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{{Event
 | Acronym = DIR 2009
 | Title = The 9th Dutch-Belgian Information Retrieval Workshop
 | Type = Workshop
 | Series = 
 | Field = Information retrieval
 | Homepage = dir2009.cs.utwente.nl
 | Start date = Feb 2, 2009 
 | End date =  Feb 3, 2009
 | City= Enschede
 | State = 
 | Country =  The Netherlands
 | Abstract deadline = 
 | Submission deadline = Nov 14, 2008
 | Notification = Dec 12, 2008
 | Camera ready = 
}}

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      The 9th Dutch-Belgian Information Retrieval Workshop (DIR)
            February 2-3, 2009, Enschede, The Netherlands
                    http://dir2009.cs.utwente.nl

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Call for Papers

The primary aim of Dutch-Belgian Information Retrieval (DIR) workshop
is to provide an international meeting place where researchers from
the domain of information retrieval and related disciplines, can
exchange information and present innovative research developments.

DIR 2009 will take place at the University of Twente, Enschede,
the Netherlands, on February 2-3, 2009.

The workshop is organised under the auspices of the Dutch Working
Community on Information Sciences (WGI).

DIR 2009 welcomes contributions related to any aspect of IR, including:
    * Multimedia IR, video retrieval, audio and music retrieval,
      cross-media retrieval
    * Multilingual and cross-lingual retrieval
    * Structured document retrieval, XML-IR
    * Retrieval models, language models
    * Image processing for IR, audio processing for IR
    * Natural language processing for IR, information extraction,
      text summarization
    * Processing and search of e-mail, spam, blogs
    * Categorization, topic tracking and event detection
    * Query processing, thesaurus construction, user models
    * Web IR, distributed IR, enterprise search, search of digital
      libraries, intranet search, desktop search
    * Collaborative filtering, recommender systems
    * Efficiency and performance
    * IR evaluation
    * Machine Learning for IR
    * Domain-specific IR, IR for cultural heritage data

Papers may range from theoretical work to system descriptions. We
encourage Ph.D. students to submit their research. We also welcome
contributions from the industry when they focus on novel research
directions. Submissions will be reviewed by at least three domain
experts. The conference language is English. Papers describe
original research, have a length of maximum 8 pages, Please,
submit papers in pdf-format, using the ACM SIG Proceedings style
(http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html)
Submissions can be sent to dir2009@lists.utwente.nl

Important dates

November 14, 2008:  Paper submission deadline
December 12, 2008:  Notification of acceptance
February 2-3, 2009: Conference at University of Twente, Enschede

Organizing committee

    * Robin Aly
    * Claudia Hauff
    * Djoerd Hiemstra
    * Theo Huibers
    * Franciska de Jong
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