Information Retrieval List Digest 115 (June 8, 1992) URL = http://hegel.lib.ncsu.edu/stacks/serials/irld/irld-115 ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 8 Jun 1992 11:21:36 PST Reply-To: "Information Retrieval List" Sender: "Information Retrieval List" From: IRLIST Subject: IR-L Digest, Vol.IX,No.19,Issue 115 IRLIST Digest June 8, 1992 Volume IX, Number 19 Issue 115 ********************************************************** I. NOTICES A. Meeting Announcements/Calls for Papers 1. 26th Annual Hawaii Int'l. Conference on System Sciences, Kauai, Hawaii, January 5-8, 1993 2. Hypermedia '93, Zurich, Switzerland, March 2-3, 1993 3. 1st Pacific Assoc. for Computional Linguistics Conference, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, April 21-24, 1993 4. 5th Int'l. Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering, San Francisco, CA, June 16-18, 1993 C. Miscellaneous 1. Editorial on WINDOW ********************************************************** I. NOTICES I.A.1 Fr: Tommy Isakowitz Re: Hypermedia Information Systems MINI-TRACK ON HYPERMEDIA IN INFORMATION SYSTEMS AND ORGANIZATIONS CALL FOR PAPERS AND REFEREES 26th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences Kauai, Hawaii - January 5-8, 1993 CONFERENCE AIMS AND SCOPE: The purpose of the HICSS conference is to provide a forum for the interchange of ideas, research results, development activities, and applications among academicians and practitioners in organizational and computer-based system sciences. We are inviting papers for the minitrack on Hypermedia in Information Systems and Organizations, a new minitrack at HICSS focusing specifically on hypertext and hypermedia. MINITRACK: Until recently, most successful hypermedia implementations have been "monolithic" applications designed specifically to provide a hypermedia-style interface to a particular domain. The hypermedia community is starting to produce models of hypermedia and standards for exchanging hypermedia linked information. The next stage is to augment the myriad of today's business applications with hypermedia functionality, providing new ways to view a system's knowledge and processes conceptually, to navigate among items of interest and analysis stages, to enhance a system's knowledge with comments and relationships, and to target information displays to individual users and their tasks. Indeed we are beginning to see hypermedia techniques incorporated in commercial applications. The introduction of hypermedia technology into information systems brings forth a number of organizational issues. How will the organization change with enhanced access to information and the new communication channels this facilitates? How will people's work practices be affected? What kinds of telecommunication networks are needed to support the new organization. How do we even evaluate a hypermedia network? In this minitrack we explore the benefits and the challenges that arise as hypermedia support for information systems and work practices grows. We encourage papers that address organizational aspects, technical aspects and both. Suggested Topics Include: - Hypermedia as an Enabling Technology - Integration of Hypermedia into Information Systems - Hypermedia Frameworks and Architectures - Designing Networks to Support Hypermedia - Organizational Impact of Hypermedia - Communicating through Hypermedia - Hypermedia as a Technique for Accessing and Managing Knowledge - Hypermedia as a Technique for Improving Training and Learning - Hypermedia as a Technique for Facilitating Teamwork and Collaboration - Hypermedia Applications Addressing These Issues INSTRUCTIONS FOR AUTHORS: Manuscripts should be 22-26 typewritten, double-spaced pages in length. Do not send submissions that are significantly shorter or longer than this. Papers must not have been previously presented or published, nor currently submitted for journal publication. Each manuscript will be subjected to a rigorous refereeing process. Manuscripts should have a title page that includes the title of the paper, full name(s) of its author(s), affiliation(s), complete mailing and electronic address(es), telephone number(s), and a 300-word abstract of the paper. MINITRACK CHAIRS: Michael Bieber Tomas Isakowitz Computer Science Department Information Systems Department Carroll School of Management Stern School of Business Boston College New York University Chestnut Hill, MA 02167-3808 New York, NY 10003 e-mail: bieberm@bcvms.bc.edu tisakowitz@gba.nyu.edu phone: (617) 552-3964 (212) 998-4202 fax: (412) 268-7036 (212) 998-4111 SUBMISSION PROCESS: Apr 30, 92 Optional abstract submitted by e-mail or post to one of the chairs for guidance and indication of appropriate content. May 5, 92 Feedback to author concerning abstract. Jun 5, 92 6 copies of the manuscript to one of the Mini-Track chairs. Aug 31, 92 Notification of acceptance to authors. Oct 1, 92 Camera-ready manuscripts due for accepted papers. Nov 15, 92 At least one author must register for conference. REVIEWERS WANTED: Please contact one