Information Retrieval List Digest 269 (August 21, 1995) URL = http://hegel.lib.ncsu.edu/stacks/serials/irld/irld-269 1/10 August 21, 1995 Volume XII, Number 32 Issue 269 ********************************************************** I. QUERIES 1. Document Classification/Categorization Benchmarks? II. JOBS 1. U. Pittsburgh: Librarian/Acquisitions Coordinator 2. Harvard Business School: Reference Librarian/Bibliographer III. NOTICES A. Publications 1. MIT Press Goes Online B. Meetings 1. AAAI Spring Symposium 2. CFP2: Knowledge Organization & Change IV. PROJECTS C. Grants & Scholarships 1. New NSF Grant Proposal Guide ********************************************************** I. QUERIES I.1. Fr: V. Dasigi Re: Document Classification/Categorization Benchmarks? Are there any benchmarks available for document classification? Didn't find any info on the web sites I am familiar with. Any pointers will be appreciated. Thanks a lot. Venu Dasigi (vdasigi@mars.epm.ornl.gov dasigi@shu.sacredheart.edu) ********************************************************** II. JOBS II.1. Fr: Cassandra Brush Re: U. Pittsburgh: Librarian/Acquisitions Coordinator LIBRARIAN/ACQUISITIONS COORDINATOR. Clifford E. Barbour Library, Pittsburgh Theological Seminary, is seeking a librarian to process orders and assist with cataloging. Desirable: MLS degree, or equivalent experience with cataloging, bookkeeping and library automation. Salary mid-twenties plus benefits. E.O.E. Send resume to: Dr. Richard Oman, Academic Dean, Pittsburgh Theological Seminary, 616 N. Highland Ave., Pittsburgh PA 15206. Selection process will begin September 1, 1995 Cassandra Brush brush@lis.pitt.edu 412-362-2340 FAX 362-2329 Systems Librarian Pittsburgh Theological Seminary 616 N. Highland Ave., Pgh., PA 15206 Adjunct Professor School of Library and Information Science University of Pittsburgh, Pgh., PA 15260 ********** II.2. Fr: Erika Re: Harvard Business School: Ref. Librarian/Bibliographer Harvard Business School's Baker Library is seeking a service-orientated professional librarian with a strong knowledge of business literature to expand and deliver a broad range of business information services to faculty, students and alumni. PRIMARY DUTIES INCLUDE: Supervising and oversight of the development and management of the reference collection in all relevant formats. Working within a team environment, providing reference service and instruction; researching and compiling business information packets using print and nonprint sources; developing workshops and documentation for online resources; contributing to collection development and management of the general collection; and collaborating with other Baker librarians on issues concerning quality service to customers. This position will report to the Head of the Reference Department. REQUIREMENTS: ALA-accredited MLS, minimum five years relevant experience in a research or reference setting in an academic business or special library; record of initiative and achievement in business literature collection development and management; evidence of published or publishable research; thorough knowledge of business reference sources; extensive experience searching business databases and Internet operations; demonstrated project management skills; excellent oral and written communications and interpersonal skills; experience with a broad range of electronic hardware and software;understanding of the specific needs of a graduate business library; ability to work effectively in a changing environment and meet deadlines. Desired subject strength in management, finance or marketing. HIRING RANGE: $35,00-44,000 SEND: Resume to Ellen Cirillo, Human Resources, Harvard Business School, Fowler House, Boston, MA 02163. No telephone calls please. ********************************************************** III. NOTICES III.A.1. Fr: Joan K Lippincott Re: MIT Press POWER TO THE READERS: MIT PRESS PLUGS IN AND FLIPS THE ON-SWITCH OF ITS CHICAGO JOURNAL OF THEORETICAL COMPUTER SCIENCE With its first articles available within an electronic, Internet archive, The MIT Press has completed the set-up of its new, peer-reviewed, electronic, reader-powered Chicago Journal of Theoretical Computer Science (CJTCS). Completion of the Chicago Journal's set-up also simultaneously boots up The MIT Press's novel program to develop powerful, viable, user-friendly e-journals. CJTCS is the first, electronic journal to feature peer-reviewed scholarship on theoretical computer science. It is rigorously (and quickly) refereed, and copyedited, so readers will receive the same kind of 'quality filtering' they expect to find in traditional paper journals. Researchers in the field investigate mathematical foundations of computing, and CJTCS's articles cover major areas of the discipline as reflected in the composition of the international board of editors. These areas