Computing Science Department,
University of Dortmund, Germany

For the CLASSIX project funded by the German Science Foundation (DFG), the Information Retrieval group at the University of Dortmund is looking for a research assistant, starting January 1, 2002.

CLASSIX is a joint project of the University of Dortmund and the University of Saarbrucken (Prof. Dr. Gerhard Weikum,
http://www-dbs.cs.uni-sb.de ). The project focuses on the development of models and methods for information retrieval of XML documents. The major goal will be the development of an expressive query language for XML, including efficient methods for query processing. For this purpose, the query language XIRQL developed in Dortmund
http://ls6-www.cs.uni-dortmund.de/ir/publications/2001/Fuhr_Grossjohann:01.html will have to be extended towards the XQuery language http://www.w3c.org/XML/Query developed by the W3C WG on XML query languages.
As with most DFG projects, the duration of the contract is initially limited to 2 years, with good chances for extensions by another 2 or even 4 years.

Due to the strong research orientation of the project, the person filling the position is expected to work on his/her further scientific qualification (e.g. doing a PhD (doctorate)

Payment will be according to German BAT IIa (approx. 35000 Euros p.a.).

We are looking for applicants having a diploma or master in computer science or related areas, with specific knowledge in information retrieval and/or database systems.

Our research group works in the area of digital libraries and information retrieval. We are involved in a number of other national and European research projects in this area. Currently, our team consists of six researchers. For further details, see
http://ls6-www.informatik.uni-dortmund.de/ir/

Please send your application to:
Prof. Dr. Norbert Fuhr
Informatik VI
University of Dortmund
D-44221 Dortmund
Germany
fuhr@cs.uni-dortmund.de

Prof. Dr. Norbert Fuhr : Street address:
Informatik VI :August-Schmidt-Str. 12
University of Dortmund :44227 Dortmund
44221 Dortmund
Tel: +49 231/755-2045, -2779
Fax: +49 231/755-2405
Germany
Email: fuhr@cs.uni-dortmund.de
http://ls6-www.cs.uni-dortmund.de/ir/

Announcement: Tenure Track Position

Department Of Library And Information Science
Rutgers University

The Department of LIS seeks applicants for a tenure-track position to begin Fall 2002. We are looking for candidates with teaching and research expertise in one or more of the following areas:
Information retrieval
Information technology and networks
Organization and management of information and knowledge
Human computer interaction and computer interfaces

The Department of Library and Information Science is leading Rutgers University in accomplishing its strategic plan in the area of information sciences and technology. The Department seeks dynamic scholars to build upon its internationally recognized program of research, teaching and service. Qualifications for these positions include a Doctorate in an appropriate field; research and publications commensurate with experience; evidence of ability to carry out a research agenda; potential for teaching excellence. ThIS position requires an individual who can effectively participate in the following academic programs: a new undergraduate program in Information Technology and Informatics; a Master of Library and Information Science (M.L.I.S.) program; and, an interdisciplinary Ph.D. program in Communication, Information and Library Studies.

Review of applicants will begin on October 15, 2001 and continue until the position is filled. Priority will be given to applicants applying by December 1, 2001. Applications, consisting of a cover letter, curriculum vitae, and names and contact addresses of three references, should be sent to:

Carol C. Kuhlthau, Chair
Department of Library and Information Science
School of Communication, Information and Library Studies
4 Huntington Street
Rutgers, The State University
New Brunswick, NJ 08901-1071
Email: Kuhlthau@scils.rutgers.edu
Telephone: 732/932-7500 ext. 8217
Fax: 732/932-2644
Email: kuhlthau@scils.rutgers.edu

For further information about the school and department, refer to our Website at:
http://www.scils.rutgers.edu

Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey is an equal opportunity /affirmative action employer. Minorities, women, and persons with disabilities are encouraged to apply.

About the University: Established in 1766, Rutgers University is the eighth oldest university in the U.S. with approximately 48,000 students on three campuses. The Rutgers- New Brunswick campus is the largest campus and is conveniently located between New York and Philadelphia.

