Information Retrieval List Digest 206 (March 28) URL = http://hegel.lib.ncsu.edu/stacks/serials/irld/irld-206 IRLIST Digest ISSN 1064-6965 March 28, 1994 Volume XI, Number 13 Issue 206 ********************************************************** READERS: BELOW IS A REORDERED TABLE OF CONTENTS... I. QUERIES II. JOB ANNOUNCEMENTS 1. CS Research Studentships, U. of Sheffield III. NOTICES A. Publications 1. Neural Networks B. Meetings 1. SIGIR '94 2. 5th NEC Research Symposium 3. ASIS '94 C. Miscellaneous 1. Computer Speech & Language Processing, U. Cambridge IV. PROJECTS A. Abstracts B. Bibliographies C. Initiatives & Proposals D. Miscellaneous ********************************************************** II. JOB ANNOUNCEMENTS II.1. Fr: Yorick Wilks Re: CS Research Studentships, U. Sheffield University of Sheffield Department of Computer Science RESEARCH STUDENTSHIPS IN COMPUTER SCIENCE This strongly research-orientated department intends to recruit a number of postgraduate students with a start date of October 1994 in our main areas of research interest below. Successful applicants will work towards an M.Phil or Ph.D within research teams working in the following areas: Cognitive Systems Computational Models of Hearing Speech Technology Natural Language Processing Computer Graphics Intelligent Tutoring Systems Computer Argumentation Connectionist Language Processing Formal Methods and Software Engineering Theory of Computer Science Software and systems engineering Communication Networks Neural Networks Object-Oriented Programming Parallel Systems Safety Critical Systems Parallel Databases CASE Tools for Parallel Systems Neural Networks and Parallel Hardware We welcome applications from candidates with a good honours degree (or its overseas equivalent) in a relevant discipline (not necessarily Computer Science), including those who expect to attain such a degree by October 1994. A number of awards are available. Application forms and further particulars are available from: The Departmental Secretary, Department of Computer Science, University of Sheffield, Regent Court, 211 Portobello St, Sheffield S1 4DP. Informal enquiries may be addressed to Dr. P.D. Green, phone (0)742-825578, email p.green@dcs.sheffield.ac.uk Prof Yorick Wilks, phone (0)742-825563, email yorick@dcs.sheffield.ac.uk CLOSING DATE: Friday 22nd April 1994. ********************************************************** III. NOTICES III.A.1. Fr: announce@cns.bu.edu Re: Neural Networks Journal 1995 Special Issue of the journal Neural Networks on "Neural Networks for Automatic Target Recognition" ATR is a many-faceted problem of tremendous importance in industrial and defense applications. Biological systems excel at these tasks, and neural networks may provide a robust, real-time, and compact means for achieving solutions to ATR problems. ATR systems utilize a host of sensing modalities (visible, multispectral, IR, SAR, and ISAR imagery; radar, sonar, and acoustic time series; and fusion of multiple sensing modalities) in order to detect and track targets in clutter, and classify them. This Special Issue will bring together a broad range of invited and contributed articles that explore a variety of software and hardware modules and systems, and biological inspirations, focused on solving ATR problems. We particularly welcome articles involving applications to real data, though the journal cannot publish classified material. It will be the responsibility of the submitting authors to insure that all submissions are of an unclassified nature. Co-Editors: Professor Stephen Grossberg, Boston University Dr. Harold Hawkins, Office of Naval Research Dr. Allen Waxman, MIT Lincoln Laboratory Submission: DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION: October 31, 1994 Notification of acceptance: January 15, 1995 Format: as for normal papers in the journal (APA format) and no longer than 10,000 words Address for Papers: Professor Stephen Grossberg Editor, Neural Networks Boston University Department of Cognitive and Neural Systems 111 Cummington Street Room 244 Boston, MA 02215 USA ********** III.B.1. Fr: Alan Smeaton Re: SIGIR94 SIGIR94 - Call for participation Dublin City University, 3-6 July 1994 Glasnevin, Dublin 9, IRELAND Tel:+353 - 1 - 7045262, Fax: +353 - 1 - 7045442 The 17th International Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR'94) takes place at Dublin City University, Dublin, Ireland, from 3rd to 7th July, 1994. The full call for participation has just gone to press and