期刊名称：INFORMATION RETRIEVAL
 期刊简介(About the journal)
投稿须知(Instructions to Authors)
编辑部信息(Editorial Board)
About the journal
Information Retrieval is an international forum for theory and experiment in information retrieval and its application in the networked information environment. The journal will publish articles reporting substantial research results in a wide range of techniques applied to a variety of tasks and a variety of media including, but not limited to:
METHODS: Vector Space; Probabilistic Bayesian Logical Methods; Pattern Recognition; Signal Detection; Machine Learning; Natural Language; Semantic Structures:
TASK DOMAINS: Classification; Evaluation; Indexing; Interaction; Retrieval; Routing; Filtering; Summarization; Synthesis:
MEDIA: Text; Hypermedia; Static Images; Scientific Datasets; Sound; Moving Images; Multimedia; Multi-lingual; Distributed Systems.
The ideal paper may be theoretical, experimental or applied. A theoretical paper will report a significant conceptual advance in the design of algorithms or other processes for some information retrieval task. It will establish the validity or potential validity of the proposed ideas in terms of their relation to already accepted ideas and/or in terms of some modest prototype experiment or simulation. An experimental paper will report on a test of one or more theoretical ideas in a laboratory or natural setting. Experimental papers will be reviewed for both scientific and statistical merit, and will be expected to discuss the limitations and generality of the reported results. An application paper will report the successful application of some already established technique to a significant real world problem involving information retrieval.
Information Retrieval overlaps with a variety of technical and behavioral fields. Papers on such technical issues as compression and optimization, and on issues of human behavior and cognition are appropriate insofar as they bear specifically on the issues of methods, tasks or media as outlined above. Variations from these prototypes, such as critical reviews of existing work and significant tutorials will be considered provided that they make a clear contribution to the field. Preference will be given to papers which unify concepts across several traditional disciplinary boundaries, with specific application to problems of information retrieval.
Instructions to Authors
Manuscripts submitted to this journal must not be under simultaneous consideration by any other publisher and should not have been published elsewhere in a substantially similar form.
Process for Submission
- Authors should submit six hard copies of their final manuscript to:
Michelle Misner
Information Retrieval - Editorial Office
Kluwer Academic Publishers
101 Philip Drive, Assinippi Park
Norwell, Massachusetts 02061
U.S.A.
Phone: 781-871-6600
Fax: 781-878-0449
E-mail: Michelle.Misner@wkap.com
For prompt attention, all correspondence can be directed to this address.
- Enclose with each manuscript, on a separate page, three to five keywords. Some typical key word examples are: indexing, pattern recognition, static images, etc.
- Enclose originals for the illustrations, in the style described below, for one copy of the manuscript. Photocopies of figures may accompany the remaining copies of the manuscript. Alternatively, original illustrations may be submitted after the paper has been accepted.
- Acknowledgment of financial support may be given if appropriate. Any possible conflict of interest generated by the support of the project, or authors roles in commercial ventures, must be accurately detailed.
- Enclose a separate page giving the preferred address of the contact author for correspondence and return of proofs. Please include a telephone number, fax and e-mail address.
- The refereeing is done by anonymous reviewers.
- Authors should try to keep the length of the paper (including figures) under 36 double-spaced pages.
- All papers should be written in English.
Style for Manuscript
- Typeset, double or 1.5 space; use one side of sheet only (laser printed, typewritten, and good quality duplication acceptable).
- Use an informative title for the paper and include an abstract of 100 to 250 words at the head of the manuscript. The abstract should be a carefully worded description of the problem addressed, the key ideas introduced, and the results. Abstracts will be printed with the article.
- The list of references should be in alphabetical order by author and include the full title of the paper, starting and ending page numbers, and be in the following formats:
Paper in Conference
Tague J and Nelson M (1983) Simulation of bibliographic retrieval databases using hyperterms.
