Information Retrieval List Digest 174 (August 10, 1993) URL = http://hegel.lib.ncsu.edu/stacks/serials/irld/irld-174 IRLIST Digest ISSN 1064-6965 August 10, 1993 Volume X, Number 30 Issue 174 ********************************************************** I. NOTICES A. Meeting Announcements/Calls for Papers 1. ASIS Mid-Year '94 2. FLAIRS '94 II. QUERIES B. Requests for Information 1. Stopword Lists for Biomedical Domains IV. PROJECT WORK C. Abstracts 1. IR-Related Dissertation Abstracts ********************************************************** I. NOTICES I.A.1. Fr: American Society for Information Science Re: ASIS 1994 Mid Year Call for Papers Call For Participation 1994 Mid-Year Meeting, American Society for Information Science Navigating the Networks May 22 - 25, 1994 Red Lion Hotel, Columbia River Portland, Oregon With amazing speed electronic networking systems have grown up around us; once simple roads leading directly to our destination have become a complex of interchanges and intersections, whether seen or not. Networking has experienced a phenomenal rate of growth (11,000 networks currently); the need for road maps, directional signs and directories is painfully clear and the implementation of wireless communications has barely begun. What will the interfaces be in the future? Will there be "smart highways" guiding drivers speed, direction, etc. and determining the best routing? Will knowbots~ become the search vehicle of choice? Who, if anyone, will be the electronic traffic cops and can we rely on either the legislatures or the courts to determine our future? Will there be toll roads? Can the electronic highways as we now know them (public networks) support both individual users (passenger cars) and commercial users (the tractor trailers of the digital highways)? What changes will take place in publishing, both scholarly and commercial? While online communicating via networks was once predominantly academic/research, the corporate world is the fastest growing sector (over 500,000 users) of national and international network users. Commercial growth, however, has been slowed by security concerns. How will legitimate U.S. and corporate security concerns and individual privacy fears be ameliorated in the new high speed data highway system? Will commercial traffic fundamentally alter the education/research sense of community that has grown up with Internet? Will "sneaker nets," LANs and WANs, be replaced by wireless networks, groupware and collaborative computer- supported work. What changes will result in how we work and what we do? Will decisions inexorably become more democratic but slower as has been predicted? Will the horns and shouts of inner city traffic be a metaphor for the "white noise" of computer lists and discussion groups? What tools exist for filtering out "noise" and what impact will that have on our work? INVITATION: The 1994 ASIS Mid-Year Meeting, "Navigating the Networks" has as its focus the human side of networks, the psychology and sociology of using networks. What has been and will be the impact of networking technology on the individual and on organizations, their structure and goals? Original contributed papers are solicited on all aspects of networking use in information management. Panel discussions exploring legal and philosophical questions of use, quality, distribution, control, and ownership are welcome. Presentations of new technologies or applications to solve our information management problems are welcome. We invite submissions of papers, panels, tutorials, demonstrations and original ideas for programs on networking. TYPES OF SUBMISSIONS: Contributed Papers: The initial intent to submit should include the title and an extended outline or draft paper. Papers should address one or more of the issues outlined above. Presenters of accepted papers will be allowed 15-25 minutes for delivery. All papers will be refereed. All intents to submit papers must be received by September 1, 1993. Notification of acceptance will be sent by December 1, 1993; camera ready papers will be due by February 1, 1994. PANEL, SPECIAL INTEREST GROUP, AND OTHER PRESENTATIONS: Individual contributions and panel discussions are welcome. All intents to organize sessions should include a description of 250 words indicating the topic and proposed speakers to address the topic, with contact information for all speakers. A form for proposing panel sessions is attached. All intents to organize panel presentations and other program suggestions must be received by September 30, 1993. Notification of acceptance will be sent by December 1, 1993; a final list of speakers, with complete contact information, and camera ready copy (full length if desired, or abstract) will be due by February 1, 1994. Two copies of your proposal and abstracts are required. A paper copy or electronic copy (encouraged, e-mail or ASCII) should be sent to the addresses below. You will receive instructions for submission of final copy upon acceptance. Pat Molholt Asst. V.P. & Assoc. Dean for Scholarly Resources Columbia University Health Sciences Office of Scholarly Resources 701 West 168th Street, Room 201 New York, NY 10032 asis94my@columbia.edu ASIS 1994 Mid-Year Meeting 8720 Georgia Avenue, Suite 501 Silver Spring, MD 20910 rhill@cni.org In order to maintain the quality of ASIS meetings and to