Information Retrieval List Digest 236 (December 12) URL = http://hegel.lib.ncsu.edu/stacks/serials/irld/irld-236 IRLIST Digest ISSN 1064-6965 December 12, 1994 Volume XI, Number 43 Issue 236 ********************************************************** I. QUERIES 1. Intelligent Information Retrieval 2. References on Support for User Views II. JOBS 1. Continuum Productions Corp.: Mgr. Info. Technologies 2. Lawrence Berkeley Lab: Head, Tech. & Electronic Info. 3. U. Tennessee/Knoxville: Information Specialist 4. UMass/Dartmouth: Ref./Instruction Librarian, Sciences III. NOTICES A. Publications 1. IR-L Digest on the WWW B. Meetings 1. EACL SIGDAT Workshop, March 1995 IV. PROJECTS D. Miscellaneous 1. Correction to IV.D.1., IR-L Digest, XI,42,235 2. Central Missouri State: New Library Project ********************************************************** I. QUERIES I.1. Fr: Eddie Ridwan Re: Intelligent Information Retrieval References I am looking for some recent publications on intelligent information retrieval. I have already some references to work being done at the Center for Intelligent Information Retrieval, Univ of Massachusetts and the MIT Intelligent Information Infrastructure Project. My interest is in the general area of advanced techniques (NLP, inference nets, etc) in storage and retrieval of large text and multimedia databases. Thanks a lot in advance. Eddie Ridwan (ridwe@cbr.cpsg.com.au) ********** I.2. Fr: Art Pollard Re: Wanted: References on Support for User Views I am interested in finding out what has been done as far as data-structure/algorithm support for user views in an IR system. As I see it, the user or author might want to divide the text up into various views for later display. Such as for the Bible: KJV, Book, Chapter, and Verse. One would want the user to be able to navigate easily between views without incurring a significant penalty either in space overhead or in access speed. In addition, if the text is dynamic, the support for user views becomes even more complex as a record (document) number is not always related to the relative viewing order. What work along these lines has been performed? I would be interested in bibliographic references, tech-reports, or perhaps a dialog with someone with experience in this area. Thanks, Art PollardA@Uhunix.uhcc.hawaii.edu ********************************************************** II. JOBS II.1. Fr: Kody Janney Re: Continuum Productions Corporation: Manager of Information Technologies Continuum Productions Corporation (CPC) is creating a comprehensive multimedia archive encompassing a wide range of subject areas, including fine arts, culture, history, and science. This unique database of digital images will be made available to the public through consumer, reference, and educational products. CPC is currently seeking a Manager of Information Technolgies as follows: Position Title: Manager of Information Technologies Department: Software Engineering Reports To: Director of Technology Date Prepared: November 29, 1994 PURPOSE: To directly manage the software development team that is responsible for the design and implementation of information technology products used in support of Continuum Productions+ two businesses: the licensing effort (Corbis Media) and product development (Corbis Productions). RESPONSIBILITIES: Responsible for design and implementation of advanced information retrieval systems and related technologies used to build and support the Continuum Productions digital archive. Will architect end-to-end system designs which include advanced server, network and communication technologies. This includes the responsibility of creating high- and low-level designs for client-server image and text retrieval architectures. Will work with the Manager of Visualization Technologies in the shared responsibility of building complex imaging retrieval and viewing software. Responsible for all managerial administrative functions for the Information Technologies software development team such as staffing, supervision, and performance evaluation. Will support the Director of Technology with planning and budgeting for the department as relates to the team. CONTACTS: This position will have contact with all Continuum Productions employees with an emphasis on daily contact with the employees in Software Engineering, Product Development, and the Production departments. Will also have contact with customers, vendors, third party contractors, and technology sources/providers. QUALIFICATIONS REQUIRED: Direct programming experience in C or C++ for a minimum of seven years. Experience with and knowledge of information science with a strong interest in information retrieval Extensive experience with database design and implementation is required with an heavy emphasis on SQL-Server and Windows-NT knowledge. Bachelor+s degree in computer science, engineering, or other related technical field preferred. Intimate knowledge of Windows with experience in building products on this platform. Strong interpersonal and communication (written and verbal) skills. Experience in working within a matrix management organization. Must have experience in managing third party developer relationships and projects. Salary commensurate with experience. EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER Please reply by sending, faxing, or e-mailing resume and cover letter to: CONTINUUM PRODUCTIONS CORPORATION Attn: Human Resources/MIT 15395 S.E. 30th Place Bellevue, WA 98007 FAX: (206)643-9740 EMAIL: mariag@continuum.com ********** II.2. Fr: Sandy Merola Re: Head, TEID, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory Department Head Technical and Electronic Information Department Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory Berkeley, California DUTIES: Serve as Department Head, providing the intellectual leadership and operating level management of the Technical and Electronic Information Department (TEID), a major component of the Information and Computing Sciences Division. As leader of TEID, responsible for the creation, referencing, and delivery of multiple-media information in support of LBL's programmatic mission, as well as a key contributor to the data and information infrastructure necssary for the operations and administration of LBL. Provide for traditional