Information Retrieval List Digest 211 (May 2) URL = http://hegel.lib.ncsu.edu/stacks/serials/irld/irld-211 IRLIST Digest ISSN 1064-6965 May 2, 1994 Volume XI, Number 18 Issue 211 ********************************************************** II. JOBS 1. PhD Student in IR, ETH, Switzerland III. NOTICES A. Publications 1. Information Gatherer Newsletter B. Meetings 1. IEEE Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems 2. ASIS SIG/CR: Questions, Controversies & Conclusions in Classification Research C. Miscellaneous 1. IR-L Address Change 2. BCS PPSG Lecture on Goldrush IV. PROJECTS A. Abstracts 1. IR-Related Dissertation Abstracts D. Miscellaneous 1. Intelligent Interfaces ********************************************************** II. JOBS II.1. Fr: Peter Schauble Re: PhD Student in IR, ETH Ph.D. STUDENT IN INFORMATION RETRIEVAL (ETH Zurich, Switzerland) We have a position to be filled for a student who is interested in doing a Ph.D. in Information Retrieval. (We would call here a Ph.D. student an "assistant", meaning a research and teaching assistant.) The current PhD projects are focusing on retrieving information from speech recordings, statistical analysis of large text corpora, passage retrieval, and the integration of information retrieval functionality and database functionality. The position is a full-time paid position and the duties are roughly * 40% Teaching and supervision of undergraduates, marking of assignments, ... * 50% Research: working on the PhD project * 10% Education: this amounts to attending about one course per semester Applicants for this positions must have a Master's degree (or a Diploma if coming from a European country) in Computer Science. Applicants should also have a high grade point average. The applicant must be able to speak and write German, English, or French perfectly. The expected salary is about 52'700 Swiss francs (about 36'000 U.S. dollars) and there are no tuition fees as a Ph.D. student. The cost of living in Zurich is high; yet, this salary would allow a single person to live quite comfortably. We work with Suns under UNIX, program in C, and use X Windows/Motif. We are working in the institute of information systems which is one of the 4 institutes of the department of Computer Science, at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zurich. The department of Computer Science has 18 professors, several senior research associates, and about 85 research/teaching assistants. To apply formally send a letter describing your background, your interests, a resume, your transcript, and 2 recommendation letters to Prof. Peter Schauble Informationssysteme ETH Zentrum, IFW CH-8092 Zurich Switzerland FAX: +41 1 262-3973 Tel: +41 1 632-7222 ********************************************************** III. NOTICES III.A.1. Fr: David Johnson Re: Computer-Based Medical Systems The 7th IEEE Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems Adam's Mark Hotel Winston-Salem, North Carolina June 10-12, 1994 CBMS will be held in coordination with S/CAR:12th Conference for Computer Applications in Radiology June 12-15 For a copy of the complete CBMS advance program, contact Ms. Carla Muller, Tel (910)716-6890; Fax (910)716-2870; email carla@relito.medeng.wfu.edu FRIDAY, JUNE 10 FM1: Expert Systems-1 (Martha Evens) FM2: Image Processing - 1 (Wesley Snyder) FM3: Drug Roundtable (Margaret Peterson) Speaker: Design News Magazine's "Engineer of the Year", Dean Kamen FA1: Prosthetic Valve Sounds 1 (Rebecca Inderbitzen) FA2: Signal Processing-1 (Paul Kizakevich) FA3: Methods 1 FA4: Prosthetic Valve Sounds 2 (Rebecca Inderbitzen) FA5: Image Processing 2 (Nelson Corby) FA6 3:30-5:30 PM FA6: Methods 2 Social at the Workshop, Old Salem: Join us for food, music, and Moravian crafts demonstrations SATURDAY, JUNE 11, 1994 SM1: Expert Systems 2 (Martha Evens) SM2: Signal Processing-2 (Paul Kizakevich) SM3: Neural Networks-1 (Russ Eberhart) SM4: Signal Processing-3 (Richard Fries) SM5: Medical Software Safety (Lon Gowen) SA1: Medical Information (Harry Burke) SA2: Image Processing 3 (Wes Snyder) SA3: Ambulatory Blood Pressure Monitoring (Tom Smith) SA4: Neural Networks-2 (Russ Eberhart) SA5: Image Processing 4 (Nassrin Tavakoli) SA6: Software Safety Roundtable (Lon Gowen) Open Discussion TUTORIALS SATURDAY EVENING, JUNE 11 SUNDAY MORNING, JUNE 12 T1: Grantsmanship in Biomedical Engineering Research T2: Surfing the Internet: Mosaic and Other Tools T3: Integrated Neuro-fuzzy Models in Pattern Recognition T4: Programming in Motif T5: Medical Imaging For complete details on tutorials, including speaker resumes and tutorial descriptions, contact Ms. Carla Muller, Tel (910)716-6890; Fax (910)716-2870; email carla@relito.medeng.wfu.edu FOLLOWING CBMS: S/CAR94 Symposium for Computer Assisted Radiology June 12-15, 1994 Winston-Salem, North