Workshop Information

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• Motivation
• Topics
• Call for Papers
• Organizing Committee
• Program Commitee
• Registration
• SIGIR 2006
• Program
• Participants
• Proceedings
• Final report
• 2005 Workshop

Important Dates

• Deadline for submission:
  17 May 2006
  (submission deadline extended) 29 May 2006
• Notification of Acceptance:
  9 June 2006 21 June 2006
• Camera Ready Deadline:
  30 June 2006
• Workshop:
  10 August 2006

sigir2006.org

OpenSourceSearch.org

Motivation

The World Wide Web has grown to be a primary source of information for millions of people. Due to the size of the Web, search engines have become the major access point for this information. However, "commercial" search engines use hidden algorithms that put the integrity of their results in doubt, collect user data that raises privacy concerns, and target the general public thus fail to serve the needs of specific search users. Open source search, like open source operating systems, offers alternatives.

The goal of the Open Source Information Retrieval Workshop (OSIR) is to bring together practitioners developing open source search technologies in the context of a premier IR research conference to share their recent advances, and to coordinate their strategy and research plans. The intent is to foster community-based development, to promote distribution of transparent Web search tools, and to strengthen the interaction with the research community in IR.

A workshop about Open Source Web Information Retrieval was held last year in Compiègne, France as part of WI 2005. The focus of this worksop is broadened to the whole open source information retrieval community.

Topics

• standards
• interoperability
• experiences in OSIR
• Web deployment of search engines
• research platforms versus engineering tools

Call for Papers

Full papers are limited to 8 pages in the standard ACM SIGIR format; At least three anonymous reviews will be provided per paper, judged on the usual basis of relevance, originality, quality, and presentation. Proceedings of the workshop will be placed online, and distributed at the workshop.

We also have a text version of the Call for Papers that is suitable for e-mail distribution.

Please submit your paper to https://msrcmt.research.microsoft.com/OSIR2006/

Organizing Committee

• Michel Beigbeder, École Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Saint-Etienne (France)
• Wray Buntine, Helsinki Institute for Information Technology (Finland)
• Wai Gen Yee, Illinois Institute of Technology (USA)

Program Committee

• Antonio Badia, University of Louisville (USA)
• Michel Beigbeder, Ecole des Mines de Saint-Etienne (France)
• Wray Buntine, Helsinki Institute for Information Technology (Finland)
• Abdur Chowdhury, AOL (USA)
• Bruce Croft, University of Massachusetts (USA)
• Doug Cutting, Yahoo! (USA)
• Ophir Frieder, Illinois Institute of Technology (USA)
• Nazli Goharian, Illinois Institute of Technology (USA)
• Don Kraft, Louisiana State University
• Olfa Nasraoui, University of Louisville (USA)
• Iadh Ounis, University of Glasgow (UK)
• Michael Stack, Internet Archive (USA)
• Wai Gen Yee, Illinois Institute of Technology (USA)
• Clement Yu, University of Illinois (USA)