Information Retrieval List Digest 158 (April 13, 1993) URL = http://hegel.lib.ncsu.edu/stacks/serials/irld/irld-158 IRLIST Digest ISSN 1064-6965 April 13, 1993 Volume X, Number 14 Issue 158 ********************************************************** I. NOTICES A. Meeting Announcements/Calls for Papers 1. ACL-93 2. ACH-ALLC93 3. New OED Conference, 1993 III. JOB ANNOUNCEMENTS 1. AASERT Ph.D. Student Fellowships: Syracuse U. ********************************************************** I. NOTICES I.A.1. Fr: Don Walker Re: ACL-93 Annual Meeting Program and Registration information ASSOCIATION FOR COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS 31st Annual Meeting ACL-93 22-26 June 1993 Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA TUTORIALS: Brain and Language Mathematics of Language: How to Measure the Complexity of Natural Languages Multimedia and Multimodal Parsing Natural Language Processing and Information Retrieval PROGRAM: Char_align: A Program for Aligning Parallel Texts at the Character Level Aligning Sentences in Bilingual Corpora Using Lexical Information An Algorithm for Finding Noun Phrase Correspondences in Bilingual Corpora Structural Matching of Parallel Texts Towards History-Based Grammars: Using Richer Models for Probabilistic Parsing Using Bracketed Parses to Evaluate a Grammar Checking Application A Speech-First Model for Repair Detection and Correction A Natural Language System for Spoken-Language Understanding The Effect of Establishing Coherence in Ellipsis and Anaphora Resolution Temporal Centering Inferring the Semantic Scope of Operators Two Kinds of Metonymy Planning Multimodel Discourse [Invited Talk--Wolfgang Wahlster, German Research Center for AI] A Unification-Based Parser for Relational Grammar Parsing Free Word Order Languages in the Paninian Framework Principle-Based Parsing without Overgeneration Lexiclized Context-Free Grammars Parallel Multiple Context-Free Grammars, Finite-State Translation Systems, and Ploynomial-Time Recognizable Subclasses of Lexical-Functional Grammars Feature-Based Allomorphy Intention-Based Segmentation: Human Reliability and Correlation with Linguistic Cues Language-Independent Anaphora Resolution System for Understanding Multilingual Texts Contextual Word Similarity and Estimation from Sparse Data Towards the Automatic Identification of Adjectival Scales: Clustering of Adjectives According to Meaning Distributional Clustering of English Words Transfers of Meaning [Invited Talk--Geoff Nunberg, Xerox PARC] WORKSHOPS: Workshop on Acquisition of Lexical Knowledge from Text Workshop on Intentionality and Structure in Discourse Relations Workshop on Very Large Corpora: Academic and Industrial Perspectives SPECIAL EVENTS: Special Business Meeting Agenda Judy Collins and the Columbus Symphony Student Member Lunch Meeting 1993 Linguistic Institute FOR COMPLETE INFORMATION CONTACT: Donald E. Walker (ACL) +1-201-829-4312 phone Bellcore +1-201-829-5981 fax 445 South Street, MRE 2A379 acl@bellcore.com Morristown, NJ 07960, USA ********** I.A.2. Fr: ACH-ALLC93 Conference Re: ACH-ALLC93 Conference ACH-ALLC93, the joint international conference of the Association for Computers and the Humanities and the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing, will be held at Georgetown University in Washington, DC, June 16-19, 1993. Listed below are the keynote speeches and the papers and panels accepted for presentation at the conference. The conference: announcement/registration form and the provisional program can be obtained in several ways: 1. by email request to ACH_ALLC93@GUVAX.GEORGETOWN.EDU 2. by anonymous FTP to GUVAX.GEORGETOWN.EDU in directory ACH_ALLC93 3. by gopher to GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY in directory ACH_ALLC93 4. by surface mail from Paul Mangiafico, Project Assistant Center for Text and Technology Academic Computer Center 238 Reiss Science Building Georgetown University Washington, DC 20057 USA ACH-ALLC93 CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS KEYNOTE SPEECHES: Clifford LYNCH, Director of Library Automation, Office of the President, University of California; Hugh KENNER, Franklin and Calloway Professor of English, University of Georgia ACCEPTED PAPERS: Douglas A. Kibbee: The History of Disciplinary Vocabulary: A Computer-Based Approach to Concepts of 'Usage' in 17th-Century Works on Language; Terry Butler, Donald Bruce: Towards the Discourse of the Commune: Computer Aided Analysis