IRLIST Digest ISSN 1064-6965 August 22, 1994 Volume XI, Number 29 Issue 222 ********************************************************** III. NOTICES B. Meetings 1. SIGIR '95 ********************************************************** III. NOTICES III.B.1. Fr: Edie Rasmussen Re: Call For Papers -- SIGIR '95 CALL FOR PAPERS SIGIR'95 18th International Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval The Sheraton, Seattle, WA, USA July 9 - July 13, 1995 Sponsored by ACM and in co-operation with: AICA-GLIR (Italy) BCS-IRSG (UK) CEPIS-EIRSG (Europe) DD (Denmark) GI (Germany) IPSJ (Japan) ABOUT THE CONFERENCE: SIGIR'95 is an international research conference on information retrieval theory, systems, and applications. The ACM SIGIR conference occurs annually, alternating between locations in North America and elsewhere (e.g., Europe). This conference will interest a broad spectrum of professionals including theoreticians, developers, publishers, researchers, educators, and designers of systems, interfaces, information bases, and related applications. TOPICS: Though we look for all good, innovative submissions in the broad field of information storage and retrieval (IR), the following list of topics may make clearer some of the areas that are of particular interest: 1. IR FUNDAMENTALS (focusing on one or combinations of the following): A. Types: text, hypertext, multimedia (including audio, images, video) B. Representations: source, conversions, storage, presentation C. Information structures, interaction, time-based issues D. Processing: indexing, analysis, compression, retrieval, rendering, publishing E. Systems: design, implementation, measures, evaluation, architectures, scalability, integration with DBMS F. Theories and models, evaluation G. Reasoning: logic, case-based H. Standards: SGML (and HTML), HyTime, MPEG, Z39.50, HTTP 2. USERS AND IR INTERACTION: A. Modeling, empirical studies B. Interface design, human-computer interaction, visualization C. IR tasks, including query formulation and expansion D. IR and information seeking behavior 3. IR AND COGNITIVE APPROACHES: A. Natural language processing, linguistic resources, multilingual systems B. Knowledge bases and their use C. Learning: genetic algorithms, neural nets D. Pattern matching, uncertainty, data fusion 4. DEDICATED IR APPLICATIONS: A. Digital libraries: architectures, prototypes, studies, issues B. Networked information (e.g., WAIS, WWW): infrastructure, tools, systems, protocols, collections, interfaces, case studies, intellectual property rights 5. EDUCATION IN IR: A. Curriculum, training B. Tools, systems INSTRUCTIONS FOR CONTRIBUTORS: Submissions to SIGIR'95 can be in the form of contributed papers, tutorials, panels, posters or demonstrations, and should be made to the relevant Chairs, as outlined below. With the exception of Papers and Posters, submissions may be made via e-mail (ascii text). All submissions should include complete contact information for participants, including mail address, telephone, fax and e- mail. IMPORTANT DATES Today: E-mail to be added to mailing list JAN. 6, 1995 Submission of papers to relevant Program Co-chair FEB. 10, 1995 Submission of proposals for tutorials, panels, demonstrations, posters, and workshops to the relevant Chair MAR. 10, 1995 Author notification APR. 3, 1995 Final manuscript due in camera ready and electronic forms FOR FURTHER INFORMATION: Detailed information regarding submissions is available via anonymous ftp from ftp.u.washington.edu (/public/sigir95/cfp). Questions should be addressed to the Conference Chair or sigir95@u.washington.edu. CONFERENCE ORGANIZATION: General Conference Chair: Raya Fidel GSLIS, FM-30 University of Washington Seattle, WA 98195, USA fidelr@u.washington.edu Tel: +1-206-543-1888 Fax: +1-206-685-8049 Program Co-chairs: (N and S America, Asia) (Europe, Africa, Australia) Edward A. Fox Peter Ingwersen Department of Computer Science Royal School of Librarianship Virginia Tech Birketinget 6 Blacksburg, VA 24061-0160, USA DK 2300 Copenhagen S, Denmark fox@vt.edu biskpi@unidhp.uni-c.dk Tel: +1-703-231-5113 Tel: +45 31 58 60 66 Fax: +1-703-231-6075 Fax: +45 32 84 02 01 Tutorials and Panels Chair: Posters Chair: Joan Morrissey Elizabeth D. Liddy School of Computer Science School of Information Studies University of Windsor Syracuse University Ontario N9B 3P4, Canada Syracuse, NY 13244, USA joan@cs.uwindsor.ca liddy@mailbox.syr.edu Tel: +1-519-253-4232 ext 2992 Tel: +1-315-443-2911 Fax: +1-519-973-7093 Fax: +1-315-443-5806 Demonstrations Chair: Workshops Chair: Efthimis N. Efthimiadis Katie Hover GSLIS Research Librarian University of California Microsoft Corporation Los Angeles, CA 20024, USA One Microsoft Way efthimis@gslis.ucla.edu Redmond, WA 98052, USA Tel: +1-310-825-8975 katieh@microsoft.com Fax: +1-310-206-4460 Tel: +1-206-936-8082 Fax: +1-206-936-7329 Program Committee: Ijsbrand Jan Aalbersberg, Phillips, USA Maristella Agosti, U. Padua, Italy Richard K. Belew, UC San Diego, USA Nicholas Belkin, Rutgers U., USA Abraham Bookstein, U. Chicago, USA Christine Borgman, UCLA, USA Giorgio Brajnik, U. Udine, Italy Peter D. Bruza, QUT, Australia Forbes Burkowski, Waterloo U., Canada Yves Chiaramella, LGI-IMAG, France W. 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