7.982, Confs: Cross-Linguistic Information Retrieval Workshop

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Subject: 7.982, Confs: Cross-Linguistic Information Retrieval Workshop
 
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Date:  Thu, 04 Jul 1996 16:05:25 +0200
From:  Gregory.Grefenstette at Grenoble.RXRC.Xerox.com (Gregory Grefenstette)
Subject:  SIGIR96 Cross Linguistic Workshop Schedule
 
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Date:  Thu, 04 Jul 1996 16:05:25 +0200
From:  Gregory.Grefenstette at Grenoble.RXRC.Xerox.com (Gregory Grefenstette)
Subject:  SIGIR96 Cross Linguistic Workshop Schedule
 
 
Please note, the deadline for early registration is July 7, 1996!
 
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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 at 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
 
__ Mr.    __ Ms.    __ Dr.    __ Prof.     Other: ______
 
LAST NAME:________________ FIRST NAME:_______________________
 
BADGE NAME (if different): __________________________________
 
COMPANY/ORGANIZATION:________________________________________
 
 
ADDRESS:_____________________________________________________
 
CITY:__________________   STATE:______   ZIP CODE: __________
 
COUNTRY:_______________   PHONE:  ( ___ )____________________
 
 
FAX:  ( ___ ) _______________ EMAIL: ________________________
 
__ please tick if this will be your first SIGIR conference and you will attend
the Newcomers' breakfast.
 
CONFERENCE REGISTRATION FEES:
 
__ Member of ACM, AICA-GLIR, BCS-IRSG,
   CEPIS-EIRSG, GI, IPSJ, OECG, or SI   Membership number: _________________
__ Non-member
__ Full-time Student (proof required)
__ One-day Registration:
    M   T   W  (please circle one)
 
                          REGISTRATION: CHF ________________
 
 
Tutorials:
 
AM:  __ Approaches  __ Logic
 
PM:  __ Evaluation   __ Models __ Digital Libraries
 
                           TUTORIALS:   CHF ________________
 
Workshops:
 
__ Visualization    __ Curriculum __ Research & Practice
 
 
__ Cross-Linguistic IR  __ Networked IR
 
                            WORKSHOPS:  CHF ________________
 
Special Events:
 
Additional banquet tickets (how many): ___
 
For (names): ________________________
 
                            BANQUET:     CHF _______________
 
Tour to Pilatus and Lucerne:___
 
Guided tour of Zurich: ___
 
                             TOURS:      CHF_________________
 
                             TOTAL       CHF ________________
 
DO YOU HAVE ANY SPECIAL NEEDS (e.g. vegetarian food)?  Please specify:
___________________________________________________________
 
METHOD OF PAYMENT (CHF currency only):
 
__ Check payable to SIGIR '96
 
__ Credit card (Visa, Euro/Mastercard)
 
____________________________________
Credit card number, expiration date
 
______________________________________
Signature, date
(I authorize to charge my account fees indicated above)
 
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 at 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.
 
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