Information Retrieval List Digest 045 (January 25, 1991) URL = http://hegel.lib.ncsu.edu/stacks/serials/irld/irld-045 IRLIST Digest January 25, 1991 Volume VIII, Number 2 Issue 45 ********************************************************** I. NOTICES A. Calls for papers/Meetings announcements 1. ACH/ALLC '91: Making Connections: Registration Tempe, Arizona March 17-21, 1991 2. ACH/ALLC '01: Making Connections: Conference Program Tempe, Arizona March 17-21, 1991 3. Workshop on Evaluation of Natural Language Processing Systems University of California, Berkeley June 18, 1991 4. Workshop on Language and Information Processing Washington, DC October 27, 1991 II. QUERIES B. Requests for information 1. Information retrieval in libraries IV. PROJECT WORK B. Bibliographies 1. Selected IR-related dissertation abstracts ********************************************************** I. NOTICES I.A.1. Fr: Dan Brink Re: Association for Humanities Computing and the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing AHC/ALLC '91: Making Connections Tempe, Arizona March 17-21, 1991 Dear Colleague: I invite you to Tempe, Arizona, to attend ACH/ALLC '91, the international conference that brings together members of the Association for Humanities Computing and the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing, March 17-21, 1991. March in Arizona is the "high" tourist season, so PLEASE take note of the deadlines listed in the accompanying material. The various discounts I have arranged require that arrangements be finalized well in advance. Once the blocks of rooms I have reserved in the ASU dormitories and local hotels are fully booked, you will have to pay substantially higher regular rates. It may even be difficult to secure accommodations at all! You MUST register for the conference in order to stay in the dormitories or to get the conference rate at the hotels. Please register, book your lodging and tour preferences, and reserve a place at the banquet immediately. Registration for the conference, dormitory lodging, and the banquet, tours, and workshop can be done by check in US dollars; or by VISA, Mastercard, or American Express. Please use the registration form included with this mailing. The dress code for this conference is casual. Hiking and walking shoes are suitable for all occasions. Bring bathing suits and sunblock if you want to swim, sunbathe, or play tennis or golf. Although the weather is summery in Phoenix in March, if you plan to go with us to the Grand Canyon after the conference, you need to allow for cold weather. Snow can still fall in the Rockies in March. I look forward to welcoming you to Arizona this March. Best regards, Daniel T. Brink Humanities Computing Facility Arizona State University Tempe, AZ 85287-0302 tel 602/965-2679 fax 602/965-2012 P.S. Since there is a fee reduction for ACH and ALLC members, you might want to take this opportunity to become a member of one or the other organization in the process of registering for the conference: for ACH, contact Joe Rudman at RUDMAN@CMPHYS.BITNET; for ALLC, contact Thomas Corns at ELS009@VAXA.BANGOR.AC.UK ============================================================= ACH/ALLC '91 Conference Overview Saturday, 16 March 5:30 PM Optional Pre-conference Cook-Out Sunday, 17 March 9:00 AM Optional Pre-conference Valley Bus Tour OR TEI Workshop 4:00 PM Opening Reception, Keynote Address by Martin Kay, and Optional Banquet Monday, 18 March 8:30 AM Full day of conference sessions, concluding with plenary presentation by Ralph Griswold Tuesday, 19 March 8:30 AM Half day of conference session, early afternoon free for visit to vendor exhibit at the Memorial Union, late afternoon free for Software Fair Wednesday, 20 March 8:30 AM Full day of conference sessions, concluding with plenary presentation by Helen Aguerra Thursday, 21 March 9:00 AM Half day of conference sessions 12:30 PM Concluding session, followed by box lunch 1:30 PM Optional Post-conference overnight tour to Sedona, Grand Canyon, Painted Desert and Navaho Reservation, returning to Phoenix airport on Friday, 22 March at 5:00 PM In addition to the pre- and post-conference activities and keynote and plenary sessions listed above, the conference will feature over 70 academic papers by scholars from 19 countries on topics covering all aspects of computing in humanistic scholarship, a variety of special sessions sponsored by groups such as the Association for Computational Linguistics and the American Philosophical Association, a vendor exhibit area with over 100 presenters, a hands-on software fair, an official status report on the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI), and an independent evaluation and assessment of the TEI. ================================================ Conference Fees 1. REGISTRATION Registration includes: access to all sessions, the commercial exhibit area and the software fair, plus the opening reception, intersession refreshments, and the wind-up lunch: Regular Registration (Due Feb 12): $75* ACH and ALLC members (Due Feb 12): 60* Graduate Students, Independent Scholars: 30* Spouses, other companions (each): 10 Late Registration Penalty (after Feb 12): 15 * Cancellation Penalty (after March 1): $15 2. BANQUET The banquet will be held at the Sheraton Tempe Mission Palms