[Dbworld] CFP WIRD'04

                        CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
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                   Joint Workshops on XML and IR+DB

Thursday, July 29th 2004,
at the 27th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference, Sheffield, 2004

Organisers: 
  Ricardo Baeza-Yates, Yoelle Maarek, Thomas Roelleke, Arjen P. de Vries 

Registration via http://www.sigir2004.org/
Note that it is possible to only register for the workshop.

Programme:

Invited talk

  09:00-10:00 David Hawking, "A Panoptic View on Databases, XML and IR" 


3rd XML and Information Retrieval Workshop

  10:00-10:30 Andrei Z. Broder, David Carmel, Yoelle S. Maarek, Matan
  Mandelbrod, and Yosi Mass, "Extending the XML Fragment Model to
  Support Querying over Annotated text" 

  10:30-11:00 Coffee 

  11:00-11:30 Ludovic Denoyer, Guillaume Wisniewski, and Patrick
  Gallinari, "Document Structure Matching for Heterogeneous Corpora" 

  11:30-12:00 Karen Sauvagnat and Mohand Boughanem, "The impact of
  leaf nodes relevance values evaluation in a propagation method for
  XML retrieval" 

  12:00-12:30 Huyen-Trang Vu, Benjamin Piwowarski, and Patrick
  Gallinari, "Filtering in XML Retrieval: a Prospective Analysis" 

  12:30-13:30 Lunch 

1st Workshop on the Integration of Information Retrieval and
Databases (WIRD'04)

  13:30-14:00 Ingo Frommholz, Ulrich Thiel, and Thomas Kamps,
  "Annotation-based Document Retrieval with Four-Valued Probabilistic
  Datalog" 

  14:00-14:30 Vojkan Mihajlovic, Djoerd Hiemstra, Henk Ernst Blok, and
  Peter M. G. Apers, "An XML-IR-DB Sandwich: Is it Better With an
  Algebra in Between?" 

  14:30-15:00 Mayssam Sayyadian, Azadeh Shakery, AnHai Doan, and
  ChengXiang Zhai, "Toward Entity Retrieval over Structured and Text
  Data" 

  15:00-15:30 Coffee 


Open Panel

  15:30-16:30 All participants, "What do we gain (loose) with XML, 
  and IR+DB?" 


Further information:
  http://homepages.cwi.nl/~arjen/wird04/wird04-programme.html
  http://homepages.cwi.nl/~arjen/wird04/

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