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compapp.dcu.ie>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.Mail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue