information retrieval

BioASQ challenge on large-scale biomedical semantic indexing and question answering

Abbreviated Title: 
BioASQ challenge
Call for Participation
Event Dates: 
18 Mar 2013 - 30 Aug 2013
Contact: 
George Paliouras
Contact Email: 
paliourg [at] iit [dot] demokritos [dot] gr

BioASQ challenge on large-scale biomedical semantic indexing and question answering
(BioASQ workshop to be collocated with CLEF 2013 in Valencia, Spain on September 27, 2013)

Web site: http://bioasq.org/
twitter: https://twitter.com/bioasq

The BioASQ challenge aims to push for a solution to the information access problem of biomedical experts. It will evaluate the ability of systems to perform various tasks in the biomedical QA process:
1. large-scale classification of biomedical documents onto ontology concepts (semantic indexing),

Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing 2013

Abbreviated Title: 
RANLP-2013
Call for Papers
Submission Deadline: 
17 May 2013
Event Dates: 
9 Sep 2013 - 11 Sep 2013
Location: 
Augusta Hotel
City: 
Hissar
Country: 
Bulgaria
Contact: 
Ruslan Mitkov
Contact: 
Galia Angelova
Contact Email: 
R [dot] Mitkov [at] wlv [dot] ac [dot] uk
Contact Email: 
galia [at] lml [dot] bas [dot] bg
Contact Email: 
ranlp2013 [at] lml [dot] bas [dot] bg

Second Call for Papers

RECENT ADVANCES IN NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING (RANLP-2013)

Augusta SPA Hotel, Hissar, Bulgaria
http://www.lml.bas.bg/ranlp2013

Tutorials: September 7-8, 2013 (Saturday-Sunday)
Main Conference: September 9-11, 2013 (Monday-Wednesday)
Workshops: September 12-13, 2013 (Thursday-Friday)

call for bid AIRS 2012

Abbreviated Title: 
cfb AIRS 2012
Other
Submission Deadline: 
30 Nov 2011
Contact: 
AIRS SC chair: Tetsuya Sakai (tetsuyasakai@acm.org)
Contact Email: 
tetsuyasakai [at] acm [dot] org

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CALL FOR BIDS TO HOST
The Eighth Asia Information Retrieval Societies Conference
(AIRS 2012)
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The Asia Information Retrieval Societies Conference (AIRS) aims to bring
together researchers and developers to exchange new ideas and latest
achievements in the field of information retrieval (IR). The scope of the
conference covers all the aspects, including applications, systems,

The Seventh Asia Information Retrieval Societies Conference

Abbreviated Title: 
AIRS 2011
Call for Papers
Submission Deadline: 
7 Jul 2011
Event Dates: 
18 Dec 2011 - 20 Dec 2011
City: 
Dubai
Country: 
United Arab Emirates

CALL FOR PAPERS
The Seventh Asia Information Retrieval Societies Conference (AIRS 2011)
December 18th -20th, 2011
Dubai (United Arab Emirates)

www.uowdubai.ac.ae/airs2011

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ACL 2011 Workshop on Multiword Expressions: from Parsing and Generation to the real world (MWE 2011)

Abbreviated Title: 
MWE 2011 Call for Participation
Call for Participation
Event Dates: 
23 Jun 2011
Location: 
Portland Marriott Downtown Waterfront
City: 
Portland
State: 
Oregon
Country: 
USA
Contact: 
Carlos Ramisch
Contact: 
Valia Kordoni
Contact: 
Aline Villavicencio
Contact Email: 
mwe2011 [at] gmail [dot] com

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MWE 2011 Call for Participation

*** Early bird registration until May 23, 2011 ***

ACL 2011 Workshop on Multiword Expressions:
from Parsing and Generation to the real world (MWE 2011)

http://multiword.sf.net/mwe2011

endorsed by the Special Interest Group on the Lexicon of the
Association for Computational Linguistics (SIGLEX)

Portland, Oregon, USA - June 23, 2011

Registration: http://www.aclweb.org/membership/acl2011reg.php

Book Review: Introduction to Information Retrieval by Christopher D. Manning, Prabhakar Raghavan, and Hinrich Schütze

Journal Volume: 
35
Journal Issue: 
2
Pages: 
307–309
Authors: 
Olga Vechtomova

Introduction to Information Retrieval Christopher D. Manning, Prabhakar Raghavan, and Hinrich Schütze (Stanford University, Yahoo! Research, and University of Stuttgart) Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008, xxi+482 pp; hardbound, ISBN 978-0-521-86571-5, $60.00

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