IR4Children: IR for Children 2000-2020: Where Are We Now? --Workshop co-located with ACM SIGIR 2021 |
Website | http://www.fab4.science/IR4C |
Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ir4children |
Submission deadline | May 4, 2021 |
Call for Contributions
IR for Children 2000-2020: Where Are We Now?
Workshop co-located with ACM SIGIR 2021, Virtual Event
Date: July 15, 2021
Homepage: https://www.fab4.science/IR4c/
Submission: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ir4children
Deadline: May 4, 2021
Inquiries: workshop@fab4.science
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Overview
Over 20 years ago, Information Retrieval (IR) researchers began their quest for sound IR systems for children. The path was not straightforward. Challenges posed by interface design, relevance determination, diverse contexts, ethics, and many more, were taken up and explored from different perspectives. Large projects such as Puppy-IR and the International Children’s Digital Library gave this field a certain boost; still, there is neither a sound solution for children in the search area in 2021, nor a roadmap to get there. What is the reason for this? Does the field cry out for specific IR solutions developed on a small scale to serve very small sub-fields and specific target groups? Are there some significant unforeseen barriers that hinder researchers? What about obstacles natural to areas of study such as this one that require a multidisciplinary approach or involve protected populations?
With this workshop, we aim to bring together as many key experts as possible from research and industry who focus on IR for children to understand why, unlike other IR areas, this one has not flourished and look for the biggest challenges for the next 10 years. We are not only thinking of traditional researchers and designers, but also of those who develop and use IR systems for fields such as in music, film, and education, as a way to push past this immobility and look at the problem from new, and perhaps more stimulating, perspectives.
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Important Dates
(Submission deadlines are 23:59, anywhere on Earth)
May 4, 2021: Paper submissions
May 18, 2021: Submission of form indicating interest on participating
June 1, 2021: Paper notifications
June 15, 2021: Camera ready deadline
July 15, 2021: Workshop day
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Submission guidelines
We welcome submission of vision papers focusing on past experiences, ongoing projects, and future directions related to IR systems for whom children are the target audience.
Submissions should be at most 4 pages in length single-blind, and be submitted via EasyChair (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ir4children).
Submission templates:
• MS Word
• LaTeX (Master Article Template – LaTeX) *
• LaTeX Overleaf (ACM Conference Proceedings “Master” Template) *
(*) Note that for LaTeX or LaTeX Overleaf, use the “manuscript” call to create a single column format, rather than “acmsmall”: \documentclass[sigconf, manuscript]{acmart}.
Accepted contributions, selected through peer-review, will be published on the workshop website.
If you don’t have a current contribution to submit, but you’d still like to join the conversation that will take place during the workshop, please complete the form below:
Note that at least 1 of the authors of the accepted contributions, as well as all interested participants who submitted the form, must register for the workshop (registration information is available at https://sigir.org/sigir2021/registration/ )
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Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
• Understanding the effects of domain expertise, age, user experience and cognitive abilities on search goals and results evaluation.
• Non-topical aspects of relevance: text style, readability, appropriateness of language (harassment and explicit content detection), alignment with the context of the search.
• Considering biases and transparency in Web searching.
• Development of test collections for evaluation of classroom related IR systems.
• Using assistive technologies for interaction with IR systems, e.g. speech recognition querying and browsing.
• Multimedia search: audio, video, images and their impact on the search experience.
• New frameworks to model the searching for learning vs. searching for pleasure paradigms.
• Beyond Cranfield, moving on to online evaluation, task based, session-based, multi-turn, interactive search.
• One size does not fit all when it comes to children:
– Collaborative search techniques for assisting users with specific needs.
– Potential of search personalization techniques to satisfy users with specific needs.
• Considerations pertaining to IR systems supporting learning:
– Understanding of search behavior of users with specific classroom-related needs.
– Understanding of relevance criteria of users with specific classroom-related needs.
– Search interfaces and result representation for people with specific classroom-related needs.
– The social side of searching in the classroom and the implications on the design of search tools to be shared by adults (teachers and parents) and children.
– Ethics in the classroom: defining what is suitable, good and useful when searching in the classroom, who is in charge, and who decides.
– Web search from a teacher’s standpoint.
• Domain-specific use cases for IR systems for children:
– IRsystems for music, podcasts, books, and videos.