<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><span class="" style="font-size: 14px;"><b class="">Submission Deadline Extended — July 30, 2018 </b></span></div><span class=""><div class=""><span class=""><br class=""></span></div>Call for Papers</span><br class=""><span class="">Special Issue on Axiomatic Thinking for Information Retrieval</span><br class=""><span class="">Information Retrieval Journal, Springer</span><br class=""><a href="https://goo.gl/dWvMJb" class="">https://goo.gl/dWvMJb</a><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><span class="">Recent growth of work on applying axiomatic thinking to analyze and improve both retrieval models and evaluation metrics has clearly demonstrated many advantages of axiomatic thinking, including particularly specific theoretical results in the form of novel constraints to be satisfied by retrieval functions or evaluation metrics and improved models or evaluation metrics. This body of existing work opens up many promising new research directions, especially in applying axiomatic thinking more broadly to many problems in information retrieval.</span><br class=""><br class=""><span class="">Since there is not yet a single source for researchers to use for understanding the state of the art of research in axiomatic thinking for information retrieval, a main goal of this special issue is to fill in this gap through accepting a set of representative papers that apply axiomatic thinking to various tasks in information retrieval and related application areas. In particular, we especially welcome submissions that (1) develop a general axiomatic framework to IR related tasks; (2) study how to apply axiomatic thinking to a specific task; (3) combine axiomatic thinking with other methodology such as learning-to- rank; and (4) discuss the past and future of the axiomatic thinking (i.e., position papers).</span><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><span class="">* TOPICS OF INTEREST</span><br class=""><br class=""><span class="">Topics of interest include, but are not limited to applying axiomatic thinking to:</span><br class=""><br class=""><span class=""> - Retrieval models</span><br class=""><span class=""> - Evaluation</span><br class=""><span class=""> - Domain specific IR</span><br class=""><span class=""> - Text categorization</span><br class=""><span class=""> - Text clustering</span><br class=""><span class=""> - Natural language processing</span><br class=""><span class=""> - Machine learning</span><br class=""><span class=""> - Human computer interaction</span><br class=""><span class=""> - Multimedia IR</span><br class=""><span class=""> - Cross-language retrieval</span><br class=""><span class=""> - Question answering</span><br class=""><span class=""> - Learning to rank</span><br class=""><span class=""> - User and task modeling</span><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><span class="">* SPECIAL ISSUE GUEST EDITORS</span><br class=""><br class=""><span class="">Enrique Amigo, UNED, Spain</span><br class=""><span class="">Hui Fang, University of Delaware, USA</span><br class=""><span class="">Stefano Mizzaro, Udine University, Italy</span><br class=""><span class="">ChengXiang Zhai, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA</span><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><b class=""><span class="">* IMPORTANT DATES (extended )</span><br class=""><br class=""><span class=""> - Initial submissions due: July 30, 2018</span><br class=""><span class=""> - Initial reviewer feedback: September 30, 2018 </span><br class=""><span class=""> - Revised submission due: October 30, 2018</span><br class=""><span class=""> - Final reviews and notification: November 30, 2018</span><br class=""></b><br class=""><br class=""><span class="">* PAPER SUBMISSION</span><br class=""><br class=""><span class="">Papers submitted to this special issue for possible publication must be original and must not be under consideration for publication in any other journal or conference. Previously published or accepted conference papers must contain at least 30% new material to be considered for the special issue.</span><br class=""><br class=""><span class="">All papers are to be submitted by referring to </span><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.springer.com/10791">http://www.springer.com/10791</a><span class=""> (submit online). At the beginning of the submission process in Editorial Manager, under "Article Type", please select the appropriate special issue. All manuscripts must be prepared according to the journal publication guidelines which can also be found on the website provided above. Papers will be evaluated following the journal's standard review process.</span><br class=""><br class=""><span class="">For inquiries on the above please contact Hui Fang, </span><a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:hfang@udel.edu">hfang@udel.edu</a><span class="">.</span><br class=""><br class=""><span class="">A resource page of axiomatic thinking for IR is available at </span><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.eecis.udel.edu/%7Ehfang/AX.html">https://www.eecis.udel.edu/~hfang/AX.html</a><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div></body></html>