CALL FOR PAPERS *INEX 2006*

SUBMISSION DEADLINE (CAMERA READY): 27 NOVEMBER 2006

Participants are invited to submit papers, not exceeding 15 pages, describing their approaches in any of the following:

• ad hoc retrieval task
• interactive track
• multimedia track
• relevance feedback task
• document mining track
• use case studies track
• XML entity ranking task
• natural query language task
• heterogeneous track

taken within INEX 2006. Papers related to evaluation methodology in any of (or across) the above tracks / tasks are also welcome. Papers should be submitted electronically via email to andrew@cs.otago.ac.nz AND mounia@dcs.qmul.ac.uk, in PS or PDF (preferred) in accord with the Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science Guidelines which can be found at:http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html. Authors are encouraged to use Latex2e for preparing the manuscript (using the llncs template available from the Springer website). Papers prepared under different text processing systems are also acceptable provided that the Springer LNCS instructions are strictly observed. Please do not number the pages of your papers. All the submitted papers will be published in the workshop pre-proceedings.

Please respect this deadline as we have allowed ourselves only a week to process your submissions and to create the pre-proceedings. Late submissions jeopardize our ability to make the pre-proceedings available to you before the workshop. Late submissions may be subject to rejection. Note that there will be a formal INEX proceedings published in the beginning of the year 2007. More details about this later. As with previous years, for a paper to be published in the formal proceedings, it must be published (at least as a one-page abstract) in the pre-proceedings. This applies even if the authors are not attending the workshop. Only full papers will be published in the formal post-workshop proceedings and these papers will be reviewed (mainly for presentation and understandability issues). Finally, depending on the number of papers submitted, it may not be possible to have all papers presented at the workshop. However, there will be at least one presentation per participating organization that submits a paper.