Information Retrieval List Digest 124 (August 10, 1992) URL = http://hegel.lib.ncsu.edu/stacks/serials/irld/irld-124 ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 10 Aug 1992 10:51:00 PST Reply-To: "Information Retrieval List" Sender: "Information Retrieval List" From: IRLIST Subject: IR-L Digest, Vol.IX,No.28, Issue 124 IRLIST Digest August 10, 1992 Volume IX, Number 28 Issue 124 ********************************************************** I. NOTICES A. Meeting Announcements/Calls for Papers 1. CAIA-93, Artificial Intelligence for Applications Orlando, Florida, March 1-5, 1993 B. Publications Announcements 1. New PRO-CITE LIST IV. PROJECT WORK IV. PROJECT WORK C. Abstracts 1. IR-Related Dissertation Abstracts ********************************************************** I. NOTICES I.A.1. Fr: Timothy Finin Re: CAIA '93, Orlando, Florida, March 1-5, 1993 CALL FOR PARTICIPATION CAIA-93 The Ninth IEEE Conference Artificial Intelligence for Applications Disneyworld Hilton -- Orlando, Florida March 1-5, 1993 The conference is devoted to advancing the application of artificial intelligence techniques to real world problems. Two kinds of papers are appropriate: case studies of AI applications that solve significant problems and stimulate the development of useful techniques, and papers on novel AI techniques and principles that enable more ambitious real-world applications. This conference provides a forum for such synergy between applications and AI techniques. Emphasis at this year's conference will be on new AI paradigms that can or have had an impact on applications. Papers describing significant unpublished results are solicited in two areas: * Applications Papers. Contributions stemming from the general areas of industry, science and engineering, business, government, law, etc. Application papers must: (1) Justify the use of the AI technique, based on the problem definition and an analysis of the application's requirements; (2) Explain how AI technology was used to solve a significant problem; (3) Describe the status of the implementation; (4) Evaluate the effectiveness of the application and the technique used. Short papers describing systems in use (up to 1000 words, extended abstract) will also be accepted for presentation in these application tracks. * Enabling Technology Papers. Contributions focusing on techniques and principles that facilitate the development of practical AI applications that can be scaled to handle increasing problem complexity. Topics include, but are not limited to: knowledge representation, reasoning, search, knowledge acquisition, learning, constraint programming, planning, (including artificial neural nets, genetic algorithms, nearest neighbors, etc.), validation and verification, project management, natural language processing, speech, robotics, data discovery and database mining, multimedia and virtual reality applications, intelligent interfaces, integration, problem-solving architectures, programming environments, exploitation of parallelism, and general tools. Papers should be limited to 5000 words. Papers significantly longer that this will not be reviewed. The first page of the paper must contain the following information (where applicable) in the order shown: * Title. * Author's name and affiliation (specify student status). * Contact information (name, postal address, phone and email address). * Abstract: A 200 word abstract that includes a clear statement describing the paper's original contributions and what new lesson is imparted. * AI topic: One or more terms describing the relevant AI areas, e.g. knowledge acquisition, explanation, diagnosis, etc. * Domain area: One or more terms describing the problem domain area, e.g. mechanical design, factory scheduling, education, medicine, etc. * Language/Tool: Underlying programming languages, systems and tools used. * Status: Development and deployment status, as appropriate. * Effort: Person-years of effort put into developing the particular aspect of the project being described. * Impact: A 20 word description of estimated or measured (specify) benefit of the application developed. Papers will be accepted in two forms: long papers and short papers. Papers accepted for publication will be allotted seven pages (long papers) or four papers (short papers) in the conference proceedings. The best papers accepted will be considered for a special issue of IEEE EXPERT to appear late in 1993. Awards will be presented to best paper and best student paper at the conference. In addition to papers, we will be accepting the following types of submissions: * Proposals for Panel Discussions. Provide a brief description of the topic (1000 words or less). Indicate the membership of the panel and interest in organizing/moderating the discussion. * Proposals for Tutorial Presentations. Proposals for the three hour tutorials of both an introductory and advanced nature are requested. Topics should relate to the management and technical development of useful artificial intelligence applications. Tutorials which analyze classes of applications in depth or examine techniques appropriate for a particular class of applications are of particular interest. Each tutorial should include the following: * Detailed topic outline and extended abstract (about 3 pages). * Intended audience and assumed background knowledge. * Half-page synopsis of focus, topics, and benefits to audience. * Full professional vita (including lecture/tutorial experience and a one-paragraph summary. * Proposals for Workshops. Proposals are sought for one day workshops to be held in conjunction with the conference. These workshops can focus on a specific application domain (e.g. aerospace applications) or on a technical subarea (e.g. intelligent real time problem solving). Workshop organization and attendance will be governed by the organizers. Submit proposals to the Workshop Chair. Important Dates * August 31, 1992: Four copies