Information Retrieval List Digest 155 (March 16, 1993) URL = http://hegel.lib.ncsu.edu/stacks/serials/irld/irld-155 IRLIST Digest ISSN 1064-6965 March 16, 1993 Volume X, Number 11 Issue 155 ********************************************************** I. NOTICES A. Meeting Announcements/Calls for Papers 1. Neural Information Processing Systems 2. AAAI 1993 Spring Symposium Series II. QUERIES B. Requests for Information 1. Query: Length of Typical Queries to Online Retrieval Systems IV. PROJECT WORK D. Miscellaneous 1. Publishing in the Future: A Survey ********************************************************** I. NOTICES I.A.1. Fr: Jack Cowan Re: Neural Information Processing Systems FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS Neural Information Processing Systems -Natural and Synthetic- Monday, November 29 - Thursday, December 2, 1993 Denver, Colorado This is the seventh meeting of an inter-disciplinary conference which brings together neuroscientists, engineers, computer scientists, cognitive scientists, physicists, and mathematicians interested in all aspects of neural processing and computation. There will be an afternoon of tutorial presentations (Nov 29) preceding the regular session and two days of focused workshops will follow at a nearby ski area (Dec 3-4). Major categories and examples of subcategories for paper submissions are the following: NEUROSCIENCE: Studies and Analyses of Neurobiological Systems, Inhibition in cortical circuits, Signals and noise in neural computation, Theoretical Biology and Biophysics. THEORY: Computational Learning Theory, Complexity Theory, Dynamical Systems, Statistical Mechanics, Probability and Statistics, Approximation Theory. IMPLEMENTATION & SIMULATION: VLSI, Optical, Software Simulators, Implementation Languages, Parallel Processor Design and Benchmarks. ALGORITHMS & ARCHITECTURES: Learning Algorithms, Constructive and Pruning Algorithms, Localized Basis Functions, Tree Structured Networks, Performance Comparisons, Recurrent Networks, Combinatorial Optimization, Genetic Algorithms. COGNITIVE SCIENCE & AI: Natural Language, Human Learning and Memory, Perception and Psychophysics, Symbolic Reasoning. VISUAL PROCESSING: Stereopsis, Visual Motion, Recognition, Image Coding and Classification. SPEECH & SIGNAL PROCESSING: Speech Recognition, Coding, and Synthesis, Text-to- Speech, Adaptive Equalization, Nonlinear Noise Removal. CONTROL, NAVIGATION, & PLANNING: Navigation and Planning, Learning Internal Models of the World, Trajectory Planning, Robotic Motor Control, Process Control. APPLICATIONS: Medical Diagnosis or Data Analysis, Financial and Economic Analysis, Timeseries Prediction, Protein Structure Prediction, Music Processing, Expert Systems. Technical Program: Plenary, contributed and poster sessions will be held. There will be no parallel sessions. The full text of presented papers will be published. Submission Procedures: Original research contributions are solicited, and will be carefully refereed. Authors must submit six copies of both a 1000-word (or less) summary and six copies of a separate single-page 50-100 word abstract clearly stating their results postmarked by May 22, 1993 (express mail is not necessary). Accepted abstracts will be published in the conference program. Summaries are for program committee use only. At the bottom of each abstract page and on the first summary page indicate preference for oral or poster presentation and specify one of the above nine broad categories and, if appropriate, sub-categories (For example: Poster, Applications, Expert Systems; Oral, Implementation-Analog VLSI). Include addresses of all authors at the front of the summary and ! the abstract and indicate to which author correspondence should be addressed. Submissions will not be considered that lack category information, separate abstract sheets, the required six copies, author addresses, or are late. Mail Submissions To: Gerry Tesauro The Salk Institute, CNL 10010 North Torrey Pines Rd. La Jolla, CA 92037 Mail For Registration Material To: NIPS*93 Registration NIPS Foundation