Information Retrieval List Digest 239 (January 9, 1995) URL = http://hegel.lib.ncsu.edu/stacks/serials/irld/irld-239 IRLIST Digest ISSN 1064-6965 January 9, 1995 Volume XII, Number 2 Issue 239 ********************************************************** II. JOBS 1. ACSIOM: Software Engineers III. NOTICES A. Publications 1. ToC: IP&M 31:2 (1995) B. Meetings 1. SIGIR '95: Demonstrations IV. PROJECTS A. Abstracts 1. IR-Related Dissertation Abstracts C. Initiaties & Proposals 1. Dcoumentation Abstracts Inc. Research Grant ********************************************************** II. JOBS II.1. Fr: ziemba@freya.cs.umass.edu Re: ACSIOM: Software Engineers ACSIOM, a non-profit research and technology transfer organization associated with the Center for Intelligent Information Retrieval at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst Computer Science Department, is seeking software engineers for research & development efforts on a range of projects, including medical and environmental applications. Senior & Junior level positions are currently available for software engineers with experience in one or more of the following areas: information retrieval, natural language processing, text processing, database systems, client-server architectures, medical information systems, and computer networks. QUALIFICATIONS: Computer Science degree with a minimum of 2-3 years' C programming experience in a Unix environment. Familiarity with Mac and Windows/DOS programming is a plus. ACSIOM offers a competitive salary and benefit program. Send resume to Applied Computing Systems Institute of Massachusetts, Inc. (ACSIOM), P.O. Box 44, Amherst, MA 01004-0044 or contact Professor W. Bruce Croft via email at croft@cs.umass.edu. ********************************************************** III. NOTICES III.A.1. Fr: Lauren Levey Re: Information Processing & Management 31:2 (1995): ToC Volume 31: 2 (1995) CONTENTS 159 Announcement Amanda Spink 161 Term Relevance Feedback and Mediated Database Searching: Implications for Information Retrieval Practice and Systems Design Mirja Iivonen 173 Consistency in the Selection of Search Concepts and Search Terms Katriina Bystrom 191 Task Complexity Affects Information Kalervo Jarvelin Seeking and Use Timo Niemi 215 A Straightforward NF2 Relational Kalervo Jarvelin Interface with Applications in Information Retrieval R. Bingi 233 A Framework for the Comparative Deepak Khazanchi Analysis and Evaluation of Knowledge Surya B. Yadav Representation Schemes BOOK REVIEWS Jessica L. Milstead 249 Indexing Books by N.C. Mulvany Charles T. Meadow The Changing Context of Information. An Introductory Analysis by K. McGarry Eileen G. Abels Developing New Markets for Information Products by T.G. DiRenzo Gregory A. Crawford Library Research Models: A Guide to Classification, Cataloging, and Computers by T. Mann Robert M. Losee Text Management by D.T. Dewire Howard Rosenbaum The Death of Meaning by G.V. Zito Mohammed M. Aman Measuring the Impact of Information on Development by Michel J. Menou (Ed.) Roy Rada Multimedia Systems by John F. Koegel Buford (Ed.) Mark E. Rorvig Pattern Recognition Engineering by Mortin Nadler and Eric P. Smith Mark Engelberg Virtual Worlds and Multimedia by Nadia Mason, D. Menninger Magnenat Thalmann, and Daniel Thalmann (Eds.) Elaine Svenonius Challenges in Indexing Electronic Text and Images by R. Fidel, T. Bellardo Hahn, E.M. Rasmussen, and P.J. Smith (Eds.) Ron Davies Encyclopaedic Dictionary of Information Technology and Systems by A.E. Cawkell Bryce Allen Metacognition: Knowing About Knowing by J. Metcalfe and A.P. Shimamura (Eds.) Bernd Frohmann From Writing to Computers by J. Warner Charles Cole Claude Elwood Shannon: Collected Papers by N.J.A. Sloane and A.D. Wyner (Eds.) Debagish Mukherjee Software by Design by Harold Salzman and Stephen Rozenthal Herbert Snyder The Network Nation: Human Communication Via Computer by S.R. Hiltz and M. Turoff Diane H. Sonnenwald Software by Design: Shaping Technology and the Workplace by H. Salzman and S. Rozenthal Julian Warner Libraries and the Future: Essays on the Library in the Twenty-first Century by F.W. Lancaster (Ed.) ********** III.B.1. Fr: Efthimis N. Efthimiadis Re: SIGIR '95: Demonstrations SIGIR '95: (18th International Conference on R&D in Information Retrieval) CALL FOR PARTICIPATION IN THE DEMONSTRATIONS The Sheraton, Seattle, WA, USA, July 9-13, 1995 ------------------------------------------------------------ Deadline for proposal submissions: Friday, February 10, 1995 Acceptance notification: March 10, 1995 ------------------------------------------------------------ SIGIR invites proposals for demonstrations of information retrieval (IR) systems and applications. Demonstrations should focus on aspects of the system that are novel and important. Demonstrations provide an opportunity for first-hand, interactive experience with information retrieval systems. Researchers have the opportunity to present their new developments and conference participants have the opportunity to interact directly with developers of the systems demonstrated. Demonstrations are_NOT_limited to experimental systems only. IR researchers participating in the NIST/DARPA sponsored TREC, MUC, TIPSTER projects and the European Union research initiatives are encouraged to participate. Presenters of the systems must be individuals who have been directly involved with the development of the system, and who are aware of the differentiating and interesting ideas embodied in their system. All presenters are expected to register for the conference. Presenters shall submit a proposal to the Demonstration Chair of at most three pages describing the planned demonstration. The proposal shall include: (a) A description of