Information Retrieval List Digest 076 (July 281991, ) URL = http://hegel.lib.ncsu.edu/stacks/serials/irld/irld-076 IRLIST Digest July 28,1991 Volume VIII, Number 33 Issue 76 ********************************************************** I. NOTICES A. Meeting Announcements/Calls for Papers 1. SIGIR '91: 14th Int'l. Conf. on R&D in IR B. Publicationss 1. GAO Reports II. QUERIES A. Questions and Answers 1. Multi-Media Database III. JOB ANNOUNCEMENTS 1. Posts at CCL-UMIST ********************************************************** I. NOTICES I.A.1. Fr: Abraham Bookstein Re: SIGIR '91: 14th International Conference on R&D in IR SIGIR '91 14th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE on RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT in INFORMATION RETRIEVAL PRELIMINARY PROGRAM* Chicago, Illinois; Hyatt-Regency Hotel; October 13-16, 1991 Sponsored by: ACM SIGIR In co-operation with: AICA - GLIR (Italy); BCS - IRSG (UK); GI (Federal Republic of Germany); INRIA (France) Major corporate sponsor: Andersen Consulting With support from Bellcore The events of SIGIR '91 are being coordinated with the Centennial celebrations of the University of Chicago. The Center for Information and Language Studies (CILS) is responsible for the coordination, with the University's Computer Science and Linguistic departments. SIGIR `91: Information is increasingly becoming available in machine readable form. Advances in computing are making feasible sophisticated, computer-intensive algorithms for storing, retrieving and presenting this information. Research in information retrieval touches on fields as diverse as the design and analysis of algorithms, natural language processing, artificial intelligence, hypertext, multimedia data management, and software engineering. The Annual ACM SIGIR Conference is the premier forum for presenting and discussing current research. The 14th Annual Conference will continue this multidisciplinary character. The program will consist of contributed research papers, panel presentations and tutorials. GENERAL INFORMATION (For detailed information on the full conference schedule, contact Abraham Bookstein .) CONFERENCE HIGHLIGHTS: A number of special events are being planned to complement the technical presentations. These include: Sunday: o Tutorials o Welcoming reception Monday: o SIGIR Award presentation and acceptance speech: Cyril Cleverdon o Joint SIGIR 91/University of Chicago Celebrations: + choice of organ recital or tour of university + keynote speech: Martin Kay + banquet Tuesday: o Opening invited presentation: Michael Lesk o Panel: knowledge management for distributed data o Reception: Andersen Consulting Wednesday:o Andersen Consulting invited speaker: Roger Schank o Panel: celebrating the SMART Retrieval System at age thirty CONFERENCE ORGANIZATION: Conference Chairman: Prof. Abraham Bookstein, University of Chicago * Tutorials: Dr. Donna Harmon, National Bureau of Standards * Local Arrangements: Prof. Michael Koenig, Rosary College; Ms. Yve Griffith Equitable Information Services * Publicity: Prof. Edward A. Fox, Virginia Polytech Institute * Local Publicity: Dr. Scott Deerwester, University of Chicago * Corporate relations: Martin Dillon, OCLC * Treasurer: Clement Yu, University of Illinois, Chicago Campus PROGRAM COMMITTEE CHAIRMEN: Gerard Salton Cornell University, USA; Vijay Raghavan University of South West Louisiana, USA; Yves Chiaramella Laboratoire IMAG, Grenoble MEMBERS: Maristella Agosti, Universita di Padova, Italy; Nick Belkin, Rutgers University, USA; Christine Borgman, Univ. of California, Los Angeles, USA; Forbes Borkowski, University of Waterloo, Canada; Giorgio Brajnik, Universita degli Studi di Udine, Italy; S. Christodoulakis, University of Waterloo, Canada; M. Crehange, CRIN, France; Bruce Croft, University of Massachusetts, USA; Christian Fluhr, CEN-SACLAY, France; Ed Fox, Virginia Polytechnic Institute, USA; Norbert Fuhr, Technische Hochshule Darmstadt, Germany; Paul Jacobs, General Electric Research, USA; Gary Marchionini, University of Maryland, USA; V. Quint, INRIA, France; Fausto Rabitti, IEI-CNRS, Italy; Edie Rasmussen, University