Information Retrieval List Digest 151 (February 16, 1993) URL = http://hegel.lib.ncsu.edu/stacks/serials/irld/irld-151 IRLIST Digest ISSN 1064-6965 February 16, 1993 Volume X, Number 10 Issue 151 ********************************************************** I. NOTICES A. Meeting Announcements/Calls for Papers 1. EACL 1993: Correction 2. British Computer Society IR Group Annual Conference 3. 1st South American Workshop on String Processing 4. 2nd Turkish Symposium on AI and Artificial Neural Networks B. Publications 1. Ph.D. Dissertation Available 2. Source Code for Book Available ********************************************************** I. ANNOUNCEMENTS I.A.1. Fr: Louis des Tombe Re: EACL 1993: Correction Registration European ACL 1993 Contrary to what was announced in earlier communications, 'early' and therefore cheaper registration will still be possible until March 1, 1993. The programme is almost finalized and will be published before mid-February. EACL 1993 chair. ********** I.A.2. Fr: Ruben Leon Re: British Computer Society IR Group Annual Conference BRITISH COMPUTER SOCIETY INFORMATION RETRIEVAL GROUP ANNUAL CONFERENCE 29 - 30 MARCH 1993 CONFERENCE REGISTRATION: Participants to the annual conference of the BCS Information Retrieval Group are asked to register by post, email or fax to: The Secretary, Department of Information Science, Livingstone Tower, 26 Richmond Street, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow G1 1HX E-mail : secretary@dis.strath.ac.uk Fax: +44 41 553 1393 Tel: + 44 41 552 4400 ext: 3700 Registration fees, which cover full conference attendance, tea/coffee and lunch on Monday 29th are as following: 15 Students 30 Staff Please note that the above fees do not cover conference proceedings, evening meals or accommodation which must be purchased/booked separately. Accommodation is available at the University Hall of Residence at 21.15 a day (inclusive of VAT) by advanced booking only. Advanced accommodation bookings should include a 10 deposit to reach the Department no later than Friday 12th March. Please make cheques payable to the University of Strathclyde. Further details and calls for papers have been published in previous issues of this distribution list of news group, and are also available on request via E-mail from. secretary@dis.strath.ac.uk ------------------------------------------ Ruben Leon, Department of Information Science. University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland. Tel: +44 41 552 4400 ext 3595 / 3700 Fax +44 41 553 1393 email: ruben@dis.strath.ac.uk ********** I.A.1. Fr: Ricardo Baeza-Yates Re: South American Workshop on String Processing First South American Workshop on String Processing Call for Papers Departamento de Ci^encia da Computa,c~ao Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais Belo Horizonte, Brazil September 13 -- 15, 1993 The purpose of the South American Workshop on String Processing is to present current and on-going research results and stimulate the exchange of ideas in the area of Word and Text Processing. Typical but not exclusive topics of interest include: text algorithms, dictionary algorithms, dna sequencing, biological sequence analysis. Workshop Format: The format of the Workshop will be the presentation of on-going research through invited talks and refereed presentations, open problems session and discussions on special topics. Submissions: Please send five copies (or one copy by e-mail or fax) of an extended abstract written in English, no longer than five pages or 1,000--1,500 words, to the Program Chair Ricardo Baeza-Yates Phone: +56 2 689-2736 Depto. Ciencias de la Computaci'on Fax: +56 2 689-5531 Universidad de Chile e-mail: rbaeza@dcc.uchile.cl Casilla 2777 Santiago, Chile Program committee (partial list): Ricardo Baeza-Yates (Chairman, Univ. de Chile), Walter Cunto (IBM Venezuela), Tomasz Kowaltowski (Univ. de Campinas), Imre Simon (Univ. de S~ao Paulo) and Nivio Ziviani (Local Arrangements, Univ. Federal de Minas Gerais). Conference Timetable: Extended Abstracts Due : April 15, 1993 Notification to Authors: June 30, 1993 Camera Ready Copy : July 30, 1993 Additional information can be obtained from the Chairman of the Organizing Committee: Nivio Ziviani Phone: +55 31 4434088 Depto. de Ci^encia de Computa,c~ao Fax: +55 31 443 4352 Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais e-mail: nivio@dcc.ufmg.br Belo Horizonte, MG 30 161 970, Brazil ********** I.A.4. Fr: GUNEY::AKIN02 Re: CFP CALL FOR PAPERS 2nd Turkish Symposium on Artificial Intelligence and Artificial Neural Networks Bogazici University Istanbul, Turkey June 24-25, 1993 Supported by : Bogazici University, Istanbul; Bilkent University, Ankara; IEEE Computer Society Turkiye Section; Middle East Technical University, Ankara; TUBITAK, The Scientific and Technical Research Council of Turkey. SCOPE: Commonsense Reasoning, Knowledge Representation, Learning, Natural Language Processing, Control and Planning, Expert Systems, Theorem Proving, Intelligent Databases, Signal Processing, Speech