IRSG2000
2nd Annual Colloquium on IR Research (BCS-IRSG, CEPIS)
5-7 April, 2000
Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge
CALL FOR PAPERS

This annual colloquium on information retrieval research provides an
opportunity for both new and established researchers to present papers
describing work in progress or final results. 

Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): 
*Evaluation and testing of information retrieval systems 
*Information retrieval and the Web 
*Hypermedia/Multimedia indexing and retrieval 
*Information retrieval from non-text media (including spoken document,
 image/video retrieval) 
*Voice processing and retrieval 
*Logic and information retrieval 
*User interfaces for information retrieval 
*User interaction in information retrieval 
*Information retrieval in library systems 
*Networked information retrieval 
*Database and information retrieval integration 
*Data mining and information extraction 
*Natural language processing for information retrieval 
*Knowledge-based information retrieval 
*Intelligent information retrieval 
*Commercial applications of information retrieval systems 

SUBMISSIONS 
Authors are required to submit their paper, in English, by 10 December 1999. 

Papers should contain at most 7500 words and be double-spaced. The abstract
should not exceed 100 words. 

Final papers will be required in the Electronic Workshops in Computing format
(http://www.ewic.org.uk/ewic/). Authors are encouraged to submit papers in
this
format. 

The submission should include two PostScript copies of the paper: one
full copy and one anonymous. Both files should be submitted by
anonymous ftp to ftp.scms.rgu.ac.uk under the /pub/incoming/irsg2000
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 irsg2000@scms.rgu.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 regarding submission should be sent to: asga@scms.rgu.ac.uk 

FURTHER DETAILS 
For further details regarding travel, programme of events etc. see 
http://www.soi.city.ac.uk/~andym/colloq2000/cfp.html

IMPORTANT DATES
Paper submission:           10 December 1999. 
Notification of acceptance: 10 February 2000. 
Final copy due:             10 March 2000.

PUBLICATION
All papers will be refereed. Following notification of acceptance, authors of
selected papers will have until 10 March 2000 to make revisions in the
light of
referees' comments. Papers will be published in the draft proceedings which
will be circulated to all delegates during the Colloquium. Final papers
will be
published in the Electronic Workshops in Computing 
(Springer-Verlag) http://www.ewic.org.uk/ewic/. 

CONTACTS 
If you have any queries or problems concerning submitting a paper, please
contact: 
Dr. Ayse Go"ker 
School of Computer and Mathematical Sciences 
The Robert Gordon University 
St. Andrew Street 
Aberdeen AB25 1HG 
Scotland, UK 
Tel: +44 (0) 1224-262713 
Fax: +44 (0) 1224-262727 
Email: asga@scms.rgu.ac.uk