IRSG99 21st Annual Colloquium on Information Retrieval 19-20 April 1999 Glasgow, Scotland CALL FOR PAPERS The Annual Colloquium on IR Research provides an opportunity for both new and established researchers to present papers describing work in progress or final results. Submissions from students are particularly welcome and these can be considered for the Best Student Paper Award. Papers are invited on any topic related to Information Retrieval including: - Evaluation and testing of information retrieval systems - Networked information retrieval - IR and the Web - Hypermedia/Multimedia indexing and retrieval - Natural language processing for information retrieval - Logic and information retrieval - User interfaces for information retrieval - Information retrieval in library systems - Voice processing and retrieval - Database and IR integration - Data mining and information extraction - Commercial applications of information - Image processing and retrieval - Knowledge-based information retrieval. SUBMISSION: Authors are invited to submit a camera-ready copy of their paper, in English, to be received no later than 18 December 1998. Papers should contain at most 7500 words and should be double-spaced. The submission should include two copies of the paper: one anonymous copy for refereeing and one full copy for publication in the draft proceedings. The first page must contain the title of the paper and an abstract of not more than 100 words. Please indicate if the paper is to be considered for the Best Student Paper Award. This Award requires that the first and primary author be a full-time student at time of submission. Papers will be refereed and, if accepted, will be published in the draft proceedings that will be circulated to all delegates for use during the Colloquium. Authors will then have until 31st May 1999 to revise their paper for the formal Colloquium Proceedings in the light of referee's comments and feedback from delegates. Guidelines for the submission of papers for the formal proceedings will be circulated to the authors on acceptance for the Colloquium. CONTACTS: If you have any queries or problems concerning submitting a paper, please contact the programme chair: Dr Monica Landoni Department of Information Science University of Strathclyde 26 Richmond Street Glasgow G1 1XH United Kingdom Tel: +44 (0) 141 548 4949 Fax: +44 (0) 141 553 1393 E-mail: bcs-irsg99@dis.strath.ac.uk www.irsg.eu.org/colloq