be sure that meeting attendees can determine which presentations are most appropriate for the individual needs, ASIS requires that all submissions/proposals include the following information: -Name, job title, company and full address of each presenter. -Telephone, E-Mail, and fax number (if available) of each presenter. -A biographical sketch of each presenter (50 words max.). -The amount of time requested for the presentation (in 15 min. increments). -A session description that can appear in promotional materials. *Submissions without the above items will be returned for completion. ********** I.A.2. Fr: Thomas Cowin Re: FLAIRS '94 CALL FOR PAPERS FLAIRS-94 Florida AI Research Symposium Pensacola Beach, Florida May 5-7, 1994 The Seventh Annual Florida AI Research Symposium seeks high quality international submissions in all areas of AI. We are especially interested in papers describing knowledge-based approaches to the construction of intelligent systems. The symposium will strive for a balance between theory and practice. All accepted papers will appear in the conference proceedings. SUBMISSION OF PAPERS: Authors must submit 6 copies of an extended abstract of 1200 to 1600 words. The extended abstract should not identify the author or affiliation in any manner. Please include one separate cover page containing the author's name(s), address, phone number, affiliation, paper title, and topic area. In case of multiple authors, all correspondence will be sent to the first author unless otherwise requested. Abstracts must be received by October 18, 1993. Abstracts received after this date will not be considered. The Program Committee's decisions will be mailed during December of 1993. Authors of accepted papers will be expected to submit their final camera-ready copy of their full papers by February 14, 1994. For information concerning submissions or to submit an abstract contact: Douglas D. Dankel II FLAIRS-94 Program Committee Chair E301 CSE, C.I.S., University of Florida Gainesville, FL 32611 Tel: 904-392-1387, Fax: 904-392-1220 ddd@panther.cis.ufl.edu WORKSHOPS: In addition to the FLAIRS conference, four workshops are being planned for May 4, 1994. One workshop registration fee will be waived for those who register for FLAIRS. If you are interested in any of the workshops -- please contact the Workshop organizer directly. 1. Artificial Life and AI: Pat Hayes, University of Illinois Email: hayes@hpp.stanford.edu or phayes@cs.uiuc.edu 2. Analogy & Computation: Eric Dietrich, SUNY Binghamton Email: dietrich@bingsuns.cc.binghamton.edu 3. Temporal Representation & Reasoning: Scott Goodwin & Howard Hamilton, University of Regina Email: Time94@cs.uregina.ca 4. AI & Ethical Reasoning: Umar Khan, U.S. Department of Treasury Email: khan@itd.nrl.navy.mil GENERAL CHAIRS: Alberto J. Canas University of West Florida Tel. 904-474-2253 Fax. 904-474-3023 acanas@ai.uwf.edu David Kuncicky Florida State University Tel. 904-644-4290 Fax. 904-644-0058 kuncick@nu.cs.fsu.edu **CONFERENCE IS SPONSORED BY THE FLORIDA AI RESEARCH SOCIETY** ********************************************************** II. QUERIES II.B.1. Fr: Joanne Martinez Re: Stopword Lists for Biomedical Domains Our research group is developing automatic thesauri for several genetics domains. We are in need of a stopword list specific for the biomedical sciences, most preferrably in electronic format. If you know of any such files, available either through the Internet or commercially, I would appreciate hearing from you. Please respond to the address below, not to the list. Thank you, Joanne Martinez School of Library Science University of Arizona Tucson, AZ jpmartin@ccit.arizona.edu ********************************************************** IV. PROJECT WORK IV.C.1. Fr: Susanne M. Humphrey Re: Selected IR-Related Dissertation Abstracts The following are citations selected by title and abstract as being related to Information Retrieval (IR), resulting from a computer search, using BRS Information Technologies, of the Dissertation Abstracts Online database produced by University Microfilms International (UMI). Included are UMI order number, title, author, degree, year, institution; number of pages, one or more Dissertation Abstracts International (DAI) subject descriptors chosen by the author, and abstract. Unless otherwise specified, paper or microform copies of dissertations may be ordered from University Microfilms International, Dissertation Copies, Post Office Box 1764, Ann Arbor, MI 48106; telephone for U.S. (except Michigan, Hawaii, Alaska): 1-800-521-3042, for Canada: 1-800-268-6090. Price lists and other ordering and shipping information are in the introduction to the published DAI. An alternate source for copies is sometimes provided. Dissertation titles and abstracts contained here are published with permission of University Microfilms International, publishers of Dissertation Abstracts International (copyright by University Microfilms International), and may not be reproduced without their prior permission. AN University Microfilms Order Number ADG92-24972. AU DAVIS, DOROTHY FRANCES. TI A COMPARISON OF BIBLIOGRAPHIC INSTRUCTION METHODS ON CD-ROM DATABASES. IN University of North Texas Ph.D. 1992, 110 pages. SO DAI V53(04), SecA, pp975. DE Library Science. Education, Technology. AB CD-ROM database systems are now a familiar