Information Retrieval List Digest 328 (October 14, 1996) URL = http://hegel.lib.ncsu.edu/stacks/serials/irld/irld-328.txt IRLIST Digest ISSN 1064-6965 October 14, 1996 Volume XIII, Number 41 Issue 328 ********************************************************** II. JOBS 1. Oslo College: Professor, LIS 2. British Library: Research Assistant, R&D 3. UBILAB, Zurich: Research, IR 4. Apple Computer: Research, Information Access III. NOTICES A. Publications 1. SIGIR '96 Proceedings 2. FARNET's Washington Update B. Meetings 1. AAAI Spring Symposium - Cross Language Text and Speech Retrieval 2. Licensing Electronic Resources C. Miscelleous 1. Official LEXIS-NEXIS Statement Regarding P-Trak IV. PROJECTS C. Fellowships, Grants, & Scholarships 1. U.S. RESEARCHERS: Gigabit Network Kits D. Initiatives & Proposals 1. SAA Continuing Education Guidelines ********************************************************** II. JOBS II.1. Fr: Ragnar Nordlie Re: Oslo College, Norway: Professor, LIS PROFESSOR IN LIBRARY AND INFORMATION STUDIES Oslo College is the fourth largest educational institution in Norway, with 8000 students and 850 employees. The College offers professional education in more than 20 fields. Apart from its educational activities the College is engaged in research and development projects. Most of the activities of the College are consentrated in the centre of Oslo. The position of Professor in Library and information studies is available at Oslo College, Faculty of Journalism, Library and Information Studies. In the field of Library and information studies the College offers the following educational programs: 1. One-year course in Library and information studies (may serve as a subsidiary subject in a general Batchelor degree). 2. Diploma in Library and Information Studies, a three-year undergraduate program with the one-year course as the first year. 3. 2-year Graduate course in Information studies and Computer applications in the library and information field, based on the Diploma degree or equivalent competence. The Faculty runs an extensive program of Continuing education courses. There are plans to offer Graduate studies in other LIS fields. A main goal for the near future is to extend the research activities of the Faculty. The College has been named a National Centre of Competence in the field of Library and information studies. It serves a similar role in the field of Newspaper journalism. The role as Centre of Competence brings new and demanding tasks to the Faculty, particularly with respect to R&D. We are charged with building a network of researchers in the field and with developing LIS as a field of research in Norway. The new professor will be heavily involved in these activities. During the Fall of 1996 the Norwegian Research Council are launching a research program in Library and information studies. Our Faculty constitutes the largest professional community in LIS education and research in Norway. The Faculty's educational and research activities cover all the four areas of study which are targeted by this research program, and contributing to the success of the program is considered a main priority for the near future. In particular, we intend to develop research courses, seminars and conferences which can stimulate Doctoral candidates and bring together and establish a common platform for projects with different theoretical and methodological approaches. The new professor will play an important part in this development. The Faculty has a relatively large library which not only offers professional library sevices, but which also serves as an integral part of our pedagogical and professional activities. The library constitutes the basis of an LIS laboratory which will play a strategic part in the development of the Faculty's R&D activities, in the conduct of current and future graduate studies and in the adaption of project- and problem-based learning methods in the undergraduate programs. The development of this laboratory as a strategic tool for the Faculty's R&D activities will be a major responsibility for the new professor. In addition the successful candidate is expected to engage in actvities towards the development of the Faculty's research competence, through internal seminars, professional advice, encouragement and assistance in connection with publication in international fora etc. In addition to personal research, graduate-level teaching and research development activities, the position may include a certain amount of undergraduate teaching. 