8. SIGIR 1985: Montreal, Canada

Keynote Addresses

• Michael Lesk: Graphical Information Resources: Maps and Beyond. 1-8 BibTeX
• C. J. van Rijsbergen: Formal Semantics for Text and Data. 9 BibTeX

IR Models

• Abraham Bookstein: Implications of Boolean Structures for Probabilistic Retrieval. 11-17 BibTeX
• S. K. Michael Wong, Wojciech Ziarko, P. C. N. Wong: Generalized Vector Space Model in Information Retrieval. 18-25 BibTeX
• I. McLeod: Handling Multiple Databases in Document Retrieval. 26-32 BibTeX
• Robert Korfhage: Theoretical Measures in P/Q Document Spaces. 33-40 BibTeX

Extended Boolean Systems

• Edward A. Fox: Composite Document Extended Retrieval - An Overview. 42-53 BibTeX
• Gerard Salton, Ellen M. Voorhees: Automatic Assignment of Soft Boolean Operators. 54-69 BibTeX
• Tadeusz Radecki: Output Ranking Methodology for Document-Clustering-Based Boolean Retrieval Systems. 70-76 BibTeX

SIGIR-SIGDOC Joint Session

• J. O. Stubbs: The New English Oxford English Dictionary and its Potential Users: Some Preliminary Comments. 78-81 BibTeX
• Emile C. Chi, Carol Friedman, Naomi Sager, Margaret S. Lyman: Processing Free-Text Input to Obtain a Database of Medical Information. 82-90 BibTeX

Physical Design Issues - I

• Barry G. T. Lowden: An Approach to Multikey Sequencing in an Equiprobable Keyterm Retrieval Situation. 92-96 BibTeX
• Chris Buckley, A. F. Lewit: Optimization of Inverted Vector Searches. 97-110 BibTeX
• David M. Arnow, Aaron M. Tenenbaum, Connie Wu: P-Trees: Storage Efficient Multiway Trees. 111-121 BibTeX
• Yaacov Choueka, Shmuel T. Klein, Yehoshua Perl: Efficient Variants of Huffman Codes in High Level Languages. 122-130 BibTeX
• T. Ito, Clement T. Yu: Optimization of a Hierarchical File Organization for Spelling Correction. 131-137 BibTeX

IR Systems Development

• Christine L. Borgman, Donald Owen Case, Charles T. Meadow: Designing an Information Retrieval Interface Based on User Characteristics. 139-146 BibTeX
• Bruno Defude: Different Levels of Expertise for An Expert System in Information Retrieval. 147-153 BibTeX

Indexing Strategies

• Raymond J. D'Amore, Clinton P. Mah: One-Time Complete Indexing of Text: Theory and Practice. 155-164 BibTeX
• K. L. Kwok: Experiments with Cited Titles for Automatic Document Indexing and Similarity Measure in a Probabilistic Context. 165-178 BibTeX
• M. Gordon: A Learning Algorithm Applied to Document Description. 179-185 BibTeX

Classification Strategies

• Ellen M. Voorhees: The Cluster Hypothesis Revisited. 188-196 BibTeX
• Clement T. Yu: Adaptive Document Clustering. 197-203 BibTeX
• Fazli Can, Esen A. Ozkarahan: Concepts of the Cover-Coefficient-Based Clustering Methodology. 204-211 BibTeX

Performance Evaluation

• Peter Bollmann, Friedbert Jochum, U. Reiner, V. Weissmarm, Horst Zuse: The LIVE Project - Retrieval Experiments Based on Evaluation Viewpoints. 213-214 BibTeX
• Friedbert Jochum: On Retrieval Tests with an Inhomogeneous Query Collection. 215-224 BibTeX

Hardware Developments

• D. McGregor: Generalized Associative Memory Devices: Their Place in Intelligent Knowledge Based Systems. 226 BibTeX
• Lee A. Hollaar: A Testbed for Information Retrieval Research: The Utah Retrieval System Architecture. 227-232 BibTeX
• Sau-Lan Lee: An Integrated Hierarchical File Organization for Data Selection and Retrieval. 233-241 BibTeX

IR Systems Development

• Richard M. Tong, Victor N. Askman, James F. Cunningham, Carl J. Tollander: RUBRIC - An Environment for Full Text Information Retrieval. 243-251 BibTeX
• R. E. Williamson: ANNOD - A Navigator of Natural-language Organized (Textual) Data. 252-266 BibTeX

User Models

• Christine L. Borgman: The User's Mental Model of an Information Retrieval System. 268-273 BibTeX
• Michael A. Shepherd, A. Lo, William J. Phillips: A Study of the Relationship between User Profiles and User Queries. 274-281 BibTeX
• Alberto J. Cañas, Frank R. Safayeni, David W. Conrath: A Conceptual Model aod Experiments on How People Classify and Retrieve Documents. 282- BibTeX