Information Retrieval List Digest 089 (October 29, 1991)
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IRLIST Digest
October 29, 1991
Volume VIII, Number 46
Issue 89
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  I. NOTICES
     B. Publication Announcements
        1. Proceedings of the 13th British Computer Society's
           Information Retrieval Research Colloquium
     C. Miscellaneous
        1. Hypertext '91: Volunteering
 II. QUERIES
     B. Requests for Information
        1. ACL needs information on graduate programs in
           computational linguistics
III. JOB ANNOUNCEMENTS
        1. Job Offer: Research Assistant
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I.B.1.
Fr: Tony McEnery <mcenery@comp.lancs.ac.uk>
Re: Proceedings

NOW AVAILABLE : Proceedings of the Thirteenth British Computer
Society's Information Retrieval Research Colloquium

To order write to:
	Tony McEnery,
	Secretary BCS IRSG,
	Department Of Computing,
	University Of Lancaster,
	Lancaster,
	LA1 4YR,
	U.K.

enclosing a cheque or money order for twenty pounds stirling.

The Eleventh and Twelfth Proceedings are now also available from
the same address at a cost of fifteen pounds stirling.

Index For The Thirteenth Colloquium Proceedings:
Section One : Indexing And Querying
ON THE NUMBER OF SOLUTIONS OF SAT INSTANCES WITH
BALANCED VARIABLES
H. DRIAS
Laboratoire LAFORIA,
Universite Pierre et Marie Curie,
Paris.

DIGRAM AND TRIGRAM MATCHING FOR THE
IDENTIFICATION OF WORD VARIANTS IN HISTORICAL TEXT
DATABASES
Alexander M. Robertson  &  Peter Willett
Department of Information Studies, University of Sheffield,
Western Bank, Sheffield, S10 2TN.

THE EFFECTIVENESS OF TERM POSITION AND FREQUENCY
FOR OUTPUT RANKING
E Michael Keen
Department of Information and Library Studies
University College of Wales Aberystwyth

Section Two : Interfaces And Systems
AN INDEXING-FREE APPROACH TO THE RETRIEVAL OF STILL
IMAGES
P. G. B. ENSER
Department of Information & Library Studies,
University College of Wales, Aberystwyth

PROVIDING ONLINE HELP FOR OPAC USERS
Frances Slack
Department of Library and Information Studies
Manchester Polytechnic

A SYSTEM THAT TAKES A "PURPOSIVE" VIEW OF
CONCEPTUAL INFORMATION RETRIEVAL
Vijay Mital, Agathoclis Stylianou and Les Johnson
Computer Science Department
Brunel University
Uxbridge, Middlesex UB8 3PU

CONFLICT INFORMATION RETRIEVAL - A UNIX-BASED
MUTLI-MEDIA TOOL FOR THE STUDY OF INTERNATIONAL
CONFLICT
Julian French,
Computing Laboratory,
University Of Kent,
Cantebury,
Kent.

IDIAS:USING COMMUNICATING KNOWLEDGE SOURCES FOR
INTELLIGENT ACCESS TO INFORMATION
I. M. Clarke & R. J. Hendley,
School of Computer Science,
University of Birmingham,
PO Box 363, Birmingham,
B15 2TT.

PERSONAL INFORMATION MANAGEMENT ON PERSONAL
COMPUTERS
D.J.Rayner M.Sc. (Digital Systems)
C Eng MIEE
Mozartstrasse 31,
7257 Ditzingen-Schocklingen,
Germany.

Section Three : Natural Language Processing
A GRAPHICAL REPRESENTATION OF ANAPHORIC LINKS IN
NATURAL LANGUAGE DOCUMENTS
Simon Philip Botley,
UCREL Unit,
Department of Linguistics,
University of Lancaster
and
Anthony Mark McEnery
UCREL Unit,
Department of Computing,
University of Lancaster

Section Four : Hypertext
HYPERTEXT -- WHERE EP MEETS IR
B.N. Rossiter,
Computing Laboratory,
Newcastle University,
Newcastle upon Tyne,
England NE1 7RU
and
M.A. Heather,
Sutherland Building,
Newcastle Polytechnic,
Newcastle upon
Tyne NE1 8ST.

HyperNotary: LEGAL DOCUMENT ASSEMBLY USING
HYPERTEXT
M. Southam, V. Mital and P. Thomas
Department of Computer Science
Brunel University
Uxbridge Middlesex UB8 3PH

Section Five : Neural Networks & Networks
SOME PRACTICAL APPLICATIONS OF NEURAL NETWORKS IN
INFORMATION RETRIEVAL.
Michael Philip Oakes & David Reid
Department of Computer Science
The Chadwick Building
The University of Liverpool
P.O.Box 147,
Liverpool L69 3BX.

AUTOMATIC TEXT ANALYSIS AND INFORMATION RETRIEVAL
IN LAW USING A NEURAL NETWORK
V. Mital and T.D. Gedeon
Brunel University
Department of Computer Science
Uxbridge, Middx. UB8 3PU

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL AND CAMPUS WIDE INFORMATION
SERVERS
John Lindsay
Principal Lecturer
School of Information Systems
Kingston Polytechnic
Kingston Upon Thames
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I.C.1.
Fr: Edward Fox <fox@fox.cs.vt.edu)
Re: Hypertext '91 Volunteering

                       HYPERTEXT '91 CONFERENCE
                          San Antonio, Texas
                        December 15 - 18, 1991

                    STUDENT VOLUNTEERS INFORMATION
                        December 14 - 19, 1991

This message is to announce and solicit student volunteers for
the upcoming Hypertext '91 Conference to be held in San Antonio,
Texas December 15-18, 1991.  Graduate and undergraduate students
who are interested in hypertext/hypermedia systems and would like
to serve as volunteers for the conference should send pertinent
information to the Student Volunteers Chair.  The remainder of
this memo should answer many questions about being a volunteer
for this conference.

