16. SIGIR 1993: Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Robert Korfhage, Edie M. Rasmussen, Peter Willett (Eds.): Proceedings of the 16th Annual International ACM-SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval. Pittsburgh, PA, USA, June 27 - July 1, 1993. ACM 1993 ISBN 0-89791-605-0
Inference Networks

Peter Bruza, Linda C. van der Gaag: Efficient Context-Sensitive Plausible Inference for Information Disclosure. 12-21
TREC Overview
Donna Harman: Overview of the First Text REtrieval Conference. 36-47
Full Text Analysis
Gerard Salton, James Allan, Chris Buckley: Approaches to Passage Retrieval in Full Text Information Systems. 49-58
Chris D. Paice, Paul A. Jones: The Identification of Important Concepts in Highly Structured Technical Papers. 69-78
Compression & Signature Files

Gordon Linoff, Craig Stanfill: Compression of Indexes with Full Positional Information in Very Large Text Databases. 88-95
Deniz Aktug, Fazli Can: Analysis of Multiterm Queries in a Dynamic Signature File Organization. 96-105
Association Methods
S. K. Michael Wong, Y. J. Cai, Yiyu Yao: Computation of Term Associations by a Neural Network. 107-115
Rodrigo A. Botafogo: Cluster Analysis for Hypertext Systems. 116-125
Douglas R. Cutting, David R. Karger, Jan O. Pedersen: Constant Interaction-Time Scatter/Gather Browsing of Very Large Document Collections. 126-134
Query Expansion
Peter G. Anick, Rex A. Flynn: Integrating a Dynamic Lexicon with a Dynamic Full-Text Retrieval System. 136-145
Efthimis N. Efthimiadis: A User-Centered Evaluation of Ranking Algorithims for Interactive Query Expansion. 146-159
Linguistic Analysis
Ellen M. Voorhees: Using WordNet to Disambiguate Word Senses for Text Retrieval. 171-180
Julian Kupiec: MURAX: A Robust Linguistic Approach for Question Answering Using an On-Line Encyclopedia. 181-190
Robert Krovetz: Viewing Morphology as an Inference Process. 191-202
Structured Text
Michael Fuller, Eric Mackie, Ron Sacks-Davis, Ross Wilkinson: Coherent Answers for a Large Structured Document Collection. 204-213
Panel on Natural Language Processing for Information Management
David A. Evans: Lessons from the CLARIT Project. 224
Jaime G. Carbonell: Lessons from TIPSTER/SHOGUN/JANUS. 225
Sergei Nirenburg: Lessons from PANGLOSS. 225
Processing for Japanese Text
Yasushi Ogawa, Ayako Bessho, Masako Hirose: Simple Word Strings as Compound Keywords: An Indexing and Ranking Method for Japanese Texts. 227-236
Hideo Fujii, W. Bruce Croft: A Comparison of Indexing Techniques for Japanese Text Retrieval. 237-246
Interface Issues
Edward A. Fox, Robert K. France, Eskinder Sahle, Amjad M. Daoud, Ben E. Cline: Development of a Modern OPAC: From REVTOLC to MARIAN. 248-259
Daniel E. Rose, Richard Mander, Tim Oren, Dulce B. Ponceleon, Gitta Salomon, Yin Yin Wong: Content Awareness in a File System Interface: Implementing the 'Pile' Metaphor for Organizing Information. 260-269
Gert Schmeltz Pedersen: A Browser for Bibliographic Information Retrieval, Based on an Application of Lattice Theory. 270-279
Mathematical Models
Yiming Yang, Christopher G. Chute: An Application of Least Squares Fit Mapping to Text Information Retrieval. 281-290
Joon Ho Lee, Won Yong Kim, Myoung-Ho Kim, Yoon-Joon Lee: On the Evaluation of Boolean Operators in the Extended Boolean Retrieval Framework. 291-297
Carlo Meghini, Fabrizio Sebastiani, Umberto Straccia, Costantino Thanos: A Model of Information Retrieval Based on a Terminological Logic. 298-307
DBMS/IR Integration
Norbert Fuhr: A Probabilistic Relational Model for the Integration of IR and Databases. 309-317
Peter Schäuble: SPIDER: A Multiuser Information Retrieval System for Semistructured and Dynamic Data. 318-327
Query Processing and Evaluation
David A. Hull: Using Statistical Testing in the Evaluation of Retrieval Experiments. 329-338
Nicholas J. Belkin, Colleen Cool, W. Bruce Croft, James P. Callan: Effect of Multiple Query Representations on Information Retrieval System Performance. 339-346
James P. Callan, W. Bruce Croft: An Evaluation of Query Processing Strategies Using the TIPSTER Collection. 347-355
Demonstrations
Edward A. Fox: Multiple Access and Retrieval of Information with Annotations (Demo). 357
Edward A. Fox: Project Envision (Demo). 357
Gary Marchionini: Incremental Interface Design: A Prototype Graphical User Interface for Grateful Med (Demo). 357-358
Pier Giorgio Marchetti, S. Vazzana, R. Panero, Nicholas J. Belkin: BRAQUE: An Interface to Support Browsing and Interactive Query Formulation in Information Retrieval Systems (Demo). 358
Gene Golovchinsky, Mark H. Chignell: Queries-R-Links: Browsing and Retrieval via Interactive Querying (Demo). 359
A. Steven Pollitt, Geoffrey P. Ellis, Martin P. Smith, Mark R. Gregory, Chun Sheng Li: A Common Query Interface for Multilingual Document Retrieval from Databases of the European Community Institutions (Demo). 359



