Information Retrieval List Digest 048 (February 12, 1991) URL = http://hegel.lib.ncsu.edu/stacks/serials/irld/irld-048 IRLIST Digest February 12, 1991 Volume VIII, Number 5 Issue 48 ********************************************************** I. NOTICES A. Meetings announcements/Calls for papers 1. RIAO '91: Tutorials April 2-5, 1991 Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain 2. Special Student Session at the 29th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics June 18-21, 1991 University of California, Berkeley 3. ACL/SIGLEX Workshop on Lexial Semantics and Knowlecge Representation June 17, 1991 University of California, Berkeley 4. ACL SIGGEN and SIGPARSE Workshop on Reversible Grammer in Natural Language Processing June 17, 1991 University of California, Berkeley 5. 2nd ASIS '91 Workshop on Classification Research Organized by the ASIS Special Interest Group on Classification Research (SIG/CR) October 27-31, 1991 Washington, DC IV. PROJECT WORK B. Bibliographies 1. Selected IR-related dissertation abstracts ********************************************************** I. NOTICES I.A.1. Fr: C. Fluhr Re: RIAO '91: Tutorials Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain RIAO 91 TUTORIALS during the conference " Intelligent Text and Image Handling " Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona Barcelona, Spain - April 2-5, 1991 Sponsored by the Commission of the European Communities Minister of Education and Sciences, Spain Minister of "Industrie et Amnagement du Territoire", France Minister of "Recherche et Technologie", France President of the "Generalitat de Catalunya", Spain Rector of the "Universitat Autonoma de Bercelona", Spain Organized by the Centre de Hautes Etudes Internationales d'Informatique Documentaire (CID) Under the direction of Professor A. Lichnerowicz de l'Academie des sciences R.I.A.O.= Recherche d'Information Assist Ordinateu (Computer aided information retrieval) During the "RIAO 91" Conference "Intelligent Text and Image Handling", which will take place at the Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, 2-5 April 1991, two day of Tutorials will be held at the Faculty of Sciences of the University. The aim of these Tutorials is to provide a thorough introduction to a certain number of new concepts and techniques in the field of Information Sciences. These Tutorials are intended for librarians, documentalists, information managers and all the persons who wish to rapidly acquire a serious notion of advances in new technologies, under the guidance of International experts. PROGRAM OF THE TUTORIAL Tuesday April 2, 1991 9 h.-12 h. Hypermedia E. FOX - Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State Univ., U.S.A. Course items: - Definition of hypertext, hypermedia and multimedia. - Current status and technical overview of standards for multimedia: JPEG, px64, MPEG. - Current status and technical overview of standards for hypermedia: HyTime, MHEG. - Current status and future prospects for technologies and systems supporting fully digital hypermedia applications: DVI (Digital Video Interactive) CD-I (Compact Disc-Interactive) - How one develops hypermedia applications 12 h. 14 h. Lunch 14 h.-17 h. S.G.M.L. F. CHAHUNEAU - Berger Levrault, France Course items: - Document structure - SGML - Language - SGML - Tools. - SGML and Databases Wednesday April 3, 1991 9 h. - 12 h. Neural Networks in Information Processing I.F. CROALL - Harwell Laboratory A.E.A., Great Britain Course items: - Review of the origins and of the underlying ideas inherent to "Neural networks" in information processing, their relations with conventional methods and other areas such as Artificial Intelligence. - Systematic review of the many different architectures for neural networks. The problems of implementation and integration with other systems. - Application of neural networks to a wide range of problems, from voice recognition to information retrieval. 12 h. 14 h. Lunch 14 h.