SIGIR Forum, Volume 37

Volume 37, Number 1, 2003

• Caspar J. Fall, A. Törcsvári, K. Benzineb, G. Karetka:
  Automated categorization in the international patent classification. 10-25
  
• William B. Frakes, Christopher J. Fox:
  Strength and similarity of affix removal stemming algorithms. 26-30
  
• James Allan, Jay Aslam, Nicholas J. Belkin, Chris Buckley, James P. Callan, W. Bruce Croft, Susan T. Dumais, Norbert Fuhr, Donna Harman, David J. Harper, Djoerd Hiemstra, Thomas Hofmann, Eduard H. Hovy, Wessel Kraaij, John D. Lafferty, Victor Lavrenko, David D. Lewis, Liz Liddy, R. Manmatha, Andrew McCallum, Jay M. Ponte, John M. Prager, Dragomir R. Radev, Philip Resnik, Stephen E. Robertson, Ronald Rosenfeld, Salim Roukos, Mark Sanderson, Richard M. Schwartz, Amit Singhal, Alan F. Smeaton, Howard R. Turtle, Ellen M. Voorhees, Ralph M. Weischedel, Jinxi Xu, ChengXiang Zhai:
  Challenges in information retrieval and language modeling: report of a workshop held at the center for intelligent information retrieval, University of Massachusetts Amherst, September 2002. 31-47
  
• Alan F. Smeaton, Gary Keogh, Cathal Gurrin, Kieran McDonald, Tom Sødring:
  Analysis of papers from twenty-five years of SIGIR conferences: what have we been doing for the last quarter of a century? 49-53
  

Volume 37, Number 2, 2003

• Travis Bauer, David B. Leake:
  Detecting context-differentiating terms using competitive learning. 4-17
  
• Diane Kelly, Jaime Teevan:
  Implicit feedback for inferring user preference: a bibliography. 18-28
  
• Fabrizio Sebastiani:
  Report on the 25th European conference on information retrieval research (ECIR-03). 29-32
  

• Jamie Callan, Fabio Crestani, Mark Sanderson:
  SIGIR 2003 workshop on distributed information retrieval. 33-37
  
• J. Stephen Downie:
  Report on the panels and workshops of the music information retrieval (MIR) and music digital library (MDL) evaluation frameworks project. 38-44
  
• Ying Ding, Cornelis Joost van Rijsbergen, Iadh Ounis, Joemon M. Jose:
  Report on ACM SIGIR workshop on "semantic web" SWIR 2003. 45-49
  
• Susan T. Dumais, Thorsten Joachims, Krishna Bharat, Andreas S. Weigend:
  SIGIR 2003 workshop report: implicit measures of user interests and preferences. 50-54
  
• Ian Soboroff, Ellen M. Voorhees, Nick Craswell:
  Summary of the SIGIR 2003 workshop on defining evaluation methodologies for terabyte-scale test collections. 55-58
  

• Javed Mostafa, Katy Börner:
  Information visualization interfaces for retrieval and analysis (IVIRA) workshop summary. 59-61
  
• Nadia Caidi, Anita Komlodi:
  Digital libraries across cultures: design and usability issues outcomes of the "cross-cultural usability for digital libraries" workshop at JCDL '03. 62-64
  
• Dagobert Soergel:
  Building a more meaningful Web: from traditional knowledge organization systems to new semantic tools. 65-72
  
• Simeon Warner, Michael L. Nelson:
  Report on the metadata harvesting workshop at JCDL 2003. 73-78
  

• Rong Jin:
  Statistical approaches toward automatic title generation. 79