SIGIR Forum

Spring 2000, Volume 34 Number 1

The online version of SIGIR Forum.

Mark Sanderson and Fazli Can, Editors, Charlie Viles, SIGIR Information Director

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Salton Award Lecture 2000 - Steve Robertson

On theoretical argument in information retrieval
S. Robertson

SIGIR Information

Annual Report For SIGIR, July 1999 - June 2000
S. Dumais

SIGIR Announces Member Plus Program
J. Callan

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Object Muscat, an Open Source search engine
M. Porter, R. Boulton

SIGIR 2000 Workshop Reports

Workshop on Mathematical/Formal Methods in Information Retrieval (MF/IR 2000)
S. Dominich, M. Lalmas, C.J. van Rijsbergen

SIGIR Workshop on Interactive Retrieval at TREC and Beyond
W. Hersh, P. Over

Workshop On Patent Retrieval SIGIR 2000 Workshop Report
N. Kando, M. Leong

XML and Information Retrieval: a SIGIR 2000 Workshop
D. Carmel, Y. Maarek, A. Soffer