Information Retrieval List Digest 121 (July 21, 1992) URL = http://hegel.lib.ncsu.edu/stacks/serials/irld/irld-121 ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 17:38:27 PST Reply-To: "Information Retrieval List" Sender: "Information Retrieval List" From: IRLIST Subject: IR-L Digest, Vol.IX,No.25, Issue 121 IRLIST Digest July 21, 1992 Volume IX, Number 25 Issue 121 ********************************************************** I. NOTICES A. Meeting Announcements/Calls for Papers 1. ASIS Annual Meeting, October 26-29, 1992, Pittsburgh, PA C. Miscellaneous 1. Computer Ethics Curriculum Kit 2. IJCAI '93 Awards Nominations II. QUERIES B. Requests for Information 1. Multi-Language User Interfaces 2. Help Finding First Call 3. Thesaurus Building? IV. PROJECT WORK C. Abstracts 1. IR-Related Dissertation Abstracts D. Miscellaneous 1. NSF Database Activities Program ********************************************************** I. NOTICES I.A.1. Fr: American Society for Information Science Re: ASIS 1992 Annual Meeting ASIS Annual Meeting October 26-29, 1992 Pittsburgh, PA CELEBRATING CHANGE: INFORMATION MANAGEMENT ON THE MOVE OVER 80 SESSIONS will explore the impact of the constant change created by and faced by the information community. Plenary Sessions will include: -- HERBERT SIMON, Nobel Laureate and National Medal of Science winner, Professor of Computer Science and Psychology at Carnegie-Mellon University -- JOHN MAROUS, retired CEO of Westinghouse Electric Corporation, electrical engineer, on management in a global, changing, information intensive environment -- EDWARD TUFTE, Yale professor and author of Envisioning Information and The Visual Display of Quantitative Information. -- CENTRAL EUROPEAN PARLIAMENTARY - Panelists from the Library of & LEGISLATIVE DEVELOPMENTS and Congressional Research Service will discuss opening up and rebuilding of Central European parliamentary and legislative libraries. -- MERGERS, ACQUISITIONS and ALLIANCES - Panelists from Ameritech, IBM, Dialog will examine realignment within the information industry Special Seminars: STATISTICAL GRAPHICS, INFORMATION DESIGN AND SCIENTIFIC VISUALIZATION -- Edward Tufte ELECTRONIC DOCUMENT IMAGING: SYSTEM PLANNING & DESIGN -- William Saffady RELEVANCE: A DIALOGUE ABOUT FUNDAMENTALS SIG-FIS CONVERTING TO GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACES: DESIGN GUIDELINES FOR SUCCESS Arlene Aucella ********************************************************************* MORE SEMINARS will be available - for a complete listing contact ASIS at the address below. ********************************************************************* This meeting will be held in conjunction with the meetings of: ** Museum Computer Network ** ** National Information Standards Organization ** FOR MORE INFORMATION, A COMPLETE PROGRAM AND/OR TO REGISTER CONTACT: ASIS AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE 8720 Georgia Avenue, Suite 501 Silver Spring, Maryland 20910 FAX (301) 495-0810 Voice (301) 495-0900 E-MAIL - asis@cni.org NOTE : ASIS members will receive the program automatically ********** I.C.1. Fr: Walter Maner Re: Computer Ethics Curriculum Kit Teaching Social and Ethical Implications of Computing: a "Starter Kit" The Research Center on Computing and Society at Southern Connecticut State University and Educational Media Resources, Inc. (a not-for-profit organization specializing in educational programming) have assembled a "Starter Kit" for teachers who wish to introduce social and ethical implications of computing into their computer science or computer engineering classes. The "Kit" can also help computer science departments fulfill national accreditation requirements (CSAC/CSAB). The "Starter Kit" includes three video tapes and two monographs: VIDEO TAPES: No. 1--Teaching Computing and Human Values (45 min.) No. 2--What Is Computer Ethics (45 min.) No. 3--Examples and Cases in Computer Ethics (45 min.) MONOGRAPHS: No. 1--Teaching Computer Ethics (110 pages) No. 2--Computing and Social Responsibility: A Collection of Course Syllabi (142 pages) Further information is available from the Research Center on Computing and Society at Southern Connecticut State University: E-Mail: RCCS@SCSU.CTSTATEU.EDU Phone: (203) 397-4423 (Center and answering machine) FAX: (203) 397-4681 ********** I.C.2. Fr: Don Walker Re: Call for Nominations for IJCAI-93 Awards INTERNATIONAL JOINT CONFERENCES ON ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, INC. *** Call for Nominations for IJCAI-93 Awards *** THE IJCAI AWARD FOR RESEARCH EXCELLENCE The IJCAI Award for Research Excellence is