Information Retrieval List Digest 248 (March 20, 1995) URL = http://hegel.lib.ncsu.edu/stacks/serials/irld/irld-248 IRLIST Digest ISSN 1064-6965 March 20, 1995 Volume XII, Number 11 Issue 248 ********************************************************** II. JOBS III. NOTICES A. Publications 1. WordNet Version 1.5 2. Internet Public Library Online B. Meetings 1. DAGS'95 2. Digital Library Symposium '95 IV. PROJECTS A. Abstracts 1. IR-Related Dissertation Abstracts ********************************************************** III. JOBS III.A.1. Fr: Shari L. Landes Re: Wordnet Version 1.5 Now Available *** WordNet Version 1.5 is now available *** WordNet is an online lexical reference system. Word forms in WordNet are represented in their familiar orthography; word meanings are represented by synonym sets (synset) - lists of synonymous word forms that are interchangeable in some context. Two kinds of relations are recognized: lexical and semantic. Lexical relations hold between word forms; semantic relations hold between word meanings. To learn more about WordNet, read "Five Papers on WordNet", available via anonymous ftp and in printed form. WordNet is available in several different packages, based on computer platform. WordNet is available via ftp, or you may use and/or ftp WordNet using a World Wide Web browser such as Mosaic or Netscape. Our URL is: "http://www.cogsci.princeton.edu/~wn/". This message contains basic information about obtaining the WordNet system and "Five Papers on WordNet". View the README at our Web site, or ftp using the information below, for complete ftp and ordering information. You can also get a copy of the README file by sending email to wordnet@princeton.edu. FTP Instructions: You should read the README file for information about the various WordNet packages, and detailed ftp instructions. We prefer that you ftp the WordNet system via anonymous ftp from one of the following ftp sites: In the US: clarity.princeton.edu [128.112.144.1] In Europe: ftp.ims.uni-stuttgart.de [141.58.127.61] IF YOU FTP WordNet, PLEASE SEND MAIL TO wordnet@princeton.edu SO WE CAN UPDATE OUR RECORDS AND KEEP TRACK OF OUR USERS FOR FUTURE MAILINGS AND RELEASES. EVEN IF YOU ARE A CURRENT USER WHO IS UPDATING, IT IS USEFUL TO US TO KNOW THAT YOU HAVE UPGRADED TO 1.5. ***** REMEMBER TO FTP IN "binary" MODE!!! ***** Host: clarity.princeton.edu[128.112.144.1] Login: ftp Password: Your e-mail address Directory: pub/wordnet Host: ftp.ims.uni-stuttgart.de [141.58.127.61] Login: ftp Password: Your e-mail address Directory: /pub/WordNet/1.5 ('ls' sometimes doesn't work properly, 'dir' shows everything). Due to the size of the WordNet distribution, please restrict downloading to time frames outside office hours Central European Time (i.e. outside 9 a.m. - 6 p.m.). Obtaining WordNet through the mail: You can order WordNet on diskette for the PC or the Macintosh. You can also order WordNet on 8mm tape for Unix systems. See the order form in the README file for more information. You can also get a copy of the order from from our WWW server at the URL listed above. ********** III.A.2. Fr: The Internet Public Library Re: Internet Public Library is Online The Internet Public Library at the School of Information and Library Studies at the University of Michigan is proud to announce its grand opening. We invite you to tour and use our site and sample our online resources. Check out reference sections on subjects ranging from gardening to the Internet to today's news. Explore an online story book with a child. Take a tutorial to help you improve your computing skills. Our URL is: http://ipl.sils.umich.edu/ We look forward to your first visit and many return visits. Come, take a look and let us know what you think. Sincerely, Joseph Janes, Director The Internet Public Library ********** III.B.1 Fr: Stuart Dale Re: DAGS 95 Calendar Listing Contact: Stuart Dale Danieli & O'Keefe Associates, Inc. Phone: 508-443-3330 x1215 Dartmouth Institute for Advanced Graduate Studies (DAGS) announces dates for Conference on Electronic Publishing and the Information Superhighway. The DAGS '95 Conference on Electronic Publishing and the Information Superhighway will bring together participants from many areas to discuss issues, applications and technologies for electronic publishing. Topics will include business and commercial implications, copyright and privacy management, retraining, and censorship. Enabling Technologies to be discussed include new mechanisms for information retrieval (including layout and graphics-based retrieval), support for copyrights and transactions, and compression to speed transmission of multimedia data. The conference will include many results pertaining to publishing on the World-Wide Web (WWW), including reports from experience, extensions to the WWW to better support multimedia data, and new interfaces to the WWW. Who: DAGS '95 is for all those involved with or interested in electronic publishing, including Computer Scientists, Publishers, Archivists, Librarians, Authors, Curators, Policy Makers, Commentators, and readers. Where: Boston Park Plaza Hotel Boston, Massachusetts When: May 30 - June 2, 1995 Info: For immediate information about sponsorships, registration, or exhibiting, contact DAGS '95, c/o Danieli & O'Keefe Associates, Inc., 490 Boston Post Road, Sudbury, MA 01776 Tel: (508)443-3330; Fax: (508)443-4715; or Email: DAGS.DOK@Notes.compuserve.com Conference Home Page: http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~dags/homepage.html ********** III.B.2. Fr: Ellen Detlefsen Re: Digital Libraries Symposium - Japan Call for Papers and Participation ISDL'95: International Symposium on Digital Libraries 1995 August 22 - 25, 1995 University