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Betreff: [computational.science] CFP: Special Issue on Axiomatic Thinking for Information Retrieval -- Information Retrieval Journal
Datum: Thu, 11 Jan 2018 11:12:08 +0100
Von: Stefano Mizzaro <mizzaro@uniud.it>
An: computational.science@lists.iccsa.org


Call for Papers
Special Issue on Axiomatic Thinking for Information Retrieval
Information Retrieval Journal, Springer
https://goo.gl/dWvMJb


Recent growth of work on applying axiomatic thinking to analyze and 
improve both retrieval models and evaluation metrics has clearly 
demonstrated many advantages of axiomatic thinking, including 
particularly specific theoretical results in the form of novel 
constraints to be satisfied by retrieval functions or evaluation metrics 
and improved models or evaluation metrics. This body of existing work 
opens up many promising new research directions, especially in applying 
axiomatic thinking more broadly to many problems in information retrieval.

Since there is not yet a single source for researchers to use for 
understanding the state of the art of research in axiomatic thinking for 
information retrieval, a main goal of this special issue is to fill in 
this gap through accepting a set of representative papers that apply 
axiomatic thinking to various tasks in information retrieval and related 
application areas. In particular, we especially welcome submissions that 
(1) develop a general axiomatic framework to IR related tasks; (2) study 
how to apply axiomatic thinking to a specific task; (3) combine 
axiomatic thinking with other methodology such as learning-to- rank; and 
(4) discuss the past and future of the axiomatic thinking (i.e., 
position papers).


* TOPICS OF INTEREST

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to applying axiomatic 
thinking to:

 - Retrieval models
 - Evaluation
 - Domain specific IR
 - Text categorization
 - Text clustering
 - Natural language processing
 - Machine learning
 - Human computer interaction
 - Multimedia IR
 - Cross-language retrieval
 - Question answering
 - Learning to rank
 - User and task modeling


* SPECIAL ISSUE GUEST EDITORS

Enrique Amigo, UNED, Spain
Hui Fang, University of Delaware, USA
Stefano Mizzaro, Udine University, Italy
ChengXiang Zhai, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA


* IMPORTANT DATES

 - Initial submissions due: May 30, 2018
 - Initial reviewer feedback: July 30, 2018
 - Revised submission due: August 30, 2018
 - Final reviews and notification: September 30, 2018


* PAPER SUBMISSION

Papers submitted to this special issue for possible publication must be 
original and must not be under consideration for publication in any 
other journal or conference. Previously published or accepted conference 
papers must contain at least 30% new material to be considered for the 
special issue.

All papers are to be submitted by referring to 
http://www.springer.com/10791 (submit online). At the beginning of the 
submission process in Editorial Manager, under "Article Type", please 
select the appropriate special issue. All manuscripts must be prepared 
according to the journal publication guidelines which can also be found 
on the website provided above.  Papers will be evaluated following the 
journal's standard review process.

For inquiries on the above please contact Hui Fang, hfang@udel.edu.

A resource page of axiomatic thinking for IR is available at 
https://www.eecis.udel.edu/~hfang/AX.html

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Prof. Stefano Mizzaro, PhD
Department of Mathematics, Computer Science, and Physics
University of Udine
Via delle Scienze, 206 - 33100 Udine, Italy
mizzaro@uniud.it - http://www.dimi.uniud.it/mizzaro/
Ph.: +39 0432 558456 - Fax: +39 0432 558499

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