Information Retrieval List Digest 175 (August 17, 1993) URL = http://hegel.lib.ncsu.edu/stacks/serials/irld/irld-175 IRLIST Digest ISSN 1064-6965 August 17, 1993 Volume X, Number 31 Issue 175 ********************************************************** I. NOTICES A. Meeting Announcements/Calls for Papers 1. ASIS Mid-Year '94 2. FLAIRS '94 3. Workshop on Intelligent Hypertext 4. First GI Conference on IR B. Publication Announcements 1. JASIS Issue on Virtual Reality II. QUERIES B. Requests for Information 1. Stopword Lists for Biomedical Domains ********************************************************** NOTICES I.A.1. Fr: American Society for Information Science Re: ASIS 1994 Mid Year Call for Papers Call For Participation 1994 ASIS Mid-Year Meeting Navigating the Networks May 22 - 25, 1994 Red Lion Hotel, Columbia River; Portland, Oregon 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 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** ********** I.A.3. From: Timothy Finin Re: Workshop in Intelligent Hypertext CALL FOR PAPERS WORKSHOP ON INTELLIGENT HYPERTEXT November 5, 1993---Washington, D.C. Sponsored by ACM and ISCA In Conjunction with the ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management to be held November 1--5, 1993 The CIKM '93 Workshop on Intelligent Hypertext will explore the application of natural lan- guage processing, knowledge bases, intelligent agents, and other AI techniques to hypertext systems. We are particularly interested in reports of work in progress, and practical experience with large hypertext documents. Participants are encouraged to submit position papers not to exceed four pages in length. The papers will be reviewed by the organizing committee, and some will be selected for informal presentation at the workshop. Selected papers will appear in a workshop proceedings. Mail papers in either PostScript or ASCII to smart-ht@cs.umbc.edu by September 20, 1993. We prefer e-mail submissions, but authors who lack e-mail access may send papers to Dr. James Mayfield, Computer Science Department, University of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD 21228-5398 USA. Submissions should include the title, author(s), author's affiliation, e-mail address, fax number and postal address. In case of multiple authors, please indicate which author is responsible for correspondence. IMPORTANT DATES Position paper submission deadline: September 20, 1993 Notification of acceptance: October 7, 1993 Workshop date: November 5, 1993 FOR MORE INFORMATION: For an automatic reply with all CIKM-93 information (including advance program and registration material), send email to CIKM-INFO@CS.UMBC.EDU. It is also available via gopher at gopher.cs.umbc.edu or via ftp from ftp.cs.umbc.edu:pub/cikm/. For general inquiries, contact: CIKM-93, Computer Science Department, University of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD 21228, Email: CIKM@CS.UMBC.EDU, phone: 410-455-3000, fax: 410-455-3969. I.A.4. Fr: Information Retrieval 93 Re: First GI Conference on IR First GI Conference on INFORMATION RETRIEVAL September 13-15 1993 University of Regensburg PROGRAMME TUESDAY, September 14, 1993: Opening by the rector of the University of Regensburg, H. Altner and the chairman of the conference committee, J. Krause; Invited Speech Karen Sparck Jones, Cambridge University What might be in a summary? (Chair: J. Krause). SECTION I (Chair: G. Knorz): -A. Burghardt, N. Fuhr, K. Grossjohann, U. Pfeifer, H. Spielmann, O. Stach (NOSFERATU - an integrated database and information retrieval system based on the dataflow paradigm)(L); -H.-P. Frei, Y. Qiu Effectiveness of Weighted Searching in an Operational IR Environment (L); Invited Speech Nick Belkin, Rutgers University Interaction with Texts: Information Retrieval as Information Seeking Behavior (Chair: N. Fuhr). SECTION II (Chair: R. Schramm): -J. Gu, U. Thiel, J. Zhao Efficient Retrieval of Complex Objects: Query Processing in a hybrid DB and IR System (K); -M. Hemmje Eine A content-oriented, intuitive 3D user interface for information retrieval systems (S); -R. Kuhlen, M. Hess Passage retrieval - also a method for the automatic linking of hypertexts (S); General meeting of the interest group "Information Retrieval" and election of the group heads Location: Lecture hall H2. WEDNESDAY, September 15, 1993: Invited Speech Edward Fox, Virginia Polytechnic Institute From Information Retrieval to Networked Multimedia Information Access (Chair: P. Bollmann-Sdorra). SECTION III (Chair: P. Schaeuble): -M. Schmidt, U. Suitability of signature trees for best-match queries (L); -S. Meienberg Relevance Feedback by Relative Relevance Assessment (L); -S. Roppel, Ch. Wolff, Ch. Womser-Hacker Intelligent fact retrieval in the domain of materials information (L). SECTION IV (Chair: R.Kuhlen): -J. Marx, M. WING-M2: An object oriented multimedial user interface for materials databases (K); -A. Gloeckner-Rist He who searches, sometimes finds something: the transformation of information needs into queries (S); -M. Herfurth, P. Mutschke, H.P. Ohly AKCESS: Concept oriented retrieval with knowledge about bibliographical context (S). SECTION V (Chair: G. Ruge): -R. Hammwoehner, M. Rittberger KHS - an open hypertext system (L); -U. Kampffmeyer Multilingual document retrieval systems, implementation and examples (L); -M. Hofmann, E. Bartscht, S. Schmezko Class definitions and query formulation in information systems by graphical interaction (L); Closing speech by the speaker of the IR interest group, Sponsored by the University Foundation Hans Vielberth (L). CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS: The proceedings of the conference will be published as: Knorz, G., Krause, J., Womser-Hacker, C.