kraft@lsu.EDU (Don) (07/20/87)
I have just received a travel grant for twenty or so stipends covering airfare from the National Science Foundation so that U.S. residents can attend the ACM/SIGIR International Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, to be held in Grenoble, France on June 13-15, 1988. The conference will include the topics of retrieval system modeling, artificial intelligence and information retrieval, evaluation techniques, hardware developments for retrieval systems, natural language processing, database management and information retrieval, user interfaces, and advanced applications. Anyone interested in receiving a travel stipend should contact me. The deadline for applying for a travel stipend is March 1, 1988. Submission of papers (four copies of either a full paper of not more than 20-25 pages, or an extended abstract of about ten pages) with a complete author identification and an abstract of about one hundred words must be submitted by January 15, 1988 to: Professor Gerard Salton Department of Computer Science 4130 Upson Hall Cornell University Ithaca, NY 14853-7501 USA Final copy is due May 16, 1988, with acceptance notification coming by March 21, 1988. Don Kraft kraft@lsu.edu -------