Conference: TEXT RETRIEVAL 99 
New Research, New Solutions 


28 October 1999, Kennedy Hotel, Cardington Street, London N.W.1 


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: 


RESEARCH SESSION (MORNING) 


· Professor Keith van Rijsbergen - University of Glasgow - 
www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/~keith/ 


Current challenges in IR research 


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.ie 


Applications of IR technologies in working environments 


For 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. 


· Dr John Ashford 


        IR Priorities for the 21st Century 


        John Ashford has many years consultancy experience oin building and

deployment of Text Retrieval systems. 
         


PRACTICE SESSION (AFTERNOON) 



·· Roger Rowe of BCS Award-winning Multicosm Ltd - www.multicosm.com 


       Text Retrieval and Knowledge Management 


Microcosm'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 


     Data Mining 


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 


      Text Retrieval and the Internet 


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 


PRICES: £160 to IIS and BCS Members, £200 to non-members (includes 
VAT) 
    Half-day £85 (Members), £110 (Non-members) 


TO BOOK 


Telephone : 0171-831 8003 (Geraldine Doherty, or Deborah Lopez) 
Fax: 0171-430 1270 
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Send your name and full billing address to reserve a place. 




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