Information Retrieval List Digest 063 (May 20, 1991) URL = http://hegel.lib.ncsu.edu/stacks/serials/irld/irld-063 ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 20 May 91 08:35:14 PST Reply-To: Information Retrieval List Sender: Information Retrieval List From: IRLIST Subject: IRLIST Digest, Vol. VIII, No. 20, Issue 63 IRLIST Digest May 20, 1991? Volume VIII, Number 20 Issue 63 ********************************************************** I. NOTICES A. Meeting Announcements/Calls for Papers 1. 12th Int'l Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence Darling Harbour, Sydney, Australia, August 24-30, 1991: Registration Information 2. IJCAI 91 Workshop on Integrating Artificial Intelligence and Databases, Sydney, Australia, August 24, 1991: Call for Participation C. Miscellaneous 1. Virginia Discs II. QUERIES B. Requests for Information 1. Intelligent Knowledge-Based Indexing/Retrieval ********************************************************** I. NOTICES I.A.1. Fr: MORROW@HARVARD.BITNET Re: IJCAI91 12th INTERNATIONAL JOINT CONFERENCE ON ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE 24 - 30 August, 1991 * Darling Harbour * Sydney * Australia * IJCAI-91 will be held at Darling Harbour, Sydney, Australia, 24-30 August, 1991. Professor Barbara Grosz of Harvard University is the Conference Chair; Professor John Mylopoulos and Professor Ray Reiter, both of the University of Toronto, are Program CoChairs; and Professor Michael McRobbie of the Australian National University is the Australian National Committee Chair. Dr. Donald Walker of Bellcore is Secretary-Treasurer for the Conference. REGISTRATION BROCHURES AND FORMS FOR IJCAI-91 The Australian National Committee has arranged for Registration Brochures and Forms for IJCAI-91, to be obtained by three methods: hard copy, ftp, e-mail. These are described below. As noted below, the e-mail option is an option of last resort only. IJCAI-91 WORKSHOP PROGRAM It is strongly recommended that people interested in the IJCAI-91 Workshop Program obtain a copy of the Registration Brochure via anonymous ftp (see below) as soon as possible since the closing date for submissions for all workshops is 15 May, or in some cases earlier. OBTAINING REGISTRATION BROCHURES 1. Hard Copies Hard copies of the Registration Brochures will be available mid- to late April, 1991. Brochures will then be mailed to all current members of the national and regional AI societies and interest groups in the following countries: Australia, Canada, China, Europe (to all who receive AICOM publications), Japan, Korea, Mexico, United States (AAAI), USSR, and to all people who have requested information from IJCAI-91 Conference Committee members or the IJCAI-91 Secretariat. Attempts are being made to send mail to Eastern European countries as well. Anyone who is not a member of one of these societies or does not receive a brochure by mid-May can request one by sending an e-mail message to: ijcai.rego.hardcopy@vulcan.anu.edu.au PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS IS AN E-MAIL ADDRESS TO WHICH *ONLY* E-MAIL REQUESTS FOR *HARD COPIES* OF THE REGISTRATION BROCHURES AND FORMS SHOULD BE SENT. IT IS *NOT* A GENERAL IJCAI CORRESPONDENCE ADDRESS. Requests for hard copies of the Registration Brochure and Form and any other enquiries concerning IJCAI-91, can be made directly to: IJCAI-91 Secretariat PO Box 787 Potts Point, NSW 2011 AUSTRALIA Tel: (+61-2) 3572600 Fax: (+61-2) 3572950 2. Anonymous ftp For those connected to the Internet, the IJCAI Registration Brochure and Form are available as compressed POSTSCRIPT files via anonymous ftp from vulcan.anu.edu.au (IP number 130.56.4.173) (in /IJCAI) and from uunet.uu.net (alias ftp.uu.net, IP number 137.39.1.2) (in /doc/IJCAI) NOTE: So as to reduce unnecessary network traffic and the number of transfers from vulcan.anu.edu.au, please make the relevant POSTSCRIPT files publicly available at your site. Please contact your local system manager for details of how best to do so. To transfer the Registration Brochure and Form proceed as follows: diana 201 $ ftp vulcan.anu.edu.au Connected to vulcan.anu.edu.au. 220 vulcan FTP server ($Header: ftpd.c 2.5 89/12/15 $) ready. Name (vulcan.anu.edu.au:gustav): anonymous 331 Guest login ok, send ident as password. Password: Now type in your full e-mail address as password (it will be logged). After a successful login change to directory IJCAI. You can issue the command "ls" to see the contents of that directory: 230 Guest login ok, access restrictions apply. ftp> cd IJCAI (on uunet.uu.net do "cd pub/IJCAI" instead) ftp> ls 200 PORT command successful. 