ECIR-03: Final Call for Participation

                      FINAL CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

    25th European Conference on Information Retrieval Research (ECIR-03)

                     April 14-16, 2003 --  Pisa, Italy
                         http://ecir03.isti.cnr.it/


                             Sponsored by
                               Elsevier
      Associazione Italiana di Informatica e Calcolo Automatico (AICA)
                              CEPIS-EIRSG
                                Libero
                          Canon Research Europe
                           Microsoft Research
                      Sharp Laboratories of Europe
                        Fast Search and Transfer
                              IBM Research
                          DataPort AppleCenter

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%   AIMS OF THE CONFERENCE
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The annual European Conference on Information Retrieval Research,
organized under the auspices of the Information Retrieval
Specialist Group of the British Computer Society (BCS-IRSG), is
the main European forum for the presentation of research results
in the field of information retrieval, broadly intended to cover
all aspects of computer-based access to data with poorly
specified semantics. Topics covered by the ECIR conference series
are

* Text search and browsing
* Text representation and indexing
* Formal models and language models for information retrieval
* Cross-lingual and multilingual information retrieval
* Metasearching, rank aggregation and data fusion
* Text classification (categorization or clustering)
* Text mining and information extraction
* Content-based adaptive filtering and routing
* Collaborative filtering and recommender systems
* Topic detection and tracking
* Text summarization
* Question answering
* Information retrieval on the Web
* Retrieval of structured documents, including XML documents
* Usability, interactivity, and visualization issues in
   information retrieval
* User modelling and user studies for information retrieval
* Evaluation issues and test collections
* Distributed information retrieval and source selection
* Compression, scalability, and other performance issues in
   information retrieval
* Architectures for information retrieval
* Spoken text retrieval and music retrieval
* Image and video retrieval
* Optical character recognition and information retrieval
* Natural language processing for information retrieval
* Information retrieval on mobile platforms
* Information retrieval for lexical acquisition
* Information retrieval for digital libraries


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%   INVITED SPEAKERS
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* Karen Sparck Jones (University of Cambridge, UK)
        "Document retrieval: shallow data, deep theories;
          historical reflections, potential directions"

* Alberto Del Bimbo (University of Firenze, Italy)
        "Annotation and retrieval of structured video documents"


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%   PANEL
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   Keith van Rijsbergen (University of Glasgow, UK - Chair)
        "The future of IR research in a European context"

      Maristella Agosti (University of Padova, Italy)
      Ayse Goker (Robert Gordon University, UK)
      Cornelis H.A. Koster (University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands)
      Peter Ingwersen (Royal School of Library and Information
             Science, Denmark)
      Alan Smeaton (Dublin City University, Ireland)


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%   PRELIMINARY PROGRAM
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The ECIR-03 program features 31 full papers and 16 posters, plus
the 2 keynote talks and the panel detailed above. See
http://ecir03.isti.cnr.it/PreliminaryProgram.pdf for a detailed
preliminary program of ECIR-03.


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%   CONFERENCE VENUE
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ECIR-03 will take place at Area della Ricerca CNR di Pisa, the
Pisa technopark of the Italian National Research Council.


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%   TRAVEL INFORMATION
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Pisa is one of the most famous Italian towns, well-known for its
Leaning Tower and for its medioeval monuments and atmosphere; it
is located near the coast of Tuscany, less than an hour drive
from Firenze. Pisa has an international airport, with daily
connections to several European towns. Some of these connections
are operated by "budget" airlines such as RyanAir, Hapag-Lloyd
Express or AirLibExpress, which may make travelling to Pisa very
inexpensive. See http://ecir03.isti.cnr.it/travel-info.html for
detailed ECIR-03 travel information.