of us if you are interested in serving as a reviewer for the minitrack. ********** I.A.2 Fr: Hypermedia Konferenz Re: Hypermedia '93 HYPERMEDIA '93 Announcement and Call for Papers March 2 and 3, 1993 Zurich, Switzerland The Hypermedia '93 conference is the fourth in a series of successful Hypertext/Hypermedia conferences held in the German speaking part of Europe. The conference will be held under the auspices of the three national Information Technology Societies of Germany, Austria, and Switzerland. It is organized by the Department of Computer Science of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zurich, Switzerland. IN COOPERATION WITH: - Fachgruppe Hypertextsysteme der Gesellschaft fur Informatik (GI), Germany. - Arbeitskreis Hypermedia-Systeme der Oesterreichischen Computergesellschaft (OCG), Austria. - HypEdu - Special Interest Group for Hypermedia and Educational Computing der Schweizer Informatiker Gesellschaft (SI), Switzerland. ORGANIZED BY: Department of Computer Science, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zurich, Switzerland. In addition to papers in German, contributions written and presented in English are highly welcome in order to broaden the scope of the conference. The proceedings which are going to be distributed to all the participants at the conference will therefore contain papers written both in German and in English. Topics of Interest include: - Hypermedia information systems - Cooperative hypermedia authoring systems - Hypermedia applications - Browsing in and retrieval of hypermedia information - Automatic link generation - Indexing hypermedia data - Compressing hypermedia data - Structuring and modeling hypermedia information - Distributed hypermedia systems - Hypermedia in education Four copies of full papers of at most 12 pages written in either English or German should be sent (postmarked) by July 31, 1992, to Prof. H.P. Frei Department of Computer Science ETH Zurich, IFW 8092 Zurich, Switzerland. Accepted papers received by the organizers in camera ready form before November 24, 1992 will be published in the Proceedings (Springer-Verlag, Informatik-Fachberichte). IMPORTANT DATES: Full papers due (send 4 copies): July 31, 1992 Notification of Acceptance or Rejection: October 12, 1992 Camera-ready copies due: November 24, 1992 Tutorials: Monday, March 1, 1993 Conference: March 2-3, 1993 VENUE: The Tutorials and the Conference will be held on the premises of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in downtown Zurich, Switzerland. OFFICIAL LANGUAGES: The official languages are German and English. Invited papers and some of the submitted papers will be presented in English. No translation will be provided. For Further Information please contact: Kurssekretariat Department of Computer Science ETH Zurich, IFW CH-8092 Zurich, Switzerland Phone: +41-1-254-7206 Fax: +41-1-262-3973 E-mail: hyper93@inf.ethz.ch ********** I.A.3 Fr: Re: CFP: PACLING '93 Computational Linguistics Conference CALL FOR PAPERS PACLING '93 1st Pacific Association for Computational Linguistics Conference (formerly JAJSNLP, the Japan-Australia Joint Symposia on Natural Language Processing) April 21-24 (Wed-Sat) 1993 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada HISTORY AND AIMS: PACLING (= Pacific Association for Computational LINGuistics) has grown out of the very successful Japan-Australia joint symposia on natural language processing (NLP) held in November 1989 in Melbourne, Australia and in October 1991 in Iizuka City, Japan. PACLING '93 will be a low-profile, high-quality, workshop-oriented meeting whose aim is to promote friendly scientific relations among Pacific Rim countries, with emphasis on interdisciplinary scientific exchange showing openness towards good research falling outside current dominant "schools of thought," and on technological transfer within the Pacific region. The conference is a unique forum for scientific and technological exchange, being smaller than ACL, COLING or Applied NLP, and also more regional with extensive representation from the Western Pacific (as well as the Eastern). TRANSCENDING LANGUAGE BOUNDARIES: The theme of PACLING '93 is "transcending language boundaries" by: o facilitating communication between speakers of different languages -- e.g., with machine translation and computer-aided language learning, o going beyond limitations of natural language as a communicative medium -- the conference has a particular interest in the theory and practice of natural-language centred multi-modal architectures, systems, interfaces and design issues, not only in work that improves existing computational linguistic techniques, but also in computational (or computationally oriented) research for complementing the communicative strengths of natural language and overcoming its weaknesses. TOPICS: Original papers are invited on any topic in computational linguistics (and strongly related areas) including (but not limited to) the following: LANGUAGE SUBJECTS: text, speech; pragmatics, discourse, semantics, syntax, the