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FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS **</font></font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0.25cm;line-height:120%" align="center"><font color="#222222"><font face="Liberation Sans, sans-serif"><b>29th
ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge
Management (CIKM 2020)</b><br>
Galway, Ireland</font></font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0.25cm;line-height:120%" align="center"><font color="#222222"><font face="Liberation Sans, sans-serif">October
19th-23rd, 2020</font></font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0.25cm;line-height:120%" align="center"><a href="https://cikm2020.org/call-for-papers-full-and-short-research-papers/" target="_blank"><font color="#1155cc"><font face="Liberation Sans, sans-serif">https://cikm2020.org/call-for-</font></font></a></p>
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<br>
<b>2020
Theme: Data and knowledge for the next generation: sustainability,
transparency and fairness</b></font></font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0.25cm;line-height:120%"><font color="#333333"><font face="Liberation Sans, sans-serif">Strategically
positioned at the intersection of research on the management of
knowledge, information, and data, CIKM is uniquely situated to
highlight technologies and insights that materialize the big data and
artificial intelligence vision of the future.</font></font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0.25cm;line-height:120%"><font color="#333333"><font face="Liberation Sans, sans-serif">Full
and Short Research Papers</font></font></p>
<h2 class="gmail-western"><font face="Liberation Sans, sans-serif"><font style="font-size:14pt">Topics
of Interest</font></font></h2>
<p style="margin-bottom:0.25cm;line-height:120%"><font face="Liberation Sans, sans-serif">We
encourage submissions of high-quality research papers on all topics
in the general areas of databases, information retrieval, and
knowledge management. Topics of interest include, but are not limited
to, the following areas:</font></p>
<ul>
<li>
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<font face="Liberation Sans, sans-serif"><b>Data and information
acquisition and preprocessing</b><span style="display:inline-block;border:none;padding:0cm"> (e.g.,
data crawling, data quality, data privacy, data wrangling)</span></font></p>
</li><li>
<p style="margin-bottom:0cm;border:none;padding:0cm;line-height:120%">
<font face="Liberation Sans, sans-serif"><b>Integration and
aggregation </b><span style="display:inline-block;border:none;padding:0cm">(e.g.,
semantic processing, data provenance, data linkage, data fusion,
knowledge graphs, data warehousing, privacy and security, modelling)</span></font></p>
</li><li>
<p style="margin-bottom:0cm;border:none;padding:0cm;line-height:120%">
<font face="Liberation Sans, sans-serif"><b>Infrastructures </b><span style="display:inline-block;border:none;padding:0cm">(e.g.,
cloud computing, data-intensive computing, database systems,
indexing and compression, search engine architectures, distributed
systems)</span></font></p>
</li><li>
<p style="margin-bottom:0cm;border:none;padding:0cm;line-height:120%">
<font face="Liberation Sans, sans-serif"><b>Special data
processing</b><span style="display:inline-block;border:none;padding:0cm"> (e.g.,
multilingual text, sequential, stream, spatio-temporal, graph,
multimedia, scientific, and social media data)</span></font></p>
</li><li>
<p style="margin-bottom:0cm;border:none;padding:0cm;line-height:120%">
<font face="Liberation Sans, sans-serif"><b>Multi-modal data and
knowledge processing</b><span style="display:inline-block;border:none;padding:0cm"> (e.g.,
natural language processing, speech recognition, computer vision,
knowledge graphs)</span></font></p>
</li><li>
<p style="margin-bottom:0cm;border:none;padding:0cm;line-height:120%">
<font face="Liberation Sans, sans-serif"><b>Analytics and machine
learning</b><span style="display:inline-block;border:none;padding:0cm"> (e.g.,
OLAP, data mining, machine learning and AI, scalable analysis
algorithms, event detection and tracking, deep neural networks, deep
learning)</span></font></p>
</li><li>
<p style="margin-bottom:0cm;border:none;padding:0cm;line-height:120%">
<font face="Liberation Sans, sans-serif"><b>Information access and
retrieval </b><span style="display:inline-block;border:none;padding:0cm">(e.g.,
web search, question answering and dialogue systems, retrieval
models, query processing, personalization, recommender and filtering
systems)</span></font></p>
</li><li>
<p style="margin-bottom:0cm;border:none;padding:0cm;line-height:120%">
<font face="Liberation Sans, sans-serif"><b>Data presentation</b><span style="display:inline-block;border:none;padding:0cm"> (e.g.,
visualization, summarization, readability, understandability, VR,
speech input and output)</span></font></p>
</li><li>
<p style="margin-bottom:0cm;border:none;padding:0cm;line-height:120%">
<font face="Liberation Sans, sans-serif"><b>Users and interfaces for
information and data systems</b><span style="display:inline-block;border:none;padding:0cm"> (e.g.,
user behaviour analysis, user interface design, personalization,
interactive information retrieval, interactive analysis, spoken
interfaces)</span></font></p>
</li><li>
<p style="margin-bottom:0cm;border:none;padding:0cm;line-height:120%">
<font face="Liberation Sans, sans-serif"><b>Crowdsourcing </b><span style="display:inline-block;border:none;padding:0cm">(e.g.
task assignment, worker reliability, optimisation, trustworthiness,
best practices)</span></font></p>
</li><li>
<p style="margin-bottom:0.25cm;border:none;padding:0cm;line-height:120%">
<font face="Liberation Sans, sans-serif"><b>Comparative evaluation,
performance studies and benchmarks</b><span style="display:inline-block;border:none;padding:0cm"> (e.g.,
online and offline evaluation, best practices)</span></font></p>
</li></ul>
<h2 class="gmail-western"><font face="Liberation Sans, sans-serif"><font style="font-size:14pt">Important
Dates</font></font></h2>
<p style="margin-bottom:0.25cm;line-height:120%"><font face="Liberation Sans, sans-serif">Full
and Short Paper Abstract Submission Deadline: April 24, 2020<br>
Full
and Short Paper Submission Deadline: May 1, 2020<br>
Full and Short
Paper Acceptance Notification: July 3, 2020<br>
Full and Short
Research Paper Camera Ready Submission Deadline: August 14, 2020</font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0.25cm;line-height:120%"><font face="Liberation Sans, sans-serif">More
info at </font><a href="https://cikm2020.org/call-for-papers-full-and-short-research-papers/" target="_blank"><font color="#1155cc"><font face="Liberation Sans, sans-serif">https://cikm2020.org/call-</font></font></a></p></div></div></div>