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The goal of the IR2001 workshop is to provide an international forum for presenting recent research results on information retrieval, and to bring together experts from both soft and hard information retrieval for a fruitful exchange of ideas and discussion on future challenges. The program includes invited presentations and tutorials by leading experts and contributed papers describing recent progress in information retrieval. The papers presented in the workshop will be published in the workshop proceedings, which will be offered to international publishers. Best Paper and Best Student Paper awards will be awarded for outstanding contributions.

Oulu with its many public and private research institutes and rapidly growing high-technology industry is a world-famous silicon valley in Northern Finland, situated not far from the Arctic Circle. University of Oulu, the workshop venue, is Finland's second largest university. Social program includes a free full-day trip to beautiful Oulanka National Park right at the Russian border.

WORKSHOP TOPICS Contributions are solicited on, but not limited to, following topics on information retrieval: * Semantic information retrieval models * Categorization, indexing and retrieval of text, speech, music, image, video, multimedia or WWW * User interfaces, data visualization and user models * Digital libraries and multilingual information access * Data mining in large databases * Architectures, applications and evaluation

IMPORTANT DATES Submission deadline May 11, 2001 Notification of acceptance June 15, 2001 Early registration deadline August 24, 2001 Camera-ready copy due August 24, 2001

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS Prof. Chris Bishop Microsoft Research, UK Prof. Peter Ingwersen Royal School of Library and Information Science, Denmark Prof. Alan Smeaton Dublin City University, Ireland Prof. Howard Wactlar Carnegie Mellon University, USA

ENQUIRIES If you wish to enquire about any aspect of IR2001, please send e-mail to ir2001@ee.oulu.fi or see http://www.ir2001.oulu.fi