of Pittsburgh, USA; Craig Stanfill, Thinking Machines Corporation, USA; Jean-Luc Vidick, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium; Peter Willett, University of Sheffield, UK; Michael Wong, University of Regina, Canada; Clement Yu, University of Illinois, Chicago, USA; Keith van Rijsbergen, Glasgow University, UK CONFERENCE FEES -Tutorials: ACM Non-members/Members/Students, respectively: Before September 25: Single: $150/$165/$80; Two: $225/$250/$120 After September 25: Single: $200/$215/$80; Two: $325/$350/$120 -Conference registration: ACM Non-members/Members/Students, respectively: Before September 25: $250/$300/$85; After September 25: $300/$350 /$85 A check or money order, payable in US currency only, must be included with the advance registration form for the form to be processed. Checks should be made payable to ACM SIGIR Conference. Send form and payment to: Abraham Bookstein, SIGIR `91; University of Chicago, JRL S106; Center for Information and Language Studies; 1100 East 57th Street; Chicago, IL 60637, USA CONFERENCE REGISTRATION FORM Name: Organization: Address: City: State: ZIP: Country: Email: Telephone: FAX: Fees Tutorials: ______ Registration: ______ Banquet: _____ Total: _____ Monday evening, I would prefer (Circle choice): Organ concert University tour (A limited number of places are available for the organ concert and will be reserved on a first-come basis.) Tutorials: (circle choices) Morning: 1 or 2 or 3 Afternoon: 4 or 5 or 6 HOTEL REGISTRATION FORM Send directly to: Hyatt Regency; 151 East Wacker Dr.; Chicago, IL 60601; Tel: (312) 565-1234 Group: International Conference for Information Retrieval Code: JUCM Conference dates: October 12-16, 1991 Conference Rate: Single: $125 Double: $125 Name: Arrival date: Departure date: Organization: Address: City: State: Postal code: Country: Telephone: FAX: Sharewith's name (If other than spouse): Arrival date: Departure date: Payment Assured reservation---Credit Card Name: No.: Expiration date: First night deposit enclosed ___. ********** I.B.1. Fr: Joe Sokalski Re: GAO Reports Dear Internet or Bitnet User, The following U.S. General Accounting Office (GAO) reports may be of interest to your group. It is available over the Internet or Bitnet as part of a test to determine whether there is sufficient interest to warrant making more GAO reports available this way. Computer Security: Governmentwide Planning Process Had Limited Impact, GAO/IMTEC-90-48, May 1990. Assesses the governmentwide computer security planning process and extent to which security plans were implemented for 22 systems at 10 civilian agencies. It is named REPORT1 and is available through the Anonymous FTP directory GAO-REPORTS on the NIH computer system (try @CU.NIH.GOV). It is 55,062 bytes or 1,190 lines long as an ASCII text document, with page breaks. High-Definition Television: Applications for This New Technology, GAO/IMTEC-90-9FS, December 1989. Provides information on 14 HDTV applications and the key industry officials' views on the effect of an HDTV production standard on potential applications. This report is available through the Anonymous FTP directory GAO-REPORTS on the NIH computer system (try @CU.NIH.GOV) as an ASCII text document, with page breaks. It is named REPORT3 and is 31,947 characters in length or 643 lines. Meeting the Government's Technology Challenge: Results of a GAO Symposium, GAO/IMTEC-90-23, February 1990. Outlines five principles for effective management of information technology that can provide a framework for integrating information technology into the business of government. This report is available through the Anonymous FTP directory GAO-REPORTS on the NIH computer system (try @CU.NIH.GOV) as an ASCII text document, with page breaks. It is named REPORT5 and is 39,017 characters in length or 777 lines long. If you wish to obtain a printed report, call GAO report distribution at 202/275-6241 (7:30 a.m.