Information Retrieval List Digest 278 (October 23, 1995) URL = http://hegel.lib.ncsu.edu/stacks/serials/irld/irld-278 IRLIST Digest ISSN 1064-6965 October 23, 1995 Volume XII, Number 41 Issue 278 ********************************************************** I. QUERIES 1. Rejection Rates of Library/Information Science Journals 2. Textbook for Advanced Topics in Information Science 3. Electronic Records User Studies III. NOTICES A. Publications 1. ARIST '96 2. Cliniweb 3. JASIS B. Meetings 1. Southeast Asia: The Information Age C. Miscellaneous 1. Johns Hopkins U.: Center for Language & Speech Processing ********************************************************** I. QUERIES I.1. Fr: Kevin Lindstrom Re: Rejection Rates of Library/Information Science Journals Hello, Is anyone aware of a ranking of library/information science journals according to rejection rates of articles submitted for publication? Any information would be greatly appreciated. Regards, Kevin Lindstrom Email: lindstro@unixg.ubc.ca Science Outreach Librarian Voice: (604) 822-4363 Science & Engineering Division Fax: (604) 822-9532 Main Library 1956 Main Mall University of British Columbia Vancouver, B.C. Canada V6T 1Z1 http://unixg.ubc.ca:780/ lindstro/homepage.html ********** I.2. Fr: Kenneth Madden Re: Textbook for Advanced Topics in Info. Science To anyone with any ideas: I am in need of any ideas for a textbook that might be used in an introductory-advanced overview class covering the topics of information science. The text will be supplemented by additional readings from journals and conference proceedings, but I would prefer to base the course on a textbook rather than exclusively on readings. What would be nice, but not entirely necessary, is the book should meet the following specifications: 1) Should have an U.S. slant, rather than U.K 2) Should be recent (1990-date) 3) Should not contain too much math 4) Should not be an anthology of essays 5) Should be broad in scope to give an adequate overview Any ideas? Thanks in advance. KGM U. of North Texas ********** I.3. Fr: Ann Marie Przybyla Re: Electronic records user studies Can anyone tell me of any studies--either published or unpublished--concerning the users of electronic records? Also, does anyone have any thoughts about the special information needs of users of electronic records? Thanks. Ann Marie Przybyla New York State Archives and Records Administration Room 9C71 - CEC Albany, NY 12230 518-474-6771 aprzybyl@mail.nysed.gov ********************************************************** III. NOTICES III.A.1. From: Amanda Spink Re: ARIST '96 Call for Papers Dr. Amanda Spink from the School of Library and Information Sciences at the University of North Texas is currently writing a chapter on "Feedback in Information Retrieval" for the Annual Review of Information Science and Technology (ARIST), Vol. 31, 1996. Please forward as soon as possible any papers, reports or articles relating to feedback in information retrieval, particularly work on relevance feedback, in print, press or forthcoming to Amanda at the following address. Amanda Spink, Assistant Professor School of Information & Library Studies University of North Texas P.O. Box 13796 Denton TX 76203 Tel: (817) 565-2187 Fax: (817) 565-3101 E-mail: spink@lis.unt.edu ********** III.A.2. Fr: William Hersh Re: Cliniweb We are pleased to announce CliniWeb, an index and table of contents of clinical information on the World Wide Web (WWW). The goal of CliniWeb is to provide access to clinical health information on the WWW. Its database contains 2,500 URL's of clinical content, indexing by terms from the Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) disease tree, which can be accessed by searching or browsing. The URL's in Cliniweb are deliberately limited to clinical information at the level of health sciences students, educators, or practitioners. It does not contain information about professional societies, health science universities, or other non-clinical entities. While this information is important to many (including ourselves), the aim of Cliniweb is to provide the ability to navigate around such information and get directly to clinical information. We'd like to get your feedback on how to improve CliniWeb, or hear from you if we omitted your site that has clinical information. This can be done by using the Feedback page built into the CliniWeb system. Cliniweb can be accessed at the URL: http://www.ohsu.edu/cliniweb/ FOR MORE INFORMATION, CONTACT: William Hersh, M.D. Associate Professor Oregon Health Sciences University 3181 SW Sam Jackson Park Rd. Portland, OR 97201 Voice: 503-494-4563 Fax: 503-494-4551 Email: hersh@ohsu.edu ********* III.A.3. Fr: Donald H. Kraft Re: JASIS As the Editor of the _Journal of the American Society for Information Science_ (JASIS), I am again soliciting your support. With your help and