Nicholas J. Belkin
Professor and Director of the Ph.D. Program
School of Communication, Information & Library Studies
Rutgers University
4 Huntington Street
New Brunswick NJ 08901-1071 USA
Tel: +1 732 932 8585
Fax: +1 732 932 6916
Email: nick@belkin.rutgers.edu
http://scils.rutgers.edu/~belkin/belkin.html

III Notices

The resignations from the Editorial Board of the Machine Learning Journal (MLJ).

The forty people whose names appear below have resigned from the Editorial Board of the Machine Learning Journal (MLJ).We would like to make our resignations public, to explain the rationale for our action, and to indicate some of the implications that we see for members of the machine learning community worldwide.

The machine learning community has come of age during a period of enormous change in the way that research publications are circulated. Fifteen years ago research papers did not circulate easily, and as with other research communities we were fortunate that a viable commercial publishing model was in place so that the fledgling MLJ could begin to circulate. The needs of the community, principally those of seeing our published papers circulate as widely and rapidly as possible, and the business model of commercial publishers were in harmony.

Times have changed. Articles now circulate easily via the Internet, but unfortunately MLJ publications are under restricted access. Universities and research centres can pay a yearly fee of $1050 US to obtain unrestricted access to MLJ articles (and individuals can pay $120 US). While these fees provide access for institutions and individuals who can afford them, we feel that they also have the effect of limiting contact between the current machine learning community and the potentially much larger community of researchers worldwide whose participation in our field should be the fruit of the modern Internet.

None of the revenue stream from the journal makes its way back to authors, and in this context authors should expect a particularly favorable return on their intellectual contribution---they should expect a service that maximizes the distribution of their work. We see little benefit accruing to our community from a mechanism that ensures revenue for a third party by restricting the communication channel between authors and readers.

In the spring of 2000, a new journal, the Journal of Machine Learning Research (JMLR), was created, based on a new vision of the journal publication process in which the editorial board and authors retain significant control over the journal's content and distribution.
Articles published in JMLR are available freely, without limits and without conditions, at the journal's website, http://www.jmlr.org.
The content and format of the website are entirely controlled by the editorial board, which also serves its traditional function of ensuring rigorous peer review of journal articles.
Finally, the journal is also published in a hardcopy version by MIT Press.

Authors retain the copyright for the articles that they publish in JMLR. The following paragraph is taken from the agreement that every author signs with JMLR (see www.jmlr.org/forms/agreement.pdf):

You [the author] retain copyright to your article, subject only to the specific rights given to MIT Press and to the Sponsor [the editorial board] in the following paragraphs. By retaining your copyright, you are reserving for yourself among other things unlimited rights of electronic distribution, and the right to license your work to other publishers, once the article has been published in JMLR by MIT Press and the Sponsor [the editorial board]. After first publication, your only obligation is to ensure that appropriate first publication credit is given to JMLR and MIT Press.

We think that many will agree that this is an agreement that is reflective of the modern Internet, and is appealing in its recognition of the rights of authors to distribute their work as widely as possible. In particular, authors can leave copies of their JMLR articles on their own homepage.

Over the years the editorial board of MLJ has expanded to encompass all of the various perspectives on the machine-learning field, and the editorial board's efforts in this regard have contributed greatly to the sense of intellectual unity and community that many of us feel. We believe, however, that there is much more to achieve, and that our further growth and further impact will be enormously enhanced if via our flagship journal we are able to communicate more freely, easily, and universally.

Our action is not unprecedented. As documented at the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC) website, http://www.arl.org/sparc, there are many areas in science where researchers are moving to low-cost publication alternatives. One salient example is the case of the journal "Logic Programming". In 1999, the editors and editorial advisors of this journal resigned to join "Theory and Practice of Logic Programming", a Cambridge University Press journal that encourages electronic dissemination of papers.

In summary, our resignation from the editorial board of MLJ reflects our belief that journals should principally serve the needs of the intellectual community, in particular by providing the immediate and universal access to journal articles that modern technology supports, and doing so at a cost that excludes no one. We are excited about JMLR, which provides this access and does so unconditionally. We feel that JMLR provides an ideal vehicle to support the near-term and long-term evolution of the field of machine learning and to serve as the flagship journal for the field. We invite all of the members of the community to submit their articles to the journal and to contribute actively to its growth.

