Information Retrieval List Digest 192 (December 13, 1993) URL = http://hegel.lib.ncsu.edu/stacks/serials/irld/irld-192 IRLIST Digest ISSN 1064-6965 December 13, 1993 Volume X, Number 48 Issue 192 ********************************************************** I. NOTICES A. Meeting Announcements/Calls for Papers 1. Intelligent Multimedia IR Systems & Management 2. Toward a Scientific Basis for Consciousness B. Publications 1. Free Trial, Computists' Communique 2. INFOSYS C. Miscellaneous 1. Memorial Service for Donald Walker II. QUERIES A. Questions & Answers 1. Help Shimer College Getting on Library Systems B. Requests for Information 1. Fast Saving Binary Trees to Disk III. JOB ANNOUNCEMENTS 1. U. Kansas: Postdoc in Telecommunications & Information Sciences Laboratory ********************************************************** I. NOTICES I.A.1. Fr: Gregory Grefenstette Re: Intelligent Multimedia IR Systems and Management RIAO'94 Intelligent Multimedia Information Retrieval Systems and Management Rockefeller University New York, N. Y. October 11-13, 1994 Sponsored by the European Economic Community with the participation of INRIA, France Telecom Organized by the Centre de Hautes Etudes Internationales d'Informatique Documentaire (CID, France), and the Center for the Advanced Study of Information Systems (CASIS, USA) This conference, held every three years since 1985, allows researchers, product developers and companies to present and demonstrate the latest evolutions in information retrieval. New trends in hardware organization, telecommunication networks, hyperlinking, heterogeneous document creation, computational linguistics, and other fields modify the way that information retrieval can be imagined. This conference is a forum for innovative responses to this field as well as to related problems in very large databases, public access to information, multimedia information retrieval, interface specifications, and others. In addition to regular paper presentations, the conference will offer prototype and product demonstrations. Major topics include, but are not limited to: I. New paradigms for Information Retrieval II. Linguistic Analysis for Automatic Treatment: Full-text analysis; Indexing and retrieval using NLP; Multilingual interfaces and systems; Automatic abstracting. III. Large Knowledge Bases: Electronic dictionaries; Thesaurus, hyperbases using semantic networks, neuronal networks, conceptual graphs; Case-based reasoning systems for text; Multi-expert systems; Genetic information bases. IV. Digitized Document Understanding and Retrieval: Text, sound and image management for IR; Automatic extraction of factual information, multimedia indexing and retrieval; Automatic information structuring and linking in hypertext and hypermedia; Compound and multisource documents, active documents, speech documents V. Information Reading: Intelligent navigational aids; User understanding and modeling; Query formulation and expansion VI. Openness, Interoperability and Integration: How to achieve device independent portable information; Import/Export facilities; Communications between heterogeneous SRIs; Intelligent E-mails; Systems and interface integration; Standardization (SGML, HyTime, ...) VII. Multimodal Interfaces: Interfaces with several means of interaction (voice, mouse, keyboard, pointer, ...); Multilingual interfaces; Interaction with iconic languages; New visualization technologies. VIII. Confidentiality and Intellectual Property. IX. Measure and Evaluation. X. Experimental Applications. INFORMATION FOR AUTHORS: Papers must be validated by a prototype or working model. The authors may be asked to demonstrate their prototype or working model to a member of the program committee. The authors are expected to give a demonstration of their system during a time separate from their oral presentation. It is advisable that these demonstrations run oon standard material. PAPERS should not exceed 20 double-spaced pages, including figures and text. Send four copies of paper including authors names, address, telephone and fax numbers, e-mail address, and an abstract of at most 20 lines. DATES: February 28, 1994 : Four Hard-copy of submissions must be received at one of the following addresses: May 15, 1994 : Authors notified of acceptance CASIS/RIAO94 C.I.D. c/o P. Brodnitz RIAO'94 55 Perry St. #4A 36 rue Ballu New York, New York 10021 75009 Paris USA FRANCE Tel/fax 212-714-1421 tel: (33) 