-------- Original Message -------- 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 [log in to unmask] ---------- Forwarded message ---------- 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. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- > 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/ > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- The archives for CGGR-L are hosted by the National Science Foundation: http://dli2.nsf.gov/archives/cggr-archive.html