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IRList Digest Volume 3 Number 10
IRList Digest Friday, 17 April 1987 Volume 3 : Issue 10
Today's Topics:
Announcement - Student support, Details of ACM SIGIR Conference - part 2
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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___________________
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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
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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 .
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