-5:30 p.m. EST) or write to GAO, P.O. Box 6015, Gaithersburg, MD 20877. Joe Sokalski, Los Angeles ********************************************************** II. QUERIES II.A.1. Fr: Eric Iverson Re: Help: Multi-Media Database I posted a request for advice on the subject in alt.hypertext. If you can give me advice on choosing a multimedia database, please read the post. Thanks! --Eric ********************************************************** III. JOB ANNOUNCEMENTS III.1. Fr: Jock McNaught Re: Posts at CCL-UMIST UMIST Centre for Computational Linguistics RESEARCH ASSISTANTS (SEVERAL POSTS) We are seeking suitable candidates to fill several research posts in a variety of projects just started or about to start. We invite general applications for any of these posts, or specific applications for one or more of them. - a 3-year post, beginning in October 1991 and funded by the SERC, for a Research Assistant to work on a project in multilingual generation of mail messages using example-based techniques. Applicants should have a good first degree and/or post-graduate qualifications/experience in computer science, particularly programming in C, Lisp or Prolog in a UNIX environment. An interest in or familiarity with computational linguistics would be an advantage. Commencing salary will be in the region of 12086 per annum, depending on age and experience. Please quote reference LL/R//HS. - two 9-month posts, beginning as soon as possible and funded by ESPRIT, for two Research Assistants to work on the MULTILEX project, which is concerned with designing and implementing a multifunctional standardised lexicon for the European Community languages. Applicants should have a good first degree, and postgraduate qualifications/experience in computational linguistics (particularly typed feature logic), computational lexicography or theoretical linguistics. Salary will be between 11969 and 19073 per annum, depending on age and experience. Please quote reference LL/R//JM. - a 3-year post, beginning in October, 1991 and funded by Matsushita Electric Industry Ltd. (Panasonic), for a Research Assistant to work on a project in mutual conversion between verbal and visual presentations of information. Applicants should have a good first degree and/or post-graduate qualifications/experiences in one of Artificial Intelligence, computer science or information science. Commencing salary will be between 11969 and 13432 per annum. Please quote reference LL/R//JT. - a post initially for one year, but renewable, beginning as soon as possible, and funded in connection with the European Commission's Linguistic Research Framework Programme to work on various topics in Machine Translation. Part of the work will deal with aspects of syntax (clefting, topicalisation, sentential complements) in English and French. Applicants should have a good first degree and/or post-graduate qualifications/experiences in formal linguistics as well as knowledge of French and an interest in or familiarity with computational linguistics. Commencing salary will be between 11969 and 19073 per annum, depending on age and experience. Please quote reference LL/R//ET. Applications, including full curriculum vitae and the names of two referees, and indicating which posts are being applied for, should be sent to: R.A. Posts Centre for Computational Linguistics UMIST PO Box 88 Manchester, M60 1QD, UK and must arrive not later than Saturday 31st August. Further information may be obtained from the above address or by phoning +44.61.200.3100. An equal opportunity employer. Salaries are expressed in Pounds Sterling. E-mail addresses for further details: LL/R//HS: harold@ccl.umist.ac.uk (after 31/7/91) LL/R//JM: jock@ccl.umist.ac.uk LL/R//JT: tsujii@ccl.umist.ac.uk (after 31/7/91) LL/R//ET: harold@ccl.umist.ac.uk (after 31/7/91) John McNaught Centre for Computational Linguistics UMIST PO Box 88 Sackville Street Manchester, UK M60 1QD (direct phone) +44.61.200.3098 jock%ccl.umist.ac.uk@ean-relay.ac.uk(ean) jock%ccl.umist.ac.uk@cunyvm.cuny.edu(arpa) jock%ccl.umist.ac.uk@ac.uk(earn) jock@cclsun.uucp ********************************************************** IRLIST Digest is distributed from the University of California, Division of Library Automation, 300 Lakeside Drive, Oakland, CA. 94612-3550. 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