Information Retrieval List Digest 335 (December 2, 1996) URL = http://hegel.lib.ncsu.edu/stacks/serials/irld/irld-335.txt IRLIST Digest ISSN 1064-6965 December 2, 1996 Volume XIII, Number 48 Issue 335 ********************************************************** II. JOBS 1. Empirical Media Corporation: Research Positions 2. U. No. Texas: HCI/IR Researchers III. NOTICES A. Publications 1. FARNET's Washington Update B. Meetings 1. Journals in Transition 2. Theoretical & Methodological Issues 3. IDT 4. Conference on Spatial Information Theory IV. PROJECTS D. Initiatives & Proposals 1. US Researchers: Major Research Instrumentation Pgm. ********************************************************** II. JOBS II.1. Fr: Sandi Brummert Re: Empirical Media Corporation: Research Positions Empirical Media Corporation has some very leading-edge and intellectually challenging opportunities available at our Pittsburgh-based company. As a member of this mailing list, you may know of Research Scientist professionals or students who would be interested in learning more about employment with Empirical Media. We have made significant progress in meeting the challenges of building and marketing a highly-scalable agent-based filtering system and are now poised for being a leader in the rapid evolution of artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies through our WiseWire service on the Web. What we are seeking are strong research people who have a background in one or more of the following areas: o Information Retrieval o Information Filtering o Machine Learning o Distributed Data Base Design o Agent-based systems Empirical offers an opportunity for graduating students or professionals who have reached a plateau in their academic or industry careers to do what they do best in a well-financed and supportive business environment. We also offer the chance to join a team of bright and dedicated technologists that are diligently working to revolutionize the way people view the Internet. Through our substantial stock option program, people will be more than well compensated for applying their talents early on in a rapidly growing company. If you know someone who may be interested in pursuing this opportunity, please contact: Sandi Brummert, Scientific Career Specialist Empirical Media Corporation 5001 Centre Avenue; Pittsburgh, PA 15213 phone: 412.688.8870 x132 ********** II.2. Fr: Amanda Spink Re: U. No. Texas: HCI/IR Researcher HCI/IR RESEARCHER WANTED Dr. Amanda Spink, School of Library and Information Sciences at the University of North Texas is seeking a co-principal for a major NSF grant proposal with a background and publications in HCI/IR interface/system design. The NSF grant proposal includes extending Dr. Spink's previous research on user behavior towards IR interface and systems design. The co-principal would collaborate on the grant, particularly related to the IR interface/systems design aspects of the research. For further information please contact Dr. Amanda Spink via email: spink@lis.admin.unt.edu or telephone: (817) 565-2187. Amanda Spink, Assistant Professor School of Library & Information Sciences 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. NOTICES III.A.1. Fr: Heather Boyles Re: FARNET's Washington Update FARNET's Washington Update --- November 29, 1996 IN THIS ISSUE: o Telecom and networking related committees in the new Congress >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> 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: C.LLOYD@lse.ac.uk Re: Journals in Transition JOURNALS IN TRANSITION : FROM PAPER TO ELECTRONIC ACCESS The EU project DECOMATE : a case study 27th-28th February 1997 Scarman House, University of Warwick The libraries of Tilburg University, London School of Economics and Universitat Aut noma de Barcelona have been investigating the practicalities of delivering full text journal material to the end user, through a project partially funded by the EC Directorate Generale XIII under the framework of the Libraries Programme. Generic software has been developed to enable users to search a bibliographic database and retrieve the full text of journal articles and an intensive study is being carried out in order to examine user acceptance, ergonomic issues and the amount and type of usage. The provision of full text copyright material in electronic form has involved the consideration of legal, organisational and technical issues by all three partners. The conference will discuss the experiences and findings of this project, the problems that have been encountered and the solutions that have been found. Areas that will be included are, conceptual design, technical design, software implementation, monitoring, standards, user studies, and copyright issues. LOCATION: Scarman House is the newest and largest of the purpose built residential Management Training Centres at the University of Warwick. It overlooks the gentle wooded Warwickshire countryside. Situated on the Coventry/Warwickshire borders in the centre of England, the travel connections are excellent for delegates from both the UK and abroad. WHO SHOULD ATTEND? The conference will be of particular interest to practising librarians engaged in, or considering providing, electronic access to full text material, researchers in the field of Library and Information Science, those working in applied Computing Science with experience in library automation and to members of the publishing community. CONFERENCE FEE AND BOOKING: The fee for the conference is stlg170+VAT@17.5% (stlg199.75 in total). Cheques should be made payable to London School of Economic and Political Science and must be in sterling. This fee includes all accommodation, refreshments and meals from registration on the morning of Thursday 27th February to the close of the conference on the afternoon of Friday 28th February. A different person can take over the booking at no extra charge, providing advance notice is given