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Subject: FW: Re: Workshop on Geographical Information Retrieval GIR'06
- Call for papers (fwd)
Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2006 10:11:46 -0700
From: Matthew Parsons <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Some of you might find this workshop of interest, especially those
interested in geographic information retrieval of textual materials.
My apologies for cross-posting...
Matthew Parsons
Map Collection and Cartographic Information Services Unit
University of Washington Libraries
Seattle, WA 98195
206-543-9392
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Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2006 11:07:55 +0100
From: Humphrey Southall <[log in to unmask]>
Reply-To: Geographic Referencing - Gazetteers <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Fwd: Re: Workshop on Geographical Information Retrieval GIR'06 -
Call
for papers
I got in touch with one of the organisers of the Seattle workshop mentioned
in
an earlier post, and this is his (encouraging) clarification:
> Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2006 22:07:32 +0100
> From: Chris Jones <[log in to unmask]>
> To: Humphrey Southall <[log in to unmask]>
> Cc: [log in to unmask]
>
> Dear Humphrey,
>
> The workshop is about retrieval of relatively unstructured
> geographical resources, primarily text but also other media such as
> images. It is not about retrieval of conventional digital map based
> data. User interface issues of interest in the workshop would be those
> directly concerned with access to textual or other multimedia
> resources that have a geographical context. Hope that helps.
>
> all the best,
>
> CHris
>
>> At 13:37 26/04/2006, you wrote:
>>> Apologies for cross postings
>>>
>>> Workshop on Geographical Information Retrieval GIR'06 - Call for papers
>>> ----------------------------------------------------------------
>>> http://www.geo.unizh.ch/~rsp/gir06/
>>> ----------------------------------------------------------------
>>>
>>> This is a first call for papers for a workshop on Geographic Information
>>> Retrieval, to be held in conjunction with the 29th ACM SIGIR Conference
on
>>> Research & Development on Information Retrieval, Seattle 2006
>>> (http://www.sigir2006.org/). The workshop is a follow-up to the previous
>>> successful workshops held in the last two years at SIGIR in 2004 and
CIKM
>>> in
>>> 2005. The workshop will take place on 10th August immediately following
the
>>> conference. You can find registration details for the workshop and
>>> conference on the SIGIR pages.
>>>
>>> The purpose of this workshop is to bring together the growing community
of
>>> researchers and practitioners working in the field of geographic
>>> information
>>> retrieval to discuss further progress within the field and potential
future
>>> research strands. Examples of topics that are particularly relevant
>>> include,
>>> but are not confined to:
>>>
>>> . architectures for geographic search engines;
>>> . spatial indexing of documents and other media resources;
>>> . extraction of geographical context from documents and geo-datasets;
>>> . geographical annotation techniques for geo-referenced media;
>>> . design, construction, maintenance and access methods for geographical
>>> ontologies, gazetteers and geographical thesauri;
>>> . geographical query interfaces for the web and geo-spatial libraries;
>>> . visualising the results of geographic searches;
>>> . relevance ranking for geographical search;
>>>
>>> We invite the submission of extended abstracts of up to 2000 words. All
>>> submissions will be reviewed by two members of the program committee,
and
>>> all accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings. It is
>>> intended that following the workshop, presenters will be invited to
submit
>>> full length papers to be considered for publication in a fully refereed
>>> journal publication. You should prepare your abstract in accordance with
>>> the
>>> SIGIR camera-ready instructions
>>> (http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html) and submit it to
Ross
>>> Purves ([log in to unmask]) by June 22nd, 2006.
>>>
>>> Further details of the workshop can be found at
>>> http://www.geo.unizh.ch/~rsp/gir06/
>>>
>>> Please forward this message to anyone whom you think may have an
interest
>>> in
>>> the workshop.
>
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> Christopher B. Jones Email: [log in to unmask]
> Professor of Geographical Information Systems Tel: +44 (0)29 2087
4796
> School of Computer Science, Cardiff University Fax: +44 (0)29 2087
4598
> 5, The Parade, Cardiff, CF24 3AA, UK
http://users.cs.cf.ac.uk/C.B.Jones/
>
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