Information Retrieval List Digest 053 (March 21, 1991) URL = http://hegel.lib.ncsu.edu/stacks/serials/irld/irld-053 IRLIST Digest March 21, 1991 Volume VIII, Number 10 Issue 53 ********************************************************** I. NOTICES A. Meetings announcements/Calls for papers 1. RIAO '91 Reminder April 2-5, 1991 Barcelona, Spain 2. ASIS 1991 Mid-Year Meeting: Multimedia Information Systems April 26-29, 1991 Santa Clara, California 3. IJCAI '91 Workshop Computational Approaches to Non-Literal Language: Metaphor, Metonymy, Idiom, Speech Acts, Implicature August 24, 1991 Sydney, Australia ********************************************************** I. NOTICES I.A.1. Fr: Edward A. Fox Re: RIAO '91 Conference: Reminder This is a reminder, now that travel is safer. RIAO 91 CONFERENCE: with presentation of prototypes and operational systems INTELLIGENT TEXT AND IMAGE HANDLING Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona Barcelona, Spain - April 2-5, 1991 TUTORIALS Tuesday April 2, 1991 9 h.-12 h. Hypermedia 14 h.-17 h. S.G.M.L. Wednesday April 3, 1991 9 h. - 12 h. Neural Networks in Information Processing 14 h.- 17 h. Optical Memories TUESDAY, APRIL 2, 1991 9:30-11:20 INTRODUCTION and OPENING SESSION 1 : HYPERMEDIA 1 11:20-11:45 Architecture and functions for a conceptual interface to very large online bibliographic collections. 11:45-12:10 INIST experience in hyper-document building from bibliographic databases. 12:10-12:35 Super-library: an environment for the conversion of linear texts into hypertexts. 12:35-1:00 A connection graph for user navigation in a large image bank. SESSION 2 : HYPERMEDIA 2 2:10-2:35 A system for managing multimedia dossiers. 2:35-3:00 Classification and information retrieval in hypertext systems. 3:00-3:25 An intelligent multimedia information handling system. 3:25-3:50 An application of a knowledge communication model for a tutoring system. SESSION 3 : DOCUMENT INPUT 4:45-5:10 How to take advantages of word structure in printed character recognition. 5:10-5:35 Merging optical character recognition outputs for improved accuracy. 5:35-6:00 Visual parsing: an aid to text understanding. 6:00-6:25 Text line extraction and baseline direction. 6:25-6:50 Automated entry system for handwritten documents. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 3, 1991 SESSION 4 : STRUCTURED TEXT AND SOFTWARE ARCHITECTURE 9:00-9:25 SGML documents and non-linear text retrieval. 9:25-9:50 A hyperdocument model based on the ODA standard. 9:50-10:15 The use of retrieval filters to localize information in a hierarchically tagged text-dominated database. 10:15-10:40 An object-oriented architecture for text retrieval. SESSION 5 : INTERFACES 11:20-11:45 Manipulable inter-medium encodings for information retrieval. 11:45-12:10 LEXITRAN for an easier public access to a patent database. 12:10-12:35 Hypermedia and probabilistic retrieval. 12:35-1:00 Sophocle: a workshop for analysing the written language production in a realistic dialog situation. SESSION 6 : NATURAL LANGUAGE 2:20-2:45 Outline of a database model for electronic dictionaries. 2:45-3:10 Multi-experts system for documentary research. 3:10-3:35 Using morpho-syntactic language analysis in phrase matching. 3:35-4:00 An expert-system for French analysis within a multi- mode dialogue to be connected. SESSION 7 : MULTILINGUISM 4:45-5:10 The EUROTRA front end. 5:10-5:35 Multingual access to textual databases. 5:35-6:00 Remote access to the METAL translation system. 6:00-6:25 Nat-Multilingual: tools for multilingual interfaces in databases. THURSDAY, APRIL 4, 1991 SESSION 8: INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEM 1 9:00-9:25 Experiments on linguistically based term associations. 9:25-9:50 An associative neural experts system for information retrieval. 9:50-10:15 On "diesel train1 engines" and "to train2 airline pilots": Tagging words senses in corpus. 10:15-10:40 A system for efficient full-text retrieval. SESSION 9: INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEM 2 11:20-11:45 AIR/X - A rule-based multistage indexing system for large subject fields. 11:45-12:10 Automatic indexing using selective NLP and first-order thesauri. 12:10-12:35 Efficient probabilistic inference for text retrieval. 