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ACM SIGIR '93 16th International Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval Pittsburgh, PA, USA June 27-July 1, 1993 In co-operation with ACM: AICA-GLIR (Italy) BCS-IRSG (UK) DD (Denmark) GI (Germany) INRIA (France) PRELIMINARY PROGRAM AND REGISTRATION INFORMATION The annual ACM SIGIR conference is the primary international meeting for the presentation of research and development in information retrieval (IR). The conference will be valuable to those interested in the theory of information retrieval as well as those responsible for system design, testing and evaluation. Topics include association methods, query processing, data and file structures, DBMS integration, structured text, inference networks, interface issues,and natural language processing. This year the conference will be held in Pittsburgh, PA, USA, within easy reach of major east coast centers. The city centre conference site overlooks the three rivers, providing access to parks, restaurants and shopping, cultural amenities and sporting events. Pre-conference tutorials will cover both beginning and advanced topics. The main program consists of contributed papers as well as panel sessions and demonstrations. There will be two post-conference research workshops, User Interfaces for Online Public Access Catalogs, and Information Access and the Networks. Conference highlights include: Sunday * Tutorials * Reception Monday * Keynote address: Bruce Buchanan * Text REtrieval Conference (TREC) overview Tuesday * Panel session: NLP for Information Management * Cruise and Banquet on Pittsburgh's Three Rivers Wednesday * Demonstrations * Reception Thursday * Post-conference research workshops: User Interfaces for Online Public Access Catalogs Information Access and the Networks (see details at very end of this message) * Tour of Frank Lloyd Wright's Fallingwater * Tour and Open House at Carnegie Mellon University Full conference registration includes technical sessions, proceedings, conference banquet, lunch at the SIGIR annual meeting, and two receptions. Conference Organization: Chair: Edie Rasmussen, University of Pittsburgh Program Chairs: Robert Korfhage, University of Pittsburgh Peter Willett, University of Sheffield Tutorial Chairs: Donna Harman, National Institute of Standards and Technology Joan Morrissey, University of Windsor Program Committee: Ijsbrand Jan Aalbersberg - Philips Research Laboratories Maristella Agosti - Universita' di Padova Abraham Bookstein - University of Chicago Christine Borgman - UCLA Giorgio Brajnik - Universita' di Udine Chris Buckley - Cornell University Yves Chiaramella - LGI-IMAG Kenneth Church - Bell Laboratories Richard Fowler - University of Texas - Pan American Ophir Frieder - George Mason University Norbert Fuhr - Universitaet Dortmund Michael Gordon - University of Michigan Peter Ingwersen - Royal School of Librarianship, Copenhagen Kalervo Jarvelin - University of Tampere Marcia D. Kerchner - The MITRE Corporation Kui Lam Kwok - Queens College, CUNY D. Lucarella - CRA-ENEL David Lewis - AT&T Bell Laboratories Sung H. Myaeng - Syracuse University Michael Nelson - University of Western Ontario Kai A. Olsen - Molde College, Norway A. Stephen Pollitt - University of Huddersfield Lisa Rau - GE Research and Development Center Stephen E. Robertson - The City University, London Ernst Schuegraf - St. Francis Xavier University, Nova Scotia Alan F. Smeaton - Dublin City University Linda C. Smith - University of Illinois Padmini Srinivasan - University of Iowa Craig Stanfill - Thinking Machines Corporation Keith van Rijsbergen - Glasgow University Jean-Luc Vidick - Telinfo, Brussels SIGIR '93 PROGRAM Tutorials Sunday, June 27, 1993 AM: Introduction to Information Retrieval Keith van Rijsbergen, University of Glasgow Developing Information Retrieval Applications using Object Database Technology David J. Harper, University of Glasgow Trends in Multimedia Development Alan Griffiths, University of Sheffield PM: Natural Language Processing for Information Retrieval David Lewis and Elizabeth Liddy, AT&T Bell Labs. & Syracuse University Information Retrieval and Databases Norbert Fuhr, University of Dortmund, Germany Non-Textual Compression in Full-Text IR Systems Shmuel T. Klein, Bar-Ilan University, Israel Technical Sessions Monday, June 28, 1993 Session 1: Keynote Address, From Data to Information: Where is the Knowledge? Bruce Buchanan, University of Pittsburgh Session 2: Inference Networks David Haines & W. Bruce Croft, Relevance Feedback and Inference Networks P.D. Bruza & L.C. van der Gaag, Efficient Context-Sensitive Plausible Inference for Information Disclosure Kostas Tzeras & Stephan Hartmann, Automatic Indexing Based on Bayesian Inference Networks Session 3: Donna Harman, Overview of the First Text REtrieval Conference (TREC) Session 4: Full Text Analysis Gerard Salton, J. Allan, & Chris Buckley, Approaches to Passage Retrieval in Full Text Information Systems Marti A. Hearst & Christian Plaunt, Subtopic Structuring for Full-Length Document Access Chris D. Paice & Paul A. Jones, The Identification of Important Concepts in Highly Structured Technical Papers Session 5: Compression & Signature Files A. Bookstein, S.T. Klein, and Timo Raita, Is Huffman Coding Dead? Gordon Linoff & Craig Stanfill, Compression of Indexes with Full Positional Information in Very Large Text Databases Deniz Aktug & Fazli Can, Analysis of Multiterm Queries in a Dynamic Signature File Organization Tuesday, June 29, 1993 Session 6: Association Methods S.K.M. Wong & Y.J. Cai, Computation of Term Associations by a Neural Network Rodrigo A. Botafogo, Cluster Analysis for Hypertext Systems Douglass R. Cutting, David R. Karger, & Jan O. Pedersen, Constant Interaction-Time Scatter-Gather Browsing of Very Large Document Collections Session 7: Query Expansion Peter G. Anick & Rex A. Flynn, Integrating a Dynamic Lexicon with a Dynamic Full-Text Retrieval System Efthimis N. Efthimiadis, A user-centred evaluation of ranking algorithms for interactive query expansion. Yonggang Qiu & Hans-Peter Frei, Concept Based Query Expansion Session 8: Linguistic Analysis Ellen M. Voorhees, Using WordNet to Disambiguate Word Senses for Text Retrieval Julian Kupiec, MURAX: A Robust Linguistic Approach for Question Answering Using an On-Line Encyclopedia Robert Krovetz, Viewing Morphology as an Inference Process Session 9: Structured Text Michael Fuller, Eric Mackie, Ron Sacks-David, & Ross Wilkinson, Coherent Answers for a Large Structured Document Collection Pekka Kilpelinen & Heikki Mannila, Retrieval from hierarchical texts by partial patterns Session 10: Panel on Natural Language Processing for Information Management David Evans, Lessons from the CLARIT project Jaime G. Carbonell, Lessons from TIPSTER/ SHOGUN/JANUS Sergei Nirenburg, Lessons from PANGLOSS Session 11: Processing for Japanese Text Yasushi Ogawa, Ayako Bessho, & Masako Hirose, Simple Word Strings as Compound Keywords: An Indexing and Ranking Method for Japanese Texts Hideo Fujii & W. Bruce Croft, A Comparison of Indexing Techniques for Japanese Text Retrieval Wednesday, June 30, 1993 Session 12: Interface Issues Edward A. Fox, Robert K. France, Eskinder Sahle, Amjad Daoud, & Ben E. Cline, Development of a Modern OPAC: From REVTOLC to MARIAN Daniel E. Rose, Richard Mander, Tim Oren, Dulce B. Poncelen, Gitta Salomon, & Yin Yin Wong, Content Awareness in a File System Interface: Implementing the 'Pile' Metaphor for Organizing Information Gert Schmeltz Pedersen, A Browser for Bibliographic Information Retrieval, Based on an Application of Lattice Theory Session 13: Mathematical Models Yiming Yang & Christopher G. Chute, An Application of Least Squares Fit Mapping to Text Information Retrieval Joon Ho Lee, Won Yong Kim, Myoung Ho Kim, & Yoon Joon Lee, On the Evaluation of Boolean Operators in the Extended Boolean Retrieval Framework Carlo Meghini, Fabrizio Sebastiani, Umberto Straccia & Costantion Thanos, A Model of Information Retrieval based on a Terminological Logic Session 14: DBMS/IR integration Norbert Fuhr, A Probabilistic Relational Model for the Integration of IR and Databases Peter Schuble, SPIDER: A Multiuser Information Retrieval System for Semistructured and Dynamic Data Session 15: Query Processing and Evaluation David Hull, Evaluation and Relevance Feedback Nicholas J. Belkin, C. Cool, W. Bruce Croft, & James P. Callan, Effect of Multiple Query Representations on Information Retrieval System Performance James P. Callan & W. Bruce Croft, Evaluation of Query Processing Strategies Using the TIPSTER Collection Demonstrations (concurrent with sessions) Coordinator: Philip J. Smith Thursday, July 1, 1993 Post-conference research workshops: User Interfaces for Online Public Access Catalogs Information Access and the Networks (see more information on this at the very end of this entire message) Tours: Tour and Open House at Carnegie Mellon University Frank Lloyd Wright's Fallingwater REGISTRATION INFORMATION Registration Fees: Conference: Before May 15 After May 15 ACM Members $250. $275. Non Members 300. 325. Full Time Students 100. 110. One Day 100. 100. Tutorials: ACM Members 130. 