In: Salton G, Buckley C and Yu CT (1983) An evaluation of term dependence models in information retrieval. In: Salton G and Schneider H-J, eds. Research and Development in Information Retrieval [(proceedings of a conference in Berlin in 1982)]. Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1983. pp. 151-173.
Journal Article
Savoy J (1997) Ranking schemes in hybrid Boolean systems: a new approach. Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 48:235-253.
Pfeifer U, Poersch T and Fuhr N (1996) Retrieval effectiveness of proper name search methods. Information Processing and Management, 32:667-679.
Book
Sparck Jones K (1981), ed. Information Retrieval Experiment. Butterworths, London.
Citations in the text should be as: "Methods of evaluation are discussed by Sparck Jones (1981). Several recent papers (Savoy 1997,...) have looked at combinations of Boolean and ranking methods. The problem of proper name searching is considered by Pfeifer et al. (1996)."
Web Document
Sparck Jones K, Walker S and Robertson SE (1998) A probabilistic model of information retrieval: development and status. Cambridge University Computer Laboratory Technical Report 446. http://www.ftp.cl.cam.ac.uk/ftp/papers/reports/#TR446 (visited March 8th, 2000).
Web Site
WebCrawler Search Engine, http://www.webcrawler.com/ (visited March 8th, 2000).
- Type or mark mathematical expressions exactly as they should appear in print. Journal style for letter symbols is as follows: variables, italic type (indicated by an underline); constants, roman text type; matrices and vectors, boldface type (indicated by wavy underline). In word-processor manuscripts, use appropriate typeface. It will be assumed that letters in displayed equations are to be set in italic type unless you mark them otherwise. All letter symbols in text discussion must be marked if they should be italic or boldface. Indicate best breaks for equations in case they will not fit on one line.
- In algebraic expressions, Information Retrieval (IR) prefers conventional algebra to the form used in some economic and statistical publications. Thus an IR reader will expect that the expression "idf" [italics] refers to the product of three entities, represented by the three letters. Expressions such as "the tf.idf approach to term weighting" are permitted in the text itself. Our goal is to ensure that your paper remains accessible to readers over the years, without reliance on contemporary technical reports. Word-like representation of mathematical entities are acceptable (and desirable) in pseudo-code.
- IR serves a diverse group of scientists and engineers, and you cannot assume that the technical tools of your specialty, or the significance of your work, will be apparent to such a diverse readership. Please write an introductory section which makes clear what is new in your paper, and its significance for Information Retrieval. It is especially important in the introduction to write in terms of broadly known general principles, rather than acronyms and system names.
Style for Illustrations
- Originals for illustrations should be sharp, noise-free, and of good contrast. We regret that we cannot provide drafting or art service.
- Line drawings should be in laser printer output or in India ink on paper, or board. Use 8.5 by 11-inch size or international A4 sheets if possible to simplify handling of the manuscript.
- Each figure should be mentioned in the text and numbered consecutively using Arabic numerals. Specify the desired location of each figure in the text, but place the figure itself on a separate page following the text.
- Number each table consecutively using Arabic numerals. Please label any material that can be typeset as a table, reserving the term "figure" for material that has been drawn. Specify the desired location of each table in the text, but place the table itself on a separate page following the text. Type a brief title above each table.
- All lettering should be large enough to permit legible reduction.
- Photographs should be glossy prints, of good contrast and gradation, and any reasonable size.
- Number each original on the back.
- Provide a separate sheet listing all figure captions, in proper style for the typesetter; e.g., "Fig. 3. Examples of the fault coverage of random vectors in (a) combinational and (b) sequential circuits."
Electronic Delivery
Please send only the electronic version (of ACCEPTED paper ) via one of the methods listed below. Note, in the event of minor discrepancies between the electronic version and hard copy, the electronic file will be used as the final version.
