kraft@lsu.CSNET (Don) (08/13/86)
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Special Interest Group on Information Retrieval (SIGIR)
1987 International Conference on Research and Development
in Information Retrieval
June 3-5, 1987 Monteleone Hotel (in the French Quarter)
New Orleans, Louisiana USA
CALL FOR PAPERS
Papers are invited on theory, methodology, and applications
of information retrieval. Emerging areas related to infor-
mation retrieval, such as office automation, computer
hardware technology, and artificial intelligence and natural
language processing are welcome.
Topics include, but are not limited to:
retrieval system modeling user interfaces
retrieval in office environments mathematical models
system development and evaluation natural language processing
knowledge representation linguistic models
hardware development complexity problems
multimedia retrieval storage and search techniques
cognitive and semantic models retrieval system performance
information retrieval and database management
Submitted papers can be either full length papers of approx-
imately twenty to twenty-five pages or extended abstracts of
no more than ten pages. All papers should contain the
authors' contributions in comparison to existing solutions
to the same or to similar problems.
Important Dates
Submission Deadline December 15, 1986
Acceptance Notification February 15, 1987
Final Copy Due March 20, 1987
Conference June 3-5, 1987
Four copies of each paper should be submitted. Papers sub-
mitted from North America can be sent to Clement T. Yu; sub-
missions from outside North America should be sent to C. J.
"Keith" van Rijsbergen.
Conference Chairman Program Co-Chairmen
Donald H. Kraft Clement T. Yu C. J. "Keith" van Rijsbergen
Department of Department of Department of
Computer Science Electrical Engineering Computer Science
Louisiana State University and Computer Science University of Glascow
Baton Rouge, LA 70803 University of Illinois, Lilybank Gardens
Chicago Glascow G12 8QQ
Chicago, IL 60680 SCOTLAND
(504) 388-1495 (312) 996-2318 (041) 339-8855
For details, contact the Conference Chairman at kraft%lsu@csnet-relay or
Michael Stinson, the Arrangements Chairman at stinson%lsu@csnet-relay.
Don Kraft
kraft%lsu@csnet-relay