******** CALL FOR PAPERS ******** SIGIR 2001 Twenty-Fourth Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval September 9 - 13, 2001 New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S.A. For details see: http://www.sigir2001.org 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 working in areas related to IR to submit original research contributions, posters, and proposals for tutorials, workshops, and demonstrations of systems. All contributions must be submitted electronically. See the Conference web site for further details: http://www.sigir2001.org. AREAS and AREA COORDINATORS SIGIR 2001 welcomes contributions related to any aspect of IR, but the major areas of interest are listed below. For each general area, two area coordinators will guide the reviewing process. * Formal Models, Language Models, Search Strategies, Fusion/Combination - Keith van Rijsbergen, University of Glasgow, U.K. - John Lafferty, Carnegie Mellon University * Machine Learning for IR, Text Data Mining, Clustering, Text Categorization - William Cohen, WhizBang! Labs - Norbert Fuhr, University of Dortmund, Germany * Cross-Lingual Retrieval, Multilingual Retrieval, Machine Translation for IR - Doug Oard, University of Maryland - David Hull, Rank Xerox Research Center, France * Topic Detection and Tracking, Content-Based Filtering, Collaborative Filtering, Agents - James Allan, University of Massachusetts - Michael Pazzani, UC, Irvine * Web IR, Citation and Link Analysis, XML and Metadata, Digital Libraries - David Hawking, Australian National University - Edward Fox, Virginia Polytechnic University * Video and Image Access, Audio and Speech Retrieval, Music Retrieval - Mark Maybury, MITRE - Raghavan Manmatha, University of Massachusetts * Text Representation and Indexing, Information Extraction, Lexical Acquisition, Natural Language Processing for IR - Sung Hyon Myaeng, Chungnam National University, Korea - Claire Cardie, Cornell University * Performance, Compression, Scalability, Architectures, Distributed Search - Jamie Callan, Carnegie Mellon Univ. - Alistair Moffat, Univ. of Melbourne, Australia * Interfaces, Visualization, Interactive IR, User Models - Marti Hearst, UC Berkeley - Nicholas Belkin, Rutgers University * Summarization, Question Answering - Amit Singhal, AT&T Labs - John Tait, University of Sunderland, U.K. * Evaluation, Building Test Collections, User Studies, Experimental Design and Metrics - Susan Dumais, Microsoft Research - Kalervo Jarvelin, University of Tampere, Finland ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ IMPORTANT DATES January 29: Paper submissions due February 28: Proposals for tutorials, workshops and posters due April 20: Notification of acceptance for all submissions May 25: Final camera-ready copy due ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ PAPER SUBMISSION GUIDELINES Authors are invited to submit research papers, not exceeding 5000 words representing original, previously unpublished work, on or before January 29, 2001. Papers must be submitted electronically, via the submission web page. For requirements and details on submission of posters and on proposals for tutorials, workshops, and demonstrations of systems, please see the Conference web site at http://www.sigir2001.org. MENTORING PROGRAM As part of our efforts to broaden participation, SIGIR 2001 will feature a mentoring program to assist authors with their submissions to the conference. Authors who have not previously had a full length paper accepted to SIGIR, and who are unsure about how to best prepare a paper for the SIGIR audience, will be able to request feedback on their work from an experienced SIGIR author in advance of the submission deadline. For details on this program, visit the web site at http://www.sigir2001.org or contact the Mentoring Chair, David Lewis (ddlewis2@worldnet.att.net) . CONFERENCE VENUE The conference venue will be the Radisson Hotel at 1500 Canal Street in New Orleans (http://www.radisson.com/neworleansla), just four blocks from the French Quarter. It is a New Orleans landmark and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. CONFERENCE COMMITTEE * General Chair: Donald H. Kraft, Louisiana State Univ., U.S.A., kraft@bit.csc.lsu.edu * Treasurer: Andrea Houston, Louisiana State Univ., U.S.A., ahoust2@bit.csc.lsu.edu * Program Co-Chair - Americas: W. Bruce Croft, Univ. of Massachusetts, U.S.A., croft@cs.umass.edu * Program Co-Chair - Europe: David J. Harper, The Robert Gordon Univ., U.K., djh@scms.rgu.ac.uk * Program Co-Chair - Asia/Pacific Rim: Justin Zobel, RMIT University, Australia, jz@cs.rmit.edu.au * Posters Chair: Efthimis Efthimiadis, U. of