Information Retrieval List Digest 220 (July 18)
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IRLIST Digest                               ISSN 1064-6965
July 18, 1994
Volume XI, Number 27
Issue 220
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 II. JOB ANNOUNCEMENTS
        1. Dean, School of Library Management and Systems,
           University of California, Berkeley
III. NOTICES
     B. Meetings
        1. 5th Int'l. Workshop on Natural Language Understanding
           and Logic Programming
     C. Miscellaneous
        1. Goodbye to Bitnet
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II. JOB ANNOUNCEMENTS
III.1.
Fr: Ray Larson <ray@sherlock.berkeley.edu
Re: Dean, School of Information Management & Systems

                                 Dean
             School of Information Management and Systems
                  University of California, Berkeley

The University of California at Berkeley invites applications or
nominations for the position of Dean of the School of Information
Management and Systems.  Starting time is negotiable, but it is
hoped that program planning can begin in Spring, 1995.

We are searching to fill the position of founding dean of The
School of Information Management and Systems, a
multi-disciplinary school just recently established. Our search
is for someone with an outstanding record of achievement in
research of the stature commensurate with appointment to full
professorship at the University. We seek an exceptional Dean who
will take on the challenge of leading a new school to a position
of excellence in research and teaching. A candidate should,
therefore, articulate a coherent vision for a multidisciplinary
program in information that promotes collaborative synergies
while recognizing disciplinary rigor. The many opportunities of
this position include a period of faculty growth, and
participation in a capital fund campaign just beginning.

The mission of this new school is to advance the understanding of
the organization, management and use of information and
information technology, and the impact of information on
individuals and institutions. To fulfill this mission The School
will have a technical component addressing the design of
information systems and a social sciences component concerned
with the need of the people who create and use organized
information. Working the intersection of technology and social
science will be the strength of this new School.

The goal is to devise those methods that will best select,
evaluate, organize, store, retrieve and present information. To
meet this need Berkeley seeks to bring into existence a program
appropriate to a great, public university.  More about the nature
of the School to be formed is contained in the School of
Information Management Proposal on the Infocal system under a
section of the Campus News and Events menu called Reports of
Special Interest. The URL to retrieve it directly is

gopher://infocal.berkeley.edu/00/.p/pio/reports/infomgmt.nd.

Applications or nominations should be sent, together with the
names and addresses of three references, no later than October
15, 1994 to: Chair, Search Committee for Dean of the School of
Information Management and Systems, Office of the Vice Provost,
200 California Hall, University of California, Berkeley, CA,
94720. FAX: 510-642-3359, VOICE: 510-642-0987.

The University of California is an Equal Opportunity, Affirmative
Action Employer.
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III. NOTICES
III.B.1.
Fr: gpl@fct.unl.pt
Re: 5th International Workshop on Natural Language
    Understanding and Logic Programming

                   Fifth International Workshop on
         Natural language Understanding and Logic Programming
                                NLULP5
                           CALL FOR PAPERS

CONFERENCE DATES: May 29 (Mon) -- 31 (Wed), 1995
CONFERENCE PLACE: Fundacao Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon, Portugal

CHAIRMAN:   Gabriel Pereira Lopes
  Department of Computer Science
  Faculty of Science and Technology
  Universidade Nova de Lisboa,
  Quinta da Torre,
  2825 Monte da Caparica, Portugal
  Phon. +351-1-295 3220
  Fax. +351-1-295 56 41
  Email. gpl@fct.unl.pt

The  Organizing Committee of the Fifth International Workshop on
Natural Language Processing and Logic Programming  invites the
submission of papers for NLULP5, in Lisbon, Portugal.

TOPICS OF INTEREST: Papers are invited on substantial, original,
and unpublished research on all aspects of Logic Programming
applications to computational linguistics, including, but not
limited to, the followings.
- syntax - parsing
- semantics - generation
- phonetics - language understanding
- phonology - speech analysis/synthesis
- morphology - computational lexicons
- discourse - electronic dictionaries
- pragmatics - terminology
- quantitative/qualitative linguistics  - text database and retrieval
- mathematical linguistics - documentation
- contrastive linguistics - machine translation
- cognitive linguistics - machine aids for translation
- large text corpora - natural language interface
- text processing - dialogue systems
- hardware/software for NLP - multimedia systems

It will be nice to have in Lisbon Practical Applications of
PROLOG in the area of NLU, for demonstrating Prolog's
attractiveness for this area.

REQUIREMENTS FOR SUBMISSION: Papers should have a maximum fifteen
pages in final format, should be written in English, and describe
original work.

They should emphasize completed work rather than intended work,
and they should indicate clearly the state of completion of the
reported results.

FORMAT FOR SUBMISSION: Authors should submit four copies of
preliminary versions of their papers with the page limits above,
on A4 paper with the title, author(s), addresses (including email
if possible), affiliation across the page top, a short (five to
ten line) summary, and a specification of the topic area
preferably drawn from the list above. As well, authors are
strongly urged to email the title page information by the
deadline date. Send the papers and emails to the chair.

IMPORTANT DATES:
Preliminary paper submission due: DECEMBER 19,  1994
Notification of paper arrival: DECEMBER 31, 1994
Inquiries for lost papers: JANUARY 20, 1995
Acceptance notification: MARCH 1, 1995
Camera-ready copies due: APRIL 1, 1995

REVIEW SCHEDULE: Preliminary papers are due by 19 December 1994.
Papers received after that date will be returned unopened.
Notification of receipt will be mailed to the first author (or
designated author) soon after receipt by 31 December 1994. All
inquiries regarding lost papers must be made by January 20, 1995.
Designated authors will be notified of acceptance by March 1,
1995. Camera-ready copies of final papers prepared according to
the publisher requirements, must be received by 1 April 1995 by
the chair along with a signed copyright release statement. Papers
received after that date may not be included in the proceedings.

OTHER ACTIVITIES:
(1) Invited talks and panels will be included in the program.
Proposals and suggestions for invited talks and panels should be
sent to the chair as soon as possible.

(2) Anyone wishing to arrange an exhibit or present a
demonstration should send a brief description, together with a
specification of physical requirements (space, power, telephone
connections, tables, etc.) to the chair.

(3) An attractive social program will be organized for people
willing to know more about Portugal, Lisbon and its surroundings.

(4) At that time of the year the weather is quite worm and
unpolluted beaches are nearby Lisbon, at Costa da Caparica.
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III.C.1.
Fr: Nancy Gusack <ncgur@uccmvsa.ucop.edu>
Re: Goodbye to Bitnet

The University of California Office of the President has left
the Bitnet. IR-L subscribers should send mail to me at
uccmvsa.ucop.edu. Those subscribers who have non-Internet-style
addresses will need to unsubscribe and resubscribe with the
correct address style. If anyone needs help, just send me a
request, and I'll do it.
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