150 Opening data connection for /bin/ls (ascii mode) (0 bytes). README reg.brochure.A4.ps.Z reg.brochure.11.ps.Z reg.form.A4.ps.Z reg.form.11.ps.Z 226 Transfer complete. 64 bytes received in 0.039 seconds (1.6 Kbytes/s) ftp> Now enter ftp commands "binary" (in order to transfer the compressed files which are not ASCII) and "prompt" (in order to be able to transfer more than one file with one command without being molested by ftp with unnecessary questions): ftp> binary 200 Type set to I. ftp> prompt Interactive mode off. ftp> At this stage things depend on whether your printers use 11 inch paper (e.g. as in the USA) or A4 size paper. If you use 11 inch paper say: ftp> mget README *.11.* After a successful transfer, quit ftp and unpack the files: ftp> quit 221 Goodbye. % uncompress reg.brochure.11.ps.Z reg.form.11.ps.Z The two files: "reg.brochure.11.ps" and "reg.form.11.ps" can be now sent directly to any PostScript printer, e.g., % lpr -Plsr -s reg.brochure.11.ps % lpr -Plsr -s reg.form.11.ps After uncompressing file reg.brochure.11.ps will be about 3.5 Mbytes in size. For this reason you should use "-s" option while invoking lpr as lpr will then make a symbolic link between that file and the spooler rather than copy the file to the spooler. If your printer uses A4 instead of 11 inch paper repeat the above procedure for the files "reg.brochure.A4.ps.Z" and "reg.form.A4.ps.Z". On some Sys V systems, you may not be able to create files with names longer than 10 or so characters. In that case you may have to transfer files one by one, e.g.: ftp> get reg.brochure.11.ps.Z bro.ps.Z ... ftp> get reg.form.11.ps.Z form.ps.Z ... Also, on Sys V systems the name of the print command is "lp" and some versions of Sys V do not support symbolic links. However, there should still be an option to lp which will prevent the printed file from being copied to the spooler. In case of problems or difficulties contact your local system manager or: ijcai.network.support@vulcan.anu.edu.au. 3. By automatic e-mail NOTE: This procedure is complex and it puts a great burden on any system that participates in the mailing process. Use it ONLY AS A LAST RESORT. If you transfer files in this way, make sure that they become publicly accessible within your site and its neighbourhood. For those not connected to the Internet, A4 and 11'' versions of the IJCAI Registration Brochure and Form can be obtained via e-mail in uuencoded compressed shar format. Send a message to ijcai.rego.email.11@vulcan.anu.edu.au for the 11 inch documents and to ijcai.rego.email.A4@vulcan.anu.edu.au for the A4 size documents. The corresponding aliases on vulcan will automatically send you back several shar files. For 11 inch documents you will receive: 94 r.b.11.ps.Z.shar.1 94 r.b.11.ps.Z.shar.7 66 r.b.11.ps.Z.shar.10 94 r.b.11.ps.Z.shar.8 94 r.b.11.ps.Z.shar.2 94 r.b.11.ps.Z.shar.9 94 r.b.11.ps.Z.shar.3 94 r.b.11.ps.Z.shar.1 94 r.b.11.ps.Z.shar.4 94 r.f.11.ps.Z.shar.2 94 r.b.11.ps.Z.shar.5 18 r.f.11.ps.Z.shar.3 94 r.b.11.ps.Z.shar.6 and for the A4 size documents: 94 r.b.A4.ps.Z.shar.1 94 r.b.A4.ps.Z.shar.6 94 r.b.A4.ps.Z.shar.1 94 r.b.A4.ps.Z.shar.6 94 r.b.A4.ps.Z.shar.10 94 r.b.A4.ps.Z.shar.7 9 r.b.A4.ps.Z.shar.11 94 r.b.A4.ps.Z.shar.8 94 r.b.A4.ps.Z.shar.2 94 r.b.A4.ps.Z.shar.9 94 r.b.A4.ps.Z.shar.3 94 r.f.A4.ps.Z.shar.1 94 r.b.A4.ps.Z.shar.4 94 r.f.A4.ps.Z.shar.2 94 r.b.A4.ps.Z.shar.5 18 r.f.A4.ps.Z.shar.3 Observe the numbers in front of file names. These are the sizes of the files in kilobytes. WARNING: Do not send an automatic e-mail request if: 1) you do not have enough space in the mail spooler to accomodate these files; 2) your mail links are very slow; 3) your mailer cannot process files of this size; 4) you can use ftp from a machine to which you have an access. To unpack the documents, save the messages on the files with the corresponding names in a separate directory. For example, call that directory IJCAI. If you have program unshar (the latest versions of shar and unshar can be obtained from volume 15 of comp.sources.unix) then do: $ cd IJCAI $ unshar * otherwise you will have to strip the mail