Preface
Last year the 1st BCS-IRSG Symposium on Future Directions in Information Access was established to provide a forum for early career researchers to present, share and discussion their research which is at a more formative or tentative stage.
Symposium Aims
The objectives of the Future Directions in Information Access (FDIA) are:
To provide an accessible forum for early researchers (particularly PhD students, and researchers new to the field) to share and discuss their research.
To create and foster formative and tentative research ideas.
To encourage discussion and debate.
Symposium Themes
Future directions: to encourage research that focused on the possible paths and further work. Presenting the, what if scenarios, possible solutions, pilot studies, conceptual and theoretical work.
Information Access: to capture the broader ideas of information retrieval, storage and management to include interaction and usage.
FDIA 2008
These proceedings contain the papers presented at the Second BCS IRSG Symposium on Future Directions in Information Access (FDIA2008), held in London on the 22nd of September 2008 at the BCS London Office. FDIA 2008 was held in conjunction the BCS-IRSG Search Solutions held on the 23rd of September 2008. This year’s symposium received eleven submissions of which ten were accepted for publication and presentation. Each submission was reviewed by two senior Information Retrieval researchers who were asked to provide detailed reviews and comments to help steer and guide the research presented. In order to facilitate more reviewing each reviewer was given one or two submissions to review. So we are very grateful to the members of the programme committee for their reviews of the submitted papers and we would like to thank them for their much appreciated effort.
Also, we would like to extend our thanks to the BCS for hosting the event, and in particular, Gemma Liddard, Rachel Browning and Mandy Bauer from BCS for their help and assistance in local organization.
Leif Azzopardi
On Behalf of the Organizers
and the BCS-IRSG
Organizers
Leif Azzopardi, University of Glasgow
Andy MacFarlane, City University
Murat Yakici, University of Glasgow
Ayse Goker, City University
Programme Chair
Leif Azzopardi, University of Glasgow
Program Committee
Alex Bailey, Google
Bettina Berendt, K.U. Leuven
Nick Craswell, Microsoft
Norbert Fuhr, University of Duisburg-Essen
Juan M. Fernandez-Luna, University of Granada
Ayse Goker, City University
Gareth Jones, Dublin City University
Gabriella Kazai, Microsoft Research Cambridge
Udo Kruschwitz, Essex University
David Losada, University of Santiago de Compostela
Monica Landoni, University of Strathclyde
Andy MacFarlane, City University
Massimo Melucci, University of Padua
Michael Oakes, University of Sunderland
Mark Sanderson, University of Sheffield
Dawei Song, Open University
Maarten de Rijke, University of Amsterdam
Stephen Robertson, Microsoft Research Cambridge
Stefan Rueger, Open University
Ian Ruthven, University of Strathclyde
Jun Wang, University College London
Murat Yakici, University of Glasgow
Papers:
Modeling the Evolution of Context in Information Retrieval http://dx.doi.org/10.14236/ewic/FDIA2008.1
Integrating Memory Context into Personal Information Re-finding http://dx.doi.org/10.14236/ewic/FDIA2008.2
Automatically Adapting the Context of an Intranet Query http://dx.doi.org/10.14236/ewic/FDIA2008.3
Towards a better understanding of language model information retrieval http://dx.doi.org/10.14236/ewic/FDIA2008.4
An Investigation into Query Throughput and Load Balance Using Grid IR http://dx.doi.org/10.14236/ewic/FDIA2008.5
Building a Distributed Digital Library System Enhancing the Role of Metadata http://dx.doi.org/10.14236/ewic/FDIA2008.6
Testing a Genre-Enabled Application: A Preliminary Assessment http://dx.doi.org/10.14236/ewic/FDIA2008.7
Children's information retrieval: beyond examining search strategies and interfaces http://dx.doi.org/10.14236/ewic/FDIA2008.8
Management and analysis of chinese database extracted knowledge http://dx.doi.org/10.14236/ewic/FDIA2008.9
Selective Erasers: A Theoretical Framework for Representing Documents Inspired by Quantum Theory http://dx.doi.org/10.14236/ewic/FDIA2008.10