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OZCHI 2008 - First Call for Papers
by Marcus Foth 18 Feb '08

18 Feb '08

OZCHI 2008: Designing for Habitat & Habitus Cairns, Far North Queensland, Australia 8 - 12 December 2008 OZCHI is Australia’s leading forum for work in all areas of Human- Computer Interaction and is supported by CHISIG. Designing for Habitat and Habitus encompasses the role of technology in supporting and enhancing our life-experiences and relationships within the environments we inhabit. Paul Dourish (UC Irvine), Gary Marsden (University of Cape Town) and Fiona Ingram (Sensis) will present keynote speeches. Submission dates Long Papers: 27th June 2008 Short Papers: 1st September 2008 Accepted papers will be published in the ACM Digital Library. Far North Queensland Imagine a modern Australian university set in the tropics. Nestled between stunning beaches and rainforest, with the lure of the reef and unique cultural attractions. Combine this with that sophisticated edge of a region that knows how to pamper OZCHI delegates. It’s a potent combination for creativity and progressive thinking. And, by the way, it’s OZCHI’s 20th birthday. Find out more at: http://www.ozchi.org/ -- Dr Marcus Foth Australian Postdoctoral Fellow Institute for Creative Industries and Innovation Queensland University of Technology (CRICOS No. 00213J) Creative Industries Precinct, Brisbane QLD 4059, Australia Phone +61 7 313 x88772 - Fax x88195 - Office Z6-511 m.foth(a)qut.edu.au - http://www.vrolik.de/publications/

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FW: CfP: Journal of Information Retrieval -- Special Issue on Non-English Web Retrieval
by Holly Kruse 18 Feb '08

18 Feb '08

Forwarded on request... Holly ************** Dear colleague: My name is Jesus Vilares (Univ. of A Coruna, Spain), and I am one of the guest editors of the Special Issue on Non-English Web Retrieval that the Journal of Information Retrieval is preparing. May be you so kind to give publicity to this event? Regards, JESUS VILARES (on behalf of the guest editors) http://rea.teimes.gr/~lazarinf/NonEnglishWebIR/ -- ========================================================================= JESUS VILARES FERRO ------------------------------------------------------------------------- LYS Research Group _/ e-mail: jvilares(a)udc.es Facultad de Informatica _/ URL: http://www.grupolys.org/~jvilares Universidad de A Coruna _/ Campus de Elvina s/n _/ phone : +34 981 167000 ext. 1377 15071 A Coruna - Spain _/ fax : +34 981 167160 ========================================================================= Springer Academic Publishers Journal of Information Retrieval Special Issue on Non-English Web Retrieval Important dates: Abstract submission: May 4, 2008 Paper submission: May 11, 2008, 11:50pm Hawaii Standand Time Notification of acceptance/rejection: June 25, 2008 Guest Editors: Fotis Lazarinis, Technological Education Institute, Mesolonghi, Greece Jesus Vilares, Department of Computer Sciences, University of A Coruna, Spain John Tait, Information Retrieval Facility, Austria Efthimis N. Efthimiadis, The Information School, University of Washington Contacts: lazarinf [at] teimes [dot] gr jvilares [at] udc [dot] es john.tait [at] ir-facility [dot] org efthimis [at] u [dot] washington [dot] edu Site: http://rea.teimes.gr/~lazarinf/NonEnglishWebIR/ Since its conception, the World Wide Web (WWW or Web) has rapidly become one of the most widely used services of the Internet. Its friendly interface and its hypermedia features attract virtually every computer user around the globe. As a result, the Web has become a dominant global multicultural and multilingual pool of various types of data. Further it continues to grow. Finding information that satisfies specific criteria is a regular daily activity of almost every Web user. Recent Web statistics showed that almost 65% of the online citizens are non-English language users. As the Web population continues to grow, especially in Asia, Africa, and South America, more non-English users will be amassed online. Recent studies showed that non-English queries and unclassifiable queries have nearly tripled in the last decade. The main conclusion from previous research is that most search engine features are primarily focused on the English language. Based on previous studies and on the experiences and conclusions of the iNEWS07 (Improving Non-English Web Searching) ACM SIGIR'07 Workshop, the special issue aims to address the challenges and directions in Non-English Web retrieval. For the special issue we seek high quality papers with theoretical and/or experimental orientation. Topics of interest for the special issue, as applied to Non-English Web searching, include, but are not limited to: Evaluation User search behaviour Query log analysis Indexing Information extraction Summarization User studies Retrieval models Question answering Natural language processing Concept based image retrieval Creation of multi-lingual web collections Intranet/enterprise search Text categorization and clustering Digital libraries Cross language and multilingual retrieval Submission Instructions: Submissions must be in English and adhere to the format specified by the journal Information Retrieval. For formatting guidelines please see: JIR formatting guidelines The abstract should be about 250-words in plain text. Include title, author(s) and author(s) affiliations, contact details, and up to five (5) keywords that describe your work. The full paper should be anonymous, and authors should conceal their identity where it is practical to do so. Include a 200-250-word abstract and up to five keywords. The paper should range between 16-20 pages. Both the abstract and the full paper should be uploaded in the Springer paper submission system For Word and LaTeX templates, please click Springer Word and Latex templates Reviewers for the special issue: Alonso, Miguel (Univ. of A Coruña, Spain) Baeza Yates, Ricardo (Yahoo! Research Barcelona) Chen, Zheng (Microsoft Research Asia, China) Dalamagas, Theodore (National Technical Univ. of Athens, Greece) de Rijke, Maarten (Univ. of Amsterdam, The Netherlands) Hawking, David (CSIRO ICT Centre, Australia) Huang, Chu-Ren (Academia Sinica, Taiwan) Järvelin, Kalervo (University of Tampere, Finland) Kanaan, Ghassan (Yarmouk University, Jordan) Kando, Noriko (National Institute of Informatics, Japan) Karanikolas, Nikitas (TEI of Athens, Greece) Kuang-hua, Chen (National Taiwan University, Taiwan) Levene, Mark (Birkbeck University of London, UK) Losada, David (Univ. of Santiago de Compostela, Spain) Min, Song (New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA) Nasredine, Semmar (LIC2M/CEA-LIST, France) Ntoulas, Alexandros (Microsoft Search Labs, USA) Ounis, Iadh (Univ. of Glasgow, UK) Pereira, Gabriel (Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal) Peters, Carol (ISTI-CNR, Italy) Plachouras, Vassilis (Yahoo! Research Barcelona) Rambow, Owen (Columbia University, USA) Savoy, Jacques (Univ. of Neuchatel, Switzerland) Stamou, Sofia (Univ. of Patras, Greece) Sutcliffe, Richard (Univ. of Limerick, Ireland) Vilares, Manuel (Univ. of Vigo, Spain) White, Ryen (Microsoft, USA)