50% of the professor's time is allotted to personal research and professional development. The professional profile of the Faculty and its staff is broad. The successful candidate must demonstrate extensive research experience in one of the fields of information science. In addition, an important consideration will be the candidate's breadth of professional experience and ability to evaluate projects, give advice and provide profesional stimulation beyond the limits of her/his own research focus. In selecting the candidate, primary emphasis will be put on demonstrated research competence in one of the LIS fields. The secondary consideration will be breadth of experience. In the case of two or more equally qualified candidates, a candidate with a research focus in the field of Organization of knowledge/ information seeking (document/data analysis, representation, storage, search, retrieval and presentation) will have preference. The position is salaried in the range of NOK 321000-338000. For particularly well qualified applicants a higher salary may be considered. Within one month of the closing date for applications, candidates must submit: - 4 sets of copies of 10 scientific papers which the candidate wishes to present as demonstration of research competence - 4 sets of a list of these papers, indicating date and place of publication - 4 sets of a full list of publications, with indication of the 10 which the candidate considers most significant, and which are submitted for special consideration - 4 copies of the application and Curriculum Vitae. Scientific publications which are in production at the closing date for applications may be submitted within three months, provided that notice is given in the application. Full position description and further information is available from the Dean, Ragnar Audunson, tel. +47 22 45 26 07, e-mail ragnar.audunson@jbi.hioslo.no. Applications, marked "Ref. No. 96/787" should be submitted to Oslo College, Personalseksjonen, Wergelandsveien 27, 0167 Oslo, Norway, by November 9, 1996. Applications should include a statement of the candidate's scientific/professional qualifications, pedagogical and/or administrative competence and any other qualifying experience. A list of scientific publications should be included with the application. Ragnar Nordlie Faculty of Journalism, Library and information Studies Oslo College Pilestredet 52 0167 Oslo Norway ********** II.2. Fr: Chris Paice Re: British Library: Research Assistant, R&D Research Post, Lancaster UK : Concept-based Abstracting The British Library R&D Department is funding a Research Assistantship for a period of 30 months for a project on Concept-based Abstracting. This will extend work previously carried out at Lancaster, outlined in C.D. Paice & P.A. Jones, "The identification of important concepts in highly structured technical papers," Proceedings of SIGIR'93, pp.69-79. The project will entail setting up test collections in three distinct domains, and will strengthen the earlier CBA approach through the use of domain thesauri. Candidates must have strong experience and relevant qualifications in both the computing area and the natural language/information science area. No formal dealine has been set yet, but it is hoped that the work may commence early in 1997, so enquiries/applications should be received as soon as possible. Full information about the project and the post on offer can be obtained from: Dr. Chris Paice (cdp@comp.lancs.ac.uk) Computing Department Lancaster University Lancaster LA1 4YR, UK phone: 01524-593804 Fax: 01524-593608 ********** II.3. Fr: Gabriele Sonnenberger Re: UBILAB, Zurich: Research in IR UBILAB, ZURICH, SWITZERLAND RESEARCH POSITION IN INFORMATION RETRIEVAL Ubilab is looking for a research staff member in the area of Information Retrieval (IR). Ubilab is the corporate IT innovation center of Union Bank of Switzerland. It pursues a small number of attractive, highly competitive research projects in collaboration with different research institutions in Switzerland and abroad with the aim of maintaining the status of a renowned research institution. In addition, Ubilab serves the bank as an effective IT consultant on both the strategic and tactical levels. The goal of Ubilab's IR project is to ease the development of IR systems and to support the experimental evaluation of indexing and retrieval techniques by providing reusable software in the form of a multimedia IR framework. We have implemented a prototype version of the framework providing basic indexing and retrieval functionality for English and German text as well as English and German speech. The