6th SIGIR 1983: Washington, D.C., USA

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  Jennifer J. Kuehn:
  Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Sixth Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference, National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, Maryland, USA, June 6-8, 1983. ACM 1983, ISBN 0-89791-107-5
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  Title, Preface, Conference Committee, Table of Contents, Author Index.

Session 1: Welcoming and Keynote Address

Welcoming Speaker: Martin Cummings

Keynote Address:
Gerard Salton: About the Future of Automatic Information Retrieval

Session 2: State-of-the-Art Tutorials

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  Lee A. Hollaar:
  Hardware Systems for Text Information Retrieval. 3-9
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  Gerald DeJong:
  Artificial Intelligence Implications for Information Retrieval. 10-17
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  W. Bruce Croft:
  Applications for Information Retrieval Techniques in the Office. 18-23

Session 3: Intelligent Systems

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  Michael Lebowitz:
  Intelligent Information Systems. 25-30
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  Helen M. Brooks, Nicholas J. Belkin:
  Using Discourse Analysis for The Design of Information Retrieval Interaction Mechanisms. 31-47

Session 4: User Interface 1

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  Andrew E. Wessel:
  Progress Report on Project Information Bridge. 49-74
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  Luis De Sopena:
  Natural Language Grammars for an Information System. 75-80
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  Madeleine Bates, Robert J. Bobrow:
  Information Retrieval Using a Transportable Natural Language Interface. 81-86

Session 5: Statistical Techniques 1

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  Vijay V. Raghavan, Hong-Pao Shi, Clement T. Yu:
  Evaluation of The 2-Poisson Model as a Basis for Using Term Frequency Data in Searching. 88-100
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  C. J. van Rijsbergen:
  A Discrimination Gain Hypothesis. 101-104

Session 6: Statistical Techniques 2

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  Padima Das-Gupta, Jeffrey Katzer:
  A Study of the Overlap Among Document Representations. 106-114
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  Fazli Can, Esen A. Ozkarahan:
  A Clustering Scheme. 115-121
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  Peter Bollmann:
  The Normalized Recall and Related Measures. 122-128

Session 7: User Interface 2

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  V. J. Geller, Michael Lesk:
  User Interfaces to Information Systems: Choices vs. Commands. 130-135
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  A. Steven Pollitt:
  End User Touch Searching for Cancer Therapy Literature: A Rule-Based Approach. 136-145

Session 8: User Behavior

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  John Tolle:
  Transactional Log Analysis: Online Catalogs. 147-160
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  Patricia Somers:
  The User View of File Management: Recommendations for a User Interface Based in an Analysis of UNIX File System Use. 161
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  Christine L. Borgman:
  End User Behavior on an Online Information Retrieval System: A Computer Monitoring Study. 162-176

Session 9: System Design

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  W. Bruce Croft, R. Wolf, Roger Thompson:
  A Network Organization Used for Document Retrieval. 178-188
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  Gian Piero Zarri:
  Reseda, An Information Retrieval System Using Artificial Intelligence and Knowledge Representation Techniques. 189-195

Session 10: Search Techniques

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  Caroline M. Eastman:
  Current Practice in The Evaluation of Multikey Search Algorithms. 197-204
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  Aviezri S. Fraenkel, Moshe Mor:
  Combinational Compression and Partitioning of Large Dictionaries: Theory and Experiments. 205-219
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  E. J. Yannakoudakis:
  Derived Search Keys for Bibliographic Retrieval. 220-237

Session 11: Numerical Databases

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  José-Marie Griffiths, Donald W. King:
  An Approach to Enhancement of Statistical Survey Databases. 239-245
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  Karen Kukich:
  Knowledge-Based Report Generations: A Technique for Automatically Generating Natural Language Reports from Databases. 246-250

Session 12: Panel on Key Issues in Information Retrieval

Moderator: Terry Noreault

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  Gerard Salton:
  Some Research Problems in Automatic Information Retrieval. 252-263
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  C. J. van Rijsbergen:
  Information Retrieval: New Directions, Old Solutions. 264-265
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  M. E. Maron:
  Open Problems in Information Retrieval. 266-267