SIGIR Forum
December 2006, Volume 40 Number 2

Table of Contents

SIGIR News

From the Chair
Jamie Callan, pp

Annual Business Meeting:  Secretary's Notes
David D. Lewis, pp

Papers

A Reference Collection for Web Spam
Carlos Castillo, Debora Donato, Luca Becchetti, Paolo Boldi, Stefano Leonardi, Massimo Santini and Sebastiano Vigna , pp

SIGIR Workshop Reports

The SIGIR 2006 Workshop Program
Peter Anick and Mounia Lalmas , pp

Adversarial Information Retrieval on the Web
Brian D. Davison, Marc Najork and Tim Converse , pp

New Directions in Multilingual Information Access
Fredric C. Gey, Noriko Kando, Chin-Yew Lin and Carol Peters , pp

Geographic Information Retrieval
Ross Purves and Chris Jones , pp

XML Element Retrieval Methodology
Andrew Trotman and Geva Shlomo , pp

Stylistics for Text Retrieval in Practice
Ozlem Uzuner, Shlomo Argamon, Jussi Karlgren , pp

Evaluating Exploratory Search Systems
Ryen W. White, Gheorghe Muresan and Gary Marchionini , pp

Open Source Information Retrieval Systems
Wai Gen Yee, Michel Beigbeder and Wray Buntine , pp

Workshop and Conference Reports

Report on the First 5 Years of the Track on Information Access and Retrieval of the ACM Symposium on Applied Computing
Fabio Crestani and Gabriella Pasi , pp

The Sixth Dutch-Belgian Information Retrieval Workshop
Wessel Kraaij , pp

Dissertation Abstracts

Intelligent Techniques for Effective Information Retrieval (A Conceptual Graph Based Approach)
Tanveer J Siddiqui , p