Information Retrieval List Digest 166 (June 8, 1993) URL = http://hegel.lib.ncsu.edu/stacks/serials/irld/irld-166 IRLIST Digest ISSN 1064-6965 June 8, 1993 Volume X, Number 22 Issue 166 ********************************************************** I. NOTICES A. Meeting Announcements/Calls for Papers 1. Word Congress on Neural Networks '93 B. Publication Announcements 1. PACLING '93 Proceedings 2. Information on the Electronic Highway C. Miscellaneous 1. GSLIS UCLA Proposed Closing 2. Summer School Contemporary Topics in Computational Linguistics II. QUERIES A. Questions and Answers 1. Activity (?) ********************************************************** NOTICES I.A.1. Fr: announce@cns.bu.edu Re: World Congress on Neural Networks '93 - Portland, OR, USA World Congress on Neural Networks - WCNN '93 1993 Annual Meeting of the International Neural Network Society (INNS) Oregon Convention Center - Portland, Oregon, USA July 11 - July 15, 1993 SUNDAY, JULY 11, 1993 TUTORIAL SESSIONS A. Cognitive Science - Robert Desimone B. Structural and Mathematical Approaches to Signal Processing - S.Y. Kung, C. Adaptive Resonance Theory - Gail Carpenter D. Practical Applications of Neural Network Theory - Robert Hecht-Nielsen, E. Cognitive Science - David Rumelhart F. Neural Fuzzy Systems - Fred Watkins G. Neurobiology and Chaos - Walter Freeman H. Neural Control and Robotics - Michael Kuperstein I. Neural Computation and VLSI - Eric Schwartz J. Biological Vision - V.S. Ramachandran K. Supervised Learning - Hal White Plenary -Wolf Singer, "Coherence as an Organizing Principle of Cortical Function" MONDAY, JULY 12, 1993 BIOLOGICAL VISION APPLICATIONS INTELLIGENT NEURAL SYSTEMS NEURAL FUZZY SYSTEMS PLENARIES: Bart Kosko, "Nerual Fuzzy Systems"; Kumpati Narendra, "Intelligent Control Using Neural Networks". SOCIETY FOR MANUFACTURING ENGINEERING SYMPOSIUM ON NEURAL NETWORKS IN MANUFACTURING OVERVIEW NEURAL NETWORK APPLICATIONS TO MANUFACTURING NEURAL NETWORKS FOR PROCESS CONTROL NEURAL NET INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS FOR MANUFACTURING TUESDAY, JULY 13, 1993 COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE ASSOCIATIVE MEMORY APPLICATIONS: UNSUPERVISED LEARNING LOCAL CIRCUIT NEUROBIOLOGY PLENARIES: Stephen Grossberg, "3D Vision and Figure-Ground Pop-Out"; Federico Faggin, "Solving Problems with Neural Networks". INTERNATIONAL FUZZY SYSTEMS ASSOCIATION SYMPOSIUM ON FUZZY LOGIC WEDNESDAY, JULY 14, 1993 SPEECH AND LANGUAGE ROBOTICS AND CONTROL SUPERVISED LEARNING I MACHINE VISION SUPERVISED LEARNING II RECEPTION GOVERNMENT PANEL SPECIAL INTEREST GROUP SESSIONS THURSDAY, JULY 15, 1993 BIOLOGICAL SENSORY-MOTOR CONTROL PATTERN RECOGNITION NEURODYNAMICS SIGNAL PROCESSING ELECTRO-OPTICAL NEUROCOMPUTERS FOR MORE INFORMATION ON WCNN 1993 CONTACT THE INNS OFFICES: 1250 24th St., NW, Suite 300, Washington, DC 20037, USA. (202) 466-4667 (phone) or (202) 466-2888 (fax). Please do not reply to this email account. ********** I.B.1. Fr: Re: PACLING-93 conference proceedings available Extra copies of the PACLING '93 Conference Proceedings are now available. PACLING '93 (the First Pacific Association for Computational Linguistics Conference) took place 21-24 April 1993 in Vancouver, Canada. The proceedings are 361 pages long and contain 37 papers, 5 posters and summaries of 3 invited talks by Dr. Kathleen R. McKeown, Dr. Takao Gunji, and Dr. George Heidorn. See below for the Table of Contents from the Proceedings. FOR COMPLETE INFORMATION, CONTACT Fred Popowich email: popowich@cs.sfu.ca PACLING '93 Conference Proceedings tel: (604) 291-4193 School of Computing Science fax: (604) 291-3045 Simon Fraser University Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada V5A 1S6 ********** I.B.2. Fr: SIRI Re: Information on the Electronic Highway NEW SIRI SERVICES PROVIDING YOU WITH INFORMATION THAT YOU CAN PUT TO WORK... Following feedback from our readers, the SIRI (Service integre de ressources d'information/Integrated Service for Information Resources) team at the Canadian Workplace Automation Research Centre (CWARC) is in the process of revising its products, services and policies. For anyone in an interdisciplinary field wanting to remain fully up-to-date, scanning multiple journals on a regular basis is critical. It is, however, a time-consuming activity. Moreover, one may not necessarily have access to all the relevant periodicals dealing with the subject being researched. The objective of the SIRI team, therefore, is to offer through FLASH INFORMATION and a new additional product (which is yet to be named), a selective dissemination of information specifically geared towards the information needs of researchers and management within the fields of information management and information technologies. These electronic publications will keep our readers up-to-date by providing details of relevant newly published information scanned from some 300 journals and news bulletins from our collection on a weekly basis. OUR