SIGIR 2000: Information Retrieval in Context TWENTY-THIRD ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL ACM SIGIR CONFERENCE ON RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT IN INFORMATION RETRIEVAL July 24-28 2000 Department of Informatics Athens University of Economics and Business Athens, Greece CALL FOR PAPERS For details see: http://sigir2000.aueb.gr SIGIR is the major international forum for the presentation of new research results and the demonstration of new systems and techniques in the broad field of information retrieval (IR). The Conference and Program Chairs invite all those concerned with issues of IR to submit original research contributions, posters, and proposals for tutorials, workshops, and demonstrations of systems, for presentation at SIGIR 2000. All contributions should be submitted to the appropriate Chair, as indicated below (see the Conference web site for further details: http://sigir2000.aueb.gr). TOPICS Information Retrieval is contextual. IR functionalities form part of increasingly complex information systems serving a great variety of information tasks and behaviors. SIGIR 2000 seeks original research contributions in the broad field of information storage and retrieval, covering the handling of all types of information, user behavior in information systems, and theories, models, and implementations of IR systems. Topics relevant to SIGIR include but are not limited to: * IR Theory, including logical, statistical and interactive IR models, data fusion. * Experimentation: test collections, interactive IR experiments, evaluation measures, experimental design, testing methodology, scalability. * Natural Language Processing: word sense disambiguation, discourse analysis, summarization for the purposes of IR, use of linguistic resources for IR. * Contextual IR: multi-media IR, cross-lingual IR systems, speech retrieval, dialogue management, (non)feature-based indexing, information seeking and task embedded IR. * Interface issues: user & use modeling, human-computer interaction, search strategies. * Filtering, Extraction, Routing, and Text Classification. * Systems and Implementation Issues: integration with database systems, networked systems and the internet, compression, efficient query evaluation. * Applications: electronic publishing, digital libraries, text mining, WWW-related issues, semistructured document retrieval. SIGIR 2000 IMPORTANT DATES: ========================== * January 21: Original research paper submissions due. See the Submission Instructions Section below for details. * February 11: Proposals for tutorials, workshops, posters, panels and demonstrations due. See the Submission Instructions Section below for details. * April 1: Notification of acceptance of all submissions. * May 1: Final camera-ready copy of all submissions due. SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS ======================= RESEARCH PAPERS Research papers must consist of original contributions (that is, not previously published and not currently being considered for publication elsewhere) and must contain a clear statement of the problem addressed and the context in which it arises. Papers must also contain appropriate references to prior work and must indicate what contribution the work makes to the primary field of Information Retrieval. Researchers relatively new to the field of IR should get examples from, e.g., previous SIGIR conferences, the ACM Transaction on Information Systems (TOIS), the Journal of the American Society for Information Science (JASIS), etc. Papers (5 copies) should be submitted in English to the Program Co-Chair responsible for the geographic region of the first author. Papers should contain at most 5000 words. There are no formatting requirements for submissions, but do not use font sizes smaller than 10 point. The final version of the paper will have to fit within 8 double-column pages, including all figures and bibliography, so plan accordingly. Papers that are clearly longer than the limit of 5,000 words will be rejected immediately. The first page must contain the title of the paper, an abstract of not more than 150 words, and up to 6 keywords taken from the list at the end of this Call for Submissions. No page in the paper, including the first page, should indicate the author(s) or their affiliation(s). The purpose of omitting author names and affiliations is to facilitate blind reviewing. Therefore, authors should make an attempt to disguise who they are if possible, by omitting acknowledgements in the submitted version of the paper, and by refraining from phrases such as "In our earlier work [cite author-name] ..." Authors should cite their work when required but attempt not to make it obvious that the cited work is their own, if possible. 