SIGIR97: 20th International ACM SIGIR Conference on
Research and Development in Information Retrieval
DoubleTree Hotel, Philadelphia, PA, USA
July 27 -- July 31, 1997
SUMMARY PROGRAM
(For complete program and registration details, see the SIGIR '97
home page at: http://www.acm.org/sigir/conferences/sigir97/index.html
or write sigir97@nist.gov)
Saturday, July 26: Pre-conference workshop on curricula for IR and
digital libraries. (Held in conjunction with Digital Libraries '97.)
Sunday, July 27: Morning and afternoon tutorials. Salton Award
presentation and evening reception.
Monday, July 28: Newcomers' breakfast. Opening remarks. Keynote address.
Technical paper sessions. Demonstrations and posters session. Reception.
Tuesday, July 29: Technical paper sessions. Panel on real world
issues in IR. Banquet at Franklin Institute Science Museum.
Wednesday, July 30: Technical paper sessions. ACM SIGIR Annual Meeting
and Lunch. Close of conference.
Thursday, July 31: Post-conference workshops on networked IR,
summarization and visualization for IR, crosslingual IR, and semantic
relations in IR.
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SIGIR '97 is collocated with DL '97, the Second ACM International
Conference on Digital Libraries, which will be held July 23-26,
1997 in Philadelphia.
SIGIR '97 is being held in cooperation with BCS-IRSG (UK), GI (Germany),
and IPSJ (Japan).
The sponsorship of the following companies is gratefully acknowledged:
AT&T Labs - Research
IBM
Infonautics
Institute for Scientific Information (ISI)
Lexis-Nexis
West Information Publishing Group
[End of Summary SIGIR '97 Program: Online Version of 22-Apr-97]