Information Retrieval List Digest 059 (April 18, 1991) URL = http://hegel.lib.ncsu.edu/stacks/serials/irld/irld-059 ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 18 Apr 91 12:20:34 PST Reply-To: Information Retrieval List Sender: Information Retrieval List From: IRLIST Subject: IRLIST Digest, Vol. VIII, No. 16, Issue 59 IRLIST Digest April 18, 1991 Volume VIII, Number 16 Issue 59 ********************************************************** Subscribers: Two issues this week since I'm away all next week. I. NOTICES A. Meeting Announcements/Calls for Papers 1. ICAME '91: Corpus ResearchOpen Day Craiglands Hotel, Ilkley, Yorkshire, England May 9, 1991 2. Reminder Call for Papers: Workshop on Language and Information Processing Washington, DC Papers due: May 31, 1991 C. Miscellaneous 1. Announcement of the Natural Language Software Registry II. QUERIES B. Requests for Information 1. Update on Information Literacy 2. Informix Mailing List ********************************************************** I. NOTICES I.A.1. Fr: Donald Walker Re: ICAME '91: Corpus Research Open Day Craiglands Hotel, Ilkley, Yorkshire, England May 9, 1991 Please circulate the following flier on the ICAME'91 Open Day to anyone who may wish to attend. The principles apply to Corpora of other languages, not just English, so linguists working on other languages might well be interested as well; I realise that not many people are likely to travel overseas just for a one-day gathering, but perhaps the Open Day might be of interest to anyone who plans to be in England at the time on other business. Eric Steven Atwell National Coordinator, UFC Knowledge Based Systems Initiative Centre for Computer Analysis of Language And Speech (CCALAS) Artificial Intelligence Division, School of Computer Studies phone: +44 532 335761 Leeds University FAX: +44 532 335468 Leeds LS2 9JT JANET: eric@uk.ac.leeds.ai England EARN/BITNET/ARPA: eric%leeds.ai@ac.uk ----------------------------------------------------------------- ICAME'91 Corpus Research Open Day Thursday May 9th 1991, Craiglands Hotel, Ilkley, Yorkshire The International Computer Archive of Modern English (ICAME) annual conference is the principal meeting place for linguists annual conference is the principal meeting place for linguists and computer scientists using English language Corpora in their research. Recently there has been a surge of interest in Corpus-based research in the wider speech and language technology community. For the benefit of this wider community, the 12th ICAME Conference will include an Open Day, when leading ICAME researchers will give overviews of the stages in the "Corpus life cycle": 10.30 Arrival and registration 11.00 An Overview of ICAME (Stig Johansson, Oslo University, ICAME Committee Chairman) 11.30 Corpus Collection (Antoinette Renouf, Birmingham University) 12.00 Corpus Annotation (Sidney Greenbaum, University College London) 12.30 Corpus-based Parsing (Eric Atwell, Leeds University) 1.00 Lunch 2.00 Tools for Using Corpora (Jan Aarts, Nijmegen University) 2.30 Corpora for Lexicography and English Language Teaching John Sinclair, Birmingham University) 3.00 Using Spoken Corpora (Gerry Knowles, Lancaster University) 3.30 The ICAME Storehouse: Corpus Availability and Distribution (Knut Hofland, Bergen University) 4.00 Departure All are welcome to attend this Open Day; in addition to seeing the above presentations, Open Day participants will be able to meet other ICAME'91 conference delegates to discuss specialist needs, applications, etc. The conference language will be English. The Craiglands Hotel, Cowpasture Road, Ilkley (0943 607676) is c5 minutes walk from the station, and is on the edge of Ilkley Moor (hats not required). Ilkley is about half an hour by rail or road from Leeds, which in turn has good rail and road links to the rest of the UK. Leeds/Bradford Airport, mid-way between Leeds and Ilkley, has regular flights to several UK and European cities. Attendance at the ICAME'91 Open Day costs 50 pounds, which covers lunch and ICAME'91 documentation including a full list of ICAME'91 conference delegates. To attend, please return the booking form below a.s.a.p. (not later than 1st May) to: Eric Atwell, School of Computer Studies, Leeds University, Leeds LS2 9JT; tel: +44 (0532) 335761 email: eric@uk.ac.leeds.ai ---------------------cut here------------------------------------ ICAME'91 CORPUS RESEARCH OPEN DAY: May 9th 1991, 10.30-4.00, Craiglands Hotel, Ilkley, Yorkshire, England. I would like to register for the ICAME'91 Corpus Research Open Day. NAME: ADDRESS: EMAIL ADDRESS: PHONE: FAX: SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS (eg vegetarian; disabled access): DELETE ONE OF: I enclose a cheque/bankers draft for fifty pounds sterling made payable to the University of Leeds. OR: I have arranged for a bank to bank transfer of fifty pounds sterling to National Westminster Bank, Leeds City Office, 8 Park Row, Leeds LS1 1QS A/c name: University of Leeds; A/c no: 86577220; Sort-code: 60-60-05 NB PLEASE QUOTE REFERENCE: "ICAME91 Conference a/c 334320/0618". ********** I.A.2. Fr: Alexa T. McCray Re: Reminder Call for Papers: Re: Reminder Call for Papers: Workshop on Language and Information Processing Washington, DC Papers due: May 31, 1991 The American Society for Information Science (ASIS) invites sub- missions 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. ********** I.C.1. Fr: Computational