[Asis-l] Information Retrieval and Digital Library Minitrack at HICSS

[Ray Larson]

		       CALL FOR PAPERS FOR THE
   INFORMATION RETRIEVAL AND DIGITAL LIBRARY APPLICATIONS MINITRACK
		 Part of the Digital Documents Track
		     at the Thirty-seventh Annual
	 HAWAI'I INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SYSTEM SCIENCES
		     on the Big Island of Hawaii
			 January 5 - 8, 2004

Additional detail on the web site: http://www.hicss.hawaii.edu


This minitrack will cover theoretical and application issues related
to information retrieval, cross-language document search, link-based
web search, text summarization, and fact-based question-answering as
well as the applications of these technologies in Digital Libraries.

We hope to include papers that investigate IR methods applied to Web
documents, non-English documents, spoken document retrieval, and
geographic information retrieval as well as internal and distributed
retrieval from digital libraries.

The topics of this minitrack include, but are not limited to, the
following areas:

- Information Retrieval Language Models, Algorithms and Tools 
- Fact-based Open-domain Question Answering
- Web-based Information Retrieval
- Topic Detection and Tracking over time
- Geographic Information Retrieval, gazetteers
- Information Visualization 
- Text Categorization and Summarization
- Cross Language Retrieval
- Speech and Broadcast Retrieval
- Distributed Retrieval from Digital Libraries
- XML Structured Document Retrieval
- IR Performance and Evaluation


IMPORTANT DEADLINES

April 15, 2003     Abstracts submitted for guidance and indication of
                   appropriate content.

June 1, 2003       Full papers submitted to Minitrack Chairs.  
                   Contact minitrack chairs for submission instructions.
August 31, 2003    Notice of accepted papers sent to Authors.
October 1, 2003    Accepted manuscripts sent electronically to the publisher.
                   At least one author must be registered for the conference 
		   by this date.


Minitrack Co-Chairs:

Ray R. Larson
School of Information Management and Systems
University of California, Berkeley
Email: ray at sims.berkeley.edu

Fredric C. Gey
UC Data Archive & Technical Assistance
University of California, Berkeley
Email: gey at ucdata.berkeley.edu


INSTRUCTIONS FOR PAPER SUBMISSION

1. Contact the Minitrack Chairs in advance for specific submission
   instructions.  Otherwise, submit an electronic version of the full
   paper, consisting of no more than 25 double- spaced pages,
   including diagrams, directly to the appropriate Minitrack Chair.
   (NOTE: The final paper must be NO MORE THAN 10 pages,
   double-column, single spaced.)

2. Do not submit the manuscript to more than one Minitrack.  Papers
   should contain original material and not be previously published,
   or currently submitted for consideration elsewhere.

3. Each paper must have a title page to include title of the paper,
   full name of all authors, and complete addresses including
   affiliation(s), telephone number(s), and e-mail address(es).

4. The first page of the manuscript should include only the title and
   a 300-word abstract of the paper.


TRACKS AT HICSS-37

* Collaboration Systems; Co-Chair: Jay Nunamaker; E-mail: nunamaker at cmi.arizona.edu 
    Co-Chair: Robert O. Briggs; E-mail: bob at GroupSystems.com
* Complex Systems; Chair: Robert Thomas; E-mail: rjt1 at cornell.edu 
* Decision Tech. for Management; Chair: Dan Dolk; E-mail: drdolk at nps.navy.mil
* Digital Documents; Chair: Michael Shepherd; E-mail: shepherd at cs.cal.ca                         
* Emerging Technologies; Chair: Ralph H. Sprague; E-mail: sprague at hawaii.edu   
* Information Technology in Health Care; Chair: William Chismar 
     E-mail: chismar at cba.hawaii.edu
* Internet & the Digital Economy; Co-Chair: David King; E-mail: dave at comshare.com
     Co-Chair: Alan Dennis; E-mail: ardennis at indiana.edu
* Organizational Systems & Tech.; Chair: Hugh Watson; Email: hwatson at terry.uga.edu
* Software Technology; Gul Agha; E-mail: agha at cs.uiuc.edu

For the latest information; visit the HICSS web site at:   http://www.hicss.hawaii.edu 

HICSS conferences are devoted to advances in the information,
computer, and system sciences, and encompass developments in both
theory and practice.  Invited papers may be theoretical, conceptual,
tutorial or descriptive in nature.  Submissions undergo a peer referee
process and those selected for presentation will be published in the
Conference Proceedings.  Submissions must not have been previously
published.

CONFERENCE ADMINISTRATION:

Ralph Sprague, Conference Chair                            
Email:  sprague at hawaii.edu 

Sandra Laney, Conference Administrator
Email:  hicss at hawaii.edu

Eileen Dennis, Track Administrator
Email: eidennis at indiana.edu

For the latest information; visit the HICSS web site at:
http://www.hicss.hawaii.edu

2004 CONFERENCE VENUE:
Hilton Waikoloa Village (on the Big Island of Hawaii) 
425 Waikoloa Beach Drive 
Waikoloa, Hawaii 96738 
Tel: 1-808-886-1234
Fax: 1-808-886-2900
http://www.hilton.com/hotels/KOAHWHH/index.html?show=all
www.hiltonwaikoloavillage.com

NOTE: December 1 is the deadline to guarantee hotel room reservation
at conference rate.