planning, organization, monitoring, and control functions for a group of about fifty professionals and support staff. Responsible for the generation of needed recharge income, adequate to both meet costs and to advance the technology and personnel to meet the future needs of LBL for TEID-associated services, including: publications services such as writing, editing, illustration, printing, and photography; conference coordination services; database design and implementation; and traditional and online distributed library services. Current projects that would come under the purview of this position include: conversion from chemistry-based to digital photography, multimedia publishing, and the integration of online library services (e.g., mosaic/worldwide web). Provides needed policies and procedures necessary for operation of LBL TEID-related activities. QUALIFICATIONS: A track record of successful leadership in a technical or scientific information and database environment. Demonstrated ability to ensure the early integration and appropriate use of modern technology and advanced techniques, such as digital photography, CD-ROMs, and distributed multimedia via Internet. Management experience in a multi- million dollar technical business, including personnel and technical management. An advanced degree in an information, database, or related field or equivalent background. CONTACT: Sandy Merola Deputy Head Information and Computing Division Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory Berkeley, California 510/486-7440 ********** II.3. Fr: Gayle Baker Re: IR-L Digest on the WWW You can locate IR-L Digest on the WWW at http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/scripts/global/wais/ir_list_form ********** III.B.1. Fr: Evelyne Tzoukermann Re: EACL SIGDAT Workshop 1995 CALL FOR PAPERS FROM TEXTS TO TAGS: ISSUES IN MULTILINGUAL LANGUAGE ANALYSIS EACL SIGDAT WORKSHOP Dublin, Ireland - March 27, 1995 Workshop organized by the ACL special interest group SIGDAT to be held in conjunction with the meeting of the European Chapter of the Association of Computational Linguistics. The meeting will be co-chaired by Susan Armstrong, ISSCO and Evelyne Tzoukerman, AT&T Bell Laboratories. Submission deadline: Jan 23 Notice of acceptance/rejection: February 10 Camera ready copy due: March 1 With the growing amount of multilingual corpus data becoming available, there is a pressing need to explore issues in representation and analysis of these texts. Although extensive and leading work has been accomplished for languages such as English, for the most part many theoretical and concrete issues need to be resolved in the representation and tagging of other languages. The focus of this workshop is on multilingual text analysis, from the level of text itself, e.g. tokenization, sentence separation, etc, to morphosyntactic analysis, specifically tagging. We intend to focus on tagging since it appears to be the case that, from a computational point of view, part of speech tagging is often an important prerequisite to further structural analysis. Additionally, many NLP systems can make use of tagged corpora for various applications. However, tasks such as tokenization and tagging continue to raise serious challenges in multilingual text analysis, due to differing types of morphological characteristics across languages. Topics of Interest include (but are not limited to): - tokenization and segmentation - interfaces between morphological analysis and part-of-speech tagging - size and choice of tagset - defining and refining new tag sets - mapping between tag sets - universal vs. language specific tags - multilingual approaches to tagging We invite submissions on topics that in general reflect an awareness of differences and similarities in working on multilingual text. We also welcome substantive descriptions of newly started and ongoing projects. FORMAT FOR SUBMISSION: Authors should submit extended abstracts (2000-3000 words), either electronically or in hard-copy. Electronic submissions must either be plain ascii text or a postcript file following the EACL-95 stylesheet. Hard copy backup should include two (2) copies of the paper. Abstracts should be sent to either of the addresses: Evelyne Tzoukermann Susan Armstrong-Warwick AT&T Bell Laboratories ISSCO University of Geneva Room 2D-448, P.O. Box 636 54 route des Acacias 600 Mountain Avenue Murray Hill, NJ, 07944-0636 CH-1227 Geneve USA Switzerland tel. +1-908-582-2924 +41-22-705-7113 fax +1-908-582-7308 +41-22-300-1086 email evelyne@research.att.com susan@divsun.unige.ch ********************************************************** IV. PROJECTS IV.D.1. Fr: Nancy Gusack, IR-L Moderator Re: IV.D.1. from XI,42,235 (last week) I made an error in capitalizing the URL which houses the survey described. Use lowercase to access the information: http: //www/isri.unlv.edu/info/tr/sigir-survey/ ********** IV.D.2. Fr: Jim Siddons Re: Central Missouri State: New Library Project Central Missouri State University has started on a 57 month project to develop and construct a new Information System Facility (Library). As a volunteer on this project I think it would be worthwhile if we and others involved in similar projects could exchange ideas as we travel this rather extended journey. This seems like an opportunity to forget many things you have accepted in the past and turn your dreams into reality. As of December 6, 1994, initial funding has been approved. On November 2, 1994 the first Program Statement Advisory Committee meeting was held. If you are interested please send an Email message to SIDDONS@CMSUVMB.CMSU.EDU or SIDDONS@CMSUVMB.BITNET. In an effort to get a representative sample multiple lists will be accessed. Thank you for your patience. :-{) Jim ********************************************************** IRLIST Digest is distributed from the University of California, Division of Library Automation, 300 Lakeside Drive, Oakland, CA. 94612-3550. Send subscription requests and submissions to: NCGUR@UCCMVSA.UCOP.EDU Editorial Staff: Clifford Lynch calur@uccmvsa.ucop.edu Nancy Gusack ncgur@uccmvsa.ucop.edu Mary Engle meeur@uccmvsa.ucop.edu The IRLIST Archives is now set up for anonymous FTP, as well as via the LISTSERV. 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