Strategic Workshop on Information Retrieval

该奖项为美国研究人员参加将于2012年2月在澳大利亚维多利亚州洛恩举行的信息检索战略研讨会提供支持。讲习班的目标是在不断变化的、格式多样的、储存在许多地点的信息的背景下，探讨和界定一般和个人信息管理的长期研究问题。这次研讨会汇集了来自世界各地的约40名初级和高级研究人员，他们拥有横跨信息检索、信息科学和搜索社区的专业知识，以达成对长期挑战和机遇的共同理解和目标。研讨会将至少探讨以下问题：(1)信息检索算法如何适应这种信息是分布式、多媒体和动态的新范式？(2)在这种情况下，研究人员、研究生和资助机构应该意识到哪些关键挑战？(3)如何将成功的信息检索评估模型扩展到数据可用性和隐私是主要挑战的环境中？(4)关于信息检索的教学应该如何修改以反映该领域可能发生的变化？预计这次讲习班将提出将对信息检索和科学研究与发展界以及解决在这方面产生的问题(例如机器学习、人机交互)的研究小组产生影响的研究方向。研讨会出版物的直接受益者将包括研究生、教职员工、工业研究人员和搜索相关技术的开发人员。此外，预计搜索工具的一般用户将受益于由此带来的技术进步。解决上述问题的结果将在一个专门的网站(http://www.cs.rmit.edu.au/swirl12/))上发布，也将在广泛分发的论坛通讯及其网站上公布。

This award provides support for U.S. researchers to participate in the Strategic Workshop on Information Retrieval, to be held in Lorne, Victoria, Australia in February 2012. The goal of the workshop is to explore and define long-range research issues of general and personal information management in the context of information that is constantly changing, that is in a diverse set of formats, and that is stored in numerous locations. This workshop brings together about 40 junior and senior researchers from around the world with expertise spanning the information retrieval, information science, and search communities to develop common understandings and goals of the long-term challenges and opportunities. The workshop will explore at least the following questions: (1) How can Information Retrieval algorithms be adapted to this new paradigm where information is distributed, multimedia, and dynamic? (2) In this setting, what are the key challenges that researchers, graduate students, and funding agencies should be aware of? (3) How can the successful evaluation models for Information Retrieval be extended to this setting where data availability and privacy are major challenges? (4) How should teaching about Information Retrieval be modified to reflect likely changes in the field? This workshop is expected to yield research directions that will impact the information retrieval and science research and development communities as well as research groups that tackle problems arising within this context (e.g., machine learning, human computer interaction). The immediate beneficiaries of the workshop's publications will include graduate students, faculty members, industrial researchers, and developers of search-related technology. In addition, it is expected that general users of search tools will benefit from resulting advances in technology. Results addressing the questions above will be disseminated on a dedicated website (http://www.cs.rmit.edu.au/swirl12/) and will also be published in the widely distributed SIGIR Forum newsletter and its web site.