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Lessons in Second LIfe
by jeremy hunsinger 18 Feb '08

18 Feb '08

distribute as appropriate -jh Every Week on Monday (1:00-2:30pm SLT) join us for Lessons in Second Life, an open table forum centering on what can be learned in sl in both formal and informal settings. The forum is open to faculty, students, and interested parties of all kinds. We meet at the _blacklibrary hyperborea 91, 30, 26 im buridan simon for more information. Come share your ideas for learning in Second Life http://slurl.com/secondlife/hyperborea/92/30/26/ this week's Lessons in Second Life is brought to you by: The Committee for the Promotion of Dim Sum Restaurants as Virtual Learning Environments next week's Lessons in Second Life is brought to you by: In-the- disciplinarity not Interdisciplinarity jeremy hunsinger Information Ethics Fellow, Center for Information Policy Research, School of Information Studies, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (www.cipr.uwm.edu ) wiki.tmttlt.com www.tmttlt.com () ascii ribbon campaign - against html mail /\ - against microsoft attachments http://www.stswiki.org/ sts wiki http://cfp.learning-inquiry.info/ Learning Inquiry-the journal http://transdisciplinarystudies.tmttlt.com/ Transdisciplinary Studies:the book series _______________________________________________ Educators mailing list To unsubscribe https://lists.secondlife.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/educators _______________________________________________ Educators mailing list To unsubscribe https://lists.secondlife.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/educators

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Methods question
by Derek Hansen 18 Feb '08

18 Feb '08

I have a methods question that I'm hoping someone can provide some pointers and insights into. I am going to use a method that seems like it would have been used before, but I've had trouble hunting down examples, likely because they would be buried in literature from many different disciplines. Here is the scenario... I am going to perform a study of an IM interaction. I will have approximately 100 pairs that will communicate with each other via IM. People on one side of the interaction will ask a question and people on the other side will answer the question. After the interaction, each participant will fill out a brief questionnaire about the interaction. I am interested in comparing the different perceptions of the same interaction (e.g., the timeliness and quality of the interaction). Have any of you performed a similar study where people are paired up for some experience and then individually asked what their perceptions of the experience were? If so, do you have any pointers to papers or methods texts that I could review to get ideas on the specific analysis techniques or questions that I may want to consider? Any suggestions would be well appreciated. Regards, Derek Hansen Assistant Professor College of Information Studies University of Maryland

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Interesting discussion of Harvard open access with many good links
by Katy E. Pearce 17 Feb '08

17 Feb '08

http://www.metafilter.com/69155/Harvard-boosts-open-access-for-faculty-publi cations No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.516 / Virus Database: 269.20.7/1284 - Release Date: 2/17/2008 2:39 PM

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kiki and bubu explain "the shift" of neoliberalism
by Jeremy Hunsinger 17 Feb '08

17 Feb '08

http://www.monochrom.at/kiki-and-bubu/ worth a watch:), wish there was more. Jeremy Hunsinger Information Ethics Fellow, Center for Information Policy Research, School of Information Studies, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (www.cipr.uwm.edu ) Words are things; and a small drop of ink, falling like dew upon a thought, produces that which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think. --Byron

