25-27 March 1998 THE 20TH BCS COLLOQUIUM ON INFORMATION RETRIEVAL http://irsg.eu.org/colloq/ Celebrating our 20th anniversary, the IRSG is widening the scope of the colloquium and holding it outside the UK for the first time. The colloquium will be held outside Grenoble in the French Alps. AIMS: IRSG98 aims to bring together IR researchers in an informal atmosphere and to promote young researchers and new research. PAPERS: Papers describing work in progress or completed work are invited on any topic related to IR. Possible topics include, but are not limited to: * hypermedia * multimedia retrieval * distributed network systems * natural language processing * formal models of IR * interface issues in IR * IR in library systems * networked IR * evaluation and testing * implementation issues in IR. Papers must be submitted to the programme chair by 7 January'98. Priority will be given to papers submitted (and presented) by students. For more information please see http://irsg.eu.org/colloq/cfp.html CEPIS SPONSORSHIP: If you are looking for money to attend the ISRG '98 Colloquium then there is great news. CEPIS have kindly given us funding to allow a large number of researcher to attend the IRSG '98 Colloquium. The closing date for funding applications is Noon Monday 23rd February 1998. Successful applicants will receive up to 200 UKPounds. Criteria for Applications: 1.You must be a resident of a European Country 2.You are not receiving other funding to attend the IRSG Colloquium Priority will be given to: 1.Young researchers in the field of Information Retrieval 2.New researchers in the field of Information Retrieval 3.Researchers presenting material at the Colloquium COMPLETE INFORMATION at http://irsg.eu.org/colloq/sponsorship.html ORGANISATION: Colloquium Chair: Prof. Yves Chiaramella Programme Chair: Dr. Mark Dunlop The British Computer Society is a member of the Council of European Professional Societies and a registered charity. The IR Group is a specialist group of the BCS and a European IR Specialist Group.