may be hitting your in-trays in a couple of weeks. If you can't wait for that, or find you are not on my mailing list, you can get a copy in ASCII or Postscript form by anonymous ftp from ftp.compapp.dcu.ie/pub/sigir/call-for-participation.ps (132k) or txt (31k). Alternatively, the less-preferred method would be to send me e-mail and I'll send one by return. Here is a condensed version to whet your appetite. SUNDAY, 3 JULY TUTORIALS: A: An Introduction to Information Retrieval Tutors: Peter Willett, Univ. Sheffield. UK and Peter Ingwersen, Royal School of Librarianship, Denmark * B: Design and Use of Digital Libraries Tutors: Robert Akscyn, Knowledge Systems, USA and Edward A. Fox, VPI & SU, USA * C: Information Retrieval and Databases Tutor: Norbert Fuhr, University of Dortmund, Germany * D: Text Encoding and Information Interchange Tutor: Lou Burnard, Oxford University,UK * E: Query Formulation Tutor: Efthimis N. Efthimiadis, UCLA, USA * F: The Role of Information Retrieval in Future Electronic Newspapers Author: Forbes J. Burkowski, University of Waterloo, Canada * G: Data Fusion Tutor: Professor Paul B. Kantor, Rutgers University, USA. * H: Natural Language Processing and Information Retrieval Tutors: E. D. Liddy, Syracuse,USA and D. D. Lewis, AT&T,USA MONDAY, 4 JULY INVITED TALK: What is Information in Information Retrieval ? Denis Tsichritzis, GMD, Germany TEXT CATEGORISATION: Training Text Classifiers by Uncertainty Sampling. David D. Lewis, William A. Gale, USA * Expert Network: Combining Word-based Matching and Human Experiences in Text Categorisation. Yiming Yang, USA * Towards Language Independent Automated Learning of Text Categorisation Models. Chidanand Apte, Fred Damerau, Sholom M. Weiss, USA * Using IR Techniques for Text Classification in Document Analysis. Rainer Hoch, Germany INDEXING: An Evaluation Method for Stemming Algorithms. Chris Paice, UK * On the Measurement of Inter-Linker Consistency and Retrieval Effectiveness in Hypertext Databases. David Ellis, Jonathan Furner-Hines, Peter Willett, UK * Query Expansion Using Lexical-Semantic Relations. Ellen M. Voorhees, USA PANEL SESSION: Integration of IR and Database Systems. * Moderator: Norber Fuhr, University of Dortmund, Germany. * Panelists: Ray R. Larson, University of California, Berkeley. Joachim Schmidt, University of Hamburg, Germany Peter Schauble, ETH Zurich, Switzerland. Ulrich Thiel, GMD-IPSI, Germany. USER MODELLING: Perceptual Speed, Learning and Information Retrieval Performance. Bryce Allen, USA * Term Relevance Feedback and Query Expansion: Relation to Design. Amanda Spink, USA * Modelling Information Retrieval Agents with Belief Revision. Brian Logan, Steven Reece, Karen Sparck Jones, UK * Polyrepresentation of Information Needs and Semantic Entities, Elements of a Cognitive Theory for Information Retrieval Interaction. Peter Ingwersen, Denmark TUESDAY, 5 JULY THEORY AND LOGIC: Investigating Aboutness Axioms using Information Fields. P. D. Bruza, T. W. C. Huibers, Australia * A Probabilistic Terminological Logic for Modelling Information Retrieval. Fabrizio Sebastiani, Italy INVITED TALK: Beyond Keywords: The case for Natural Language Processing in Extended Information Retrieval Systems. Jamie G. Carbonell, Carnegie Mellon University, USA NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING: Retrieving Terms and their Variants in a Lexicalised Unification Based Framework. Christian Jacquemin, Jean Royaute, France * Disambiguation and Information Retrieval. Mark Sanderson, Scotland * A Full Text Retrieval System with a Dynamic Abstract Generation Function. Seiji Miike, Etsuo Itoh, Kenji Ono, Kazuo Sumita, Japan STATISTICAL MODELS: A Document Retrieval Model Based on Term Frequency Ranks. IJsbrand Jan Aalbersberg, USA * Automatic Combination of Multiple Ranked Retrieval Systems. Brian T. Bartell, Garrison W. Cottrell, Richard K. Belew, USA * Properties of Extensive Boolean Models in Information Retrieval. Joon Ho Lee, Korea PERFORMANCE EVALUATION: OHSUMED: An Interactive Retrieval Evaluation and New Large Test Collection for Research. William Hersh, USA * Results of Applying Probabilistic IR to OCR Text. Kazem Taghva, Julie Borsack, Allen Condit, USA * Natural Language vs. Boolean Query Evaluation: A Comparison of Retrieval Performance. Howard Turtle, USA PROBABILISTIC MODELS: Inferring Probability of Relevance Using the Method of Logistic Regression. Fredric C. Gey, USA * Some Simple Effective Approximations to the 2-Poisson Model for Probabilistic Weighted