Information Retrieval List Digest 112 (May 19, 1992) URL = http://hegel.lib.ncsu.edu/stacks/serials/irld/irld-112 ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 19 May 1992 08:19:16 PST Reply-To: "Information Retrieval List" Sender: "Information Retrieval List" From: IRLIST Subject: IR-L Digest, Vol.IX, No.16, Issue 112 IRLIST Digest May 19, 1992 Volume IX, Number 16 Issue 112 ********************************************************** I. NOTICES A. Meeting Announcements/Calls for Papers 1. Astronomy from Large Databases II, September 14-16, 1992, Strasbourg, France 2. ACL Annual Meeting, June 28-July 2, 1992, U. Delaware 3. CIKM '92, November 8-11, 1992, Baltimore, Maryland II. QUERIES A. Questions and Answers 1. Fuzzy Numbers B. Requests for Information 1. Graphics Memory 2. American Information Industry Association 3. Computer Systems Engineering in Mexico 4. Auto Abstracting 5. ID3 ********************************************************** I. NOTICES I.A.1. Fr: Andre HECK Re: Astronomy from Large Databases II Astronomy from Large Databases II (Haguenau - 14-16 September 1992) CALL FOR PAPERS (Deadline: 31 May 1992) Strasbourg Astronomical Observatory is organising from Sept. 14 to 16, 1992, a follow-up event to the 1987 conference on "Astronomy from Large Databases" (Eds. F. Murtagh & A. Heck, ESO Conference & Workshop Proceedings 28). The meeting will take place in Haguenau, an imperial city about 30km North of Strasbourg. Haguenau is easily reachable by road and train. The closest international airport is Strasbourg-Entzheim, where all rental car companies are represented. The following sections outline the scientific programme and give the composition of the Scientific Organising Committee as well as a preliminary list of invited talks. If you are interested in attending this conference, please return the enclosed registration form together with your registration fee (FF 500.- if paid before 31 May 1992, FF 700.- if paid thereafter). Because September is still the high tourist season in Alsace, we urge you to return AS SOON AS POSSIBLE the enclosed accommodation form together with a deposit of FF 400.- in order to cover the first night's accommodation and the reservation fee (FF 100.-). If at all possible, have cheques drawn in French Francs on a French bank, or use Eurocheques. Failing this, please add 20% in order to cover the bank costs and exchange charges. All amounts should be made payable to "Monsieur l'Agent Comptable, Universite de Strasbourg I, Compte de l'Observatoire". If you wish to present a communication at the conference, please indicate its title on the registration form AND send BEFORE 31 May 1992 an abstract (maximum one A4-page) for inclusion in an abstracts book that will be made available at the conference. Only proposals from persons who will actually register for the conference will be considered. We expect that most of the contributions will have to be presented as posters. However, all communications accepted from persons actually attending the conference as well as the invited papers, will be reproduced in the proceedings published by the European Southern Observatory (ESO) and distributed free of charge to the attendees. Selected contributors will be expected to come to the meeting with a camera-ready copy (and, if possible, a machine-readable file) of their paper. Format instructions will be sent in a subsequent mailing together with practical details on the conference itself. There will be also possibilities to run demonstrations of packages and databases. Interested parties should, as far as possible, bring their own equipment. Alternatively local possibilities could be checked with the organisers (see addresses and telecommunication plugs below). We would also appreciate if you could advertise this meeting as widely as possible in your institution and through modern means like your electronic mailing list (you can get the present documents e-mailed to you). Please also feel free to send us your comments. Full information on the scientific programme can be obtained from: Dr. Andre HECK Observatoire Astronomique 11, rue de l'Universite F-67000 Strasbourg France Telephone: +33-88.35.82.22 (direct) +33-88.35.82.16 (Secr.: Ms. Ch. Bruneau) Telefax: +33-88.49.12.55 (direct) +33-88.25.01.60 (Observatory) Telex: 890506 starobs f Electronic mail: heck@frccsc21 (bitnet) heck@ccsmvs.u-strasbg.fr (internet) Dr. Fionn MURTAGH ST-ECF Karl-Schwarzschild-Strasse 2 D-W-8046 Garching Germany Telephone: +49-89-32006298 Telefax: +49-89-32006480 Electronic mail: fmurtagh@eso.org murtagh@scivax.stsci.edu For administrative matters and accomodation, please contact: Ms. Chantal BRUNEAU Observatoire Astronomique 11, rue de l'Universite F-67000 Strasbourg France Telephone: +33-88.35.82.16 Telefax: +33-88.25.01.60 Telex: 890506 starobs f Electronic mail: bruneau@frccsc21 (bitnet) bruneau@ccsmvs.u-strasbg.fr (internet) TOPICS OF THE CONFERENCE: - Presentation of astrophysical results from diverse databases and archives. - Application of artificial intelligence to quality control and maintenance of data in databases and archives. - Intelligent information retrieval. - Scientific visualization and interactive analysis systems. - Integration of bibliographic, textual and numeric data collections; integration with directory services; tools such as proposal and publication aids, thesauri and acronym lists. - Methods for interpreting data: statistics, knowledge-based systems, and image processing; browsing and quick-look tools; summarization and report generation capabilities. - The future: what environments can best serve astronomical research? The emphasis is on the astronomy coming out of the available and future databases and archives, as well as on the range of related methodologies. The Proceedings will be published by the European Southern Observatory (ESO), Garching/Munich. An abstract (maximum one A4-page) should be sent BEFORE 31 May 1992 with the registration form. Only proposals from persons actually registering for the conference will be considered. Selected contributors will be expected to come to the meeting and with a camera-ready copy (and, if possible, a machine-readable file) of their paper (format instructions will be sent later on). ********** I.A.2. Fr: Don Walker Re: Association for Computational Linguistics Annual Meeting ASSOCIATION FOR COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS 30th Annual Meeting 28 June -- 2 July 1992 Clayton Hall, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware, USA The program for the Annual Meeting itself, which will take place on 29 June to 2 July, features papers on all aspects of computational linguistics. Two invited lectures will be given during the meeting: "Natural Language Processing, Information Retrieval, and All That'' by Karen Sparck Jones, Cambridge University, and Martin Kay, Xerox PARC and Stanford University; and "Reflections and Projections'' by Don Walker, Bellcore and ACL. In addition, there are a special set of Student Sessions featuring papers that describe `work in progress' so that students can receive feedback from other members of the computational linguistics community. The Annual Meeting is preceded on 28 June by a set of tutorials: "Statistics for Computational Linguists'' by William A. Gale and Joseph B. Kruskal; "Leading Issues in Tree Adjunction'' by Yves Schabes and Stuart Shieber; "Very Large Text Corpora: What You Can Do with Them, and How to Do It'' by Mark Liberman and Mitch Marcus; and "Situation Semantics'' by Keith Devlin. The ACL Business Meeting will feature reports on the ACL Special Interest Groups, the ACL Data Collection Initiative, the Consortium for Lexical Research, the Text Encoding Initiative, the new Graduate Directory, the new Computational Linguistics Course Survey, the NLP Software Registry, the Linguistic Data Consortium, and other topics of current interest. There will also be an informal gathering to discuss multimedia language processing. CONFERENCE INFORMATION: The Program Committee was chaired by Henry Thompson, Edinburgh University. The Tutorials were organized by Bonnie Webber, University of Pennsylvania. For information about exhibits and demonstrations, contact Dan Chester, CIS Department, University of Delaware, Newark, DE 19716, USA, 1-302-831-1955; chester@udel.edu. Local arrangements are handled by Sandra Carberry, Dan Chester, or Kathleen McCoy, Computer and Information Sciences, University of Delaware, Newark, DE 19716, USA; 1-302-831-2712; acl@udel.edu. Program and registration brochures are being mailed to all ACL members. To get a brochure and other information on the conference and on the ACL more generally, contact Don Walker (ACL), Bellcore, MRE 2A379, 445 South Street, Box 1910, Morristown, NJ 07960-1910, USA; (+1 201)829-4312; walker@flash.bellcore.com. ********** I.A.3. Fr: Richard Hintz Re: CIKM-92: First International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management CIKM-92 First International Conference on INFORMATION AND KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT November 8 - 11, 1992 Radisson Lord Baltimore Hotel Baltimore, Maryland, USA Sponsored by ISMM in cooperation with AAAI, SIGART, SIGIR, IEEE, ACM The conference provides an international forum for presentation and discussion of research on information and knowledge management, as well as recent advances on data and knowledge bases. Authors are invited to submit papers and proposals for tutorials concerned with theory or practice or both. The focus of the conference includes but is not limited to, the following: application of knowledge representation techniques to semantic data modeling; development and management of heterogeneous knowledge bases; automatic acquistion of data and knowledge