Sincerely yours,

Chris Atkeson
Peter Bartlett
Andrew Barto
Jonathan Baxter
Yoshua Bengio
Kristin Bennett
Chris Bishop
Justin Boyan
Carla Brodley
Claire Cardie
William Cohen
Peter Dayan
Tom Dietterich
Jerome Friedman
Nir Friedman
Zoubin Ghahramani
David Heckerman
Geoffrey Hinton
Haym Hirsh
Tommi Jaakkola
Michael Jordan
Leslie Kaelbling
Daphne Koller
John Lafferty
Sridhar Mahadevan
Marina Meila
Andrew McCallum
Tom Mitchell
Stuart Russell
Lawrence Saul
Bernhard Schoelkopf
John Shawe-Taylor
Yoram Singer
Satinder Singh
Padhraic Smyth
Richard Sutton
Sebastian Thrun
Manfred Warmuth
Chris Williams
Robert Williamson

To the Information Retrieval Community.

To the Information Retrieval Community: This issue of IRLIST contains a letter from Dr. Michael Jordan of UC Berkeley and 39 other prominent researchers who recently resigned from the Editorial Board of the Kluwer journal, Machine Learning. The letter, which argues for less restrictive access to the archival research literature, can also be seen at:
http://www.cs.orst.edu/~dambrosi/uai-archive/0822.html

This event is of interest to the information retrieval community, given that an attempt has been underway for several years to establish another Kluwer journal, Information Retrieval, as the core journal in IR. Indeed, I participated in that attempt in its early years, recruiting a number of the members of the Editorial Board. It is important to appreciate the importance to our field of having a journal focused purely on IR, and it is important to acknowledge the contribution of Paul Kantor, Steve Robertson, the Editorial Board, and the authors of papers in establishing this journal.

Over the years, however, my sentiments have come to largely reflect those of those who recently left Machine Learning. In July 2001, I resigned from the Editorial Board of Information Retrieval, and of two other journals without open archives. The World Wide Web allows broader distribution of research results than at any previous time in history, but only if changes are made in how academic publishing works.

It is important to acknowledge that many things are unclear about how academic publishing will evolve. How to reconcile open archives with the financial needs of professional organizations such as ACM is a particularly difficult question. The role of conference proceedings, with their quasi-archival status, is also unclear. These issues are being discussed in a variety of forums, including at:
http://www.nature.com/nature/debates/e-access/

Would an open archive, noncommercial, journal like JMLR (www.jmlr.org) or JAIR (www.jair.org) be viable in information retrieval? I believe it would, but to forestall the obvious question, I have no plans to found such a journal myself, or to participate more in this debate than the hour spent writing this letter. My new career as a self-supporting consultant doesn't give me that luxury.

What I can do is what each of us does: choose where to put the time I can afford to volunteer. I now serve only on the Editorial Board of JAIR, and I accept reviewing requests only from journals with open archives. If an IR journal with open archives were to be founded, I would do my best to support it. Further, I will publish journal articles on which I am the sole author only in journals with open archives.

Regards,
David D. Lewis (openarchemail@daviddlewis.com)
Independent Consultant

Dear colleagues,

In response to the widely circulated letter of resignation...

In response to the widely circulated letter of resignation of
some members of the Machine Learning journal (MLJ), I would like to
make two points:
- MLJ articles *are* universally electronically accessible
- MLJ seeks your support and input to continue serving the community

The accessibility of MLJ papers has been dramatically improved
in the past 12 months. The main changes are these:

- the copyright agreement gives the author the right to distribute
individual copies of an MLJ paper to students and colleagues,
physically and electronically, including making the paper available
from the author's personal web site.

- all MLJ papers are freely available online at Kluwer's web page
http://www.wkap.nl/kaphtml.htm/MACHFCP
from the time of acceptance until the paper appears in print.

- the individual MLJ subscription price has been dramatically reduced.
It is excellent value for money: for $120 Kluwer prints, binds,
and mails to your door around 1350 pages.

As a consequence of the first two points, MLJ articles are universally
accessible -- from Kluwer's home page in the first six months or so,
and at any time from the author's home page.