12:35-1:00 Bayesien inference networks in hypertext. SESSION 10 : KNOWLEDGE EXTRACTION FROM TEXT 1 2:20-2:45 Syntax and semantics in a text interpretation system. 2:45-3:10 Extracting implicit information from free text technical reports. 3:10-3:35 Processing natural language for an expert system using a sublanguage approach. 3:35-4:00 Automatic extraction of factual information from text and its integration in a knowledge base. SESSION 11: KNOWLEDGE EXTRACTION FROM TEXT 2 4:45-5:10 Natural language processing of the texts of chemical patent abstracts. 5:10-5:35 Personal name pattern matching 5:35-6:00 A temporal analyser for unrestricted texts. 6:00-6:25 Multilingual access to documentary databases. FRIDAY, APRIL 5, 1991 SESSION 12 : INFORMATION RETRIEVAL AND DBMS 9:00-9:25 Paraphrasing SQL to natural language. 9:25-9:50 The end-user's view of his data managed by a relational DBMS. 9:50-10:15 Machine learning principles in application to a transportable natural language database interface. 10:15-10:40 Hypertext interface for an object-oriented database. SESSION 13: IMAGE HANDLING 11:20-11:45 Automatic image indexation and retrieval. 11:45-12:10 Digital prefix coding trees: an efficient structure for image data storage and manipulation. 12:10-12:35 Discovery of conceptual categories in an image database. 12:35-1:00 Semantic-based query formulation in PAS. SESSION 14: SPEECH TECHNOLOGY AND DATA COMPRESSION 2:20-2:45 Spoken language systems for human/machine interfaces. 2:45-3:10 A system for reducing imprecision in speech interfaces to generalized text input devices. 3:10-3:35 The ARTFL data compression project. 3:35-4:00 Towards the ultimate text compression method for help systems. 4:00-4:40 BREAK AND DEMONSTRATIONS 4:40-5:40 DEBATE 5:40-6:00 CONCLUSIONS PROTOTYPE DEMONSTRATIONS MAX (ECHO - European Commission Host Organization, Luxemburg) Voice-activated telephone system. AUDIOTEX (CTNE, Telefonica I + D, Spain) Telephone "News service". STO3/STO4 Speech Recognizer System (G. Bekery Acoustical Research Laboratory, Hungary) SGML/Search (Berger Levrault- Advanced Information System, France) Information retrieval system based on the SGML standard. ZEN (BULL, France) A hypertext system running under X-Windows on most Unix platforms. GUIDE, IDEX (OWL, Great Britain) CD-SIMULATOR (ELEKTROSON, Nederland) CD-ROM data-preparation system. TOPIC (Verity, USA) Graph-based document retrieval system. PRIAM (SY-MEDIA, France) Real-time news bulletin reception, indexation and consultation. MULTIMEDIA INFORMATION SYSTEM (IN TECS, Italy) Documentation system for browsing words, graphics, photos. TAKE 5 (EDIAT, France) A document storage and retrieval system providing a multi-lingual interface and pseudo-natural language querying. SPIRIT (SYSTEX, France) A full text information retrieval system based on morphological, syntactic and statistical analysis. DOXIS (ERGOSUM, France) An information management system, designed to handle both structured data and full text. STATUS/E (HARWELL COMPUTER POWER LTD, Great-Britain) An information management system used for storage and ranked retrieval of large volumes of structured and unstructured text. PSIDOC (JOUVE, France) Set of software tools used for developing applications of input, storing, retrieval, and output of documentary data bases. MOVIE (COSM, France) An information retrieval software that assists users in searching information through an interactive decision making system. ILIADA (Software AG, Spain) System integrating information retrieval and library management systems, with full text and hypertext support. ALCESTE (IMAGE, France) Analyses the semantic contents of a set of texts. MAZDABASE (M.C.P. Edition, France) Catalog of Mazda lighting products on a CD-ROM in English and French. PESTICIDES (Royal Society of Chemistry, Great Britain) CD-ROM product called "Pesticids Disk" which includes details on 15.000 pesticide products used in 25 European countries. MULTIMEDIA SYSTEM (CTU Univ. of Milan, Italy) Project of hypermedia for teaching biological sciences. METAL (Siemens, Germany, Spain) A machine translation system working on several languages. TEXIRIS 2 PLUS (Image Recognition Integrated Systems IRIS, Belgium) Omnifont optical character recognition system. 