From Republicans to Teenagers: Group Membership and Search (GRUMPS)
ECIR 2013 workshop, Moscow, Russia
24th March, 2013
!!! - * Submission site now open -- Deadline is extended until January 18 * - !!!
In the early years of information retrieval, the focus of research was on systems aspects such as crawling, indexing, and relevancy ranking. Over the years, more and more user-related information such as click information or search history has entered the equation, creating more and more personalized search experiences, though still within the scope of the same overall system.
Though fully personalized search is probably desirable, this individualistic perspective does not exploit the fact that a lot of a user’s behavior can be explained through their group membership. Children, despite individual differences, share many challenges and needs; as do men, Republicans, Chinese or any user group.
This workshop, co-located with ECIR'13 in Moscow, takes a group-centric approach to IR and invites contributions that either (i) propose and evaluate IR systems for a particular user group or that (ii) describe how the search behavior of specific groups differ, potentially requiring a different way of addressing their needs.
The workshop will feature an invited talk by Daria Sorokina, senior data scientist at LinkedIn, with the title "Recruiters, Job Seekers and Spammers: Innovations in Job Search at LinkedIn".
Workshop web site
Topics of Interest
GRUMPS welcomes contributions on any issue concerning adapting search for specific user groups and, in particular, on:
· Understanding of search behavior and relevance criteria of specific user groups
· Identifying labeled user groups from search behavior
· Using specific user features (e.g. demographic) for personalized advertising/sponsored search
· Understanding the effects of domain expertise, age, user experience and cognitive abilities on search goals and results evaluation
· Development of test collections for evaluation of personalized search systems focused on users with specific features
· Search interfaces and result representation for people with specific needs and specific interests
Important Dates
Papers deadline: January 18, 2013
Acceptance notification: January 28, 2013
Camera-ready version: February 8, 2013
Workshop: March 24, 2013
All due dates are defined in terms of times before 11:59pm, Hawaii time (i.e., UTC/GMT - 10 hours) of the due date.
Submission Details
All submissions must be in Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF). Please ensure that any special fonts used are included in the submitted documents. All papers must be original and must not have been published or be under review elsewhere.