Hotel on the evening of March 17th, following the keynote address. The cost is $35.00/person, which includes wine and entertainment. Entrees include Filet Mignon and Breast of Chicken (Hunter Style), Lemon Herbed Breast of Chicken, and Vegetarian. Banquet, per person: $35 3. CONFERENCE AIRLINE TWA offers 45% off the unrestricted Coach (Y) fare and 5% discount off Excursion fares meeting all restrictions. Valid for March 14-25, 1991. Toll free telephone number Mon-Fri in U.S. 7:15 AM - 7:00 PM CST (800) 325-4933, request ACH/ALLC rate. 4. LODGING Sonora Center: ASU Dormitory Accommodations 401 E. Adelphi Drive, Tempe (South of Apache on Macalister) LIMITED OCCUPANCY; FIRST COME FIRST SERVED! Housing in ASU dormitories will be available from 16 March up to and including 20 March with checkout on the morning of Thursday, 21 March. Reservations can only be confirmed upon full advance payment by check in US dollars, or by VISA, Mastercard, or American Express, by 12 February 1991. I must pay the dormitories for your rooms before you arrive. You must apply for dormitory access through me. One set of linen (towels and sheets) will be provided for your stay. No rooms have private baths; however, each floor has complete, separate facilities for men and women. Access to swimming, tennis, and exercise facilities at a small fee. (Bring your own equipment [and combination lock] if you intend to use athletic facilities.) Rate - $24.00 per person per day, single occupancy; $12.00 per person per day, double occupancy (I strongly urge you to accept double occupancy, so that we can get more people into these excellent accommodations; we can coordinate suitable roommates, if you do not know anyone attending the conference). RESERVATIONS FOR THE FOLLOWING CONFERENCE HOTEL ROOMS MUST BE MADE DIRECTLY WITH THE HOTEL: Howard Johnson's 25 E. Apache Blvd, Tempe, 85281 (602) 967-9431 unlimited local phone complimentary airport shuttle private bath; 2 beds in every room very convenient, but somewhat run down $47.24 per room per night (plus 9.1% Tempe tax) Note: Up to four may share a room at the $47 rate; there is a $10 fee for a roll-away bed Holiday Inn 915 E. Apache, Tempe, 85281 (602) 968-3451 newly redecorated complimentary airport shuttle across the street from the Sonora Center dormitory $77 per single per night (plus 9.1% Tempe tax); 85 per double per night (plus 9.1% Tempe tax) 5. TOURS Saturday, 16 March, 5:30 PM - 11:00 PM. Authentic western covered wagon ride and desert cook-out on Indian reservation. This is a truly enjoyable experience, and is strongly recommended, especially for visitors with few other opportunities to visit the American West. $34.00 Sunday, 17 March, 9:00 AM - 1:00 PM. Valley Bus Tour: a four- hour tour of the "Valley of the Sun," including downtown Phoenix, the Wrigley Mansion/Biltmore area, Frank Lloyd Wright's Taliesen West, and panoramic valley views. $19.00 Thursday, 21 March 1:30 PM - Friday, 22 March 5:00 PM. Narrated overnight bus tour to Sedona/Oak Creek, Grand Canyon, Navaho Reservation, Painted Desert. Tour concludes at Sky Harbor Airport. $109.00 per person, double occupancy. $119.00 per person, single occupancy. Meals are not included. 6. TEI Workshop Sunday, 17 March, 9:00 AM. TEI Workshop: a 2-hour basic introduction to the Text Encoding Initiative, followed at noon by a 3-hour TEI hands-on training session. Michael Sperberg-McQueen and Lou Burnard. $19.00 (for one or both) ===================================================== Registration Form for ACH/ALLC '91: (You may download this electronic form and MAIL to: Daniel Brink Humanities Computing Arizona State University Tempe, AZ 85287-0302 Since payment must accompany registration, there will be NO electronic registration (although you may use fax: 602/965-2012): check (U.S. $ only) [Humanities Computing Facility], or charge (VISA, Mastercard, American Express) ======================================= name: ___________________ phone: __________________ address: ________________ fax: ___________________ ________________ e-mail: ________________ ________________ 1. Regular Registration: $75* _____ ACH and ALLC member: 60* _____ Student, Independent: 30* _____ Non-participating companion: 10 _____ Late Registration (after Feb 12): 15 _____ subtotal, registration: _____ * Cancellation Penalty (after March 1): $15 2. Banquet: number of persons: _____ x $35 _____ meal choice(s): ___Filet Mignon ___Chicken ___ Vegetarian 3. Airfare (do not pay to HCF; deal directly with TWA [see above] or your airline) 4. Lodging (in ASU Dormitory; for hotels, deal direct [see above]) per person, 2 per room: $12.00; single occupancy: $24.00. Indicate any directly-made roommate preference below (be sure they do the same!); indicate only yourself in calculating fees (unless you are including your spouse): _______________________ dates: 16 March ___ persons x rate: ($12 or $24) _____ 17 March ___ persons x rate: ($12 or $24) _____ 18 March ___ persons x rate: ($12 or $24) _____ 19 March ___ persons x rate: ($12 or $24) _____ 20 March ___ persons x rate: ($12 or $24) _____ subtotal, dormitory: _____ 5. tours: Mar 16: Wagon/Cookout: ___ persons x $34 _____ Mar 17: Valley Tour: ___ persons x $19 _____ Mar 21/22: Grand Canyon: ___ persons x ($109/119) ___ subtotal, tours: _____ 6. TEI