The primary purpose of paid subscriptions, in this new distribution model,
is to enable an individual or institution to obtain a bound archival copy
of the journal printed on high-quality paper -- exactly the same role
served by the printed version of JMLR sold by MIT Press.

Turning to the second point, all members of both editorial boards have
the interests of the machine learning community at heart.
Our job is to serve you.

The current members of the MLJ board, and the new members we are
in the process of adding, believe it is in the best interests
of the research community to keep MLJ alive and strong at this time.
This is not to say we hope JMLR will fail. There is ample excellent
research to support two high-quality journals, so it is not necessary
for one of the journals to be destroyed in order for the other to succeed.

If you agree that MLJ is useful to the community and has
a role to play in the future, I would like to hear from you -
feedback from the community is the very best way for me to know
how to steer MLJ's course so it best serves the community.

-- Robert Holte holte@cs.ualberta.ca
Executive Editor
Machine Learning

Stemming Algorithm website

A morphological stemmer, developed at Lancaster University in the late 1980s,
has since been implemented in several mainsteam programming languages. These
implementations can now be downloaded, free of charge, from
http://www.comp.lancs.ac.uk/computing/research/stemming/

Besides stemmer code, and a rule set for stemming English words, the website
contains various supporting documents, including a copy of the original 1990
SIGIR Forum paper describing the stemmer, and a short bibliography on stemmers
in general.

Please let me know if you have any queries or suggestions about the site.

Chris Paice
Computing Department
Lancaster University.

III.1 Publications

Special Issue on Online, Interactive, Anytime Data Mining

SIGKDD Explorations submission invitation
SIGKDD Explorations is the official newsletter of ACM's Special Interest Group (SIG) on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining. This special issue (Volume 3, Issue 2) will focus on the topic of Online, Interactive, Anytime Data Mining.

Discovering interesting nuggets in large databases can be very compute and I/O intensive. This high computational cost may be acceptable when the database is static since the discovery is done off-line, and several approaches to this problem have been presented in the literature. However, many domains with streaming data, such as electronic commerce, web mining, stock analysis, intrusion detection, fault monitoring, etc., impose time and memory constraints on the mining process. In such domains, where the databases are updated continuously and user interactions modify the search parameters, running the discovery program from scratch is unfeasible, and having the user wait inordinately long is unacceptable. Hence, there is a need for techniques that can effectively mine or handle:
i) Streaming data (online updations/deletions),
ii) User interactions (modifying/constraining the search space),
iii) Anytime response (partial/approximate results).

We invite high quality submissions on any of the above topics for this special issue. Submissions should be made to the guest editor at zaki@cs.rpi.edu . Submissions will be reviewed by the guest editor, external reviewers and/or associate editors as appropriate.

The previous issues of the SIGKDD Explorations are available online at
http://www.acm.org/sigkdd/explorations/index.htm.
SIGKDD Explorations newsletter is sent to the ACM SIGKDD membership and to a world-wide network of libraries.

Submissions can be made in any one of the following categories.
- Survey/tutorial articles (short) on important topics not exceeding 20 pages
- Topical articles on problems and challenges
- Well-articulated position papers
- Technical articles not exceeding 15 pages.
- News items on the order of 1-3 paragraphs
- Brief announcements not exceeding 5 lines in length.
- Review articles of products and methodologies not exceeding 20 pages
- Reviews/summaries from conferences, panels and special meetings.
- Reports on relevant meetings and committees related to the field

Important Dates:
Submission --- December 7th, 2001
Notification --- January 4th, 2002
Camera Ready --- January 11th, 2002

For more information on SIGKDD visit http://www.acm.org/sigkdd and for more information on the SIGKDD Explorations newsletter, please visit
http://www.acm.org/sigkdd/explorations/index.htm

Mohammed Zaki, Guest Editor
zaki@cs.rpi.edu

Usama Fayyad, Editor-in-Chief
fayyad@acm.org

Sunita Sarawagi, Associate Editor
sunita@it.iitb.ac.in

Paul Bradley, Associate Editor
paulb@digiMine.com

International Journal of Uncertainty, Fuzziness and Knowledge-Based Systems (IJUFKS)

Special Topic Issue on Management of uncertainty and imprecision in multimedia information systems
Call For Papers
Papers due: January 31st, 2002
For more details refer to the "Guidelines for contributors" included in each issue of the journal and as found on the journal web site:
http://ejournals.wspc.com.sg/journals/ijufks/mkt

The October 2001 issue of D-Lib Magazine

http://www.dlib.org/ is now available.
The table of contents is at:
http://www.dlib.org/dlib/october01/10contents.html.

