LINGUIST List 7.982

Thu Jul 4 1996

Confs: Cross-Linguistic Information Retrieval Workshop

Editor for this issue: Ljuba Veselinova <lveselinemunix.emich.edu>

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1. Gregory Grefenstette, SIGIR96 Cross Linguistic Workshop Schedule

Please note, the deadline for early registration is July 7, 1996!

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 SIGIR'96
 WORKSHOP ON CROSS-LINGUISTIC INFORMATION RETRIEVAL
 CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
 August 22, 1996

 Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH)
 Zurich, Switzerland

BACKGROUND:

As more and more information sources are becoming available on the
Web, the portion of internationally available non-English text is
slowing growing, and surely the numbers of non-English speaking users
is growing much faster. The problem of accessing unrestricted
information with queries expressed in a language different from the
source language of the documents will become more widespread. This
workshop brings together researchers working on this problem of
cross-linguistic multilingual information retrieval.

PRESENTATIONS:

8:30 -- 10:00

Advances in Cross-linguistic Information Retrieval at Computing
Research Laboratory
- Mark Davis, CRL, New Mexico State University, USA

Evaluating Cross-Language Text Filtering Effectiveness
- Douglas W. Oard and Bonnie J. Dorr, Univ. Maryland, USA

Automatic Cross-Linguistic Information Retrieval using Latent Semantic
Indexing
- Susan T. Dumais, Thomas K. Landauer, Michael L. Littman,
 Bellcore, U. Colorado, U. Brown, USA

10:00-10:30 Coffee Break

10:30 -- 12:00

Cross Language Information Retrieval: A System for Comparable Corpus
Querying
- Carol Peters, Eugenio Picchi, CNR, Italy

A Language Conversion Front-end for Cross-Linguistic Information
Retrieval
- YAMABANA Kiyoshi, MURAKI Kazunori, DOI Shinichi,
 KAMEI Shinichiro, NEC, Japan

Dictionary Methods for Cross-Linguistic Information
Retrieval
- Lisa Ballesteros and Bruce Croft, Univ, Massachussetts, USA

12:00 -- 13:30 LUNCH

13:30 -- 15:00

The SYSTRAN NLP Browser: An Application of Machine Translation
Technology in Multilingual Information Retrieval
- Denis A. Gachot, Elke Lange, Jin Yang, SYSTRAN, USA

Building a Large Multilingual Test Collection
from Comparable News Documents
- Paraic Sheridan, Jean Paul Ballerini, Peter Schauble,
 ETH, Switzerland

A New Methodology for Testing Retrieval Efficiency for Multiscriptual
Databases, Applied on Testing the Efficiency of Arabic Natural
Language in OPACs
- Charlotte Wien, Odense University, Denmark



FURTHER INFORMATION

Detailed information on the SIGIR '96 conference is available on the World
Wide Web. URL: http://www.ubilab.ubs.ch/sigir96/welcome.html. Questions
should be addressed to sigir96ubilab.ubs.ch.


WORKSHOP ORGANISERS:
Gregory Grefenstette, Rank Xerox Research Centre, France
Alan Smeaton, Dublin City University
Paraic Sheridan, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Switzerland



REGISTRATION:

To register, please complete and return the following registration
form. One may register for only the Workshop. Return by July 7 to
qualify for early registration.

Registration Fees

Conference Until July 7 After July 7
Members of cooperating organizations CHF 450 CHF 530
Non-members CHF 540 CHF 620
Full-time Students CHF 240 CHF 300
One-day Registration CHF 240 CHF 300

Tutorials
Members of cooperating organizations
 One Tutorial CHF 180 CHF 270
 Two Tutorials CHF 300 CHF 530
Non-members
 One Tutorial CHF 240 CHF 330
 Two Tutorials CHF 420 CHF 600
Full-time Student
 One Tutorial CHF 120 CHF 180
 Two Tutorials CHF 180 CHF 300

Workshops CHF 55 CHF 65

Additional Banquet Ticket CHF 110 CHF 110
Pilatus Tour * CHF 135 CHF 135
Guided Tour of Zurich ** CHF 18 CHF 18

* minimum number of people: 35
** minimum number of people: 10



 SIGIR'96 REGISTRATION FORM

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 The 19th Annual International
 ACM SIGIR Conference on
 Research and Development in
 Information Retrieval
 Zurich, August 18 - 22, 1996

Please use block letters or type, and tick where appropriate

__ Mr. __ Ms. __ Dr. __ Prof. Other: ______

LAST NAME:________________ FIRST NAME:_______________________

BADGE NAME (if different): __________________________________

COMPANY/ORGANIZATION:________________________________________


ADDRESS:_____________________________________________________

CITY:__________________ STATE:______ ZIP CODE: __________

COUNTRY:_______________ PHONE: ( ___ )____________________


FAX: ( ___ ) _______________ EMAIL: ________________________

__ please tick if this will be your first SIGIR conference and you will attend
the Newcomers' breakfast.

CONFERENCE REGISTRATION FEES:

__ Member of ACM, AICA-GLIR, BCS-IRSG,
 CEPIS-EIRSG, GI, IPSJ, OECG, or SI Membership number: _________________
__ Non-member
__ Full-time Student (proof required)
__ One-day Registration:
 M T W (please circle one)

 REGISTRATION: CHF ________________


Tutorials:

AM: __ Approaches __ Logic

PM: __ Evaluation __ Models __ Digital Libraries

 TUTORIALS: CHF ________________

Workshops:

__ Visualization __ Curriculum __ Research & Practice


__ Cross-Linguistic IR __ Networked IR

 WORKSHOPS: CHF ________________

Special Events:

Additional banquet tickets (how many): ___

For (names): ________________________

 BANQUET: CHF _______________

Tour to Pilatus and Lucerne:___

Guided tour of Zurich: ___

 TOURS: CHF_________________

 TOTAL CHF ________________

DO YOU HAVE ANY SPECIAL NEEDS (e.g. vegetarian food)? Please specify:
___________________________________________________________

METHOD OF PAYMENT (CHF currency only):

__ Check payable to SIGIR '96

__ Credit card (Visa, Euro/Mastercard)

____________________________________
Credit card number, expiration date

______________________________________
Signature, date
(I authorize to charge my account fees indicated above)

Return registration form by July 7 to qualify for early
registration. Use fax or email (credit card payment) or mail
(check or credit card) to:

SIGIR'96
Ubilab, Union Bank of Switzerland
P.O. Box 2336, 8033 Zurich, Switzerland
Phone: +41-1-236-5714; Fax: +41-1-234-6518
sigir96ubilab.ubs.ch

If you register by fax or E-mail, please also send the original
registration form by regular mail.

HOTELS

The SIGIR'96 Organization Committee has reserved rooms at a number of
hotels in Zurich for the period August 16-23, 1996. See URL
http://www.ubilab.ubs.ch/sigir96/Accom.html for a hotel booking form
and further details.