<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail-gs" style="margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 20px;width:1024px;font-family:Roboto,RobotoDraft,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:medium"><div class="gmail-"><div id="gmail-:1hf" class="gmail-ii gmail-gt" style="font-size:0.875rem;direction:ltr;margin:8px 0px 0px;padding:0px"><div id="gmail-:1he" class="gmail-a3s gmail-aXjCH" style="overflow:hidden;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:small;line-height:1.5;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><div dir="ltr"><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 20px;width:1024px;font-family:Roboto,RobotoDraft,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:medium"><div><div id="gmail-m_-5135971962865106491gmail-:1f2" style="font-size:0.875rem;direction:ltr;margin:8px 0px 0px;padding:0px"><div id="gmail-m_-5135971962865106491gmail-:1f1" style="overflow:hidden;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:small;line-height:1.5;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><div dir="ltr"><font color="#222222" style="font-family:-webkit-standard"><font face="Liberation Sans,sans-serif">*Apologies for cross-posting*</font></font><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:-webkit-standard;font-size:medium"></span><div dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:-webkit-standard"><p align="center" style="margin-bottom:0.25cm;line-height:16.8px"><font color="#222222"><font face="Liberation Sans,sans-serif">** SECOND CALL FOR FULL AND SHORT RESEARCH  PAPERS **</font></font></p><p align="center" style="margin-bottom:0.25cm;line-height:16.8px"><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 align="center" style="margin-bottom:0.25cm;line-height:16.8px"><font color="#222222"><font face="Liberation Sans,sans-serif">October 19th-23rd, 2020</font></font></p><p align="center" style="margin-bottom:0.25cm;line-height:16.8px"><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-papers-full-and-short-research-papers/</font></font></a></p><p style="margin-bottom:0.25cm;line-height:16.8px"><font color="#222222"><font face="Liberation Sans,sans-serif"><br><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:16.8px"><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:16.8px"><font color="#333333"><font face="Liberation Sans,sans-serif">Full and Short Research Papers</font></font></p><h2><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:16.8px"><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 style="margin-left:15px"><p style="margin-bottom:0cm;border:none;padding:0cm;line-height:16.8px"><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 style="margin-left:15px"><p style="margin-bottom:0cm;border:none;padding:0cm;line-height:16.8px"><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 style="margin-left:15px"><p style="margin-bottom:0cm;border:none;padding:0cm;line-height:16.8px"><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 style="margin-left:15px"><p style="margin-bottom:0cm;border:none;padding:0cm;line-height:16.8px"><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 style="margin-left:15px"><p style="margin-bottom:0cm;border:none;padding:0cm;line-height:16.8px"><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 style="margin-left:15px"><p style="margin-bottom:0cm;border:none;padding:0cm;line-height:16.8px"><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 style="margin-left:15px"><p style="margin-bottom:0cm;border:none;padding:0cm;line-height:16.8px"><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 style="margin-left:15px"><p style="margin-bottom:0cm;border:none;padding:0cm;line-height:16.8px"><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 style="margin-left:15px"><p style="margin-bottom:0cm;border:none;padding:0cm;line-height:16.8px"><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 style="margin-left:15px"><p style="margin-bottom:0cm;border:none;padding:0cm;line-height:16.8px"><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 style="margin-left:15px"><p style="margin-bottom:0.25cm;border:none;padding:0cm;line-height:16.8px"><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><font face="Liberation Sans,
            sans-serif"><font style="font-size:14pt">Important Dates</font></font></h2><p style="margin-bottom:0.25cm;line-height:16.8px"><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:16.8px"><font face="Liberation Sans,sans-serif">More info at </font><font color="#1155cc"><font face="Liberation Sans,sans-serif"><a href="https://cikm2020.org/call-for-papers-full-and-short-research-papers/" target="_blank">https://cikm2020.org/call-for-papers-full-and-short-research-papers/</a></font></font></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>