[CFP] Workshop on Geographical Information Retrieval GIR'07

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Workshop on Geographical Information Retrieval GIR'07 - Call for papers
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This is a first call for papers for a workshop on Geographic Information
Retrieval (GIR'07), to be held in conjunction with the 16th ACM
Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, Lisboa, Portugal
(http://www.fc.ul.pt/cikm2007/). The workshop is the fourth in a
series ofsuccessful workshops held previously in conjunction with SIGIR
2004,
CIKM 2005 and SIGIR 2006. The workshop will take place immediately
following the conference on November the 9th 2007.

The purpose of this workshop is to bring together the growing
community of researchers and practitioners working in the field of
geographic
information retrieval to discuss further progress within the field and
potential
future research strands. Examples of topics that are particularly relevant
include, but are not confined to:

architectures for geographic search engines;
spatial indexing of documents and images;
extraction of geographical context from documents and geo-datasets;
geographical annotation techniques for geo-referenced documents and
images;
design, construction, maintenance and access methods for geographical
ontologies, gazetteers and geographical thesauri;
geographical query interfaces for the web and geo-spatial libraries;
geographic information question/ answering services;
dealing with natural language in geographic information retrieval;
visualising of the results of geographic searches; and
relevance ranking for geographical search.

We invite the submission of extended abstracts of up to 6 pages for
presentation as long papers (30 minutes) and 2 page short abstracts
reporting on work in progress for short presentations (15 minutes). All
submissions will be reviewed by two members of the program committee,
and all accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings.

You should prepare your abstract in accordance with the CIKM camera-
Ready instructions (http://www.fc.ul.pt/cikm2007/Camera-Ready-
Instructions.html) and submit it to Ross Purves (rsp@geo.unizh.ch) by June
15th, 2007.

Further details of the workshop will be available shortly at
http://www.geo.unizh.ch/~rsp/gir07/

Please forward this message to anyone whom you think may have an
interest in the workshop.

With best wishes,

Ross Purves (rsp@geo.unizh.ch) and Chris Jones (c.b.jones@cs.cf.ac.uk)