200. Non Members 150. 225. Full Time Students 100. 110. Workshops 50. 50. Tours 20. 20. Conference Hotel All sessions will be held at The Pittsburgh Hilton & Towers. Reservations at the conference rate ($95.00 plus tax per night for a single or double room) can be made by calling 412-391-4600 (or 1-800-HILTONS within the U.S.), and asking for the Association for Computing Machinery SIGIR group rate. The deadline for reservations is May 27th. Reservations made after the deadline are subject to availability and may be billed at a higher rate. Cancellations made less than 48 hours prior to arrival will incur a charge for one night's lodging. Air Travel to Pittsburgh USAir has been designated the official carrier for the attendees of the conference. USAir offers an exclusive low fare for attendees, which will offer a 5% discount off First Class and any published USAir promotional round trip fare. A 10% discount off unrestricted coach fares will apply with 7 day advance reservations and ticketing required. These discounts are valid providing all rules and restrictions are met and are applicable for travel from the Continental United States, Bahamas, Canada and San Juan, PR. Convention discounts are not combined with other discounts or promotions. Additional restrictions may apply on international travel. These convention discounts are valid between June 25 and July 2, 1993. To obtain the convention discount, attendees or their travel agent should call USAir's Meeting and Convention Reservation Office at 1-800-334-8644, 8:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m. EST. Refer to gold file no. 13400020. FOR FURTHER PROGRAM AND REGISTRATION INFORMATION CONTACT: SIGIR '93 Conference Secretariat School of Library and Information Science University of Pittsburgh Pittsburgh, PA 15260, USA tel: (412) 624-9459; fax: (412) 648-7001 email: sigir@lis.pitt.edu - - - - - - - -- - - - - ----- - - - -- - - - - - - - -- - - - - - -- - PRE-CONFERENCE TUTORIALS Sunday, June 27, 1993 SIGIR tutorials provide an opportunity to learn the basics of IR or to learn about a new or specialized area from experts in the field. This year, six half-day tutorials are available prior to the main program, held in parallel sessions during the morning and afternoon. Separate registration is required for tutorials. Morning Tutorials: 8:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. Introduction to Information Retrieval Keith van Rijsbergen, University of Glasgow This tutorial will enable participants to reach an understanding of the science and engineering underlying information retrieval research and development. It is aimed at anyone who wants to: (a) do research in IR but has little or no basic knowledge in the subject; (b) examine the state of research and development in IR for commercial purposes; (c) teach IR at advanced undergraduate or postgraduate level but has no prior knowledge; (d) think about IR but has rarely thought about it before and does not know where to start. The tutorial will answer the following questions: (a) What is IR? (b) What are sensible models for IR? (c) How to measure things in IR. (d) What impact has IR research had on the existing technology? The tutorial will include a demonstration of a current system. The reward for participants a feel for the excitement of state-of-the-art in IR! Keith van Rijsbergen was born in Holland in 1943. He was educated in Holland, Indonesia, Namibia and Australia. He took a degree in mathematics at the University of Western Australia. As a graduate he spent two years tutoring in mathematics while studying computer science. In 1972 he completed a Ph.D. in computer science at Cambridge University. After almost three years of lecturing in information retrieval and artificial intelligence at Monash University he returned to the Cambridge Computer Laboratory to hold a Royal Society Information Research Fellowship. In 1980 he was appointed to the chair of computer science at University College Dublin; from there he moved in 1986 to the Glasgow University where he is now, and indeed is head of department. Since about 1969 his research has been devoted to information retrieval, covering both theoretical and experimental aspects. He has specified several theoretical models for IR and seen some of them from the specification and prototype stage through to production. His current research is concerned with the design of appropriate logics to model the flow of information. He is also involved in several Esprit projects concentrating on the engineering issues associated with the