fyi Barry Wellman _______________________________________________________________________ S.D. Clark Professor of Sociology, FRSC NetLab Director Department of Sociology University of Toronto 725 Spadina Avenue, Room 388 Toronto Canada M5S 2J4 http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman fax:+1-416-978-3963 Updating history: http://chass.utoronto.ca/oldnew/cybertimes.php Elvis wouldn't be singing "Return to Sender" these days **** PLEASE NOTE NEW ADDRESS AND FAX NUMBER **** _______________________________________________________________________ ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Thu, 15 May 2008 20:20:57 +0200 From: Krisztian Balog <kbalog@science.uva.nl> Cc: Krisztian Balog <kbalog@science.uva.nl> Subject: SIGIR 2008 workshop on Future Challenges in Expertise Retrieval Dear Author, I have read some of your recent publications, which led me to believe that the following workshop might be of interest to you. Therefore, I'd like to ask you to consider submitting a paper (or demo). If you could forward the CfP to other people who might be interested in the workshop that would be greatly appreciated. Kind regards, Krisztian Balog fCHER co-organizer -- Krisztian Balog ILPS | Informatics Institute | University of Amsterdam Kruislaan 403 | 1098 SJ Amsterdam | The Netherlands http://www.science.uva.nl/~kbalog Phone: +31 20 525 5359 | Room: F 1.09 ********************************************** Deadline Extension and Last Call for Papers ********************************************** Future Challenges in Expertise Retrieval SIGIR 2008 Workshop, 24 July 2008, Singapore http://ilps.science.uva.nl/fCHER/ ********************************************** MOTIVATION At the TREC Enterprise Track in 2005 the need to study and understand expertise retrieval (ER) was recognized through the introduction of an Expert Finding task (as opposed to mere document retrieval). The task has generated a lot of interest in the IR community, and rapid progress has been made in terms of modeling, algorithms, and evaluation over the past 3 years. In fact, expertise retrieval has reached the point where it is appropriate to assess progress, bring people from different research communities together, and define a research agenda for the next years. This workshop aims to determine what we have accomplished and where we need to go from here in expertise retrieval. AREAS OF INTEREST The main theme of the workshop concerns future challenges in Expertise Retrieval. Instead of focusing on core algorithmic aspects of a specific expert finding scenario (as is the case for the TREC Expert Finding task), our aim is to broaden the topic area and to seek for potential connections with other related fields. We expect submissions from the following areas: * Information Retrieval * Knowledge Management * Organization Information Systems * Social Network Analysis * Social Web * Virtual Communities * User Modeling * Human-Computer Interaction SUBMISSION INFORMATION This venue accepts submissions of research papers (up to 8 pages), position papers (up to 4 pages), and demo descriptions (up to 2 pages). Submissions must be in English, and must contain original work. All papers, independent of being a research, position, or demo paper, must be able to generate discussion during the workshop, and consequently the PC will favor original and controversial ideas. IMPORTANT DATES (revised) * 23 May Paper submission deadline (extended) * 13 Jun Notification of acceptance * 23 Jun Camera-ready papers due * 24 Jul Workshop WORKSHOP FORMAT The workshop is aimed to facilitate discussion and interaction among participants. The workshop will feature regular contributed paper presentations (20 min/each), demo presentations (5 min/each) and include discussion between presenters and the audience (10 min/each). The workshop will also feature an invited speaker, as well as a panel to wrap up the event. ORGANIZING COMMITTEE * Krisztian Balog, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands * Yong Yu, Apex Knowledge & Data Management Lab, China PROGRAM COMMITTEE * Arjen de Vries, CWI, The Netherlands * Bettina Berendt, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium * ChengXiang Zhai, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA * Craig Macdonald, University of Glasgow, UK * David Hawking, CSIRO, Australia * Elaine Toms, Dalhousie University, Canada * Henry Kautz, University of Rochester, USA * Ian Soboroff, NIST, USA * Irma Becerra-Fernandez, Florida International University, USA * Jianhan Zhu, Open University, UK * Jimmy Huang, York University, Canada * Jun Wang, University College London, UK * Leif Azzopardi, University of Glasgow, UK * Loren Terveen, University of Minnesota, USA * Maarten de Rijke, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands * Mark S. Ackerman, University of Michigan, USA * Peter Bailey, Microsoft Research, USA * Peter Mika, Yahoo! Research Barcelona, Spain * Yutaka Matsuo, Japanese National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Japan