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 fulltime student at time of submission, that he or she is responsible for much of the work, and that he or she will present the paper should it be accepted. In addition, authors must provide a separate cover page with the title, the author name(s), the author affiliation(s), the same list of keywords as on the first page, plus complete contact information (mailing address, telephone, fax, and e-mail) for the author to whom correspondence should be sent. All correspondence with the authors will be through email. The information on this cover page must also be sent by email to the respective regional Program Co-Chair. Submissions must arrive before 21 January 2000. Authors in the Americas should mail 5 hardcopies of the submission and 1 cover page hardcopy as described above to: Nicholas Belkin School of Communication, Information & Library Studies, Rutgers University, 4 Huntington Street, New Brunswick NJ 08901-1071, USA Email: nick@belkin.rutgers.edu Phone: +1-732-932-8585 Fax: +1-732-932-6916 Authors in Europe and Africa should mail 5 hardcopies of the submission and 1 cover page hardcopy as described above to: Peter Ingwersen Royal School of LIS, Birketinget 6, DK 2300 Copenhagen S, Denmark Email: pi@db.dk Phone: +45-32-58-60-66 Fax: +45-32-84-02-01 Authors in Asia, Australia and the Pacific should mail 5 hardcopies of the submission and 1 cover page hardcopy as described above to: Mun-Kew Leong (Attn: SIGIR Submission), Kent Ridge Digital Labs, 21 Heng Mui Keng Terrace, Singapore 119613 Email: mkleong@krdl.org.sg Phone: +65-874-7864 Fax: +65-774-4998 TUTORIALS SIGIR 2000 will begin with a full day of tutorials, each of which should cover a single topic in detail. Proposals are solicited for tutorials of either a half day (3 hours plus breaks) or full day (6 hours plus breaks). Submissions should be made to the Tutorials Chair and should include a cover sheet and an extended abstract. The cover sheet should specify: 1.the length of the tutorial. 2.the intended audience (introductory, intermediate, advanced). 3.complete contact information for the contact person and other presenters. 4.brief biographies (max. 2 paragraphs) of the presenters. The extended abstract should be 3 to 5 pages, and should include an outline of the tutorial, along with descriptions of the course objectives and course materials. Tutorial proposals must be sent via email by 11 February 2000 to: Alan Smeaton (Email: asmeaton@compapp.dcu.ie) WORKSHOPS Proposals are solicited from individuals and groups for one-day workshops to be held on the fifth day of the conference. Submissions (up to 1,000 words) should include the theme and goal of the workshop, planned activities, maximum number of participants, the selection process for participants, and a list of potential participants. Include a CV for each organizer describing relevant qualifications and experience. After the workshop, organizers are to provide an article for the SIGIR Forum which summarizes the workshop. Workshop proposals must be sent via email by 11 February 2000 to: Bob Krovetz (Email: krovetz@research.nj.nec.com) PANELS AND DEMONSTRATIONS Proposals for panel sessions should be sent to the Panels Chair by prospective moderators. Panels should address issues of interest to the general information retrieval community, and should be designed to stimulate lively debate between panelists and audience. Panel proposals (2-3 pages) must include: 1.complete contact information for the moderator. 2.the rationale for addressing this topic as a panel. 3.the names and affiliations of the panel members. 