workshop: ___ persons x $19 ____ subtotal, workshop: _____ (morning ____ afternoon _____ both ____) Grand Total: _____ You may charge the Grand Total amount by filling in the information below: type of card: ______________________ name on card: ______________________ account #: _________________________ expiration date: ___________________ signature: _________________________ P.S.: If you have special needs or require additional information, please contact Dan Brink at ATDXB@ASUACAD.BITNET Daniel Brink, Associate Dean for Technology Integration College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287-1701 602/965-7748/1441 fax -1093 ATDXB@ASUVM.INRE.ASU.EDU ********** I.A.2. Fr: Nancy M. Ide (ide@vassar.bitnet> ACH/ALLC '01: Making Connections: Conference Program Tempe, Arizona March 17-21, 1991 C O N F E R E N C E P R O G R A M ASSOCIATION FOR COMPUTERS AND THE HUMANITIES ASSOCIATION FOR LITERARY AND LINGUISTIC COMPUTING ACH/ALLC'91 March 17 - 21, 1991 Arizona State University Tempe, Arizona Contact: Daniel Brink, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287-1701 602/965-7748/1441 fax -1093 ATDXB@ASUVM.INRE.ASU.EDU KEYNOTE ADDRESS: MARTIN KAY PLENARY SPEECHES: RALPH GRISWOLD, ARIZONA HELEN AGUERA, NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE HUMANITIES PAPERS AND SPECIAL SESSIONS: Kip Canfield, University of Maryland, Baltimore OBJECT-ORIENTED DATABASE DESIGN FOR RESEARCH AND EDUCATION IN TEXTUAL STUDIES Kevin Devlin, Colby College "THE LOGIC OF INFORMATION" Edward A. Fox, Robert K. France, M. Prabhakar Koushik, Jenny-Lou Menezes, Qi Fan Chen, Amjad M. Daoud, J. Terry Nutter, Virginia Polytechnic "CODER: A RETRIEVAL AND HYPERTEXT SYSTEM USING SGML AND A LEXICON" Terumasa Ehara and Tsuyoshi Morimoto, ATR, Kyoto "CONTENTS AND STRUCTURE OF THE ATR BILINGUAL DATABASE OF SPOKEN DIALOGUES" Kevin Donaghy, Rochester Inst of Tech "IMPERATIVES, SPEECH ACTS AND PRACTICAL ARGUMENTS" Harry C. Bunt, ITK - Tilburg "THEORY BUILDING ON THE COMPUTER" Donalee H. Attardo, Purdue "FRAMEBUILDER: A TOOL FOR COMPUTATIONAL LEXICOGRAPHY" Dranimir Boguraev and Mary S. Neff, IBM TJ Watson Center "TEXT REPRESENTATION, DICTIONARY STRUCTURE, AND LEXICAL KNOWLEDGE" Peters, Carol, Elisabetta Marinai and Eugenio Picchi, CNR, Pisa "FIRST PROTOTYPE OF A SYSTEM FOR THE SEMI-AUTOMATIC LINKING AND MERGING OF MONO- AND BILINGUAL LDBS" Biber, Douglas, Northern Arizona University, and Edward Finegan, Southern California "MULTI-DIMENSIONAL ANALYSES OF AUTHOR'S STYLE: SOME CASE STUDIES FROM THE 18TH CENTURY" Holmes, David, Bristol Polytechnic "VOCABULARY RICHNESS AND THE BOOK OF MORMON A STYLOMETRIC ANALYSIS OF MORMON SCRIPTURE" Neumann, Fritz-Wilhelm, Goettingen "RHETORIC DISCLOSED: PATTERN-MATCHING AND MICRO-ANALYSIS OF CORPUS MATERIALS" Hayward, Malcolm, Indiana University of Pennsylvania "A CONNECTIONIST COMPUTER MODEL OF POETIC METER" Chisholm, David and Royce Robbins, Arizona "FRAME: A COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR THE STUDY OF PHONOLOGICAL EQUIVALENCE IN LITERARY LANGUAGE" Hosaka, Junko, Toshiyuki Takezawa and Terumasa Ehara, ATR, Kyoto "CLASSIFICATION OF S-POSTPOSITIONS IN SPOKEN LANGUAGE TOWARD SPEECH RECOGNITION" Lori Levin, David A. Evans, Donna Gates and Laurent Delon, Carnegie Mellon "CAPTURING CONTEXT IN A COMPUTER-BASED FOREIGN LANGUAGE ASSISTANT" Lessard, Gregory and Michael Levison, Queen's University "COMPUTER-AIDED ANALYSIS AND MODELLING OF SECOND LANGUAGE PERFORMANCE ERRORS" Fouquere, Christophe, LIPN-CNRS "EVIDENCE FOR PREFERENTIAL ANALYSIS" Special Session: TEXTS, CONCORDANCES AND TEXTUAL INFORMATION Sponsored by American Philosophical Association Chair: David Owen Syun Tutiya, Chiba "ARCHAEOLOGY OF TEXTUAL INFORMATION" Alastair McKinnon, McGill "THE MULTIDIMENSIONAL CONCORDANCE: A NEW TOOL FOR LITERARY RESEARCH" Anderson, Clifford W. and George E. McMaster, Brandon "CONNOTED EMOTION IN SIMPLIFIED TEXT: DID THEY REALLY RUIN PETER RABBIT?" Reeves, John, UCLA "COMPUTER MODEL OF THEMATIC STORY UNDERSTANDING FROM MORAL REASONING" Sutherland, Kathryn, Oxford "WAITING FOR CONNECTIONS: HYPERTEXTS, MULTIPLOTS, THE ENGAGED READER" Horton, Tom, Florida Atlantic "TEXT RETRIEVAL OF PASSAGES BASED ON WORD COOCCURRENCES" Nakamura, Takahiro and Satoshi Aisaka, Computer Applications, Tokyo "EXTRACTION OF KEYWORDS BY FUZZY INFERENCE AND ITS TRIAL APPLICATION TO MACHINE-EXTRACTING; A DOMAIN INDEPENDENT APPROACH COMBINING GRAMMATICAL AND STATISTICAL ANALYSIS" Siegfried, Susan, Getty Museum "MATCHING PERSONAL NAMES IN THE HUMANITIES" Robinson, Peter, Oxford "A NEW PROGRAM FOR INTERACTIVE COLLATION OF LARGE MANUSCRIPT TRADITIONS" Ehrlich, Heyward. Rutgers, and George Vallasi, Chernow Editorial "THE JAMES JOYCE TEXT MACHINE" Hilton, Michael, South Carolina South Carolina "THE URICA! II INTERACTIVE COLLATION SYSTEM" STATUS REPORT ON THE TEXT ENCODING INITIATIVE A Special Session Sponsored by ACH, ALLC, ACL Michael Sperberg-McQueen, Illinois at Chicago Lou Burnard, Oxford Special Session: ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE APPROACHES TO THE STUDY OF METAPHOR Chair: Mary Dee Harris Bipin Indurkhya, Boston "METAPHOR AS CHANGE OF REPRESENTATION" James Martin, Colorado "COMPUTER UNDERSTANDING OF CONVENTIONAL METAPHORIC LANGUAGE" Dan Fass, Simon Fraser "A COMPUTER METHOD FOR RECOGNIZING METAPHORS