SIGIR Forum
Volume 38 Number 1
Table of Contents
SIGIR News
From the Chair…
Jamie Callan
ACM SIGIR Annual Business Meeting: Secretary’s Notes
David D. Lewis
Keith van Rijsbergen Named ACM Fellow
Susan Dumais and Jamie Callan
NTCIR Workshop 3
Report from the NTCIR Workshop 3
Norkio Kando and Jun Adachi
Cross-Lingual Information Retrievl (CLIR) Task at the NTCIR Workshop 3
Kazuaki Kishida, Kuang-hua Chen, Sukhoon Lee, Hsin-Hsi Chen, Noriko Kando, Kazuko Kuriyama, Sung Hyon Myaeng and Koji Eguchi
Report on the Patent Retrieval Task at NTCIR 3 Workshop 3
Makoto Iwayama, Atsushi Fujii, Noriko Kando and Akihiko Takano
An Evaluation of Question Answering Challenge (QAC-1) at the NTCIR Workshop 3
Junichi Fukumoto, Tsuneaki Kato and Fumito Masui
Text Summarisation Challenge 2: Text Summarisation Evaluation at NTCIR Workshop 3
Manabu Okumura, Takahiro Fukusima, Hidetsugu Nanba and Tsutomu Hirao
An Evaluation of the Web Retrieval Task at the Third NTCIR Workshop
Koji Egcuhi, Keizo Oyama, Emi Ishida, Noriko Kando and Kazuko Kuriyama
Workshop Reports
Report on the INEX 2003 Workshop
Norbert Fuhr and Mounia Lalmas
The 4th Dutch-Belgian Information Retrieval Workshop
Arjen de Vries
Workshop Report: The Frist ACM International Workshop on Multimedia Databases (MMDB 2003)
Shu-Ching Chen and Mei-Ling Shyu
Report on the ACM Sixth International Workshop on Data Warehousing and OLAP (DOLAP 2003)
Stefano Rizzi and Il-Yeol Song
Report on the Fifth ACM International Workshop on Web Information and Data Management (WIDM 2003)
Roger H. L. Chiang, Alberto H. F. Laender and Ee-Peng Lim
Report on TREC 2003 Genomics Track First-Year Results and Future Plans
William Hersh
Book Review
Mining the Web
Authored by: Soumen Chakrabarti. Reviewed by: Fazli Can.
Dissertation Abstracts
Translation Events in Cross-Lingual Information Retrieval
Anne Diekma
Dictionary-Based Cross-Language Information Retrieval: Principles, System Design and Evaluation
Turid Hedlund
Understanding Implicit Feedback and Document Preference: a Naturalistic User Study
Diane Kelly
Towards Nootropia: a Non-Linear Approach to Adapative Document Filtering
Nikos Nanas
Question Taxonomies for Digital Reference
Jeffrey Pomerantz