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CALL-FOR-PAPER (OSINT-WM 2008) (fwd)
by Barry Wellman 17 Feb '08

17 Feb '08

fyi Barry Wellman ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2008 20:07:47 -0700 (MST) From: Reda Alhajj <alhajj(a)ucalgary.ca> To: alhajj(a)ucalgary.ca Subject: CALL-FOR-PAPER (OSINT-WM 2008) Dear Colleagues, We are organizing a symposium on Open Source Intelligence and Web Mining (OSINT-WM 2008) http://www.graphicslink.co.uk/IV08/OSINT-WM.htm <http://www.graphicslink.co.uk/IV08/OSINT-WM.htm>. Submission Deadline = 15 March 2008. The Symposium is co-located with Information Visualization 2008. We invite you to consider submitting your research article to the above mentioned symposium. The proceedings of the symposium will be published by IEEE Computer Society. Extended versions of the accepted papers (after peer review) will also be published as Special Issue "Open Source Intelligence and web Mining" of the International Journal of Networking and Virtual Organisations (IJNVO) http://www.inderscience.com/browse/callpaper.php?callID=897 <http://www.inderscience.com/browse/callpaper.php?callID=897> Please contact me if I can provide any further information. Best Wishes, -- Reda Alhajj, Professor of Computer Science University of Calgary Calgary, Alberta, Canada

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Analyzable Taxonomies for Internet Research
by Luis Gutierrez 16 Feb '08

16 Feb '08

AIR-L .... PLEASE SEE ITEM 7: Solidarity, Sustainability, and Non-Violence, February 2008 http://pelicanweb.org/solisustv04n02.html Main theme: SPIRITUAL DIMENSION OF SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT Contents include: 1. Religious Freedom and the U.N. Millennium Development Goals 2. Religion as a Primarily Human Initiative 3. Spirituality as a Primarily Divine Initiative 4. A Critical Analysis of Patriarchy and Patriarchal Religions 5. The Democratic Alternative to Patriarchal Governance 6. The Spirituality of Sustainable Development 7. Update on Information, Knowledge, and Wisdom Resources This is what I currently have: http://www.pelicanweb.org/knowledgeorganization.html 7a. Free access to HTML and EXCEL versions 7b. Relational analysis of links very useful to me 7c. Any suggestions for making it more useful to others? 7d. Is there a box I can add for visitors to suggest links? 7e. What tool do you recommend to check link validity? 7f. See the following: http://www.success.co.il/knowledge/encyclopedia/index.html http://www.success.co.il/knowledge/search/index.html Do you know of anything better than this? ----------------------------------------- 8. Prayer, Study, and Action (with letter by Erica Jong) 9. Links to Archived Newsletters and Other Resources Hope to get some feedback form AIR-L .... Sincerely, Luis Luis T. Gutierrez, PhD Editor, SSNV Research Newsletter http://pelicanweb.org/solisust.html

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Canadian general warns that Wikipedia postings may be aiding the Taliban
by Barry Wellman 16 Feb '08

16 Feb '08

>From the Toronto Star, February 15, 2008. (I am not making this up). Allan Woods, "Military Issues Web Warning" "Brig.-Gen Peter Atkinson... warned that seemingly innocuous photos, videos and news reports can be the source for as much as 80% of the intelligence that insurgents routinely gather on operations.... "Wikipedia is among the most dangerous of the public-access websites, he said.... 'Due to its collaborative content contribution, anybody can add to the content, providing a compilation of details on a specific incident, like the descriptions of a casualty, photos, locations, and news articles contributed by several sources,' Atkinson told reporters." BW: To check this out, I searched on Canadian, Taliban and 2008, and found nothing currently revelatory, even in the article, "War in Afghanistan (2001-present)". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_in_Afghanistan_%282001%E2%80%93present%29 I do not have the time, inclination or resources to search the history of every article to see who revealed what, when, where, why, or how. As an influential essay on Wikipedia says, "Wikipedia is not a newspaper." Therefore, I wonder if there will be much operational reporting on it that lasts more than a short while. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_is_not_a_newspaper YMMV. Barry Wellman _______________________________________________________________________ S.D. Clark Professor of Sociology, FRSC NetLab Director Centre for Urban & Community Studies University of Toronto 455 Spadina Avenue Room 418 Toronto Canada M5S 2G8 http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman fax:+1-416-978-7162 Updating history: http://chass.utoronto.ca/oldnew/cybertimes.php Elvis wouldn't be singing "Return to Sender" these days _______________________________________________________________________

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for fun
by Paul Emerson Teusner 16 Feb '08

16 Feb '08

Dear AoIR conference organisers, We really need Yossi Vardi as a key-note speaker at AoIR 9. Please make it happen. http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/203 paul emerson teusner fishers, surfers and casters - <http://teusner.org/> http://teusner.org/ bio - <http://paulteusner.org/> http://paulteusner.org/

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