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Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) - international scientific and professional society for people working on problems involving natural language and computation
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), Special Interest Group on Information Retrieval (SIGIR)
Bibliography on Automated Text Categorization - Fabrizio Sebastiani
Center for Intelligent Information Retrieval (CIIR) - University of Massachusetts - to develop tools that provide effective and efficient access to large, heterogeneous, distributed, text and multimedia databases
Center for Language and Speech Processing (CLSP) - Johns Hopkins University - research is conducted by faculty, research scientists, and graduate students affiliated with six associated academic departments: biomedical engineering, cognitive science, computer science, electrical and computer engineering, mathematical sciences, and psychology
Computational Linguistics and Information Retrieval (CLAIR) - University of Michigan - established and led by Dragomir Radev, main research projects include question answering and text summarization
Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC) - to provide an overview of the state-of-the-art, discuss problems and opportunities, exchange information regarding language resources, their applications, ongoing and planned activities, industrial use and requirements, discuss evaluation methodologies and demonstrate evaluation tools, explore possibilities and promote initiatives for international cooperation in these areas
Cross-Language Evaluation Forum (CLEF) - will support global digital library applications by (i) developing an infrastructure for the testing, tuning and evaluation of information retrieval systems operating on European languages in both monolingual and cross-language contexts, and (ii) creating test-suites of reusable data which can be employed by system developers for benchmarking purposes
Evaluating Cross-Language Systems the CLEF Way - reports on the Cross-Language Evaluation Forum (CLEF), an initiative that provides an infrastructure for the testing and evaluation of information retrieval systems operating on European languages, Carol Peters, Cultivate Interactive, February 2002
Finding Information on the Internet: A Tutorial - substance of the Internet Worshops offered year-round by the Teaching Library at the University of California at Berkeley
Information Retrieval Group - Computer Science Department of the University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Informedia Digital Video Library - new approaches for automated video and audio indexing, navigaiton, visualization, search and retrieval and embedded them in a system for use in education, information and entertainment environments
IR Resources - Glasgow Information and Data on Open MEdia (IDOM)
Lemur Toolkit for Language Modeling and Information Retrieval - designed to help carry out research in areas such as ad hoc and distributed retrieval, cross-language IR, summarization, filtering, and classification
NACSIS Test Collection for Information Retrieval (NTCIR) - National Institute for Informatics of Tokyo - evaluation of systems for mono- and cross-language retrieval for Asian languages
Retrieval Group of the Information Access Division - National Insitute of Standards and Technology (NIST) - works with industry, academia and other government agencies to promote the use of more effective and efficient techniques for manipulating (largely) unstructured textual information, especially the browsing, searching, and presentation of that information
SENSEVAL - Evaluating Word Sense Disambiguation Systems
TExt Retrieval Conference (TREC) - co-sponsored by the NIST, Information Technology Laboratory's (ITL) Retrieval Group of the Information Access Division (IAD) and the Information Technology Office of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and the Advanced Research and Development Activity (ARDA)
Yahoo! Information Retrieval

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