Areas and Area Coordinators

see also: [Program Chairs] [Program Committee] [Conference Committee] [Area Coordinators]

SIGIR 2001 welcomes contributions related to any aspect of IR, but the major areas of interest are listed below. For each general area, two area coordinators will guide the reviewing process.

Formal Models, Language Models, Search Strategies, Fusion/Combination

Keith van Rijsbergen, University of Glasgow, U.K.

John Lafferty, Carnegie Mellon University

 

Machine Learning for IR, Text Data Mining, Clustering, Text Categorization

William Cohen, WhizBang! Labs

Norbert Fuhr, University of Dortmund, Germany

 

Cross-Lingual Retrieval, Multilingual Retrieval, Machine Translation for IR

Doug Oard, University of Maryland

David Hull, Rank Xerox Research Center, France

 

Topic Detection and Tracking, Content-Based Filtering, Collaborative Filtering, Agents

James Allan, University of Massachusetts

Michael Pazzani, UC, Irvine

 

Web IR, Citation and Link Analysis, XML and Metadata, Digital Libraries

David Hawking, Australian National University

Edward Fox, Virginia Polytechnic University

 

Video and Image Access, Audio and Speech Retrieval, Music Retrieval

Mark Maybury, MITRE 

Raghavan Manmatha, University of Massachusetts 

 

Text Representation and Indexing, Information Extraction, Lexical Acquisition, Natural Language Processing for IR 

Sung Hyon Myaeng, Chungnam National University, Korea 

Claire Cardie, Cornell University 

 

Performance, Compression, Scalability, Architectures, Distributed Search

Jamie Callan, Carnegie Mellon Univ. 

Alistair Moffat, Univ. of Melbourne, Australia

 

Interfaces, Visualization, Interactive IR, User Models

Marti Hearst, UC Berkeley 

Nicholas Belkin, Rutgers University

 

Summarization, Question Answering 

Amit Singhal, AT&T Labs 

John Tait, University of Sunderland, U.K. 

 

Evaluation, Building Test Collections, User Studies, Experimental Design and Metrics 

Susan Dumais, Microsoft Research 

Kalervo Jarvelin, University of Tampere, Finland