prototype is currently extended to make use of database functionality for IR purposes. A graphical user interface has been developed by a project partner. A World Wide Web interface is also supported. The implementation of the framework is based on ETOS. ETOS is a seamless integration of ET++, a general application framework based on C++, and ObjectStore, a commercial object-oriented database management system. We are seeking candidates - preferably with a PhD - who will strengthen and complete the capabilities, skills, and expertise of our research institution. The successful candidate must have a proven research record, experiences in object-oriented software development, and a demonstrated capability to implement robust and usable systems. Ubilab is situated centrally in Zurich in the north of Switzerland, and at present employs 17 full time research staff members of different nationalities. Please refer to our World Wide Web page at URL "http://www.ubs.com/ubilab" for further information about Ubilab. If you are interested in this position, please send a resume to Dr. Gabriele Sonnenberger Union Bank of Switzerland Ubilab Bahnhofstr. 45 8021 Zuerich Switzerland Tel.: +41-1-234 44 57 Fax.: +41-1-236 46 71 e-mail: Sonnenberger@ubilab.ubs.ch WWW: http://www.ubs.com/ubilab ********** II.4. Fr: Dan Rose Re: Apple Computer Inc.: Information Access Research Positions Apple Computer, Inc. Information Access Research Positions * Collaborative Filtering * Text Indexing & Search * Distributed Information Systems * Interfaces for Browsing Information * Document Summarization * Information Visualization * Document Clustering * Adaptive Retrieval The Information Access program in Apple Research Laboratories has two permanent positions available to work on these and other areas. The group is located in Apple's main Research & Development campus in Cupertino, California. *** RESEARCH SCIENTIST *** Join a team conducting research on new approaches to finding, sharing, organizing, and manipulating information for content-aware systems. Requires MS degree with 1-4 years of relevant work experience; or a relevant PhD degree plus 2-3 years. Experience in information retrieval, hypertext, or related field. Awareness of human-computer interaction issues. E-mail resume (ASCII-only) to infotech-recruit@apple.com, subject "Research Scientist." *** SOFTWARE ENGINEER *** Work with senior researchers to develop the next generation of information access tools. Requires BS degree plus 1-4 years of relevant work experience; or technical MS degree with 0-3 years relevant work experience. E-mail resume (ASCII-only) to infotech-recruit@apple.com, subject "Software Engineer" You may also send a fax to 408-974-5505 or send surface mail to the address below, but CLEARLY INDICATE THE POSITION FOR WHICH YOU ARE APPLYING. Feel free to forward or post this announcement (unedited) to other appropriate places. Apple Computer, Inc. is an equal-opportunity employer. Information Access Recruiting Attn: Dan Rose Apple Computer, Inc. One Infinite Loop, MS 301-4A Cupertino, CA 95014 ********************************************************** III. NOTICES III.A.1. Fr: Prof. Norbert Fuhr Re: SIGIR '96 Proceedings Available Following the SIGIR'96 Conference in Zurich, a Workshop on Networked Information Retrieval took place on August 22, 1996. The electronic proceedings of this workshop are now available at http://ciir.cs.umass.edu/nir96/ The proceedings contain the following papers plus a summary of the final discussion: Paul Francis, NTT, Japan: A Global, Self-configuring Information Discovery Infrastructure Bernard Bekavac, Marc Rittberger, Univ. Konstanz, Germay: Information Retrieval in a Regional, Distributed Information Area Grace Crowder, Charles Nicolas, University of Maryland, USA: Resource Selection in CAFE: an Architecture for Networked Information Retrieval Daan D. Velthausz, Telematics Research Centre, Enschede, Netherlands: Multimedia Information Disclosure in a Distributed Environment Norbert Fuhr, Univ. Dortmund, Germany: Optimum Database Selection in Networked IR Dietrich Boles, Markus Dreger, Kai Grossjohann, Germany: MeDoc Information Broker - Harnessing the Information in Literature and Full Text Databases J. Sairamesh, C. Nikolaou, S. Kapidakis, ICS-FORTH, Greece: Architectures for QoS based Retrieval in Digital Libraries Martin Doerr, ICS-FORTH, Heraklion, Greece: Authority Services in Global Information Spaces - A requirements analysis and feasibility study - Prof. Dr. Norbert Fuhr Lehrstuhl Informatik Universitaet Dortmund D-44221 Dortmund