--------------------------- PRELIMINARY CALL FOR PAPERS --------------------------- SIGIR 2002 Twenty-Fifth Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval August 11 - 15, 2002 Tampere, Finland 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. AREAS AND AREA COORDINATORS SIGIR 2002 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, keith@dcs.gla.ac.uk - Bruce Croft, University of Massachusetts, croft@cs.umass.edu * Machine Learning for IR, Text Data Mining, Clustering, Text Categorization - William Cohen, WhizBang Labs, wcohen@whizbang.com - David Lewis, David D Lewis Consultant, dave@DavidDLewis.com * Cross-lingual Retrieval, Multilingual Retrieval, Machine Translation for IR - Doug Oard, University of Maryland, oard@glue.umd.edu - Carol Peters, CNR Pisa Italy, carol@iei.pi.cnr.it * Topic Detection and Tracking, Content-Based Filtering, Collaborative Filtering, Agents - Stephen Robertson, Microsoft Cambridge UK, ser@microsoft.com - Jamie Callan, Carnegie Mellon University, callan+@cs.cmu.edu * Web IR, Citation and Link Analysis, XML and Metadata, Digital Libraries - David Hawking, Australian National University, David.Hawking@cmis.csiro.au - Amit Singhal, Google, singhal@google.com * Video and Image Access, Audio and Speech Retrieval, Music Retrieval - Alan Smeaton, Dublin City University, asmeaton@CompApp.DCU.ie - Mark Maybury, MITRE, maybury@mitre.org * Text Representation and Indexing, Information Extraction, Lexical Acquisition, Natural Language Processing for IR - Tomek Strzalkowski, SUNY University at Albany, tomek@cs.albany.edu - Rob Gaizauskas, University of Sheffield, R.Gaizauskas@dcs.shef.ac.uk * Performance, Compression, Scalability, Architectures, Distributed Search, Mobile Applications - Justin Zobel, RMIT University Australia, jz@cs.rmit.edu.au - Charlie Clarke, University of Waterloo, claclark@plg.uwaterloo.ca * Interfaces, Visualization, Interactive IR, User Models, User Studies - Peter Ingwersen, Royal Library School, Denmark, pi@db.dk - Gary Marchionini, University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill, march@ils.unc.edu * Summarization, Question Answering - John Tait, University of Sunderland, John.Tait@sunderland.ac.uk - Jussi Karlgren, Swedish Institute of Computer Science, Stockholm, Jussi.Karlgren@sics.se * Evaluation Building Test Collections, Experimental Design and Metrics - Ellen Voorhees, NIST, ellen.voorhees@nist.gov - Karen Sparck Jones, Cambridge University, ksj@cl.cam.ac.uk *************************** IMPORTANT DATES January 28: Paper submissions due February 28: Proposals for tutorials, workshops, demonstrations and posters due April 19: Notification of acceptance for all submissions May 24: 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 28, 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, see http://www.sigir2002.org/ (will be published before Sep 1, 2001). MENTORING PROGRAM As part of our efforts to broaden participation, SIGIR 2002 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. TAMPERE - A BEAUTIFUL CITY BETWEEN TWO LAKES Tampere is the third-largest city in Finland and a dynamic centre of industry, culture, research and education. Thanks to its central location - two-hour drive from Helsinki - and excellent services, Tampere is a very popular congress city. The conference will be held at Tampere Hall (www.tampere.fi/TampereHall), one of the largest conference and concert centres in Scandinavia. It is located in the city centre, within a short walking distance from the major shopping areas. More information about Tampere at: http://www.tampere.fi/english.htm. CONFERENCE COMMITTEE General Chair Kalervo Järvelin, University of Tampere, Finland, likaja@uta.fi Program Co-Chair - Africa/Europe Micheline Beaulieu, University of Sheffield, UK, m.beaulieu@sheffield.ac.uk Program Co-Chair - America Ricardo Baeza-Yates, University of Chile, Chile, rbaeza@dcc.uchile.cl Program Co-Chair - Asia/Oceania Sung Hyon Myaeng, Chungnam National University, Korea, shmyaeng@cs.chungnam.ac.kr Posters Chair James Allan, U. of Massachusetts, U.S.A., allan@cs.umass.edu Tutorials Chair Efthimis Efthimiadis, U. of Washington, U.S.A., efthimis@u.washington.edu Workshops Co-Chairs Jaana Kekäläinen, University of Tampere, Finland, lijakr@uta.fi Pia Borlund, Royal School of Library and Information Science, Denmark, pbj@db.dk Demonstrations Co-Chairs Eija Airio, University of Tampere, Finland, eija.airio@uta.fi Mark Sanderson, University of Sheffield, UK, m.sanderson@sheffield.ac.uk Treasurer Leena Lahti, University of Tampere, Finland, lilela@uta.fi Exhibits Chair Jaana Kekäläinen, University of Tampere, Finland, lijakr@uta.fi Corporate Sponsors Chair Kalervo Järvelin, University of Tampere, Finland, likaja@uta.fi Registration Chair Leena Sulonen, Tampere Conference Service Ltd, leena.sulonen@tampereconference.fi Publicity Chair Eero Sormunen, University of Tampere, Finland, lieeso@uta.fi Local Arrangements Chair Leena Sulonen, Tampere Conference Service Ltd, leena.sulonen@tampereconference.fi Information Architect Pasi Kytöharju, University of Tampere, Finland, pasi.kytoharju@uta.fi FURTHER INFORMATION See the web site for further details: http://www.sigir2002.org/ (will be published before Sep 1, 2001).