CALL FOR PAPERS
                       
               European Colloquium on IR Research  
                      April 4 - 6, 2001 
                     Darmstadt, Germany

           http://delite.darmstadt.gmd.de/ECIR01

The colloquium on information retrieval research provides an opportunity
for both new and established researchers to present papers describing
work in progress or final results. The IR colloquia were originally run
as the BCS IRSG (British Computer Society Information Retrieval
Specialist Group) Annual Colloquium on Information Retrieval Research
and has now been broadened due to a wider European involvement in the
colloquia and because more recently the events have, on alternate years,
been taking place outwith the UK.

Relevant papers should address (at the theoretical, methodological,
system or application level) the analysis, design or evaluation of
functions like

Indexing 
Information Extraction 
Data Mining 
Browsing 
Retrieval and Filtering 
User Interaction 

for the following types of documents and databases: 

Monomedia documents (e.g. text, images, audio, voice, video) 
Composite documents 
Multimedia documents 
Hypermedia documents 
Active documents 
Distributed documents and databases 
Digital Libraries 
the Web 
  

SUBMISSIONS 

Authors are required to submit their paper, in English, by 20 December
2000.  Papers should contain at most 7500 words and be double-spaced.
The abstract should not exceed 100 words.

The submission should include two copies of the paper in PDF or
PostScript format: one full copy and one anonymous. Both files should be
submitted by anonymous ftp to ls6.cs.uni-dortmund.de under the
/pub/incoming/ecir directory.  The file names should reflect the title
of the paper but the anonymous copy should have the prefix "anon". (To
protect author privacy it will not be possible to list files in this
directory).

For the anonymous copy, the first page must contain the title of the
paper and abstract, but no indication about the author(s) and
affiliation(s).

In addition, authors must send an email message to
ecir@ls6.cs.uni-dortmund.de containing the title of the paper, the name
of the file that has been submitted, the author name(s), and the author
affiliation(s), plus complete contact information (mailing address,
telephone, fax and e-mail) for the author to whom correspondence should
be sent.

Any queries regarding submission should be sent to: 
goevert@ls6.cs.uni-dortmund.de 
  
EXHIBITIONS 

We invite interested companies active in document and knowledge
management to show their products and latest developments.  A special
industrial session on products and applications - as well as experiences
- will be considered.

Any queries regarding exhibitions should be sent to: 
ulrich.thiel@gmd.de 

CONTACTS

If you have any questions or problems concerning the colloquium, please
contact: ulrich.thiel@gmd.de

If you have any queries or problems concerning submitting a paper,
please contact: goevert@ls6.cs.uni-dortmund.de
  

IMPORTANT DATES

Paper submission: 20 December 2001. 
Notification of acceptance: 20 February 2001. 
Final copy due: 15 March 2001. 
Conference: 4-6 April 2001 
  

PUBLICATION

All papers will be refereed. Following notification of acceptance,
authors of selected papers will have until 10 March 2001 to make
revisions in the light of referees' comments. Papers will be published
in the proceedings which will be circulated to all delegates during the
Colloquium.

Final papers will be published electronically (in some form to be
decided). In addition, we expect to make arrangements for authors of
good papers to be invited to make submissions to one of the major
journals in the field.

COLLOQUIUM COMMITTEE

Ulrich Thiel, GMD-IPSI (chair and organisation chair) 

Norbert Fuhr,  University of Dortmund (programme chair)