Information Retrieval List Digest 187 (November 8, 1993) URL = http://hegel.lib.ncsu.edu/stacks/serials/irld/irld-187 IRLIST Digest ISSN 1064-6965 November 8, 1993 Volume X, Number 43 Issue 187 ********************************************************** I. NOTICES A. Meeting Announcements/Calls for Papers 1. International Conference on New Methods in Language Processing 2. Deadline Change for World Congress III. JOB ANNOUNCEMENTS 1. Fellowship Announcement at NLM ********************************************************** I. NOTICES I.A.1. Fr: Daniel Jones Re: (Revised dates): International Conference on New Methods in Language Processing !! ATTENTION !! REVISED CALL FOR PAPERS Due to the late announcement of another conference the dates for NeMLaP have been changed. Please see the revised CFP below for details International Conference on New Methods in Language Processing Dates: 14-16th September 1994 (inclusive) Centre for Computational Linguistics, UMIST, Manchester, UK. PURPOSE: In recent years there has been a steadily increasing interest in alternative theories and methodologies to the mainstream techniques of symbolic computational linguistics. This international conference will provide a forum for researchers in the broad area of new methods in NLP, i.e., symbolic and non-symbolic techniques of analogy-based, statistical, and connectionist processing, to present their most recent research and to discuss its implications. In order to focus the conference, however, it is intended to concentrate on research primarily involving written NLP. It is also hoped that the conference will promote discussion in general terms of what this branch of NLP hopes to achieve and how far this paradigm can take NLP in the future. TOPICS OF INTEREST: Example- and Memory-based MT Corpus-based NLP Bootstrapping techniques Analogy-based NLP Connectionist NLP Statistical MT/NLP Theoretical issues of sub-symbolic vs. symbolic NLP Hybrid approaches PROGRAMME COMMITTEE: Co-chairs: Harold Somers, Daniel Jones (UMIST) Ken Church (AT&T) Hitoshi Iida (ATR) Sergei Nirenburg (CMU) David Powers (IMPACT) James Pustejovsky (Brandeis University) Satoshi Sato (ATR) Noel Sharkey (Exeter University) Royal Skousen (Brigham Young University) Jun-ichi Tsujii (UMIST) Susan Warwick-Armstrong (ISSCO) Yorick Wilks (Sheffield University) Preliminary paper submission deadline: 31st March 1994 Acceptance Notification by: 1st June 1994 Camera-ready copy due: 1st August 1994 SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS: Authors should submit FOUR hard copies of a preliminary version of the paper (NOT an outline or abstract) which should be no longer than 6 (A4) pages long, printed no smaller than 10-point. Papers should include a brief abstract, and a list of key words indicating which of the above topics are addressed. A contact address for the author(s) (preferably e-mail) should also be included. SEND PAPERS TO: NeMLaP, Centre for Computational Linguistics, UMIST, Sackville Street, Manchester, UK. ENQUIRIES : nemlap@ccl.umist.ac.uk ********** I.A.2. Fr: mwitten@chpc.utexas.edu Re: URGENT: DEADLINE CHANGE FOR WORLD CONGRESS UPDATE ON DEADLINES FIRST WORLD CONGRESS ON COMPUTATIONAL MEDICINE, PUBLIC HEALTH, AND BIOTECHNOLOGY 24-28 April 1994 Hyatt Regency Hotel Austin, Texas Due to a confusion in the electronic distribution of the congress announcement and deadlines, as well as incorrect deadlines appearing in a number of society newsletters and journals, we are extending the abstract submission deadline for this congress to 31 December 1993. We apologize to those who were confused over the differing deadline announcements and hope that this change will allow everyone to participate. For congress details: To contact the congress organizers for any reason use any of the following pathways: ELECTRONIC MAIL - compmed94@chpc.utexas.edu FAX (USA) - (512) 471-2445 PHONE (USA) - (512) 471-2472 GOPHER: log into the University of Texas System-CHPC select the Computational Medicine and Allied Health menu choice ANONYMOUS FTP: ftp.chpc.utexas.edu cd /pub/compmed94 (all documents and forms are stored here) POSTAL: Compmed 1994 University of Texas System CHPC Balcones Research Center 10100 Burnet Road, 1.154CMS Austin, Texas 78758-4497 SUBMISSION PROCEDURES: Authors must submit 5 copies of a single-page 50-100 word abstract clearly discussing the topic of their presentation. In addition, authors must clearly state their choice of poster, contributed paper, tutorial, exhibit, focused workshop or birds of a feather group along with a discussion of their presentation. Abstracts will be published as part of the preliminary conference material. To notify the congress organizing committee that you would like to participate and to be put on the congress mailing list, please fill out and return the form that follows this announcement. You may use any of the contact methods above. If you wish to organize