NEW FORMAT.... The SIRI team is working toward improving the contents, format and access of FLASH INFORMATION. Future issues of FLASH INFORMATION, our bibliographic issue of articles on information technologies and industry news, for example, will be more comprehensive and entries will be grouped under general subject headings. Topics identified reflect the Centre's main research interests which include language technology, content engineering, multimedia, human-computer interaction issues, and learning technologies. An indexed listing of the journals scanned will be provided upon request. OUR NEW PRODUCT.... Whereas FLASH INFORMATION is a list of titles of articles, our new product will consist of abstracts of articles. This publication will provide researchers and management with news on strategic alliances within the industry and the Canadian government, industry news and issues, market and R & D trends, and recent developments in information/computer/communications related fields. These abstracts will be distributed jointly with FLASH INFORMATION. The list of subject headings, an example of FLASH INFORMATION in its new format and sample entries of our new product are included. TO PROVIDE YOU WITH INFORMATION THAT YOU CAN PUT TO WORK.... Up to now FLASH INFORMATION has been made available free of charge. We will continue sending you FLASH INFORMATION together with our new publication free until September. In order to provide you with the new products and services, however, a minimal subscription fee may be charged beginning September in order to recover some of the production costs. We would like to accommodate the needs of as many readers as possible; we would appreciate it, therefore, if you could supply us with the name and the electroni c address of anyone who may be interested in our services. If you have any new ideas, suggestions or comments, please contact us at Siri@aigle.ccrit.doc.ca. SUBJECT HEADINGS... (BUS)BUSINESS AND MANAGEMENT/AFFAIRES ET GESTION (NET) COMPUTER NETWORKS AND DATA COMMUNICATIONS/RESEAUX D'ORDINATEURS ET TELEINFORMATIQUE (ARC) COMPUTER SYSTEMS ARCHITECTURE/ARCHITECTURE DES SYSTEMES INFORMATIQUES (BAR) DATA CAPTURE/COLLECTE DES DONNEES (DIS) DISABLED PERSONS' AIDS/OUTILS POUR PERSONNES HANDICAPEES (CAI) EDUCATION, TRAINING, PERFORMANCE SUPPORT/EDUCATION, FORMATION, SOUTIEN A LA PERFORMANCE (HUM) HUMAN-MACHINE INTERACTION/INTERACTIONS PERSONNE-MACHINE (IND) INDUSTRY NEWS/NOUVELLES DE L'INDUSTRIE (EDI) INFORMATION INTERCHANGE/ECHANGE DES DONNEES EDI, CALS (ISR) INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL/STOCKAGE ET REPERAGE DE L'INFORMATION (MIS) INFORMATION SYSTEMS MANAGEMENT/GESTION DES SYSTEMES INFORMATIQUES (LEG) LEGAL, SOCIAL, POLITICAL ISSUES/ASPECTS LEGAUX, SOCIAUX, POLITIQUES (MUL) MULTIMEDIA SYSTEMS/SYSTTMES MULTIMEDIAS (LIN) NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING/TRAITEMENT DES LANGUES NATURELLES (RSO) REVIEWS, ANNOUNCEMENTS - SOFTWARE PRODUCTS/RECENSIONS ET ANALYSES - LOGICIELS (RTE) REVIEWS, ANNOUNCEMENTS - TELECOMMUNICATIONS SERVICES/RECENSIONS ET ANALYSES - SERVICES DE TELECOMMUNICATIONS (REQ) REVIEWS, ANNOUNCEMENTS - COMPUTER HARDWARE AND PERIPHERAL EQUIPMENT/ RECENSIONS ET ANALYSES - MATERIEL INFORMATIQUE (SEN) SOFTWARE ENGINEERING/GENIE LOGICIEL (STD) STANDARDS AND STANDARDIZATION/NORMES ET NORMALISATION (TEL) TELECOMMUNICATIONS/TELECOMMUNICATIONS (WOR) WORK ORGANIZATION/ORGANISATION DU TRAVAIL (VAR) MISCELLANEOUS/DIVERS ********** I.C.1. Fr: Pat Biron Re: GSLIS UCLA Proposed Closing As many of you in the Library and Information Science Profession may have already heard, on June 3, 1993 UCLA Chancellor Young announced a proposal to retructure five of UCLA's professional schools. The proposal calls for the "disestablishment" of the Graduate School of Library and Information Science, meaning that UCLA would no longer offer an MLS or Ph.D. in Library and Information Science. The UCLA Graduate School of Library and Information Science and its constituents are mounting an aggressive campaign opposing Chancellor Young's proposal to close the School in July 1994. The library school and the library profession are stunned that at a time when information is needed by California's diverse communities and businesses the Chancellor has recommended closing one of the two active professional degree programs in California. Quality of programs does not seem to be the issue as the UCLA library school ranks consistently among the top five in North America. The University's lack of support for female dominated professions is clearly apparent. In addition to gender discrimination UCLA administration's market-driven attitude penalizes service-oriented schools whose alumni are financially unable to provide large cash contributions. In the information age the Graduate School of Library and Information Science is vital to informing people who will create California's future. To write letters supporting the School address them to: 1. Chancellor Charles