PO Box 60035 Pasadena, CA 91116-6035 All submitting authors will be sent registration material automatically. Program committee decisions will be sent to the correspondence author only. NIPS*93 Organizing Committee: General Chair, Jack Cowan, University of Chicago; Publications Chair, Joshua Alspector, Bellcore; Publicity Chair, Bartlett Mel, CalTech; Program Chair, Gerry Tesauro, Salk Institute; Treasurer, Rodney Goodman, CalTech; Local Arrangements, Chuck Anderson, Colorado State University; Tutorials Chair, Dave Touretzky, Carnegie-Mellon, Workshop Chair, Mike Mozer, University of Colorado, Government & Corporate Liaison, Lee Giles, NEC Research Institute Inc. DEADLINE FOR SUMMARIES & ABSTRACTS IS MAY 22, 1993 (POSTMARKED) ********** I.A.2. Fr: Marti Hearst Re: AAAI 1993 Spring Symposium Series Schedule AAAI 1993 Spring Symposium Series CBR/IR: Exploring Opportunities for Technology Sharing (9:00-10:30; Topic: Representation) Opening remarks (Anick, Simoudis) Bruce Croft, University of Massachusetts (invited talk) 10:30-11:00 Break (11:00-12:00; Topic: Representation) Janet Kolodner, Georgia Institute of Technology (invited talk) 12:00-2:00 Break (2:00-3:30; Topic: Applications; Chair: Simoudis) 1. Combining String Matching and Similarity Assessment for Retrieving Appropriate Cases Efficiently: T. Tanaka, and N. Sueda 2. Case-Based Reasoning in Molecular Scene Analysis: J.I. Glasgow, D. Conklin, S. Fortier 3. A Case-Based Reasoning System Independent of a representation of Cases in Terms of Features: S. Rougegrez 3:30-4:00 Break (4:00-5:30; Topic: Combining IR and CBR methods of knowledge representation; Chair: Anick) 1. Cases As Structured Indices for Full-Length Documents: M.A. Hearst 2. Structured Representations of Empirical Information: C. Chisnell, D.V. Rama, P. Srinivasan 3. An Intelligent Interface to a Database System: A. Fernandez-Valmayor, C. V. Jimenez, M. de Buenaga Rodriguez 6:00-7:00pm Reception, Oak Lounge, Tressider Union WEDNESDAY, March 24 (9:00-10:00; Topic: Multimedia; Chair: Mark) 1. Index Generation in the Construction of Large-Scale Conversational Hypermedia Systems: R. Osgood and R. Bareiss 2. CAFIIR: An Image Based CBR/IR Application: A.D. Narasimhalu (10:00-10:30; Topic: Query Construction; Chair: Mark) 1. An Approach to Incorporating CBR Concepts in IR Systems: J. Callan, B. Croft 10:30-11:00 Break (11:00-12:30; Topic: Query Construction (continued); Chair: Mark) 2. Edwina Rissland University of Massachusetts (invited talk) 3. A Case-Based Approach to Software Components Retrieval: C. Fernandez-Chamizo 12:30-2:00 Break (2:00-3:30; Topic: Query construction, continued; Chair: Mark) 1. Using Controlled Knowledge Search to Retrieve Cross-Contextual Analogies: M. Wolverton, B. Hayes-Roth 2. Nicholas Belkin, Rutgers University (invited talk) 3:30-4:00 Break (4:00-5:30; Topic: System/user interaction in dialog-based IR; Chair: Croft) 1. Strategic Retrieval of Tutorial Stories: R. Burke 2. Scripts for Information Seeking Strategies: N. Belkin, C. Cool, A. Stein, U. Thiel 3. How to Use Cases for Information Seeking Processes: A. Ti_en 7:30-9:00pm Public Forum, Cubberly Auditorium THURSDAY, March 25 (9:00-10:00; Topic: Scaling up; Chair: Simoudis) 1. David Waltz, Thinking Machine Corporation and Brandeis University (invited talk) 2. Effects of Query and Database Sizes on Classification of News Stories Using Memory-Based Reasoning: B. Masand 10:30-11:00 Break (11:00-12:30; Topic: Scaling up; Chair: Simoudis) 1. Using Cases to Represent Conext for Text Classification: E. Riloff 2. Wrap-up: P. Anick, E. Simoudis ********************************************************** II. QUERIES II.B.1. Fr: David Lewis Re: Query: Length of Typical Queries to Online Retrieval Systems Hi -- An employee of one of the big online database companies once told me that 90% of the queries submitted to their system were one word long, despite their provision of a rich searching language. My own experience with demoing natural language interfaces to statistical text retrieval systems has also suggested that people typically enter very