presently include but are not limited to, Computational Complexity Theory, Distributed Computing, Logic in Computer Science, Database Theory, Logics of Programming, Computational Geometry, Algorithms, and Combinatorics. An international, distinguished board edits the journal. The following published articles are now available to subscribers: * "Symmetric Logspace is Closed Under Complement" by NOAM NISAN and AMNONTA-SHMA * "On the Weak MOD-m Representation of Boolean Functions by VINCE GROLMUSZ Forthcoming articles include the following titles: * "Rabin Measures" by NILS KLARLUND and DEXTER KOZEN * "Probabilistically Checkable Debate Systems and Nonapproximability of PSPACE-Hard Functions" by ANNE CONDON, JOAN FEIGENBAUM, CARSTEN LUND, and PETER SHOR The publication format of CJTCS is intended to maximize readers' power to use articles in whatever ways they find most productive. Readers are able to display articles in a wide variety of typographical formats suited to their own equipment, their paper or screen-size, and their eyesight; and they are able to apply browsing and information-retrieval software acquired from suppliers other than The MIT Press. Furthermore, readers' license is limited only as required to insure fair attribution to authors and the journal, and to prohibit use in a competing commercial project. Chicago Journal articles are submitted and published in LaTeX source form as well as Postscript, and distributed internationally over the Internet. Articles are augmented by refereed, forward references to improvements and subsequent related work. Readers may obtain articles in LaTeX or Postscript form via file-transfer protocol (FTP), Gopher, and World Wide Web. Other widely used network tools will be supported as they arise in the future. The journal is committed to minimizing publication delays, and to promoting maximum flexibility in the ways that readers use the journal by supporting the development of new tools and standards. The development of such tools and such a culture was the major force behind the conception and launch of CJTCS. The editors wanted to use a full-markup language that is well supported, and highly structured, but there is none that is standardized and well accepted. The choice of LaTeX was to enable the editors to do mark-ups, annotations, and add high-level references. Moreover, the authors in this discipline already produce a large proportion of their papers in LaTeX, which is especially attractive for its treatment of mathematical formulae. Postscript can also be produced with graphics already integrated into it. Authors are asked to submit papers in a standardized version of LaTeX that was developed by Michael O'Donnell, Managing Editor of CJTCS. This version is available from the journal's World Wide Web Home Page, the address for which is listed at the end of this press release. Earlier this year, The MIT Press received from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation a $150,000 grant specifically for this electronic-journal publishing project. In response to growing technological and economic needs of universities, researchers, and libraries, the Press's goal is to develp a cost-based, clear model and method that nonprofit publishers can use as a basis for creating purely electronic, paid-subscriptions, journals tailored to the needs of particular user-communities. CJTCS plays a major role in our experiment to establish a high quality scholarly journal in an important field. Chicago Journal of Theoretical Computer Science readers are Computer Scientists interested in theoretical aspects of their discipline and include academic and industrial researchers, students, and professors of Computer Science and related fields, Initial circulation: Over 300 libraries worldwide. ABOUT THE CHICAGO JOURNAL OF THEORETICAL COMPUTER SSCIENCE EDITORS: Janos Simon is Professor and Stuart A. Kurtz is Associate Professor, Computer Science Department, University of Chicago. Joseph Halpern is a Research Staff Member, IBM Almaden Research Center and a Consulting Professor of Computer Science, Stanford University. Raimund Seidel is Professor of Informatik at the University of Saarland in Germany. Print-on-paper or electronic review copies are available from the publisher. Information on Chicago Journal of Theoretical Computer Science, including detailed description of the journal, instructions for submission of manuscripts, subscription, etc., is available at the CJTCS World-Wide Web home page, URL http://www.cs.uchicago.edu/publications/cjcts Electronically browse journals and books catalogs and ordering information on THE MIT PRESS World Wide Web Home Page, URL http://www-mitpress.mit.edu Chicago Journal of Theoretical Computer Science , ISSN 1073-0486. Published article by article on the Internet, 1995 SUBSCRIPTION RATES are $30.00 for individuals and $125.00 for