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IRList Digest Saturday, 9 July 1988 Volume 4 : Issue 36
Today's Topics:
Call for Papers - ACM SIGIR 89 - 12th Int'l IR Conf., Cambridge MA
Email - Revised welcome message with FTP and new email instructions
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Date: Mon, 20 Jun 88 17:31:12 EDT
From: Edward A. Fox <fox>
Subject: Call for Papers for SIGIR 89
SIGIR '89
CALL FOR PAPERS
12th INTERNATIONAL
CONFERENCE ON
RESEARCH AND
DEVELOPMENT
IN INFORMATION RETRIEVAL
Cambridge, Massachusetts
June 25 - 28, 1989
Sponsored by ACM SIGIR
In cooperation with:
AICA - GLIR (Italy)
BCS - IRG (United Kingdom)
GI (Federal Republic of Germany)
INRIA (France)
Information Retrieval
Information retrieval is one of the most exciting areas of
research and development in the computer and information sciences
today. Research in this field is becoming increasingly important
in areas as diverse as hypertext, natural language processing,
knowledge representation, expert systems, database and multi-
media object management systems, software engineering and office
information systems. Similarly, techniques developed in these
and other areas have strong impact on work in information
retrieval, even in its traditional applications in document and text
retrieval systems. The Annual ACM SIGIR Conference is the prem-
ier forum for presentation and discussion of current research in
this multidisciplinary area. The 12th Annual Conference will
focus especially on the relationships between information
retrieval and other fields. The technical program will consist
of contributed research papers and panel presentations. In addi-
tion, there will be a program of tutorials on Sunday 25 June.
TOPICS FOR SIGIR '89
Original research papers and panel proposals are solicited on
topics including, but not limited to the following:
Information retrieval theory
e.g. Retrieval models
Evaluation
Document and query representation
Artificial Intelligence and Information Retrieval
e.g. Knowledge representation
Natural language processing
Connectionism
Expert systems
Interface issues
e.g. User modelling
Human-computer interaction
Intelligent interfaces
Hypertext and Multimedia Systems
e.g. Automatic construction of links
Search and navigation
Applications
e.g. Software reuse
Office information systems
Case-based retrieval
Implementation issues
e.g. Parallel processing
File organization
Text searching hardware
Storage devices, e.g. optical storage
INSTRUCTIONS FOR CONTRIBUTORS
Contributed Papers
Persons wishing to contribute original research papers should
send four copies of either: a ten to twelve page (double-spaced)
extended abstract; or, a twenty page full paper, to the appropri-
ate program chair, as indicated below. Papers will be published
in the conference proceedings, and authors will be required to
sign an ACM copyright release form. Submissions are due 14
December 1988.
Panel Presentations
Suggestions for panels should consist of descriptions of the
topic to be covered, the names of proposed speakers and modera-
tor, 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 14 December 1988. Email may
be used for panel proposals, but must be backed up by hard copy.
Tutorials
Proposals for tutorials should consist of the topic to be dis-
cussed, 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 16 January 1989. Email may be used
for tutorial proposals, but backed up by hard copy. Proposals
should be sent to the tutorial chair:
Paul Gandel
AT&T Bell Laboratories
Room 2J-501
Holmdel NJ 07733
ihnp4!hoqam!pbg
IMPORTANT DATES
14 December 1988 Papers and panel proposals due to Program
Chairs
16 January 1989 Tutorial proposals due to Tutorial Chair
17 February 1989 Authors informed of acceptance of papers and
proposals
20 March 1989 Final versions of papers due
Program Chairs
Prof. N.J. Belkin
4 Huntington Street
School of Communication, Information & Library Studies
Rutgers University
New Brunswick, NJ 08903
USA
njb@flash.bellcore.com (internet)
belkin@zodiac (bitnet)
(Americas & Asia)
Prof. C.J. van Rijsbergen
Department of Computing Science
Glasgow University
Lilybank Gardens
Glasgow G12 8QQ
Scotland
cjvr@cs.glasgow.ac.uk
(Europe, Africa, Australia)
Program Committee
Robert B. Allen, Bell Vijay Raghavan, University of
Communications Research Southwestern Louisiana
Abraham Bookstein, University Stephen Robertson, The City
of Chicago University, London
Alex Borgida, Rutgers Gerard Salton, Cornell
University University
Christine Borgman, UCLA Karen Sparck Jones, Cambridge
University
Giorgio Brajnik, Universita
degli Studi di Udine Craig Stanfill, Thinking
Machines Corporation
Yves Chiaramella, Laboratoire
Genie Informatique - IMAG Jean Tague, University of
Western Ontario
Stavros Christodoulakis,
University of Waterloo Carlo Tasso, Universita degli
Studi di Udine
Paul Cohen, University of
Massachusetts C.J. van Rijsbergen, Glasgow
University
Edward A. Fox, Virginia Poly-
technic Institute and State Clement Yu, University of
University (VPI&SU) Illinois at Chicago Circle
William B. Frakes, AT&T Bell Conference Committee
Laboratories
Conference Chair:
Norbert Fuhr, Technische Bruce Croft, University of
Hochschule Darmstadt Massachusetts
Peter Ingwersen, Royal Danish Program Chairs:
School of Librarianship Nick Belkin, Rutgers
University
Janet Kolodner, Georgia Tech C.J. van Rijsbergen, Glasgow
University
Donald H. Kraft, Louisiana State
University Tutorials Chair:
Paul Gandel, AT&T Bell
Michael J. McGill, OCLC Laboratories
Norman Meyrowitz, Brown Local Arrangements Chair:
University Candy Schwartz, Simmons
College
Erich J. Neuhold, Institute for
Integrated Publication and Publicity Chair:
Information Systems Edward A. Fox, VPI&SU
Fausto Rabitti, IEI-CNRS Treasurer:
Donna Harman, National Bureau
Roy Rada, Liverpool University of Standards
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Date: Sat, 9 Jul 88 13:31:12 EDT
From: Edward A. Fox <fox>
Subject: IRList Welcome Message - revised with FTP and email changes
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A partial list of topics suitable are:
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Abstracting Indexing/Classification
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Citation Studies Information Retrieval Applications
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Human-Computer Interaction User Interface Design
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