Linguistics Re: Announcement of the Natural Language Software Registry NATURAL LANGUAGE SOFTWARE REGISTRY The Natural Language Software Registry is a catalogue of software implementing core natural language processing techniques, whether available on a commercial or noncommercial basis. The current version includes + speech signal processors, such as the Computerized Speech Lab (Kay Electronics) + morphological analyzers, such as PC-KIMMO (Summer Institute for Linguistics) + parsers, such as Alveytools (University of Edinburgh) + knowledge representation systems, such as Rhet (University of Rochester) + multicomponent systems, such as ELU (ISSCO), PENMAN (ISI), Pundit (UNISYS), SNePS (SUNY Buffalo), + applications programs (misc.) This document is available on-line via anonymous ftp to tira.uchicago.edu (IP 128.135.96.31), by email to registry@tira.uchicago.edu, and by physical mail to the address below. If you have developed a piece of software for natural language processing that other researchers might find useful, you can include it by returning the description form, available from the same sources. Elizabeth Hinkelman, Director (registry@tira.uchicago.edu) NL Software Registry Center for Information and Language Studies 1100 East 57th Street Chicago, IL 60637, USA Authors: Person to contact for software (if different): Institution: Department: Street: City/State/Zip: Country: Phone (with country & area codes): Email network & address: Name of system: Type of system: research system/commercial product/other (specify) Primary task of system: linguistic analysis/test of linguistic theory (specify)/text generation/machine translation/text proofing/database interface/other (specify) Components: phonological analyzer/generator morphological analyzer/generator parser/generator semantic interpreter knowledge representation discourse structure pragmatic features other (specify) Components available as independent modules: (subsequent questions may need a separate answer for each) questions may need a separate answer for each) Components can be extended by: the developer/computational linguist/linguist/programmer/experienced user/new user Data components are: firmly embedded in program/independent of program Data provided: (give size, features and language as in the examples) 120,000 entry wordlist for French 5,000 word LFG lexicon of basic Swahili w/affixes, English gloss 15 rule transformational grammar for Dutch cross-serial dependencies 200 node knowledge base for AIDS case histories w/10 30-node cases. Data components can be extended by: the developer/computational linguist/linguist/programmer/experienced user/new user Character set used for language data: programmable (describe) fixed, 16-bit -- Unicode fixed, 8-bit -- ISO (specify, eg ASCII+Latin II)/proprietary ASCII fixed, 7-bit -- ISO (specify, eg US ASCII)/extended ASCII (specify) other (specify) Range of applicable natural languages: (give theoretical or technical limits) Approximate number of examples processed successfully, as a power of 10: Specify example type: words/sentences/paragraphs/other Its coverage level is now: demonstration/small research/large research/ production quality/high volume Size of system: lines of source code, kilobytes of executable Programming language: Operating system or hardware: Is there a stable version of the system? Is there continuing development? Summarize the main goals and ideas. Indicate what makes the project a useful and interesting tool for research applications. List documents in which the software is described: User documentation: System documentation: Available support: upgrades/source code/consulting/other Format for software distribution: Price: Restrictions on use: If you are willing to have the software reviewed, please send us a version along with this information. We are also interested in reports and documentation, even for software not reviewed. NL Software Registry Center for Information and Language Studies 1100 East 57th Street Chicago, IL 60637, USA registry@tira.uchicago.edu ********************************************************** II. QUERIES II.B.1. Fr: Wilfred E. Drew, Jr. (Call me "Bill") Re: Update on Information Literacy Update on my original message Than you for all the references to the Breivik book. I have already read it. I am looking for actual real world uses that go beyond library instruction. I need lists of skills or objectives that result from Breivik's definition. Again , thank you. that result from Breivik's definition. Again , thank you. ====================== Original Message============================ April 8, 1991 I have been given the task of writing general education goals related to information literacy. I need definitions of information literacy and clearly stated skills involved in it. Please send any information to my BITNET address rather than to the list. Thanks; Wilfred E. Drew Jr. call me "Bill" Serials Librarian SUNY Morrisville College of Agriculture and Technology P.O. Box 902 Morrisville, N.Y. 13408-0902 Voice:315-684-6055 Fax: 315-684-6115 BITNET: DREWWE@SNYMORVA ********** II.B.2. Fr: Bob Stringfield Re: Informix Mailing List Hello: Does anyone know of a mailing list that discusses Informix Software Products in specifically their relational database management systems (RDBMS) material. Please reply directly as I am not a regularly list reader. Thanks. 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