- 17 h. Optical Memories N. PAQUEL - Cabinet Paquel, France Course items: - Introduction, technical aspects and typology. a. Data and documents needs ... b. Techniques and optical tools. - Products and systems a. General trends of electronic supports b. WORM c. CR-ROM d. Erasable disk Registration information for Tutorials The standard registration fee for the Tutorials is 1.800 FF. This price includes Tuesday and Wednesday luncheons, the proceedings of the Tutorials and the visit of the demonstration hall of RIAO'91. It is possible to attend one out of two days of the Tutorials for the price of 1000 FF. Registration orders have to be sent to : C.I.D. 36 bis rue Ballu 75009 Paris France Tel. 48 74 53 05 Fax 43 58 14 15 Payments will be transferred to either account : in FF. CID nx 00050 06548 1 Societ Gnrale Agence place Clichy 89 rue de Clichy 75009 Paris in Pesetas : CID nx 10136 74 7 Societ Gnrale Plaza Cataluna 20, 08002 Barcelona Spain Checks will be accepted in FF on a French bank or in Pesetas on a Subject: SPECIAL STUDENT SESSION at ACL-91 in Berkeley, 18-21 June 1991 ********** I.A.2. Fr: Don Walker Re: Special Student Session at the 29th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computing Linguistics June 18-21, 1991 University of California, Berkeley CALL FOR PAPERS PURPOSE: The goal of this session is to provide a forum in which graduate student members can present WORK IN PROGRESS and receive feedback from other members of the computational linguistics community, particularly senior researchers. The session(s) will be workshop-style, consisting of short paper presentations and discussion. Note that having a student session for the presentation of ongoing work in NO way influences the treatment of student-written papers submitted to the main conference. Rather, the student session will provide an entirely separate track emphasizing students' work in progress rather than completed work. REQUIREMENTS: Papers should describe original, unpublished work in progress that demonstrates INSIGHT, CREATIVITY, and PROMISE. Topics of interest are the same as for the main conference. Authors must have ACL Student Membership at the time of the conference. For membership information contact Don Walker at the address below. Because of differences in FOCUS (complete results vs. work in progress) and SUBMISSION FORMAT, papers submitted to the main conference can not be considered for the student session. Students may of course submit papers to both. FORMAT FOR SUBMISSION: Authors should submit four copies of an extended abstract 2 pages long (including title, authors, references, etc). Chosen abstracts will be printed in the conference proceedings directly from the submissions. Submissions therefore should be final camera-ready copy (preferably laser-printer output), laid out in the conventional double-column conference format. In addition, a SEPARATE "topic area'' page should include the title, name(s) of the author(s), complete addresses (including e-mail), and one or two keywords indicating the topic area. Send to: Bonnie Webber (ACL Student Session) University of Pennsylvania Department of Computer and Information Science 200 South 33rd Street Philadelphia, PA 19104-6389, USA (+1-215) 898-7745 bonnie@central.cis.upenn.edu SCHEDULE: Submissions are due by 1 MARCH 1991; authors will be notified of acceptance by 15 APRIL 1991. PROGRAM COMMITTEE: Sandra Carberry (Delaware), Mark Liberman (Pennsylvania), Terry Nutter (Virginia Tech), Bill Rapaport (SUNY Buffalo), Tomek Strzalkowski (NYU), Bonnie Webber (Pennsylvania), Kent Wittenberg (Bellcore and MCC), and the members of the student session committee. STUDENT SESSION COMMITTEE: Dania Egedi (Duke), Jong-Gyun Lim (Columbia), Susan McRoy (Toronto), Philip Resnik (Pennsylvania), Jeff Siskind (MIT), David Traum (Rochester), Barbara Vauthey (NYU and Fribourg). CONFERENCE INFORMATION: For registration forms and other information on the conference and on the ACL more generally, contact Don Walker (ACL), Bellcore, MRE 2A379, 445 South Street, Box 1910, Morristown, NJ 07960-1910, USA; (+1-201)829-4312; walker@flash.bellcore.com. ********** I.A.3. Fr: Don Walker Re: ACL SIGGEN and SIGPARSE Workshop on Reversible Grammer in Natural Language Processing April 17, 1991 University of California, Berkeley CALL FOR PAPERS A workshop sponsored by the Special Interest Groups on Generation (SIGGEN) and Parsing (SIGPARSE) of the Association for Computational Linguistics and supported by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency TOPICS OF INTEREST: The purpose of this workshop is to bring together researchers whose work concerns problems of reversible grammar systems that are designed for, or may find applications in, Natural Language Processing. Papers are invited on significant, original and unpublished research on all aspects of reversible