sight in libraries of all types and sizes. Reference librarians have found that many patrons do need some type of instruction in order to effectively utilize CD-ROM databases. The purpose of this study was to compare four different methods of bibliographic instruction in order to determine which method would have the most effect on student learning. In this study, 120 students were given instruction on searching the PsycLit CD-ROM database. The students were divided into four groups, and each group was given a different method of instruction. The four methods of instruction were lecture, lecture utilizing an LCD, video, and computer-assisted instruction. The statistical technique used to perform the data analysis for this study was the one-way analysis of variance to test the significance levels among the groups. The t test was used to compare differences between the different groups. Seven hypotheses were tested at the 0.05 level of significance. The fifth null hypothesis tested in this study was rejected while the other six hypotheses were instruction was more effective in teaching students to search the PsycLit CD-ROM database system than the lecture method. Recommendations for future study include replication at other academic libraries, comparison of students with and without computer experience, and the use of videos to teach the use of other library sources. AN University Microfilms Order Number ADG92-25009. AU SASSEN, CATHERINE JEAN. TI CITATION ACCURACY IN THE JOURNAL LITERATURE OF FOUR DISCIPLINES: CHEMISTRY, PSYCHOLOGY, LIBRARY SCIENCE, AND ENGLISH AND AMERICAN LITERATURE. IN University of North Texas Ph.D. 1992, 247 pages. SO DAI V53(04), SecA, pp975. DE Library Science. AB The primary purpose of this study was to determine if there is a relationship between the bibliographic citation practices of the members of a discipline and the emphasis placed on citation accuracy and purposes in the graduate instruction of the discipline. Citation practices were evaluated by assessing the accuracy of a sample of 1,280 bibliographic citations selected from 40 scholarly journals in four disciplines. The emphasis placed on citation accuracy and purposes in the graduate instruction of a discipline was measured by examining graduate program requirements in college catalogs that were chosen to reflect the educational backgrounds of the authors whose citations were selected for the study. Although a statistically significant difference in error rate was found among the citations grouped by discipline, this difference was not explained by the variable of citation instruction. The average number of courses pertaining to citation instruction was highest in library science, followed by English and American literature, chemistry and psychology. The average number of erroneous fields per citation was least in citations from chemistry, followed by English and American literature, library science and psychology. A one-way analysis of variance procedure was used to compare the citations from each discipline on the average number of erroneous fields per citation, and a statistically significant difference was found (p = 0.0162). The Newman-Keuls multiple comparison test was used to determine that chemistry citations differed significantly from psychology citations. Citation errors were analyzed in relation to the formats of documents cited. The Kruskal-Wallis test was used to determine that statistically significant differences existed among erroneous citations grouped by document format (p $<$ 0.0001). Implications of the research results were considered. These implications pertained to instruction on bibliographic citation, the editorial policies of journals, the bibliographic citation practices of authors, style manuals and their rules for bibliographic citations, and the design and use of information storage and retrieval systems. AN University Microfilms Order Number ADG92-25170. AU DAVIS, PATRICIA DEAN. TI INCUNABULA AT THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA: A DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE. IN The University of Arizona Ph.D. 1992, 127 pages. SO DAI V53(04), SecA, pp1154. DE Literature, Medieval. Library Science. History of Science. AB Among the holdings of the Department of Special Collections at the University of Arizona Library is a collection of incunabula numbering thirty-nine titles. This interesting collection of early printed books represents a wide variety of subjects that appealed to the late medieval reader and demonstrates as well a good range of early editorial practice and typographic presentation. None of the University's copies of these titles is listed in Frederick B. Goff's Incunabula in American Libraries: a Third Census (1973). The present work provides a description of each incunabulum according to Henry Guppy's Rules for the Cataloguing of Incunabula and offers a comprehensive study of the features of the collection as a whole and of its individual volumes for the purpose of establishing a record of the collection and bringing its scholarly value into clearer focus. ********************************************************** IRLIST Digest is distributed from the University of California, Division of Library Automation, 300 Lakeside Drive, Oakland, CA. 94612-3550. 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