IRList Digest Friday, 17 April 1987 Volume 3 : Issue 10 Today's Topics: Announcement - Student support, Details of ACM SIGIR Conference - part 2 News addresses are ARPANET: fox@vtopus.cs.vt.edu BITNET: foxea@vtvax3.bitnet CSNET: fox@vt UUCPNET: seismo!vtisr1!irlistrq ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 16 Apr 87 15:06:40 est From: kraft@lsu.edu Subject: money to support student attendance at the acm/sigir conference [Continued from V3 #9; begins with Technical Program - Ed] TUESDAY, June 2, 1987 7:00-9:00pm Wine and Cheese Reception Registration Desk WEDNESDAY, June 3, 1987 9:00-9:10am Welcome by Conference Chair -- Donald H. Kraft 9:10-9:15am Welcome by Conference Program Chair -- Clement T. Yu 9:15-10:15am Invited Plenary Address S. Christodoulakis "Multimedia Retrieval" 10:15-10:45am Coffee Break 10:45-12:15 1. Retrieval Effectiveness I Session Chair: A. Bookstein S. K. M. Wong and Y. Y. Yao "A Statistical Similarity Measure" N. Fuhr and P. Muller "Probabilistic Search Term Weighting - Some Negative Results" K. L. Kwok "Upperbound Retrieval Using Approximate Optimal Queries" 12:15-1:45pm Lunch 1:45-3:15 pm 2. Knowledge Based Information Retrieval I Session Chair: M. Evens W. Bruce Croft "An Approach to Natural Language for Document Retrieval" M. F. Bruandet "Outline of a Knowledge Base Model for an Intelligent Information Retrieval System" F. N. Teskey "Enriched Knowledge Representation for Information Retrieval" 3:15-3:45pm Coffee Break 3:45:5:15pm 3a. User Interfaces Session Chair: C. J. van Rijsbergen U. Thiel and R. Hammwohner "Information Zooming: An Interactive Model for the Graphical Access to Text Knowledge Bases" Jean Tague "Generating an Individualized User Interface" Christine Borgman "Why Do Some People Have More Difficulty Learning to Use an Information Retrieval System Than Others?" 3:45-5:15pm 3b. Automatic Indexing Session Chair: Michael McGill Susanne M. Humphrey "Illustrated Description of an Interactive Knowledge Based Indexing System" Joel Fagan "Automatic Phrase Indexing for Document Retrieval" Donna Harman "A Failure Analysis of the Limitation of Suffixing in an Online Environment" 5:15-9:00pm Gould, Inc. Presentation and Demonstration 6:30-8:00pm OCLC, Inc. Reception THURSDAY, June 4, 1987 9:00-10:00am Invited Plenary Address Lotfi Zadeh "Uncertainties in Information Retrieval" 10:00-10:30am Coffee Break 10:30-12:30 4a. Clustering Session Chair: Paul Kantor B. J. Oommen and D. Ma "Fast Object Partitioning Using Stochastic Learning Automata" Fazli Can and Esen Ozkarahan "A Dynamic Cluster Maintenance System for Information Retrieval" E. Rasmussen and P. Willett "Non-Hierarchical Document Clustering Using the ICL Distributed Array Processor" Jitender Deogun and Vijay Raghavan "Optimal Determination of User-Oriented Clusters" 10:30-12:30 4b. Panel: Models of Information Retrieval Panel Chair: Vijay Raghavan Panel Members: Michael Gordon, Robert Korfhage, and Clement Yu 12:30-2:00 Lunch 2:00-3:30pm 5. Retrieval Effectiveness II Session Chair: W. Bruce Croft J. Morrissey and C. J. van Rijsbergen "A Formal Treatment of Missing and Imprecise Information" Peter Bollmann and S. K. M. Wong "Adaptive Linear Information Retrieval Models" Robert Losee "Random and Best-First Document Selection Models" 3:30-4:00pm Coffee Break 4:00:6:00pm 6a. Retrieval Systems Session Chair: Martin Dillon Steven Cater and Donald H. Kraft "TIRS: A Topological Information Retrieval System Satisfying the "Requirements of the Waller-Kraft Wish List" T. Ito and M. Kubota "A Retrieval System for On-line English-Japanese Dictionaries" J. Smith, S. Weiss, and G. Ferguson "An Advanced Full-Text Retrieval and Analysis System" A. Salminen "A Retrieval Model for Unstructured Documents" 4:00:6:00pm 6b. Storage/Retrieval Techniques I Session Chair: S. Christodoulakis "A. Mukherhee and M. Bassiouni "A VLSI Chip for Efficient Transmission and Retrieval of Information" Caroline Eastman "File Organizations and Incrementally Specified Queries" T. Raita and J. Teuhola "Predictive Text Compression by Hashing" Danny Wallace, Bert R. Boyce, and Donald H. Kraft "Determining Online Retrieval System Display Size" 7:00-8:00pm Cash Bar Social Hour 8:00-9:30pm Banquet FRIDAY, June 5, 1987 9:00-11:00am 7. Knowledge Based Information Retrieval II Session Chair: Gerard Salton Richard Tong, L. Appelbaum, V. Askman, and J. Cunningham "Conceptual Information Retrieval Using RUBRIC" P. Schauble "Thesaurus Based Concept Spaces" D. Krawczak, P. Smith, and S. Shute "EP-X: A Demonstration of Semantically Based Search of Bibliographic Databases" C. Watters, M. Shepherd, and W. Robertson "Towards an Expert System for Bibliographical Retrieval: A Prolog Prototype" 11:00-11:30am Coffee Break 11:30-1:00 8. Panel: Parallel Architecture in Information Retrieval Panel Chair: Esen Ozkarahan Panel Members: C. Stanfill and Gerard Salton 1:00-2:30pm Lunch and ACM/SIGIR Business Meeting (All attendees are welcome) 2:30-4:00pm 9a. Storage/Retrieval Techniques II Session Chair: M. Wong Y. Choueka, Aviezri S. Fraenkel, S. Klein, and E. Segal "Improved Techniques for Processing Queries in Full-Text Systems" F. Rabitti and P. Stanchev "An Approach to Image Retrieval From Large Image Databases" Patricia Simpson and R. Alonso "Data Caching in IR Systems" 2:30-4:00pm 9b. Panel: Clustering of Concepts for Optimal Retrieval Panel Chair: Paul Kantor Panel Members: Abraham Bookstein, Martin Dillon, Tefko Saracevic __________________________________________________________________________ ________________________Registration Card to be Sent in___________________ __________________________________________________________________________ Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Special Interest Group on Information Retrieval (SIGIR) Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval June 3-5, 1987 Monteleone Hotel New Orleans, Louisiana USA Last Name ____________________ First _______________ Initial ___ Affiliation ________________________________________ Please check one: _ Academic _ Business _ Government Address1 _________________________________________________________ Address2 _________________________________________________________ City _______________________________ State ____ Zip __________ Province ______________________ Country _______________ Telephone __________ Guests' names if attending _____________________________________________ Registration Fees On-Site Regis. ACM/SIGIR member $160.00 Sponsoring organiz. member $160.00 (BCS, AICA) ACM member (not SIGIR) $165.00 SIGIR member (not ACM) $165.00 Student (proof required) $00.00 Sponsored by Bellcore Other $190.00 Registration Fee $___________ Extra banquet tickets $ 20.00 Number_________ $___________ Extra Proceedings $ 15.00 Number_________ $___________ Total Paid $___________ Your check must be in U. S. dollars and must also accompany this registration form, since we regret that we are unable to bill you. Make your check payable to ACM IR Conference. Please reserve accommodations in name below, as marked: Name _______________________________ Room for one - Per Day $62.00 Address ____________________________ Double Bedroom for two - Per Day $72.00 City ____________________ State ____ Twin-Bed Room for 2/Day, 2&3 rm suites Reservations must be received no later than 3 wks prior to the opening date of the conference and will be held til 4 pm on arrival day. Later arrivals must have 1st night's deposit. Checkout time is 1:00 pm. For each additional person more than two in a Double or Twin-Bed room, the extra charge is $15 per day. If a room at the rate requested is unavailable, one at the nearest available rate will be reserved. Date arriving ____________________ Hour ________ Date departing ___________________ Hour _______ ACM/SIGIR Conference on Information Retrieval June 2-5, 1987 ILUCS Don't Be a No-Show - Cancel your hotel reservation if your plans change! Mail this card to: The Monteleone Hotel Attention: Reservation Manager 214 Royal Street New Orleans, LA 70140 __________________________________________________________________________ CONFERENCE COMMITTEE Conference Chairman Treasurer Publicity Chairman Donald H. Kraft Bert R. Boyce Vijay Raghavan Arrangements Chair Tech. Program Co-Chair Tech. Program Co-Chair Michael C. Stinson Clement T. Yu C. J. van Rijsbergen Tech. Program Committee Abraham Bookstein Nick Cercone Stavros Christodoulakis Yves Chiaramella Martha Evens Aviezri Fraenkel Jochum Friedbert Richard Frost Tetsuro Ito W. S. Luk Michael McGill Esen Ozkarahan Fausto Rabitti Gerard Salton Peter Scheuermann C. J. van Rijsbergen Michael Wong Clement T. Yu For more information, or for any help, please contact Donald H. Kraft, Department of Computer Science, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA 70803-4020, USA; (504) 388-1495; kraft%lsu@csnet-relay . ------------------------------ END OF IRList Digest ********************