headers from all files by hand and then run /bin/sh on them (Bourne shell syntax assumed): $ for i in * > do > /bin/sh $i > done This will create numerous files in your directory with extensions uu.aa, .uu.ab, .uu.ac, etc. It will also create two command files: r.b.A4.ps.Z.unpack r.f.A4.ps.Z.unpack (if you have asked for A4 size documents). Execute these to finally recreate the PostScript files r.b.A4.ps (the registration brochure) and r.f.A4.ps (the registration script) The two files: "r.b.A4.ps" and "r.f.A4.ps" can be now sent directly to any PostScript printer, e.g., % lpr -Plsr -s r.b.A4.ps % lpr -Plsr -s r.f.A4.ps The file r.b.A4.ps is about 3.5 Mbytes in size. For this reason you should use the "-s" option while invoking lpr as lpr will then make a symbolic link between that file and the spooler rather than copy the file to the spooler. If your printer uses 11 inch instead of A4 paper repeat the above procedure for the files "r.b.11.ps.Z" and "r.f.11.ps.Z". In case of problems or difficulties contact your local system manager or: ijcai.network.support@vulcan.anu.edu.au. PLEASE NOTE THAT THESE ARE E-MAIL ADDRESSES TO WHICH *ONLY* E-MAIL REQUESTS FOR THE REGISTRATION BROCHURE AND REGISTRATION FORM *IN UUENCODED COMPRESSED SHAR FORMAT* SHOULD BE SENT. THESE ARE *NOT* GENERAL IJCAI CORRESPONDENCE ADDRESSES. A note to system managers: The shar files described above live in ftp anonymous area on vulcan.anu.edu.au (IJCAI/shar). You are welcome to transfer these files to your system via ftp and set up a similar facility to the one described above. A script which bounces mail lives on "bouncepost" in the same directory. A script "pack" in that directory illustrates the packing process, in case you have to unpack files by hand. ********** I.A.2. Fr: John Zeleznikow Re: IJCAI91 Workshop on Integrating AI and Databases Call for Participation IJCAI91 Workshop on Integrating Artificial Intelligence and Databases Saturday 24 August 1991 - Sydney, Australia The next generation of computing will require the development of intelligent databases - allowing large numbers of intelligent agents to co-operate. It is easy to conceive powerful knowledge base systems (e.g. medical diagnostic systems) with efficient access to several large information systems (e.g. databases,files). It is also easy to imagine large information systems (e.g. airline reservation systems) with added "intelligence" (e.g. scheduling and re-scheduling trips based on changing conditions or considering individual's preferences). However we require more than simple extrapolations of existing systems concepts. Any non-trivial reasoning system needs to access a large amount of data. Current research has focused on developing both artificial intelligence and database systems, but seperately. Artificial intelligence researchers and practioners need to co-operate with database workers. co-operate with database workers. This workshop wishes to focus on new approaches to integrating artificial intelligence into databases. Specific issues to be addressed (but not limited to) are: - - loose and tight coupling vs. fully integrated expert databases - - object-oriented knowledge based management systems - - adding deductive capabilities to databases - - using object oriented expert database systems to perform case-based or model- based reasoning - - coupling Knowledge Based and Information Systems - - building real-time deductive databases. - - existing AI-DB Prototypes (e.g. LDL, RDL, Logres) and practical examples - - intelligent interoperability Workshop attendance is by invitation only, and is limited to 30 participants. Invitations will be issued on the basis of extended abstracts or position papers. Such papers should be at least 3 single spaced pages. The papers will be reviewed by members of the workshop committee. Decisions will be based on originality, relevance to the workshop and quality of the abstract. Accepted papers will be distributed to the participants at the workshop. A summary of the results of the workshop will be published, with the added possibility that the complete proceedings will also be published. IJCAI91 policy requires successful workshop applicants to register for both the conference and the workshop. Workshop registration fee is $U.S.65. Please send five copies of an extended abstract before Friday 31 May 1991 to: Dr. John Zeleznikow