Carolina SUNDAY, JUNE 12 - Tutorials/Technical Exhibits (1:00-5:15 PM) MONDAY, JUNE 13 Wide Area PACSImage Processing 3D-ImagingRIS/HIS/PACS PACS AssessmentExpert Systems MDIS TUESDAY, JUNE 14 PACS SoftwareInformation Systems Artificial IntelligencePublic Health Teleradiology DICOM/LAN Workstations Computed Radiography WEDNESDAY, JUNE 1 PACS Integration, Teaching, Research, Focus session:Current State of Virtual Reality Demonstrations, Poster Sessions, and Technical Exhibits on Mon. & Tues. TUTORIALS: o Basics of Computers o Basics of Digital Imaging o A Transition to Filmless Imaging Department o Introduction to DICOM o Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) and its Applicability to Telemedicine. PROGRAM AND REGISTRATION INFORMATION: Contact Pat Rice, Department of Radiology, The Bowman Gray School of Medicine, Medical Center Boulevard, Winston-Salem, North Carolina USA. 27157-1088, Tel: (910)716-2470, Fax(910) 716-2029. ********** III.B.2. Fr: Clare Beghtol Re: ASIS SIG/CR's 5th Classification Research Workshop CALL FOR PARTICIPATION 5th ASIS SIG/CR Classification Research Workshop QUESTIONS, CONTROVERSIES AND CONCLUSIONS IN CLASSIFICATION RESEARCH The American Society for Information Science Special Interest Group on Classification Research (ASIS SIG/CR) invites submissions for the 5th ASIS Classification Research Workshop, to be held at the 57th Annual Meeting of ASIS in Alexandria, VA. The workshop will take place Sunday, October 16th, 1994, 8:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. ASIS '94 continues through Thursday, October 20th. The CR Workshop is designed to be an exchange of ideas among active researchers with interests in the creation, development, management,representation, display, comparison, compatibility, theory, and application of classification schemes. Emphasis will be on semantic classification, in contrast to statistically based schemes. Topics include, but are not limited to: * Warrant for concepts in classification schemes * Concept acquisition * Basis for semantic classes * Automated techniques to assist in creating classification schemes * Statistical techniques used for developing explicit semantic classes * Relations and their properties * Inheritance and subsumption * Knowledge representation schemes * Classification algorithms * Procedural knowledge in classification schemes * Reasoning with classification schemes * Software for management of classification schemes * Interfaces for displaying classification schemes * Data structures and programming languages for classification schemes * Image classification * Comparison and compatibility between classification schemes * Applications such as subject analysis, natural language understanding, information retrieval, expert systems. The CR Workshop welcomes submissions from various disciplines. Those interested in participating are invited to submit a short (1-2 page single-spaced) position paper summarizing substantive work that has been conducted in the above areas or other areas related to semantic classification schemes, and a statement briefly outlining the reason for wanting to participate in the workshop. Submissions may include background papers as attachments. Participation will be of two kinds: presenter and regular participant. Those selected as presenters will be invited to submit expanded versions of their position papers and to speak to those papers in brief presentations during the workshop. All position papers (both expanded and short papers) will be published in proceedings to be distributed prior to the workshop. The workshop registration fee is $35.00. Traditionally, a revised version of the proceedings is published the following year as a volume of Advances in Classification Research (ASIS Monograph Series, published by Learned Information, Medford, New Jersey, USA) Submissions should be made by email, or diskette accompanied by paper copy, or paper copy only (fax or postal), to arrive by May 15, 1994, to: *Raya Fidel, Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Washington, FM-30, Seattle, WA 98195; Internet: fidelr@u.washington.edu; Phone: 206-543-1888; Fax: 206-685-8049* ********** III.C.1. Fr: Nancy Gusack, IR-L Moderator Re: R-L Address Change On July 1 the University of California Office of the President will be leaving the Bitnet. At that time all mail should be sent to me at my Internet account, nancy.gusack@ucop.edu. Subscribers with Bitnet-style addresses (no imbedded ".") should unsubscribe and resubscribe with an Internet-style address (with imbedded "."). Send those messages either to me or to listserv@ucop.edu. ********** III.C.2. Fr: J Blair-Fish Re: BCS PPSG Lecture on Goldrush The British Computer Society Parallel Processing Specialist Group (BCS PPSG) The 1994 A.G.M. Lecture : ** Goldrush ! ** by Roger Poole