keith@curry.uchicago.edu (Keith Waclena) (09/21/90)
ACM
SIGIR '91
Call for papers
14th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
on
RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT
in
INFORMATION RETRIEVAL
Chicago, Illinois
October 13-16, 1991
Sponsored by:
ACM SIGIR
In co-operation with:
AICA - GLIR (Italy)
BCS - IRSG (UK)
GI (Federal Republic of Germany)
INRIA (France)
The events of SIGIR '91 are being coordinated with the Centennial
celebrations of the University of Chicago. The Center for
Information and Language Studies (CILS) is responsible for the
coordination.
INFORMATION RETRIEVAL
Problems relating to the effective storage, access and
manipulation of textual information are among the most challenging to
current computer science. Information is continuing to grow
exponentially and is increasingly becoming available in machine
readable form; computer networks are making communicating information
easier; new computer architectures and inexpensive, powerful hardware
are making feasible the introduction of sophisticated, computer
intensive algorithms for efficiently storing and retrieving
information.
Research in information retrieval touches on fields as diverse as
the design and analysis of algorithms, natural language processing,
artificial intelligence, hypertext, multimedia data management, and
software engineering. The Annual ACM SIGIR Conference is the premier
forum for presentation and discussion of current research in
Information Retrieval. The 14th Annual Conference will continue this
multidisciplinary tradition, but will focus especially on the problems
of full text databases. The program will consist of contributed
research papers and panel presentations. There will also be a program
of tutorials on Sunday, October 13.
TOPICS FOR SIGIR '91
Original research papers and panel proposals are solicited on
topics including, but not limited to, the following:
Information retrieval theory:
Retrieval models and algorithms, Evaluation, Document and query
presentation, extension to full text databases.
Artificial Intelligence Applications:
Knowledge representation, Connectionism, Expert Systems.
Natural Language Processing:
Application of lexicons, parsing algorithms to IR.
Interface Issues:
Human-computer interaction, design considerations.
Hypertext and Multimedia Systems:
Software reuse, Office information systems, Case-based retrieval.
Implementation issues:
New computer architectures, Retrieval hardware, Storage devices,
Data structures, Compression methods.
INSTRUCTIONS FOR CONTRIBUTORS
CONTRIBUTED PAPERS
Persons wishing to contribute original research papers should send
four copies of a full paper to the appropriate program chair, as
indicated below. Papers or (if the author chooses) extended, 10-12
page, abstracts will be published in the conference proceedings;
authors will be required to sign an ACM copyright release form. The
program committee may select papers for journal publication, in which
case an abstract will be published in the proceedings. Submissions are
due March 25, 1991.
PANEL PRESENTATIONS
Suggestions for panels should consist of descriptions of the
topics to be covered, the names of proposed speakers and moderator,
brief abstracts of the proposed presentations, and the desired length
of time for the panel. Four copies of proposals, of no more than three
pages, should be sent to the appropriate program chair. Proposals are
due March 25, 1991.
TUTORIALS
Proposals for tutorials should consist of the topic to be
discussed, the name(s) and brief biographies of the presenter(s), and
an outline of the tutorial. Four copies of proposals, of no more than
three pages, are due April 25, 1991. Email may be used for tutorial
proposals, but backed up by hard copy. Proposals should be sent to the
tutorial chair:
Dr. Donna K. Harman
Building 225/A216
National Institute of Standards and Technology
Gaithersburg, MD 20899
harman@dsys.ncsl.nist.gov
IMPORTANT DATES
March 25, 1991: Papers and panel proposals due to program
chairs
April 25, 1991: Tutorial proposals due to tutorial chair
June 3, 1991: Authors informed of acceptance of papers and
proposals
July 15, 1991: Final versions of papers due to program chairs
CONFERENCE CHAIR
Prof. Abraham Bookstein
1100 E. 57th, CILS
University of Chicago
Chicago, IL 60637, USA
bkst@tira.uchicago.edu
Telephone: (312) 702-8268
FAX: (312) 702-0775
PROGRAM CHAIRS
Americas and Asia Europe, Africa, Australia
Prof. Gerard Salton Prof. Yves Chiaramella
Department of Computer LGI-IMAG
Science B.P. 53 X
Cornell University 38041 Grenoble CEDEX
Upson Hall France
Ithaca, NY 14853, USA chiara@imag.imag.fr
gs@gvax.cs.cornell.edu
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Maristella Agosti Universita di Padova, Italy
Nick Belkin Rutgers University, USA
Abraham Bookstein University of Chicago, USA
Christine Borgman University of California, Los Angeles, USA
Giorgio Brajnik Universita degli Studi di Udine, Italy
Yves Chiaramella (Chair, European Committee) University of
Grenoble, France
S. Christodoulakis University of Waterloo, Canada
M. Crehange CRIN, France
Bruce Croft University of Massachusetts, USA
Christian Fluhr CEN-SACLAY, France
Ed Fox Virginia Polytechnic Institute, USA
Norbert Fuhr Technische Hochshule Darmstadt, Germany
Paul Jacobs General Electric Research, USA
Gary Marchionini University of Maryland, USA
V. Quint INRIA, France
Fausto Rabitti IEI-CNRS, Italy
Vijay Raghavan (Co-Chair, USA) University of Southwestern
Louisiana, USA
Edie Rasmussen University of Pittsburgh, USA
Gerard Salton (Co-Chair, USA) Cornell University, USA
Craig Stanfill Thinking Machines Corporation, USA
Jean-Luc Vidick Universite Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium
Peter Willett University of Sheffield, UK
Michael Wong University of Regina, Canada
Clement Yu University of Illinois, Chicago, USA
Keith van Rijsbergen Glasgow University, UK
CONFERENCE COMMITTEE
Conference Chair:
Abraham Bookstein, Center for Information and Language Studies,
University of Chicago
Program Chairs:
Gerard Salton, Cornell University
Vijay Raghavan, University of South West Louisisana
Yves Chiaramella, Institut de Mathematiques Appliques de Grenoble
Tutorials Chair:
Donna Harman, National Bureau of Standards, USA
Local Arrangements Chair:
Michael Koenig, Rosary College
Publicity Chair:
Edward A. Fox, Virginia Polytech
Local Publicity:
Scott Deerwester, Center for Information and Language Studies,
University of Chicago
Treasurer:
Clement Yu, University of Illinois, Chicago Campus
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