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Symposium Themes

We welcome presentation submissions connected with any aspect of the above, including the following:

  • Case studies, field experiments, simulations, etc. of context-sensitive Information Seeking & Retrieval:
    • Task-based IIR and information behavior
    • Algorithmic solutions
    • Relevance feedback – implicit & explicit – and query modification issues
    • Media and genre-dependent applications
    • Cross-media, cross-language and cross-modal approaches
    • Personalized and collaborative information access in context
  • Contextual Information Interaction theory – modeling context, e.g.
    • Ontology and knowledge-based IR in context
    • Theoretical tools for IIiX
  • Evaluation and research methodologies for IIiX
    • Research design
    • Usability evaluation
    • Nature of relevance in contexts
    • Interactive IR and interface issues
    • Measures of performance in context and situation-sensitive information access
    • The test-collection challenge
  • Platforms and frameworks for doing research on IIiX
    • IR & DB Integration in context
    • Non-content based information seeking and retrieval
    • Document structure in contextual IIR


 Created and maintained by Ryen W. White (ryen@umd.edu) Last modified: 13 February 2006