I.C.L., U.K. 6.30 p.m., Tuesday, May 10 1994 Ambrose Fleming Lecture Theatre University College London Torrington Place, London W.C.1 (entrance directly opposite Dillons bookshop) (Attendance is free and open to one and all, members and non-members. No prior booking is required. Refreshments will be available !) Goldrush is an Open Database Server supporting Ingres, Oracle and Adabas, running on commodity microprocessors under Unix. It uses a Massively Parallel Processor Architecture to deliver highly scalable performance, 6000 t/s, a bandwidth of 100 MBytes/s and filestore of 1200 GB. Impressive figures indeed ! A strong contender in the high-performance database market ? Come and see ! This presentation explains the Architectural features of the Goldrush System and how it can be exploited by Database software and applications. PPSG members are further invited to attend the Committee Meeting (from 3 pm in Room 110) and the Annual General Meeting which starts at 6 pm (in the Ambrose Fleming Lecture Theatre) The committee comprises a diverse group of people drawn from industry and academia. We continue to need a wide range of talent on the committee, which meets four times a year. We need experts in parallel computing, researchers, academics, end users, application developers and more; essentially all those involved in developing, marketing and using parallel processing technology with the time and enthusiasm to make a contribution. Please consider standing at the Annual General Meeting. Contact us for an informal chat about the PPSG and for assistance with getting nominated. (Dr. John Blair-Fish (Secretary) jabf@castle.ed.ac.uk, 'phone: 031 650 4928, or Dr. Nigel Tucker (Treasurer) Paradis@cix.compulink.co.uk 'phone 0566 782739). ********************************************************** IV. PROJECTS IV.A.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 ADG93-14767. AU WALLINGFORD, VERNON EUGENE, II. TI CONCEPTUAL RETRIEVAL FROM CASE MEMORY BASED ON PROBLEM-SOLVING ROLES: A GENERIC TASK ARCHITECTURE WITH APPLICATION TO JUSTIFICATORY REASONING IN TAX LAW. IN Michigan State University Ph.D. 1992, 201 pages. SO DAI v54(01), SecB, pp340. DE Computer Science. Information Science. Law. AB Given an understanding of the domain and the data stored, how can one locate in an immense data base only those records or documents semantically relevant to a particular topic of interest. This question frames the conceptual retrieval problem. Rather than trying to solve the conceptual retrieval problem solely in terms of general knowledge about a domain, this research advances the view that knowing the use to which retrieved items will be put provides guidance in developing more useful indexing vocabularies and retrieval methods. This dissertation focuses on conceptual retrieval for the purpose of case-based justification in tax law, in particular for the area of captive insurance taxation. In this context, a theory of conceptual retrieval is presented that elaborates an index vocabulary and organization based on the roles that cases can play in justification. This dissertation describes three primary products of this research: (1) a methodology for the Functional Representation of justifications, (2) a model of conceptual retrieval--an index vocabulary, an index organization, and a retrieval method--motivated by this methodology for representing justifications, and (3) a conceptual memory of arguments based on this model. This conceptual memory is integrated with a Generic Task architecture for justifying legal classifications. Finally, these concepts are implemented in a knowledge-based system called CRISTA. This research addresses the conceptual retrieval problem from a task-specific perspective. The result is the identification of an indexing methodology that is closely related to a particular problem-solving task and a particular case representation. In essence, this work unites a task-specific theory of problem solving with ideas from case-based reasoning about indexing in order to achieve a more complete picture of conceptual memory. To related disciplines, one of the important contributions of this research lies in its description of how one can employ knowledge of a device and its teleology in constructing more effective and efficient case memories. ********** IV.D.1. Fr: Ovidio Eltz da Silva Re: Intelligent Interfaces Hi all, I am studying the area of intelligent interfacing, and would like to share information with those who work in the area. Our project is to develop an interface module that adapts itself to the user's psychological characteristics. We study the interference of the use of different words in the user's response speed. If anybody would like to share information in this area, please respond. 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