bases especially from raw text; object-oriented DBMS; optimization techniques; transaction management; high performance OLTP systems; security techniques; performance evaluation; hypermedia; unconventional applications; parallel database systems; physical and logical database design; data and knowledge sharing; interchange and interoperability; cooperation in heterogenous systems; domain modeling and ontology building; knowledge discovery in databases; information storage and retrieval and interface technology. IMPORTANT DATES: Submission deadline - May 31, Acceptance notification: July 15, Final copy due: August 10. FOR MORE INFORMATION: Send email to CIKM-INFO@CS.UMBC.EDU for an automatic reply containing more information and to CIKM@CS.UMBC.EDU for queries. ********************************************************** II. QUERIES II.A.1. Fr: "chien@ece.arizona.edu"@arizona.edu Re: How does a fuzzy number compare to 0 ? Hi, Assume a fuzzy number (fuzzy set), N = (a, b, c, d), where a, b, c & d are the points from left to right. Can anyone tell me what is the requirement of, N > 0 or N < 0. I couldn't find out a suitable news group to post my question. Hopefully, this group is ok. Thanks in advance. Chien. ********** II.B.1. Fr: Hassan Alam Re: Graphics Memory I am aware of several new developments in solid state memories and would be interested in a high end graphics work station manufacturer's opinion and input: More specifically: If a large amount of memory was available in a small volume (less than 100 cubic inches) and this memory was accessible at between 20 and 80 MB per second (depending on bus width) would this memory subsystem provide your systems with added value? i.e. real time ability to display graphics, graphics editing, etc. Based on your experience to date, at 80,000 dollars for 1 GByte of memory, is the memory system described above likely to be cost effective in your graphics workstations? In graphics applications, are display densities beyond 1280 x 1024 envisioned for your system? ********** II.B.2. Fr: Re: American Information Industry Association Dear Readers; For a friend I'm trying to get some informatiom about the 'American Information Industry Association' - What is this Association good for ? - Who has the E-Mail/Post-Adress of these people ? Any information is highly appreciated. Thanx in advance. Guenther Hoffmann CUNY - City University of New York CCNY - City College E-Mail : GUHCC@CCNYVME.CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU or (GUHCC@CUNYVM) or (TJ918824@CCNYVME.BITNET) ********** II.B.3. Fr: sisc92@ITESO.bitnet Re: 3th Week of Computing Systems Engineering... Hello Everybody: We are a group of students of Computer Systems Engineering at ITESO University, in Guadalajara Mexico. Each year a symposium of subjects, items and tutorials related to our studies is organized by students of this career, supported by our University, Corporations and Institutes (like IEEE of Mexico) to make it possible, and this year is our turn. With this goal, we are using this media to get in touch with people related to or interested in computers, to ask them for some help and/or support in contacting conferencists or people that give tutorials. The topics that we are focused in are : * Multimedia * Networks * Virus * CASE Tools * OOP * Unix * Etc.. This event will take place in Guadalajara, Mexico from September 21 to 25 of the present Year. If you want to help us or you know someone that would and could, please contact us. Thank you in advance for your attention and collaboration. Sincerely, Jose M. Rodarte M. Committee of Conferences. SISC92@Iteso.Bitnet SISC92@Itesocci.gdl.iteso.mx ITESO University. Guadalajara, Mexico. ********** II.B.4. Fr: Paul Jones Re: Auto Abstracting I am half way through a Ph.D. on Automatic Abstracting at Lancaster University, England. Whilst doing a literature search I found the following record : TI: INTERACTIVE SYSTEM OF AUTOMATED DOCUMENTARY ABSTRACTING BASED ON IDIOM DICTIONARY LA: RS AU: NESTEROV_PV, BELONOGOV_GG, ZELENKOV_YG, KUZNETSOV_BA, PASHCHENKO_NA NA: ALL UNION SCI & TECH INFORMAT RES INST/MOSCOW//USSR/ JN: NAUCHNO-TEKHNICHESKAYA INFORMATSIYA SERIYA 2-INFORMATSIONNYE PROTSESSY I SISTEMY 1991 NO.7 PP.13-15 DT: ARTICLE The title indicates that this paper is very similar to my work, however it is written in Russian ( LA: RS ), a language I do not speak. I have tried to find a translation but to no avail. Does anybody have either, a copy of this paper in English, or if that is not available, an english abstract of this paper. Thank you. Paul Jones Computer Dept. e-mail : pj@uk.lancs.comp Lancaster University, Lancaster, England. ********** II.B.5. Fr: Miguel Parra Re: ID3 anyone? Hi Net: I'm looking for an implementation of ID3 (based on Hunt's CLS). It doesn't matter what the application is used for. 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