cooperation, I and the _JASIS_ Editorial Board can continue to produce the quality journal you have come to expect. _JASIS_ readers expect high quality research and scholarly articles, at least two (and perhaps even more) Perspectives (and we have some really great ones in progress on the hottest topics); the new special topic issues (and we are open to suggestions on topics and guest editors), plus historical papers, and Opinion Papers, Brief Communications, European Research Letters, and student papers; plus Book Reviews and Letters to the Editor. Readers now that the scholarly house organ of ASIS will have the latest research and applications results in a timely fashion. We also are looking for Perspectives and for Special Topic Issues guest editors. The Editorial Board also wants you to know that we are continually seeking quality articles for _JASIS_. We are looking for scholarly articles in such areas as: (i) Theory of Information Science (ii) Communications (iii) Management, Economics, and Marketing (iv) Applied Information Science; and (v) Social and Legal Aspects of Information A copy of the "Scope of _JASIS_" can be found occasionally in issues of the journal. This statement of scope will describe these areas in more detail. Moreover, in some issues of _JASIS_ are the "Instructions for Contributors" and the "Publication Agreement." _JASIS_ seeks research articles, but also seeks Brief Communications, Student Papers, European Research Letters, historical papers, and scholarly Opinion Papers, as well as application articles. In addition, we publish Letters to the Editor, commenting on the key information science issues and the papers published in _JASIS_. Of course, _JASIS_ is a refereed journal, so all articles must be reviewed by competent peers. Anyone who would care to serve as a referee should contact the Editor and should provide their name, address, and a list of keywords describing their interests vis-a-vis areas in which they could and would review articles. In addition, _JASIS_ also needs book reviewers. Those who have served previously as a referee or book reviewer should send the Editor an updated list of keywords. Moreover, if anyone is interested in serving on the Editorial Board, helping to referee articles, seeking out new articles, and creating editorial policy, please feel free to contact the Editor. We also want to request that as you go to your places of work, read the professional literature, communicate with colleagues, and go to professional society meetings, you become the eyes and ears of _JASIS_. As you spot good work, let the Editorial Board know who is doing what that should be written up and submitted for publication in _JASIS_. Please spread the good word, telling people with good ideas to write them down and send the manuscripts to the Editor. This could generate a host of quality papers for the journal, and would help promote ASIS as well. SIGs/SRT needs to be heard, ensuring that _JASIS_ is reaching their members and serving them properly. Finally, you should feel free to contact any member of the _JASIS_ Editorial Board, to give your input as to (i) how _JASIS_ is doing to satisfy your needs; and (ii) how to improve _JASIS_ to make it an even better journal and organ for ASIS. Any reactions, comments, and suggestions you might have will allow _JASIS_ to further its goal of being the very best in the information science field. Thank you for your consideration and your continuing support for _JASIS._ Donald H. Kraft, _JASIS_ Editor Department of Computer Science Louisiana State University Baton Rouge, LA 70803-4020 (504) 388-2253 voice (504) 388-1465 fax kraft@bit.csc.lsu.edu ********** III.B.1. Fr: TRACY@sla.org Re: Southeast Asia: The Information Age Time is running out!!! The Special Libraries Association's State-of-the-Art Institute, "Southeast Asia: The Information Age," will be held November 2-3, 1995 at the Madison Hotel in Washington, DC. The Institute will focus on information marketing, information technology and economic development in China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, South Korea, Thailand, Vietnam, Singapore, Malaysia, and Indonesia. To receive a brochure, contact Tracy Lofty, SLA's Manager of Professional Development, at (202) 234-4700, ext. 649 or send an Internet message to tracy@sla.org. Please provide your fax number. ********** III.C.1. Fr: Eric Brill Re: Johns Hopkins U.: Center for Language & Speech Processing Graduate Students CENTER FOR LANGUAGE AND SPEECH PROCESSING Johns Hopkins University Baltimore, Md. The Center for Language and Speech Processing (CLSP) at Johns Hopkins University encourages students interested in pursuing a graduate degree in any aspect of language and speech processing to apply to Johns Hopkins. Graduate students interested in language and speech processing who want to conduct research