ANNUAL REPORT for SIGIR, July 2001 - June 2002 http://www.acm.org/sigir Submitted by: Susan Dumais, Chair SIGIR SIGIR again had a busy and fruitful year in 2001-2002, sponsoring or co-sponsoring several successful conferences, and offering new member services. The current officers are: Susan Dumais, Chair; Susan Gauch, Vice-Chair; Liz Liddy, Secretary, and Jamie Callan, Treasurer. In our continuing effort to make SIGIR a truly international organization, two regional representatives are appointed by the executive committee and serve as part of the SIGIR-EC. Ross Wilkinson (CSIRO, Australia) and David Harper (The Robert Gordon University, UK) are the regional representatives. SIGIR's Information Officer, Eric Brown (IBM, USA) does a fine job publishing materials on the SIGIR home page (http://www.acm.org/sigir). The SIGIR Forum Editors, Mark Sanderson and Peter Anick, round out the SIGIR team. Conferences: SIGIR sponsors, co-sponsors and cooperates with other technical groups on several conferences and workshops during the year. The main conference is the annual SIGIR meeting. We also co-sponsors two other ACM conferences, CIKM and JCDL. SIGIR. The Twenty Fourth Annual ACM SIGIR International Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 01, http://www2.sis.pitt.edu/~sigir01/) was held in New Orleans, LA USA. Don Kraft (Louisiana State University) served
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