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 INTERNATIONAL Workshop on INTELLIGENT INFORMATION ACCESS

                  CALL FOR PAPERS

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International Workshop on 
Intelligent Information Access, 2006  (IIIA-2006)

Marina Congress Center, Helsinki, Finland
July 6-8, 2006

Sponsored By
  Nokia
  EU's 6th Framework Programme  
      Alvis Strep and PASCAL Network of Excellence
  Finnish Funding Agency for Technology and Innovation (TEKES)
  Helsinki Institute for Information Technology (HIIT)

http://cosco.hiit.fi/search/IIIA2006/

(Extended Abstracts Due: April 15th, 2006)
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The aim of this workshop is to bring together researchers on the
application of intelligent systems to Information Access in an
informal setting to promote discussion and the cross fertilisation of
ideas and methods. Position statements and reviews of current research
are encouraged, as well as new research work.

The workshop will consist of three days of talks, panels, informal
breakout sessions, and a boat trip to local Helsinki islands. The
number of workshop attendants is limited with a preference given to
authors and presenters of contributed papers, and to a number of
invited speakers chosen among the top experts of this field.
Currently on the invited list is Fernando Pereira, University of
Pennsylvania, Soumen Chakrabarti, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, 
and Doug Cutting of Nutch and Lucene.

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Topics of Interest
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The workshop covers statistical methods, machine learning,
probabilistic and information theoretic models, and other approaches
to uncertainty and complexity in all areas of Information Access,
including but not limited to:

    * search and information retrieval,
    * cross-language access,
    * question answering,
    * peer to peer support,
    * semantic annotation,
    * information extraction,
    * community and reputation analysis, and
    * support tools for machine translation.
    * personalisation
    * multimedia aspects of information access

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On-Line Submissions 
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An extended abstract of 1-3 pages outlining the proposed talk/poster
should be submitted in PDF format, using IEEE Transactions style in
conference mode.  Recent conference or journal papers can also be
attached.  Send it to iiia06@hiit.fi by the deadline of April 15.

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Important Dates
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Submission of abstracts or extended abstracts:      April 15th
Notification of invitation to attend the workshop:  May 15th
Deadline for hotel booking:                         May 31st
Workshop dates:                                     July 6th-8th

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Workshop Organization
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Workshop Chairs:
  * Wray Buntine, Helsinki Institute for Information Technology
  * Henry Tirri, Nokia Research Center

Organizing Chair:
  * Petri Myllymäki, University of Helsinki

Program Committee:
  * Samy Bengio, IDIAP, Switzerland
  * Chris Biemann, University of Leipzig, Germany
  * Stephan Bloehdorn, AIFB, University of Karlsruhe, Germany
  * Paul Buitelaar, DFKI, Germany
  * Nicola Cancedda, XRCE, France
  * Walter Daelemans, University of Antwerp, Belgium
  * Mark Girolami, University of Glasgow, UK
  * Cyril Goutte, National Research Council Canada, Canada
  * Gregory Grefenstette, CEA LIST, France
  * Marko Grobelnik, JSI, Slovenia
  * Djoerd Hiemstra, University of Twente, The Netherlands
  * Thomas Hofmann, IPSI Fraunhofer, Germany
  * Andreas Hotho, Universitaet Kassel, Germany
  * Claire Nedellec, INRA, France
  * Iadh Ounis, University of Glasgow, Scotland, UK
  * Georgios Paliouras, NCSR "Demokritos", Greece
  * Gerhard Paass, Fraunhofer AIS, Germany
  * Juho Rousu, University of Helsinki, Finland
  * James G. Shanahan, Turn Inc., America
  * Ralf Steinberger, European Commission Joint Research Centre, Italy
  * Vasudeva Varma, IIIT Hyderabad, India
  * Qiang Zhou, Tsinghua University, China


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