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IRSG2000
2nd Annual Colloquium on IR Research (BCS-IRSG, CEPIS)
5-7 April, 1999
Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge
CALL FOR PAPERS
This annual colloquium on information retrieval research provides an
opportunity for both new and established researchers to present papers
describing work in progress or final results.
Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):
Evaluation and testing of information retrieval systems
Information retrieval and the Web
Hypermedia/Multimedia indexing and retrieval
Information retrieval from non-text media (including spoken document,
image/video retrieval)
Voice processing and retrieval
Logic and information retrieval
User interfaces for information retrieval
User interaction in information retrieval
Information retrieval in library systems
Networked information retrieval
Database and information retrieval integration
Data mining and information extraction
Natural language processing for information retrieval
Knowledge-based information retrieval
Intelligent information retrieval
Commercial applications of information retrieval systems
SUBMISSIONS
Authors are required to submit their paper, in English, by 10 December 1999.
Papers should contain at most 7500 words and be double-spaced. The abstract
should not exceed 100 words.
Final papers will be required in the Electronic Workshops in Computing
format (http://www.ewic.org.uk/ewic/). Authors are encouraged to submit papers
in this format.
The submission should include two PostScript copies of the paper: one full
copy copy and one anonymous. Both files should be submitted by
anonymous ftp to ftp.scms.rgu.ac.uk under the /pub/incoming/irsg2000
directory. The file names should reflect the title of the paper but the
anonymous
copy should have the prefix "anon". (To protect author privacy it will not
be possible to list files in this directory).
For the anonymous copy, the first page must contain the title of the paper
and abstract, but no indication about the author(s) and affiliation(s).
In addition, authors must send an email message to [log in to unmask]
containing the title of the paper, the name of the file that has been
submitted, the author name(s), and the author affiliation(s), plus complete
contact information (mailing address, telephone, fax and e-mail) for the author
to whom correspondence should be sent.
Any queries regarding submission should be sent to: [log in to unmask]
FURTHER DETAILS
For further details regarding travel, programme of events etc. see
http://www.soi.city.ac.uk/~andym/colloq2000/cfp.html
IMPORTANT DATES
Paper submission: 10 December 1999.
Notification of acceptance: 10 February 2000.
Final copy due: 10 March 2000.
PUBLICATION
All papers will be refereed. Following notification of acceptance, authors
of selected papers will have until 10 March 2000 to make revisions in the light
of referees' comments. Papers will be published in the draft proceedings
which will be circulated to all delegates during the Colloquium.
Final papers will be published in the Electronic Workshops in Computing
(Springer-Verlag) http://www.ewic.org.uk/ewic/.
CONTACTS
If you have any queries or problems concerning submitting a paper, please
contact:
Dr. Ayse Göker
School of Computer and Mathematical Sciences
The Robert Gordon University
St. Andrew Street
Aberdeen AB25 1HG
Scotland, UK
Tel: +44 (0) 1224-262713
Fax: +44 (0) 1224-262727
Email: [log in to unmask]
COLLOQUIUM COMMITTEE
Stephen Robertson, Microsoft Research Cambridge (chair)
Karen Sparck Jones, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge
Martin Porter, Muscat Ltd.
Ken Wood, AT&T, Cambridge
Natasa Milic-Frayling, Microsoft Research Cambridge
Ben Bradshaw, Microsoft Research Cambridge
Stephen Walker, Microsoft Research Cambridge
Ayse Göker, Robert Gordon University
Andrew MacFarlane, City University London
Kerry Rodden, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge
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