Information Retrieval List Digest 035 (October 8, 1990)
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IRLIST Digest
October 8, 1990
Volume VII Number 29
Issue 35

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I. NOTICES

   A. Meetings announcements/Calls for papers

      1. RIAO '91: Intelligent Text and Image Handling
         April 2-5, 1991
         Autonoma University of Barcelona, Spain

      2. British Computer Society 13th Research Colloquium
         on Information Retrieval
         April 8-9, 1991
         Lancaster University, England

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I. NOTICES

I.A.1.
Fr: G. Peschke <usergepe%ualtamts.bitnet@ugw.utcs.utoronto.ca>
Re: RIAO '91: Intelligent Text and Image Handling
    April 2-5, 1991
    Autonoma University of Barcelona, Spain

CALL FOR PAPERS (deadline: October 30, 1990)
organized by C.I.D and CASIS
   (Co Mrs Maurice 220 East 72nd Street, New York, N.Y. 10021
    Tel. 212 879 40 19 - Fax 212 685 81 86)

Themes:
A-  Linguistic analysis for automatic text treatment
    A1- Automatic indexation
    A2- Automatic Abstracts
    A3- Natural Language Interrogation
    A4- Multilingual Interface.
B-  Construction and utilisation of large linguistic Knowledge
    bases (electronic dictionaries, thesaurus, belingual
    dictionaries)
C-  Confidentiality in Information retrieval systems
D-  Multilingual interrrogation and computer assisted translation
E-  Automatic extraction of factual information from full text
F-  User Interfaces and ergonomy of information research systems
G-  Artificial Intelligence for user aid, and for personalizing
    system
H-  Intelligent navigational aids and automatic data structuring
    in hypertexts and hypermedia.
I-  Neural nets for computer aided information research
J-  Data entry systems (OCR, automatic structure recognition,
    document preparation, norms ...)
K-  New applications

(the last conference "RIAO 88" took place in M.I.T. Cambridge Ma.
USA in March 88)

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I.A.2.
Fr: Tony McEnery <mcenery@comp.lancs.ac.uk>
Re: British Computer Society 13th Research Colloquium
    on Information Retrieval
    April 8-9, 1991
    Lancaster University, England

Papers are invited in all areas of information retrieval
research, e.g.  language processing, design, implementation,
evaluation, integration, indexing, searching, intelligent
front-ends, hci, hypermedia, user modeling, investigation,
economics etc.

The colloquium is designed to give an informal and relaxed
atmosphere in which current research can be assessed, discussed
and evaluated. As always, the colloquium encourages research
students and staff to present their work in a forum they may find
particularly suitable. People wishing to present a paper should
submit a title and abstract by surface or electronic mail, by 9th
March 1991, to :

Tony McEnery,
UCREL Unit,
Department Of Computing,
Lancaster University,
Bailrigg,
Lancaster,
LA1 4YR.

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