Final Mira Conference on Evaluation in IR
              Call for participation
            Glasgow - 14-16 April 1999
         http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/mira99/
 

Mira is a European Union funded working group looking at how information 
retrieval should accommodate interactivity and multimedia, and what the 
implications of these are for the evaluation of IR systems.

The conference will be designed to explore and exchange the best current 
thinking and opinion on the Mira theme. With this in mind the programme 
plans an approximately equal mix of participatory demonstrations and 
exercises, discussion panels or debates on key questions, and selected 
invited papers and keynote presentations.

The conference starts at 1600 on Wednesday 14 April with Registration 
and a panel session on different types of relevance and will finish with 
dinner on Friday evening (with the formal sessions finishing at 1730 
with a keynote presentation from Steve Robertson). On the Monday and 
Tuesday following Mira, the 21st Annual IRSG Colloquium will be held by 
Strathclyde University in the Teacher's Building.


Keynotes -----

Keynotes will be presented by:
*  Giorgio Brajnik, Universita degli Studi di Udine: Title to be 
confirmed. 
*  Annelise Mark Pejtersen, Risoe, and Raya Fidel, University of 
Washington:
        Workplace studies of engineering design. 
*  Stephen Robertson, Microsoft Cambridge: Title to be confirmed. 


Demonstrations -----

Demonstrations or exercises are currently planned on the following 
topics:
*  Degrees of and assumptions behind consensus in relevance judgments; 
*  Collaborative filtering; 
*  Applying a multi-level evaluation framework to IR. 


Panels -----

Panels are currently planned on the following topics:
*  The worth of the TREC programme; 
*  Different senses and types of relevance. 


Papers -----

The following papers have been submitted for the conference and will be 
distributed at the conference.

*  The application of work tasks in connection with the evaluation of 
interactive information retrieval systems: empirical results: P Borlund 
and P Ingwersen+

*  Negotiating a multidimensional framework for relevance space: S 
Gabrielli and S Mizzaro 

* Time to Dump P and R?  M H Heine 

* The word association methodology - a gateway to work task-based 
retrieval: M Nielsen and P Ingwersen 

* Measuring Agreement Among Relevance Judges: S Mizzaro 

* The perceived similarity of photos - seeking a solid basis for the 
evaluation of content-based retrieval algorithms: E Sormunen, M Markkula 
and K Jarvelin+

* Toward a Theoretical Framework for Information Retrieval (IR) 
Evaluation in an Information Seeking Context: A Spink and T Wilson+

* Can rule-based indexing support concept-based multimedia retrieval in 
digital libraries? Some experimental results: U Thiel, A Everts B Lutes 
and A Stein 

These authors have also been invited to revise their content for the 
proceeings which are expected to be published in the Electronic 
Workshops in Computing series. Due to timetabling pressures only those 
papers marked + will be given presentation time at the conference, these 
were chosen to balance the content of the conference given the panel and 
demonstration content.


Venues -----

The conference will be based in The IEE Teacher's Building in Glasgow 
City Centre with accommodation reserved in Glasgow University's research 
hotel in the west-end of the city. The conference will open in The 
Hunterian Art Gallery on Glasgow University's main campus in Hillhead in 
the west-end of Glasgow.


Registration -----
This conference is organised and underwritten by the Mira working group 
on evaluation in information retrieval. Unlike previous meetings of Mira 
this conference is open to attendees without invitation, but a small 
registration fee of 100 GBP will be charged. Registration can be carried 
out on-line at the conference home page.


Small Print -----

Programme Chair: Prof Keith van Rijsbergen
Programme Committee: Dr Stephen Draper, Dr Mark Dunlop
Local Organiser: Anne Sinclair, Ian Ruthven, Fiona Nixon

This information extracted from http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/mira99/

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Dr Mark D Dunlop		Phone:	+44 (0)141 330 6035 
Computing Science 		Fax:	+44 (0)141 330 4913
University of Glasgow		mailto:[log in to unmask]
Glasgow G12 8QQ, Scotland	http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/~mark/


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