Database Research Laboratory, Applied Computing Research Institute, La Trobe University, Bundoora, Victoria 3083, Australia. Phone: 61.3.479-1003; Fax: 61.3.470-4915; Email: johnz@latcs1.lat.oz.au IMPORTANT DATES: May 31 1991 Deadline for submission of abstacts June 16 1991 Notification of acceptance/rejection of paper July 12 1991 Deadline for receiving revised paper July 15 1991 IJCAI to receive registation forms and fees August 24 1991 Workshop to be held in Sydney, Australia. Workshop Organisers: Dr. Michael L. Brodie GTE Laboratories, Inc. 40 Sylvan Road Waltham, MA 02254 U.S.A. Phone: 1.617.466-2256; Fax: (617) 290-0628; Email: brodie@gte.com Dr. Patrick Valduriez INRIA-Rocquencourt 78153 Le Chesnay Cedex, France Phone: 33.1.39 63 52 51 Fax: 33.1.39.63.53.30 Email: patrickv@madonna.inria.fr Dr. Carlo Zaniolo M.C.C. 3500 W. Balcones Ctr. Drive Austin Texas 78759 U.S.A. Phone: 1.512.338-3442; Email zaniolo@mcc.com Dr. John Zeleznikow Database Research Laboratory, Applied Computing Research Institute, La Trobe University, Bundoora, Victoria 3083, Australia. Phone: 61.3.479-1003; Fax: 61.3.470-4915; Email: johnz@latcs1.lat.oz.au ********** I.C.1. Fr: Edward Fox Re: Virginia Discs - copies of VAD1 still available, FTP access to VAD3 Hi! Last year Nimbus pressed copies of VAD1, 2, 3 in connection with a research project regarding university publishing on CD-ROMs. Virginia Discs One and Two follow ISO 9660 format, while VAD3 is an image of a disk running with Apple's UNIX version, A/UX. We have a copy of VAD3 available for access via FTP. Connect to isrmac1.cs.vt.edu and use login anonymous and password guest and then do cd vad3 to get to the disc. Of particular interest for people working with Information Retrieval are the test collections in directory colls and the back issues of IRList Digest in digests/irlist I cannot guarantee that our CD-ROM drive will always be up running with this disc, but we will try to leave it there as much as possible. Virginia Disc Two has MARC holdings records from the VPI&SU library regarding our serials, and a collection on Virginiana from the State library. We have a small number of copies available for those interested. Virginia Disc One has over 35 searchable collections, lots of downloadable data, and demonstrates several searching and hypertext collections. I still have a few hundred copies. It has a rich assortment of text and information retrieval collections. We have gone to considerable expense in addition to the funds supplied by grants to produce these, and so donations are welcome. Discussion on that is given in the booklet that comes with the disc. Just send me email with a postal address if you want a copy. But we do encourage donations - we have only had 2 donations so far in spite of shipping perhaps a thousand discs (shame, shame on those who did not even send something to cover postage!). Regards, Ed Fox ********************************************************** II. QUERIES II.B.1. Fr: D. March Re: Help Request - Intelligent Knowledge-Based Indexing/Retrieval I wonder if anyone can suggest some references on INTELLIGENT KNOWLEDGE BASED "INDEXING"/RETRIEVAL? I am embarking on a six month implementation of such a facility using PROLOG and ORACLE. At the moment my ideas are a little vague, and my search for articles disappointing. This aside, and as I see it, an intelligent (KEYWORD) index (INFO. RETRIEVAL SYSTEM) is a facility that attempts to extract from a knowledge base something of interest to a user, the user having supplied say a keyword(s). The facility can deduce from such a keyword(s) items that the user requires, even if these items are not explicilty identifiable from the keyword(s). Intelligence derives from the search strategy employed in attempting to meet the user request. An understanding of the relationships of keywords to knowledge is required, and will ultimately include such things as PARTIAL MATCHING, recognition of SYNONYMS, SUB/SUPER CLASSES, and ABBREVIATIONS. Many systems employ DICTIONARIES and some form of THESAURUS. Some have in addition a LEARNING facility and are DYNAMIC. Well this is basically as far as my understanding of the problem goes. What I really need are a couple of good references on the subject, and even some suggestions... any help is extremely appreciated. Darron. 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