CFP: Information Retrieval Facility Conference, 31 May 2010, Vienna

[Stefan Rueger]

The 1st Information Retrieval Facility Conference provides a
multi-disciplinary, scientific forum for researchers and aims at
bringing young researchers into contact with industry at an early stage.

The 1st IRF Conference tackles 4 complementary research areas:
    * Information retrieval
    * Semantic web technologies for IR
    * Natural language processing for IR
    * Large-scale or distributed computing for the above areas

The conference proceedings will be published in Springer LNCS.

General Chair: Hamish Cunningham, University of Sheffield
Programme Chair: Stefan Rueger, The Open University
Programme Committee: see
http://www.ir-facility.org/events/irf-conference/programme-committee

The conference takes place in Vienna on the 31st of May 2010, one day
before the IRF Symposium 2010.
More information available here:
* IRF Conference: http://www.ir-facility.org/events/irf-conference
* IRF Symposium: http://www.ir-facility.org/events/irf-symposium/2010

IMPORTANT DATES:
Paper submission: 8 January 2010
Notification of acceptance: 22 February 2010
Final paper submission: 22 March 2010
IRF Conference: 31 May 2010

For queries please e-mail to irfc2010@...

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Knowledge Media Institute             tel: [phone]
The Open University                   fax: [phone]
Milton Keynes MK7 6AA, UK        http://kmi.open.ac.uk/mmis

Professor of Knowledge Media,       The Open University, UK
Honorary Professor,               University of Waikato, NZ

The Open University is  incorporated  by  Royal Charter (RC
000391), an exempt charity in England & Wales and a charity
registered in Scotland (SC 038302)