4.a description of how the panel will be structured, with emphasis on how general participation will be encouraged. Abstracts of panel presentations will appear in the proceedings. Demonstrations offer first-hand experience with Information Retrieval systems, whether advanced operational systems or research prototypes. The demonstration proposal should indicate how the demonstration illustrates new ideas, should provide the technical specifications of the system and should include references to other literature. The hardware, software, and network requirements should be indicated in a separate cover letter. A one-page abstract describing each demonstration accepted will be published in the proceedings. Panel and Demonstration proposals must be sent via email by 11 February 2000 to: James Allan (Email: allan@cs.umass.edu) POSTERS SIGIR 2000 poster presentations offer researchers an opportunity to present late-breaking results, significant work in progress, or research that is best communicated in an interactive or graphical format. Abstracts of posters will appear in the conference proceedings. Three copies of an extended abstract (roughly 3-4 pages) should be submitted to the Posters Chair. The abstract should emphasize the research problem and the methods being used, and be headed only by the title of the poster. In addition, a separate cover page is required containing the title of the poster, along with the name and affiliation of the author(s), and complete contact information for the author to whom correspondence should be sent. Poster proposals must be sent via email by 11 February 2000 to: Amit Singhal (Email: singhal@research.att.com) AWARDS During the conference the following awards will be given: * The Gerard Salton award * Best scientific paper award * Best paper presentation award * Best student paper award (first author should be student) CONFERENCE ORGANISATION ======================= Conference Chair: Emmanuel Yannakoudakis Athens University of Economics and Business, Department of Informatics, 76 Patission Street, Athens 104 34, Greece (eyan@aueb.gr), Phone: +30-1-8214145, Fax. : +30-1-8203356 Programme Chairs: * For The Americas: Nicholas Belkin Professor and Director of the Ph.D.Program, School of Communication, Information & Library Studies, Rutgers University, 4 Huntington Street, New Brunswick NJ 08901-1071, USA (nick@belkin.rutgers.edu) Phone: +1-732-932-8585, Fax: +1-732-932-6916 * For Europe and Africa: Peter Ingwersen Royal School of LIS, Birketinget 6, DK 2300 Copenhagen S, Denmark, (pi@db.dk) Phone: +45-32-58-60-66, Fax: +45-32-84-02-01 * For Asia, Australia and the Pacific: Mun-Kew Leong (Attn: SIGIR Submission), Kent Ridge Digital Labs, 21 Heng Mui Keng Terrace, Singapore 119613 (mkleong@krdl.org.sg) Phone: +65-874-7864, Fax: +65-774-4998 Tutorials Chair: Alan Smeaton School of Computer Applications, Dublin City University Glasnevin, Dublin 9, Ireland (asmeaton@compapp.dcu.ie) Phone: +353-1-7045262, Fax: +353-1-7045442 Workshops Chair: Bob Krovetz NEC Research Institute, 4 Independence Way, Princeton, NJ 08540, USA (krovetz@research.nj.nec.com) Phone: +1-609-951-2773, Fax: +1-609-951-2483 Panels and Demonstrations Chair: James Allan Computer Science Department, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01003-4610, USA (allan@cs.umass.edu) Phone: +1-413-545-3240, Fax: +1-413-545-1789 Posters Chair: Amit Singhal AT&T Labs-Research, Rm A-281, Shannon Laboratory, 180 Park Avenue, Florham Park, NJ 07932, USA (singhal@research.att.com) Phone: +1-973-360-8335, Fax: +1-973-360-8970 Publicity Chair: Anestis Konstantinidis (mvazirg@aueb.gr) Treasurer: Elias Lypitakis (eal@aueb.gr) Awards Chair: Efthimis Efthimiadis School of Library & Information Science, University of Washington Box 352930, Seattle, WA 98195-2930, USA (efthimis@u.washington.edu) Phone: +1-206-616-6077, Fax: +1-206-616-3152 REVIEWING PROCESS: The SIGIR 2000 Programme Committee is organized with an International Programme Committee (IPC) and three Regional Programme Committees (RPC). Both the IPC and the RPCs are designed to reflect the broadening topic areas of IR research. The reviewing process for SIGIR 2000 will be in two stages. There will first be initial reviews by at least three members of the RPCs for each submission. For each paper, an IPC member will be responsible for producing a review and recommendation integrating the three initial reviews. All submissions will be refereed "blind", that is, without identification of their authors. For further information on the requirements for submission of contributions, and evaluation criteria, see the Conference web site: http://sigir2000.aueb.gr. INTERNATIONAL PROGRAMME COMMITTEE: Jun Adachi, NACSIS, Japan Maristella Agosti, University of Padua, Italy Ricardo Baeza-Yates, University of Chile, Chile Marcia Bates, UCLA, USA Jamie Callan, Carnegie-Mellon University, USA W. Bruce Croft, University of Massachusetts, USA Susan Dumais, Microsoft Research, USA Edward A. Fox, Virginia Tech, USA Norbert Fuhr, University Dortmund, Germany Donna Harman, NIST, USA William