[Asis-l] Fwd: Call for Participation, ACM SIGIR 2011, 24-28 July 2011, Beijing (http://www.sigir2011.org)

[Matt Lease]

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Subject: 	[SIG-IRList] Call for Participation, ACM SIGIR 2011, 24-28
July 2011, Beijing (http://www.sigir2011.org)
Date: 	Thu, 7 Jul 2011 06:24:20 +0000
From: 	Hang Li (MSR) <hangli at microsoft.com>
To: 	IRList at lists.shef.ac.uk <IRList at lists.shef.ac.uk>
CC: 	Wei-Ying Ma <wyma at microsoft.com>, "Jian-Yun Nie
(nie at iro.umontreal.ca)" <nie at iro.umontreal.ca>

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Call for Participation

ACM SIGIR 2011, 24-28 July 2011, Beijing (http://www.sigir2011.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) and search engines. Online 
registration for the conference is now open.


Keynote Speeches:

Future of the Web and Search
Speaker: Qi Lu, President of Microsoft's Online Services Division

Beyond Search: Statistical Topic Models for Text Analysis
Speaker: ChengXiang Zhai, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Full Program: http://www.sigir2011.org/schedule.htm
·         Main conference: http://www.sigir2011.org/sessions.htm
·         Industrial Track: http://www.sigir2011.org/industrial-track.htm
·         Workshops: http://www.sigir2011.org/workshops.htm

Registration

We encourage you to make a normal registration by July 15, 2011. Onsite 
registration is required after 15 July, 2011. The conference also offers 
advantageous packages to students.

See: http://www.sigir2011.org/terms-conditions.htm

Accommodation

Don't forget to make your room reservations at 
http://www.sigir2011.org/accommodation.htm. We have blocked a number of 
rooms at the conference hotel, the  Beijing Hotel, at special rates.

Also see http://www.sigir2011.org/other-events.htm for other events, 
including social events and the Elsevier App Challenge.

Local information

See http://www.sigir2011.org/about-beijing.htm for useful local 
information about Beijing.