[news.announce.conferences] CFP: SIGIR - Research and Development in Information Retrieval

siri@imag.UUCP (Equipe Chiaramella) (06/30/87)

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                      CALL FOR PAPERS

                          SIGIR 88

                in cooperation with the ACM

               11th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE 
                            ON
        RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT IN INFORMATION RETRIEVAL

                         ACM-SIGIR
                            
                      JUNE 13-15 1988
                     GRENOBLE (FRANCE)


Conference Chairman : Yves CHIARAMELLA (USTMG - Grenoble, France)
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Program Comittee : 
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	M.ADIBA (F)			G.KNORZ (Germany)
	R.BOUCHE (F)			S.MIRANDA (F)
	A.BOOKSTEIN (USA)		C.D.PAICE (UK)
	M.F.BRUANDET (F)		F.RABITTI (I)
	E.CHOURAQUI (F)			V.V.RAGHAVAN (USA)
	W.B.CROFT (USA)			K.VAN RIJSBERGEN (UK)
	T.E.DOSZKOCS (USA)		G.SALTON (USA)
	A.S. FRAENKEL (Israel)		P.WILLETT (UK)
	N.FUHR (Germany)		S.K.M. WONG (Canada)

Papers are invited on theory, methodology, implementation and applications of
information retrieval.

Communications from areas of prime interest for information retrieval, such
as artificial intelligence, database systems, office automation, hardware
technology, natural language processing, are welcome.

The main topics thus include,  but are not limited to:
	- retrieval system modelling :
		linguistic models
		mathematical models
		cognitive and semantic models
	- information retrieval and artificial intelligence:
		knowledge representation
		expert systems
		thesaurus management
	- evaluation techniques:
		retrieval and system performances
		system development and evaluation
	- natural language processing:
		parsers
		deep understanding
		multilingual systems
	- information retrieval and database management:
		storage and research techniques
		multimedia databases
		fifth generation databases
		deductive databases
		document databases for ofice automation
		database machines
	- user interfaces:
		natural language interfaces
		graphic interfaces
	- advanced applications

INSTRUCTIONS TO AUTHORS :
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Full length papers should not exceed 20 or 25 pages. Extented abstracts of
about 10 pages are also accepted. Both must contain a complete author
identification and an abstract of about a hundred words. Four copies of each
paper should be submitted to the Program Committee. Papers from North America
should be sent to G.SALTON; submissions from outside North America should be
sent to E.CHOURAQUI:

	Gerard SALTON				Eugene CHOURAQUI
	CORNELL UNIVERSITY			GRTC-CNRS
	Dept. of Computer Science		31 chemin J.AIGUIER
	4130 UPSON HALL				13402 MARSEILLE
	ITHACA					Cedex 9
	N.Y. 14853 - 7501 USA			FRANCE

Important dates :
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	submission deadline :		january 15, 1988
	acceptance notification :	march 21, 1988
	final copy due :		may 16, 1988

Communication ways :
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	electronic address :		siri@imag.UUCP
	telex address :			98 01 34
	telecopy address :		76 51 48 48

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