TEXT RETRIEVAL 99
New Research, New Solutions
28 October
1999, Kennedy Hotel, London
Joint Institute of Information
Scientists/British Computer Society Event
Text Retrieval technologies
provide the key to Information Management,
Knowledge Management, and search
engines. In this essential conference,
leading experts provide a
state-of-the-art review of the latest theoretical
and practical
developments.
The world depends increasingly on ever more sophisticated
techniques to
select from a huge and ever-growing body of available material
only what is
valuable to each individual user.
If you need to
understand how technologies are keeping up with information
overload and
enabling users to navigate millions of documents, come to this
conference to
receive a truly expert perspective. Hear about the role of
text
retrieval in Knowledge Management, Data Mining and searching the
Internet,
and about how research is extending retrieval capabilities into
new domains
from image retrieval to filtering systems.
With expert analysis
from:
* Professor Keith van Rijsbergen - University of Glasgow -
www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/~keith/The
Information Retrieval group led by Professor Keith van Rijsbergen at
the
University of Glasgow has a vigorous programme of research aimed at
giving
end-users novel, effective, and efficient access to the world of
multi-media
information.
Professor van Rijsbergen's research interests
include probabilistic and
logic-based models, multimedia information
retrieval systems, information
analysis and access across media, and the data
mining of large data sets of
clinical information.
* Professor
Alan Smeaton - Dublin City University -
www.compapp.dcu.ieFor many years
Professor Alan Smeaton has been associated with the
application of natural
language technologies to information retrieval tasks
where the information
retrieval is from very large collections of text
documents. His current
work is in the application of information retrieval
and browsing to other
media besides text, especially to video. He is also
interested in
information filtering, the detection and tracking of new
topics in newspaper
stories, and searching through other media such as
music
archives.
Professor Smeaton's team from Dublin City University
has regularly taken
part in TREC since 1994, and its text retrieval work is
done on
multi-gigabyte collections.
* Roger Rowe of BCS Award-winning
Multicosm Ltd -
www.multicosm.comMicrocosm's
products help non-specialists 'take control of the information
piling up in
their databases, on their intranets, in their Notes
repositories and
proliferating on the Web' . This session demonstrates how
this
organisation's products help analyse, summarise, re-find, refine and
link
documents.
* Dr Roger Goodwin of BG Technology
An expert on
Applied Knowledge Solutions, Dr Goodwin will offer a paper on
'Text Mining '
- the integration of information retrieval and Data Mining.
* James
Cameron of Muscat Ltd
A powerful search engine providing indexing
services for millions of
documents on the Web, Muscat uses its 'linguistic
inference' technology.
This consists of five interacting and dynamic
processes: data collection,
concept extraction, probabilistic concept
correlation, interest refinement,
interest recognition. This session
will reveal more about how one of the
market leaders approaches the problem,
increasing exponentially, of managing
content on the Web to assist user
searches.
* In the Chair - Senior Consultant and expert in developing
and
building text retrieval systems, Dr John Ashford
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Telephone : 0171-831 8003 (Geraldine Doherty, or Deborah
Lopez)
Fax:
0171-430 1270
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still
available!
Gwenda Sippings
Information Management
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