a contributed paper session, tutorial session, focused workshop, or birds of a feather group, please contact the conference director at mwitten@chpc.utexas.edu . The abstract may be submitted electronically to compmed94@chpc.utexas.edu or by mail or fax. There is no official format. If you need further details, please contact me. Matthew Witten Congress Chair mwitten@chpc.utexas.edu ********************************************************** III. JOB ANNOUNCEMENTS III.1. Fr: Alexa T. McCray Re: Fellowship Announcement HPCC and Medicine Postdoctoral Fellowships at the National Library of Medicine The National Library of Medicine announces the availability of fellowships in High Performance Computing and Communications (HPCC) and Medicine. Applicants are expected to hold the M.D. or Ph.D. degree. Accepted fellows will participate in NLM's research activities at the Lister Hill National Center for Biomedical Communications in Bethesda, Maryland. Awards will be made for one year with renewal possible for one additional year. The HPCC fellowships are processed as special tracks within NLM's current fellowship programs for Informatics Research and for Applied Informatics. Fellows will work at the intersection of high performance computing and communications and medical informatics. The HPCC program is a Federal program whose goal it is to assure the technological leadership of the United States in high performance computing and computer communications. The HPCC supports the underlying research, network, and computational infrastructures on which high performance computing is based. Medical informatics concerns the use and application of computers in a wide-range of health sciences problems. HPCC applications in health care include database technology to provide health care providers with access to relevant and timely medical information, including the latest research findings published in the biomedical literature; database technology for storing, accessing, and transmitting patients' medical records while recognizing accuracy and privacy issues; testbed networks for linking hospitals, clinics, physicians, medical schools and libraries to enable health care providers and researchers to share medical data; and the latest imaging technology for use and collaboration by health care providers. A key enabling technology of the research efforts is the developing National Research and Education Network (NREN). The NREN will allow for scalability studies as well as providing researchers with access to the most advanced computing systems. The range of relevant disciplines for HPCC applications in health care is extensive. Medicine, computer science, information science, engineering, cognitive science, computational linguistics, and statistics must all be brought to bear to address the complexity of the research agenda. To be considered for a start date of September 1994, applicants should send a letter of interest, an initial project proposal of no more than 2,000 words, a Curriculum Vita, and three letters of reference to the following address no later than January 10, 1994. Electronic submission of application materials is preferred but not required. Dr. Alexa McCray National Library of Medicine Bethesda, Maryland 20894 mccray@nlm.nih.gov Preliminary selections will be made no later than February 14, 1994, and candidates will work with NLM research staff in the development of a research plan to be submitted as part of the final application, which will be due on March 28, 1994. The research plan may differ somewhat, or even quite significantly, from the original initial proposal submitted by the candidate. Final applications will be received by the NIH's Division of Research Grants and will be referred to the NLM Biomedical Library Review Committee for scientific and technical merit review, in accordance with the customary system used by NLM for processing fellowship applications in Informatics research and in Applied Informatics. Individuals must be, at the time of application, citizens or noncitizen nationals of the United States, or have been lawfully admitted to the United States for permanent residence and have in their possession an Alien Registration Receipt Card (I-151 or I-551). The stipend level for the individual postdoctoral fellowship ranges from $18,600 to $32,300 depending on years of relevant experience subsequent to the award of the doctorate degree. For the fellowship in Applied Informatics, the amount of the stipend to be paid will be based on the salary which the individual would have been paid on the date of award by the home institution, but in no case will the award exceed $50,000 per year. ********************************************************** IRLIST Digest is distributed from the University of California, Division of Library Automation, 300 Lakeside Drive, Oakland, CA. 94612-3550. 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