OSIR 2006
		      Open Source Information Retrieval


		       Second International Workshop on
		      Open Source Information Retrieval

		       (cf. http://www.emse.fr/OSIR06/)




		       At the 29th Annual International 
       ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development on Information 
		  Retrieval, 6-11 August 2006, Seattle, USA
		       (cf. http://www.sigir2006.org/)




			       Important Dates

  .  Deadline for submission:
     17 May 2006
  .  Notification of Acceptance:
     9 June 2006
  .  Camera Ready Deadline:
     30 June 2006
  .  Workshop:
     10 August 2006



				  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
(cf. http://www.emse.fr/OSWIR05/) was held last year in Compiègne, France
as part of WI 2005 (cf. http://www.hds.utc.fr/WI05/).  The focus of
this worksop is broadened to the whole open source information retrieval
community.



				    Topics

Workshop areas of interest include, but are not limited to:
  . 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
(cf. http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html);

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 (cf.
http://www.emse.fr/OSIR06/cfp.txt) that is suitable for e-mail
distribution.

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

			     Organizing Committee

  . Michel Beigbeder, Ecole Nationale Superieure 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,           (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)