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From: James Allan <allan@cs.umass.edu>
Subject: TDT-3 (TDT 1999) call for papers for book
Date: Sun, 09 Apr 2000 11:32:44 -0400
CALL FOR PAPERS
Topic Detection and Tracking Research
Editors: James Allan, Jaime Carbonell, Jon Yamron
Kluwer International Series on Information Retrieval
W. Bruce Croft, series editor
The Topic Detection and Tracking (TDT) research area continues to be
an exciting and growing research forum for investigating questions
related to event-based organization of broadcast news. In order to
archive the current state of the art and provide future researchers
with a solid starting point for their own work, we are putting
together an edited collection of papers from the TDT 1999 workshop
(held in February, 2000).
As a participant in the TDT workshop, you are invited to submit a
paper for this collection. (There is no formal proceedings for the
workshop.) Your submission should ideally be an updated and expanded
version of the notebook paper that was submitted to the workshop
itself. You should consider doing the following in your paper:
* Provide a fairly detailed description of the approach that your
system used to address each of the TDT tasks.
* Where possible, break discussion of different tasks into separate
sections. That will make it possible for readers to find all of
the material on, say, the segmentation task.
* Include lessons learned--both positive and negative--from your
work, and in particular from your work in comparison to other
work.
* Provide some description of earlier work that you have done that
lead you to where you are now. What attempts have you abandoned?
* As much as possible, relate your work to other TDT research, and
to related problems (e.g., the TREC filtering track)
The submissions will be refereed for quality and clarity. Given the
current size of the research community, we anticipate a high
acceptance rate.
Papers may be submitted in any legible format, but we anticipate that
the final version of the book will be typeset using LaTeX, so we
strongly encourage LaTeX-based submissions. That will provide a
uniform appearance to the book, and will allow us to build an index
and a book-wide table of contents easily. Please see
http://www.cs.umass.edu/~allan/tdt-book.html for more details about
the suggested LaTeX style and guidelines.
Please send submissions to allan@cs.umass.edu in PostScript or PDF
format by the date below.
Timetable
May 15, 2000, submissions due
Jul 1, 2000, responses back from reviewers
Aug 15, 2000, final version of papers submitted
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