Special Theme Issue On Legal And Economic Issues In Digital Libraries

The Journal of Documentation invites papers on legal and economic issues in digital libraries for a special theme issue to appear in late 2002.
Call For Papers
Manuscripts may be sent to either:

Professor Christine Borgman
Dept of Information Studies
235 GSE&IS Building
Box 951520
University of California, Los Angeles
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1520
USA
Cborgman@ucla.edu

Or to:
Professor Charles Oppenheim
Department of Information Science
Loughborough University
Loughborough,
Leics LE11 3TU
UK
C.Oppenheim@lboro.ac.uk
Tel 01509-223065
Fax 01509-223053

III.2 Meetings

6th Natural Language Processing Pacific Rim Symposium NLPRS-2001

Sponsored by NLPRS Organization, Japan
Co-Sponsored by The Association for Natural Language Processing, Japan
Supported by SIG-NLP of Information Processing Society Japan, Japan
27-30 November 2001
Tokyo, Japan
2nd Call for Participation
http://www.r.dl.itc.u-tokyo.ac.jp/NLPRS2001.html

ICDM '02: The 2002 IEEE International Conference on Data Mining

Sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society
Maebashi TERRSA, Maebashi City, Japan
November 26 - 29, 2002
Call for Papers
Important Dates
June 5, 2002 -Main track paper submissions, Industry track paper submissions
June 30, 2002 -Tutorial submissions, Panel submissions, Workshop proposals
August 9, 2002 -Paper acceptance notices
September 2, 2002 -Final camera-readies
November 26-29, 2002 -Conference
Home Page: http://kis.maebashi-it.ac.jp/icdm02
Mirror Page: http://www.wi-lab.com/icdm02
Further Information:
Professor Ning Zhong (ICDM '02)
Department of Information Engineering
Maebashi Institute of Technology
460-1, Kamisadori-Cho, Maebashi-City, 371-0816 Japan
Telephone & Fax: +81-27-265-7366
E-mail: zhong@maebashi-it.ac.jp

40th Annual Meeting Of The Association For Computational Linguistics ACL -02

7 - 12 July 2002
Philadelphia, PA, USA
Preliminary Call For Papers
Deadlines:
Paper registration deadline: January 25th, 2002
Paper submissions deadline: February 1st, 2002
Notification of acceptance: April 8th, 2002
Camera ready papers due: May 10th, 2002
ACL'02 Conference: July 6th-11th, 2002
http://www.acl02.org

Intelligent Text Processing and Computational Linguistics

CICLing-2002 3rd International Conference
February 17 to 23, 2002
Mexico City, Mexico
See:
http://www.cicling.org

The Processing Of Arabic

17-20 April 2002
Tunis - TUNISIA
First Call for Papers
Organized by Faculty of letters, La Manouba.
Department of Arabic, University of Manouba 2001,
Tunisia.
Electronic submissions should be sent to:
brahem@irsit.rnrt.tn with the subject line "Manouba 2002"
Submissions by post should be addressed to:
Faculté des Lettres la Manouba
Departement d'arabe (Colloque 2002)
2010 LA Manouba
Tunisie
Important Dates:
Submission of abstracts: November 30, 2001
Notification of acceptance: December 20, 2001
Final text: January 20, 2002

Twenty-Fifth Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval SIGIR 2002

August 11 - 15, 2002
Tampere, Finland
Call For Papers
Organized by University of Tampere and ACM

URGENT!
Please note that the deadline for the mentoring program of new authors is very close.

SIGIR is the major international forum for the presentation of new research results and for the demonstration of new systems and techniques in the broad field of information retrieval (IR). The Conference and Program Chairs invite all those working in areas related to IR to submit original research contributions, posters, and proposals for tutorials, workshops, and demonstrations of systems.