IN SENTENCES" Kirk, John M and Willaim A. Kretzschmar, Georgia "THE ANALYSIS AND INTERPRETATION OF DIALECT DATABASES BY INTERACTIVE MAPPING" Dickey, Martin and Leonard Faltz, Arizona State "USING A CD-ROM SPEECH DATABASE IN LINGUISTIC RESEARCH" Delmonte, Rodolfo and Dario Bianchi, San Marco "COMPUTING DISCOURSE ANAPHORA FROM GRAMMATICAL REPRESENTATIONS" Marrafa, Palmira, Lisbon "ON SECONDARY PREDICATION IN PORTUGUESE: CONSTITUENCY AND COMPUTABILITY" Yu, Xiaojin and Robert Oakman, South Carolina "CAPTURING SYNTACTIC DEPENDENCIES IN BUILDING LOGICAL SENTENCE FORMS FOR MACHINE TRANSLATION" Special Session: PERSPECTIVES ON THE TEI A Special Session Sponsored by ACH, ALLC, ACL Chair: Elaine Brennan Elaine Brennan, Brown Steve Siebert, Dragonfly Software Sperling Martin, Consultant Chen, Hsin-Hsi, National University of Taiwan "THE TRANSFER OF PREPOSITIONAL PHRASES IN ENGLISH-CHINESE MACHINE TRANSLATION SYSTEM" Her, One-Soon, Dan Higenbotham and Joseph Pentheroudakis, Executive Communication Systems "THE TREATMENT OF ENGLISH IDIOMS IN THE LFG-BASED ECS MACHINE TRANSLATION SYSTEM" R. Piotrowski, R, Leningrad, R. Minvaleev, S. Puchkov, V. Kwiatkowski, V. Shumovsky, and H. Tyune "MORPHOLOGIC PARSING AND AUTOMATIC DICTIONARY DESIGN FOR MT FROM ORIENTAL LANGUAGES INTO RUSSIAN" Tierney, James E., Missouri-St. Louis "A MACHINE READABLE DATA BASE COMPRISING A SUBJECT INDEX TO PRE-1800 BRITISH PERIODICALS" Galloway, Patricia, Mississippi Department of Archives "HISTORICAL MAPS AND RUBBER SHEETS: FINDING NATIVE AMERICAN HISTORY ON THE GROUND" Lessard, Gregory and Jean-Jacques Hamm, Queen's University "COMPUTER-AIDED ANALYSIS OF REPEATED STRUCTURES: THE CASE OF STENDHAL'S ARMANCE" Special Session: STATISTICAL METHODS IN COMPUTATIONAL RESEARCH Sponsored by the Association for Computational Linguistics Chair: Ken Church Ken Church "USING STATISTICS IN LEXICAL ANALYSIS" Bob Mercer "A STATISTICAL APPROACH TO MACHINE TRANSLATION" Martin Kay "TEXT-TRANSLATION ALIGNMENT" Mark Liberman "HOW MANY WORDS DO PEOPLE KNOW?" Irizarry, Estelle, Georgetown University "ONE WRITER, TWO AUTHORS: RESOLVING THE POLEMIC OF LATIN AMERICA'S FIRST NOVEL" Deegan, Marilyn, Oxford "CULTURAL THEORY AND COMPUTING: A MODEL FOR THE STUDY OF ANGLO-SAXON SOCIETY" Kitamura, Keiko, Nat'l Inst of Japanese Literature "DATA BASE DELIVERY FOR JAPANESE LITERATURE BY CD-ROM" Weenen, Andrea de Leeuw van, Leiden "DEVELOPMENTS AT THE LEIDEN ARMENIAN DATA BASE" Magnberg, Sune, University of Stockholm "CORPUS BASED RESEARCH ON MODELS FOR PROCESSING UNRESTRICTED SWEDISH TEXT" Special Session of the Concordanze della Lingua Italiana Poetica dell'Otto/Novecento" (CLIPON) group, Italian National Council for Research (CNR) Chair: Luciano Farina, Ohio State Giuseppi Savoca, Catania "WORDS BY UNGARETTI AND BY MONTALE" Alida DiAquino "TOWARDS A DICTIONARY OF D'ANNUNZIO'S POETRY" Sebastiano Catrona "COMPUTING SOLUTIONS FOR DEALING WITH ITALIAN LITERARY TEXTS" Amalia Mannino "ABOUT SOME FORMAL AND SEMANTIC FIELDS IN LEPARTI'S CANTI" Ide, Nancy M., Vassar, and Jean Veronis, CNRS "CAUGHT IN THE WEB OF WORDS: USING NETWORKS GENERATED FROM DICTIONARIES FOR CONTENT ANALYSIS" Rieger, Burghard, Trier "AUTOMATIC WORD MEANING REPRESENTATION AND CONTENT-DRIVEN INFERENCING" Hunter, David and Rita D'Arcangelis, Texas at Arlington "A PARTITIONED RULE-BASED APPROACH TO CONTENT ANALYSIS OF SPOKEN LANGUAGE" Cotoneschi, Patrizia and Monica Monachini, CNR Pisa "AN EMPIRICAL EXPERIENCE ON THE UTILIZATION OF THE ITALIAN REFERENCE CORPUS IN MEANING ANALYSIS" Conlon, Sumali Pin-Ngern and Martha Evans, Mississippi "BUILDING A NOUN LEXICAL DATABASE TO SUPPORT NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING APPLICATIONS" Saint-Dizier, Patrick IRIT (Toulouse) "HANDLING SYNONYMY AND OPPOSITION RELATIONS IN A LEXICAL KNOWLEDGE BASE" Chesnutt, David R., South Carolina "THE PAPERS OF HENRY LAURENS A TEST CASE FOR THE TEI GUIDLINES" van Halteren, Hans, Nijmegen "EFFICIENT STORAGE OF AMBIGUOUS STRUCTURES IN TEXTUAL DATABASES" Sperberg-McQueen, Michael, Illinois at Chicago "THE VALIDATED--OR VIOLATED?--TEXT: ISSUES IN SPECIFYING DOCUMENT STRUCTURES" Special Session: CREATING AND USING NATURAL LANGUAGE CORPORA Chair: Nancy Ide A Special Session Sponsored by ACH and ALLC Jeremy Clear, OUP "CRITERIA FOR CONSTRUCTING CORPORA" Mitch Marcus, Penn "CORPUS ANALYSIS: CONSIDERATIONS" Nicoletta Calzolari, Pisa "KNOWLEDGE EXTRACTION FROM CORPORA" Fortier, Paul and Carl J. Schwarz, Manitoba "PROCRUSTEAN ANALYSIS OF THEMATIC STRUCTURES IN ANDRE GIDE'S L'IMMORALISTE" Robert F. Allen, Rutgers "A STYLO-STATISTICAL ANALYSIS OF SENSORY PERCEPTION IN 'MADAME BOVARY'" Special Session: LEXICAL, TEXTUAL, AND SOFTWARE RESOURCES Sponsored by ACH, ALLC, and ACL Chair: Don Walker, Bellcore Mark Liberman, Pennsylvania "THE NEED FOR OPEN LEXICAL AND TEXTUAL RESOURCES" Roy Byrd, IBM, and Yorick Wilks New Mexico State "THE ROLE OF A CONSORTIUM FOR LEXICAL RESEARCH" Nicoletta Calzolari, Pisa "THE REUSABILITY OF LEXICAL RESOURCES" Antonio Zampolli, Pisa "DETERMINING WHAT LANGUAGE DATA ARE AVAILABLE IN MACHINE-READABLE FORM" Elizabeth Hinkelman, Chicago "A REGISTRY OF NATURAL LANGUAGE SOFTWARE" Solak, Jerzy and Hanna Popwska, Inst for Information, Warsaw "A MACHINE LEARNING SYSTEM FOR COMMUNICATION WITH DATABASES IN NATURAL LANGUAGES" Raskin, Victor, Donalee