12-language dictionary. READSTAR on a TRANSPUTER card (Inovatic, France) Rapid character-recognition using the powerful parallel processing of a TRANSPUTER card and the READSTAR software. TEXTPERT (CTA, Spain) Optical character recognition software for MacIntosh and Windows/PC. Intelligent post processing in Modern Gateways (CRRM, France) Particularly useful for patents, chemistry and physics. Intelligent Information (INFOTAP, Luxemburg) System accessing more that 200 data banks in Europe and the U.S. EPOQUE (European Patent Office) CEE Holland OS/2 software allowing simplified access to the European Patent Office Data Bases, etc. AMI "Attribution de Messages Intelligente" (Thomson RCC and CORA, France) Automatic Message sorting in French and German. IMAGEDB (CSI, Spain) Image database management combined with structured or unstructured information. AUTOMABB (MABB Sistemas Interactivos, Spain) Authoring system for multimedia databases on PC integrating videodisk and CD-ROM. INFODOC (INFODOC SA, Spain) A document storage and retrieval system coupled with an image processing system CLARITY (Micronet, Spain) Electronic archiving system managing texts and images. HYPARCHIV (ACS Systembereitung, Germany) Electronic management system with Windows 3.0 and hypertext. For more information contact: CASIS c/o Mrs. MAURICE 220 East 72nd Street #10F New York N.Y. 10021 U.S.A. Tel.: (212) 879 4019 or CID 36 bis, rue Ballu 75009 PARIS, FRANCE Tel.: (33-1) 48 74 53 05 Fax: (33-1) 43 58 14 15 ********** I.A.2. Fr: Samia Benidir Re: ASIS 1991 Mid-Year Meeting: Multimedia Information Systems April 26-29, 1991 Santa Clara, California Conference registration for people not members of ASIS: $299 (members $190). [Note that since membership costs $85, one might as well join ASIS, save money, and get a year of JASIS and BASIS thrown in]. BUT THESE ARE THE EARLY REGISTRATION RATES FOR THOSE WHO REGISTER ON OR BEFORE MARCH 21. It goes up to $320 ($230) thereafter. Cheap rates for students ($30). A fast way to register is to send a fax memo asking to be registered with a credit card number (VISA or Mastercard), expiration date, and signature to ASIS: Fax US (301) 495 0810. Voice phone (301) 495 0900. Address: ASIS CONFERENCE REGISTER, P.O. Box 554, WASHINGTON DC 20044-0554. Registration includes conference evening meal Saturday and admission to a good amusement park with excellent roller coasters Sunday night! THEME: The 20th ASIS Mid-Year Meeting will focus on one of the most important new areas in information systems: Multimedia. Traditional concerns with text and numerical data are being supplemented and may ultimately be supplanted by increasing attention to the documentation of objects, sounds, images, and moving images. Digitized sounds and still, moving and 3-D images are being stored, indexed, retrieved, and manipulated. Combinations of text with images and sounds are becoming more common. These new developments promise to change the way we think about information. How are multimedia developments going to be used to provide improved information services? What relevant experiences from art collections, museums, engineering files, and photo, film and sound archives can be used for digitized records? What new opportunities and challenges will digitized forms of sounds and images bring? Building better information services will require that we effectively use images and sound in combination with test and numerical data. To achieve these advancements we must make significant progress in computing, data storage, and telecommunications. The 1991 ASIS Mid-Year Meeting will present cutting-edge research and development in the information sciences which build upon our experience with text and data by adding access to sound and images. It will also explore current and potential applications of this research. PROGRAM: On Friday April 26 from 8-5 there are a selection of workshops on Thesaurus construction; interactive multimedia; hypertext; hypermedia; how to survive as an information professional. These cost extra on the $80 - $275 range depending on what one chooses and whether one is a member. The conference proper begins with a reception Friday 6:30 pm. The technical program begins 8:00 am Saturday 27th and runs through Monday noon. No evening technical sessions. ACCOMODATIONS: Hotel accommodation is separate. Conference hotel is: ASIS Midyear Meeting, Santa Clara Marriott Hotel, 2700 Mission College Boulevard, SANTA CLARA, CALIFORNIA, 95054. Best airport