such as web search, recommender systems, web and social media apps, domain-specific search, enterprise search, novel interfaces to search tools, intelligent search, and conversational agents.
- Evaluation research, including new measures and novel methods for the measurement and evaluation of systems, users, and/or applications.
- Cross-disciplinary workshops, including IR and another domain such as NLP, data science, etc, are also particularly welcome.
Workshops can be either a half-day (3 hours plus breaks) or a full day (6 hours plus breaks). Workshops are encouraged to be as dynamic and interactive as possible and should lead to a concrete outcome, such as the publication of a summary paper and/or workshop proceedings.
Workshop proposals should contain the following information:
- Title and abstract of the workshop;
- Motivation and relevance to ECIR;
- Workshop goals/objectives coupled with desired outcomes;
- Format/structure of the workshop: planned activities, tentative schedule of events etc.;
- Intended audience, including how participants will be selected/invited;
- Duration: full day or half day workshop;
- Resources: what resources will be needed to deliver the workshop;
- Indicate if the workshop is related to or follows on from another workshop; if so, please, identify which conference it was previously held at, the past attendance and outcomes, and why another workshop is needed;
- Organisers with brief bio (2-3 sentences) of each with respect to the content of the workshop;
- Any other relevant information to support your proposal (e.g., programme committee, list of invited speakers, overall vision/approach etc.)
All proposals should be submitted electronically through the conference submission system and must be in English. Workshop proposals will be reviewed by the ECIR 2021 workshop committee. A summary of the workshop will be published in the conference proceedings.
Important dates
Workshop proposals submission: September 1, 2020, 11:59 pm (AoE) EXTENDED September 13 2020, 11:59 pm (AoE);
Notification: October 1, 2020
Workshops day: April 1, 2021
Workshop Chairs
Lorraine Goeuriot, Université Grenoble Alpes, France
Nicola Tonellotto, University of Pisa, Italy
Contact: WorkshopsChairs@ecir2021.eu