Gernany Voice: (+49) 231/755-2045 or -2779 Fax: (+49) 231/755-2405 Mail: fuhr@ls6.informatik.uni-dortmund.de http://ls6.informatik.uni-dortmund.de ********** III.A.2. Fr: Heather Boyles Re: FARNET's Washington Update FARNET's Washington Update --- October 11, 1996 IN THIS ISSUE: o Internet II and the presidential campaign o E-rates call for free basic Internet service for k-12 and >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Written from FARNET's Washington office, "FARNET's Washington Update" is a service to FARNET members and other interested subscribers. We gratefully acknowledge EDUCOM's NTTF and the Coalition for Networked Information for additional support. If you would like more information about the Update or would like to offer comments or suggestions, please contact Heather Boyles at heather@farnet.org ********** III.B.1. Fr: David Hull Re: AAAI Spring Symposium - Cross Language Text and Speech Retrieval Call for Participation Cross-Language Text and Speech Retrieval AAAI Spring Symposium March 24-26, 1997 Stanford University, USA With the spread of electronic networks around the globe, there is an increasing need for language technology and information retrieval techniques which work in a multilingual domain. This symposium is designed to bring together researchers from Information Retrieval, Knowledge Organization, Computational Linguistics, Machine Translation, Speech Processing, and related fields to address the problem of constructing search and retrieval systems that can operate across languages boundaries. The goal of the symposium is to foster the development of interdisciplinary approaches to this task. Some examples of research problems which could be addressed include: o Corpus-based vs. knowledge-based approaches. o Interlingual vs. language-pair oriented approaches. o Knowledge extraction, text summarization, and automated indexing. o Exploiting multilingual knowledge structures (such as thesauri). o Using machine translation for cross-language text retrieval. o Achieving broad domain coverage. o Evaluation of multilingual retrieval systems. The symposium will begin with introductory talks to provide a shared background to all participants. This will be followed by a mixture of presentation and discussion sessions. The presentations will focus on innovative techniques and interesting practical applications. Substantial time will be allocated for commentary, questions, and discussion of the material. The discussion sessions will address important and controversial topics of timely interest to the participants. Some of the discussion sessions may be run in parallel to create smaller groups and encourage more participation in a collaborative environment. There may also be joint sessions with the symposia: Natural Language Processing and the World Wide Web and/or Intelligent Integration and Use of Text, Image, Video and Audio Corpora, if there is sufficient common interest. SUBMISSION INFORMATION: Interested participants should submit an extended abstract or a brief statement of background and interest (a few paragraphs is sufficient) by October 25, 1996. Authors of accepted abstracts will be asked to submit a short working paper (two to eight pages) by January 17, 1997. They will also be asked to prepare either an oral or a poster presentation. Other participants may be asked to prepare a short verbal critique of a specific working paper and to introduce the discussion of that paper. Graduate students are encouraged to participate. Working papers and up to date information regarding the symposium will be made available on the following web site: http://www.ee.umd.edu/medlab/filter/sss Potential participants are encouraged to join an electronic mailing list for pre-conference discussion. This can be done in advance by sending email to majordomo@glue.umd.edu with the following in the body of the message: "subscribe sss email_address" where email_address is your email address. In the months following the October deadline, the format and topics for the symposium discussion sessions will be worked out in this forum. Potential participants in Europe Other potential participants should address submissions to: should address submissions to: David A. Hull (co-chair) Douglas W. Oard (co-chair) e-mail: hull@xerox.fr e-mail: oard@glue.umd.edu phone: +33-76-61-50-74 phone: (301)405-7590 fax: +33-76-61-50-99 fax: (301)314-9145 Electronic mail submission (ASCII, PDF, or postscript) is strongly preferred. If you do not wish to be added to the electronic mailing list, please indicate this along with your