Information Retrieval List Digest 150 (February 9, 1993) URL = http://hegel.lib.ncsu.edu/stacks/serials/irld/irld-150 IRLIST Digest ISSN 1064-6965 February 9, 1993 Volume X, Number 9 Issue 150 ********************************************************** I. NOTICES A. Meeting Announcements/Calls for Papers 1. Workshop on Acquisition of Lexical Knowledge from Text 2. CAIS/ACSI '93 3. 5th UNB AI Symposium 4. CETH Summer Seminar 5. CIKM '93 ********************************************************** I. NOTICES I.A.1. Fr: James Pustejovsky CALL FOR PAPERS Workshop on Acquisition of Lexical Knowledge from Text 21 June 1993 Ohio State University Columbus, Ohio, USA in conjunction with ACL-93 The 31st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics. Sponsored by the Special Interest Group on the Lexicon (SIGLEX) of the Association for Computational Linguistics The intent of this workshop is to solicit papers on the state of the art in acquiring aspects of a lexical entry -- either for computational or lexicographic purposes -- through the use of computer analysis techniques. The papers should report novel research in automating the acquisition of lexicons from texts, whether by preprocessing the texts or dynamically while parsing them. Papers may be in any of the general areas of: (1) recognition of text objects as lexical entities; (2) identification of the properties of such lexical entities: (3) identification and recognition of the most informative piece of text which is characteristic of these properties of the lexical entity. More specifically, suitable areas of submission include (but are not limited to): * identification of proper names; * syntax and grammar for proper names, dates, times, and the like; * semantic tagging of proper names; * identification of acronyms, abbreviations or geographic and biographic text entities and their meanings; * finding neologisms; * recognition of open compounds; * incremental acquisition of meanings from sentence usages; * recognition of new senses of existing words; * sense disambiguation (relative to a sense-annotated dictionary, or as warranted by the given text); * recognition of specific classes of words; * recognition and annotation of patterns of word use (e.g., subcategorization, selectional restrictions, syntactic and semantic shifts relative to a given corpus, and so forth; * linguistic- and text structure-driven identification of lexical/semantic relations (e.g., use of appositives to generate definitions, or concept refinement from list syntax); * identification of the properties of example sentences for use as citations in dictionaries. NOTE: On June 22nd, a ``Workshop on Very Large Corpora: Academic and Industrial Perspectives'' will be held; it will focus on the manipulation and maintenance of very large corpora; lexical knowledge acquisition will not be a central issue. Interested authors, however, should contact Ken Church at kwc@research.att.com. AUTHOR INFORMATION: Authors should submit eight copies of a full-length paper (5-10 pages) to the program chair by 2 April 1993. Both paper submissions and electronic submissions will be accepted, however ELECTRONIC SUBMISSIONS ARE STRONGLY ENCOURAGED. Notifications of acceptance or rejection will be sent out by 30 April 1993. WORKSHOP PROCEEDINGS: Camera-ready copies of accepted papers will be due on 12 May 1993. A proceedings containing the accepted papers will be made available at the workshop; these will be subsequently published as a book. ********** I.A.2. Fr: Carolyn Watters Re: CAIS/ACSI'93 CAIS/ACSI'93 21st Annual Conference Canadian Association for Information Science Information as a Global Commodity -- Communication, Processing and Use Halifax, Antigonish, Nova Scotia, Canada July 12-14, 1993 The annual CAIS/ACSI conference provides a national and international forum for the presentation and discussion of research and development in information science. The focus of this year's conference is on information as a global commodity and, as such, includes, but is not limited to the following: Communication and networking Evaluating systems and content Producing and packaging Transborder data issues Standards and protocols Information in developing countries Research issues Assessing value and adding value. STUDENTS: Student presentations or posters are encouraged and an award will be given to the best student presentation. CONTRIBUTIONS: The format of this year's conference will include keynote speakers, presentations, panel discussions, and demonstrations or tutorials. Papers will be fully refereed and proceedings will be available at the conference. Papers are limited to eight single-spaced pages. Anyone interested in participating should send a paper or proposal outlining the type of presentation (demonstration, poster, panel, or tutorial), by 1 March 1993, to: Dr. Carolyn Watters Dept. of Mathematics, Statistics and Computing Science Dalhousie University Halifax, Nova Scotia Canada B3H 3J5 email: watters@cs.dal.ca fax: 902-494-5130 IMPORTANT DATES: 1 March 1993 - papers and proposals 15 April 1993 - notification of acceptance 1 June 1993 - camera-ready copy of papers due. For further information abut Antigonish, accommodations and local arrangements, please contact. Ernst Schuegraf Box 55, St. Francis Xavier University Dept. of Mathematics and Computing Sciences Antigonish, Nova Scotia Canada B2G 1C0 email: schuegraf@essex.stfx.ca FAX: 902-867-5153 Phone: 902-867-2269 ********** I.A.3. Fr: Lev Goldfarb Re: The 5th UNB AI Symposium Call for Participation The 5th UNB AI Symposium ARE WE MOVING AHEAD? August 11-14, 1993, Sheraton Inn Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada We invite researchers from the various areas of Artificial Intelligence, Cognitive Science and Pattern Recognition, including Vision, Learning, Knowledge Representation and Foundations, to submit articles which assess or review the progress made so far in their respective areas, as well as the relevance of that progress to the whole enterprise of AI. Other papers which do not address the theme are also invited. FEATURE: Four 70 minute invited talks and five panel discussions are devoted to the chosen topic: "Are we moving ahead: Lessons from Computer Vision." The speakers include (in alphabetical order) * Lev Goldfarb * Stephen Grossberg * Robert Haralick * Tomaso Poggio. Such a concentrated analysis of the area will be undertaken for the first time. We feel that the "Lessons from Computer Vision" are of relevance to the entire AI community. March 30, 1993: Four copies of an extended abstract (maximum of 4 pages including references) should be sent to the conference chair. May 15, 1993: Notification of acceptance will be mailed. July 1, 