AREAS and AREA COORDINATORS
SIGIR 2002 welcomes contributions related to any aspect of IR, but the major areas of interest are listed below. For each general area, two area coordinators will guide the reviewing process.

Formal Models, Language Models, Search Strategies, Fusion/Combination
Keith van Rijsbergen, University of Glasgow, keith@dcs.gla.ac.uk
Bruce Croft, University of Massachusetts, croft@cs.umass.edu

Machine Learning for IR, Text Data Mining, Clustering, Text Categorization
William Cohen, WhizBang Labs, wcohen@whizbang.com
David D. Lewis, Independent Consultant, dave@DavidDLewis.com

Cross-language Retrieval, Multilingual Retrieval, Machine Translation for IR
Douglas Oard, University of Maryland, oard@glue.umd.edu
Carol Peters, Italian National Research Council, Pisa, Italy, carol@iei.pi.cnr.it

Topic Detection and Tracking, Content-Based Filtering, Collaborative Filtering, Agents
Stephen Robertson, Microsoft Cambridge UK, ser@microsoft.com
Jamie Callan, Carnegie Mellon University, callan+@cs.cmu.edu

Web IR, Citation and Link Analysis, XML and Metadata, Digital Libraries
David Hawking, Australian National University, David.Hawking@cmis.csiro.au
Amit Singhal, Google, singhal@google.com

Video and Image Access, Audio and Speech Retrieval, Music Retrieval
Alan Smeaton, Dublin City University, asmeaton@CompApp.DCU.ie
Mark Maybury, MITRE, maybury@mitre.org

Text Representation and Indexing, Information Extraction, Lexical Acquisition, Natural Language Processing for IR
Tomek Strzalkowski, SUNY University at Albany, tomek@cs.albany.edu
Rob Gaizauskas, University of Sheffield, R.Gaizauskas@dcs.shef.ac.uk

Performance, Compression, Scalability, Architectures, Distributed Search, Mobile Applications
Justin Zobel, RMIT University, jz@cs.rmit.edu.au
Charlie Clarke, University of Waterloo, claclark@plg.uwaterloo.ca

Interfaces, Visualization, Interactive IR, User Models, User Studies
Peter Ingwersen, Royal School of Library and Information Science, Denmark, pi@db.dk
Gary Marchionini, University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill, march@ils.unc.edu

Summarization, Question Answering
John Tait, University of Sunderland, John.Tait@sunderland.ac.uk
Jussi Karlgren, Swedish Institute of Computer Science, Stockholm, Jussi.Karlgren@sics.se

Evaluation, Building Test Collections, Experimental Design and Metrics
Ellen Voorhees, NIST, ellen.voorhees@nist.gov
Karen Sparck Jones, Cambridge University, ksj@cl.cam.ac.uk

Important Dates
October 31, 2001: Draft papers for the mentoring program due
January 28, 2002: Paper submissions due
February 28, 2002: Proposals for tutorials, workshops, demonstrations, and posters due
April 19, 2002: Notification of acceptance for all submissions
May 24, 2002: Final camera-ready copy due
June 11, 2002: Registration deadline, normal rate
August 11-15, 2002: Conference dates

Paper Submission Guidelines
Authors are invited to submit research papers, not exceeding 5000 words, representing original, previously unpublished work, on or before January 28, 2002. Papers must be submitted electronically, via the submission web page.
For requirements and details on submission of posters and on proposals for tutorials, workshops, and demonstrations of systems, see the Conference web site:
http://www.sigir2002.org/.

Mentoring Program
As part of our efforts to broaden participation, SIGIR 2002 will feature a mentoring program to assist authors with their submissions to the conference. Authors who have not previously had a full length paper accepted to SIGIR, and who are unsure about how to best prepare a paper for the SIGIR audience, will be able to request feedback on their work from an experienced SIGIR author in advance of the submission deadline.
Authors wishing to participate in the mentoring program should email a draft paper or extended abstract to the mentoring chair, Peter Anick (peter.anick@av.com) as soon as possible and no later than October 31, 2001.

