Spring 2003

SIGIR Forum

Volume 37 Number 1

Table of Contents

SIGIR news

SIGIR election results
Susan Dumais

Workshop Reports

Fourth International Workshop on Web Information and Data Management (WIDM’2002)
Ee-Peng Lim, Roger Chiang Hsiang-Li

3rd Dutch-Belgian Information Retrieval Workshop (DIR-2002)
Rik De Busser

Report on the 2nd ECDL Workshop on Web Archiving
Andreas Rauber

Description of test collection

Automated Categorization in the International Patent Classification
C. J. Fall, A. Törcsvári, K. Benzineb, G. Karetka

Papers

Strength and Similarity of Affix Removal Stemming Algorithms
William B. Frakes, Christopher J. Fox

Challenges in Information Retrieval and Language Modeling
James Allan (editor), Jay Aslam, Nicholas Belkin, Chris Buckley, Jamie Callan, Bruce Croft (editor), Sue Dumais, Norbert Fuhr, Donna Harman, David J. Harper, Djoerd Hiemstra, Thomas Hofmann, Eduard Hovy, Wessel Kraaij, John Lafferty, Victor Lavrenko, David Lewis, Liz Liddy, R. Manmatha, Andrew McCallum, Jay Ponte, John Prager, Dragomir Radev, Philip Resnik, Stephen Robertson, Roni Rosenfeld, Salim Roukos, Mark Sanderson, Rich Schwartz, Amit Singhal, Alan Smeaton, Howard Turtle, Ellen Voorhees, Ralph Weischedel, Jinxi Xu, ChengXiang Zhai