SIGIR94 call for participation

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>>From [e-mail] Fri Mar  4 14:43:00 1994
>Date: Fri, 4 Mar 1994 14:36:51 +0000
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>                  SIGIR94  -  Call for participation
>                Dublin City University, 3-6 July 1994
>                    Glasnevin, Dublin 9, IRELAND
>           Tel:+353 - 1 - 7045262, Fax: +353 - 1 - 7045442
>
>The 17th International Conference on Research and Development in
>Information Retrieval (SIGIR'94) takes place at Dublin City University,
>Dublin, Ireland, from 3rd to 7th July, 1994.
>The full call for participation has just gone to press and may be hitting
>your in-trays in a couple of weeks.  If you can't wait for that, or find you
>are not on my mailing list, you can get a copy in ASCII or Postscript form
>by anonymous ftp from ftp.compapp.dcu.ie/pub/sigir/call-for-participation.ps
>(132k) or .txt (31k).  Alternatively, the less-preferred method would be to
>send me e-mail and I'll send one by return.  Here is a condensed version to
>whet your appetite.
>
>
>Alan F. Smeaton, Dublin City University,
>SIGIR94 Conferecne Chair
>
>
>
>SUNDAY, 3 JULY
>
>Tutorials
>
>A: An Introduction to Information Retrieval
>Tutors: Peter Willett, Univ. Sheffield. UK and Peter Ingwersen, Royal School
>of Librarianship, Denmark
>
>B: Design and Use of Digital Libraries
>Tutors: Robert Akscyn, Knowledge Systems, USA  and  Edward A. Fox, VPI & SU,
>USA
>
>C: Information Retrieval and Databases
>Tutor: Norbert Fuhr, University of Dortmund, Germany
>
>D: Text Encoding and Information Interchange
>Tutor: Lou Burnard, Oxford University,UK
>
>E: Query Formulation
>Tutor: Efthimis N. Efthimiadis, UCLA, USA
>
>F: The Role of Information Retrieval in Future Electronic Newspapers
>Author: Forbes J. Burkowski, University of Waterloo, Canada
>
>G: Data Fusion
>Tutor: Professor Paul B. Kantor, Rutgers University, USA.
>
>H: Natural Language Processing and Information Retrieval
>Tutors: E. D. Liddy, Syracuse,USA  and   D. D. Lewis, AT&T,USA
>
>
>
>MONDAY, 4 JULY
>
>INVITED TALK:   What is Information in Information Retrieval ?
>  Denis Tsichritzis, GMD, Germany
>
>TEXT CATEGORISATION..
>  Training Text Classifiers by Uncertainty Sampling.
>  David D. Lewis, William A. Gale, USA
>
>  Expert Network: Combining Word-based Matching and Human
>  Experiences in Text Categorisation.   Yiming Yang, USA
>
>  Towards Language Independent Automated Learning of Text
>  Categorisation Models.   Chidanand Apte, Fred Damerau, Sholom M. Weiss, USA
>
>  Using IR Techniques for Text Classification in Document
>  Analysis.   Rainer Hoch, Germany
>
>INDEXING
>  An Evaluation Method for Stemming Algorithms. Chris Paice, UK
>
>  On the Measurement of Inter-Linker Consistency and Retrieval
>  Effectiveness in Hypertext Databases.   David Ellis, Jonathan
>  Furner-Hines, Peter Willett, UK
>
>  Query Expansion Using Lexical-Semantic Relations.   Ellen M.
>  Voorhees, USA
>
>PANEL SESSION: Integration of IR and Database Systems.
>  Moderator:    Norber Fuhr, University of Dortmund, Germany.
>  Panelists:    Ray R. Larson, University of California, Berkeley.
>                Joachim Schmidt, University of Hamburg, Germany
>                Peter Schauble, ETH Zurich, Switzerland.
>                Ulrich Thiel, GMD-IPSI, Germany.
>
>USER MODELLING
>  Perceptual Speed, Learning and Information Retrieval Performance.
>  Bryce Allen, USA
>
>  Term Relevance Feedback and Query Expansion: Relation to
>  Design.   Amanda Spink, USA
>
>  Modelling Information Retrieval Agents with Belief Revision.
>  Brian Logan, Steven Reece, Karen Sparck Jones, UK
>
>  Polyrepresentation of Information Needs and Semantic Entities,
>  Elements of a Cognitive Theory for Information Retrieval
>  Interaction.   Peter Ingwersen, Denmark
>
>
>
>TUESDAY, 5 JULY
>
>THEORY AND LOGIC
>  Investigating Aboutness Axioms using Information Fields.
>  P. D. Bruza, T. W. C. Huibers, Australia
>
>  A Probabilistic Terminological Logic for Modelling Information
>  Retrieval.   Fabrizio Sebastiani, Italy
>
>INVITED TALK: Beyond Keywords: The case for Natural Language
>  Processing in Extended Information Retrieval Systems.   Jamie G.