Hersh, Oregon Health Sciences University, USA Kalervo Jarvelin, University Tampere, Finland David Lewis, AT&T Labs, USA Elizabeth Liddy, Syracuse University, USA Gary Marchionini, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill,USA Mark Maybury, MITRE, USA Alistair Moffat, University of Melbourne, Australia Sung-Hyon Myaeng, Chungnam National University, Korea Douglas Oard, University of Maryland, USA Steve Robertson, Microsoft Research, UK Alan Smeaton, Dublin City University, Ireland Karen Sparck Jones, University of Cambridge, UK Keith van Rijsbergen, University of Glasgow, Scotland, UK Ellen Voorhees, NIST, USA Ross Wilkinson, CSIRO, Australia Peter Willett, University of Sheffield, UK Kam-Fai Wong, Chinese University of Hong Kong, China COOPERATING ORGANISATIONS: ACM SIGIR, BCS IRSG, Greek Computer Society, others requested. SIGIR 2000 PAPER SUBMISSION KEYWORD CHOICES - GROUPED ROUGHLY BY TOPIC (submissions should include up to 6 keywords on both the first page and the cover page) IR theory and models (general), statistical/probabilistic models, logic-based models, term expansion/thesauri, relevance feedback algorithms/evaluation, text clustering, filtering/routing, passage retrieval, retrieval using document structure, structured queries, change in queries over time, evaluation (general), test collections, testing methodology, scalability of evaluation, information brokers, distributed collections, merging search results/information synthesis, systems and implementation (general), architectures for IR systems, architectures for WWW search, scalability of IR systems, efficiency indexing for IR systems, efficient query evaluation , compression and other optimizations for IR, integration with database systems , information access in digital libraries, natural language processing for IR (general), stemming/morphological analysis, tokenization/parsing, thesaurus construction , phrase detection and use, word sense disambiguation and IR, text segmentation, discourse analysis and IR, summarization/abstracting and IR, question answering, translation, cross-lingual indexing/retrieval, information seeking behavior (general), individual differences in information-seeking, field/empirical studies of the information seeking process, theoretical discussion of the information seeking process, embedding search within larger tasks , user studies (general), comparing interfaces for information access, methodology for evaluating interactive IR, user interface (UI) design for IR (general), information visualization for IR (general), UIs/visualization for collection overviews and topic spaces, UIs/visualization for categories/subject codes, UIs/visualization for query generation and specification, UIs/visualization organizing and displaying retrieval results, UIs/visualization for source selection, UIs/visualization for hypertext search and navigation, integrating navigation and search, animation and IR interfaces, structuring information to aid search and navigation, structuring information for different user populations, navigation versus ad hoc search, monitoring user behavior to improve search, automated presentation of information, adaptive IR interfaces, adaptive ranking algorithms , cognitive models and IR, user models and information access, information seeking dialogues , sensemaking, collaboration and IR, collaboritive filtering, social techniques for organization and search, reading/annotating and IR, knowledge-based systems and IR, semantic nets/conceptual graphs and IR, case-based reasoning and IR, machine learning and IR, text categorization, planning and IR, IR agents (general), architectures for IR agents, IR and avatars, (semi) automated search assistants, MMIR (general), content-based indexing/retrieval (general), image indexing/retrieval, text image indexing/retrieval, OCR/degraded images indexing/retrieval, video indexing/retrieval, speech indexing/retrieval, general audio indexing/retrieval, metadata for retrieval of non-text information, efficient search over non-textual information, query languages for non-textual information, results analysis and presentation for MMIR, evaluation theory and methodology for MMIR, test collection development for MMIR , application areas (general), biomedical informatics, legal informatics, entertainment and IR, education and IR, exploiting hyperlink structure, event detection and tracking, text data mining, search and ecommerce, search and mobile systems, IR interaction with the physical world,