Kluwer Academic Publishers
Journal of Information Retrieval

Special Issue on

Web Information Retrieval

Important dates:
Abstract submission: February 8, 2004
Paper submission: March 28, 2004
Notification: July 18, 2004

The Journal of Information Retrieval is pleased to announce a special issue on Web information retrieval - methods and tasks. High quality papers with theoretical and/or experimental orientation are sought.

A theoretical paper will report a significant advance in the design of methods. The validity of the proposed methods will be established in terms of their originality and ability to provide a deep understanding of the domain. An experimental paper will report on a test of one or more theoretical ideas. Experimental papers will be assessed for both the quality of the analysis and the generality of the reported results.

Topics of interest (in a web context, of course) include, but are not limited to:

• adversarial IR (spam rejection)
• categorization
• characteristics of web collections
• context-dependent search
• clustering
• efficiency
• enterprise webs
• evaluation
• indexing
• information extraction
• link and topology analysis
• machine learning
• natural language processing
• new search applications and interfaces
• question answering
• resource finding
• retrieval formal models
• types of web search
• semi-structured data
• summarization
• topic distillation
• user behaviour

Important dates:
Abstract submission: February 8, 2004
Paper submission: March 28, 2004
Notification: July 18, 2004

Guest Editors:
Massimo Melucci, Department of Information Engineering, University of Padova, Italy.
David Hawking, CSIRO Mathematical and Information Sciences, Canberra, Australia.

Contacts:
Massimo dot Melucci @ unipd dot it
David dot Hawking @ csiro dot au

Submission Instructions:
Both the abstract and the full-text paper should report title, authors, affiliation, contact author, and should be sent to both guest editors. The abstract should be a 500-word plain text, whereas the full-text paper should also include a 200-word abstract, should range between 5000 and 7000 words, and it should be double spaced and written as a PDF or PS file.