building of IR systems. He is a fellow of the IEE and a member of the BCS. In 1993 he was appointed Editor-in-Chief of The Computer Journal. He has also recently been appointed a member of the Advisory Committee for GMD in Germany. Developing Information Retrieval Applications using Object Database Technology David J. Harper, University of Glasgow The field of information retrieval (IR) has yielded a range of techniques for efficiently and effectively storing and retrieving information items based on their text content. The utility of many application systems could be greatly enhanced by employing these techniques. Examples of such applications include office information systems, hypertext systems, and advanced information systems for government and industry. In this tutorial we describe how modern IR techniques, namely automatic indexing and best-match retrieval, can be efficiently implemented and conveniently delivered to application developers using object-oriented design and object database technology. We examine some sample applications and thereby demonstrate that the resultant IR framework, which takes the form of a class library, is both useable and extensible by application developers. We argue that our approach has a number of advantages over traditional mechanisms of delivery such as standalone packages and conventional programming language libraries. The tutorial is aimed at software designers and engineers who want to employ modern IR techniques within application systems, academics and researchers who are interested in implementing, experimenting with or prototyping IR systems, and managers wanting to assess the benefits of implementing IR applications using object database technology. Basic knowledge of IR and database concepts is assumed. A brief introduction to object-oriented concepts and object database technology will be provided. David J. Harper is a lecturer in the Department of Computing Science, University of Glasgow, Scotland. He is a principal investigator in Glasgow on the EEC-funded ESPRIT project Comandos, which is concerned with the construction and management of distributed open systems, and he leads a major research stream on object data management services. His other research interests include information retrieval systems, object-oriented design and programming, formal specification of database systems, and office information systems. He received his B.Sc.(Hons) in Computer Science from Monash University, Australia, in 1973 and his Ph.D. in Computing Science from the University of Cambridge, England, in 1980. Trends in Multimedia Development Alan Griffiths, University of Sheffield New products and applications for multimedia are being announced almost daily and there is a considerable hype over what is still a commercially insecure field with ill-defined standards and user groups. This tutorial will provide a stimulating overview of multimedia and will discuss a wide range of examples including computer-assisted-learning (CAL), image banks, electronic books and virtual reality. The currently available multimedia products and services will be examined to look for trends in development and these will be extrapolated into the future to propose products and services which will take advantage of the hardware, software and intellect combinations to create imaginative learning and information environments. This enthusiastic view will be tempered by discussing the very real, and unresolved, problems in designing large multimedia systems. The aims of the tutorial are: (a) To provide an overview of current and future trends in multimedia; (b) To provide thought-provoking possibilities for information products incorporating multimedia; (c) To stimulate discussion on how information retrieval techniques can and are being implemented into multimedia products. The attendees for this tutorial will be people interested in the stimulating prospects that multimedia offers, but not necessarily specialists in the field. Multimedia will not provide a solution to information retrieval but it can provide front-end systems which use the algorithms and techniques outlined elsewhere in the conference. Alan Griffiths is an independent consultant working in the areas of database and multimedia design, and is also a part-time lecturer in multimedia at the Department of Information Studies, University of Sheffield, England. Over the past ten years he has completed consultancies for a diverse group of clients ranging from heavy industry to public sector organizations. These clients have included Birmingham City Council, the