of Library and Information Science Tsukuba Science City, Ibaraki, Japan Sponsored by: University of Library and Information Science The issue of digital libraries is key to making global information super-highways really work. Many digital libraries cannot be realized without the integration of various information technologies. Social, cultural and human aspects are also important in the implementation of digital libraries. ISDL'95 will offer a forum for researchers, engineers, librarians, information scientists, and users, all of whom have different backgrounds, but who share equally an interest in digital libraries. Symposium topics will include: - Digital library networks based on high-speed wide-area network technology, - Storage, communication and delivery of multimedia data, - Digitization and database construction, using printed materials from the social sciences, the humanities, and the natural sciences, - Creation, storage, retrieval, and usage of multimedia, - Information visualization and user interfaces, - The digital library as a collection of materials and a collection of information, - The digital library as an environment to support intellectual activities, and - Roles of, and restrictions on, digital libraries in communities. The symposium will include invited talks and contributed paper presentations. INVITED SPEAKERS (Tentative): Jun Adachi(National Center for Science Information Systems, Japan) * Philippe Aigrain (IRIT, France) * Sujata Banerjee (Univ. of Pittsburgh, USA) * Terry Cannon (British Library, UK) * Richard Furuta (Texas A&M Univ., USA) * Yasuyo Kikuta (Fujitsu Ltd., Japan) * Hiroshi Matsumoto (BBCC, Japan) * Sung-Joo Park (KAIST, Korea) * Edie Rasmussen (Univ. of Pittsburgh, USA) * Terry Smith (UCSB, USA) * Beng-Tin Tan (NCB, Singapore) * Wei-Pang Yang (National Chiao Tung Univ., Taiwan) * Yelena Yesha (UMBC/NASA, USA) * (Ministry of International Trade and Industry, Japan) * (National Diet Library, Japan) SUBMISSION: ISDL'95 is planning to publish both PRINTED and ELECTRONIC proceedings. The proceedings will include both Contributed Papers and Brief Contributions. Authors are now invited to submit their abstracts to the symposium program committee. Authors of accepted abstracts will then be asked to prepare camera-ready copy. (Note: Authors of Contributed Papers will be assigned oral presentation at the symposium. Authors of Brief Contributions will not be assigned oral presentation.) Accepted papers will be included in the PRINTED proceedings which will be distributed at the symposium. The ELECTRONIC proceedings will be made available on the symposium homepage. Symposium Language: English Contributed Paper: No more than 2000 words Brief Contribution: No more than 1000 words All abstracts must have a title page attached. ELECTRONIC SUBMISSION: (Electronic submission is strongly recommended.) Send ASCII Plain Text or PostScript File to ISDL95@DL.ulis.ac.jp. (PostScript file for the abstracts that have illustrations.) PAPER SUBMISSION: Send four copies of abstracts to: ISDL95 Univ. of Library and Information Science 1-2, Kasuga, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305, JAPAN Authors who want to demonstrate their work should contact the program committee. The symposium will be able to support both video and WWW-based demonstrations. REGISTRATION: Detailed registration information and registration form will shortly become available via WWW, Gopher, and email. IMPORTANT DATES: Submission: April 28, 1995 Acceptance Notification: May 31, 1995 Camera Ready Copy: June 30, 1995 FOR COMPLETE INFORMATION: ELECTRONIC ACCESS: Symposium information can be obtained electronically: WWW: http://www.DL.ulis.ac.jp/ISDL95/ Gopher: gopher://gopher.DL.ulis.ac.jp/1/ISDL95/ email: ISDL95-info@DL.ulis.ac.jp Write "English" or "help" at the top of the text. CONVENTIONAL ACCESS: ISDL95 Univ. of Library and Information Science 1-2, Kasuga, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305, Japan fax: +81-298-52-4326 or +81-298-52-0384 ********************************************************** IV. PROJECTS IV.A.1. Fr: Susanne M. Humphrey Re: IR-Related Dissertation Abstracts - September 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 AAI9424705 AU Tomasic, Anthony Slavko. TI DISTRIBUTED QUERIES AND INCREMENTAL UPDATES IN INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS (QUERIES). IN Thesis (PH.D.)--PRINCETON UNIVERSITY, 1994, 157p. DD Order Number: AAI9424705. SO Dissertation Abstracts International. Volume: 55-04, Section: B, page: 1524. AB With the proliferation of the world's "information highways" has renewed interest in efficient document indexing techniques. This thesis considers the architecture of information retrieval systems. Distributed queries are studied with analytical and trace-driven simulations. We focus on physical index design, inverted index caching, and database scaling in a distributed shared-nothing system. All three issues are shown to have a strong effect on response time and throughput. Incremental updates of inverted lists are studied using a new dual-structure index data structure. The index dynamically separates long and short inverted lists and optimizes the retrieval, update, and storage of each type of list. To study the behavior of the index, a space of engineering trade-offs which range from optimizing update time to optimizing query performance is described. We quantitatively explore this space by using actual data and hardware in combination with a simulation of an information retrieval system. The best algorithm for a variety of criteria is determined. Finally, implementation of our incremental update algorithms is compared to an existing information retrieval system. DE Computer Science. UP 9409. Revised: 940930. AN AAI9424113 AU Jones, Joanna Rose. TI THE TEACHER-LIBRARIAN PARTNERSHIP IN A LITERATURE-BASED APPROACH. IN Thesis (ED.D.)--ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY, 1994, 383p. DD Order Number: AAI9424113. SO Dissertation Abstracts International. Volume: 55-04, Section: A, page: 0863. AB The purpose of this study was to describe teacher-librarian partnerships occurring within literature-based approaches. Changes in trends have simultaneously occurred in reading education and library science. In reading education, pedagogy has shifted from basals to literature-based approaches. In library science, practices evolved from quantity standards with a skills approach to quality guidelines within resource-based education. The central research question was: How is the teacher-librarian partnership enacted within different elementary school contexts where there is a literature-based approach for instruction? This qualitative study focused on elementary classroom teachers and elementary school librarians from two schools. Both sites were selected based on several criteria. The librarian, who perceived herself as a teacher, was hired for a single-school, full-time librarian position. Schools provided evidence of a literature-based approach. Each librarian and focus teacher was engaged in literature-based instruction. Librarians' and teachers' activities were observed and recorded in field notes, photographs, video recordings and artifacts for 360 hours. Structured and unstructured interviews in conjunction with these observations and documents provided triangulation. The computer program Ethnograph was used for data storage, organization and retrieval. Coding provided pivotal links between data collected and substantive theory developed. Data were analyzed by constant-comparison. Individual case descriptions and a cross-site analysis were conducted for the two cases studied. Eight theoretical constructs emerged from data analysis. (1) Partnerships events occur in three ways--purposeful, springboard, and accidental. (2) Teacher-librarian partnerships support literature-based instruction. (3) Teacher-librarian partnerships to survive must evidence support, maintenance, and reward. (4) Technology expands teacher-librarian partnership possibilities. (5) Contextual constraints exist which impede teacher-librarian partnerships. (6) Literature-based instruction has different meanings to different practitioners. (7) Literature-based instruction is distinguished from whole language by practitioners. (8) Literature-based approaches are limited by and confounded with skills approaches, district expectations, and eclectic methods. Partnership members actively worked to maintain successful team-building relationships. Aspects of collegiality influenced the dynamics of the interplay between members, helping them to form strong networks. Enactment of a teacher-librarian partnership was facilitated through communication and maintained by consideration, cooperation, compromise and commitment. DE Education, Elementary. Education, Language and Literature. Education, Reading. AR Guzzetti, Barbara. UP 9409. Revised: 940930. AN AAI9422966 AU Levacov, Marilia. TI FROM PRINTED TO ELECTRONIC: A CASE STUDY OF "NAUTILUS" CD-ROM INTERACTIVE MAGAZINE (OPTICAL PUBLISHING). IN Thesis (ED.D.)--BOSTON UNIVERSITY, 1994, 205p. DD Order Number: AAI9422966. SO Dissertation Abstracts International. Volume: 55-04, Section: A, page: 0940. AB The purpose of this dissertation was to evaluate the changes in the relations of readers and editors in an interactive relationship facilitated by digital media. This technology is changing the way we communicate, store, retrieve, publish and distribute information, and altering the concepts of what an author, a reader, a publisher, and an editor are and do. The amount of information becoming available, growing in geometric proportions, requires larger storage media, new ways of manipulating and accessing data, and new frames of reference. CD-ROMs, often called "the new papyrus," are becoming popular as digital storage media. New formats for dealing with large and eclectic electronic information allow it to be linked, indexed, and searched in a non-linear and interactive way. This revolution in communications, although recent, is largely documented. Little has been said, however, about readers and editors, the focus of this study. Their evolving relationship have implications for the development of new information paradigms, since it changes the way knowledge is collaboratively produced, represented, accessed, and shared. Nautilus, a CD-ROM magazine, a hybrid of CD technology and online communications, offers a new model for dialogue and interaction between readers and editors. This case study used qualitative methodology as the process to obtain, describe, and inductively analyze data. The grounded theory, a method of systematically analyzing the results in order to perceive patterns and themes that naturally emerge from the phenomenon under study, was selected. Data collection from the participant's perspective was divided into two phases: The first was collecting the results of a multimedia questionnaire pressed into the Nautilus disc. Replies from subscribers were received either by e-mail, regular mail, fax, or Nautilus Link. The other phase was interviewing Nautilus staff members. A brief analysis of the disc interface was also performed, as a way to triangulate data. Coding, description and analyses of the results were used to generate theories about the particular dialectic and evolving nature of the object of this study. 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