is San Jose. Free shuttle from airport. If you fly direct you will probably have to fly to San Francisco. If you stop in New York, Los Angeles, or elsewhere, you could arrange to connect to San Jose. Hotel rates $70 per night per room single or double. ********** I.A.3. Fr: Dan Fass Re: IJCAI '91 Workshop: Computational Approaches to Non-Literal Language: Metaphor, Metonymy, Idiom, Speech Acts, Implicature August 24, 1991 Sydney, Australia CALL FOR PAPERS IJCAI-91 WORKSHOP COMPUTATIONAL APPROACHES TO NON-LITERAL LANGUAGE: METAPHOR, METONYMY, IDIOM, SPEECH ACTS, IMPLICATURE Dan Fass, James Martin, Elizabeth Hinkelman Sydney, Australia, 24th August 1991 1. Focus of the Workshop The purpose of the workshop is to stimulate exchange and discussion of theoretical issues and practical problems of artificial intelligence (AI) models of non-literal language. Non-literal language includes metaphor, idiom, "indirect" speech acts, implicature, hyperbole, metonymy, irony, simile, sarcasm, and other devices whose meaning cannot be obtained by direct composition of their constituent words. Non-literal language is increasingly acknowledged as pervasive in natural language and is important to subfields of natural language processing like machine translation and parsing ill-formed input. Non-literal language has also attracted interest from researchers in knowledge representation, planning and plan recognition, learning, belief modeling, and other subfields of AI. Researchers are invited to submit papers on topics including (but not limited to) the computer recognition, interpretation, acquisition, generation, and robust parsing of non-literal language. Issues of interest include: o the relationship of non-literal to literal language, o the adequacy of various forms of knowledge representation (symbolic vs connectionist vs statistical), o static vs dynamic mechanisms, o general vs idiosyncratic treatment of instances, o instances as novel vs conventional forms, o comparison and contrast of models of the various forms of non-literal language, o broader implications for AI. 2. Organizing Committee Dan Fass James Martin Centre for Systems Science, Computer Science Department and Simon Fraser University, Institute of Cognitive Science, Burnaby, BC V5A 1S6, Canada. University of Colorado at Boulder, Tel: (604) 291-3208 Box 430, Boulder, CO 80309-0430, USA. Fax: (604) 291-4951 Tel: (303) 492-3552 E-mail: fass@cs.sfu.ca Fax: (303) 492-2844 E-mail: martin@boulder.colorado.edu Elizabeth Hinkelman Center for Information and Language Studies, University of Chicago, 1100 E. 57th Street, Chicago, IL 60637, USA. Tel: (312) 702-8887 Fax: (312) 702-0775 E-mail: eliz@tira.uchicago.edu 3. Submission Details Authors should mail three (3) copies of a submission in hard copy form. Submissions should be no longer than 8 pages (excluding title page); have 1 inch margins on the top, sides and bottom; and use no smaller than 10 point type. The title page, separate from the body of the paper, should contain title, names of authors, their affiliation, address, phone, e-mail address, and an abstract of 100-200 words. Papers that do not conform to this format will not be reviewed. Send submissions to Dan Fass at his address, given above. Please do not send submissions to James Martin or Elizabeth Hinkelman. o Deadline for submissions Thu. May 2 o Notification of acceptance/rejection Fri. May 31 4. Workshop Details Attendance at the workshop will be limited to 30 participants. Only one invitation will be issued per accepted submission. To cover costs, it will be necessary to charge a fee of $US65 for each participant. Participants will be given further instructions on preparation of camera ready copy and session format when they receive notification of acceptance. Final papers will be collected into a set of proceedings and circulated to participants at the workshop. Arrangements (yet to be confirmed) are being made for a Special Edition of Computational Intelligence journal, edited by Fass, Martin and Hinkelman, in which selected papers from the workshop will appear. ********************************************************** IRLIST Digest is distributed from the University of California, Division of Library Automation, 300 Lakeside Drive, Oakland, CA. 94612-3550. 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