This is the preliminary call for papers for ACM SIGIR 2000. This event is
organised in collaboration with the BCS Information Retrieval Specialist
Group.
Jan.
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SIGIR 2000: Information Retrieval in Context
TWENTY-THIRD ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL ACM SIGIR
CONFERENCE ON RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT
IN INFORMATION RETRIEVAL
July 24-28 2000
Department of Informatics
Athens University of Economics and Business Athens, Greece
PRELIMINARY CALL FOR PAPERS
For details see: http://sigir2000.aueb.gr
SIGIR is the major international forum for the presentation of new research
results and the demonstration of new systems and techniques in the broad field
of information retrieval (IR). The Conference and Program Chairs invite all
those concerned with issues of IR to submit original research contributions,
posters, and proposals for tutorials, workshops, and demonstrations of
systems, for presentation at SIGIR 2000. All contributions should be submitted
to the appropriate Chair, as indicated below (see the Conference web site for
further details: http://sigir2000.aueb.gr).
TOPICS
Information Retrieval is contextual. IR functionalities form part of
increasingly complex information systems serving a great variety of
information tasks and behaviors. SIGIR 2000 seeks original research
contributions in the broad field of information storage and retrieval,
covering the handling of all types of information, user behavior in
information systems, and theories, models, and implementations of IR systems.
Topics relevant to SIGIR include but are not limited to:
* IR Theory, including logical, statistical and interactive IR models, data
fusion.
* Experimentation: test collections, interactive IR experiments, evaluation
measures, experimental design, testing methodology, scalability.
* Natural Language Processing: word sense disambiguation, discourse analysis,
summarization for the purposes of IR, use of linguistic resources for IR.
* Contextual IR: multi-media IR, cross-lingual IR systems, speech retrieval,
dialogue management, (non)feature-based indexing, information seeking and task
embedded IR.
* Interface issues: user & use modeling, human-computer interaction, search
strategies.
* Filtering, Extraction, Routing, and Text Classification.
* Systems and Implementation Issues: integration with database systems,
networked systems and the internet, compression, efficient query evaluation.
* Applications: electronic publishing, digital libraries, text mining,
WWW-related issues, semistructured document retrieval.
SIGIR 2000 IMPORTANT DATES
* January 14: Original research paper submissions due. 5 hardcopies of full
papers (max. 5000 words) to be submitted to the relevant Regional chair.
Electronic submissions will not be accepted.
* February 11: Proposals for tutorials, workshops, posters, panels and
demonstrations due. Please send submissions by email only to the relevant
Chairs. For requirements for submission please see the Conference Web site:
http://sigir2000.aueb.gr
* April 1: Notification of acceptance of all submissions.
* May 1: Final camera-ready copy of all submissions due.
CONFERENCE ORGANISATION
CONFERENCE CHAIR
Emmanuel Yannakoudakis, Athens University of Economics and Business,
Department of Informatics, 76 Patission Street, Athens 104 34, Greece
([log in to unmask]), Phone: +30-1-8214145, Fax. : +30-1-8203356
TREASURER
Elias Lypitakis ([log in to unmask])
PROGRAMME CHAIRS
For The Americas: Nicholas Belkin, Professor and Director of the Ph.D.
Program, School of Communication, Information & Library Studies, Rutgers
University, 4 Huntington Street, New Brunswick NJ 08901-1071, USA
([log in to unmask]). Phone: +1-732-932-8585, Fax: +1-732-932-6916
For Europe and Africa: Peter Ingwersen, Royal School of LIS, Birketinget 6, DK
2300 Copenhagen S, Denmark, ([log in to unmask]). Phone: +45-32-58-60-66, Fax:
+45-32-84-02-01
For Asia, Australia and the Pacific: Mun-Kew Leong, (Attn: SIGIR Submission),
Kent Ridge Digital Labs, 21 Heng Mui Keng Terrace, Singapore 119613
([log in to unmask]). Phone: +65-874-7864, Fax: +65-774-4998
TUTORIALS CHAIR
Alan Smeaton, School of Computer Applications, Dublin City University
Glasnevin, Dublin 9, Ireland ([log in to unmask]). Phone: +353-1-7045262,
Fax: +353-1-7045442
PANELS AND DEMONSTRATIONS CHAIR
James Allan, Computer Science Department, University of Massachusetts,
Amherst, MA 01003-4610, USA ([log in to unmask]). Phone: +1-413-545-3240, Fax:
+1-413-545-1789
PUBLICITY CHAIR
Anestis Konstantinidis ([log in to unmask])
AWARDS CHAIR
Efthimis Efthimiadis ([log in to unmask])
WORKSHOPS CHAIR
Bob Krovetz, NEC Research Institute, 4 Independence Way, Princeton, NJ 08540,
USA ([log in to unmask]). Phone: +1-609-951-2773, Fax:
+1-609-951-2483
POSTERS CHAIR
Amit Singhal, AT&T Labs - Research, Rm A-281, Shannon Laboratory, 180 Park
Avenue, Florham Park, NJ 07932, USA ([log in to unmask]). Phone:
+1-973-360-8335, Fax: +1-973-360-8970
REVIEWING PROCESS:
The SIGIR 2000 Programme Committee is organized with an International
Programme Committee (IPC) and three Regional Programme Committees (RPC). Both
the IPC and the RPCs are designed to reflect the broadening topic areas of IR
research. The reviewing process for SIGIR 2000 will be in two stages. There
will first be initial reviews by at least three members of the RPCs for each
submission. For each paper, an IPC member will be responsible for producing a
review and recommendation integrating the three initial reviews. All
submissions will be refereed "blind", that is, without identification of their
authors. For further information on the requirements for submission of
contributions, and evaluation criteria, see the Conference web site:
http://sigir2000.aueb.gr.
INTERNATIONAL PROGRAMME COMMITTEE:
Jun Adachi, NACSIS, Japan
Maristella Agosti, University of Padua, Italy
Ricardo Baeza-Yates, University of Chile, Chile
Marcia Bates, UCLA, USA
Jamie Callan, Carnegie-Mellon University, USA
W. Bruce Croft, University of Massachusetts, USA
Susan Dumais, Microsoft Research, USA
Edward A. Fox, Virginia Tech, USA
Norbert Fuhr, University Dortmund, Germany
Donna Harman, NIST, USA
William Hersh, Oregon Health Sciences University, USA
Kalervo Jarvelin, University Tampere, Finland
David Lewis, AT&T Labs, USA
Elizabeth Liddy, Syracuse University, USA
Gary Marchionini, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, USA
Mark Maybury, MITRE, USA
Alistair Moffat, University of Melbourne, Australia
Sung-Hyon Myaeng, Chungnam National University, Korea
Douglas Oard, University of Maryland, USA
Steve Robertson, Microsoft Research, UK
Alan Smeaton, Dublin City University, Ireland
Karen Sparck Jones, University of Cambridge, UK
Keith van Rijsbergen, University of Glasgow, Scotland, UK
Ellen Voorhees, NIST, USA
Ross Wilkinson, CSIRO, Australia
Peter Willett, University of Sheffield, UK
Kam-Fai Wong, Chinese University of Hong Kong, China
COOPERATING ORGANISATIONS:
ACM SIGIR, BCS, Greek Computer Society, others requested.
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Jan J IJdens
Chair, British Computer Society Information Retrieval Specialists Group
Sharp Labs of Europe --- Email: [log in to unmask]
Oxford Science Park --- WWW : http://irsg.eu.org/
Oxford OX4 4GB --- Phone: +44 (0)1865 74 7711
United Kingdom --- Fax: +44 (0)1865 71 4170
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