Via Electronic Mail
- Please e-mail ACCEPTED< FINAL papers to: KAPfiles@wkap.com
- Recommended formats for sending files via e-mail:
- Binary files - uuencode or binhex
- Compressing files - compress, pkzip or gzip
- Collecting files - tar
- The e-mail message should include the authors last name, the name of the journal to which the paper has been accepted, and the type of file (e.g., LaTeX or ASCII).
Via anonymous FTPftp: ftp.wkap.com
cd: /incoming/production
Send e-mail to KAPfiles@wkap.com to inform Kluwer electronic version is at this FTP site.
Via disk
- Label a 3.5 inch floppy disk with the operating system and word processing program along with the authors names, manuscript title, and name of journal to which the paper has been accepted.
- Mail disk to:
Kluwer Academic Publishers
Desktop Department
101 Philip Drive
Assinippi Park
Norwell, MA 02061, USA
If you have questions or need assistance with an electronic submission, please send e-mail to dthelp@wkap.com
Proofing
Page proofs for articles to be included in a journal issue will be sent to the contact author for proofing, unless otherwise informed. The proofread copy should be received back by the Publisher within 72 hours.
Authorship
Each author is presumed to have played an important scientific role in the work described. In the letter of submission, the corresponding author should indicate that all authors on the paper have seen and agreed to the final version of the manuscript.
Internet Dissemination and Preprinting
In the event that a submitted manuscript has been preprinted on the Internet and/or filed with a preprint library, authors agree that upon acceptance of the final version of the manuscript, they will post the following notice to all electronic instances of that preprint to which they have necessary access, and send notification to all managers of collections to which they have sent a preprint: "This article has been revised and accepted for publication in Information Retrieval and is scheduled to appear in Vol --. Citations to and quotations from this work should reference that publication. If you cite this work, please check that the published form contains precisely the material to which you intend to refer."
Copyright
It is the policy of Kluwer Academic Publishers to own the copyright of all contributions it publishes. To comply with the U.S. Copyright Law, authors are required to sign a copyright transfer form before publication. Authors must submit a signed copy of this form with their manuscript.
Offprints
First-named authors will be entitled to 50 free offprints of their paper
Editorial Board
| Editors-in-Chief: |
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Paul B. Kantor Rutgers University
4 Huntington Street
New Brunswick, NJ 08903
pkir@kantor.rutgers.edu
Tel: 732-932-1359
Fax: 732-932-1504 |
Stephen E. Robertson Microsoft Research Ltd.
7 JJ Thompson Avenue
Cambridge CB3 OFB, UK
ser@microsoft.com
Tel: +44-1223-744769
Fax: +44-1223-744777 |
| Book Review Editor: |
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Efthimis N. Efthimiadis University of Washington
Library and Information Science
Box 352930, Seattle, WA 98195-2930
efthimis@u.washington.edu
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Editorial Board: |
| Maristella Agosti Univesita' di Padova Nicholas J. Belkin Rutgers University Abraham Bookstein University of Chicago W. Bruce Croft University of Massachusetts- Amherst Susan Dumais Microsoft Research Christos Faloutsos Carnegie Mellon University Ophir Frieder Illinois Institute of Technology Norbert Fuhr Universität Dortmund David Hawking Australian National University William Hersh Oregon Health Sciences University |
David Hull Xerox Research Centre, Europe Ramesh Jain University of California, San Diego David Karger Massachusetts Institute of Technology Jaana Kekäläinen University of Tampere Donald H. Kraft Louisiana State University Kui Lam Kwok Queens College of CUNY Joon Ho Lee Soongsil University Gary Marchionini University of Maryland Thomas Mitchell Carnegie Mellon University |
Jan Pedersen Infoseek Corp. Dragomir R. Radev University of Michigan Edie Rasmussen University of Pittsburgh Mark Sanderson University of Sheffield Tefko Saracevic Rutgers University Amit Singhal AT&T Labs - Research Alan F. Smeaton Dublin City University C.J. “Keith?van Rijsbergen University of Glasgow Ian H. Witten University of Waikato Yiming Yang Carnegie Mellon University |
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