2009 Search Engine Meeting

Boston, Massachusetts, April 27-28, 2009

Call for Offers of Presentations

Offers of presentations should include an informative title, a short, descriptive abstract as to what will be covered, plus a short biography of the proposed speaker. Please note that this meeting is not an appropriate occasion for pure product pitches or descriptions of existing products. News of entirely new products, or beta versions of substantial upgrades to existing products, may however be of interest to meeting attendees. Presentations accepted will be expected to make real contributions to the field of information searching and indexing, or in furthering the understanding of the meeting participants in the general search area. All presentations will be in the full sessions; there are no breakout or parallel sessions at this meeting.

Those presenting will be given one free registration to the two-day conference (one free registration per presentation). Speaker expense reimbursement will not normally be offered.
Please send offers, in the first instance, to Harry Collier at Infonortics Offers will then be forwarded to the program advisors.
Since the program is normally finalised early in November and attracts many offers to speak, it is advisable to send offers of presentations as early as possible. Absolute deadline is October 18, 2008.

In general, presentations should emphasize new trends in search engine research and technology, and directly related areas

Some theme areas of particular interest for the 2009 Meeting are:

• Search personalization, recommendation engines, collaborative filtering.

• Search in rich media and the audio, image and video, and mobile environments.

• Vertical search, social search.

• Research and breakthroughs in the area of search, classification, and automated indexing.

• Data and text mining tools.

• Visualization tools.

• Web analytics and sentiment extraction.

• New tools, beta applications, novel applications (product descriptions).

There will also be a limited number of exhibition spaces in the main conference area (table-top). Bookings on this form, please.
Contact the organizers early, since places will be limited. All exhibitors will be given a short "product presentation" slot during the main conference sessions.

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