[Asis-l] ACM SIGIR 2007, 23-27 July 2007, Amsterdam, Call for Participation

[Djoerd Hiemstra]

ACM SIGIR 2007: Call for Participation 

    The 30th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on
      Research and Development in Information Retrieval
         23-27 July 2007, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
                  http://www.sigir2007.org

SIGIR is the major international forum for the presentation of new
research results and for the demonstration of new systems and 
techniques in the field of information retrieval (IR). On-line 
registration for the conference is now open. 

*Registration*
The deadline for early registration with reduced fee is *15 June 2007*. 
See: http://www.sigir2007.org/registration.html

*Accomodation*
Don't forget to make your room reservations. There are rooms available 
at the special conference rate via the web site. We offer hotels for 
every budget - including 4-person rooms at one of Amsterdam's famous 
youth hostels.
See: http://www.sigir2007.org/accommodation.html

*Organisation*
SIGIR is organised by ACM, CWI Amsterdan, TNO-ICT, University of Twente, 
University of Amsterdam, and Thaesis.

*Programme at a glance*
See: http://www.sigir2007.org/schedule.html for the full preliminary 
programme. 

Monday, 23 July 2007
  Tutorials Session 1 (Mon 8:30-12:15)
  Tutorials Session 2 (Mon 13.15-17.00)
  Doctoral Consortium (Mon 9:00-17:00)
  Welcoming reception (Mon 18.00-19.00)

Tuesday, 24 July 2007
  Newcomer's breakfast (Tue 7:30-8:45?)
  Opening (Tue 9:00)
  Keynote 1 (Tue 9:15-10:15)
  Session 1: Personalization (Tue 11:00-12:30)
  Session 2: Routing and Filtering (Tue 11:00-12:30)
  Session 3: Evaluation I (Tue 11:00-12:30)
  Session 4: Classification and Clustering (Tue 14:00-15:30)
  Session 5: Image Retrieval (Tue 14:00-15:30)
  Session 6: Summaries (Tue 14:00-15:30)
  Session 7: Users and the Web (Tue 16:00-17:30)
  Session 8: Managing Memory (Tue 16:00-17:30)
  Session 9: Topic Detection and Tracking (Tue 16:00-17:30)
  Poster and Demo session (Tue 18.00?-21.00)

Wednesday, 25 July 2007
  Session 10: Web IR I (Wed 09:00-10:30)
  Session 11: Interaction (Wed 09:00-10:30)
  Session 12: Learning to Rank I (Wed 09:00-10:30)
  Session 13: Formal Models (Wed 11:00-13:00)
  Session 14: Question Answering (Wed 11:00-13:00)
  Session 15: Evaluation II (Wed 11:00-12:30)
  Session 16: Learning to Rank II (Wed 14:30-16:30)
  Session 17: Spam Spam Spam (Wed 14:30-16:00)
  Session 18: Music Retrieval (Wed 14:30-15:30)
  Session 19: Multi-Lingual IR (Wed 15:30-16:30)
  Surprise (Wed 17.00?-18.00)
  Banquet (19.00 - 23.00?)

Thursday 26 July 2007
  Keynote 2 (Tue 9:00-10:00)
  Session 20: Link Analysis (Thu 10:30-12:00)
  Session 21: Collection Representation in Distributed IR (Thu 10:30-12:00)
  Session 22: Index Structures (Thu 10:30-12:00)
  Session 23: Web IR II (Thu 14:00-15:30)
  Session 24: Evaluation III (Thu 14:00-15:30)
  Session 25: Combination and Fusion (Thu 14:00-15:30)
  Session 26: Spoken Document Retrieval (Thu 16:00-17:30)
  Session 27: Domain Specific NLP (Thu 16:00-17:30)
  Session 28: Query Processing Strategies (Thu 16:00-17:30)

Friday, 27 July 2007
  Workshops (Fri  9:00-17:00)
  Industry Event (Fri 9:00-19:00)

*Important Dates*

June 15 2007:     Early registration deadline 
July 23-27, 2007: Conference in Amsterdam

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