Call for Participation
ACM SIGIR 2000 Workshop On
XML and Information Retrieval
Athens, Greece, July 28, 2000
http://www.haifa.il.ibm.com/sigir00-xml
XML - the eXtensible Markup Language has recently emerged as a new
standard for data representation and exchange
on the Internet. It has thus become crucial to address the question of how
can we efficiently query and search large corpora
of XML documents. To date, most work on storing, indexing, querying, and
searching documents in XML has
stemmed from the database community's work on semi-structured data. An
alternative approach, which has
received less attention to date, is to view XML documents as a collection
of text documents with additional tags
and relations between these tags. In this workshop, we will explore both
approaches and investigate the relationship
between IR and XML. Topics may include:
Extending IR technologies to search XML documents and integrating XML
structure in IR indexing structures
Querying XML documents both on content and structure
Leveraging the semantics inherent to XML for the search process
Relationships between XML and other text encoding and metadata standards
Definition of standard DTDs/Schemas for IR tools such as search results
and clustering outputs
The goal of the workshop is to bring together researchers and practitioners
interested in XML and IR to discuss
and define the most relevant topics in the relation between these two
technologies, present recent results,
propose future directions for research, and possibly standardization.
Activities will include invited talks,
presentation sessions (accepted submissions from candidate participants)
demo sessions on XML tools
(e.g., search engines, editors, schema definition tools), and panel
discussions.
Preliminary Technical Program
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09:00 -- 09:15: Opening
09:15 - 09:45: A survey of search engines for XML documents - Luk,
Dillon, Leong, HongKong Polytechnic University
Session I: Query languages
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09:45 -- 10:15: XIRQL - Fuhr and Grossjohann,
Dortmund University, Germany
10:15 - 10:45: A Type System for Querying XML documents - A.
Albano, D. Colazzo, G. Ghelli, P. Manghi, C. Sartiani, University di
Pisa ,Italy
10:45 - 11:15 Break
Session II: Retrieval algorithms
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11:15 - 11:45 Searching text-rich XML documents - Hayashi,
Tomita, Kikui , NTT Cyberspace Laboratories, Japan
11:45 - 12:15 XQL and Proximal nodes - Baeza-Yates and
Navarro, Universidad de Chile, Chile
12:15 - 12:45 Approximate Tree Embedding for querying XML data
, Schlieder and Naumann, Freie Universitat Berlin
12:45 - 13:45 Lunch
Session III: IR systems for XML documents
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13:45 - 14:10 XYZfind: Searching in Context with XML -
Egnor and Lord, XYZFind Corporation, Seattle, Washington, USA
14:10 - 14:35 Querying XML Documents in Xyleme - Vincent
Aguilera Sophie Cluet Pierangelo Veltri Fanny Wattez
INRIA, project , France
14:35 - 15:00 XMLFS: An XML-Aware File System Azagury,
Factor, and Mandler , IBM Research Lab in Haifa, Israel
15:00 - 15:30 Break
15:30 - 16:00 Searching Annotated Language Resources in XML
Nancy Ide, ,Vassar College, USA
16:00 - 16:30 What's next - an open discussion
Organizing Committee
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IBM Research in Haifa:
David Carmel carmel@il.ibm.com
Yoelle Maarek yoelle@il.ibm.com
Aya Soffer ayas@il.ibm.com
Program Committee
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Ricardo Baeza-Yates. Universidad de Chile, Chile
Norbert Fuhr, Dortmund University, Germany
Ron Sacks-Davis, RMIT, Australia
Ross Wilkinson, CSIRO, Division of Mathematical and Information
Science, Australia
Further information
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Information on the workshop venue and local arrangements (hotel reservation
etc.) as well as the sponsoring conference
can be found at http://sigir2000.aueb.gr. Additional information is also
available at http://www.haifa.il.ibm.com/sigir00-xml.
Questions can be sent directly to any of the organizers above.
Important Dates:
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Final Version: July 10, 00
SIGIR tech. program: July 24-27, 00
XML-IR Workshop: July 28, 00
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David Carmel, PhD
Information Retrieval and Organization, IBM - HRL
E-mail: carmel@il.ibm.com
Phone: 972-4-8296223, Fax: 972-4-8296114
Address: IBM, Haifa Research Lab, Matam, Haifa 31905, Israel
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