Call for Workshop Proposals

ECIR 2022 workshops provide a platform for presenting novel ideas and research results in a focused and interactive way. ECIR 2022 encourages the submission of workshops on the theory, experimentation, and practice of retrieval, representation, management, and usage of textual, visual, audio, and multi-modal information.

Relevant topics include, but are not limited to:

  • User aspects, including information interaction, contextualisation, personalisation, simulation, characterisation, and behaviours.
  • System and foundational aspects, including retrieval models and architectures, content analysis and classification, recommendation algorithms, query processing and ranking, efficiency and scalability.
  • Machine learning, deep learning, neural IR, natural language processing, as applied to textual, visual, audio, and multi-modal information.
  • Applications such as web search, recommender systems, web and social media apps, domain-specific search, enterprise search, novel interfaces to search tools, intelligent search, academic search, and conversational agents.
  • Evaluation research, including new measures and novel methods for measuring and evaluating systems, datasets, users, and/or applications. 
  • Cross-disciplinary workshops, including IR and other domains such as NLP, data science, etc., are also particularly welcome.

Workshops can be either a half-day (3 hours plus breaks) or a full day (6 hours plus breaks). Workshops are encouraged to be as dynamic and interactive as possible and should lead to a concrete outcome, such as the publication of a summary paper and/or workshop proceedings.

Workshop proposals should contain the following information:

  • Title and abstract of the workshop;
  • Duration: full-day or half-day workshop;
  • Motivation and relevance to ECIR;
  • Workshop goals/objectives and overall vision, coupled with desired outcomes;
  • Format/structure of the workshop: planned activities, the tentative schedule of events etc.;
  • Intended audience, including how participants will be selected/invited;
  • Resources: what resources will be needed to deliver the workshop;
  • Indicate if the workshop is related to or follows on from another workshop; if so, please, identify which conference it was previously held at, the past attendance and outcomes, and why another workshop is needed;
  • Organisers with a brief bio (3-4 sentences) of each with respect to the content of the workshop;
  • Any other relevant information to support your proposal (e.g., tentative programme committee, list of invited speakers, etc.)

All proposals should be submitted electronically through the conference submission system and must be in English. Workshop proposals will be reviewed by the ECIR 2022 workshop committee. A summary of the workshop will be published in the conference proceedings. 

Important dates

Workshop proposals submission: September 9, 2021, 11:59 pm (AoE) 
Notification: October 7, 2021
Workshops day: April 10, 2022

Workshop Chairs

Lucie Flek, University of Marburg, Germany
Javier Parapar, Universidade da Coruña, Spain

Contact: ecir2022-workshop@easychair.org