of papers, and three copies of all the proposals are due. Submissions not received by that date will be returned unopened. Electronically transmitted materials will not be accepted. * October 30, 1992: Author notifications mailed. * December 14, 1992: Accepted papers due to IEEE. Accepted tutorial notes due to Tutorial Chair. * March 1-2, 1993: Conference tutorial program. * March 3-5, 1993: Conference technical program. Submit Papers and Panels to: David Waltz Thinking Machines Corporation 245 First Street Cambridge, MA 02142-1214 Phone: 617-234-2050 Fax: 617-234-4444 Email: waltz@think.com Submit Tutorial or Workshop Proposals to: Peter Selfridge AT&T Bell Labs 2B-425 600 Mountain Avenue P.O. Box 636 Murray Hill, NJ 07974 Phone: 908-582-6801 Email: pgs@research.att.com For registration and additional conference information, contact: CAIA-93 IEEE Computer Society 1730 Massachusetts Avenue, NW Washington, DC 20036-1903 Phone: 202-371-1013 ********** I.B.1 Fr: Mark T. Day Re: Announcing New PRO-CITE LIST ANNOUNCING: A new BITNET list: PRO-CITE@IUBVM "The Personal Bibliographic Software Discussion List" Established April 14, 1992 GENERAL INFORMATION: This list has been established as an international electronic forum for anyone using or interested in using the bibliographic textbase software program PRO-CITE and its companion BIBLIO-LINK programs published by Personal Bibliographic Software. These software programs provide the means to automate a wide variety of scholarly tasks related to the retrieval, organization, and use of bibliographic data. They operate on both MS-DOS and Macintosh platforms. With the much enhanced version 2.0 of Pro-Cite now available for both systems, it seemed like a good time to establish a Bitnet discussion group, whose existence could facilitate the rapid sharing of concerns, interests, problems and solutions among members at all levels of use. The owner of this list is Mark T. Day, Associate Librarian in the Indiana University Reference Department and Coordinator of its newly created Library Electronic Text Resource Service. I began using Pro-Cite and Biblio-Links while working at the Indiana Cooperative Library Services Authority from 1988 -1990 as their Library Microcomputer Specialist and have felt for some time that an electronic discussion group, modelled after the several similar groups that already exist for other library and scholarly oriented software products, would be a very useful forum for advancing communication among those of us who work heavily with bibliographic data. For the list to be successful in serving the needs of its members, however, those members must be active contributors to the discussion. Currently the list operates in a non-moderated mode, in which all messages sent to the list automatically will be posted to all other members. Answers to questions sent out over the list will go to all members IF YOU POST YOUR ANSWER TO THE LIST, but will only go to the person who sent the original message if YOU REPLY TO THE ORIGINAL MESSAGE (more on the details of how to send and receive messages, obtain archived copies of previous correspondence, etc, below). So IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS OR INFORMATION about some aspect of a PBS product, SUBSCRIBE NOW AND JOIN THE DISCUSSION. HOW TO JOIN & SEND MESSAGES: 1) To join PRO-CITE, send the following one line e-mail message: SUBSCRIBE PRO-CITE Last Name, First Name via BITNET to: LISTSERV@IUBVM or via INTERNET to: LISTSERV@IUBVM.UCS.INDIANA.EDU 2) Once subscribed, send messages for posting on the PRO-CITE list: via BITNET to: PRO-CITE@IUBVM or via INTERNET to: PRO-CITE@IUBVM.UCS.INDIANA.EDU 3) To stop getting PRO-CITE mail temporarily (while on vacation, e.g.) send the following one line e-mail message: SET PRO-CITE NOMail to the same address you used to subscribe (item #1 above). 4) If your current address changes or becomes invalid, or you wish to stop subscribing to PRO-CITE, send the following one line message: UNSUBSCRIBE PRO-CITE to the same address you used to subscribe (item #1 above). 5) If you have questions about the list, or problems with its operation, you should direct them to the list owner, Mark Day, rather than to the PRO-CITE list itself: via BITNET to: DAYM@IUBACS; or via INTERNET to: DAYM@UCS.INDIANA.EDU ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: Indiana University Computing Services provides the computer space and software to support BITNET lists on its IUBVM node as a service to the research oriented needs of IU faculty, staff, and graduate students. The Indiana University Libraries supports the administration of electronic discussion lists as a professional activity of its faculty. However, neither of these organizations verify the accuracy of submitted messages or endorse the opinions expressed by authors of messages. The list owner will attempt to monitor this particular list and help keep it focused on problems related to personal bibliographic software issues, but authors of PRO-CITE messages are considered to be solely responsible for their own comments. Since this is a new list, with 88 subscribers as of July 26, 1992, there is no way to tell how many messages you are likely to receive, but similar lists for micro based software vary greatly from no messages in some weeks to several per day at other times. As messages start to be received they will be automatically archived on a monthly basis and can be retrieved as necessary with standard listserv retrieval and search commands: 1) You will be able to obtain a list of available archive files by sending an INDEX PRO-CITE command to LISTSERV@IUBVM. 2) Such files can be retrieved by issuing a GET PRO-CITE LOGYYMM command, where "YY" stands for the year and "MM" stands for the month. 