News
Update :
2009.02.18:
The workshop date is shifted to
2nd
of April since the
main conference has been changed from 1-4 April to 2-4 April.
2009.02.01:
The DBIR workshop has been merged with the ENQOIR workshop.
The new workshop is called DBIR-ENQOIR
workshop.
All organizers agree to combine both
workshops since they have many overlapped or similar topics. To merge them
will make all attendees to exchange ideas with more researchers on
this field. Please go to ENQOIR's official website at http://events.idi.ntnu.no/enqoir09/,
if you want to get more information about it.
2009.01.08:
THE FULL PAPER SUBMISSION DUE
DATE IS EXTENDED TO JANUARY
10, 2009
!
Introduction
Information Retrieval(IR) is the traditional research field different from DataBase(DB).
They both have evolved independently and fruitfully for decades of years. However, modern applications, in particular,
web-enabled applications, such as customer support, e-business, digital library, require to search both structured,
or tabular, data and semi-structured or unstructured data. DB and IR can outperform the other in their own traditional
side while lack of functionality to handle the other side. So DBIR is emerging and becoming a hot research area.
One of popular topics is the keyword search over relational database.
DBIR involves the systematical retrieval and query capability over diverse form of data in structured
databases, semi-structured data sources and even legacy of text document. Scoring and ranking are the basic issues among
DBIR problems. Efficiency is also the critical issue since many applications confront with the ever-growing data bank.
Recently, some researchers pay more attention to the keyword search on external memory while setting up the DBIR environment.
At present, DBIR is still far away from its maturity, neither like DB nor IR. Many aspects are not well studied.
Meanwhile, the ENQOIR(Evaluating Holistic Quality
of Ontology-based Information Retrieval) targets to deeper understanding and disseminate knowledge on advances in evaluation and application of ontology-based information retrieval (ObIR).
The main areas of the ENQOIR is an overlap between three evaluation aspects in ObIR, namely, evaluation of information retrieval, evaluation of ontology quality’s impact on ObIR results, and evaluation of user interaction complexity. The main objective is to contribute to optimization of ObIR by systemizing existing body of knowledge on ObIR and defining a set of metrics for evaluation of ontology-based search.
This workshop is to present one forum for researchers who are carrying out the related research to exchange their understanding
and ideas. Also, the workshop is to establish a forum to analyze and proceed towards a holistic evaluation method for evaluation of ontology-based information retrieval systems. It will promote the research
and practice on both DBIR and ObIR.
Topics of interest
include, but are not limited to:
Database and Information Retrieval
- Systematical architecture
- Data modeling
- Keyword search on XML data
- Semantic keyword search
- Storage and query
- Main-memory/external memory keyword search
- Scoring and ranking
- Result presentation and visualization
- DBIR in practice
-
Evaluation of Ontology-based Information Retrieval
- Information retrieval evaluation
- Assessment of annotation quality/labour-load
- Evaluation and benchmarking techniques and
datasets
- Quantitative / qualitative evaluation methods
- Cost/ utility ratio
Ontology quality aspects in Information Retrieval
- Ontology quality evaluation
- Ontology utility
- Ontology maintenance
- Quantitative / qualitative evaluation methods
User acceptance of semantic technology
- Usability evaluation
- Quantitative / qualitative evaluation methods
- Evaluation of human-computer interaction
Publication
All papers accepted will be published in a combined volume of Lecturer Notes in Computer Science series published by Springer.
In addition, all papers published will be EI
indexed, too.
Important Dates
- Full papers due:
Jan 1 Jan
10, 2009
- Notification to authors:
Feb 1 Feb
7 Feb 10, 2009
- Camera-ready due: Feb 20, 2009
- Workshop:
Apr 1 Apr 2, 2009
Paper
Submission
DBIR’09 invites papers describing original contributions in all
areas of DataBase and IR related research and applications. All submissions should be in
English and not concurrently submitted elsewhere.Papers should not exceed 12 pages in LNCS (Lecture Notes in Computer Science) format
http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html
All papers MUST be PDF document.
Authors please annotate what TOPIC your
paper belongs to in the subject of your email or the mail body.
Papers must be submitted to 
Organizer of Program Committee
and Co-Chairs
DBIR Committee
- Xiao Zhang, Associate Professor, Renmin University of China
- Shan Wang, Professor, Renmin University of China
ENQOIR Committee
- Darijus Strasunskas (NTNU, Norway)
- Stein L. Tomassen (NTNU, Norway)
- Jinghai Rao (AOL, China)
Program Committee
DBIR Committee
-
Xueming Lin(UNSW, AU)
- Ken Pu (UOIT, CA)
- Goce Trajcevski (Northwestern University, US)
- Jianyong Wang(Tsing Hua University, China)
- Ge Yu(Northeastern University, China)
- Jeffery X. Yu(CUHK, HK)
- Xiaohui Yu (York University, CA)
- Jiang Zhan(Remin University, China)
- Jun Zhang(Dalian Maritime University, China)
- Aoying Zhou(Fudan University, China)
ENQOIR Committee
- Per Gunnar Auran (Yahoo! Technologies, Norway)
- Xi Bai (University of Edinburgh, UK)
- Robert Engels (ESIS, Norway)
- Avigdor Gal (Technion, Israel)
- Jon Atle Gulla (NTNU, Norway)
- Sari E. Hakkarainen (Finland)
- Monika Lanzenberger (Vienna University of Technology, Austria)
- Kin Fun Li (University of Victoria, Canada)
- Federica Mandreoli (University of Modena e Reggio Emilia, Italy)
- James C. Mayfield (John Hopkins University, USA)
- Gabor Nagypal (disy Informationssysteme GmbH, Germany)
- David Norheim (Computas, Norway)
- Jaana Kekalainen (Univ. of Tampere, Finland)
- Iadh Ounis (Univ. of Glasgow, UK)
- Marta Sabou (The Open University, UK)
- Tetsuya Sakai (NewsWatch, Inc., Japan)
- Amanda Spink (Queensland Univ. of Technology, Australia)
- Peter Spyns (Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium)
- Heiko Stoermer (University of Trento, Italy)
- Victoria Uren (The Open University, UK)
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