of Jules Valles' Trilogy Jacques Vingtras; John Lavagnino: Hypertext and Textual Editing; Risto Miilumaki: The Prerelease Materials for Finnegans Wake: A Hypermedia Approach to Joyce's Work in Progress; Catherine Scott: Hypertext as a Route into Computer Literacy; Thomas B. Horton: Finding Verbal Correspondences Between Texts; David Holmes, Michael L. Hilton: Cumulative Sum Charts for Authorship Attribution: An Appraisal; Lisa Lena Opas: Analysing Stylistic Features in Translation: A Computer-Aided Approach; Nancy Ide, Jean Veronis: An Encoding Scheme for Machine Readable Dictionaries; Peter Flynn: Spinning the Web - Using WorldWideWeb for Browsing SGML; Claus Huitfeldt: MECS - A Multi-Element Code System; Wilfried Ver Eecke, Marvin Needell: Computer Analysis of Hegel's Phenomenology of Mind; Tony Jappy: The Verbal Structure of Romantic and Serious Fiction; Thomas Rommel: An Analysis of Word Clusters in Lord Byron's Don Juan; Daniel C. Jacobson: Multi-Media Environments for the Study of Musical Form and Analysis; John Morehen: Computers and Authenticity in the Performance of Elizabethan Keyboard Music; Christian Delcourt: Computational Linguistics from 500 BC to AD 1700; Catherine N. Ball: Automated Text Analysis: Cautionary Tales; Jean-Jacques Hamm, Greg Lessard; (Do Literary Studies Really Need Computers? John Burrows: Noisy Signals? Or Signals in the Noise? Hans van Halteren; The Usefulness of Function and Attribute Information in Syntactic Annotation; R. Harald Baayen: Quantitative Aspects of Lexical Conceptual Structure; Elizabeth S.Adams: Let the Trigrams Fall Where They May: Trigram Type and Tokens in the Brown Corpus; Greg Lessard, Michael Levison: Computational Models of Riddling Strategies; Walter Daelemans, Antal van den Bosch, Steven Gilles, Gert Durieux: Learning Linguistic Mappings: An Instance-Based Learning Approach; Michael J. Almeida, Eugenie P. Almeida: NewsAnalyzer - An Automated Assistant for the Analysis of Newspaper Discourse; Kazys Baniulis, Bronius Tamulynas, Kestutis Pocius, Saulius Simniskis, Daiva Dmuchovska, Jolanta Normantiene: Computer-Based Lithuanian Language Learning System in Humanities Programs; Eve Wilson: Language of Learner and Computer: Modes of Interaction; Floyd D. Barrows, Elaine Cherney, James B. Obielodan: An Experimental Computer-Assisted Instructional Unit on Ancient Hebrew History and Society; Hsin-Hsi Chen, Ting-Chuan Chung: Proper Treatments of Ellipsis Problems in an English-Chinese Machine Translation System; Jorge Hankamer: keCitexts: Text-based Analysis of Morphology and Syntax in an Agglutinating Language; Juha Heikkila, Atro Voutilainen: ENGCG: An Efficient and Accurate Parser for English Texts; Wen-Chiu Tu: Sound Correspondences in Dialect Subgrouping; Ellen Johnson, William A. Kretzschmar, Jr.: Using Linguistic Atlas Databases for Phonetic Analysis; Shoichiro Hara, Hisashi Yasunaga: On the Full-Text Database of Japanese Classical Literature; Ian Lancashire: A Textbase of Early Modern English Dictionaries, 1499-1659; Dionysis Goutsos, Ourania Hatzidaki, Philip King: Towards a Corpus of Spoken Modern Greek; Yannis Haralambous: ScholarTeX; Kathryn Burroughs Taylor: Transferring Automatic Speech Recognizer (ASR) Performance Improvement Technology to Optical Character Recognition; David J. Hutches: Lexical Classification: Examining a New Tool for the Statistical Processing of Plain Text Corpora; Espen S. Ore, Anne Haavaldsen: Computerizing the Runic Inscriptions at the Historic Museum in Bergen; Daan van Reenen: Early Islamic Traditions, History and Information Science; Angela Gilham: Knowledge-Based Simulation: Applications in History; Malcolm B. Brown: Navigating the Waters: Building an Academic Information System; Charles Henry: The Coalition for Networked Information (CNI), the Global Library, and the Humanities; Christian-Emil Ore: The Norwegian Information System for the Humanities; Michael Strangelove: The State and Potential of Networked Resources for Religious Studies: An Overview of Documented Resources and the Process of Creating a Discipline-Specific Networked Archive of Bibliographic Information and Research/Pedagogical Material; Andrew D. Scrimgeour: Cocitation Study of Religious Journals. ACCEPTED PANELS: Documenting Electronic Texts: Annelies Hoogcarspel, Chair, TEI Header, Text Documentation, and Bibliographic Control of Electronic Texts; Richard Giordano; Panelist TBA. Preserving the Human Electronic Record: Responsibilities, Problems, Solutions: Peter Graham, Chair; Barry Neavill; W. Scott Stornetta. Networked Electronic Resources: New Opportunities for Humanities Scholars: Christine Mullings, Chair: HUMBUL: A Successful Experiment; Richard Gartner: Moves Towards the Electronic Bodleian: Introducing Digital Imaging into the Bodleian Library, Oxford; Jonathan Moffett: Making Resource Databases Accessible to the Humanities. Developing and Managing Electronic Texts Centers: Mark Day, Chair and Participant; Anita Lowry; John-Price Wilkin. Design Principles for Electronic Textual Resources: Integrating the Uses, Users and Developers: Susan Hockey, Chair; Nicholas Belkin; Elaine Brennan; Robin Cover. What Next After the TEI? Call for a Text Software Initiative: Nancy Ide, Chair; Malcolm Brown; Mark Olsen; Jean Veronis; Antonio Zampolli; Representative of GNU Free Software Foundation. Issues in Humanities Computing Support: Charles D. Bush, Chair; Peter Lafford; Terry Butler; Donald Spaeth; Malcolm Brown. The Scholar's Workbench and the "Edition:" Legitimate Aspiration or Chimera: Frank Colson: The Debate on Multi-Media Standards; Manfred Thaller: Exploiting Datasets Using Kleio under Microcosm; Dino Buzzetti: Masters and Books in Fourteenth Century Bologna; Frank Colson, Wendy Hall: Towards a Multi-Media Interrogating the Text: Hypertext in English Literature: Caroline Davis, Chair; Patrick W. Conner, Rudolph P. Almasy: Corpus Exegesis in the Literature Classroom: The Sonnet Workstation; Mike Best: Of Hype and Hypertext: In Search of Structure; Stuart Lee: Hypermedia in the Trenches: First World War Poetry in Hypercard -- Observations on Evaluation, Design, and Copyright. The Computerization of the Manuscript Tradition of Chr tien de Troyes's "Le Chevalier de la Charrette": Joel Goldfield,, Chair and Reporter; Karl D. Uitti: Old French Manuscripts, the Modern Book, and the Image; Gina L. Greco: The Electronic Diplomatic Transcription of Chr tien de Troyes's "Le Chevalier de la Charrette (Lancelot):" Its Forms and Uses; Toby Paff: The 'Charrette" Database: Technical Issues and Experimental Resolutions. The Wittgenstein Archives at the University of Bergen: Claus Huitfeldt, Chair; Claus Huitfeldt, Ole Letnes: Encoding Wittgenstein; Claus Huitfeldt: Manuscript Encoding: Alphatexts and Betatexts; Alois Pichler: What Is Transcription, Really? Signs, Symbols, and Discourses: A New Direction for Computer-Aided Literary Studies -- New Responses: Paul A. Fortier, Chair; Mark Olsen: Signs, Symbols, and Discourses: A New Direction for Computer-Aided Literary Studies; Donald Bruce: Towards the Implementation of Text and Discourse Theory in Computer-Aided Analysis; Paul Fortier: Babies, Bathwater, and the Study of Literature; Joel D. Goldfield: An Argument for Single-Author and Other Focused Studies Using Quantitative Criticism: A Collegial Response to Mark Olsen; Gina L. Greco and Peter Shoemaker: Computer-Aided Literary Studies: Addressing the Particularities of Medieval Texts; Ellen Spolsky: Have It Your Way and Mine: The Theory of Styles. INVITED SIGIR PANEL ON INFORMATION RETRIEVAL Edward Fox, Chair and Presenter: Electronic Dissertation Project; Elizabeth D. Liddy: Use of Extractable Semantics from a Machine Readable Dictionary for Information Tasks; Robert P. Futrelle: Representing, Searching, Annotating, and Classifying Scientific and Complex Orthographic Text. The British National Corpus: Problems in Producing a Large Text Corpus: Gavin Burnage, Chair; Roger Garside; Ray Woodall. The Academical Village: Electronic Texts and the University of Virginia: John Price-Wilkin, Chair; Kendon Stubbs; David Seaman; David Gants. ********** I.A.3. Fr: Frank W. Tompa Re: Call for Papers - New OED Conference Call for Papers Making Sense of Words 9th Annual Conference of the University of Waterloo Centre for the New OED and Text Research September 27 - 28, 1993 St. Cross Building, Oxford, England The Ninth Annual Conference of the University of Waterloo Centre for the New OED and Text Research, jointly sponsored by the University of Waterloo and the Oxford University Press, will be held at St. Cross Building (with accommodations at St. Edmund Hall), Oxford, England, on September 27-28, 1993. This year's conference will focus on computational solutions to problems of equivalence among words and phrases. Within lexicography, one of the most important problems in this area is one of grouping equivalents: sifting through corpus citations to form sense groups. Within