On Tue, May 29, 2001 at 01:38:08PM -0400, Faustine wrote:
>
> Back papers available at: http://trec.nist.gov/pubs.html. Lots of interesting
> Echelon-relevant things happening here..."Semantic Forests" was only the tip of
> the iceberg...
>
> TEXT RETRIEVAL CONFERENCE (TREC)
I'll be doing my 6th year as a TREC participant this year, in
case anyone has questions about it. It's pretty fun - you get
to see how your system ideas really work in practice, head-to-head
with other systems.
This is the premier international forum for experimental information
retrieval research, where most of the action is. We *do* get
participants from the NSA and FBI quite regularly, as well as Lexis,
Oracle and other companies. Unfortunately, these folks are not as
forthcoming with their specific methods etc. as the academic people
are.
If you're keen on information retrieval, also consider ACM SIGIR, an
annual conference. This year's is September 9-12 in the big easy:
http://www.sigir2001.org/
-- Greg