Tampere - A Beautiful City Between Two Lakes
Tampere is the third-largest city in Finland and a dynamic centre of industry, culture, research and education. Thanks to its central location two-hour drive from Helsinki - and excellent services, Tampere is a very popular congress city. The conference will be held at Tampere Hall (www.tampere.fi/TampereHall ), the largest conference and concert centre in Scandinavia. It is located in the city centre, within a short walking distance from the major shopping areas. More information about Tampere at
http://www.tampere.fi/.

Conference Committee
General Chair
Kalervo Jنrvelin, University of Tampere, Finland, kalervo.jarvelin@uta.fi

Program Co-Chair - Africa/Europe
Micheline Beaulieu, University of Sheffield, UK, m.beaulieu@sheffield.ac.uk

Program Co-Chair - Americas
Ricardo Baeza-Yates, University of Chile, Chile, rbaeza@dcc.uchile.cl

Program Co-Chair - Asia/Oceania
Sung Hyon Myaeng, Chungnam National University, Korea, shmyaeng@cs.chungnam.ac.kr

Posters Chair
James Allan, University of Massachusetts, U.S.A., allan@cs.umass.edu

Tutorials Chair
Efthimis N. Efthimiadis, University of Washington, U.S.A., efthimis@u.washington.edu

Workshops Co-Chairs
Jaana Kekنlنinen, University of Tampere, Finland, jaana.kekalainen@uta.fi
Pia Borlund, Royal School of Library and Information Science, Denmark, pbj@db.dk

Demonstrations Co-Chairs
Eija Airio, University of Tampere, Finland, eija.airio@uta.fi
Mark Sanderson, University of Sheffield, UK, m.sanderson@sheffield.ac.uk

Treasurer
Leena Lahti, University of Tampere, Finland, leena.lahti@uta.fi

Exhibits Chair
Jaana Kekنlنinen, University of Tampere, Finland, jaana.kekalainen@uta.fi

Corporate Sponsors Chair
Kalervo Jarvelin, University of Tampere, Finland, kalervo.jarvelin@uta.fi

Publicity Chair
Eero Sormunen, University of Tampere, Finland, eero.sormunen@uta.fi

Local Arrangements Chair and Registration Chair
Leena Sulonen, Tampere Conference Service Ltd, Finland, leena.sulonen@tampereconference.fi

Information Architect
Pasi Kytِharju, University of Tampere, Finland, pasi.kytoharju@uta.fi

More Information
For further details, see the Conference web site http://www.sigir2002.org/.

IEEE Data Mining 2001

The 2001 IEEE International Conference on Data Mining
Doubletree Hotel, San Jose, California, USA
November 29 - December 2, 2001
Call for Participation
On-line registration (and other information) at
http://www.cs.uvm.edu/~xwu/icdm-01.html
(Register by November 6 to save $100!)
Be sure to book hotel rooms by November 7 for discounted rates!
http://www.cs.uvm.edu/~xwu/icdm/hotel-01.shtml

Libraries In The Digital Age (LIDA) 2002

Dubrovnik, Croatia
23-26 May 2002
Inter-University Centre
Don Ivana Bulica 4, 20000 Dubrovnik, Croatia.
Announcement And Call For Participation
Annual Course and Conference
http://www.hr/iuc
Course web site: http://www.ffzg.hr/infoz/lida
Course email: lida@ffzg.hr.

24th BCS-IRSG European Colloquium on IR Research

March 25-27, 2002, Glasgow, Scotland, UK
Call For Papers
Important Dates
Paper submission: 30 November 2001.
Notification of acceptance: 20 December 2001.
Final copy due: 18 January 2002.
Colloquium: 25-27 March 2002.
For further details regarding travel, programme of events, etc. see
http://www.cs.strath.ac.uk/ECIR02/

IV Projects

MSc in Speech and Language Processing

Speech Hearing and Language Research Centre
Department of Linguistics
Macquarie University
Sydney, Australia
Fees for the course, which are paid in instalments each semester, are around A$8500 for Australian students and around A$13000 for foreign residents. Further details on the course can be found at our web site:
http://www.shlrc.mq.edu.au/masters
Or by sending mail to
masters@shlrc.mq.edu.au
Steve Cassidy,
Course Convenor