Processing, Vision and Image Processing, Pattern Recognition, Robotics, Programming Languages, Simulation Environments, Theoretical Foundations, Hardware Implementations, Industrial Applications, Social, Legal, and Ethical Aspects, PAPER SUBMISSIONS: Deadline for full papers limited to 6 single spaced (12 point) A4 pages: March 1, 1993. Author notification: April 1, 1993. Camera ready copies: May 1, 1993. Send submissions (in English or Turkish) to Dr. L. Akin, Department of Computer Engineering, Bogazici University, TR-80815 Istanbul, Turkey. Tel (voice): +90 1 263 15 00 x 1323 (fax): +90 1 265 84 88 E-mail: yz@trboun.bitnet ********** I.B.1. Fr: Johannes Scholtes Re: PhD Dissertation Available Ph.D. DISSERTATION AVAILABLE on Neural Networks, Natural Language Processing, Information Retrieval For complete information about the dissertation "Neural Networks in Natural Language Processing and Information Retrieval" by Johannes C. Scholtes, write: University of Amsterdam J.C. Scholtes Dufaystraat 1 1075 GR Amsterdam The Netherlands Do not forget to mention a surface shipping address. Please allow 2-4 weeks for delivery. Abstract (edited due to space constraints by IR-L Moderator) 1.0 MACHINE INTELLIGENCE: Here, the field of neural networks is studied with that of pattern recognition in mind. Although only global qualitative comparisons are made, the importance of the relation between them is not to be underestimated. In addition it is argued that neural networks do indeed add something to the fields of MI and PR, instead of competing or conflicting with them. 2.0 NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING: In this study, the implementation of hierarchical structures and semantical features in mathematical objects such as vectors and matrices is given much attention. These vectors can then be used in models such as neural networks, but also in sequential statistical procedures implementing similar characteristics. 3.0 INFORMATION RETRIEVAL: Here, the emphasis is on real-time filtering of large amounts of dynamic data than on document retrieval from large (static) databases. By incorporating more contextual information, it should be possible to implement a model that can process large amounts of unstructured text without providing the end-user with an overkill of information. 4.0 THE COMBINATION: As this study is a very multi-disciplinary one, the risk exists that it remains restricted to a surface discussion of many different problems without analyzing one in depth. To avoid this, some central themes, applications and tools are chosen. The themes in this work are self-organization, distributed data representations and context. The applications are NLP and IR, the tools are (variants of) Kohonen feature maps, a well known model from neural network research. ********** I.B.2. Fr: Bill Frakes Re: Source Code for Book Available The source code from the book Information Retrieval: Data Structures and Algorithms, edited by William B. Frakes and Ricardo Baeza-Yates (Prentice-Hall, 1992), ISBN: 0-13-463837-9 is available via anonymous FTP. To access it, do the following. You: The System: ---- ----------- Enter: ftp ftp.vt.edu Asks for a username Enter: anonymous Asks for a password Enter your userid and Responds with: ftp> hostname as a courtesy Enter: cd pub/reuse/ir-code Responds: CWD command successful. ftp> get everything in and below this directory. Each of the directories contains C source code contributed by the authors of the book. The code is intended to illustrate the concepts discussed in the book. Although the code has been thoroughly tested, it is meant to be instructional material only, and it is not guaranteed. No warranty of this software is stated or implied by the authors, editors, testers, publishers, or suppliers of this code. The code contained in the sub-directories is: stopper Code to accompany Chapter 7: Lexical Analysis and Stop Lists Contributed by Christopher Fox stemmer Code to accompany Chapter 8: Stemming Algorithms Contributed by William B. Frakes thesauri Code to accompany Chapter 9: Thesaurus Construction Contributed by Padmini Srinivassan bool Code to accompany Chapter 12: Boolean Operations Contributed by Steven Wartik mphf Code to accompany Chapter 13: Hashing Algorithms Contributed by Edward Fox and Qi-Fan Chen Each sub-directory should contain a read.me file introducing the contents of the sub-directory, a makefile used to build the code, the source code and headers, and test drivers and test data. The makefile contains detailed information about how to build and test the code; the source code files themselves contain comments explaining the code and how it implements algorithms and data structures. The C code was written for and tested on the UNIX operating system. Distributing the code through DOS has required making changes that compromise file name readability somewhat. In particular, filenames are at most eight characters long, and use no upper case letters. 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