lexicology and computational linguistics, there are problems of finding equivalents: matching citations to dictionary senses, aligning one dictionary's senses with another's, and aligning parts of texts with their translations. In related fields, there are problems of forming equivalents: generating translations, expanding full-text queries to include synonyms, and tailoring texts to suit specific audiences. Conference participants will again include researchers from computer science and the humanities, as well as representatives from publishing houses and other industries. Papers presenting original research on theoretical and applied aspects of the theme are being sought. Typical but not exclusive areas of interest include computational lexicology, computational linguistics, syntactic and semantic analysis, computational lexicography, lexical databases, computer-assisted translation, and online reference works. Submissions will be referred by the program committee listed below. Authors should send 7 copies of a detailed abstract (5 - 10 pages) by April 27, 1993 to: Prof. Frank Tompa, Program Chair UW Centre for the New OED and Text Research University of Waterloo Waterloo, Ontario, Canada N2L 3G1 or email: newoed@uwaterloo.ca or fax: 519/885-1208 Late submissions risk rejection without consideration. Authors will be notified of acceptance or rejection by June 18, 1993. A working draft of the paper, not exceeding 15 pages, will be due by July 16, 1993, for inclusion in proceedings which will be made available at the conference. ********************************************************** III. JOB ANNOUNCEMENTS III.1. Fr: Liz Liddy Re: AASERT Ph.D. Student Fellowships: Syracuse University The School of Information Studies at Syracuse University announces the availability of two 3-year Ph.D. fellowships towards a Ph.D. in Information Transfer. To be considered for an award, an applicant must be a citizen of the United States or a native resident of a possession of the United States. Citizens of another country who have applied for US citizenship do not meet this requirement. The Fellowships are made available by funds provided by Augmentation Awards for Science and Engineering Research Training (AASERT) Program and are used to support additional student researchers on ongoing Department of Defense funded research projects. The project on which the awardees will work is the DR-LINK Project, an Advanced Research Projects Administration (ARPA) funded effort in developing innovative approaches to information retrieval. The DR-LINK Project's research emphasis is on the use of computational linguistic analysis and conceptual graph representation for the provision of high-precision document retrieval. For each of the three years, the fellowship covers 24 hours of tuition, student activity and health fees, stipend for 20 hours of work a week during the academic year, and 40 hours of work a week during the summer. The students will begin the Ph.D. program with the Fall, 1993 semester. Admission to the Ph.D. program according to our established guidelines is required. The completion of a Syracuse University Graduate Application, three letters of recommendation, and GRE scores are required. Completed application materials should be submitted by June 15. The Ph.D. in Information Transfer at Syracuse University is a research-oriented program which focuses on the advancement and dissemination of new knowledge, both basic and applied, about the design, use, and evaluation of information systems in all segments of society. The program is interdisciplinary, bringing together relevant knowledge from information science, the behavioral sciences, and a range of research methodologies. Students who are interested in pursuing research in the areas of information retrieval, natural language processing, computational linguistics, or knowledge representation are encouraged to apply. For further information and application materials, contact: Prof. Elizabeth D. Liddy or Prof. Sung H. Myaeng School of Information Studies Syracuse University 4-206 Center for Science and Technology Syracuse University Syracuse, New York 13244-4100 (315) 443-2911 liddy@mailbox. syr. edu shmyaeng@mailbox.syr.edu ********************************************************** IRLIST Digest is distributed from the University of California, Division of Library Automation, 300 Lakeside Drive, Oakland, CA. 94612-3550. 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