noteworthy and distinguishing ideas or approaches the demonstration will illustrate. (b) A brief explanation of how the demonstration will illustrate the above, (a), ideas or approaches. (c) Complete contact information (mailing address, telephone, fax, and e-mail) and affiliation of the person(s) who will present the demonstration, including their relationship to the project (e.g., principal investigator, developer, project manager, architect). (d) A 100-word summary for inclusion in a program description. (d1) A description of the technical specifications of the system. (NOTE: For the systems selected for demonstrations a brief system description will be requested. This is modeled after the TREC system specification descriptions. An electronic form will be available via e-mail, ftp, http.)Y (e) A bibliography, if it exists, of published and unpublished material that relate to the system, its algorithms and underlying theories as well as any evaluations that have been undertaken. (f) The hardware and software requirements for the demonstration, including the electrical requirements of the equipment. (g) The network (Internet) requirements and the system's dependence to an Internet connection. Will you be able to provide a demonstration without an Internet connection available to you? ** NOTE: The summary (d), system description (d1) and ** bibliography (e) will be published in the Proceedings ** ** The goal of the publication is to disseminate ** information on IR systems research to a wider audience ** and to provide a resource for IR education. *************************************************************** No fax submissions; E-mail submissions preferred and shall be in LaTeX or plain ascii text. DEMONSTRATIONS CHAIR: Efthimis N. Efthimiadis Assistant Professor Department of Library and Information Science Graduate School of Education & Information Studies University of California at Los Angeles 241 GSE&IS Building, 152004 405 Hilgard Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1520 tel: 310-825-8975; fax: 310-206-4460; email: efthimis@gslis.ucla.edu ********************************************************** IV. PROJECTS IV.A.1. Fr: Susanne M. Humphrey Re: IR-Related Dissertation Abstracts - August 1994 Selected IR-Related Dissertation Abstracts Compiled by: Susanne M. Humphrey, National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, MD 20894 The following are citations selected by title and abstract as being of potential interest to the Information Retrieval (IR), resulting from a computer search, using the CDP/Online system, of the Dissertation Abstracts International (DAI) database produced by University Microfilms International (UMI). Included are accession number (AN); author (AU); title (TI); degree, institution, year, number of pages (IN); UMI order number (DD); reference to the published DAI (SO); abstract (AB); one or more DAI subject descriptors chosen by the author (DE); thesis adviser (AR); and dates associated with the monthly update file (UP). 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: 1-800-343-5299; fax: 313-973-1540. 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 AAI9422257 AU Nwosu, Kingsley Chukwudum. TI DATA STORAGE MODELING AND MANAGEMENT FOR MULTIMEDIA INFORMATION SYSTEMS. IN Thesis (PH.D.)--SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY, 1993, 184p. DD Order Number: AAI9422257. SO Dissertation Abstracts International. Volume: 55-03, Section: B, page: 1007. AB In spite of the tremendous technological advances, there is a paramount hindrance to the full realization of real-time multimedia information processing. The bandwidths of the secondary storage devices have not improved relative to other technological advances. For real-time information retrieval and presentation, it is imperative that data, for a given medium, be retrievable at a given rate. For some media, these rates exceed the capability of current storage devices. As a result of these and other related problems in multimedia information processing, this research (1) captures the different storage allocation and retrieval requirements of various multimedia objects through a multimedia object model that incorporates different classifications of multimedia objects based on their I/O requirements, (2) presents some decomposition strategies necessary for generating the storage allocation units of multimedia objects in order to achieve their I/O requirements, (3) describes the necessary and sufficient conditions and criteria for an object's allocatability to a storage device, (4) presents efficient allocation criteria and techniques for a multimedia object storage and distribution, (5) describes the bipartite graph model for mapping objects to storage devices as a precondition for determining optimal allocation of objects, (6) presents the optimal matching of objects to storage devices via the bipartite graph using the Hungarian Method, (7) presents the techniques for exploiting the configuration of storage devices as means of achieving efficient multimedia object allocations, (8) develops the extensions of the allocation strategies discussed for object allocations in distributed computing environments, (9) presents simulation results based on the decomposition and allocation strategies developed t hat achieve the retrieval requirements of multimedia objects and also efficiently distribute the objects on the storage devices, (10) presents the designs of the storage and retrieval schemes for a multimedia object manager which are necessary for implementing the allocation strategies in a computing system, and (11) develops the design of the integrated data management system that describes the resolutions of the critical issues of distributed computing