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<h2
style="margin-left:0cm;text-indent:0cm;mso-list:none;tab-stops:35.4pt">Call
for <span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB" lang="EN-GB">papers</span><o:p></o:p>
/Appel à contributions </h2>
<p> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:
"Baskerville Old
Face","serif";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-bidi-font-style:italic"
lang="EN-US">Important dates:<br>
</span></b><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN" lang="EN">January
26, 2018: <span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span>Intention
to submit<br>
February 2, 2018: <span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span>Deadline
for submission<br>
March 16, 2018: <span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span>Answers
to the authors<br>
May 14-16, 2018: <span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span>Conference</span><span
style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<h2
style="margin-left:0cm;text-indent:0cm;mso-list:none;tab-stops:35.4pt"><span
class="shorttext"><span
style="font-size:14.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN" lang="EN">Chair
of the program committee and contact:</span></span><span
style="font-size:14.0pt; mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></h2>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN" lang="EN">Josiane
Mothe, Université de Toulouse, IRIT CNRS (</span><a
href="mailto:Josiane.Mothe@irit.fr"><span
style="mso-ansi-language:EN" lang="EN">Josiane.Mothe@irit.fr</span></a><span
style="mso-ansi-language:EN" lang="EN">)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US"
lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN" lang="EN">For the first time,
the ARIA (French Association for Information Retrieval and
Applications) and ATALA (Association for the Natural Language
Processing) jointly organize their main conference to bring
together in one place the two communities of Information
Retrieval and Natural Language Processing.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN" lang="EN">Organized by IRISA
(UMR 6074) and the Inria Bretagne-Atlantique Center, this
edition will take place from 14 to 18 May 2018 in Rennes and
will include:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span
style="mso-ansi-language: EN" lang="EN">- The 15<sup>th</sup>
Conference on Information Retrieval and Applications (CORIA);<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span
style="mso-ansi-language: EN" lang="EN">- The 25<sup>th</sup>
Conference on the Automatic Natural Language Processing (TALN);<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span
style="mso-ansi-language: EN" lang="EN">- a meeting for young
researchers (RJC) common to the two communities corresponding to
the 13<sup>th</sup> edition of the Meeting of Young Researchers
in Information Retrieval (RJCRI) and to the 20<sup>th</sup>
edition of the Student Researchers Meeting in Computer Science
for NLP (RECITAL);<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span
style="mso-ansi-language: EN" lang="EN">- The innovation fair in
language and information technologies.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span
style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US">Call for papers -
CORIA<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span
style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US" lang="EN-US">-----------------------------<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span
style="mso-ansi-language:EN" lang="EN">CORIA aims to bring
together teams and researchers carrying out scientific work in
the field of information retrieval: <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<ul type="disc">
<li class="MsoNormal"
style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2;tab-stops:list 36.0pt"><span
style="mso-ansi-language:EN" lang="EN">Search for information
on the web, on social networks, on specific collections,<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"
style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2;tab-stops:list 36.0pt"><span
style="mso-ansi-language:EN" lang="EN">Recommender systems, <o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"
style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2;tab-stops:list 36.0pt"><span
style="mso-ansi-language:EN" lang="EN">Information extraction
from multimedia documents, <o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"
style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2;tab-stops:list 36.0pt"><span
style="mso-ansi-language:EN" lang="EN">Opinion analysis, in
monolingual or multilingual contexts, <o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"
style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2;tab-stops:list 36.0pt"><span
style="mso-ansi-language:EN" lang="EN">Search for digital
documents, images, videos, <o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"
style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2;tab-stops:list 36.0pt"><span
style="mso-ansi-language:EN" lang="EN">Automatic learning and
classification for information retrieval, <o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"
style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2;tab-stops:list 36.0pt"><span
style="mso-ansi-language:EN" lang="EN">Human-machine
interfaces for information access, <o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"
style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2;tab-stops:list 36.0pt"><span
style="mso-ansi-language:EN" lang="EN">Evaluation of models, <o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"
style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2;tab-stops:list 36.0pt"><span
style="mso-ansi-language:EN" lang="EN">Creation of test
collections, etc.<o:p></o:p></span></li>
</ul>
<p><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN" lang="EN">Scientific and
technological activity in information retrieval is undergoing a
strong evolution following the development of web 2.0, mobile
computing and advances in related fields such as machine
learning (with deep learning) and search for data, linguistics
(semantics and speech analysis) or databases (big data and NoSQL
databases). Thus, the boundaries of the field are themselves
changing and promote synergies with work in machine learning,
automatic language processing, image processing, speech
processing, written communication and documents, information
systems and databases, representation and knowledge management
...<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN" lang="EN">The fields of
application are varied: search for medical information, economic
intelligence, recommendation of items, search for geographical
information, search for legal information, verification of
facts; as well as in the media: blogs, microblogs, images, 3D,
news, music, speech, and video.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span
style="mso-ansi-language: EN" lang="EN">CORIA</span></b><span
style="mso-ansi-language:EN" lang="EN"> is open to the entire
scientific community concerned with the search for information