Additional information may be obtained from:
          Dr. Charles J. Kacmar
          Dept. of Computer Science
          Florida State University
          203 Love Building
          Tallahassee, Florida   32306-4019
          email:  ht91svchair@bush.tamu.edu
          phone:  (904) 644-9661
          fax:    (904) 644-0058

POLICY:  Volunteers are expected to work 20 hours.  Duties
include: checking badges at the doors of tutorials and sessions,
running audio/visual equipment, working the registration desk,
stuffing envelopes, helping with the set up and tear down of
equipment and displays, "gopher" jobs, etc.

For this volunteer work you will receive: free registration, a
free copy of the conference proceedings, admission on a space
available basis to one of the tutorials to be held immediately
prior to the conference, and other small perks.  There will be a
special room for student volunteers during the conference which
will serve as our "headquarters" for all activities associated
with the volunteers.  You can consider this room to be your "home
away from home" throughout the conference.  We will use this room
as a central meeting place for all volunteers, to post
announcements and special requests, and to handle the unexpected
problems that normally occur during such a conference..

REGISTRATION:  Register for the conference using the standard
conference registration form.  Clearly mark at the top of the
form "STUDENT VOLUNTEER."  Be sure to mark and pay for anything
that is NOT included as part of the "deal" associated with being
a volunteer (see POLICY section above).  I will give the
Registration Chair a list of valid student volunteers before
registration begins at the conference.

WHEN SHOULD I ARRIVE:  You should plan to arrive in San Antonio,
Texas on Saturday, December 14.  There will be a MANDATORY
meeting of all student volunteers at the conference hotel,
Marriott Rivercenter, at approximately 4:00pm that afternoon.  It
is very important for you to be there so you can become familiar
with the operation of the conference, the student volunteers'
room, meet other volunteers, and so on.

HOTEL RESERVATIONS:  We are in the process of negotiating with
several hotels for a special rate which can be offered to the
volunteers.  At this point we are not sure what sort of deal we
can arrange but we are hopeful.  Information on the housing
arrangement will be mailed at a later date.

WHEN DOES THE CONFERENCE END:  The conference officially ends on
Wednesday, December 18 but we would like as many volunteers as
possible to stay one more day to help with tear down/clean up
activities.  Therefore, I suggest that you plan to leave San
Antonio on Thursday, December 19 in the afternoon.

VOLUNTEER DUTIES:  Each volunteer will be assigned specific
duties during the conference.  I will be sending out a
questionnaire at a later date to ask about your experiences and
interests in the conference.  Your assignments will be given to
you at the Saturday meeting on December 14.

WHAT TO DO NOW:

Confirm (with me) that you are listed as a student volunteer.

Let me know of any special skills that you have, particularly,
running audio/visual equipment.

Let me know of any previous experiences you have in working at
conferences of this type.

FINAL THOUGHTS:  Student volunteering is a great way to meet
people and it is a blast!  I am looking forward to meeting each
of you.  See you on Saturday, December 14!
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II. QUERIES
II.B.1.
Fr: Don Walker <walker@flash.bellcore.com)
Re: ACL needs information on graduate programs in
    computational linguistics

    DIRECTORY OF GRADUATE PROGRAMS IN COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS
		    URGENT NEED FOR INFORMATION

This fall the Association for Computational Linguistics will
publish a new edition of the Directory of Graduate Programs in
Computational Linguistics.  We are eager to include any program
awarding a graduate degree with courses or research involving
computers and language.

Our listing includes the name and address of the University and
Departments awarding relevant graduate degrees, along with their
telephone numbers.  We also include a list of faculty working in
this area, with their departmental affiliations, and a brief
mention of their research areas.  If there are formal courses
involving computational linguistics we will list them too.
Finally we put in a brief indication of equipment and other
resources.

Please request guidelines as to content and format from and send
information to:
Professor Martha Evens
Computer Science Department
Illinois Institute of Technology
Chicago, IL 60616, USA
(+1-312)567-5153
csevens@iitvax.bitnet
mwe@schur.math.nwu.edu
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III. JOB ANNOUNCEMENTS
Fr: Effie Ananiadou <effie@ccl.umist.ac.uk>
Re: Job Offer: Research Assistant

We are seeking a suitable candidate to fill a research post
initially for one year, but renewable for up to two years,
beginning in October 1991 and funded by Matsushita Electric
Industry Ltd. (Panasonic) which is concerned with mutual
conversion between linguistic to visual representations of
information. Applicants should have post-graduate qualifications
/experience mainly in Artificial Intelligence (particularly in
the area of Knowledge Representation) and good programming skills
(in C, Lisp or Smalltalk ). Knowledge or familiarity with
Computational Linguistics would be an advantage.

Salary will be between 11,969 and 15,481 per annum depending on
age and experience. Applications, including full CV and the names
of two referees should be sent to the Centre for Computational
Linguistics, UMIST, PO Box 88, Manchester, M60 1QD. Further
information may be obtained from the above address or by phoning
061 200 3100 or by replying to the following e-mail address:

tsujii@ccl.umist.ac.uk

An equal opportunity employer
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