Giovedì 27/1

14:00 – 14:10 : Introduzione

14:10 – 15:50 : Sessione 1 (5 short papers) – Teoria

• Guido Zuccon, Leif Azzopardi, Enrico Gasco
  Investigating Subspace Distances in Semantic Spaces
• Stefano Baccianella, Andrea Esuli, Fabrizio Sebastiani
  Using Micro-Documents for Feature Selection: The Case of Ordinal Text Classification
• Diego De Cao, Roberto Basili, Matteo Luciani, Francesco Mesiano, Riccardo Rossi
  Enriched Page Rank for Multilingual Word Sense Disambiguation
• Paolo Ferragina and Ugo Scaiella
  First steps beyond the bag-of-words representation of short texts
• Fabrizio Smeraldi, Miguel Martinez-Alvarez, Ingo Frommholz, Thomas Roelleke
  On the Probabilistic Logical Modelling of Quantum and Geometrically-Inspired IR

15:50 – 16:20 : Pausa caffè

16:20 – 17:50 : Sessione 2 (3 long papers) – Applicazioni

• Giacomo Berardi, Andrea Esuli, Fabrizio Sebastiani, Fabrizio Silvestri
  Blog Distillation via Sentiment-Sensitive Link Analysis
• Diego De Cao, Daniele Previtali, Roberto Basili
  HNews: an enhanced multilingual hyperlinking news platform
• Giuliano Armano, Alessandro Giuliani, Eloisa Vargiu
  Experimenting Text Summarization Techniques for Contextual Advertising

Venerdì 28/1

9:00 – 10:00 : Sessione 3 (3 short papers) – Applicazioni

• Pierpaolo Basile, Annalina Caputo, Giovanni Semeraro
  Semantic Re-ranking in Ad-hoc Robust Retrieval
• Fedelucio Narducci, Giovanni Semeraro, Pasquale Lops, Marco de Gemmis
  Explicit Semantic Analysis for Enriching Content-based User Profile
• Annalina Caputo, Pierpaolo Basile, Giovanni Semeraro
  From terms to concepts: a revisited approach to Local Context Analysis

10:00 – 11:00 : Invited talk

• Debora Donato, Yahoo! Research
  Web Information Retrieval for not-informational query intents

11:00 – 11:30 : Pausa caffè

11:30 – 12:30 : Sessione 4 (3 short papers) – Teoria

• Cataldo Musto, Pasquale Lops, Marco de Gemmis, Giovanni Semeraro
  Random Indexing for Content-based Recommender Systems
• Giulio Leso, Stefano Mizzaro
  IR models based on network science: A research agenda
• Massimo Melucci, Laurianne Sitbon
  Modeling Emergent Associations of Nominal Compound: Ongoing Research and Preliminary Results

12:30 – 14:00 : Pranzo

14:00 – 15:30 : Sessione 5 (3 long papers) – Teoria

• Alberto Messina, Maurizio Montagnuolo
  Heterogeneous Data Co-Clustering by Pseudo-Semantic Affinity Functions
• Annalina Caputo, Benjamin Piwowarski, Mounia Lalmas
  A Query Algebra for Quantum Information Retrieval
• Emanuele Di Buccio, Giorgio Maria Di Nunzio, Massimo Melucci, Nicola Orio
  Quantum Contextual Information Access and Retrieval

15:30 – 16:00 : Pausa caffè

16:00 – 17:20 : Sessione 6 (4 short papers) – Applicazioni

• Laura Spinsanti, Frank Ostermann
  Retrieve Volunteered Geographic Information for Forest Fire
• Silvia Calegari, Gabriella Pasi
  Definition of User Profiles based on the YAGO Ontology
• Stefania Marrara, Emanuele Panzeri, Gabriella Pasi
  A flexible XML query language for NON dummies
• Gloria Bordogna, Giuseppe Psaila
  A Methodology for Analyzing Web Search Results

17:20 – 17:30 : Conclusione

Hotel Bernina

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Hotel Michelangelo

Address: Via Scarlatti 33 – 20124 Milano
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• Gabriella Pasi (University of Milano Bicocca)

Program Chairs

• Massimo Melucci (University of Padova)
• Stefano Mizzaro (University of Udine)

Program Committee

• Gianni Amati (Fondazione Ugo Bordoni)
• Roberto Basili (University of Roma Tor Vergata)
• Gloria Bordogna (IDPA-CNR Dalmine – Bg)
• Fabio Crestani (USI Università della Svizzera Italiana)
• Emanuele Di Buccio (University of Padova)
• Giorgio Di Nunzio (University of Padova)
• Debora Donato (Yahoo! Research)
• Paolo Ferragina (University of Pisa)
• Antonio Gulli (Search Technology Center, Bing Search, Microsoft)
• Salvatore Orlando (Ca’ Foscari University- Venezia)
• Raffaele Perego (ISTI-CNR, Pisa)
• Giuseppe Santucci (La Sapienza University – Rome)
• Fabrizio Sebastiani (ISTI-CNR, Pisa)
• Giovanni Semeraro (University of Bari)
• Fabrizio Silvestri (ISTI-CNR, Pisa)

Local Organization

Department of Informatics, Systems and Communication (DISCo), University of Milano-Bicocca:

• Silvia Calegari
• Emanuele Panzeri

The conference languages are Italian and English.

Please, submit papers in PDF, using the Springer style. Papers have a length of maximum 12 pages. Moreover, extended abstract containing descriptions of on-going projects or presenting results already published are also welcome and should be at most 4 pages long. Accepted papers will be published in on-line proceedings on CEUR-WS, and they will be indexed by DBLP (as it happened for IIR 2010).

After the conference some selected papers will be considered for publication on a book or a journal special issue.

The papers must be submitted through Easychair:
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iir2011

NOTE: Internet access is available for workshop participants: due to Italian regulations, further personal information must be provided to Silvia Calegari by Friday, January 21. For Wi-Fi internet access participants must provide: name, surname, affiliation, date and place of birth, nationality and a valid identification document (with: type, number, document’s place of emission and emission date). The identification document must be also digitally sent.

Wi-Fi connection details can be found here: https://servizi.si.unimib.it/appls/guestscert/unimib-guest.asp

IIR 2011 will take place at the University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy, on January 27-28, 2011.

The workshop will offer an opportunity to present and discuss empirical and conceptual research. Topics covered include, but are not restricted to, the following subjects:

• Theoretical retrieval models
• Relevance feedback, user models and query processing
• Multimedia and cross-media retrieval: image, video, audio and music
• Multilingual and cross-lingual retrieval
• Structured document retrieval, XML-IR
• Natural language processing, information extraction, text summarization
• Processing and search of e-mail, spam, blogs
• Categorization, topic tracking and event detection
• Mobile IR
• Context – based IR and personalization
• Thesauri and ontologies for IR
• Web IR, distributed IR, enterprise search, search of digital libraries, intranet search, desktop search
• Collaborative filtering, recommender systems
• Efficiency and performance
• Evaluation of IR
• Machine Learning for IR
• Domain-specific IR (e.g., IR for cultural heritage data)
• IR for Children
• Geographic IR

Important Dates

• Submission Deadline: November 22, 2010
• Notification of Acceptance: December 21, 2010
• Conference: January 27-28, 2011

Venue

Aula Martini, Building U6, University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy.
Address: Piazza dell’Ateneo Nuovo 1, Milano, Italy. [ Map ]

Registration

Participation to the IIR 2011 Workshop will be free, but advanced registration is required. Participation requests must be sent to Silvia Calegari providing: name, surname and affiliation.