IEEE EXPERT
Call for Articles
Special Issue on
Applications of Intelligent Information Retrieval
Guest Editors:
Yiming Yang, Carnegie Mellon University
Jan Pedersen, Verity Inc.

Intelligent information retrieval, the problem of delivering truly
relevant documents matching user needs, has become increasingly
central in recent years thanks to the dramatically growing amounts of
online textual data.  Addressing this problem calls for synergy
between information retrieval and artificial intelligence, including
machine learning. This special issue is seeking submissions that
present creative approaches to solving intelligent information
retrieval problems using AI or ML techniques, including but not
limited to the following topics:

Text data mining: structure/pattern discovery (hierarchical,
relational, etc.); template filling, text categorization and
summarization; automated thesaurus creation.

Translingual and multimedia retrieval: indexing and retrieval from
audio and video sources, including IR on speech recognized transcripts
and feature-based representations of image data; learnable
query/document transformations across languages and media.

Intelligent user interaction: adaptable user profiling, query
formulation, and search space navigation.

Experimental articles that present significant evaluated results in
the areas of new applications or engineering performance, as well as
theoretical advances are encouraged. The focus of this special issue
is more on significant systems with potential real-world applications,
rather than preliminary, nonscalable demonstrations.

Authors should submit six hard copies of their articles (draft) by May
1, 1998 to Guest Editor Yiming Yang. Please also send an electronic
title page (title, authors, email, abstract, and keywords) as well as
a postscript version of the manuscript to yiming@cs.cmu.edu. The
submission deadline for final versions is October 1, 1998.

Yiming Yang
Language Technology Institute & CS Department
Cyert Hall 260
Carnegie Mellon University, 5000 Forbes Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15213-3891
Phone: 412-268-1364; Fax:  412-268-6298; yiming@cs.cmu.edu

Secretary: Jen Potter, 412-268-2623

Full publication guidelines are available at
http://computer.org/pubs/expert/edguide.htm.