CALL FOR PAPERS
FIND08 -- 2nd Int. Workshop on Dynamic Taxonomies and Faceted Search
Torino, Italy, September 1-5, 2008 (in conjunction with DEXA 2008)
www.sig-find.org/find08
Current search paradigms for the web, direct access via search engines
and navigational access via static taxonomies,
have recently been strongly criticized. A third approach, dynamic
taxonomies or faceted search, focuses on user-centered
conceptual exploration and is finally gaining acceptance to the extent
that it is now the de facto standard in product
selection for e-commerce.
Dynamic taxonomies work on multidimensional taxonomies (usually
organized by facets) and provide a single, coherent
visual framework in which users can focus on one or more concepts in the
taxonomy, and immediately see a conceptual
summary of their focus, in the form of a reduced taxonomy derived from
the original one by pruning unrelated concepts.
Concepts in the reduced taxonomy can be used to set additional,
dependent foci and users iterate in a guided yet
unconstrained way until they reach a result set sufficiently small for
manual inspection.
The access paradigm supported is a conceptual exploration, far more
frequent in "search" tasks than the retrieval by
exact specification supported by search engines and database queries.
The underlying model is simple and easily understood
by users, offers substantial benefits over traditional approaches and
has an extremely wide application range and a
potential for important extensions.
This 1-day workshop will discuss all aspects of dynamic taxonomies and
faceted search, from underlying technology to user
interfaces and commercial use, including demo systems and applications.
Topics of Interest:
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to the following areas:
· Multidimensional/faceted taxonomy design
· Automatic or semiautomatic multidimensional/faceted taxonomy
creation from meta-data, from structured and
unstructured documents or by social tagging
· Extensions of dynamic taxonomies
· Efficient and scalable indexing and retrieval
· User interface issues
· Emerging applications
· Evaluation approaches and metrics
Important Dates:
Submission of papers: 15 March 2008
Notification of acceptance: 20 April 2008
Camera-ready copies: 15 May 2008
Submission Details:
Authors are invited to submit research contributions, practical
experience reports and demos via the submission system at
www.sig-find.org/find08
Submissions must be in pdf and consist of no more than 5 pages in IEEE
double column A4 format
(www.computer.org/portal/site/cscps/index.jsp)
Accepted papers will be published by IEEE CS Press.
Chair:
Giovanni Maria Sacco, Università di Torino, Italy
Program Committee:
· Anastasia Analyti, University of Crete, Greece
· Giuseppe Berio, Università di Torino, Italy
· Barbara Demo, Università di Torino, Italy
· Sébastien Ferré, Université de Rennes, France
· Jonathan Koren, University of California at Santa Cruz, USA
· Saverio Perugini, University of Dayton, USA
· Yannis Tzitzikas, University of Crete, Greece
· Moritz Stefaner, University of Applied Sciences Potsdam, Germany
· Yi Zhang, University of California at Santa Cruz, USA
Please see the workshop web site (www.sig-find.org/find08) for further
details.
This workshop is organized by SIG-FIND, Special Interest and Research
Group on Dynamic Taxonomies and Faceted Search
(www.sig-find.org)
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Prof. Giovanni M. Sacco
Dipartimento di Informatica
Universita' di Torino
Corso Svizzera 185, I-10149 Torino, Italy
Phone +39 0116706727
Fax +39 011751603
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home: www.di.unito.it/~sacco
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