E. Young Chancellor's Office 2147 Murphy 2. Professor Carole-Goldberg Ambrose Chair, Academic Senate 3125 Murphy 3. Professor Gerald C. Pomeraning Chair, Graduate Council 1215 Murphy Hall UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA 90024 4. President J. W. Peltason Office of the President Kaiser Bldg. 300 Lakeside Drive Oakland, CA 94612-3550 In addition two Internet Lists have been set up: SOS-GSLIS-ANNOUNCE This is a distribution list only. It is for announcements dedicated to news about the future of the School. If you want items posted to this list, send those items to: SOS-GSLIS-REQUEST. A general discussion list has also been set up: SOS-GSLIS To subscribe to either of these two lists, send your subscription request to LISTSERV@ARGO.GSLIS.UCLA.EDU. In the body of the message type the following information: SUB [list name] [first name] [last name]. Feel free to forward this message on to anyone else you feel may have an interest or would be willing to lend us their support. The GSLIS, UCLA Task Force to Save our Programs and our Profession ********** I.C.2. Fr: Ruslan Mitkov Re: Summer School: Contemporary Topics in Computational Linguistics SUMMER SCHOOL "CONTEMPORARY TOPICS IN COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS" With emphasis on Machine Translation. Under the Sponsorship of the European Association for Machine Translation. Vassil Kolarov Lake, Rhodope Mountains, Bulgaria 5 September - 10 September '93. The annual international summer school "Contemporary topics in computational linguistics" will take place from the 5th to the 10th September 1993 at the KZU Guest house, Vassil Kolarov Lake, Rhodope Mountains, Bulgaria. (Day of arrival 4 September, day of departure 11 September 1993). It is intended mainly for university students and young researchers, but will offer both introductory and advanced courses. Those who would like to extend their stay in Bulgaria can join the Bulgarian National seminar on mathematical and computational linguistics which will take place from the 8th of September to the 14th September 1993 at the same place. The summer school is organized by the Institute of Mathematics, Sofia (Mitkov), LIMSI, Orsay, France (Zock) and Incoma-TD Co, Ltd, Shumen, Bulgaria (Nikolov). The preliminary program of the summer school will include the following courses (one or two more courses will probably be added): 1. Jun-ichi Tsuji (CCL, UMIST, Manchester) - Sublanguage-based Machine Translation 2. Richard Kittredge (University of Montreal) - Meaning-Text Model and application in generation of natural language 3. Dominique Estival (ISSCO, University of Geneva) - Transfer or interlingua? 4. Johann Haller (IAI, University of Saarbruecken) - Unification-based Machine Translation 5. Zaharin Yusoff (University of Science Malaysia, Penang) - The role of grammar formalisms in Machine Translation 6. Michael Zock (LIMSI, CNRS, France) - Text generation 7. Pieter Seuren (University of Nijmegen, Holland) - Introduction to Semantic Syntax 8. Carlos Martin-Vide (Universidad de Barcelona/Tarragona) New Trends in Mathematical Linguistics 9. M. Kudlek (Hamburg University, Germany) - Formal grammars and languages 10. Ruslan Mitkov (University of Science Malaysia, Penang Institute of Mathematics, Sofia) - Anaphora Resolution COSTS: The special participation fee at the summer school is 150 USA dollars for full-time students, 200 USA dollars for academic employees and 300 USA dollars for other participants. The fee includes attendance at the summer school, course materials, refreshments, reception party as well as meals and accommodation in two-bed rooms at the Guest House (which equals a 2-star hotel). Participants will be requested to pay in cash on site (any currency accepted). SUMMER SCHOOL VENUE AND ACCOMMODATION: The participants will be accommodated at the KZU Guest House, Vassil Kolarov Lake, Rhodope Mountains. The courses will be given at the lecture hall of the Guest House. DEADLINES: The registration forms should arrive no later than 31.07.1993 at the following address: Mr.Nikolai Nikolov, Incoma, P.O. Box 20, 9700 Shumen, Bulgaria. They can be also electronically mailed to ruslan@cs.usm.my. On site registration is also possible, but earlier registrations are encouraged because of possible accommodation problems. FURTHER INFORMATION: Participants who have sent the registration form, will be receiving supplementary materials and information. For further information you can also contact Dr. R. Mitkov Email ruslan@cs.usm.my (after 5.8.93 ruslan@bgearn.bitnet) or N.Nikolov Tel. (359-54) 56948, Fax (359-54) 56881. ********************************************************** II. QUERIES II.A.1. Fr: Trevor Jenkins Re: Activity This seems to be a very quiet news group :-( as someone actively involved in the support of an information retrieval system I had hoped that this was the place to backup my experience with some theory. 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