grammars, including, but not limited to: (1) Reversible computation (multi-directional and non-directional computation; algorithms for program inversion and transformation; efficiency issues); (2) Reversible natural language systems (parsers and generators for reversible grammars; reversibility of unification-based grammars; new architectures for reversible natural language processing; knowledge representation issues; reversible machine translation; lexicons for bidirectional systems; reversibility in discourse processing); (3) Reversible grammars in linguistic theory (formal characterization; reversibility within various grammatical frameworks, eg., GB, LFG, GPSG, HPSG, TAG, categorial grammars; reversibility in rule-based and principle-based approaches; reversibility and semantic compositionality). FORMAT OF SUBMISSION: Authors should submit four copies of their papers in hard copy form. Papers should be a minimum of four pages and a maximum of ten single-spaced pages (exclusive of references). The title page should include the title, full names of all authors and their complete addresses including electronic addresses where applicable, and a short (5 line) summary. Submissions that do not conform to this format will not be reviewed. Send submissions to: Tomek Strzalkowski Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences New York University 715 Broadway, Room 704 New York, NY 10003, USA tomek@cs.nyu.edu (+1-212) 998-3496 SCHEDULE: Papers must be received by 1 March 1991 (NOT 31 March, as in a previous release). Authors will be notified of acceptance by 5 April 1991. A camera-ready copy of the final paper prepared in the two-column format must be received by 10 May 1991. Accepted papers will be included in the proceedings published by the ACL. WORKSHOP INFORMATION: The workshop is held in connection with the 29th Meeting of the ACL (18-21 June). Local arrangements are being handled by Peter Norvig (Division of Computer Science, University of California, 573 Evans Hall, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA, (+1-415) 642-9533, norvig@teak.berkeley.edu). ORGANIZING COMMITTEE: Marc Dymetman, Gertjan van Noord, Patrick Saint-Dizier, Tomek Strzalkowski. ********** I.A.4. Fr: Don Walker Re: ACL SIGLEX Workshop on Lexical Semantics and Knowledge Representation June 17, 1991 University of California, Berkeley A workshop sponsored by the Special Interest Group on the Lexicon (SIGLEX) of the Association for Computational Linguistics TOPICS OF INTEREST: The recent resurgence of interest in lexical semantics (LS) has brought many linguistic formalisms closer to the knowledge representation (KR) languages utilized in AI. In fact, some formalisms from computational linguistics are emerging which may be more expressive and formally better understood than many KR languages. Furthermore, the interests of computational linguists now extend to include areas previously thought beyond the scope of grammar and linguistics, such as commonsense knowledge, inheritance, default reasoning, collocational relations, and even domain knowledge. With such an extension of the purview of "linguistic" knowledge, the question emerges as to whether there is any logical justification for distinguishing between lexical semantics and world knowledge. The purpose of this workshop is to explore this question in detail, with papers addressing the following points: a. Possible methods for determining what is lexical knowledge and what is outside the scope of such knowledge. b. Potential demonstrations that the inferences necessary for language understanding are no different from supposed non-linguistic inferences. c. Arguments from language acquisition and general concept development. d. Cross-linguistic evidence for the specificity of lexical semantic representations. e. Philosophical arguments for the (impossibility of the) autonomy of 11 f. Theoretical approaches and implemented systems that combine lexical and non-lexical knowledge. FORMAT OF SUBMISSION: Authors should submit four copies of a position paper describing the work they have done in this area and indicating why they would like to participate in the workshop. Papers should be a minimum of two pages and a maximum of four pages (exclusive of references). The title page should include the title, full names of all authors and their complete addresses including electronic addresses where applicable, and