14. SIGIR 1991: Chicago, Illinois, USA

Abraham Bookstein, Yves Chiaramella, Gerard Salton, Vijay V. Raghavan (Eds.): Proceedings of the 14th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval. Chicago, Illinois, USA, October 13-16, 1991 (Special Issue of the SIGIR Forum). ACM 1991, ISBN 0-89791-448-1

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               Yves Chiaramella and
               Gerard Salton and
               Vijay V. Raghavan},
  title     = {Proceedings of the 14th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference
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               Illinois, USA, October 13-16, 1991 (Special Issue of the SIGIR
               Forum)},
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Nicholas J. Belkin:
In Memoriam - B. C. Brookes. 1

Biennial SIGIR Award Acceptance Speech

Introduction: Gerard Salton

Cyril W. Cleverdon:
The Significance of the Cranfield Tests on Index Languages. 3-12

Document Structure

Chair: Peter Ingwersen

Jean Tague, Airi Salminen, Charles McClellan:
A Complete Model for Information Retrieval Systems. 14-20
Gerard Salton, Chris Buckley:
Automatic Text Structuring and Retrieval: Experiments in Automatic Encyclopedia Searching. 21-30

Modeling Information Retrieval Systems I

Chair: Roger Thompson

W. Bruce Croft, Howard R. Turtle, David D. Lewis:
The Use of Phrases and Structured Queries in Information Retrieval. 32-45
Norbert Fuhr, Ulrich Pfeifer:
Combining Model-Oriented and Description-Oriented Approaches for Probabilistic Indexing. 46-56
William S. Cooper:
Inconsistencies and Misnomers in Probabilistic IR. 57-61

Data Compression

Chair: Timo Raita

Abraham Bookstein, Shmuel T. Klein:
Compression of a Set of Correlated Bitmaps. 63-71
IJsbrand Jan Aalbersberg:
Posting Compression in Dynamic Retrieval Environments. 72-81
Chengjie Luo, Clement T. Yu:
Image Decompression: A Hybrid Image Decompressing Algorithm. 82-91

Invited Speaker

Introduction: W. Bruce Croft

Michael Lesk:
The CORE Electronic Chemistry Library. 93-112

Distributed Systems I

Chair: Peter Bollman

Hans-Peter Frei, M. F. Wyle:
Retrieval Algorithm Effectiveness in a Wide Area Network Information Filter. 114-122
Richard F. E. Sutcliffe:
Distributed Representations in a Text Based Information Retrieval System: A New Way of Using the Vector Space Model. 123-132

Interfaces

Chair: Christine L. Borgman

Robert Korfhage:
To See, or Not to See: Is That the Query? 134-141
Richard H. Fowler, Wendy A. Lawrence-Fowler, Bradley A. Wilson:
Integrating Query, Thesaurus, and Documents Through a Common Visual Representation. 142-151
Anne Tissen:
A Case-Based Architecture for A Dialogue Manager for Information Seeking. 152-161

Office Automation and Databases

Chair: Jean-Luc Vidick

Peter G. Anick, Rex A. Flynn, David R. Hanssen:
Addressing the Requirements of a Dynamic Corporate Textual Information Base. 163-172
Kalervo Järvelin, Timo Niemi:
Advanced Retrieval From Heterogeneous Fact Databases: Integration of Data Retrieval, Conversion, Aggregation and Deductive Techniques. 173-182
Augusto Celentano, Maria Grazia Fugini, Silvano Pozzi:
Querying Office Systems About Document Roles. 183-190

Modeling Information Retrieval Systems II

Chair: Craig Stanfill

K. L. Kwok:
Query Modification and Expansion in a Network with Adaptive Architecture. 192-201
Ross Wilkinson, Philip Hingston:
Using the Cosine Measure in a Neural Network for Document. 202-210
Yiyu Yao, S. K. Michael Wong:
Preference Structure, Inference and Set-Oriented Retrieval. 211-218

Distributed Systems II

Chair: David D. Lewis

Peter B. Danzig, Jong Suk Ahn, John Noll, Katia Obraczka:
Distributed Indexing: A Scalable Mechanism for Distributed Information Retrieval. 220-229
Ophir Frieder, Hava T. Siegelmann:
On the Allocation of Documents in Multiprocessor Information Retrieval Systems. 230-239

Objected Oriented Approaches to IR

Chair: Donald B. Crouch

Yong Zhang, Vijay V. Raghavan, Jitender S. Deogun:
An Object-Oriented Modelling of the History of Optimal Retrievals. 241-250
Scott Henningen:
Retrieving Software Objects in an Example-Based Programming Environment. 251-260

Semantic Models

Chair: Christian Fluhr

Xia Lin, Dagobert Soergel, Gary Marchionini:
A Self-Organizing Semantic Map for Information Retrieval. 262-269
Edgar B. Wendlandt, James R. Driscoll:
Incorporating a Semantic Analysis into a Document Retrieval Strategy. 270-279
Don R. Swanson:
Analysis of Unintended Connections Between Disjoint Science Literatures. 280-289

Access Methods

Chair: Jitender S. Deogun

Dalia Motzkin:
An Efficient Directory System for Document Retrieval. 291-304
Fausto Rabitti, Pasquale Savino:
Image Query Processing Based on Multi-Level Signatures. 305-314

Hypertext

Chair: Nicholas J. Belkin

Maristella Agosti, Roberto Colotti, Girolamo Gradenigo:
A Two-Level Hypertext Retrieval Model for Legal Data. 316-325
Alain Lelu:
Automatic Generation of Hypertext Links in Information Retrieval Systems: A Stochastic and an Incremental Algorithm. 326-335

Natural Language Processing

Chair: Martha B. Evens

Lisa F. Rau, Paul S. Jacobs:
Creating Segmented Databases from Free Text for Text Retrieval. 337-346
Michael L. Mauldin:
Performance in FERRET: A Conceptual Information Retrieval System. 347-355

Panel

Gerard Salton:
The SMART Information Retrieval System after 30 years - Panel. 356-358