H. Attardo, and Salvatore Attardo, Purdue "THE SMEARR SEMANTIC DATABASE: AN INTELLIGENT AND VERSATILE RESOURCE FOR THE HUMANITIES" Condamines, Anne and Patrick Saint-Dizier IRIT, Toulouse "AN INTELLIGENT ENVIRONMENT FOR THE INCREMENTAL ACQUISITION OF LEXICAL SEMANTIC DATA" Daelemans, Walter, Tilburg "AN OBJECT-ORIENTED LINGUISTIC TOOLBOX" Dench, Alan, Western Australia "RECONSTITUTING NYUNGAR: THE DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION OF A RELATIONAL DATABASE OF FRAGMENTARY LANGUAGE MATERIALS AND ITS VALUE TO LINGUISTIC ANALYSIS" Crane, Gregory, Harvard "GENERATING AND PARSING CLASSICAL GREEK" Vladimir Pericliev, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences "DETECTING CAUSALITIES AS AN AID IN LINGUISTIC DISCOVERY" Vyacheslav Ivanov, Moskow "COMPUTER-ASSISTED ANALYSIS OF A BILINGUAL, HATTIC-HITTITE TEXT" Ross, Donald, Minnesota, and David Hunter, Texas at Arlington "M-EYEBALL: AN INTELLIGENT SYSTEM FOR STYLISTIC DESCRIPTIONS AND COMPARISONS" Harrienhausen-Muhlbauer, Bettina, IBM Deutschland "THE COMPUTER AS A "TEACHER" FOR GRAMMAR AND STYLE ERRORS" Payette, Julie, Toronto "COMPUTER-ASSISTED INSTRUCTION IN SYNTACTIC STYLE" Potter, Rosanne G., Iowa State "MODERN BRITISH LITERATURE, READER RESPONSE CRITICISM, AND GENDER DIFFERENCES" Special Session: PUBLISHERS, INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS, AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF ELECTRONIC TEXT Chair: Michael Neuman, Georgetown Dennis Karjala, Arizona State "ELECTRONIC TEXTS, COPYRIGHT AND THE LAW" Mark Rooks, InteLex "PROVIDING INCENTIVES: CONVINCING PUBLISHERS OF THE MERITS OF A MAJOR ELECTRONIC PROJECT" Darrell Bock, Dallas Theological Seminary "ELIMINATING CONCERNS AND ASSESSING THE COSTS" Eric Calaluca, Chadwyck-Healey "MARKETING ELECTRONIC TEXT TO LIBRARIES" Novick, David G. and Thomas A. Doehne, Oregon Graduate Institute "AUTOMATED POETRY CLASSIFICATION" Christine Mullings, Bath "COMMUNICATION ACTIVITIES IN THE HUMANITIES: A COMPREHENSIVE SURVEY OF ACADEMIC DEPARTMENTS, LIBRARIES AND COMPUTER CENTRES IN THE UK" Peter Serdiukov, Kiev Pedagogical Inst of Foreign Languages "CALL IN THE USSR" Deborah Wilde, Getty Museum "THE ULTIMATE CONNECTION: SCHOLARS AS END-USERS" Brewer, Jeutonne, UNC Greensboro, and Boyd H. Davis, UNC Charlotte "REPETITION AND POLITENESS IN ELECTRONIC CLASSROOM COMMUNITIES" Smith, Karen and Barbara Hoffman Maginnis, Arizona "COMPUTER-MEDIATED COMMUNICATION ENVIRONMENTS FOR EDUCATION: RESEARCH AND METHODOLOGY" Skubikowski, Kathleen, Middlebury "COMPUTERS AND THE SOCIAL CONTEXTS OF WRITING" ********** I.A.3. Fr: Jeanette Neal Re: Workshop on Evaluation of Natural Language Processing Systems June 18, 1991 University of California, Berkeley CALL FOR PARTICIPATION Workshop on Evaluation of Natural Language Processing Systems 18 June 1991 University of California Berkeley, CA There has been increased concern with the evaluation of natural language processing (NLP) systems over the past few years. The evaluation of NLP systems is essential in order to measure the capabilities of individual systems, to measure technical progress and growth in the field, and to provide a basis for selecting NLP systems to best fit the communication requirements of application domain systems. This 1991 Workshop is a follow on to the workshop on evaluation held in December of 1988 at the Wayne Hotel in Wayne, PA. Technical report RADC-TR-89-302 on the previous workshop is available from Rome Laboratory. Important issues for any evaluation effort and relevant to this workshop include identification of the items or capabilities to be evaluated, choosing between "black box" and "glass box" approaches, definition of evaluation criteria, development of methods or procedures for evaluation, determination of evaluation metrics, and determination of the type of output to be produced by the evaluation procedures. The areas of NLP relevant for this workshop include syntactic analysis, semantic analyisis, pragmatic analysis, lexical processing, morphology, sharable knowledge bases and ontologies, speech understanding, and trainable systems. The purpose of this workshop is to provide a forum for computational linguists to report on and discuss current efforts and activities, research progress, new approaches, problems and issues; to promote scientific interchange on important evaluation issues; and to generate recommendations and directions for future investigations in the evaluation area. Workshop attendance will be by invitation, limited to 45 people. The workshop will be held June 18th at the University of California, Berkeley Campus, in association with the 29th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics. SUBMISSIONS: Interested participants should submit a 3-5 page abstract of their presentation and a brief description of their research activities. Persons desiring to attend the workshop, but not make a presentation, should send only a brief description of their research activities. All persons should include name, mailing address, phone number, and electronic mail address. Submission may be transmitted via electronic mail, U.S. Postal Service, or FAX. If hardcopy is submitted, please include six copies (including the original). Send submissions to: Jeannette G. Neal, Ph.D. Calspan Corporation