REGISTRATION FORM FOR ACM SIGIR’01
24th International ACM SIGIR Conference
on Research and Development in Information Retrieval
September 9-13, 2001
New Orleans, LA USA
Supported by AICA-GIR (Italy), ASIST (USA), BCS-IRSG (UK), or GI (Germany)


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PLEASE NOTE: Tutorial registration fee includes tutorial notes. Conference registration fee includes one copy of the conference proceedings, admission to the Reception, Poster Session and Demos on Monday evening and a Banquet ticket for Tuesday evening. One day registration includes a copy of the proceedings.  Workshops include a box lunch and are open to accepted participants ONLY, unless otherwise indicated on the workshop web page.

REGISTRATION FEES (Please circle appropriate fees)

The cut off date for preregistration is August 31, 2001.  After this date you must register on-site.

 
Registration before
Or on 8/19/01
Registration after
8/19/01 or on-site
 
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Full Day Tutorials
$ 225
$ 245
 $   75
$ 275  
$ 295
$ 100
Half Day Tutorials
$ 125
$ 135
 $   50
$ 150  
$ 160
 $   75
Workshop
$   70
$   80
 $   70
$   90  
$ 100
$   90
2nd Day Workshop*
$   70
$   80
 $   70
$   90  
$ 100
$   90
SIGIR Conference
$ 375
$ 450**
$ 125
$ 440  
$ 480**
$ 150
One Day Registration
$ 150
$ 175
 $   50
$ 200  
$ 225
$   75
Tutorial Choice(s) – Please check choice below

Morning (September 9, 2001)

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Introduction to Information Retrieval (Mark Sanderson)
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Web Information Retrieval (Krishna Bharat & David Hawking)
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Multilingual Information Access (Carol Peters & Paraic Sheridan)
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Text Summarization (Radev)

Afternoon (September 9, 2001)

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Combining Text- and Link-Based Information Retrieval on the Web (Andrei Broder & Prabhakar Raghavan)
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Text Classification and Text Mining in vivo (David Lewis)
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Designing Information Architectures for Search (Marti Hearst) 
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Practical Digital Libraries Overview (Ed Fox)

Workshop Choices are open to accepted participants ONLY, unless otherwise indicated on the workshop web page.

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September 13, 2001

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Mathematical/Formal Methods in IR (Sandor Dominich, Mounia Lalmas, & Keith  van Rijsbergen)
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IR Techniques for Speech Applications (Anni Coden, Savitha  Srinivasan, & Eric  Brown)

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Open Archives:  Communities, Interoperability, and Services (Ed Fox)
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Operational Text Classification (David  Lewis, Susan  Dumais,  Ronen Feldman, & Fabrizio Sebastiani)
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Recommender Systems (John  Herlocker, Joaquin Delgado, David MacDonald,  Douglas Oard, & Ian Soboroff)

September 13 - 14, 2001* optional second day – please see description for more information

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Text Summarization (Donna Harman & Danie Marcu)
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Optional Second Day

Extra Guest Tickets

Extra Tuesday Banquet Ticket:  $ 70       x ____ = _____

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