SIGIR Forum

Volume 38 Number 2

Table of Contents

SIGIR News

From the Chair
Jamie Callan

ACM SIGIR Annual Business Meeting: Secretary’s Notes
David Lewis

SIGIR Services
Jamie Callan

Report on SIGIR 2004 Doctoral Consortium
David J. Harper

SIGIR 2005 – Second Doctoral Consortium Announcement
David J. Harper

Workshop Reports

Ontologies and Technologies: Knowledge Representation or Misrepresentation (Invited Talk)
Kieron O’Hara

What’s new about the Semantic Web? Some questions (Invited Talk)
Karen Sparck Jones

Third Edition of the “XML and Information Retrieval” Workshop/First Workshop on Integration of IR and DB (WIRD)
Ricardo Baeza-Yates, Yoelle S. Maarek, Thomas Roelleke, Arjen P. de Vries

SIGIR 2003 Workshop on Text Analysis and Search for Bioinformatics
Eric W. Brown, William Hersh, Alfonso Valencia

The SIGIR Peer-to-Peer Information Retrieval Workshop
Jamie Callan and Norbert Fuhr

Information Retrieval for Question Answering
Robert Gaizauskas, Mark Hepple and Mark Greenwood

SIGIR 2004 Workshop: RIA and “Where can IR go from here?”
Donna Harman and Chris Buckley

Information Retrieval in Context – IRiX
Peter Ingwersen and Nick Belkin

Workshop on Geographic Information Retrieval, SIGIR 2004
Ross Purves and Chris Jones

Papers

The SPIRIT collection: an overview of a large web collection
Hideo Joho and Mark Sanderson

Dissertation Abstracts

Exploiting Markup Structure for Intelligent Search
Udo Kruschwitz