Retrieval. S. E. Robertson, S. Walker, UK * Triennial ACM SIGIR award presentation and paper. WEDNESDAY, 6 JULY INTERFACES: LyberWorld - A Visualization User Interface Supporting Fulltext Retrieval. Matthais Hemmje, Clemens Kunkel, Alexander Willett, Germany * A System for Discovering Relationships by Feature Extraction from Text Databases. Jack G. Conrad, Mary Utt, USA. ROUTING: Information Filtering Based on User Behaviour Analysis and Best Match Text Retrieval. Masahiro Morita, Yoichi Shinoda, Japan * Improving Text Retrieval for the Routing Problem using Latent Semantic Indexing. David Hull, USA * The Effect of Adding Relevance Information in a Relevance Feedback Environment. Chris Buckley, Gerard Salton, James Allen, USA PASSAGE RETRIEVAL: Passage-Level Evidence in Document Retrieval. James P. Callan, USA * Effective Retrieval of Structured Documents. Ross Wilkinson, Australia * Document and Passage Retrieval Based on Hidden Markov Models. Elke Mittendorf, Peter Schauble, Switzerland PANEL SESSION: Evaluation of Interactive Retrieval Systems. * Moderator: Susan Dumais, Bellore * Panelists: Nicholas Belkin, Rutgers University Christine Borgman, UCLA Micheline Hancock-Beaulieu, City University IMPLEMENTATION: Synthetic Workload Performance Analysis of Incremental Updates. Kurt Shoens, Anthony Tomasic, Hector Garcia-Molina, USA * Document Filtering for Fast Ranking. Micheal Persin, Australia * Adapting a Full-text Information Retrieval System to the Computer Troubleshooting Domain. Peter G. Anick, USA ********** III.B.2. Fr: Eric B. Braun Re: Symposium: NAtural and Artificial Parallel Computation Fifth Annual NEC Research Symposium NATURAL AND ARTIFICIAL PARALLEL COMPUTATION PRINCETON, NJ MAY 4 - 5, 1994 NEC Research Institute is pleased to announce that the Fifth Annual NEC Research Symposium will be held at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Princeton, New Jersey on May 4 and 5, 1994. The title of this year's symposium is Natural and Artificial Parallel Computation. The conference will feature ten invited talks. The speakers are: - Larry Abbott, Brandeis University, "Activity- Dependent Modulation of Intrinsic Neuronal Properties" - Catherine Carr, University of Maryland, "Time Coding in the Central Nervous System" - Bill Dally, MIT, "Bandwidth, Granularity, and Mechanisms: Key Issues in the Design of Parallel Computers" - Amiram Grinvald, Weitzmann Institute, "Architecture and Dynamics of Cell Assemblies in the Visual Cortex; New Perspectives From Fast and Slow Optical Imaging" - Akihiko Konagaya, NEC C&C Research Labs, "Knowledge Discovery in Genetic Sequences" - Chris Langton, Santa Fe Institute, "SWARM: An Agent Based Simulation System for Research in Complex Systems" - Thomas Ray, University of Delaware and ATR, "Evolution and Ecology of Digital Organisms" - Shuichi Sakai, Real World Computing Partnership, "RWC Massively Parallel ComputerProject" - Shigeru Tanaka, NEC Fundamental Research Labs, "A Mathematical Theory for the Experience- Dependent Development of Visual Cortex" - Leslie Valiant, Harvard University and NECI, "A Computational Model for Cognition" There will be no contributed papers. Registration is free of charge, but space is limited. Registrations will be accepted on a first come, first served basis. YOU MUST PREREGISTER. There will be no on-site registration. To preregister by e-mail, send a request to: symposium@research.nj.nec.com. Registrants will receive an acknowledgment, space allowing. A request for preregistration is also possible by regular mail to Mrs. Irene Parker, NEC Research Institute, 4 Independence Way, Princeton, NJ 08540. FOR COMPLETE INFORMATION WRITE: symposium@research.nj.nec.com ********** III.B.3. Fr: American Society for Information Science Re: ASIS '94 NAVIGATING THE NETWORKS May 21-25, 1994 Portland, Oregon PLENARY SESSIONS: Our FIRST plenary session Where Are We Going: Themes for the 21st Century, will set the tone for the conference. We will explore networking in terms of technical, social, legal, and political issues in our lives and work environments. John Seely Brown of Xerox PARC; John Perry Barlow, co-founder of the Electronic Frontier Foundation; and James Duderstadt, President of the University of Michigan, will tackle the issues as well as challenge and debate each other. John Gage will moderate this session and we have asked him to actively push the participants for conclusions, convictions, and positions. Emerging Technologies, the SECOND plenary session, will