Washington, U.S.A.,efthimis@u.washington.edu * Tutorials Chair: Raya Fidel, U. of Washington, U.S.A., fidelr@u.washington.edu * Demonstrations Co-Chairs: Evangelos Triantaphyllou, Louisiana State U., U.S.A., vangelis@imse.lsu.edu Padmini Srinivasan, U. of Iowa, U.S.A., padmini@uma.info-science.iowa.edu * Exhibits and Corporate Sponsors Chair: David Grossman, Illinois Inst. of Technology, U.S.A., dagr@duvel.ir.iit.edu * Workshops Chair: Susan Gauch, University of Kansas, U.S.A., sgauch@eecs.ukans.edu * Publicity Chair: Edie Rasmussen, Univ. of Pittsburgh, U.S.A., erasmus@mail.sis.pitt.edu * Local Arrangements Chair: Carol Barry, Louisiana State Univ., U.S.A., lsbary@unix1.sncc.lsu.edu * Information Architect: David Robins, Univ. of Pittsburgh, U.S.A., drobins@mail.sis.pitt.edu PROGRAM COMMITTEE Helena Ahonen-Myka, University of Helsinki, Finland Giambattista Amati, Fondazione Ugo Bordoni, Italy Peter Anick, AltaVista Javed Aslam, Dartmouth College Micheline Beaulieu, University of Sheffield, U.K. Ricardo Baeza-Yates, Universidad de Chile Peter Bailey, The Australian National University, Australia Krishna Bharat, Google Inc Gloria Bordogna, National Research Council (CNR), Italy Pia Borlund, Royal School of Library and Information Science, Denmark Eric W. Brown, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center Soumen Chakrabarti, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay Matthew Chalmers, University of Glasgow, U.K. Charles L. A. Clarke, University of Waterloo, Canada David Cohn, Burning Glass Technologies/CMU Fabio Crestani, University of Strathclyde, U.K. Mark D Dunlop, University of Strathclyde, U.K. John P Eakins, University of Northumbria at Newcastle, U.K. David Eichmann, University of Iowa James C. French, University of Virginia Ophir Frieder, Illinois Institute of Technology Jonathan Furner, University of California, Los Angeles Ayse Goker, Robert Gordon University, U.K. Alan Gous, Stanford University Luis Gravano, Columbia University Warren R. Greiff, The MITRE Corporation Donna Harman, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Monika R. Henzinger, Google, Inc. William Hersh, Oregon Health Sciences University Djoerd Hiemstra, University of Twente, Netherlands Adele Howe, Colorado State University Peter Ingwersen, Royal School of LIS, Denmark Christian Jacquemin, LIMSI-CNRS Gareth Jones, University of Exeter, U.K. Noriko Kando, National Institute of Informatics, Japan Paul B. Kantor, Rutgers University Jussi Karlgren, SICS, Sweden Marcin Kaszkiel, AT&T Labs-Research Genichiro Kikui, NTT Cyberspace Laboratories, Japan Shmuel Tomi Klein, Bar Ilan University, Israel Matthew Koll, America Online Kui-Lam Kwok, Queens College, CUNY Mounia Lalmas, Queen Mary and Westfield College, U.K. Ray R. Larson, University of California, Berkeley Mun-Kew Leong, BIGontheNet.com, Singapore Elizabeth D. Liddy, Syracuse University Yoelle S. Maarek, IBM Research Lab in Haifa, Israel Gary Marchionini, University of North Carolina--Chapel Hill Massimo Melucci, University of Padova, Italy David R. H. Miller, BBN Technologies Mandar Mitra, Indian Statistical Institute, Calcutta Vibhu Mittal, Xerox PARC Josiane Mothe, IRIT Institut de Recherche en Informatique de Toulouse, France Charles Nicholas, UMBC Paul Over, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Andreas Paepcke, Stanford University Gabriella Pasi, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Italy Ari Pirkola, University of Tampere, Finland Berthier Ribeiro-Neto, Federal Univ. of Minas Gerais, Brasil Mehran Sahami, E.piphany, Inc. Airi Salminen, University of Jyvaskyla, Finland Mark Sanderson, University of Sheffield, U.K. Peter Schauble, Eurospider IT AG, Switzerland Hinrich Schuetze, GroupFire Inc Fabrizio Sebastiani, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Italy Paraic Sheridan, MNIS-TextWise Labs Alan Smeaton, Dublin City University, Ireland Eero Sormunen, University of Tampere, Finland Padmini Srinivasan, The University of Iowa Ulrich Thiel, GMD-IPSI, Germany Paul Thompson, West Group Andrew Turpin, Curtin University of Technology, Australia Dr. Howard R. Turtle, Chiliad Publishing Evelyne Tzoukermann, Bell Labs - Lucent Technologies Hans Uszkoreit, DFKI Saarbruecken and Saarland University, Germany Charles L. Viles, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Ellen M. Voorhees, National Institute of Standards and Technology Ross Wilkinson, CSIRO, Australia Michael Witbrock, Lycos Incorporated Ian H. Witten, University of Waikato, New Zealand Jinxi Xu, BBN Technologies Yiming Yang, Carnegie Mellon University Nivio Ziviani, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil