Information Retrieval List Digest 039 (November 14, 1990) URL = http://hegel.lib.ncsu.edu/stacks/serials/irld/irld-039 IRLIST Digest November 14, 1990 Volume VII, Number 33 Issue 39 ********************************************************** I. NOTICES A. Meetings announcements/Calls for papers 1. ASIS Mid-Year 1991: Multimedia Information Systems April 26029, 1991 Santa Clara, CA 2. ACM SIGIR '91: 14th International Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval October 13-16, 1991 Chicago, Illinois ********************************************************** I. NOTICES I.A.1. Fr: Samia Benidir Re: ASIS Mid-Year '91: Multimedia Information Systems April 26-29, 1991 Santa Clara, California The 20th ASIS Mid-Year Meeting will focus on one of the most important new areas in information systems: Multimedia. Traditional concerns with text and numerical data are being supplemented and may ultimately be supplanted by increasing attention to the documentation of objects, sounds, images, and moving images. Digitized sounds and still, moving and 3-D images are being stored, indexed, retrieved, and manipulated. Combinations of text with images and sounds are becoming more common. These new developments promise to change the way we think about information. How are multimedia developments going to be used to provide improved information services? What relevant experiences from art collections, museums, engineering files, and photo, film and sound archives can be used for digitized records? What new opportunities and challenges will digitized forms of sounds and images bring? Building better information services will require that we effectively use images and sound in combination with test and numerical data. To achieve these advancements we must make significant progress in computing, data storage, and telecommunications. The 1991 ASIS Mid-Year Meeting will present cutting-edge research and development in the information sciences which build upon our experience with text and data by adding access to sound and images. It will also explore current and potential applications of this research. DUE DATES & WHERE TO SEND YOUR SUBMISSION: Please submit your proposed contributions by November 30, 1990. Proposals may be sent via U.S. mail, electronic mail, or fax. You will be notified by January 2, 1991 of acceptance or rejection. At that time further information will be provided to those whose proposals have been accepted. Send all proposals to: MICHAEL BUCKLAND Technical Program Chair, 1991 ASIS Mid-Year Meeting School of Library and Information Studies University of California Berkeley, California, USA 94720 Telephone: (415) 642-3159 Fax: (415) 642-5814 Internet: Buckland@cmsa.Berkeley.edu Bitnet: Buckland@ucbcmsa ********** I.A.2. Fr: Abraham Bookstein Re: ACM SIGIR '91: 14th International Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval Sponsored by: ACM SIGIR In co-operation with: AICA - GLIR (Italy) BCS - IRSG (UK) GI (Federal Republic of Germany) INRIA (France) The events of SIGIR '91 are being coordinated with the Centennial celebrations of the University of Chicago. The Center for Information and Language Studies (CILS) is responsible for the coordination. INFORMATION RETRIEVAL Problems relating to the effective storage, access and manipulation of textual information are among the most challenging to current computer science. Information is continuing to grow exponentially and is increasingly becoming available in machine readable form; computer networks are making communicating information easier; new computer architectures and inexpensive, powerful hardware are making feasible the introduction of sophisticated, computer intensive algorithms for efficiently storing and retrieving information. Research in information retrieval touches on fields as diverse as the design and analysis of algorithms, natural language processing, artificial intelligence, hypertext, multimedia data management, and software engineering. The Annual ACM SIGIR Conference is the premier forum for presentation and discussion of current research in Information Retrieval. The 14th Annual Conference will continue this multidisciplinary tradition, but will focus especially on the problems of full text databases. The program will consist of contributed research papers and panel presentations. There will also be a program of tutorials on Sunday, October 13. TOPICS FOR SIGIR '91 Original research papers and panel proposals are solicited on topics including, but not limited to, the following: Information retrieval theory: Retrieval models and algorithms, Evaluation, Document and query presentation, extension to full text databases. Artificial Intelligence Applications: Knowledge representation, Connectionism, Expert Systems. Natural Language Processing: Application of lexicons, parsing algorithms to IR. Interface Issues: Human-computer interaction, design considerations. Hypertext and Multimedia Systems: Software reuse, Office information systems, Case-based retrieval. Implementation issues: New computer architectures, Retrieval hardware, Storage devices, Data structures, Compression methods. INSTRUCTIONS FOR CONTRIBUTORS CONTRIBUTED PAPERS Persons wishing to contribute original research papers should send four copies of a full paper to the appropriate program chair, as indicated below. Papers or (if the author chooses) extended, 10-12 page, abstracts will be published in the conference proceedings; authors will be required to sign an ACM copyright release form. The program committee may select papers for journal publication, in which case an abstract will be published in the proceedings. Submissions are due March 25, 1991. PANEL PRESENTATIONS Suggestions for panels should consist of descriptions of the topics to be covered, the names of proposed speakers and moderator, brief abstracts of the proposed presentations, and the desired length of time for the panel. Four copies of proposals, of no more than three pages, should be sent to the appropriate program chair. Proposals are due March 25, 1991. TUTORIALS Proposals for tutorials should consist of the topic to be discussed, the name(s) and brief biographies of the presenter(s), and an outline of the tutorial. Four copies of proposals, of no more than three pages, are due April 25, 1991. Email may be used for tutorial proposals, but backed up by hard copy. Proposals should be sent to the tutorial chair: Dr. Donna K. Harman Building 225/A216 National Institute of Standards and Technology Gaithersburg, MD 20899 harman@dsys.ncsl.nist.gov IMPORTANT DATES March 25, 1991:Papers and panel proposals due to program chairs April 25, 1991:Tutorial proposals due to tutorial chair June 3, 1991:Authors informed of acceptance of papers and proposals July 15, 1991:Final versions of papers due to program chairs CONFERENCE CHAIR Prof. Abraham Bookstein 1100 E. 57th, CILS University of Chicago Chicago, IL 60637, USA bkst@tira.uchicago.edu Telephone:(312) 702-8268 FAX:(312) 702-0775 PROGRAM CHAIRS Americas and Asia, Europe, Africa, Australia Prof. Gerard SaltonProf. Yves Chiaramella Department of ComputerLGI-IMAG ScienceB.P. 53 X Cornell University38041 Grenoble CEDEX Upson HallFrance Ithaca, NY 14853, USAchiara@imag.imag.fr gs@gvax.cs.cornell.edu PROGRAM COMMITTEE Maristella AgostiUniversita di Padova, Italy Nick BelkinRutgers University, USA Abraham BooksteinUniversity of Chicago, USA Christine BorgmanUniversity of California, Los Angeles, USA Giorgio BrajnikUniversita degli Studi di Udine, Italy Yves Chiaramella(Chair, European Committee) University of Grenoble, France S. ChristodoulakisUniversity of Waterloo, Canada M. CrehangeCRIN, France Bruce CroftUniversity of Massachusetts, USA Christian FluhrCEN-SACLAY, France Ed FoxVirginia Polytechnic Institute, USA Norbert FuhrTechnische Hochshule Darmstadt, Germany Paul JacobsGeneral Electric Research, USA Gary MarchioniniUniversity of Maryland, USA V. QuintINRIA, France Fausto RabittiIEI-CNRS, Italy Vijay Raghavan(Co-Chair, USA) University of Southwestern Louisiana, USA Edie RasmussenUniversity of Pittsburgh, USA Gerard Salton(Co-Chair, USA) Cornell University, USA Craig StanfillThinking Machines Corporation, USA Jean-Luc VidickUniversite Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium Peter WillettUniversity of Sheffield, UK Michael WongUniversity of Regina, Canada Clement YuUniversity of Illinois, Chicago, USA Keith van RijsbergenGlasgow University, UK CONFERENCE COMMITTEE Conference Chair: Abraham Bookstein, Center for Information and Language Studies, University of Chicago Program Chairs: Gerard Salton, Cornell University Vijay Raghavan, University of South West Louisisana Yves Chiaramella, Institut de Mathematiques Appliques de Grenoble Tutorials Chair: Donna Harman, National Bureau of Standards, USA Local Arrangements Chair: Michael Koenig, Rosary College Publicity Chair: Edward A. 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