We encourage the submission of high-quality research papers reporting new, unpublished, and innovative research results within information retrieval. Poster submissions addressing any of the areas identified in the conference topics are also invited. Authors are encouraged to demonstrate work in progress and late-breaking research results. The conference intends to cover all aspects of accessing digital information without explicitly specified semantics. Papers whose sole or main author is an MSc, PhD or postdoctoral student are especially welcome.

Topics of interest include but are not limited to the following areas:

• IR models, techniques, and algorithms
  • Searching, browsing, meta-searching, data fusion, filtering, and indexing
  • Text and content classification, mining, extraction, and summarisation
  • Topic detection, and tracking
  • Personalised, collaborative, recommender, user-adaptive IR
  • Improvements on existing and new IR models
  • Compression, performance, optimisation
• Users, society, and IR
  • User modelling, user studies, user interaction in IR systems
  • Novel user interfaces for IR systems
  • Visualisation and presentation of queries, search results, and content
  • Information management
  • Cross-language and multi-language IR
• IR applications
  • Web IR
  • Mobile and ubiquitous IR
  • Digital libraries
• IR system architectures
  • Distributed
  • Parallel
  • Mobile
  • Multimodal
  • Open, interoperable, and flexible
• Content representation, and processing
  • IR and structured content e.g. XML based
  • Unstructured content
  • Meta information and structures
• Test and evaluation methods for IR systems
  • Test collections and bench marking
  • User-oriented and user-centred test and evaluation
• Multimedia and cross-media IR
• Speech and IR
• Image and video IR
• Digital music, radio, and TV

All papers and posters will be refereed through blind peer review. Accepted papers and poster abstracts will be published in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series. The proceedings will be distributed to all delegates at the Conference.

An award will be presented to the author of the Best Student Paper.

Submissions must be in English, which is the official language of the conference.