short queries, even though longer queries would be more effective. However, I don't know of any published figures on the distribution of lengths of queries made to operational systems, degree of use of AND/OR/etc., and so on. Can anyone provider pointers to such articles? If you reply to me I will post a summary of replies to this list, and will include your name along with your comment unless otherwise requested. Thanks, Dave David D. Lewis AT&T Bell Laboratories email: lewis@research.att.com 600 Mountain Ave.; Room 2C-408 ph. 908-582-3976 Murray Hill, NJ 07974; USA dept. fax. 908-582-7550 ********************************************************** IV. PROJECT WORK IV.D.1. Fr: Dave Taylor Re: Publishing in the Future: A SURVEY [please respond to taylor@netcom.com] SURVEY QUESTIONS Changing Patterns in the Acquisition, Delivery and Use of Information in the 1990's In an attempt to learn more about how people perceive the future directions of publishing -- the acquisition, delivery and use of information -- we've created this simple survey for you to complete. Please feel free to be creative in your answers. Thanks. ** Results will be summarized and emailed to all participants. ** o What are the three most significant technologies that you believe will impact publishing during this decade? Breaking that down, what is the most important technology you anticipate that will affect the acquisition of data? Most important regarding the delivery of data? o Do you anticipate the use of information to change dramatically in the next decade? How? o What affect do you think the following technologies will have on publishing in the 1990's? - Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs)? - Better laptops? - Wireless computer networks? - Cellular phone systems? - CD-ROM? - Higher quality LCD screens? - HDTV? - Higher capacity memory chips? - Object-oriented operating systems? - Audio-aware systems? - Hypertext and hypermedia? - Faster and more accessible national and international networks? - Compact Disk Interactive (CDI) and similar? - FAX machines? - ISDN, caller-id and other telephony technologies? - Video tape, video disk and other optical media? o Companies have changed over the last few years too, becoming more multinational, more global in scope, and being forced to learn how to do business in complex world economies. From a publishing perspective, the need to intelligently query and search data has become more important. But the conflict between a printed medium, which allows easy reading, and a digital medium, which allows fast browsing, is a fundamental dilemma. What are your thoughts on this? o What do you think magazines will look like in the late 1990's? What do you think newspapers will look like? How about books, and other printed media? o On-line Information systems like CompuServe and America Online offer an interesting possibility for the future of publishing. What advantages and disadvantages do you see in this media? o Ideally, publishing should be an interactive process. Can you conceive of any future publishing technologies that could offer a more interactive experience between writer, editor, designer, and reader? o What will a public library look like in the future? A bookstore? A magazine stand? o Printing on paper has accustomed us to specific frequencies of publication: weekly, monthly, quarterly, etc. As publishing becomes more interactive, and as distribution becomes constrained by network speed rather than mailing, publications can be updated on a daily or even hourly basis. How do you anticipate that might change the definition of what comprises a magazine, newspaper, or newsletter? How would you differentiate between these a decade from now? Thanks for your cooperation: please EMAIL all responses to 'taylor@netcom.com' -- posted replies will not be seen. ********************************************************** IRLIST Digest is distributed from the University of California, Division of Library Automation, 300 Lakeside Drive, Oakland, CA. 94612-3550. 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