1 42-85-94-75 e-mail: noordewi@cs.rutgers.edu fax: (33) 1 48-78-49-61 fax: (33) 1 45-26-84-45 e-mail: cid@nuri.inria.fr ********** I.A.2. Fr: Jim Laukes Re: Toward a Scientific Basis for Consciouseness The conference, April 12 - 17, 1994 is an interdisciplinary meeting of psychologists, neuroscientisits, physicists, mathematicians, computer scientists, philosophers, physicians, and others. It asks the question, "What is consciousness?" Views will range between reductionism (the mind is the brain) to dualism (the mind is distinct and meterly --merely-- interacts with the brain). Presenters include: Roger Penrose, Bernard Baars, Michael Conrad, Walter Freeman, Owen Flanagan, Judith Dayhoff, Mari Jibu, Petra Stoerig, Karl Pribham, Chi--Christof Koch, Andrew Weil, Bernard Libet, Brian Josephson, Konstantin Likharev, and many others. The registration fee is not set as we await responses to long-ago submitted requests for outside funding to keep individual costs down. Registration information is available from : Jim Laukes, the University of Arizona, 1955 E. 6th St., Tucson, AZ 85719. Submit abstracts of one page until January 1, 1994 to Stuart Hameroff, Internet: srh@ccit.arizona.edu. Thanks for your interest, Jim Laukes ********** I.B.1. Fr: Ken Laws Re: Free Trial, Computists' Communique Greetings! I'm the editor of the Computists' Communique, an AI/IS/CS weekly news service of Computists International. Send me email saying where you saw this announcement for a free two-month get-acquainted subscription. You'll get job ads, journal calls, NSF announcements, grant and research news, online resources, career and business tips, and commentary. The Communique is about 32KB (8 pages) per week, with a high signal-to-noise ratio -- eclectic, but with special focus on AI research, information technology, software applications, and entrepreneurship. I try to capture "old boy" knowledge in a way that's time-saving, timely, and useful. Write for your free trial now, or for membership details and testimonials. Unemployed computer scientists may join free.) Sample issues are available on request. Dr. Kenneth I. Laws Computists International (415) 493-7390, Palo Alto Internet laws@ai.sri.com Feel free to forward this message to other lists, with or without your own comments. When requesting a free trial, remember to say where you saw the offer. You must respond by 12/31/93, to laws@ai.sri.com. ********** I.B.2. Fr: D.Viehland@massey.ac.nz Re: Announcing INFOSYS Announcing INFOSYS - The Electronic Newsletter for Information Systems INFOSYS is an electronic newsletter for faculty, students, and practitioners in the field of Information Systems. INFOSYS publishes news items, requests for assistance, announcements of professional meetings and conferences, position notices, a calendar of upcoming events, comments on recent publications, abstracts of papers that authors are willing to share, and other items of interest to the Information Systems community. INFOSYS is published biweekly, more frequently if volume requires it. INFOSYS operates as an electronic mailing list on listserv software at American University in Washington, DC. The editor is Dennis W. Viehland (d.viehland@massey.ac.nz). To subscribe to INFOSYS send the following one-line e-mail message to listserv@american.edu: subscribe infosys yourfirstname yourlastname (e.g., subscribe infosys john smith). You will receive a welcome letter that will tell you more about INFOSYS and listserv. The first issue will be published in January 1994. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Dennis W. Viehland D.Viehland@Massey.ac.nz Senior Lecturer (06) 350-4213 Information Systems (06) 350-5233 (messages) Massey University (06) 350-5611 (fax) Palmerston North, New Zealand ********** I.C.1. Fr: Association of Computational Linguistics Re: Memorial Service for Donald E. Walker A memorial service for Donald E. Walker, Director of Language and Knowledge Resources Research at Bellcore, Secretary-Treasurer of the Association for Computational Linguistics and Secretary-Treasurer of IJCAII, will be held on Sunday December 19th from two to four PM at the Unitarian Fellowship Church in Summit, 4 Waldron Avenue, Summit, New Jersey. Don passed away peacefully with his wife Betty and all three daughters at his side on Friday November 26, 1993, after a long battle with cancer. Friends and colleagues of Don's who are unable to attend the service might