1993: Camera-ready copy of paper is due. FOR COMPLETE INFORMATION CONTACT: Lev Goldfarb, Conference Chair Email: goldfarb@unb.ca Faculty of Computer Science University of New Brunswick P. O. Box 4400 Fredericton, New Brunswick Canada E3B 5A3 Phone: (506) 453-4566 FAX: (506) 453-3566 ********** I.A.4. Fr: ceth%zodiac.bitnet@pucc.princeton.edu Re: CETH Summer Seminar Announcement CENTER FOR ELECTRONIC TEXTS IN THE HUMANITIES Electronic Texts in the Humanities: Methods and Tools. The Second Annual Summer Seminar at Princeton University, New Jersey August 1-13, 1993. Organized by The Center for Electronic Texts in the Humanities, Princeton and Rutgers, with the co-sponsorship of the Centre for Computing in the Humanities, University of Toronto. The Center for Electronic Texts in the Humanities (CETH) is again offering an intensive two-week seminar during August 1993. The seminar will address a wide range of challenges and opportunities that electronic texts and software offer to teachers, scholars and librarians in the humanities. Discussions on the capture, markup, retrieval, presentation, transformation, and analysis of electronic text will prepare students for extensive hands-on experience with illustrative software, e.g., MTAS, Micro-OCP, WordCruncher, Tact, and hypertext. Resources on CD-ROM and Internet, such as the OED, Perseus, CDWORD, and several large textual collections in classical Greek, Latin, French, Italian, and English, will be demonstrated so that participants may make informed evaluations of their significance in the light of current and future technologies. Approaches to markup, from ad hoc schemes to the systematic design of the Text Encoding Initiative, will be surveyed and considered. The focus of the Seminar will be practical and methodological, with the immediate aim of assisting participants in their own teaching, research, and advising. It will be concerned with the demonstrable benefits of using electronic texts, with typical problems and how to solve them, and with the ways in which software fits or can be adapted to common methods of textual study. Participants will be expected to work on coherent projects, preferably of their own devising, and will be given the opportunity to present them on the last day. Throughout the Seminar, the instructors will provide assistance with designing projects, locating sources for texts and software, and solving practical problems. Ample computing facilities will be available 24 hours per day. A small library of essential articles and books in humanities computing will be on hand to supplement printed seminar materials, which include an extensive bibliography. Special lectures will describe current research in the field and address research topics, as well as the role of the library in the use of electronic texts. The Seminar is intended for faculty, students, librarians, technical advisers, and academic administrators with direct responsibilities for humanities computing support. It assumes basic computing experience but not necessarily with its application to academic research and teaching. The number of participants will be limited to 30. THE CENTER FOR ELECTRONIC TEXTS IN THE HUMANITIES: The Center for Electronic Texts in the Humanities was established in October 1991 by Rutgers and Princeton Universities with external support from the Mellon Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities. As a national focus of interest in the U.S. for those who are involved in the creation, dissemination and use of electronic texts in the humanities, it also acts as a national node on an international network of centers and projects which are actively involved in the handling of electronic texts. Developed from the international inventory of machine-readable texts which was begun at Rutgers in 1983 and is held on RLIN, the Center is now reviewing the records in the inventory and continues to catalog new texts. The acquisition and dissemination of text files to the community is another important activity, concentrating on a selection of good quality texts which can be made available over Internet with suitable retrieval software and with appropriate copyright permission. The Center also acts as a clearinghouse on information related to electronic texts, directing enquirers to other sources of information. FEES: The cost of participating in this Summer Seminar will be $895, including tuition, use of computer facilities, student accommodation, breakfast and lunch at Princeton for the two weeks, and banquet and reception. Students pay a reduced rate of $795. For those who prefer hotel accommodations, the cost is $645 to cover tuition, lunch, the banquet and reception, and $565 for students. There will be 24-hour access to networked microcomputers in the student accommodation throughout the seminar. APPLICATION PROCEDURE: To apply for participation in this Summer Seminar, submit a one-page statement of interest. The statement should indicate (1) how participation in the Seminar would be relevant for your teaching, research, advising or administrative work, and possibly that of your colleagues; (2) what project you would like to undertake during the Seminar, or what area of the humanities you would most like to explore; and (3) the extent of your computing experience. Applications must be attached to a cover sheet specifying your name, current institutional affiliation and position, postal and e-mail addresses, and phone and fax numbers, as available, as well as natural language interest and computing experience. Currently enrolled students must also include a photocopy of a valid student ID. E-mail submissions should have a subject line `Summer Seminar Application'. The statement must be received by the reviewing committee, consisting of members of the Center's Governing Board, by APRIL 15, 1993, at the address below. Those who have been selected to attend will be notified by May 15, 1993. Payment will be requested at this time. Summer Seminar 1993 Center for Electronic Texts phone: (908) 932-1384 in the Humanities fax: (908) 932-1386 169 College Avenue bitnet: ceth@zodiac New Brunswick, NJ 08903 internet: ceth@zodiac.rutgers.edu U.S.A. ********** I.A.5. Fr: Timothy Finin Re: CIKM-93 CFP: 2nd Int. Conf. on Information and Knowledge management The CIKM-93, second International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management will be held November 1-5, 1993 at the Double Tree Hotel in Washington D.C., USA. Like the successful CIKM-92, it will provide an international forum for presentation and discussion of research on information and knowledge management, as well as recent advances on data and knowledge bases. 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