International Workshop on Research Issues in Digital Libraries (in co-operation with ACM SIGIR) December 12-15, 2006, Kolkata http://www.isical.ac.in/~iwridl ========================================================================= We are pleased to inform you that we are going to organize an International Workshop on Research Issues in Digital Libraries in co-operation with ACM SIGIR, from 12th December to 15th December, 2006 in Kolkata, India. Contributors/Speakers: ---------------------- Karen Sparck Jones Hiromichi Fujisawa Donald H. Kraft Joemon M. Jose Carol Peters Prateek Sarkar George Nagy Hsin-Hsi Chen Stephen M. Griffin Norbert Fuhr Richard Wright Michael S. Hart Henry S. Baird Ian H. Witten William I. Grosky Michael J. Kurtz Stephen Robertson Christian Fluhr Gerard Huet Gabriella Pasi Michel Beigbeder Noriko Kando Brigitte Grau Edward A. Fox Topics: ------- http://www.isical.ac.in/~iwridl/program.html Indexing and retrieval techniques Cross-lingual information retrieval XML retrieval Natural language processing Multimedia indexing and retrieval Document image processing Evaluation methodology eBooks and society Registration: ------------- http://www.isical.ac.in/~iwridl/online.html Registration Fees: Indian participants International participants

From Academia: INR 4,000 From SAARC countries: USD 100 From Non-Academia: INR 10,000 Others: USD 250

All SIGIR members are eligible for the academic registration rate. Please register online at http://www.isical.ac.in/~iwridl/online.html. Organizers: ----------- Indian Statistical Institute Centre for the Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC), Kolkata Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur -- Arup Raychaudhury _____________________________________________________________ Indian Statistical Institute |Phone: 91-33-2575 2106/2100/2118 203 B.T. Road | Kolkata 700 108 |Fax : 91-33-2578 1412 INDIA | _____________________________________________________________