from the theoretical point of view as well as from the point of
view of applications.</span><span
style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN" lang="EN">The target audience
for CORIA 2018 is academics and researchers, including masters
and doctoral students, industrialists and specialists in the
field.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN" lang="EN">Although CORIA is a
Francophone community conference, it accepts articles in French
and English.</span><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB"
lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<h2
style="margin-left:0cm;text-indent:0cm;mso-list:none;tab-stops:35.4pt"><span
style="font-size:14.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB" lang="EN-GB">Themes</span><span
style="font-size:14.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US">:<o:p></o:p></span></h2>
<p><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN" lang="EN">The articles will
focus on <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">the following
topics</b> (not exhaustive):<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<ul type="disc">
<li class="MsoNormal"
style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2;tab-stops:list 36.0pt"><span
style="mso-ansi-language:EN" lang="EN">Research models:
logical, probabilistic, language models, model fusion,
scheduling models, graph-based models,</span><span
style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"
style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2;tab-stops:list 36.0pt"><span
style="mso-ansi-language:EN" lang="EN">Machine learning for
IR: deep learning, classification, data sciences,</span><span
style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US" lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"
style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2;tab-stops:list 36.0pt"><span
style="mso-ansi-language:EN" lang="EN">Information
representation: indexing, word embedding, representation of
entities and entity linking, heterogeneous information,
multimedia,</span><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US"
lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"
style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2;tab-stops:list 36.0pt"><span
style="mso-ansi-language:EN" lang="EN">Understanding of
queries: search intent, query suggestion, query variation,
query difficulty prediction, adaptation to queries,</span><span
style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"
style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2;tab-stops:list 36.0pt"><span
style="mso-ansi-language:EN" lang="EN">User interaction:
flexible queries, interfaces, visualization, user and context
modeling, activity modeling, accessibility, interactive
information retrieval,</span><span
style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"
style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2;tab-stops:list 36.0pt"><span
style="mso-ansi-language:EN" lang="EN">Contextual IR:
personalization, collaborative information retrieval, question
/ answering systems, IR in the mobile environment,</span><span
style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"
style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2;tab-stops:list 36.0pt"><span
style="mso-ansi-language:EN" lang="EN">Automatic natural
language processing for information retrieval, automatic
summarization, ontologies, named entity detection and
relationships, semantic web, data web</span><span
style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"
style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2;tab-stops:list 36.0pt"><span
style="mso-ansi-language:EN" lang="EN">Multilingual IR:
multilingual information retrieval, machine translation</span><span
style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"
style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2;tab-stops:list 36.0pt"><span
class="shorttext"><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN" lang="EN">Scalability:
architectures, performance, compression</span></span><o:p></o:p></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"
style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2;tab-stops:list 36.0pt"><span
style="mso-ansi-language:EN" lang="EN">Web analytics: big
graphs, use of the topology of the web, power laws, link
analysis</span><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US"
lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"
style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2;tab-stops:list 36.0pt"><span
style="mso-ansi-language:EN" lang="EN">Social networks:
analysis of networks, opinions, dissemination of information,
activity prediction, event detection</span><span
style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"
style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2;tab-stops:list 36.0pt"><span
class="shorttext"><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN" lang="EN">Filtering
and recommendation: bandit algorithms, reinforcement
learning</span></span><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US"
lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"
style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2;tab-stops:list 36.0pt"><span
style="mso-ansi-language:EN" lang="EN">Multimedia (images,
audio, videos, sound, music): indexing, navigation, access...</span><span
style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"
style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2;tab-stops:list 36.0pt"><span
style="mso-ansi-language:EN" lang="EN">Dedicated information
retrieval systems: search for genomic, geographical, medical
information, search for patents, products, experts, in digital
libraries</span><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US"
lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"
style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2;tab-stops:list 36.0pt"><span
style="mso-ansi-language:EN" lang="EN">Evaluation: evaluation
of information retrieval and other associated tasks, test
beds, metrics, qualitative experiments, shared resources</span><span
style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US" lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></li>
</ul>
<p><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN" lang="EN">Submissions (16
pages max) should be submitted via </span><a
href="https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=coria2018"><span
style="mso-ansi-language:EN" lang="EN">https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=coria2018</span></a><span
style="mso-ansi-language:EN" lang="EN"> and must follow the
Hermes review format (</span><a
href="https://isi.revuesonline.com/appel.jsp"><span
style="mso-ansi-language:EN" lang="EN">https://isi.revuesonline.com/appel.jsp</span></a><span
style="mso-ansi-language:EN" lang="EN">). Each paper will be
reviewed by at least 3 reviewers from the CORIA2018 PC.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">--
Je suis Charlie
Josiane Mothe
Institut de Recherche en Informatique de Toulouse
33 5 61 55 64 44</pre>
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