P.O. Box 400, Buffalo, NY 14225 (716) 631-6844 FAX: (716) 631-6722 neal@cs.buffalo.edu SCHEDULE: March 1, 1991 Submissions due April 1, 1991 Notification of acceptance/invitation ORGANIZATION AND PROGRAM COMMITTEE: Jeannette G. Neal, Calspan Corporation (Committee Chair) Tim Finin, Unisys Center for Advanced Information Technology Ralph Grishman, New York University Christine Montgomery, Language Systems, Inc. Sharon Walter, Rome Laboratory SUPPORT for this workshop is provided by Rome Laboratory. ********** I.A.4. Fr: Alexa T. McCray Re: Workshop on Language and Information Processing Washington, DC October 27, 1991 The American Society for Information Science (ASIS) invites submissions for a Language and Information Processing Workshop, to be held on October 27, 1991 at the ASIS '91 meeting in Washington, D.C. The theme of ASIS '91 is "Systems Understanding People, People Understanding Systems". The purpose of the workshop is to bring together researchers who are concerned with the potentially significant role of sophisticated natural language processing (NLP) in intelligent information retrieval (IR). The workshop will focus on the progress that has been made to date on the application of NLP methods to the IR problem and will provide a forum for discussing some promising areas for future research. Submitted papers must reflect substantive work done at the intersection of NLP and IR. Papers should emphasize completed work rather than future plans. PROGRAM COMMITTEE: Alexa T. McCray, National Library of Medicine Elizabeth Liddy, Syracuse University Carl Weir, Unisys David Lewis, University of Massachusetts FORMAT FOR SUBMISSIONS: Submit 5 copies of a draft paper, not exceeding 10 single-spaced pages (exclusive of references) to arrive no later than May 31, 1991. A cover page should include the title, full names of all authors, the address of the primary author, including an e-mail address if possible, and a short abstract. Send submissions to the workshop chair: Alexa T. McCray National Library of Medicine Bldg. 38A/9N905, Mail Stop 54 Bethesda, Md. 20894 Phone: (301) 496-9300 Internet: mccray@nlm.nih.gov SCHEDULE: Submissions should be sent to arrive by May 31, 1991. Notification of acceptance will be made by July 15, 1991. Camera-ready papers will be due on September 16, 1991. Workshop will be held on October 27, 1991. WORKSHOP INFORMATION: The workshop will be held in conjunction with the 54th annual meeting of the American Society for Information Science (October 27-31, 1991). A full proceedings of the workshop will be made available to those attend. The workshop will be open to all interested researchers, but presentations will be limited to accepted papers. There will be a $30.00 workshop registration fee which will be used to cover the cost of preparing the proceedings and providing refreshments. Lunch will not be provided. ********************************************************** II. QUERIES II.B.1. Fr: Istvan Nemes Re: Information retrieval in libraries Hallo, I need an information retrieval system for our library on Apollo workstations. I am looking forward getting any information. Thanks in advance Istvan Nemes E-mail:K314073@AERN.BITNET ********************************************************** IV. PROJECT WORK IV.B.1. Fr: Susanne Humphrey Re: Selected IR-related disertation abstracts The following are citations selected by title and abstract as being related to Information Retrieval (IR), resulting from a computer search, using BRS Information Technologies, of the Dissertation Abstracts Online database produced by University Microfilms International (UMI). Included are UMI order number, title, author, degree, year, institution; number of pages, one or more Dissertation Abstracts International (DAI) subject descriptors chosen by the author, and abstract. Unless otherwise specified, paper or microform copies of dissertations may be ordered from University Microfilms International, Dissertation Copies, Post Office Box 1764, Ann Arbor, MI 48106; telephone for U.S. (except Michigan, Hawaii, Alaska): 1-800-521-3042, for Canada: 1-800-268-6090. Price lists and other ordering and shipping information are in the introduction to the published DAI. An alternate source for copies is sometimes provided. Dissertation titles and abstracts contained here are published with permission of University Microfilms International, publishers of Dissertation Abstracts International (copyright by University Microfilms International), and may not be reproduced without their prior permission. AN University Microfilms Order Number ADG13-39424. AU SCHLOMAN, BARBARA FRICK. TI HEALTH EDUCATION AS A SPECIALIZED FIELD OF STUDY: A BIBLIOMETRIC ANALYSIS OF ITS RESEARCH LITERATURE. IN Kent State University M.A. 1989, 71 pages. DE Education, Health. Information Science. AB The purpose of this study was to examine if health education has become a distinctly separate field of inquiry as evidenced by the patterns of information transfer in health education research. Bibliometric methods were used to determine: (a) if health education has an identifiable core of journals, (b) the extent to which health education research draws upon research from other disciplines, and (c) the extent to which researchers in other fields cite the health education