at CLSP must first be admitted to a graduate program in one of the various departments that have CLSP faculty. Students must meet the requirements for admission and degree completion in their home department. To obtain an application to any of the affiliated departments, send mail to the address provided below. Be sure to indicate which department(s) you wish to apply to. HOME DEPARTMENTS AND SELECTED FACULTY: COGNITIVE SCIENCE- MICHAEL BRENT, Ph.D., MIT, 1991. Computational models of language acquisition, machine learning of natural language. LUIGI BURZIO, Ph.D., MIT, 1981. Theories of syntax and phonology, rules versus constraints in lexical organization. ROBERT FRANK, Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, 1992. Natural language syntax and foundations of grammatical theory, tree adjoining grammars, computational and empirical studies of language acquisition and language processing. PAUL SMOLENSKY, Ph.D., Indiana University, 1981. Integration of neural/connectionist and symbolic computation, soft constraints in universal grammar, optimality theory, phonology and syntax. COMPUTER SCIENCE- ERIC BRILL, Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, 1993. Natural language and speech processing, machine learning, artificial intelligence. SIMON KASIF, Ph.D., University of Maryland, 1985. Artificial intelligence, parallel computation, machine learning, computational modeling. STEVEN SALZBERG, Ph.D., Harvard, 1989. Machine learning, computational biology, pattern recognition. DAVID YAROWSKY, Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, 1995. Natural language processing and spoken language systems, machine translation, information retrieval and machine learning. ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING- ANDREAS ANDREOU, Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University, 1986. Sensory communication, acoustic processing for speech recognition using models of audition and speech production, low power analog VLSI auditory models. GERT CAUWENBERGHS, Ph.D., California Institute of Technology, 1994. Neural networks, model free learning, low power integrated circuits for speech encoding/decoding and acoustic signal classification. FREDERICK JELINEK, Ph.D., MIT, 1962. Speech recognition, statistical methods of natural language processing, information theory. BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING- JOHN HEINZ, Sc.D., MIT, 1962. Speech communication, acoustics of speech and swallowing. MURRAY SACHS, Ph.D., MIT, 1966. Auditory neurophysiology and psychophysics. ERIC YOUNG, Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University, 1972. Auditory neurophysiology, neural modeling, sensory processes. MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES- CAREY PRIEBE, Ph.D., George Mason University, 1993. Statistics, functional estimation, discriminant analysis, change point analysis, image analysis. COLIN WU, Ph.D., UC Berkeley, 1990. Statistics, semi-parametric models, robustness. CENTER RESOURCES AND ACTIVITIES: World-class computational resources Ample laboratory and office space for graduate students Weekly academic year seminar series Annual Speech Research Symposium Six-week international summer research workshop AFFILIATED LABORATORIES: Center for Hearing Sciences, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine Communications Sciences Research Laboratory, Johns Hopkins Kennedy Krieger Institute Neural Encoding Laboratory, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine Sensory Communication Laboratory, Johns Hopkins Whiting School of Engineering SELECTED GRADUATE COURSES OFFERED IN NLP AND RELATED AREAS: 600.403 - Learning and Modeling 600.404 - Artificial Neural Networks 600.435 - Artificial Intelligence 600.440 - Advanced Topics in Artificial Intelligence 600.465 - Introduction to Natural Language Processing 600.466 - Advanced Topics in Natural Language Processing 600.489 - Automated Reasoning 600.661 - Machine Learning 600.676 - Statistical Methods of Natural Language Analysis 520.435 - Digital Signal Processing 520.447 - Introduction to Information Theory and Coding 520.475 - Processing and Recognition of Speech 520.476 - Information Extraction from Speech and Text 520.639 - Information Theory 520.641 - Communication Theory 520.735 - Sensory Information Processing 050.405 - Cognitive AI II: Learning 050.603 - Lexical Processing 050.606 - Cognitive Neuropsychology of Language 050.624 - Topics in Syntactic Theory 050.625 - Linguistic Semantics 050.627 - Lexicon Seminar 050.642 - Computational Language Acquisition 050.643 - Laboratory in Computational Language Acquisition 050.801 - Research Seminar in Cognitive Neuropsychology 050.802 - Research Seminar in Cognitive Processes Center for Language and Speech Processing Johns Hopkins University 3400 N. 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