MLIA4DL 2009 - Workshop on Multilinguality in Information Access to Digital Libraries: User Needs & Evaluation of multilingual resources use co-located with ICSD2009
9 September 2009, Trento, Italy http://www.europeanaconnect.eu/MLIA4DL09Workshop.php Digital libraries are becoming increasingly complex. They draw on diverse resources, need to satisfy many different user needs and carry out tasks that are getting more and more complicated. The amount of information managed by such systems, its heterogeneity and variety, and the demand for insightful access to it are key challenges in the present research agenda. A particular challenge to overcome in this context are multilingual and multicultural issues in the information organization, retrieval and representation of information objects. Many digital library projects, especially in a pan-European context, are concerned with enabling users to navigate and find relevant content not described in their native language. Through the provision of multilingual access capabilities (that is the translation and mapping of the portal interfaces, object descriptions, browsing categories and even user queries) users could retrieve and leverage content equally, regardless of their native language or the available native language of the resources. Multilingual information access systems cannot simply be inserted as "black boxes", but need to know and effectively exploit the peculiar features of the managed information resources and interact with the varied user groups. The objective of this workshop is to bring together researchers, stakeholders, and representatives of pan-European digital library projects to discuss multilingual user needs, assessment methods for requirements, and usage logging of multilingual resources use as well as practical implementation issues when incorporating multilingual capabilities into a digital library. We invite submissions of extended abstracts (2 pages + 1 page for references) describing projects and initiatives in the field of multilingual information access to digital libraries as well as studies and/or approaches for the assessment of user needs and resources use of such systems. Research projects of any size and at any stage are welcome, ranging from EU to PhD projects. Full versions of the accepted extended abstracts should be up to 6 pages position papers. Topics relevant to the workshop are (but not limited to): - User & usability indications for multilingual access within digital libraries - Analysis of the impact of multilingual / multicultural differences on interface / search design - Identification of focus areas for multilingual access: media types, object models, retrieval algorithms - Preferences for presentation options for multilingual content: result translation, ranking options for different object types depending on multilinguality - Architectures and services for multilingual information access in digital libraries - User behaviour and log analysis for multilinguality - Contextual information retrieval and multilinguality Outcome/Publication The position papers and the results of the workshop discussion shall be the starting point for a white paper on multilinguality in digital libraries cooperatively authored and developed, outlining the most important issues and approaches for implementation. Important Dates - Extended abstract (2 pages + 1 page for references) submission deadline: 5 August 2009 - Notification of acceptance: 19 August 2009 - Full-length papers (6 pages) submission deadline: 30 August 2009 Submission details Submissions should follow the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) format and should be in Adobe PDF. Please refer to the Springer information for authors page for details. Each abstract (2 pages) may contain a separate page for references (1 page). To submit a paper please visit the conference submission system Easy Chair at the following page: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=mlia4dl09 Workshop Structure 1 Day workshop: - invited talks representative of major European multilingual research initiatives - individual paper presentations - panel discussion - wrapping-up session with conclusions formulated by a chosen rapporteur Programme Committee - Nicola Ferro (Co-chair), University of Padova, Italy - Vivien Petras (Co-chair), Humboldt University Berlin, Germany - Maristella Agosti, University of Padova, Italy - Tiziana Catarci, University of Rome "La Sapienza", Italy - Luca Dini, CELI, Torino, Italy - Floriana Esposito, University of Bari, Italy - Thomas Mandl, University of Hildesheim, Germany - Carlo Meghini, ISTI-CNR, Pisa, Italy - Jacco van Ossenburgen, Free University Amsterdam, The Netherlands - Carol Peters, ISTI-CNR, Pisa, Italy - Jacques Savoy, University of Neuchatel, Switzerland - Frédérique Segond, Xerox Research Centre Europe, Grenoble, France - Lars Svensson, German National Library, Frankfurt, Germany Workshop Organization The workshop is organized by the eContentplus Europeana Connect project ( http://www.europeanaconnect.eu/), working on multilingual access for the Europeana portal. For further information, please visit http://www.europeanaconnect.eu/MLIA4DL09Workshop.php or contact the co-chairs of the programme committee Nicola Ferro, University of Padua, Italy ([email protected]) Vivien Petras, Humboldt-University Berlin, Germany ([email protected]) ----------------------------------------------------------------- Vittore Casarosa E-mail: [email protected] ISTI - CNR Phone : +39-050-315 3115 Via Moruzzi 1 Fax : +39-050-315 3464 56124 Pisa Mobile: +39-348-397 2168 ITALY Skype : vittore1201 _______________________________________________ Instruções para desiscrever-se por conta própria: http://listas.ibict.br/cgi-bin/mailman/options/bib_virtual Bib_virtual mailing list [email protected] http://listas.ibict.br/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/bib_virtual