given at an IJCAI to a scientist who has carried out a program of research of consistently high quality yielding several substantial results. If the research program has been carried out collaboratively, the Award may be made jointly to the research team. Past recipients of this award are John McCarthy (1985), Allen Newell (1989) and Marvin Minsky (1991). The Award carries with it a certificate and the sum of US$ 2,000 plus travel and living expenses for the IJCAI. The recipient will be invited to deliver an address on the nature and significance of the results achieved and write a paper for the conference proceedings. Primarily, however, the Award carries the honour of having one's work selected by one's peers as an exemplar of sustained research in Artificial Intelligence. We hereby call for nominations for The IJCAI Award for Research Excellence, which will be presented at IJCAI-93 in Chambery, France, 29 August - 3 September 1993. The accompanying note on Selection Procedures provides the relevant details. THE COMPUTERS AND THOUGHT AWARD The Computers and Thought Lectures are presented at IJCAI conferences by outstanding young scientists in the field of Artificial Intelligence. Past recipients of this honour have been Terry Winograd (1971), Patrick Winston (1973), Chuck Rieger (1975), Douglas Lenat (1977), David Marr (1979), Gerald Sussman (1981), Tom Mitchell (1983), Hector Levesque (1985), Johan de Kleer (1987), Henry Kautz (1989), Rodney Brooks (1991) and Martha Pollack (1991). The Award carries with it a certificate and the sum of US$ 2,000 plus travel and living expenses for the IJCAI. The lecture is given one evening during the conference, and the public is invited to attend. The lecturer is encouraged to publish the lecture in the conference proceedings. The lectureship was established with royalties received from the book Computers and Thought, edited by Edward Feigenbaum and Julian Feldman; it is currently supported by income from IJCAII funds. We hereby call for nominations for the Computers and Thought Award, which will be presented at IJCAI-93 in Chambery, France, 29 August - 3 September 1993. The accompanying note on Selection Procedures provides the relevant details. SELECTION PROCEDURES FOR IJCAI AWARDS Nominations for the IJCAI Research Excellence Award and the Computers and Thought Award are invited from everyone in the international Artificial Intelligence community. There should be a nominator and a seconder, at least one of whom should not be from the same institution as the nominee. Nominees for the Computers and Thought Award cannot be older than 35 at the start of the conference. They must agree to be nominated. There are no other restrictions on nominees, nominators or seconders. The nominators should prepare a short submission of less than 2,000 words, outlining the nominee's qualifications with respect to the particular award. An IJCAI Awards Search Committee has been established to encourage high quality nominations for IJCAI Awards. It consists of the three most recent past IJCAI conference chairs, currently: Alan Bundy (convenor), Wolfgang Bibel and Barbara Grosz. Members of this committee can be contacted for advice on nominations. The IJCAI Award Selection Committee is the union of the Board of Trustees and the former Trustees of IJCAII, the Advisory Committee of IJCAI-93, the program chairs of the last three IJCAI conferences, and the past recipients of the IJCAI Award for Research Excellence and the IJCAI Distinguished Service Award, with nominees excluded. Nominations should be sent to the Conference Chair for IJCAI-93 at the address below. The deadline for nominations is 1 December 1992. To avoid duplication of effort, nominators are requested to submit the name of the person they are nominating by 1 November 1992 so that people who propose to nominate the same individual may be so informed and can coordinate their efforts. Prof. Wolfgang Wahlster Conference Chair, IJCAI-93 German Research Center for AI (DFKI) Stuhlsatzenhausweg 3 D-W-6600 Saarbruecken 11, Germany Tel: (+49 681) 302-5252 Fax: (+49 681) 302-5341 E-mail: wahlster@dfki.uni-sb.de ********************************************************** II. QUERIES II.B.1. Fr: Stavros Macrakis Re: Multi-Language User Interfaces Avram Danon asks in IX:24:120 We are developing a product ... which will be marketed to customers in different... countries... the choice of language... will differ from customer to customer... We are looking for information from people who have developed similar applications. Making an application usable in multiple language/cultural