lexicon, morphology, phonology, phonetics; language and communication channels, e.g., touch, movement, vision, sound; language and input/output devices, e.g., keyboards, menus, touch screens, mice, light pens, graphics (including animation); language and context, e.g., from the subject domain, discourse, spatial and temporal deixis. APPROACHES AND ARCHITECTURES: computational linguistic, multi-modal but natural-language centred; formal, knowledge-based, statistical, connectionist; dialogue, user, belief or other model-based; parallel/serial processing. APPLICATIONS: text and message understanding and generation, language translation and translation aids, language learning and learning aids; question-answering systems and interfaces to multi-media databases (text, audio/video, (geo)graphic); terminals for Asian and other languages, user interfaces; natural language-based software. SUBMISSIONS: Authors should prepare full papers, in English, of not more than 5000 words including references, approximately 20 double-spaced pages. The title page must include: author's name, postal address, e-mail address (if applicable), telephone and fax numbers; a brief 100-200 word summary; some key words for classifying the submission. Please send four (4) copies of each submission to: Paul McFetridge and Fred Popowich email: mcfet@cs.sfu.ca PACLING '93 Program Co-Chairs tel: (604) 291-3632 Centre for Systems Science email: popowich@cs.sfu.ca Simon Fraser University tel: (604) 291-4193 Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada V5A 1S6 fax: (604) 291-4424 SCHEDULE: Submission deadline: Monday Nov 30th 1992 Notification of acceptance: Friday Jan 29th 1993 Camera-ready copy due: Friday Mar 5th 1993 FOR COMPLETE INFORMATION ON THE CONFERENCE AND ON LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS, CONTACT Dan Fass email: fass@cs.sfu.ca PACLING '93 Publicity and Local Arrangements tel: (604) 291-3208 Centre for Systems Science fax: (604) 291-4424 Simon Fraser University Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada V5A 1S6 ********** I.A.4 Fr: S.K. Chang Re: NJ WINDO Editorial The following is the lead editorial from _The TIMES_ of Trenton, New Jersey, on March 16, 1992. It is excellent. This type of support at the grass roots is extremely helpful. jamie. Open this WINDO We taxpayers pay for a vast amount of information that our federal government complies. For the ordinary person, though, gaining access to that information is a slow and difficult process. It often requires shelling out large amounts of additional money to commercial vendors of electronic data. Even government agencies themselves are forced to buy back this government information from the vendors so their staffs can use it. Rep. Charlie Rose, D-N.C., has introduced a bill in Congress that would change that situation. He wants to make it much easier and less costly to obtain government data. His proposal would open varied and exciting possibilities. Rep. Rose's bill, HR 2772, would create something called the Wide Information Network for Data Online (WINDO). This proposal would have the Government Printing Office (GPO) establish a one- stop-shopping window for federal databases. Through a single business account, citizens would be able to obtain - at cost - dial-in access to hundreds of these databases, including the Federal Register and Congressional Record, economic statistics, scientific research abstracts, federal court cases, U.S. and foreign patents, Securities and Exchange Commission disclosure documents, White House and agency press releases, State Department press briefings, federal campaign contributions, the Food and Drug Administration bulletin board and congressional testimonies. The service would be provided free to 1,400 federal depository libraries, just as the GPO provides printed documents free to those institutions today. The GPO would be required to receive suggestions for the WINDO "product line" every year. Not everybody will be happy with this prospective vast expansion of the public's ability to know what it has a right to know. The commercial data vendors that have sprung up in a decade of Reagan-Bush efforts to privatize public information can be expected to oppose HR 2772. It should be noted, though, that WINDO wouldn't necessarily put them out of business; the would be free to buy the underlying databases and sell them to the public, with or without value-added enhancements. The public, however, would no longer be forced to pay commercial firms as citizens for data they already paid for as taxpayers. Congress should pass this bill, fast. James Love, Director VOICE: 609-683-0534 Taxpayer Assets Project FAX: 202-234-5176 7-Z Magie, Faculty Road bitnet: Love@pucc.bitnet Princeton, NJ 08540 internet: Love@pucc.princeton.edu ********************************************************** IRLIST Digest is distributed from the University of California, Division of Library Automation, 300 Lakeside Drive, Oakland, CA. 94612-3550. 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