want to send written reminiscences, photographs or other materials remembering him, for a booklet to be presented to his family. Please send these to: Kathy McKeown 20 Prospect Rd. Wayne, New Jersey 07470 USA In addition, any charitable contributions in his memory may be sent to: ACL Don and Betty Walker International Student Fund Association for Computational Linguistics c/o Judith Klavans Box 105 Hastings-on-Hudson, New York 10706 Please forward this message. Thank you, Fernando Pereira ACL President Address any questions to: pereira@research.att.com or klavans@cs.columbia.edu. ********************************************************** II. QUERIES II.A.1. Fr: George Frazier Re: Fast Saving Binary Trees to Disk Hi, I have a program that builds a binary tree as a search structure. It is very expensive to build this tree but once in memory it is very fast to search. I am trying to save it to disk in a fashion amenable to rapid reloading from disk to memory but am having trouble. I am using C++ (for Windows). First I just tried streaming the values of each node in preorder but when reading it in again it was too slow because of all the disk accesses. Then I tried to writing parts to a large memory buffer and then stuffing this to disk but there was too much overhead with in memory formatting. Does anyone have any elegant ideas to this? I obviously can't just dump memory since so many values in the tree are pointers. Thanks George Frazier george@tyrell.net ********** ********** II.B.1. Fr: Lauri Scheyer Lee Re: Help: Shimer College Getting on Library Systems I am helping Shimer College in Waukegan, Illinois become integrated with some regional library networks. I have some questions about the personal computers and various hardware needed for this operation. The goal is to connect to the JCPL (Joint Computer system For Libraries) database. This consists of four fairly large libraries in the Waukegan area. This setup uses GEAC systems and OPAC systems. Either through this or in addition to this, Shimer will gain access to Illinet and OCLC for inter-library loan. There is also another system called "Dialog" but I am not familiar with its function. Unfortunately I have very little experience with any of the above systems except for Illinet. The college would like to have two to ten terminals setup for students to gain access to all of the above functions. If anyone is familiar with the specific hardware configurations or setup then I would REALLY appreciate a response. Thanks for the help! Tel: (708)835-2077 (708)835-7215 Fax: (708)835-7021 lsl2@quads.uchicago.edu ********************************************************** III. JOB ANNOUNCEMENTS III.1 Fr: Susan Gauch Re: Postdoc Position: U Kansas The University of Kansas Telecommunications and Information Sciences Laboratory (TISL) has a postdoctoral position available in the area of multimedia information retrieval. The successful applicant will be responsible for working with the existing faculty to transform ideas and concepts into pilot projects, implement demonstration/pilot projects in multimedia information retrieval, and assist faculty with coordination of the graduate students involved in research and demonstration/pilot projects. TISL has substantial facilities for prototyping the elements of future information systems: we have wide area high speed network interconnection through the MAGIC gigabit testbed, a local high speed switching system, modern workstations, and facilities for the rapid prototyping of digital signal processing systems. These facilities are available for the development of new multimedia network applications and services as well as for the implementation of demonstration/pilot projects. The position requires a Ph.D. in electrical engineering, computer engineering, or computer science. Practical experience with multimedia information retrieval is desirable. The University of Kansas is located in Lawrence, a city of about 75,000 people, which is situated in the rolling hills of eastern Kansas, about an hour's drive from Kansas City. The city of Lawrence has a long history and retains many interesting reminders of its colorful past. The community has 1,257 acres of public parks, indoor and outdoor community swimming pools, an arts center, an historical museum, and an active community education and recreation program. Please submit a resume to: Victor S. 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