contexts is called `internationalization'; adopting it to particular contexts within the internationalization framework is called `localization'. There is a pretty extensive literature on how to do this. Modern operating systems (OSF/1, Macintosh, ...) provide standard mechanisms. I don't have the space to discuss it here, but your vendor should be able to help you. -s PS By the way, parameterization is usually at runtime, not compile time. ********** II.B.2. Fr: Jonathan Laventhol Re: Help finding First Call Hello Retreivers -- My librarian here is having trouble finding an online search service called FIRST CALL, which contains information (bibliographic? article digests?) about research reports for financial companies. Anybody know how to get in touch with this? Many thanks for anything anybody knows. Cheers, J. Jonathan Laventhol, Systems Administrator, D. E. Shaw & Co., Tower 45, 120 West 45th Street, New York, NY 10036. ********** II.B.3. Fr: Theodore.Morris@UC.Edu Re: Thesaurus building? We are aware of the thesaurus product for BRS/Search, but for a new project would like to investigate the availability of other possible thesaurus building products and manipulation tools, in the VMS environment and compatible with BRS/Search (public domain/shareware, preferably, but commercial too). Has anyone constructed a thesaurus for use with BRS/Search? What were your experiences with BRS's own products or any others? Has anyone constructed a medically-oriented thesaurus for this environment? Thanks for your consideration. Theodore Allan (Ted) Morris, University of Cincinnati Medical Center, Information Research and Development, 231 Bethesda Avenue, ML 574, Cincinnati, OH 45267-0574, 513-558-0177V, 513-558-0758F, MORRISTA@UC.EDU (preferred), MORRIS@UCUNIX.SAN.UC.EDU (also) ********************************************************** IV. PROJECT WORK IV.D.1. Fr: Alexa T. McCray Re: NSF Database Activities Program The National Science Foundation through its Directorate for Biological, Behavioral, and Social Sciences supports a cross-disciplinary program for research in the design, development, implementation, and use of information resources. A copy of the announcement for this program, "Database Activities in Biological, Behavioral, and Social Sciences", can be obtained by writing or phoning Dr. Frank Hartel at NSF: National Science Foundation 1800 G Street, N.W. Rm 312 Washington, D.C. 20550 202 357-9880 Discussions between the National Library of Medicine (NLM) and the NSF have indicated that basic research associated with NLM's Unified Medical Language System (UMLS) is within the scope of the research that could be supported under this NSF program activity. The UMLS project is a long-term effort to develop increasingly intelligent automated systems to help users retrieve information from biomedical databases such as bibliographic databases, clinical record systems, factual databanks and biomedical knowledge bases. The UMLS project seeks to answer research questions that involve the optimal methods for integrated access to information in multiple, generally disparate, computerized information sources. It is assumed that diversity will continue to exist, and that therefore methods and techniques need to be developed that will compensate for the dissimilar vocabularies, coding and access schemes used by different systems. The ultimate goal is to identify and implement innovative methods that will mediate between users' requests for information and the potentially multiple sources that contain information relevant to those requests. Research and development on the UMLS project was formally initiated in 1986 and has involved collaborative work with several research groups at major U.S. universities. As one result of this activity, three knowledge sources, a Metathesaurus of biomedical concepts and their interrelationships, a Semantic Network of high level semantic categories, and an Information Sources Map, have been developed and distributed to interested researchers for experimentation and evaluation. Those who are interested should contact Dr. Milton Corn for further information: Associate Director Division of Extramural Programs National Library of Medicine Bethesda, Maryland 20894 Phone: 301 496-4621 FAX: 301 402-0421 Internet: corn@lhc.nlm.gov Proposals, however, will be submitted directly to the NSF at the address given above. ********************************************************** 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 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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