Seventh BCS-IRSG Symposium on Future Directions in Information Access (FDIA 2017) - Index

Abstract

In 2007, the 1st BCS-IRSG Symposium on Future Directions in Information Access (FDIA) was established to provide a forum for early career researchers to present, share and discuss research, which is at a more formative or tentative stage. The symposium was run in conjunction with the 6th European Summer School in Information Retrieval (ESSIR) which was held in Glasgow. The second symposium was held in London, UK in September, 2008 collocated with Search Solutions, while the third symposium was again collocated with ESSIR in Padua, Italy in 2009. In 2011, it was held in Koblenz, Germany as part of ESSIR 2011 and then in Granada, Spain with ESSIR 2013. FDIA 2015 took place in Thessaloniki, Greece, with ESSIR 2015. Now, in its seventh year, the 2017 Future Directions in Information Access Symposium was held as part of the 11th European Summer School in Information Retrieval in Barcelona, Spain.

The objectives of the Symposium on the Future Directions in Information Access 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 about new future directions.

These proceedings contain papers and posters presented at the 7th Symposium on Future Directions in Information Access, which was held in Barcelona, Spain on the 5th of September during the 2017 European Summer School in Information Retrieval (ESSIR).

This year’s program comprised of two parts: a series of eight fast paced presentations plus discussion session, followed by a poster presentation session. During the presentation phase, students gave a 10-minute talk explaining their research in succinct and engaging manner, while during the poster phase presenters and participants could discuss their research in detail, form acquaintances and receive advice and mentorship from senior IR attendees. The program featured a variety of novel and emerging topics including: health and medical information retrieval; collaborative search; personalization and geographical information search; emergency and trend detection, prediction of public reaction and search behavior in microblogs; trend mining using bibliographic data.

The organizers would like to thank: the members of the program committee for all their hard work and effort in providing excellent feedback and reviews. We would also like to thank ESSIR 2017 for hosting this successful event. We would also like to thank all our sponsors for supporting the event and the BCS eWiC Service for the online publication services.

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Committee

General Chairs

Ana Freire, Universitat Pompeu Fabra

Ricardo Baeza-Yates, Universitat Pompeu Fabra

Programme Chairs

Haiming Liu, University of Bedfordshire

Ingo Frommholz, University of Bedfordshire

Leif Azzopardi, University of Strathclyde

Programme Committee

M-Dyaa Albakour , Signal Media

B. Barla Cambazoglu, NTENT Inc.

Nicola Ferro, University of Padua

Juan M. Fernández-Luna, University of Granada

Lorraine Goeuriot, Laboratoire d'informatique de Grenoble

Joemon Jose, University of Glasgow

Alexandros Karatzoglou, Telefonica Research

Udo Kruschwitz, University of Essex

David Losada, University of Santiago de Compostela

Craig Macdonald, University of Glasgow

Andrew Macfarlane, City University

Edgar Meij, Bloomberg L.P.

Iadh Ounis, University of Glasgow

Gabriella Pasi, Università degli Studi di Milano Bicocca

Stefan Rueger, Knowledge Media Institute

Tony Russell-Rose, UXLabs

Fabrizio Silvestri, Facebook

Vishwa Vinay, Adobe Research Bangalore

Hugo Zaragoza, Amazon

Papers:

Felipe Moraes Supporting Complex Information Needs via Large-Scale Collaborative Search http://dx.doi.org/10.14236/ewic/FDIA2017.1

Harrisen Scells Reducing Workload of Systematic Review Searching and Screening Processes http://dx.doi.org/10.14236/ewic/FDIA2017.2

Elena Sarkisova Web application for development of domain information space for thematic information retrieval and reuse http://dx.doi.org/10.14236/ewic/FDIA2017.3

Cagri Toraman Early Prediction of Public Reactions to News Events Using Microblog http://dx.doi.org/10.14236/ewic/FDIA2017.4

Noemi Mauro Personalization in Geographical Information Search http://dx.doi.org/10.14236/ewic/FDIA2017.5

Lorena Recalde Detection of Trending Topic Communities: Bridging Content Creators and Distributors http://dx.doi.org/10.14236/ewic/FDIA2017.6

Hernan Sarmiento Detecting Emergency Situations by Inferring Locations in Twitter http://dx.doi.org/10.14236/ewic/FDIA2017.7

Anirban Chakraborty Exploring Search Behaviour in Microblogs http://dx.doi.org/10.14236/ewic/FDIA2017.8

Dwaipayan Roy Word Embedding based Approaches for Information Retrieval http://dx.doi.org/10.14236/ewic/FDIA2017.9

Sehrish Sher Khan Developing Positive Emotion through Affective Design for Interactive Information Seeking http://dx.doi.org/10.14236/ewic/FDIA2017.10

Cristin Katharina Kreutz Trend Mining on Bibliographic Data http://dx.doi.org/10.14236/ewic/FDIA2017.11

Samuel Dodson Supporting Collaborative Information Seeking Through Shared Annotations http://dx.doi.org/10.14236/ewic/FDIA2017.12

Asad Ullah User Information Needs Through Query Reformulation http://dx.doi.org/10.14236/ewic/FDIA2017.13