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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 -- Keith WACLENA keith@tira.uchicago.edu CILS / TIRA / U of Chicago keith%tira@uchimvs1.bitnet 1100 E.57th.St Chi IL 60637 USA ...!uunet!tira.uchicago.edu!keith