Council for British Archaeology, Hewlett Packard, various parts of the British government, Basil Blackwells, Bridon Ropes and the Health & Safety Executive. His hazardous chemical software, produced for the Health & Safety Executive, is marketed by HMSO and used world-wide. His presentations on multimedia have been given to academic groups, software houses, companies and the public in England, France, Italy, Canada and Mexico. Afternoon Tutorials: 1:30 - 5:30 p.m. Natural Language Processing for Information Retrieval David Lewis and Elizabeth Liddy, AT&T Bell Laboratories and Syracuse University Our subject is the application of natural language processing (NLP) methods to information retrieval (IR) systems. We will discuss the characteristics of human language that make IR difficult, and will provide an extensive treatment of both NLP methods and their non-NLP alternatives for addressing these characteristics. We will also discuss the newer area of using IR components to aid NLP systems. This tutorial should be of interest both to researchers interested in past work and current research directions, and to application developers and managers who need to choose practical strategies for immediate implementation. Linguistic examples will be drawn primarily from English and Japanese, with a scattering from other languages. A bibliography on NLP and IR will be distributed. David D. Lewis (lewis@research.att.com) is a Member of Technical Staff at AT&T Bell Laboratories in Murray Hill, NJ, where his research areas are IR, NLP, machine learning, and their intersections. Lewis has implemented a variety of experimental and operational IR and NLP systems, as well as being an organizer for several large scale evaluations of such software. Elizabeth D. Liddy (liddy@suvm.syr.edu) is an assistant professor in the School of Information Studies at Syracuse University, where her research areas are discourse linguistics, semantic disambiguation, and the use of natural language processing in information systems. She is a co-principal investigator on the DR-LINK project funded under the DARPA Tipster initiative on text retrieval and filtering. Information Retrieval and Databases Norbert Fuhr, University of Dortmund, Germany Besides basic database functions such as concurrency, recovery, security and integrity, future IR systems will also need data modelling concepts for coping with structured documents and powerful query languages in order to ask for any kind of object in the database (for example authors, affiliations, journals). On the other hand, database systems are required to handle textual attributes and to provide appropriate text retrieval facilities. This tutorial will present specific database concepts which are important for both types of systems. After a short introduction to basic database concepts, three major lines of research will be considered: modelling data structure (relational and NF2 models); modelling structure and behavior (object-oriented databases); and modelling uncertainty (Fuzzy, Bayesian and Dempster-Shafer approaches). For each of these approaches, examples for their application to IR problems will be presented. The target audience is those who have basic knowledge in IR and now want to learn about the database aspects of the field. The course would be most useful for people designing or building IR or database systems. Norbert Fuhr is professor in the computer science department of the University of Dortmund, Germany. He holds a diploma and doctorate in Computer Science from the Technical University of Darmstadt. He is well-known for his theoretical and experimental work on probabilistic IR models. Recently, his research interests have focused on the application of IR methods to factual databases and the integration of IR and database systems. Non-Textual Compression in Full-Text IR Systems Shmuel T. Klein, Bar-Ilan University, Israel Data compression has received increased attention lately, resulting in a large number of recent publications in this area. The tutorial presents an overview of these recent developments. We shall first classify the various types of files that appear in a full-text retrieval system. The focus will be on the auxiliary structured files, such as dictionaries, concordances and various forms of bitmaps, (which may significantly enhance the retrieval algorithms) and will present state of the art approaches for compressing them. The tutorial is intended for researchers, designers and users of large textual IR systems. By the end of the tutorial, the participant should be able, for a given