gordon v cormack zixgfqeiuwaterlooca reminder would like considered speaking slot trec send proposal nist upcoming sunday relevant information extracted trec mailing list follows trec assumes participants write experiments notebook distributed conference final proceedings distributed months conference groups also given opportunity present findings poster session conference november however limited number groups speaking slots conference trec program committee selects speakers based speaker proposals created runs submitted deadline speaker proposals september 16 proposal received start work september 17 considered program committee organization may submit proposals present talk track participated ie submitted runs please rank proposals desire present program committee select one speaking slot per participating group factoring intrinsic value proposal needs program desirability ranking provided guaranteed get first choice slot even get slot extremely antisocial talk nontrack work given track speaking slot antisocial people invited back next year proposal consist short 500 words abstract experiments track abstracts emphasize experiments interesting unusual rather general description system proposals simple ascii text mail entire set proposals organization one file muuhecfkliodhnistgov tue 05 aug 2008 214105 0400 speaker proposals trec spam track