-------------------------------------- CONFERENCE ORGANIZATION --------------------------------------- Conference Chair: Raya Fidel Graduate School of Library and Information Science, FM-30, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA. Treasurer: Sam Gyun Oh Graduate School of Library and Information Science, FM-30, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA. Program Chairs: (N and S America, Asia): Edward A. Fox Department of Computer Science, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA 24061-0106, USA. (Europe, Africa, Australia): Peter Ingwersen Royal School of Librarianship, Birketinget 6, DK 2300 Copenhagen S, Denmark. Tutorials and Panels Chair: Joan Morrissey School of Computer Science, University of Windsor, Ontario N9B 3P4, Canada. Posters Chair: Elizabeth D. Liddy School of Information Studies, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY 13244, USA. Demonstrations Chair: Efthimis N. Efthimiadis Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 20024, USA. Workshops Chair: Katie Hover Search Schema Manager, Microsoft Corporation, One Microsoft Way, Redmond, WA 98052, USA. Local Arrangements Chair: Michael Crandall Boeing Technical Libraries, P.O. Box 3707, MS 8K-38, Seattle, WA 98124, USA. Publicity Chairs: Edie Rasmussen and Sherry Koshman School of Library and Information Science, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15260, USA. Sponsorship Chair: Jill McKinstry Library Systems, FM-25, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA. Conference Secretariat: SIGIR'95 Conference Graduate School of Library and Information Science University of Washington Seattle, WA 98195, USA tel: (206) 543-1888 fax: (206) 616-3152 email: sigir95@u.washington.edu PROGRAM COMMITTEE IJsbrand Jan Aalbersberg, Phillips, Netherlands Maristella Agosti, U. Padua, Italy Richard K. Belew, UC San Diego, USA Nicholas Belkin, Rutgers U., USA Abraham Bookstein, U. Chicago, USA Christine Borgman, UCLA, USA Giorgio Brajnik, U. Udine, Italy Peter D. Bruza, QUT, Australia Forbes Burkowski, Waterloo U., Canada Yves Chiaramella, LGI-IMAG, France W. Bruce Croft, U. Massachusetts, USA Efthimis N. Efthimiadis, UCLA, USA Hans-Peter Frei, UBILAB, Switzerland Norbert Fuhr, U. Dortmund, Germany Richard Furuta, Texas A&M U., USA Micheline Hancock-Beaulieu, City University, UK Donna Harman, NIST, USA David Harper, Robert Gordon U., UK Nancy Ide, Vassar College, USA Tetsuya Ishikawa, ULIS, Japan Kalervo Jarvelin, U. Tampere, Finland Haruo Kimoto, NTT, Japan Shmuel T. Klein, Bar-Ilan U., Israel Robert Korfhage, U. Pittsburgh, USA Ray Larson, UC Berkeley, USA David Lewis, AT&T, USA Elizabeth D. Liddy, Syracuse U., USA Paul Lindner, U. Minnesota, USA Clifford Lynch, U. California, USA Gary Marchionini, U. Maryland, USA Yasushi Ogawa, RICOH, Japan Annelise Mark Pejtersen, Risoe, Denmark Keith van Rijsbergen, Glasgow U., UK Gerard Salton, Cornell U., USA Peter Schauble, ETH, Switzerland Fabrizio Sebastiani, U. Glasgow, UK Alan Smeaton, Dublin City U., Ireland Phil Smith, Ohio State U., USA Craig Stanfill, Ab Initio Software, USA Ulrich Thiel, GMD, Germany Richard Tong, Verity, USA Howard Turtle, West Publishing, USA Ellen Voorhees, Siemens, USA Ross Wilkinson, RMIT, Australia Peter Willett, U. Sheffield, UK E.J. Yannakoudakis, Athens U., Greece