SIGIR Forum, Volume 21

Volume 21, Number 1-2, Fall 1986 / Winter 1987

• Title.
  
• Edward A. Fox:
  From the Editor / Growth of IRList Digest. 1
  
• Donna Harman:
  From the Treasurer. 2
  
• New Arrangement between SIGIR and IP&M. 3
  
• Remarks on the ACM SIGIR Conference in Pisa, September 1986. 4-5
  
• Caroline M. Eastman:
  The First International Conference on Expert Database Systems: A Summary. 6-10
  
• Fiscal Year 1986 Research Projects Funded by the Information Science Program. 11-22
  
• C. J. van Rijsbergen:
  A New Theoretical Framework for Information Retrieval. 23-29
  
• William B. Frakes, Brian A. Nejmeh:
  Software Reuse Through Information Retrieval. 30-36
  
• Robert Marcus:
  Some Observations on Retrieval From a Large Technical Document Database. 37-38
  
• Gerard Salton:
  Abstracts of Articles in the Information Retrieval Area. 39-50
  
• Mitchell Wyle:
  Annotated Bibliography Relating to Automatic Indexing in Information Retrieval. 51-60
  
• Announcements. 61-65
  

Volume 21, Number 3-4, Spring/Summer 1987

• Gerard Salton: Expert Systems and Information Retrieval. 3-9
• Jean Tague: Informativeness as an Ordinal Utility Function for Information Retrieval. 10-17

• Edward A. Fox: Workshop on Distributed Expert-Based Information Systems: A Perspective. 18-20

• Database System Concept by Henry F. Korth and Abraham Silberschatz. 21

• Gerard Salton: Selected from Recent Issues of Journals. 22-37
• Susanne M. Humphrey: Selected IR-Related Dissertation Abstracts. 38-45