CFP: The 28th Annual International ACM SIGIR 2005 Conference http://www.dcc.ufmg.br/eventos/sigir2005/ SIGIR is the major international forum for the presentation of new research results and the demonstration of new systems and techniques in the broad field of information retrieval. The 28th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference will be held at the Pestana Bahia in Salvador, Brazil, August 15 to 19, 2005. See you in Salvador. Areas of Interest Formal Models, Language Models, Fusion/Combination Text Representation and Indexing, XML and Metadata Performance, Compression, Scalability, Architectures, Mobile Applications Web IR, Intranet/Enterprise Search, Citation and Link Analysis, Digital Libraries, Distributed IR Cross-language Retrieval, Multilingual Retrieval, Machine Translation for IR Video and Image Access, Audio and Speech Retrieval, Music Retrieval Machine Learning for IR, Text Data Mining, Clustering, Text Categorization Topic Detection and Tracking, Content-Based Filtering, Collaborative Filtering, Agents Summarization, Question Answering, Natural Language Processing for IR, Information Extraction, Lexical Acquisition Interfaces, Visualization, Interactive IR, User Models, User Studies Evaluation, Building Test Collections, Experimental Design and Metrics Specialized Applications of IR, including Genomic IR, IR in Software Engineering, and IR for Chemical Structures Chairs General Chairs Ricardo Baeza-Yates, University of Chile Nivio Ziviani, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil Programme Committee Chairs Gary Marchionini, U. of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA Alistair Moffat, University of Melbourne, Australia John Tait, University of Sunderland, UK Poster Chairs Diane Kelly, U. of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA Mounia Lamas, Queen Mary London, UK Gonzalo Navarro, University of Chile Workshop Chair Doug Oard, University of Maryland, College Park Tutorial Chair Berthier Ribeiro-Neto, Federal U. of Minas Gerais, Brazil Demonstrations Chair Javed Mostafa, Indiana University, Bloomington, USA Mentoring Chair Justin Zobel, RMIT University, Australia Doctoral Consortium Chair David Harper, Robert Gordon University, UK Submissions Deadlines November 12, 2004 Mentoring deadline.* January 28, 2005 Full papers due. February 25, 2005 Poster, tutorial, workshop and doctoral consortium submissions due. * Inexperienced authors who are unsure about how best to prepare a paper for SIGIR may submit a draft by this date and receive feedback from an experienced SIGIR author. Saludos Cordiales Rodolfo Quispe Otazu rodolfoquispe@biznetunlimited.com http://www.biznetunlimited.com/~rodolfoquispe/ http://www.cienciasdelacomputacion.org/