[Sigia-l] SIG IR '03 CFP

[Richard Hill]

[Forwarded for Dr. Carolyn Watters.    ASIST is "in cooperation with" on 
this meeting, so ASIST members attend at the member rate.  Dick Hill]

                             CALL FOR PAPERS
          26th ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL ACM SIGIR CONFERENCE
         RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT IN INFORMATION RETRIEVAL

                        www.sigir2003.org

                    July 28 to August 1, 2003
                          Toronto, Canada

SIGIR is a 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.

                  Topic Areas of Interest include
                but are not limited to the following:

* Machine Learning for IR, Text Data Mining, Clustering, Text
   Categorization
* Cross-language Retrieval, Multilingual Retrieval, Machine Translation
   for IR
* Topic Detection and Tracking, Content-Based Filtering, Collaborative
   Filtering, Agents
* Web IR, Distributed IR, Digital Libraries, Search Strategies,
   Citation and Link Analysis
* Text Representation and Indexing, XML and Metadata
* Video and Image Access, Audio and Speech Retrieval, Music Retrieval
* Performance, Compression, Scalability, Architectures, Mobile
   Applications
* Interfaces, Visualization, Interactive IR, User Models, User Studies
* Natural Language Processing for IR, Summarization, Question Answering
* Information Extraction, Lexical Acquisition
* Evaluation, Building Test Collections, Experimental Design and
   Metrics
* Formal Models, Language Models, Fusion/Combination
* Specialized Applications of IR, including Genomic IR, IR in Software
   Engineering and IR for Chemical Structures

                         Important Dates

         October 31, 2002  -  deadline for mentoring program
         January 31, 2003  -  submission deadline for research papers
         February 28, 2003 -  submission deadline for tutorial,
                              workshops, posters, and demonstrations
         April 11, 2003    -  notification of acceptance for all
                              submissions
         May 9, 2003       -  camera-ready copy due

                        Submission Guidelines

Authors are invited to submit research papers, posters, and proposals
for tutorials, workshop, and demonstrations.  Research papers are not
to exceed 5000 words, must contain  original, previously unpublished
work, and are not to be under review by other conferences or journals.
Posters and demonstrations offer researchers an opportunity to present
late-breaking results, significant work in progress, or original
research that is best communicated in an interactive or graphical
format.  For requirements and submission details, please see the
conference website, www.sigir2003.org.

                         Mentoring Program

As part of our efforts to broaden participation, SIGIR 2003 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/or 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.  Authors wishing to participate in the
mentoring program should prepare a draft paper or extended abstract by
October 31, 2002. For further details on the mentoring program, please
see the conference website.

                         About Toronto

The largest city in Canada, Toronto is the most ethnically diverse and
multi-cultural city in the world.  The ethnic diversity of Toronto is
reflected in its wide variety of fine restaurants, more than 5000, with
over 80 varieties of international cuisine.  The city is easily
accessible.  Toronto's Pearson International Airport is the third
busiest gateway to North America, with daily direct flights from major
Asian and European cities.  60% of North America's population is within
500 air-miles of Toronto.  Toronto is home to professional baseball,
basketball, football and hockey teams, as well as numerous museums and
art galleries.  The Niagara region, a short drive from Toronto,
features vineyards and wineries, the Shaw drama festival, and Niagara
Falls.

Program Committee

James Allan, University of Massachusetts, USA
Ricardo Baeza-Yates, University of Chile, Chile
Micheliine Beaulieu, University of Sheffield, UK
Peter Bruza, Distributed Systems Technology Centre, Australia
Chris Buckley, SaBir Research, USA
Norbert Fuhr, University of Dortmund, Germany
David Hull, Clairvoyance Corp, USA
Kalervo Jarvelin, University of Tampere, Finland
Wessel Kraaij, TNO TPD, Netherlands
John Lafferty, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Elizabeth Liddy, Syracuse University, USA
R. Manmatha, University of Massachusetts, USA
Alistair Moffat, University of Melbourne Australia
Douglas Oard, University of Maryland, USA
Mark Sanderson, University of Sheffield, UK
Jacques Savoy, University of Neuchatel, Switzerland
Fabrizio Sebastiani, Consiglio Nazionale delle Recerche, Italy
Amit Singhal, Goole, USA
Barry Smith, University College Dublin, Ireland
Amanda Spink, Pennsylvania State University, USA
John Tait, University of Sunderland, UK
Ellen Vorhees, NIST, USA

Conference Committee

Charles Clark, University of Waterloo, Canada
Gordon Cormack, University of Waterloo, Canada
Jamie Callan, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Alan Smeaton, Dublin City University, Ireland
David Hawking, Australian National University, Australia
David J. Harper, The Robert Gordon University, UK
Efthimis Efthimiadis, University of Washington, USA
Jian-Yun Nie, University of Montreal, Canada
Michael Nelson, University of Western Ontario, Canada
Carolyn Watters, Dalhousie University, Canada
Elaine Toms, University of Toronto, Canada
Wendy Rush, University of Waterloo, Canada



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