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SIGIR'96
WORKSHOP ON CROSS-LINGUISTIC INFORMATION RETRIEVAL
CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
August 22, 1996
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH)
Zurich, Switzerland
BACKGROUND:
As more and more information sources are becoming available on the
Web, the portion of internationally available non-English text is
slowing growing, and surely the numbers of non-English speaking users
is growing much faster. The problem of accessing unrestricted
information with queries expressed in a language different from the
source language of the documents will become more widespread. This
workshop brings together researchers working on this problem of
cross-linguistic multilingual information retrieval.
PRESENTATIONS:
8:30 -- 10:00
Advances in Cross-linguistic Information Retrieval at Computing
Research Laboratory
--Mark Davis, CRL, New Mexico State University, USA
Evaluating Cross-Language Text Filtering Effectiveness
--Douglas W. Oard and Bonnie J. Dorr, Univ. Maryland, USA
Automatic Cross-Linguistic Information Retrieval using Latent Semantic
Indexing
--Susan T. Dumais, Thomas K. Landauer, Michael L. Littman,
Bellcore, U. Colorado, U. Brown, USA
10:00-10:30 Coffee Break
10:30 -- 12:00
Cross Language Information Retrieval: A System for Comparable Corpus
Querying
--Carol Peters, Eugenio Picchi, CNR, Italy
A Language Conversion Front-end for Cross-Linguistic Information
Retrieval
--YAMABANA Kiyoshi, MURAKI Kazunori, DOI Shinichi,
KAMEI Shinichiro, NEC, Japan
Dictionary Methods for Cross-Linguistic Information
Retrieval
--Lisa Ballesteros and Bruce Croft, Univ, Massachussetts, USA
12:00 -- 13:30 LUNCH
13:30 -- 15:00
The SYSTRAN NLP Browser: An Application of Machine Translation
Technology in Multilingual Information Retrieval
--Denis A. Gachot, Elke Lange, Jin Yang, SYSTRAN, USA
Building a Large Multilingual Test Collection
from Comparable News Documents
--Paraic Sheridan, Jean Paul Ballerini, Peter Schauble,
ETH, Switzerland
A New Methodology for Testing Retrieval Efficiency for Multiscriptual
Databases, Applied on Testing the Efficiency of Arabic Natural
Language in OPACs
--Charlotte Wien, Odense University, Denmark
FURTHER INFORMATION
Detailed information on the SIGIR '96 conference is available on the World
Wide Web. URL: http://www.ubilab.ubs.ch/sigir96/welcome.html. Questions
should be addressed to sigir96@ubilab.ubs.ch.
WORKSHOP ORGANISERS:
Gregory Grefenstette, Rank Xerox Research Centre, France
Alan Smeaton, Dublin City University
Paraic Sheridan, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Switzerland
REGISTRATION:
To register, please complete and return the following registration form.
One may register for only the Workshop.
Return by July 7 to qualify for early registration.
Registration Fees
Conference Until July 7 After July 7
Members of cooperating organizations CHF 450 CHF 530
Non-members CHF 540 CHF 620
Full-time Students CHF 240 CHF 300
One-day Registration CHF 240 CHF 300
Tutorials
Members of cooperating organizations
One Tutorial CHF 180 CHF 270
Two Tutorials CHF 300 CHF 530
Non-members
One Tutorial CHF 240 CHF 330
Two Tutorials CHF 420 CHF 600
Full-time Student
One Tutorial CHF 120 CHF 180
Two Tutorials CHF 180 CHF 300
Workshops CHF 55 CHF 65
Additional Banquet Ticket CHF 110 CHF 110
Pilatus Tour * CHF 135 CHF 135
Guided Tour of Zurich ** CHF 18 CHF 18
* minimum number of people: 35
** minimum number of people: 10
SIGIR'96 REGISTRATION FORM
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The 19th Annual International
ACM SIGIR Conference on
Research and Development in
Information Retrieval
Zurich, August 18 - 22, 1996
Please use block letters or type, and tick where appropriate
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__ One-day Registration:
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Tutorials:
AM: __ Approaches __ Logic
PM: __ Evaluation __ Models __ Digital Libraries
TUTORIALS: CHF ________________
Workshops:
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__ Cross-Linguistic IR __ Networked IR
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Special Events:
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BANQUET: CHF _______________
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Return registration form by July 7 to qualify for early
registration. Use fax or email (credit card payment) or mail
(check or credit card) to:
SIGIR'96
Ubilab, Union Bank of Switzerland
P.O. Box 2336, 8033 Zurich, Switzerland
Phone: +41-1-236-5714; Fax: +41-1-234-6518
sigir96@ubilab.ubs.ch
If you register by fax or E-mail, please also send the original registration
form by regular mail.
HOTELS
The SIGIR'96 Organization Committee has reserved rooms at a number of
hotels in Zurich for the period August 16-23, 1996.
See URL http://www.ubilab.ubs.ch/sigir96/Accom.html for a hotel booking
form and further details.