a short (5 line) summary. Submissions that do not conform to this format will not be reviewed. Send submissions to: James Pustejovsky Computer Science Department Ford Hall Brandeis University Waltham, MA 02254-9110 USA (+1-617) 736-2709 jamesp@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu SCHEDULE: Papers must be received by 1 March 1991. Authors will be notified of acceptance by 5 April 1991. WORKSHOP INFORMATION: Attendance will be limited to 35-40 participants. The workshop is held in connection with the 29th Meeting of the ACL (18-21 June). Local arrangements are being handled by Peter Norvig (Division of Computer Science, University of California, 573 Evans Hall, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA, (+1-415) 642-9533, norvig@teak.berkeley.edu). ORGANIZING COMMITTEE: Branimir Boguraev Peter Norvig James Pustejovsky Robert Wilensky ********** I.A.5. Fr: Susanne Humphrey Re: 2nd ASIS '91 Workshop on Classification Research Organized by the ASIS Special Interest Group on Classification Research (SIG/CR) Call for Participation The American Society for Information Science Special Interest Group on Classification Research (ASIS SIG/CR) invites submissions for the 2nd ASIS '91 Classification Research (CR) Workshop, to be held at the 54th Annual Meeting of ASIS in Washington, DC. The Workshop will take place Sunday, October 27th, 1991, 8:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. ASIS '91 continues through Thursday, October 31. The CR Workshop is designed to be an exchange of ideas among those engaged in active research or practice in the creation, development, management, representation, display, comparison, compatibility, theory, and application of classification schemes. Emphasis will be on semantic classification, in contrast to statistically-based schemes. Topics include, but are not limited to: - Warrant for concepts in classification schemes. - Concept acquisition. - Basis for semantic classes. - Automated techniques to assist in creating classification schemes. - Statistical techniques used for developing explicit, nonstatistically-based semantic classes. - Relations and their properties. - Inheritance and subsumption. - Knowledge representation schemes. - Classification algorithms. - Procedural knowledge in classification schemes. - Reasoning with classification schemes. - Software for managing classification schemes. - Data structures and programming languages for classification schemes. - Comparison and compatibility between classification schemes. - Previously-named topics, highlighting specific applications such as subject analysis, database navigation, information retrieval, natural language understanding, expert systems, and image processing. The CR Workshop welcomes submissions from various disciplines. Attendance will be by invitation only. Those interested in participating are invited to submit a short (1-2 page single-spaced) position paper, summarizing their substantive work in the above areas or other areas related to semantic classification schemes, and a statement briefly outlining the reason for wanting to participate in the workshop. Submissions may include background papers as attachments. Those selected as presenters will be invited to submit expanded versions of their position papers and to speak to those papers in brief presentations during the workshop. All position papers (both expanded and short papers) will be published in proceedings to be distributed prior to the workshop. The workshop registration fee is $30.00 per person, and includes a copy of the proceedings and lunch and refreshments. Submissions should be sent by email, or diskette accompanied by paper copy, or paper copy only (fax or postal), to arrive by May 1, 1991, to Barbara Kwasnik: Barbara Kwasnik, Co-Chair Raya Fidel, Co-Chair School of Information Studies Graduate School of Library and 4-206 Center for Science and Information Science Technology Syracuse University University of Washington, FM-30 Syracuse, NY 13244 Seattle, WA 98195 Internet: bkwasnik@suvm.acs.syr.edu Internet: fidelr@vax1.u. washington.edu Phone: (315) 443-2911 Phone: (206) 543-1888 Fax: (315) 443-5806 ********************************************************** IRLIST Digest is distributed from the University of California, Division of Library Automation, 300 Lakeside Drive, Oakland, CA. 94612-3550. 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