specialty journals. AN University Microfilms Order Number ADG90-26285. AU OHTSUKA, KEISUKE. TI VARIATION IN MENTAL MODELS OF TEXT AS A FUNCTION OF GENRE. IN University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Ph.D. 1990, 227 pages. DE Education, Psychology. Education, Reading. Psychology, Experimental. AB This dissertation addresses the question "Does text genre affect the characteristics of mental representations built from text?" As early as the turn of last century writing teachers used text genre to classify textual styles in rhetoric textbooks. Recently researchers have suggested that the characteristics of mental models formed from one text genre would be different from the mental models formed from another genre (Brewer, 1980; Johnson-Laird, 1983). Readers of survey texts and route texts were faster and more accurate in verifying spatial information that was presented in the same form as the initial text (Perrig & Kintsch, 1985). The results suggest that the characteristics of mental models built from these two texts were different. Readers use different information to resolve ambiguity in order to determine ambiguous pronoun referents when narrative texts and descriptive texts were compared (Morrow, 1985, 1986). If the knowledge about text genre affects the process of mental model construction, does it also affect the characteristics of the mental model built from various genres. In this dissertation, the characteristics of mental models built from three genres, descriptive, procedural, and narrative texts, which contain the same underlying spatial information, were examined by asking three types of inference questions. One hundred twenty-two undergraduate students read one of the three genres on a computer display and later answered inference questions about spatial information. Accuracy scores and response time data were examined. The results suggest that the mental model built from the Descriptive text differs from the models built from the other two genres and shows more two-dimensional characteristics. The readers were able to transform the mental model constructed from one genre of text to other forms of mental models in order to answer different types of inference questions. Therefore, the mental models built from text can be conceptualized as flexible representations that can be manipulated by readers rather than static, rigid structures that simply hold the textual information for retrieval. AN University Microfilms Order Number ADG90-31853. AU ZINS, CHAIM. TI AN ELECTRONIC ENCYCLOPEDIA OF THE HOLOCAUST: A KNOWLEDGE STRUCTURING FOR JEWISH EDUCATION. IN The Jewish Theological Seminary of America Ph.D. 1990, 204 pages. DE Education, Religious. Education, Technology. Education, Curriculum and Instruction. Information Science. AB This study is a structuring of the historical knowledge about the Holocaust, as a basis for developing an electronic encyclopedia for use in American and Jewish education. It is focused on historiographical, educational and media-related considerations involved in the structuring. The historiographical considerations emerge from the historical material and its diverse interpretations. The educational considerations are derived from the intentional use of electronic encyclopedias as tools for retrieval of structured knowledge. The media-related considerations are connected to methods of data processing. An electronic encyclopedia is needed in the light of limitations of textbooks and oral presentations for comprehensively presenting the meaningful relationships between the components of the historical knowledge. These are links that historians and educators find important to stress: viz. links between events and places, places and persons, persons and organizations and the like. The study has two parts. The first is knowledge structuring. It is based on an analysis of more than 2000 terms that have been found suitable to be included in a prospective encyclopedia. The resulting model has seven sections and 145 categories. The second part analyzes the adaptations needed to adjust the structure for use in various curricula. Two factors--target users and educational goals--emerge. The study focuses on the educational goals and demonstrates how they affect the structuring. This analysis is divided into five sections according to five major justifications for teaching the Holocaust. Each section demonstrates the adjustments needed to facilitate information retrieval supporting the justification as reflected in educational goals appearing in nine curricula used in the United States. In addition to its contribution to the field of teaching the Holocaust, this study has a generic value for general education as well. It demonstrates the possibility of knowledge structuring in a way that takes advantage of the computer's unique ability to process data. It emphasizes the importance of educational perspectives in the development of electronic encyclopedias and exemplifies methodological reasoning that could be followed in other fields. AN University Microfilms Order Number ADG90-14627. AU DUDLEY, SUZANNE LOUISE. TI A COMPARISON OF MANUAL/ELECTRONIC VERSUS ELECTRONIC APPROACHES TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SKILLS IN ELECTRONIC DATABASE INSTRUCTION. IN University of South