> ACM SIGIR 2006:  Mentoring for Conference Paper Submissions
> 
> http://www.sigir2006.org
> 
> SIGIR 2006, Seattle, WA, USA, August 6-11, 2006
> 
> The ACM Special Interest Group in Information Retrieval (ACM SIGIR)
> offers a mentoring program for papers being submitted to the ACM SIGIR
> 2006 conference.  If you would like help with your submission, you may
> ask for a mentor---a person who will help you with your submission to
> the SIGIR audience through one-on-one advising, usually via e-mail. A
> mentor can also familiarize you with the standards and deadlines of
> SIGIR submissions. Mentors are volunteers familiar with successful
> submissions. 
> 
> Mentors are primarily available for full papers. To request a mentor,
> please send email to Edie Rasmussen at mailto:[log in to unmask] by
> the deadline for mentoring requests, November 14, 2005. Please include: 
> 
> * Your name and the names of your co-authors. 
> * The name of your school (or department) and institution. 
> * A plain-text description of your work (a title and abstract is a
> minimum requirement). 
> * Any specific questions or areas in which you would like help. 
> * But don't include your draft paper. 
> 
> Reasonable expectations for a mentor include giving advice as to the
> most appropriate forum for your work, suggesting improvements to your
> submission, suggesting how to deal with language problems, or referring
> you to relevant research of which you might not have been aware.
> Typically, a mentor might spend 3-7 hours on a submission. We carefully
> match mentors to mentees, and wish to support you in developing your
> work into a high-quality submission with a good chance of being accepted
> and published. 
> 
> Note the following: 
> * People requesting mentoring must have a complete submission ready for
> the mentor to review by the due date (November 14). 
> * If there is an experienced IR researcher in your department, a request
> for mentoring may be declined. 
> * No announcements of mentor/mentee assignments will be made until after
> the deadline. 
> * Reviewers will not be informed of whether a paper has been mentored.
> That is, the fact that a paper was mentored is not considered during the
> paper selection process.
> 
> SIGIR 2006, Seattle, WA, USA, August 6-11, 2006 http://www.sigir2006.org
> 
> Important Dates
> November 14, 2005. 	Mentoring Program deadline  (Edie Rasmussen at
> mailto:[log in to unmask] )
> January 30, 2006.	Full Research Papers due 
> February 27, 2006.	Poster, Demonstrations, Tutorial, Workshop, and
> Doctoral Consortium submissions due
> April 10, 2006.	Notification of acceptance for all submissions
> On the due dates, submissions will remain open until 17:00 PST.
> 
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> Efthimis N. Efthimiadis <[log in to unmask]>
> Associate Professor    
> The Information School, University of Washington       
> Suite 370 Mary Gates Hall, Box 352840     
> Seattle, WA 98195-2840, USA     
> tel.(off.) 206-616-6077, (sch) 206-685-9937, fax. 206-616-3152 
> http://faculty.washington.edu/efthimis
> http://www.sigir2006.org
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Prof. Mounia Lalmas
Department of Computer Science
Queen Mary University of London
London E1 4NS
phone: (+44|0)20 7882 5200
fax: (+44|0)20 8980 6533
email: [log in to unmask]
www: http://www.dcs.qmul.ac.uk/~mounia
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