file, to choose the appropriate compression technique and design his/her own encoding and decoding routines. Shmuel T. Klein received his Ph.D. from the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel. He then spent three years at the University of Chicago and is now at Bar-Ilan University in Israel. Dr. Klein has worked on two of the world's largest natural language full-text information retrieval systems: the Responsa Project at Bar-Ilan University (in Hebrew), and the Tresor de la Langue Francaise at the University of Chicago (in French), and has published several papers on various aspects of compression in IR systems. - - -- - - - - - - - ---more on IANET '93- - - ---- - INFORMATION ACCESS AND THE NETWORKS A Research Workshop (held after SIGIR'93) July 1, 1993 --- Pittsburgh, PA Information access involving networks is one of the most important growth areas in the broad field of information technology. User demand has caused a massive growth in the size of the Internet and the amount of information accessible on it. This has made it imperative to develop new technologies to provide an infrastructure for this new information space. This workshop will bring together researchers and developers to discuss network-based information services in both general and specific terms, drawing upon those attending ACM SIGIR '93 and the communities related to: * Archie * Digital Libraries * Gopher * HyperPage * Knowbots * NCSA Mosaic * NNTP/Usenet * Prospero * Veronica * WAIS * WWW (WorldWideWeb) * Z39.50 along with other related initiatives, protocols, systems, and services. Attendees will include persons with an active interest in network-based information systems and relevant research. Presentations will include design and implementation of client-server architectures, resource discovery, distributed file systems and services, development of integrated network tools, and innovative applications of more basic technologies, such as bulletin board systems and electronic mail. The workshop format involves a plenary session from 8:30-11:30 a.m. with invited speakers, each of them addressing a major theme in the area of wide-area networking. After some discussion, the workshop will break up into groups, starting with a working lunch. The organization of these groups and assignment of participants to them will be based on a short interest statement provided by each participant. The workshop will conclude with brief summary presentations by group leaders. Notes from the plenary talks and interest statements will be provided to attendees and made available for online access after the workshop. In addition to discussion of the initiatives, protocols, systems, and services listed above, other topics of interest include: * scaling - to handle more users, more databases or documents, bigger databases, larger data items (e.g., multimedia) * efficiency - algorithms, data structures, simulations, experiments * effectiveness - evaluation methods, studies, designs * interfaces - platforms, user needs, development methods, evaluations, integration with other applications * limitations and future plans for enhancement * progress in developing standards or using existing ones * technical details relating to protocols, implementations * user studies, application surveys, innovative uses * integration - plans, designs, requirements, implementations of systems to integrate information access over the networks * novel applications using network-enabled information access technology. If you are interested in attending, please prepare a 1-page statement of interest, covering your background, experience, and topics of interest. Priority, in case of limited space, will be given to SIGIR attendees and those who have submitted interest statements. The Program Committee includes: George Brett, CNIDR Edward Fox, Chair (of workshop, SIGIR), Virginia Tech Jose-Marie Griffiths, U. Tenn. Brewster Kahle, WAIS Inc. Clifford Lynch, U. California Craig Stanfill, Thinking Machines Craig Summerhill, Coalition for Networked Information Chris Tomer, Co-chair and local arrangements coordinator Interest statements should be submitted by May 15. They may accompany registration forms or be sent directly to: Chris Tomer School of Library and Information Science University of Pittsburgh Pittsburgh, PA 15260, USA tel: (412) 624-9448; fax: (412) 648-7001 email: ianet@lis.pitt.edu Further information is available from: Ed Fox, (fox@fox.cs.vt.edu; foxea@vtcc1.bitnet) or Chris Tomer (ianet@lis.pitt.edu) Cost for this one-day session is $50, which includes coffee breaks and lunch.