3) If you are curious about who your fellow subscribers to this list are, send the message REVIEW PRO-CITE to LISTSERV@IUBVM. PRO-CITE List Owner: Mark T. Day, Assoc. Librarian, Reference Indiana University Library, Room E159 Bloomington, IN 47405 Bitnet: DAYM@IUBACS.BITNET Internet: DAYM@UCS.INDIANA.EDU Phone: (812) 855-8028 or 855-0100 Phone: (812) 855-8028 or 855-0100 ********************************************************** IV. PROJECT WORK IV.C.1. Fr: Susanne M. Humphrey Re: Selected IR-Related Dissertation Abstracts The following are citations selected by title and abstract as being related to Information Retrieval (IR), resulting from a computer search, using BRS Information Technologies, of the Dissertation Abstracts Online database produced by University Microfilms International (UMI). Included are UMI order number, title, author, degree, year, institution; number of pages, one or more Dissertation Abstracts International (DAI) subject descriptors chosen by the author, and abstract. Unless otherwise specified, paper or microform copies of dissertations may be ordered from University Microfilms International, Dissertation Copies, Post Office Box 1764, Ann Arbor, MI 48106; telephone for U.S. (except Michigan, Hawaii, Alaska): 1-800-521-3042, for Canada: 1-800-268-6090. Price lists and other ordering and shipping information are in the introduction to the published DAI. An alternate source for copies is sometimes provided. Dissertation titles and abstracts contained here are published with permission of University Microfilms International, publishers of Dissertation Abstracts International (copyright by University Microfilms International), and may not be reproduced without their prior permission. AN University Microfilms Order Number ADG91-33166. AU SOLOMON, PAUL. TI INFORMATION SYSTEMS FOR CHILDREN: EXPLORATIONS IN INFORMATION ACCESS AND INTERFACE USABILITY FOR AN ONLINE CATALOG IN AN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL LIBRARY. IN University of Maryland College Park Ph.D. 1991, 354 pages. SO DAI V52(06), SecA, pp1927. DE Information Science. Library Science. Education, Technology. AB This research explored the intentions, plans, opening moves, strategies, terminology, and successes and failures of children using an Online Public Access Catalog (OPAC) in a School Library. To identify user requirements in terms of real system demands, the research focused on two issues of significance in software development: information access and interface usability. Information access issues involved the contributions of such institutions as MARC records and Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH) and their impacts at the OPAC. Interface usability issues involved the contributions of users to the OPAC task: their cognitive resources including language and factual, conditional, and procedural knowledge pertaining to satisfaction of their information needs. The research employed qualitative methods of observation, document analysis, questioning and, in 12 cases, think-aloud protocols to analysis, questioning and, in 12 cases, think-aloud protocols to investigate the OPAC task from initiation of an information need, through the retrieval task, to selection of items and their use. Some 902 transactions involving children in grades one through six were observed over the course of a school year. These observations provided a broad sample of data on many matters including information needs, children's actions to control the OPAC, and change over time. Analysis of expanded field notes of observations and transcripts of conversations, interviews, and think-aloud protocols was principally through the assignment of coding categories that described children's observed OPAC behavior. Use of coding categories permitted sorting and arrangement of refined and condensed categories in various summary tables. Frequencies of various moves, strategies, breakdowns, etc. were also tabulated to provide a sense of relative prominence of children's actions. Factors that contributed to OPAC success were the use of concrete search terms and a variety of planned and reactive strategies to overcome OPAC breakdowns. Overall, 66% of the OPAC transactions were successful. In the remaining 34% of the transactions, breakdowns resulted from skill (e.g., reading, spelling, and keyboarding), rule (e.g., syntax, query form, and focus), and knowledge (conditional, procedural, and declarative) difficulties. Other findings related to grade level and time differences along with influences from the school setting. Information system design considerations are suggested as appropriate. AN University Microfilms Order Number ADG13-44317. AU TEIXEIRA, LAUREN STEPHENSON. TI ACCESS TO INFORMATION ON THE COSTANOAN/OHLONE INDIANS OF THE SAN FRANCISCO AND MONTEREY BAY AREA: A DESCRIPTIVE GUIDE TO RESEARCH. IN San Jose State University M.L.S. 1991, 180 pages. SO MAI V29(04) pp519. DE Library Science. Anthropology, Cultural. History, General. AB This thesis is a general descriptive guide to ethnohistorical, historical and anthropological resources on the Costanoan/Ohlone Indians. It maps an access route to information on the Costanoan/Ohlone, develops a method of research to the material. The information world of the Costanoan/Ohlone Indians lies beyond the surface of the general catalog. Resources on the Costanoan/Ohlone Indians, for the most part, are "hidden" in professional journals, publications and bibliographies that are of limited publication and out of the mainstream. This material is found in academic libraries and special libraries. A certain amount of information is also located in public libraries. The access to information this thesis provides is beneficial in a variety of ways for descendants, scholars, teachers, and others. The research method presented in this thesis can be used, in whole or in part, for research on other California Indian tribes. IRLIST Digest is distributed from the University of California, Division of Library Automation, 300 Lakeside Drive, Oakland, CA. 94612-3550. 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