- From: Zia Syed <zs@comp.rgu.ac.uk>
- Date: Thu, 04 Dec 2003 14:26:31 +0000
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ECIR'04 EUROPEAN CONFERENCE ON INFORMATION RETRIEVAL 5th - 7th April, 2004, UNIVERSITY OF SUNDERLAND, UK http://ecir04.sunderland.ac.uk CALL FOR POSTERS The British Computer Society's Information Retrieval Specialist Group's annual European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR'04) is the main European forum for the presentation of new research results in the field of Information Retrieval. Topics of interest include but are not limited to the following areas: Text representation and indexing Cross-lingual and multilingual IR Metasearching and data fusion Data mining and information extraction Topic detection and tracking Text summarisation Question answering Web-based IR Information Retrieval for digital libraries Mobile IR Formal methods and language models for IR Natural Language Processing for IR Structured document retrieval, including XML Image and video retrieval Text classification (categorization or clustering) Content-based adaptive filtering and routing Usability, interactivity and visualization Search strategies User modelling and user studies Evaluation issues and test collections Distributed IR Compression and scalability in IR Architectures for IR Audio and speech retrieval Optical character recognition and IR Machine learning for IR POSTERS Poster submissions addressing any of the areas identified in the conference topics are invited. Authors are encouraged to demonstrate work in progress and late-breaking research results. The submission must include a two-page summary of the work, prepared in accordance with the template available on the conference website. All accepted posters will be published in volume two of the proceedings, which will be distributed at the conference. An A4 diagrammatic plan of the poster display is also required. Please note that because of the late deadline for submissions for this track, all posters must be submitted in camera-ready copy format. There will be no opportunity for authors to modify poster abstracts following the review process. Posters must be submitted as Word documents. For further information about poster submission please contact Dr. Michael Oakes, ECIR 2004 Posters Chair, email: ecir04posters@sunderland.ac.uk IMPORTANT DATES Full Papers CLOSED Deadline for Posters Thursday 15 January 2004 Notification for Posters Friday 06 February 2004 CONFERENCE VENUE The conference will be held at the School of Computing and Technology at the University of Sunderland, UK. Located on the North East Coast of England, Sunderland is one of the UK's newest cities. Standing on one of the oldest educational sites in the country, the university campus successfully blends the old with the new. To the North of the campus lies St Peter's church where the Venerable Bede was trained, marking a tradition of learning that stretches back over a thousand years. TRAVEL Sunderland is located on the North East coast of England, close to the A19 and A1. The nearest airport is Newcastle International Airport providing connections to most major UK and European cities, including London Heathrow, Gatwick, Stansted, Amsterdam Schiphol and Brussels. Direct Metro link to Newcastle Airport. Direct Metro and rail links to Newcastle Central Station, with trains to all major UK cities FURTHER INFORMATION For more details about the conference please contact the conference General Chairs: Dr. Sharon McDonald and Professor John Tait School of Computing and Technology University of Sunderland Sunderland SR6 0DD United Kingdom Email: ecir04@sunderland.ac.uk http://ecir04.sunderland.ac.uk
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