Information Retrieval List Digest 084 (September 15, 1991) URL = http://hegel.lib.ncsu.edu/stacks/serials/irld/irld-084 IRLIST Digest September 15, 1991 Volume VIII, Number 41 Issue 84 ********************************************************** I. NOTICES A. Meeting Announcements/Calls for Papers 1. Workshop on Language and Information Processing B. Publications 1. Mind Machine Digest II. QUERIES A. Questions and Answers 1. Graphical Database Information Representation B. Requests for Information 1. Query on MIR ********************************************************** I. NOTICES I.A.1. Fr: Alexa T. McCray Re: Workshop on Language and Information Processing Washington Hilton and Towers, Washington, DC; Sunday, October 27, 1991 The purpose of this 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. Topics to be presented include concept based retrieval and indexing, processing information for speech synthesis, using specialized dictionaries to improve retrieval, and integrating NLP and IR. The workshop will conclude with a panel discussion on recent initiatives in natural language processing and information retrieval. A full proceedings of the workshop will be made available to those attend. The workshop is open to all interested researchers. There will be a workshop registration fee which will be used to cover the cost of preparing the proceedings and providing refreshments. Lunch will not be provided. WORKSHOP COMMITTEE: Alexa T. McCray (Chair), National Institutes of Health; Elizabeth Liddy, Syracuse University; Carl Weir, Unisys; David Lewis, University of Chicago WORKSHOP SCHEDULE 9:00 Welcome and Introduction Alexa T. McCray National Institutes of Health 9:15 Improving the Coverage of Technical Vocabulary in Information Retrieval Documents Using Specialized Dictionaries. Stephanie W. Haas University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 9:40 Statistical Analysis of Japanese Text by Kanji Usage Frequencies and its Applications. Masayuki Morohashi, Sigeki Umeda IBM Tokyo Research Laboratory Kimio Hosono, Takashi Harada, Tomonori Gotoh Keio University 10:05 Processing Information in Preparation for Speech Synthesis. Kim E.A. Silverman, Ashok Kalyanswamy NYNEX Science and Technology 10:30 Break 10:45 The EDS Summarizer: Automatic Generation of Article Summaries. H. Kelly Shuldberg EDS Research 11:10 A Knowledge-Based Approach to Semi-Automatic Indexing. Piet-Hein Speel, Nicolaas J.I. Mars, Paul E. van der Vet University of Twente (supported by Elsevier Science Publishers) 11:35 A Three-Tiered Approach to Integrating Information Retrieval and Natural Language Processing. Carl Weir, Tim Finin, Robin McEntire, Barry Silk Unisys Center for Advanced Information Technology 12:00 Lunch 1:30 NLP Techniques in the WIDE System. William Kelleher, Sharon Flank, Geoff Howe SRA Corporation 1:55 Incomplete Lexical and Conceptual Knowledge in Automatic Text Understanding. Gabriele Sonnenberger University of Konstanz 2:20 A Case-Based Representation of Legal Text for Conceptual Retrieval. Judith P. Dick, Graeme Hirst University of Toronto 2:45 Concept-based Information Extraction and Retrieval R. Bruce Loatman, Paul Thompson PRC Inc. 3:10 Break 3:30 - 5:00 Panel Discussion on recent initiatives in NLP and IR. The Consortium for Lexical Research. Sylvia Candelaria de Ram, New Mexico State University The TIPSTER initiative. Tom Crystal, DARPA Report on AAAI-91 workshop on Natural Language Text Retrieval. Edwin A. Addison, Synchronetics, Inc. Report on NSF sponsored workshop on Future Directions in Text Analysis, Retrieval and Understanding. Alexa T. McCray, National Institutes of Health To register for the workshop fill in the following form and send it with your payment to: Richard Hill Workshop on Language and Information Processing American Society for Information Science 8720 Georgia Avenue, Suite 501 Silver Spring, Maryland 20910 (301) 495-0900 If you prefer, you may FAX the form and credit card payment to: (301) 495-0810. REGISTRATION: WORKSHOP ON LANGUAGE AND INFORMATION PROCESSING Registration Fee: $30.00 before September 13 $50.00 after September 13 Name: Organization: Address & Phone Number: Please enclose check or money order in US funds or complete the credit card information below: Charge to my: ___Visa ___MasterCard Card Number: Expiration Date: Signature: The workshop will be held in conjunction with the American Society for Information Science annual meeting, ASIS '91. The theme of ASIS '91 is "Systems Understanding People, People Understanding Systems". For full conference information contact Richard Hill at: American Society for Information Science 8720 Georgia Avenue, Suite 501 Silver Spring, Maryland 20910 (301) 495-0900 ********** I.B.1. Fr: Dana Nibby Re: Mind Machine Digest MIND MACHINE DIGEST mailing list * Devoted to the discussion and proliferation of information of: MIND MACHINES -- Consciousness altering electronic devices. 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I would like to pull the information, have the application recognize the relationships, and display the information graphically in a hierarchical fashion. If there is such an application what is the required hardware and software platform required ? I am not on the mailing list so all responses have to be addressed directly to tchu@SANDIA.GOV. Thanks in advance for any responses. tchu@SANDIA.GOV Sandia National Laboratories P.O.Box 5800 Division 1934 Albuquerque, NM 87185 tel: (505)845-8936 ********** II.B.1. Fr: Z. Feng Re: Query on MIR Hi, We are about to seriously do some research on Multi-lingual Information Retrieval, especially on Multi-lingual Document Retrieval stuff. We would like to know any piece of information about this research issue. We also hope to establish relationships with other research groups which are doing the same topic currently. It is our great pleasure if you can send us your survey papers, research results and any other relevant suggestions. 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