Florida Ph.D. 1989, 248 pages. DE Education, Technology. Information Science. AB This study examined manual/electronic versus an electronic only approach to training novice database users in information retrieval from an electronic database. Eighty-two undergraduate university students were randomly assigned to one of two treatment groups: manual then electronic (MTE) or electronic only (EO). All participants completed instructional activities during Stage One of the study using systematically designed instructional package which presented skills and concepts that had been defined as prerequisites for information retrieval. Participants then completed three sets of instructional activities during Stage Two of the study in which they developed, consolidated and applied information retrieval strategies using an algo-heuristic model of information retrieval. During these instructional activities measures of retrieval effectiveness and retrieval efficiency were taken. Stage Three of the study required participants to evaluate the accuracy of retrieved information, and measures of evaluation effectiveness were taken. Although mastery participants retrieving information from a printed database were significantly more effective in generating the required information product than mastery participants retrieving the same information from an electronic database, there was no significant difference between the two mastery groups for measures of process effectiveness, process efficiency or evaluation effectiveness. These results indicate that there is no advantage, or disadvantage, in including manual information retrieval activities when participants are first developing information retrieval strategies. The statistically significant positive correlations between performance on the criterion-referenced mastery test and measures of information retrieval and evaluation performance provided support for the requirement for mastery of the defined entry level skills and concepts before participants begin electronic information retrieval. The study findings indicate that by achieving mastery of the defined entry level skills, and applying these skills using an algo-heuristic model for developing information retrieval strategies, some novice database users can achieve levels of competence equivalent to experienced database users with just six hours of instruction. Suggestions for further research address the role of feedback during information retrieval, the use of strategy guides, clarification of the perceived nature of the task to novice computer users, and the application of an algo-heuristic model in more varied information retrieval environments. AN University Microfilms Order Number ADG90-20370. AU WRENN, THOMAS TUNNELL. TI CITATION ANALYSIS AND EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES: FOUNDATIONAL TECHNICAL DEVELOPMENTS IN OPTICAL DISK TECHNOLOGY. IN WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY (0256) Ed.D. 1989, 189 pages. DE Education, Technology. Library Science. Information Science. AB One reason a given technology emerges is that the technical means of the technology are improved--made more efficient, faster, more reliable. This causes changes in the "socio-technical interface" between the technical means and the organization in which it is applied, and it becomes practical to use the improved technical means in new applications and additional organizations. Technical developments that decisively affect the technical workability and the economic usefulness of a product or process, which permit rapid changes in a technology and its rate of emergence, are termed foundational technical developments (FTDs). We often want to be able to identify which technical developments contribute to an emerging technology. The problem of this study was to determine the utility of citation analysis in identifying FTDs and core literatures associated with FTDs. Citation analysis is an unobtrusive and non-reactive bibliometric technique. Moreover, citation data in scientific and technical literature are accessible in the Science Citation Index. This dissertation used FTDs in optical disks (e.g., CD-ROM, digital videodisks) to study the utility of citation analysis in emerging technologies. A panel of experts in a three-round Delphi study identified FTDs in optical disks. Two sets of articles were identified: one group pertained to optical disks and one or more FTD; the other to optical disks but not to FTDs. Citation counts confirmed that FTD articles were cited significantly more frequently than non-FTD articles. The citation behavior replicated the judgement of the Delphi panel in identifying FTDs. The data were tested using both a t-test and the Wilcoxon rank sum test. The analysis of the data also indicated that the core literature identified by citation patterns was different than the core literature identified by the number of articles published. Frequency of citation can be used to identify FTDs and the core literature associated with FTDs in emerging technologies. ********************************************************** IRLIST Digest is distributed from the University of California, Division of Library Automation, 300 Lakeside Drive, Oakland, CA. 94612-3550. 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