>  Carbonell, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
>
>NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING
>  Retrieving Terms and their Variants in a Lexicalised Unification
>  Based Framework.   Christian Jacquemin, Jean Royaute, France
>
>  Disambiguation and Information Retrieval.   Mark Sanderson, Scotland
>
>  A Full Text Retrieval System with a Dynamic Abstract Generation
>  Function.  Seiji Miike, Etsuo Itoh, Kenji Ono, Kazuo Sumita, Japan
>
>STATISTICAL MODELS
>  A Document Retrieval Model Based on Term Frequency Ranks.
>  IJsbrand Jan Aalbersberg, USA
>
>  Automatic Combination of Multiple Ranked Retrieval Systems.
>  Brian T. Bartell, Garrison W. Cottrell, Richard K. Belew, USA
>
>  Properties of Extensive Boolean Models in Information Retrieval.
>  Joon Ho Lee, Korea
>
>PERFORMANCE EVALUATION
>  OHSUMED: An Interactive Retrieval Evaluation and New Large
>  Test Collection for Research.   William Hersh, USA
>
>  Results of Applying Probabilistic IR to OCR Text.  Kazem Taghva,
>  Julie Borsack, Allen Condit, USA
>
>  Natural Language vs. Boolean Query Evaluation: A Comparison
>  of  Retrieval Performance.   Howard Turtle, USA
>
>PROBABILISTIC MODELS
>  Inferring Probability of Relevance Using the Method of Logistic
>  Regression.   Fredric C. Gey, USA
>
>  Some Simple Effective Approximations to the 2-Poisson Model for
>  Probabilistic Weighted Retrieval.   S. E. Robertson, S. Walker, UK
>
>Triennial ACM SIGIR award presentation and paper.
>
>
>WEDNESDAY, 6 JULY
>
>INTERFACES
>  LyberWorld - A Visualization User Interface Supporting Fulltext
>  Retrieval.   Matthais Hemmje, Clemens Kunkel, Alexander Willett, Germany
>
>  A System for Discovering Relationships by Feature Extraction
>  from Text Databases.   Jack G. Conrad, Mary Utt, USA.
>
>ROUTING
>  Information Filtering Based on User Behaviour Analysis and Best
>  Match Text Retrieval.   Masahiro Morita, Yoichi Shinoda, Japan
>
>  Improving Text Retrieval for the Routing Problem using Latent
>  Semantic Indexing.   David Hull, USA
>
>  The Effect of Adding Relevance Information in a Relevance
>  Feedback Environment.   Chris Buckley, Gerard Salton, James Allen, USA
>
>PASSAGE RETRIEVAL
>  Passage-Level Evidence in Document Retrieval.   James P. Callan, USA
>
>  Effective Retrieval of Structured Documents.   Ross Wilkinson, Australia
>
>  Document and Passage Retrieval Based on Hidden Markov Models.
>  Elke Mittendorf, Peter Schauble, Switzerland
>
>PANEL SESSION: Evaluation of Interactive Retrieval Systems.
>  Moderator:    Susan Dumais, Bellore
>  Panelists:    Nicholas Belkin, Rutgers University
>                Christine Borgman, UCLA
>                Micheline Hancock-Beaulieu, City University
>
>IMPLEMENTATION
>  Synthetic Workload Performance Analysis of Incremental
>  Updates.   Kurt Shoens, Anthony Tomasic, Hector Garcia-Molina, USA
>
>  Document Filtering for Fast Ranking.   Micheal Persin, Australia
>
>  Adapting a Full-text Information Retrieval System to the
>  Computer Troubleshooting Domain.   Peter G. Anick, USA
>
>
>
>Social Events
>An evening reception will take place on Monday, 4th July and the
>conference dinner will take place at the Royal Hospital, Kilmainham on
>Tuesday, 5th July.
>
>
>
>The conference organisers wish to acknowledge the following organisations,
>without whose support this conference could not take place:
>
>Aer Lingus,  Bord Failte (Irish Tourist Board), Commission of the European
>Communities, IDOMENEUS (ESPRIT Network of Excellence No: 6606), The National
>Software Directorate (Ireland).
>
>
>Postscript:  As we go to press with this call for participation it is
>likely that the Commission of the European Communities, under the
>Human Capital and Mobility program, may be able to fund the attendance
>of a number of young European researchers at SIGIR'94.  Such applicants
>must be 35 years of age or younger on the date of the conference, citizens
>of a member country of the European Union and working in this field, in
>Europe.  Further details, and an application form which must be returned
>by 15th May 1994, may be obtained from the conference organisers at Dublin
>City University, and not the CEC offices.
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