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21st Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on
Research and Development in Information Retrieval

Melbourne, Australia

August 24 - 28, 1998

CONFERENCE ORGANISATION



Conference Chairs

Alistair Moffat, University of Melbourne,
Justin Zobel, RMIT

Organising Committee

Tim Bell, University of Melbourne,
Michael Fuller, RMIT
Alistair Moffat, University of Melbourne,
Justin Zobel, RMIT

Program Committee Chair,
Regional Chair (Asia/Pacific)

Ross Wilkinson,
RMIT and CSIRO-CMIS,
723 Swanston Street,
Carlton, Victoria 3053,
Australia.
ross@cs.rmit.edu.au
+61 3 92822610

Regional Chair (Americas)

W. Bruce Croft,
Lederle Graduate Research Center,
Department of Computer Science,
University of Massachusetts,
Amherst, MA 01003-4610,
United States of America.
croft@cs.umass.edu
+1 413 5450463

Regional Chair (Europe)

Keith van Rijsbergen,
Department of Computing Science,
University of Glasgow,
17 Lilybank Gardens,
Glasgow, G12 8RZ,
Scotland.
keith@dcs.gla.ac.uk
+44 141 3304463

Posters Chair

Peter Bruza,
School of Information Systems,
Queensland University of Technology,
GPO Box 2434,
Brisbane, Queensland 4001,
Australia.
bruza@icis.qut.edu.au
+61 7 38642960

Tutorials Chair

James Thom,
Department of Computer Science,
RMIT, GPO Box 2476V,
Melbourne, Victoria 3001,
Australia.
jat@cs.rmit.edu.au
+61 3 96602246

Demonstrations Chair

Michael Fuller,
Multimedia Database Systems, RMIT,
723 Swanston Street,
Carlton, Victoria 3053, Australia
msf@mds.rmit.edu.au
+61 3 92822479

Program Committee

IJsbrand Jan Aalbersberg, Elsevier Science Maristella Agosti, Univ. Padova
James Allan, Univ. Massachusetts Gianni Amati, Fondazione Ugo Bordoni
Ricardo Baeza-Yates, Univ. Chile Michaeline Beaulieu, City Univ.
Nick Belkin, Rutgers Univ. Peter Bruza, Queensland Univ. Tech.
Chris Buckley, Sabir Research James Callan, Univ. Massachusetts
Jaime Carbonell, Carnegie Mellon Univ. Hsinchun Chen, Univ. Arizona
Yves Chiaramella, CLIPS-IMAG Stavros Christodoulakis, Tech. Univ. Crete
W. Bruce Croft, Univ. Massachusetts Susan Dumais, Microsoft
Mark D. Dunlop, Univ. Glasgow Leo Egghe, Limburgs Univ. Centrum
Ed Fox, Virginia Tech. Hans-Peter Frei, Union Bank of Switzerland
Jim French, Univ. Virginia Norbert Fuhr, Univ. Dortmund
Donna Harman, NIST David J. Harper, Robert Gordon Univ.
Marti Hearst, Univ. California, Berkeley Bill Hersh, Oregon Health Sciences Univ.
David Hull, Rank Xerox Research Centre Peter Ingwersen, Royal Sch. Librarianship
Tetsuya Ishikawa, Univ. Lib. Infor. Sc. Kalervo Jarvelin, Univ. Tampere
Haruo Kimoto, NTT Shmuel T. Klein, Bar-Ilan Univ.
C.H.A. Koster, Univ. Nijmegen K.L. Kwok, Queens College, CUNY
Ray Larson, Univ. California, Berkeley Dik L. Lee, Hong Kong Univ. Sc. Tech.
Joon Ho Lee, Soongsil Univ. Mun-Kew Leong, Kent Ridge Digital Labs.
David D. Lewis, AT&T Labs - Research Elizabeth Liddy, Syracuse Univ.
Pier Giorgio Marchetti, European Space Agency Elke Mittendorf, ETH
Alistair Moffat, Univ. Melbourne, Sung H. Myaeng, Chungnam National Univ.
Desai Narasimhalu, National Univ. Singapore Yasushi Ogawa, RICOH Co. Ltd.
Jan Pedersen, Verity C. J. van Rijsbergen, Univ. Glasgow
Stephen E. Robertson, City Univ. Tefko Saracevic, Rutgers Univ.
Peter Schäuble, ETH Alan Smeaton, Dublin City Univ.
Karen Sparck Jones, Univ. Cambridge Craig Stanfill, Ab Initio
Ulrich Thiel, GMD-IPSI Richard Tong, Sageware
Howard Turtle, West Group Ellen Voorhees, NIST
Ross Wilkinson, RMIT and CSIRO Peter Willett, Univ. Sheffield
Yiming Yang, Carnegie Mellon Univ. Justin Zobel, RMIT

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Correspondence


Alistair Moffat
alistair / csse.unimelb.edu.au,
1 July 1998.