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       PRELIMINARY CALL FOR PAPERS

    24th BCS-IRSG European Colloquium on IR Research

        March 25-27, 2002, Glasgow, Scotland, UK

   http://www.cs.strath.ac.uk/ECIR02/
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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.

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 30 November
2002.  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 ftp.cs.strath.ac.uk under the
/pub/ecir02 directory. The file names should be the surname of the first

author and 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
ecir02@cs.strath.ac.uk 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 or problems concerning submitting a paper
should be sent at that address.


PUBLICATION

All papers will be refereed. Accepted papers will be included in the
Colloquium proceedings published in the Springer-Verlag Lecture Notes
in Computer Science series (http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/index.html)

which will be circulated to all delegates during the Colloquium.


FURTHER DETAILS

For further details regarding travel, programme of events, etc. see
http://www.cs.strath.ac.uk/ECIR02/


IMPORTANT DATES

Paper submission:   30 November 2001.
Notification of acceptance:  20 December 2001.
Final copy due:   18 January 2002.
Colloquium:    25-27 March 2002.