submission. Up to date information regarding the symposium can be found at the web site (http://www.ee.umd.edu/medlab/filter/sss). ********** III.B.2. Fr: Paul Evan Peters Re: Licensing Electronic Resources LICENSING ELECTRONIC RESOURCES: THE STATE OF THE EVOLVING ART This workshop is co-sponsored by the Office of Scholarly Commun- ication of the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) and the Coalition of Networked Information (CNI), and it focuses on the wide-range of complex issues surrounding the licensing of electronic resources in the networked environment from the perspectives of librarians, lawyers, publishers, vendors, and information technologists. The program will be held on Sunday, December 8 and Monday, December 9 in San Francisco at the Crowne Plaza Parc Fifty Five Hotel, as a post-conference the Fall 1996 CNI Task Force meeting. The program is intended to provide senior-level library and information technology managers, publishers and vendors with an overview of the complexities involved in negotiating licenses and the need for an informed and high-level process to address the legal and technical details. Topics to be covered include: the terms used in licenses; reading the fine print; the issues involved in consortial licensing; the legal impact of dealing with contracts and the implications for managing the process; the perspectives of vendors and publishers on licensing; the technology being developed to support negotiations and manage intellectual property; principles for licensing; model contract language; and a view toward the future. Among the speakers will be: Barbara Allen, Assistant Director, CIC; Trisha L. Davis, Head, Continuation Acquisition Division, Ohio State University Libraries; Georgia Harper, Office of the General Counsel, University of Texas System; David Millman, Manager of Research & Development, Academic Information Systems, Columbia University; Ann S. Okerson, Associate University Librarian, Yale University; and Dr. Robert P. Weber, Intertrust Technologies Corporation. The program will begin with registration at 8:30 a.m. on Sunday, December 8 and run through noon on Monday, December 9. Registration is $300 and includes a continental breakfast on both mornings, lunch on Sunday, and a reception on Sunday evening. Full prepayment is preferred, but an institutional purchase order or a nonrefundable deposit of $50 will be accepted with your registration form. To register, please contact Allyn Fitzgerald, ARL, (202) 296-2296 or allyn@cni.org before November 4. Confirmations will be made by November 8. No refunds for cancellation received after November 22. Hotel accommodations are available at the Crowne Plaza Parc Fifty Five Hotel for $125 single or double. To receive the conference rate, please identify yourself as a CNI ATTENDEE. Parking at the hotel is $25 with in/out privileges. The hotel is located at 55 Cyril Magnin, San Francisco, CA 94102. Phone: 800-650-7272 or (415) 392-8000, and Fax: (415) 403-6602. PROGRAM INFORMATION CONTACT: Mary Case,Director, Office of Scholarly Communication marycase@cni.org REGISTRATION INFORMATION CONTACT: Allyn Fitzgerald allyn@cni.org SEE THE ARL WEB SITE TO REGISTER ONLINE: . ********** III.C.1. Fr: Information Center Re: U.S. RESEARCHERS: Gigabit Network Kits NOTE THAT THESE KITS ARE INTENDED TO SUPPORT RESEARCH IN DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS AND HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING (NOT JUST NETWORKING RESEARCH). The National Science Foundation has recently made a grant to Washington University to support the distribution of Gigabit Network Kits to U.S. universities for research and educational uses. These kits will provide an open research platform that systems researchers can modify and extend to support a wide variety of different research agendas in networking (both IP and ATM), distributed systems and high performance computing. Eligible institutions (U.S. colleges and universities) can apply to receive one or more kits by submitting a short research proposal. Details of the program can be found at http://www.arl.wustl.edu/~jst/gigatech/cfp.html Provisions are also being made to make kits available for purchase by researchers in industrial or government labs and non-U.S. universities. Barbara Blaustein Internet: bblauste@nsf.gov Database and Expert Systems Program Bitnet: bblauste@nsf National Science Foundation Phone: 703-306-1926 4201 Wilson Blvd., Room 1115 Fax: 703-306-0599 Arlington, VA 22230 URL: http://www.cise.nsf.gov/iris/DBEShome.html ********** IV.D.2. Fr: Elizabeth Yakel