with respect to the multimedia object allocation strategies presented and also details the system functionalities and management interfaces and processes. This research develops a multimedia object model that classifies every multimedia object based on its I/O requirements; and using the decomposition techniques, and allocation parameters and criteria developed that take cognizance of the various characteristics of the objects, it shows that by optimizing the allocation of multimedia objects, we can achieve efficient object storage. The necessary storage and retrieval schemes are also developed that demonstrate the implementability of the proposed strategies. (Abstract shortened by UMI.). DE Computer Science. Information Science. UP 9408. Revised: 940902. AN AAIC363543 AU Tyrvainen, Pasi Tapio. TI DOMAIN MODELLING FOR TECHNICAL DOCUMENTATION RETRIEVAL. IN Thesis (D.TECH.)--TEKNILLINEN KORKEAKOULU (HELSINKI) (FINLAND), 1994, 171p. DD Not available from UMI. Available from: TEKNILLISTEN TICTEIDEN AKATEMIA, KANSAKOULUKATU 10 A 8, SF-00100 HELSINKI, FINLAND. SO Dissertation Abstracts International. Volume: 55-03, Section: C, page: 0951. AB This work addresses the problem of transfering knowledge of complex technical systems from the designers to the end users. The proposed solution is to aid retrieval of technical documents by constructing conceptual models to describe the domain of the documentation. The technical focus is on reducing the human effort needed to construct these domain models. Different text retrieval approaches and the use of domain modelling are analysed. For this purpose, a framework of representations used in text retrieval systems is devised. The analysis covers information retrieval (IR), natural language processing (NLP), hypertext, and other approaches related to document structure. On the basis of this general analysis, the special features of the technical documentation process, text retrieval, and domain modelling in technical domains in particular are discussed. As a result, a list of requirements for ideal knowledge representations aimed at supporting text retrieval and a general principle guiding domain modelling processes in technical documentation domains are proposed. The realisation of the methods is based on the D&T domain models and the DTM modelling system developed in the Espirit II project SIMPR. The D&T models satisfy the requirements presented earlier and emphasise explicit representation of central domain structures to the users. The DTM modelling system supports the creation of conceptual domain models based on available design information databases, utilises structural homogeneity of the information, and enables integration of various retrieval techniques for mapping the models to the texts. This approach leads to a solution which enables the creation of complex hypertext-like structures with minimal human intervention by selecting the relevant information from existing design data sources. The approach is validated in an industrial pilot system. DE Computer Science. IB 9-516-66406-7 UP 9408. Revised: 940902. ********** IV.C.1. Fr: Candy Schwartz Re Documentation Abstracts Inc. Research Grant Board of Directors DOCUMENTATION ABSTRACTS INC. (DAI) ANNOUNCES THE INFORMATION SCIENCE ABSTRACTS (ISA) RESEARCH GRANT NEW YORK, N.Y., December 1 -- The Board of Directors of Documentation Abstracts Inc. (DAI) announces it will award annually the Information Science Abstracts (ISA) Research Grant of $1,000 to one or more information professionals to conduct a research project oriented toward the study of the primary or secondary literature of information science. Documentation Abstracts Inc. is owner/sponsor of the monthly abstracting and indexing publication, Information Science Abstracts (ISA), published for DAI by Plenum Publishing Corporation. International in scope, ISA provides references to and abstracts of the useful literature in the fields of information science and library science dating back to 1966. Its coverage extends to journal articles from over 300 journals, to conference proceedings, books, reports and patents. The entire file is available for searching via Dialog File 202 and on Silver Platter CD-ROM. All applicants for the ISA Research Grant must be information professionals and hold a graduate degree in library science or information science. No individuals who are associated with ISA are eligible. This includes members of the Board of Directors of DAI, employees of Plenum Publishing Corporation, Silver Platter, and Dialog. Applicants must submit a completed application package by June 30, 1995 outlining the scope and nature of the proposed project, providing evidence of an established methodology and a viable research design. Examples of possible topics for research include the use of information resources, comparison of tools, quality of the literature, and bibliometric analysis. The goal of the research must be to produce a publishable paper. Half the amount of the $1,000 grant will be paid upon announcement of the award and the balance will be paid upon successful completion of the research project. In addition to the cash award, access to ISA CD-ROM will be provided for the length of the grant. CONTACT: For further information and for application instructions, Taissa Kusma, Vice-Chair of Documentation Abstracts Inc., Director, Electronic Publishing, American Insitute of Physics, 500 Sunnyside Boulevard, Woodbury, NY 11797, 516/576-2260, Taissa@aip.org FAX 516/576-2499 ********************************************************** IRLIST Digest is distributed from the University of California, Division of Library Automation, 300 Lakeside Drive, Oakland, CA. 94612-3550. 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