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https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-1131/preface.pdf
Beyond Single-shot Text Queries: Bridging the Gap(s)
between Research Communities (MindTheGap’14)
Udo Kruschwitz Frank Hopfgartner Cathal Gurrin
CSEE DAI Labor School of Computing
University of Essex Technische Universität Berlin Dublin City University
United Kingdom Germany Ireland
udo@essex.ac.uk frank.hopfgartner@tu-berlin.de cgurrin@computing.dcu.ie
1 Motivation son we identified the iConference as the best place to
organise the workshop is that the urge to integrate
Our research communities are remarkably scattered. the user in the information access process is deeply
For an outsider it must seem obvious that informa- integrated in the research conducted by some of the
tion science (IS), information retrieval (IR), human- best known iSchool research groups, e.g. the idea of
computer interaction (HCI) and natural language pro- human-computer information retrieval developed by
cessing (NLP/HLT) go hand in hand. However, there Gary Marchionini (UNC) and human-centered infor-
is surprisingly little overlap between these communi- mation retrieval identified by Nick Belkin (Rutgers).
ties, perhaps best illustrated by conducting a simple Some of these ideas have sparked a lot of interest in
citation analysis of the papers published at the top an- working at the interface between different disciplines
nual conferences in each area which reveals that there and this has also been demonstrated by newly estab-
is little cross-disciplinarity. Going deeper into the re- lished conferences such as IiiX (Information Interac-
search conducted in each discipline we find that even tion in Context) and affected some of the primarily
the basic assumptions to access and utilise information technical evaluation efforts in the IR community such
vary from one field to another, e.g. while researchers in as the Text Retrieval Conference (TREC) series, in
IR tend to start with the “bag-of-words” assumption, particular the Interactive track and the Session track.
a researcher in NLP would never dare doing something Nevertheless, the majority of the researchers in the
like this; while information scientists often face struc- different fields remain ignorant of what is going on
tured documents that need to be accessed (e.g. digital outside their main topics of interest and that is partly
libraries), such structures must first be acquired from because there is no appropriate forum to bring these
a database of images created in a lifelogging scenario ideas together and discuss them. Ultimately the idea
before any access is possible, and so on. is to create a forum where researchers from different
Users have started to become centre-stage of infor- communities feel at home and exchange ideas for fu-
mation access research even within the IR commu- ture research directions.
nity (as illustrated by a substantial number of rele-
vant papers presented at SIGIR 2013) but there is 2 Workshop Scope
still a long way to go to identify and employ infor-
mation systems that incorporate both state-of-the-art We issued a Call for Papers asking for submissions of
methods for information access, search, navigation as position papers as well as novel research papers and
well as human computer interaction and user experi- posters/demos addressing problems at the interface of
ence (one just needs to pick a few randomly selected IS, IR, HCI and NLP listing these topics as a general
university library catalogues as evidence). The rea- guideline:
• Interactive IR
Copyright c 2014 for the individual papers by the paper’s au-
thors. Copying permitted for private and academic purposes. • Adaptive IR
This volume is published and copyrighted by its editors.
In: U. Kruschwitz, F. Hopfgartner and C. Gurrin (eds.): Pro- • Recommender Systems
ceedings of the MindTheGap’14 Workshop, Berlin, Germany,
4-March-2014, published at http://ceur-ws.org • Novel methods to access to digital libraries
• User studies • Klaus Schoeffmann, Klagenfurt University (Aus-
tria)
• User/group profiling
• Pavel Serdyukov, Yandex (Russia)
• Lifelogging
• Jialie Shen, Singapore Management University
• Multimedia information access (Singapore)
Each submitted paper was peer-reviewed by four • Ryen White, Microsoft Research (USA)
members of the programme committee consisting of
experts drawn from the different communities guaran- • Max Wilson, University of Nottingham (UK)
teeing a mix of industrial and academic backgrounds.
All accepted papers have received at least two support- We thank all PC members, keynote speakers as well
ive reviews (i.e. the reviewer selected accept or weak as authors of accepted papers for working with us on
accept in their overall recommendation). making MindTheGap’14 in Berlin possible.
The accepted papers are grouped in two categories,
technical papers and position papers, based on both
the type of submission as well as the suggestions re-
ceived by the reviewers.
3 Keynotes
We are particularly grateful to the keynote speakers:
Nick Belkin (Rutgers University), Miguel Martinez-
Alvarez (Signal) and Toine Bogers (Aalborg University
Copenhagen). The way in which they bridge the gaps
between different research communities in their work
highlights the range of areas that can benefit, be it
Interactive IR (Belkin), the interface between IR and
Recommender Systems (Bogers) or the practical appli-
cation of a range of IR and NLP methods in industry
applications (Martinez-Alvarez).
4 Acknowledgements
We greatly acknowledge the efforts of the members of
the programme committee, namely:
• Leif Azzopardi, University of Glasgow (UK)
• Paul Clough, University of Sheffield (UK)
• Martin Halvey, Glasgow Caledonian University
(UK)
• Hideo Joho, University of Tsukuba (Japan)
• Evangelos Kanoulas, Google (Switzerland)
• Jussi Karlgren, Gavagai (Sweden)
• Birger Larsen, Aalborg University (Denmark)
• Jochen Leidner, Thomson Reuters (UK)
• Gary Marchionini, University of North Carolina
at Chapel Hill (USA)
• Doug Oard, University of Maryland (USA)
• Alan Said, CWI (The Netherlands)