HIA'15: Heterogeneous Information Access Workshop at WSDM 2015

The HIA'15 workshop aims to bring together information retrieval practitioners from industry and academic researchers concerned with heterogeneous information access and search federation. We would like to create a forum to encourage discussion and exchange of ideas on heterogeneous information access in different contexts. To facilitate the discussion, we encourage submissions on ideas and results from different aspects of heterogeneous information access including aggregated search, composite retrieval, personal search, structured search, etc. Another objective of the workshop is to encourage submissions with novel ideas (e.g. new applications) on heterogeneous information access and potential future directions of this area.