Information Retrieval List Digest 118 (June 29, 1992) URL = http://hegel.lib.ncsu.edu/stacks/serials/irld/irld-118 ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 29 Jun 1992 12:14:29 PST Reply-To: "Information Retrieval List" Sender: "Information Retrieval List" From: IRLIST Subject: IR-L Digest,Vol.IX,No.22,Issue 118 IRLIST Digest June 29, 1992 Volume IX, Number 22 Issue 118 ********************************************************** I. NOTICES A. Meeting Announcements/Calls for Papers 1. IFIP/Sec '93, Toronto, May 12-14, 1992 2. SIGIR '93, Pittsburgh, PA, June 27-30, 1993 B. Publications Announcements 1. IEEE Expert: Call for Papers 2. First release of SCHOLAR II. QUERIES B. Questions and Answers 1. ICAME ********************************************************** I. NOTICES I.A.1. Fr: Re: Call for Papers IFIPS - Toronto Announcement and Call for Papers IFIP/Sec '93 in Toronto -- May 12-14,1993 IFIP/Sec'93, the Ninth International Computer Security Symposium and Exhibition, is part of a series of international conferences devoted to advances in data, computer and communications security management, planning and control. It will be held May 12-14, 1993 in Toronto Canada. This international conference, with the theme "Discovering Tomorrow", will encompass developments in both theory and practice and is intended for computer security researchers, managers, advisors, EDP auditors from government and industry, as well as other information technology professionals interested in computer security. The purpose of the 1993 International Federation for Information Processing Security Conference [IFIP/Sec'93] is to provide a forum for the interchange of ideas, research results, and development activities and applications amongst academicians and practitioners in the information, computer and systems sciences. IFIP/Sec'93 will consists of advanced seminars, tutorials, open forums, distinguished keynote speakers and the presentation of high-quality accepted papers. It is hoped that there will be a high degree of interaction and discussion amongst conference participants, as a workshop-like setting is to be promoted. The upcoming conference, IFIP/Sec'93, is jointly organized by IFIP/TC 11, the Canadian Information Processing Society [CIPS] and the Toronto Chapter of the Information Systems Security Association [ISSA]. Papers are invited in the areas shown and may be theoretical, conceptual, tutorial or descriptive in nature. Submitted papers will be referred, and those presented at the Conference will be included in the Conference proceedings.Submissions must not have been previously published and must be the original work of the author(s). Possible topics of submissions include, but are not restricted to: Auditing the Small Systems Environment Auditing Workstations PC and Microcomputer Security Security and Control of LANs and WANs OSI Security and Management Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) Security Management and Control of Cryptographic Systems Security in High Performance Transaction Systems Data Security in Developing Countries Software Property Rights Trans-border Data Flow Database Security Risk Assessment and Management Legal Response to Computer Crime/Privacy Smart Cards for Information Systems Security Biometric Systems for Access Control Security and Privacy in Electronic Mail All papers and panel proposals received by the submission deadline will be considered for presentation at the IFIP/Sec'93 in Toronto. To ensure acceptance of high-quality papers, each paper submitted will be blind refereed. The papers presented will be included in the Conference preprint of the Conference Proceedings, copies of which will be provided to the Conference attendees. All the papers presented will also be included in Proceedings which will be published by Elsevier Science Publishers B.V. (North-Holland). Author(s) will assign copyright of the paper to IFIP. Additionally, one or more of the authors must present the paper at the conference. Presenters of papers are eligible for a reduced conference fee. Three (3) copies of the full paper, consisting of 22-26 double-spaced, typewritten pages, including diagrams (approximately 5,000 words), must be received no later than October 1, 1992. Diskettes and electronically transmitted papers will NOT be accepted. Papers must be sent to the Program Committee Co-Chairman. Each paper must have a title page which includes the title of the paper, full name of all author(s) and their complete address(es), including affiliation(s), telephone number(s) and fax number(s). To facilitate the blind review process, the author's particulars should appear only on the separate title page. The language of the Conference is English. The first page of the manuscript should include the title and a 300 word abstract of the paper. Abstracts may be submitted to the Program Committee if guidance and indication of appropriate content is required. Full papers must be received by: October 1, 1992 Conference dates: May 12-14, 1993 Papers Submission: Mr. Graham Dougall IFIP/Sec '93 -- Program Committee Co-Chairman c/o Concord-Eracom Computer Ltd 7370 Bramalea Road, Unit 18 Mississauga, Ontario Canada L5S 1N6 Those interested in additional information about the upcoming conference on May 12-14, 1993 should communicate with the Organizing Committee's Chairman: Mr. Dave Batchelor IFIP/Sec '93 -- Organizing Committee Chairman c/o Concord-Eracom Computer Ltd 7370 Bramalea Road, Unit 18 Mississauga, Ontario Canada L5S 1N6 FAX: (416) 672-0017 FOR IMMEDIATE HELP: Highland@dockmaster.ncsc.mil ********** I.A.2. Fr: Edie Rasmussen Re: Call for Papers, SIGIR '93, Pittsburgh PA CALL FOR PAPERS ACM SIGIR 16th International Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval June 27-30, 1993 Pittsburgh, PA The ACM Special Interest Group in Information Retrieval invites submissions for SIGIR 93, the 16th Annual International Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, to be held in Pittsburgh, PA, USA. The ACM SIGIR Conference is a forum for the investigation and exchange of ideas related to information retrieval (IR), including text representation and indexing, natural language processing, retrieval system modelling and evaluation, user interfaces, knowledge-based systems, and hypertext and multimedia issues. These topics are addressed at the theoretical, methodological and applications level, and draw on research in many fields, including human cognition, artificial intelligence and knowledge processing. The current rapid growth in available full text and multimedia information makes the design and evaluation of improved IR systems a matter of critical interest to the information industry as well as the research community. The Conference will begin with tutorials on June 27, 1993 with contributed research papers and panel sessions June 28-30. Full papers and panel proposals should be submitted to program chairs by January 8, 1993, and tutorial proposals to tutorial chairs by February 1, 1993. To receive further information, instructions for contributors, or to be added to the mailing list, send email to sigir@lis.pitt.edu or contact the conference chair or appropriate program or tutorial chair. TOPICS FOR SIGIR 93: Research papers, short papers, and panel proposals are invited, on topics including, but not limited to: ENHANCED SYSTEMS genetic algorithm techniques neural net techniques natural language systems knowledge-based systems IMAGE SYSTEMS image analysis image compression integration of image and text image representation and retrieval SYSTEMS ISSUES system architecture networking and distributed systems very large databases parallel architectures TEXTUAL SYSTEMS input issues text analysis full text systems natural language processing THEORY measures and evaluation file and data structures linguistics USER ISSUES specific applications interfaces visualization personal portable systems IMPORTANT DATES: 8 January 1993: Full papers and panel proposals due to program chairs. 1 February 1993: Tutorial proposals due to program chairs. 1 March 1993: Authors informed of acceptance of papers and proposals. 5 April 1993: Final versions of papers in camera ready copy due to program chairs. INSTRUCTIONS FOR CONTRIBUTORS: Full details on paper, panel, and tutorial submissions may be obtained by sending e-mail to sigir@lis.pitt.edu or contacting the appropriate program or tutorial chair. CONTRIBUTED PAPERS: Contributors should send four copies of each original research paper to the appropriate program chair. Full-length papers should not exceed twenty pages, double spaced. No extended abstracts will be accepted. A few "short papers" on research in progress may be accepted for a separate session. Short papers not exceeding eight pages should be sent to the appropriate program chair, in four copies. Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings; authors will be required to sign an ACM copyright release form. ACM format is required for publication and is preferred for initial submissions. Contact sigir@lis.pitt.edu for details. Submission deadline: January 8, 1993. PANEL PRESENTATIONS: A limited number of panel sessions will be included in the program. Panel suggestions, including a description of the panel topic, names of proposed speakers and moderator, and brief abstracts of the proposed presentations, should be sent to the appropriate program chair. Each proposal should be no more than three pages in length, and should be submitted in four copies. Submission deadline: January 8, 1993. TUTORIALS: Tutorial proposals should consist of the topic to be discussed, the name(s) and brief biographies of the presenter(s), and an outline of the tutorial. The proposal should indicate whether the tutorial is planned for a full day or a half day. Four copies of each proposal, of no more than three pages, should be submitted to the tutorial chair. Submission deadline: February 1, 1993. CONFERENCE CHAIR Edie Rasmussen Associate Professor School of Library and Information Science University of Pittsburgh Pittsburgh, Pa 15260 tel: (412) 624-9459 FAX: (412) 624-5231 email: EMR1@VMS.CIS.PITT.EDU ********** I.B.1. Fr: Terry Patten Re: IEEE Expert CFP CALL FOR PAPERS IEEE Expert Special Track on Processing Natural Language IEEE Expert announces a Special Track on Processing Natural Language, edited by Terry Patten and Paul Jacobs. A Special Track is a collection of papers, united by a theme, running over several issues. For the Special Track on Processing Natural Language, papers are sought on the practical application of all areas of natural-language processing, including the following: computational morphology, parsing, semantic interpretation, pragmatic/contextual interpretation, discourse processing, text planning and realization/generation, and machine translation. An ideal paper would describe a technique or approach to natural language processing, along with an evaluation of how it works and how well it works in a particular application. Papers that give a critical evaluation are preferred over descriptions of programs or applications. IEEE Expert is a magazine of applied AI, not a transactions or a journal. The magazine is a bridge between the research community and the user community. It aims to publish original papers that transfer to the user community ideas and tools that come out of research and development. Clear, not overly formal, writing is essential. Its readers are users, developers, managers, researchers, and purchasers who are interested in databases, expert systems, and artificial intelligence, with particular emphasis on applications. They want to learn about the tools, techniques, concepts, aids, and systems that have potential for real-world applications. Conceptual or theoretical papers are welcome, provided they clearly demonstrate their relevance to real-world applications--preferably through prototype implementations. Submissions should be written according the IEEE Expert style. The final articles should be about 8-9 printed pages, with about 10-12 references. All papers submitted will be carefully reviewed. Papers accepted on technical grounds are subject to copyediting by the Managing Editor's staff for clarity and expressiveness. Authors are asked to submit six copies (hard-copy only) of their paper by October 1, 1992 to: Terry Patten, Computer and Information Science, Ohio State University, 2036 Neil Ave. Mall, Columbus, OH 43210, U.S.A. e-mail: patten@cis.ohio-state.edu ********** I.B.2. Fr: Andy Breeding Re: First Release of SCHOLAR The first release of SCHOLAR, an online news service for natural language processors, will be available about 1 July 1992. Its contents include Abstracts from the following journals: Computational Linguistics, 17:4 System, 19:1/2,3,4 Machine Translation, 6:1,2,3 Computers and the Humanities, 25:1,2/3,4,5 Reports on the following projects: A European Ph.D. in Linguistics CTI Center for Textual Studies Georgetown Center for Text and Technology ARTFL: American and French Research on the Tresor de la Langue francaise A short review of _Memex to Hypertext: Vannevar Bush and the Mind's Machine_ by James N. Nyce and Paul D. Kahn A full-length review of _Hypermedia and Literary Stud- ies_ ed. Paul Delaney and Gedorge P. Landow A notice of WinGreek: Fonts for Greek and Hebrew A CD-ROM of Latin texts A calendar of language-processing-related events To receive this and future releases by email, send a message to as follows: subscribe scholar [your full name] To receive this release by anonymous ftp send the following: ftp jhuvm.hcf.jhu.edu or ftp 128.220.2.2 At the login: prompt, type anonymous or SCHOLAR At the password: prompt, type [your own login id] To locate the SCHOLAR files, type get index.SCHOLAR To close the connection, type quit Material for inclusion in future releases should be sent as e-mail to or mailed to SCHOLAR, P.O. Box F, New York NY 10028-0025. ********************************************************** II. QUERIES II.A.1. Fr: John Perry Re: A Question about ICAME In SIGIR `92, I read about something called the "International Computer Archive of Modern English", or ICAME. Can anyone fill me in on some more details of ICAME. It was described as "one of the main resources for research in this area" (Corpus Linguistics). Is it accessible by anonymous FTP? Do they have corpusses (corpi?) of English text that I can get? Thanks in advance, John "National security is the primary cause of national insecurity" Celine's first law ********************************************************** IRLIST Digest is distributed from the University of California, Division of Library Automation, 300 Lakeside Drive, Oakland, CA. 94612-3550. Send subscription requests to: LISTSERV@UCCVMA.BITNET Send submissions to IRLIST to: IR-L@UCCVMA.BITNET Editorial Staff: Clifford Lynch lynch@uccmvsa.ucop.edu or calur@uccmvsa.bitnet Nancy Gusack ncgur@uccmvsa.bitnet Mary Engle engle@cmsa.berkeley.edu or meeur@uccmvsa.bitnet The IRLIST Archives will be set up for anonymous FTP, and the address will be announced in future issues. To access back issues presently, send the message INDEX IR-L to LISTSERV@UCCVMA.BITNET. 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