Die diesjährige Konferenz der Special Interest Group Information Retrieval (SIGIR) der ACM fand vom 4. bis 6. Juli 1994 an der Dublin City University unter der Leitung von Alan Smeaton statt. Insgesamt kamen ca. 270 Teilnehmer aus 20 Ländern (inkl. Australien, Südkorea, Singapur, Japan, Slovenien, USA, Canada und den meisten europäischen Staaten). Ca. ein Drittel erhielt Mittel aus dem HCM-Förd...

We first present our view of detection and correction of syntactic errors. We then introduce a new correction method, based on heuristic criteria used to decide which correction should be preferred. Weighting of these criteria leads to a flexible and parametrable system, which can adapt itself to the user. A partitioning of the trees based on linguistic criteria: agreement rules, rather than co...

The Annals of the Frankish kingdom, under the year 818, contain a description of the arrival of legations of certain Abodrits, Guduskans and Timo~ans at the Frankish court in Heristal. This paper is devoted to an attempt at the further identification of these tribes and their habitats. It mainly discusses the possibility that the Timo~ans and Abodrits should be recognized as two of the so-calle...