(eds.): "Information Retrieval '93. Von der Modellierung zur Anwendung". Schriften zur Informationswissenschaft, Universit tsverlag Konstanz. The book will be available by the beginning of the conference. CONFERENCE LOCATION: University of Regensburg Foyer of the Auditorium Maximum Registration: Mo - Wed, 9:00 - 18:00. Tel.: 0941/943-2530 CONFERENCE COMMITTEE: Prof. Dr. J. Krause Dr. L. Hitzenberger Dr. Ch. Womser-Hacker (University of Regensburg) Address: University of Regensburg Linguistic Information Science 93040 Regensburg Tel. (++49) 941 943 3464 FAX: (++49) 941 943 3585 email: ir@vax1.rz.uni-regensburg.dbp.de OTHER EVENTS: MONDAY, 13.9.93: *9:00 - 17:00 Tutorial "Information Retrieval" Tutors: N. Fuhr, U. Pfeifer, G. Ruge Organisation: Deutsche Informatik Akademie Ahrstrasse 45 53175 Bonn Applications should be sent directly to the Deutsche Informatik Akademie - 20.00 Uhr: Focus Corpus analysis: Potentials and limitations (Organisation: G. Ruge) Panel: Prof. Koehler, Univ. Trier Prof. Paprote, Univ. Muenster Dr. Spies, IBM Heidelberg Prof. Wettler, Univ. Paderborn FOR COMPLETE INFORMATION, CONTACT: IR@VAX1.RZ.UNI-REGENSBURG.DBP.DE ********** I.B.1. Fr: Gregory B. Newby Re: CFP: JASIS issue on Virtual Reality Call for Papers Special Topics Issue of JASIS, the Journal of the American Society for Information Science: Virtual Reality and Information Science In the April, 1992 issue of JASIS (Kraft, Donald H., "A Call for Action in Response to Happy Days," Editorial, Journal of the American Society for Information Science, vol. 43, no. 3, April, 1992, p. 203) an Editorial was run that announced a new series of special topic issues. The fourth such issue is scheduled to come out in late 1994 on the topic of Virtual Reality and Information Science. The guest editor for this special issue will be Professor Greg Newby of the University of Illinois. Virtual reality (VR) has attracted considerable attention in the popular literature recently, and has grabbed the interest of many scholars. Information scientists have much to offer this fledgling area for human-computer interaction, including the potential for leading VR towards applications which offer truly new methods for interacting with information, not just an advanced interface. VR technologies may enable solutions to some of the problems of information systems, or perhaps bring about new research directions. Papers are solicited on topics including, but not limited to, the following as they relate to VR: - information system applications - interface issues - cognitive aspects of virtual reality - visual rendering of information - spatial aspects of information - performance issues for virtual reality environments - evaluation of virtual information systems - user issues - the role of information science in virtual reality research - multimedia virtual information systems - public access to virtual reality tools - the use of virtual reality in public information systems and libraries - virtual reality in the classroom - development methods While research articles are of primary interest, scholarly essays on these topics will be considered. General introductions to the topic of virtual reality are probably not appropriate, but topical issues as they relate to information science areas ARE appropriate. Four copies of submitted manuscripts should be sent to: Professor Greg Newby Graduate School of Library and Information Science 417 David Kinley Hall University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 1407 W. Gregory Drive Urbana, IL, 61801, USA Voice: +1-217-244-7365 Fax: +1-217-244-3302 Email: gbnewby@uiuc.edu (Internet - Preferred) or gbnewby@uiucvmd (Bitnet) Manuscripts must be submitted in hardcopy (i.e., paper) form. Inquiries may be directed to Professor Newby by voice, fax, or email. The deadline for accepting manuscripts for consideration for publication is March 15, 1994. All manuscripts will be reviewed by a select panel of referees, and those accepted will be published in a special issue of the Journal of the American Society for Information Science (JASIS). Original artwork and a signed copy of the copyright release form will be required for all accepted papers. Reference: Kraft, Donald H., "A Call for Action in Response to Happy Days," Editorial, Journal of the American Society for Information Science, vol. 43, no. 3, April, 1992, p. 203 ********************************************************** 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. 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