institutions. Canadians add additional 7% GST. Prices are subject to change without notice. Prepayment required. For ordering information, contact MIT PRESS JOURNALS, 617-253-2889 (phone) 617-258-6779 (fax), or journals-orders@mit.edu ********** III.B.1. Fr: Marti Hearst Re: AAAI Spring Symposium: Machine Learning in Information Access Machine Learning in Information Access AAAI Spring Symposium Stanford, March 25-27, 1996 PAPER SUBMISSION DATE: Oct 31, 1995 As the volume and importance of the information available on the Internet continues to increase, there is a growing interest in information access in all areas of computer science. There has been substantial recent work on the application of machine learning techniques (e.g., inductive learning, genetic algorithms, and neural networks) to information access problems. For example, machine learning has been used to improve weights on terms for relevance feedback, to learn rules for filtering netnews articles, for automatic identification of hypertext links, and for text topic identification. Thus far, though, there has been no professional gathering devoted to investigating the use of machine learning techniques to improve access to textual information. The goal of this symposium is to provide the much-needed opportunity to develop new ideas and a well-defined community in this growing field. For this symposium, authors are asked to submit papers concerning the use of machine learning to enable or improve users' access to online information. Machine Learning techniques are especially appropriate for, but not limited to, the following information access tasks: Text Categorization and Segmentation Routing/Filtering Relevance Feedback Clustering User Preferences/Usage Pattern Analysis Browsing Multi-Source integration Papers can describe the use of machine learning on one or more of these tasks, or the development of new machine-learning algorithms tailored to information access tasks, or a comparison of learning algorithms vs. no learning on a given task. Although we expect that all accepted papers will provide objective evaluations of the main contributions of the described work (the use of standard test collections is encouraged, where applicable), this is an area with a lot of room for new ideas, and we would like this symposium to serve as an appropriate medium for publication of such work. Authors should make certain that the learning techniques they describe address the special issues that are associated with problems in information access. For example, because there are so many words in a typical text collection, ML problems in IA often involve a very large number >(10^5 - 10^6) of features. Characteristics of the available relevance assessments also make standard methods of evaluation problematic. SUBMISSION INFORMATION: The symposium will consist of invited talks, paper presentations, and discussion sessions. Researchers from the information retrieval community are especially encouraged to participate. Interested participants should submit a short paper (5-8 pages maximum) addressing one or more of the research issues described above. If submitting via email, send either a URL pointing to a postscript version of the paper or the postscript copy itself to mlia@parc.xerox.com. Or, send 5 hard copies to: Marti Hearst Xerox PARC 3333 Coyote Hill Rd. Palo Alto, CA 94304 phone: (415) 812-4742 fax: (415) 812-4374 For further information, a web page for this symposium is located at http://www.xerox.com/PARC/mlia/mlia.html ********** III.B.2. Fr: Rebecca Green Re: CFP2: Knowledge Organization and Change (ISKO4) International Society for Knowledge Organization Fourth International Conference July 15-18, 1996, Washington, DC Knowledge organization in the coming century will differ markedly from that of this past century. Continued information and document growth, expansion and change in user needs and information-seeking behaviors, and changes in technological, political, economic, educational, and social environments mandate increased development and improvement in knowledge organization tools, techniques, schemes, and systems. In light of the challenges and promises of this situation, the International Society for Knowledge Organization (ISKO) will hold its 4th International Conference (ISKO 4), sponsored by the Library of Congress, and in cooperation with OCLC Forest Press, the Classification Research Special Interest Group of the American Society for Information Science (ASIS SIG/CR) and the College of Library and Information Services (CLIS) of the University of Maryland, at the Library of Congress in Washington, DC, USA, July 15-18, 1996 to address the theme: KNOWLEDGE ORGANIZATION AND CHANGE Papers and panels addressing Knowledge Organization and Change from any of the following interlocking perspectives are invited: From an Environmental Perspective: the impact of ongoing changes in technological, political, economic, educational, and social environments on how knowledge is produced, organized, and used From an Information/Knowledge Perspective: the challenges created by changing views of knowledge (e.g., theories of knowledge, stores of knowledge) across time, cultures, languages, disciplines, users, and uses From a Document Perspective: new methods of creating and presenting documents (e.g., collaborative documents, hypertext, multimedia); changes in text composition, genres, and discourse; dynamic documents; managing document versions, variants, and views From a User Perspective: expansion of and change in user needs and user information-seeking behaviors; the effect of user interface design on users' abilities to access and assimilate information; the effect of discourse and interpretive communities, disciplinary/interdisciplinary communication, and network communications on users' conceptions of knowledge From a Knowledge Organization Systems Perspective: new developments in knowledge organization tools, techniques, schemes, and systems; natural language processing and expert systems; response of knowledge organization theory and practice to change in other arenas; management of change in knowledge organization schemes and systems The conference will also celebrate the 120th anniversary of the Dewey Decimal Classification, and papers addressing the conference theme with respect to DDC are especially welcome. Prospective speakers or panels are asked to submit extended abstracts of 500-1000 words by September 30, 1995 to Rebecca Green, Program Chair (see contact information below; electronic submissions welcome--please mention ISKO in subject line). An international program committee will review the papers, and authors will be notified of acceptance decisions by January 31, 1996. The deadline for submission of papers for the printed conference proceedings will be March 31, 1996. Conference chair: Sarah Thomas, Director of Cataloging, Collections Services Library of Congress, LM 642 (COLL/O) Washington, DC 20540-4300, USA phone: +1 202 707-5333; fax: +1 202 707-6269 internet: stho@loc.gov Program chair: Rebecca Green College of Library and Information Services Hornbake Bldg. (So. Wing), Rm. 4105 University of Maryland College Park, MD 20742-4345, USA phone: +1 301 405-2050; fax: +1 301 314-9145 internet: rgreen@umd5.umd.edu Local arrangements chair: Jolande Goldberg Cataloging Policy and Support Office Library of Congress, LM 556 (COLL/CPSO) Washington, DC 20540-4305, USA phone: +1 202 707-4386; fax: +1 202 707-6629 internet: goldberg@mail.loc.gov ********************************************************** IV. PROJECTS IV.C.1. Fr: Maria Zemankova Re: US Researchers Alert: New NSF Grant Proposal Guide A revised version of the NSF Grant Proposal Guide (GPG)(NSF 95-27) and Proposal Forms Kit (NSF 95-28) is currently being printed replacing the prior version of the GPG (NSF 94-2) and the Proposal Forms Kit (94-3). Among other things, this revision implements the NSF Investigator Financial Disclosure Policy. Other sections have been revised, as appropriate, for clarity as well as to make the Guide consistent with current NSF policies, practices and procedures. A complete list of significant changes is included in the GPG. The GPG will be effective for all proposals submitted on or after October 01, 1995. Proposals submitted prior to October 01, may continue to use the forms contained in the previous edition or the forms contained in the new GPG (95-27 or 95-28). After October 01, 1995, the previous version of the GPG should be discarded. The ASCII version of the GPG is now available on STIS as nsf9527.txt and the Proposal Forms Kit is available as nsf9528.txt. The Proposal Forms Kit containing forms formatted in Microsoft Word for Windows 6.0. also is available as nsf9528.doc. These electronic versions may be used in submission of proposals to NSF. In the near future, the GPG text also will be available in both Microsoft Word and html formats. A separate notice will be sent when available. In addition, paper copies of the revised GPG will be sent to NSF staff and the Authorized Organizational Representative at current NSF grantees by early September. Any questions regarding the revised version of the GPG should be referred to the Policy Office at policy@nsf.gov or by phone on 703-306-1243. Jean Feldman Policy Office Division of Contracts, Policy & Oversight ********************************************************** 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 The IRLIST Archives is now set up for anonymous FTP, as well as via the LISTSERV. Using anonymous FTP via the host dla.ucop.edu, the files will be found in the directory pub/irl, stored in subdirectories by year (e.g., /pub/irl/1993). 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