CALL FOR PAPERS

4th International Conference on the Theory of Information
Retrieval (ICTIR 2013)

29 September - 2 October, 2013, Copenhagen, Denmark

The International Conference on the Theory of Information
Retrieval (ICTIR) aims to provide a forum for discussion and
interaction among those with theoretical and applicative
research interests in mathematical/formal aspects of
Information Retrieval (IR), including, for example,
foundational issues, description or integration of models,
retrieval applications, mathematical/formal techniques,
existing and/or new theories and theoretical aspects.

The fourth ICTIR conference aims to continue in the same
spirit, promoting research in the wider contexts of IR.
Accordingly, in addition to the established fields and
approaches in IR, research papers on new approaches (e.g.,
those inspired by other disciplines) are sought. Papers that
demonstrate a high level of research adventure or which
break out of the traditional IR paradigms are particularly
welcome. Experimental and/or practical results, or any other
means (including theoretical) that give support for
innovative hypotheses are of interest. Indicative topics of
interest are:

METHODS/PARADIGMS
Vector-Space-based Models
Probabilistic Models
Logic-based Models
Information-Theoretic Models
Relevance-Feedback-Based Approaches
Machine Learning Methods (e.g., learning to rank)
Quantum Theory-inspired Methods
Natural Language Processing
Semantics-based Methods
Architectures, Algorithms and Complexity

TASKS
Retrieval (e.g., ad hoc, Web, enterprise , desktop, mobile,
expert, cross-lingual, blog, legal, biomedical,
book, federated, vertical, etc.)
Interactive Search
Forming Test Collections and Devising Evaluation Metrics
Bibliometrics and Citation Analysis
Experimentation
Recommendation
Search in Digital Libraries
Search in the Semantic Web
Classification, Categorization, and Clustering
Topic Modeling
Filtering (collaboratve, content-based, etc.)
Summarization
Data Mining
Evaluation methodologies, test collections, metrics

MEDIA
Text
Images
Video
Music, Speech and Sound
Human Gestures (e.g. eye movement)
Unstructured, Semi-Structured, and Structured DataWeb IR

USERS
User Modelling
Personal Interest Identification
Query Intent Identification
Contextual Search Issues
Social Networks and Media Tagging
Evaluation using User Studies
Human-Computer Interaction Issues

IMPORTANT DATES
Apr 1, 2013: Workshop and Tutorial submissions due
Apr 22, 2013: Research paper submissions due
Apr 29, 2013: Poster submissions due
May 1, 2013: Notification of acceptance for
workshops and tutorials
Jun 7, 2013: Notification of acceptance for papers
and posters
Jun 28, 2013: Final papers due
Sep 29, 2013: Workshops and tutorials

All accepted papers and posters will be published by
Springer in the Proceedings of ICTIR 2013, as part of the
Lecture Notes in Computer Science series.

GENERAL CHAIRS
Birger Larsen Royal School of Library and Information
Science, Copenhagen, Denmark
Christina Lioma University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Peter Ingwersen Royal School of Library and Information
Science, Copenhagen, Denmark

PC CHAIRS
Massimo Melucci University of Padua, Italy
Oren Kurland Technion University, Israel