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%   REGISTRATION
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Detailed registration information can be found at

   http://ecir03.isti.cnr.it/registration.html

REMINDER: YOU CAN SAVE ON YOUR REGISTRATION FEE BY REGISTERING 
BY MARCH 20, 2003


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%   PROGRAM COMMITTEE
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Fabrizio Sebastiani, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, IT
    (Chair)

Alan Smeaton, Dublin City University, IE
Alessandro Sperduti, University of Padova, IT
Andreas Rauber, Vienna University of Technology, AT
Arjen de Vries, University of Twente, NL
Avi Arampatzis, University of Nijmegen, NL
Ayse Goker, Robert Gordon University, UK
Barry Smyth, University College Dublin, IE
Carol Peters, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, IT
Claudio Carpineto, Fondazione Ugo Bordoni, IT
David Carmel, IBM Research, IL
David Harper, Robert Gordon University, UK
Djoerd Hiemstra, University of Twente, NL
Dunja Mladenic, Jozef Stefan Institute, SI
Edda Leopold, Fraunhofer Institute, DE
Eero Sormunen, University of Tampere, FI
Fabio Crestani, University of Strathclyde, UK
Fabrizio Sebastiani, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, IT
Gabriella Pasi, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, IT
Gareth Jones, University of Exeter, UK
Gianni Amati, Fondazione Ugo Bordoni, IT
Giuseppe Amato, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, IT
Gloria Bordogna, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, IT
Iadh Ounis, University of Glasgow, UK
Ian Ruthven, University of Strathclyde, UK
Ion Androutsopoulos, Greek National Centre for Scientific
    Research, GR
Jacques Savoy, Universite' de Neuchatel, CH
Jane Reid, Queen Mary University, UK
Joemon Jose, Universityt of Glasgow, UK
Johannes Fuernkrantz, Austrian Research Institute for
    Artificial Intelligence, AT
John Tait, University of Sunderland, UK
Josiane Mothe, Paul Sabatier University, FR
Jussi Karlgren, SICS, SE
Kalervo Jarvelin, University of Tampere, FI
Kees Koster, University of Nijmegen, NL
Keith van Rijsbergen, University of Glasgow, UK
Marcello Federico, Istituto Trentino di Cultura, IT
Marco Gori, University of Siena, IT
Mark Girolami, University of Paisley, UK
Mark Sanderson, University of Sheffield, UK
Marko Grobelnik, Jozef Stefan Institute, SL
Martin Braschler, Eurospider, CH
Massimo Melucci, University of Padova, IT
Micheline Beaulieu, University of Sheffield, UK
Mohand Boughanem, Paul Sabatier University, FR
Monica Landoni, University of Strathclyde, UK
Mounia Lalmas, Queen Mary University, UK
Nicholas Kushmerick, University College Dublin, IE
Noam Slonim, Hebrew University, IL
Norbert Fuhr, University of Dortmund , DE
Pasquale Savino, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, IT
Patrick Gallinari, University of Paris 6, FR
Pavel Zezula, Masaryk University of Brno, CZ
Peter Ingwersen, Royal School of Library and Information
    Science, DK
Pia Borlund, Royal School of Library and Information
    Science, DK
Sandor Dominich, University of Veszprem, HU
Stavros Christodoulakis, Technical University of Crete, GR
Umberto Straccia, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, IT
Wessel Kraaij, TNO TPD, NL
Yoelle Maarek, IBM Research, IL
Yves Chiaramella, Joseph Fourier University, FR


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%   ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
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Fabrizio Sebastiani, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, IT
    (Chair)

Patrizia Andronico, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, IT
Francesca Borri, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, IT
Claudio Gennaro, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, IT


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%   CONTACT INFORMATION
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Address any further inquiry to:

   Fabrizio Sebastiani
   Istituto di Scienza e Tecnologie dell'Informazione
   Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche
   Via Giuseppe Moruzzi, 1
   56124 Pisa (ITALY)

   Phone:  +39.050.3152892
   Fax:    +39.050.3153464
   E-mail: ecir03info-8I8jPFND8kM1GQ1Ptb7lUw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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