juan manuel fernández luna drymrlkdecsaiugres 2nd call papers sigir07 workshop irgm 2007 information retrieval applications graphical models httpirgmbpiwowarnet motivation probabilistic models constitute important kind information retrieval ir model long widely used offer principled way managing uncertainty naturally appears many elements within field nowadays dominant approach managing probability within field artificial intelligence based use bayesian networks also used within ir extensions classical probabilistic models broadly speaking graphical model gm consists qualitative part graph may directed acyclic case bayesian networks bn quantitative one collection numerical parameters conditional probability tables bns possibility distributions possibilistic networks knowledge represented graphical component expressed terms dependence independence relationships variables relationships encoded means presence absence links nodes graph knowledge represented numerical part quantifies dependences encoded graph allows us introduce uncertainty model therefore tools could appropriate model solve problems found ir field goal main goal workshop wants common space researchers general young researchers specifically show innovative gms applications field ir wide problem space opening new discussion forum graphical models include bayesian networks possibilistic networks markov networks dependence graphs influence diagrams probability trees decision trees fisher kernel discriminants among others topics interest scope workshop applications type gms ir problems possible topics include limited information retrieval models flat structured document collections based sgml xml etc crosslanguage retrieval web information retrieval applications hypertext indexing summarization multimedia information access video audio image retrieval document filtering recommender systems contentbased collaborative question answering extraction text data mining machine learning ir document classification clustering flat structured documents relevant ir topic theoretical experimental research papers representing original previously unpublished works invited submitted workshop exceeding 8 pages positioning papers describing current research also welcome well opinion papers discussing gms ir context paper emphasize strengths weaknesses gms solve ir problem especially respect methods contributions peerreviewed two experts related field belonging workshop pc accepted papers included printed proceedings important dates deadline paper submission may 31th 2007 acceptance rejection notification june 19th 2007 deadline camera ready submission july 1st 2007 workshop amsterdam july 27th 2007 program committee peter bruza queensland university technology australia eric horvitz microsoft research usa gianni amati fondazione ugo bordoni italy berthier ribeironeto universidade federal de minas gerais brazil iadh ounis university glasgow united kingdom luis de campos universidad de granada spain didier dubois université paul sabatier france pável calado instituto superior tecnico portugal ludovic denoyer lip6 university paris 6 france yi zhang university california usa alfonso e romero universidad de granada spain donald metzler university massachusetts usa dunja mladenic jozef stefan institute slovenia paper preparation submission submissions pdf format exceeding 8 pages following acm conference style see acm template page wwwacmorgsigspubsproceedtemplatehtml using option 2 style sent email three organisers workshop organization contact information benjamin piwowarski yahoo research latin america bpiwowar yahooinccom juan fernándezluna university granada jmfluna decsaiugres juan f huete university granada jhg decsaiugres workshop website httpirgmbpiwowarnet juan manuel fernández luna departamento de ciencias de la computación e inteligencia artificial escuela ténica superior de ingenierías informática de telecomunicación universidad de granada c periodista daniel saucedo aranda sn cp 18071 granada españa teléfono 34 958 240804 fax 34 958 243317 drymrlkdecsaiugres httpdecsaiugresjmfluna _______________________________________________ uai mailing list faqengrorstedu httpssecureengroregonstateedumailmanlistinfouai sat 02 aug 2008 064333 0200 uai 2nd cfp sigir07 workshop information retrieval applications graphical models