consider three key technologies that will make the networks and their services and resources usable. Clifford Lynch, University of California, will discuss user integrity/authentication; Elizabeth Liddy, Syracuse University, and Mark Weiner from TextWise will discuss national language processing. Our THIRD plenary session, Frameworks will focus on new models for working together. The participants will present new work being done at several universities and discuss the implications for these projects on the business of education and research. Ray Larson, University of California at Berkeley, and John Garrett, from the Corporation for National Research Initiatives, will discuss the digital library model co-sponsored by ARPA. Dan Atkins, University of Michigan, will focus on the collaboratory model; and Richard Lucier, University of California at San Francisco, will talk about the knowledge management model. Social, Legal, and Ethical Concerns will be the subject of the FINAL plenary session with Jack Kessler, Consultant, speaking about "Networking in Europe," and Patrice Lyons, attorney, addressing "Multimedia Works." FEATURED SPEAKERS: John Seely Brown, Xerox Corporation and Xerox PARC* James Johnson Duderstadt, University of Michigan* John Perry Barlow, Electronic Frontier Foundation.* John Gage, Sun Microsystems Computer Corporation* Clifford Lynch, University of California Office of the President* Mike Weiner, TextWise* Elizabeth Liddy, Syracuse University, TextWise* John Garrett, Corporation for National Research Initiatives* Dan Atkins, University of Michigan* Richard Lucier, University of California, San Francisco* Jack Kessler, consultant and entrepreneur in networked technologies* Patrice Lyons, copyright and trademark attorney FOR COMPLETE INFORMATION, CONTACT asis@cni.org ********** III.C.1. Fr: sjy@eng.cam.ac.uk Re: Computer Speech & Language Processing, U. Cambridge UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE DEPARTMENT OF ENGINEERING AND COMPUTER LABORATORY ONE-YEAR M.PHIL COURSE COMPUTER SPEECH & LANGUAGE PROCESSING Applications are invited for a one year postgraduate course at Cambridge University leading to an MPhil Degree in Computer Speech and Language Processing. The aim of this course is to provide a training for graduates from various disciplines in the techniques of computer speech and language processing, and a theoretical foundation drawing upon work in linguistics, psychology, computer science, engineering and mathematics. The course consists of two terms of lectures and practical work followed by a project in the 3rd term. Assessment is by examination, coursework and project. The course is run jointly by the Engineering Department Speech Group and the Computer Laboratory Natural Language Processing Group with the assistance of the Dept of Linguistics and the MRC Applied Psychology Unit. Topics covered include: o Speech Recognition/Synthesis o Speech Analysis o Acoustic Modelling o Neural Networks o Speech Systems o Applications o Syntax and Parsing o Semantics & Inference o Discourse Processing o Language Systems o Applications o Phonetics and Phonology o Perception o Psycholinguistics o Programming Techniques The coursework includes practical experience in speech analysis, recognition using Hidden Markov models, text-speech synthesis, parsing and semantic analysis. Candidates should normally have a 2i honours degree (or equivalent) in a relevant subject (e.g. computer science, engineering, linguistics, etc) and should have some programming experience. SERC Studentships are available for UK and EC students. For further details contact: Mrs Mavis Barber (M.Phil Computer Speech & Language Processing) Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge Trumpington Street, Cambridge CB2 1PZ Tel: 0223-332752 e-mail: mavis@eng.cam.ac.uk CLOSING DATE FOR COMPLETED APPLICATIONS: 31ST MARCH 1994 ********************************************************** IRLIST Digest is distributed from the University of California, Division of Library Automation, 300 Lakeside Drive, Oakland, CA. 94612-3550. Send subscription requests to: LISTSERV@UCCVMA.BITNET Send submissions to IRLIST to: IR-L@UCCVMA.BITNET Editorial Staff: Clifford Lynch calur@uccmvsa.ucop.edu or calur@uccmvsa.bitnet Nancy Gusack ncgur@uccmvsa.ucop.edu or nancy.gusack@ucop.edu Mary Engle meeur@uccmvsa.ucop.edu or mary.engle@ucop.edu The IRLIST Archives is now set up for anonymous FTP, as well as via the LISTSERV. 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