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Informer Competition 1999
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The Informer in collaboration with Springer-Verlag are pleased to announce
the launch of the third annual competition for the best student paper in
Information Retrieval. This is an open competition for any student in a
European academic institution who has published a paper in a refereed
journal/conference/workshop in the period 1st November 1998 - 1st November
1999. Springer-Verlag have kindly donated a prize of £100 worth of
Springer-Verlag books (full catalogue at
<http://www.springer.de/product/index.html>).
The winner of the competition will be invited to present their paper at the
22nd Annual BCSIRSG Colloquium to be held in Cambridge, hosted by
Microsoft. The IRSG will pay the winner's registration fees (and
accommodation) for the Colloquium and travel expenses of up to £200 if the
winner is able to present his/her paper.
To enter
1.Send a postscript or word copy of your paper to [log in to unmask],
including publication details (conference name and dates/journal name,
volume and number)
Rules
1.The paper must have been published or accepted for publication in the
period 1st Nov 98 - 1st Nov 99 .
2.The paper must have appeared in a refereed journal, conference or
workshop proceedings and should have a significant information retrieval
content.
3.The entrant must have been a student at a European institution
(university, college, etc) at the time the paper was written.
4.The entrant must be the main or only author of the paper.
5.Each entrant can only submit one paper for consideration.
Closing date 15 November 1999.
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Ian Ruthven Tel: +44 (0)141 330 6292
Research Assistant Fax: +44 (0)141 330 4913
Department of Computing Science
University of Glasgow
http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/~igr http://ir.dcs.gla.ac.uk/projects/explanation/
"To be good, according to the vulgar standard of goodness, is obviously
quite easy. It merely requires a certain amount of sordid terror, a certain
lack of imaginative thought and a certain low passion for middle-class
respectability"
Oscar Wilde (who else)
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