to the conference organiser. PROGRAMME THURSDAY 27TH FEBRUARY SESSION 1 AN INTRODUCTION TO ELECTRONIC DOCUMENT DELIVERY Open and welcome, Robbert Fisher DG XIII, European Commission,, Luxembourg Keynote speaker, Lynne Brindley, British Library of Political and Economic Science Document delivery in an electronic environment: Current services, present trends and future projections, Bill Tuck, independent consultant SESSION 2 DECOMATE: FROM CONCEPTUAL TO TECHNICAL DESIGN An introduction to DECOMATE, Joost Dijkstra, Tilburg University The design of DECOMATE, Teun Nijssen, Tilburg University The monitoring package, Ferran Jorba, Universitat Aut noma de Barcelona Demonstration of the DECOMATE system SESSION 3 FROM IMPLEMENTATION TO PRACTICAL USE Implementation at LSE and UAB, John Paschoud, British Library of Political and Economic Science & Ferran Jorba, Universitat Aut noma de Barcelona Poster sessions from related projects SESSION 4 USER STUDIES: FROM METHODOLOGY TO RESULTS The study of the use of electronic services in universities, Harry East, Database Resources Research Group The DECOMATE user study: methodology and results to date, Caroline Lloyd, British Library of Political and Economic Science An end-user's views, Paul Johnson, Reader in Economic History, LSE SESSION 5 THE WIDER IMPLICATIONS Electronic delivery and collection development decisions, Clare Jenkins, British Library of Political and Economic Science & Nuria Gallart, Universitat Aut noma de Barcelona Does size matter ? Some scaling issues in electronic journal publishing. Chris Gibson, Academic Press Copyright considerations, Emanuella Giavarra, Project director ECUP CLOSING SESSION ..and what about the future? Hans Geleijnse, Tilburg University FOR COMPLETE INFORMATION, CONTACT: Caroline Lloyd, British Library of Political and Economic Science, 10 Portugal Street. London WC2A 2HD. Tel:(+44) 171 955 6130. Fax:(+44) 171 955 7454. Email C.Lloyd@lse.ac.uk ********** III.B.2. Fr: Charlene Shepard Re: TMI-97 7th International Conference on Theoretical and Methodological Issues in Machine Translation (TMI-97) Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PAPERS: The seventh conference in the now well-established TMI series will take place in July 1997 in the historic city of Santa Fe, New Mexico. The date will mark (roughly) the 50th anniversary of Warren Weaver's famous memo which launched modern MT research. TMI-97 will have three major themes: YESTERDAY: -- Contributions should refer to an `old' paper (published before 1965) and show how it is still somewhat relevant to MT today... TODAY: -- Contributions should reflect on current trends in MT, especially the move towards hybrid solutions involving both established and novel techniques; we want to focus on particular problems and trends rather than overall descriptions of existing systems (focus on theoretical and methodological rather than implementational issues)... TOMORROW: -- How is MT being integrated with new technologies and media, for example delivery via the Internet, speech translation, MT as part of document collection processing, MT and summarization, information retrieval and extraction, multimodality and multimedia, etc. Submissions referring to the above themes are encouraged. However, submissions on other theoretical and methodological issues will be considered as well. TMI-97 OFFICERS: General Chair: Sergei Nirenburg, Computing Research Lab, NMSU, USA Program Committee Chair: Harold Somers, UMIST, Manchester, UK Publicity and Local Arrangements: Charlene Shepard and James Hamilton, Computing Research Lab, NMSU, USA PROGRAM COMMITTEE: Lynn Carlson (US Department of Defense) Ido Dagan (Bar Ilan University, Israel) John Hutchins (University of East Anglia, UK) Victor Raskin (Purdue University, USA) Virginia Teller (CUNY, USA) Walther von Hahn (Universitat Hamburg, Germany) Dekai Wu (HKUST, Hong Kong) DETAILS on submissions and submission guidelines, and a Latex style file can be found on the Web at http://www.ccl.umist.ac.uk/staff/harold/TMI/. There you will find a style file and a model paper (for which you will also need the separate example eps file). IMPORTANT DATES: Paper submissions February 17, 1997 Acceptance notification April 15, 1997 Final copies due June 2, 1997 Conference dates July 24-28, 1997 FEES AND SCHEDULES: In progress. Please watch our web page for future announcements. Please visit the conference web site at http://crl.nmsu.edu/Events/TMI/ for further details and conference information updates. ********** III.B.3. Fr: Claire Laborde Re: IDT 97 IDT 97 3, 4, 5 June 1997 Paris - Palais des Congr s 14th Conference CALL FOR PAPERS Organised by : ADBS, ANRT, GFII With a variety of new services and information vehicles emerging on a daily basis, it becomes obvious that all human activities, whether occupational, civic or educational, are involved in the new information society. Information source recognition and quality of content should be adjusted to subdivided and relocated production. The synergy and consistent use of information sources should meet users' specific needs by changing providers' specific functions. Last but not least, electronic networks (Internet) are the core theme of discussions about access to business information, development of public information services, and integration of such services into the economic life. The aim of IDT 97 is to determine the strategic stake in the emergence of these new services at European and global level, and their degree of integration (economic intelligence) by the various user groups. 1 - The information society for businesses and citizens - Intranet and Internet - Access to outside sources and local management - User identification and personal freedom 2 - Contents of information about the information superhighway - Information identification and qualification - Image processing - User- and provider-adjusted pricing 3 - Social dynamics and corporate economic choices - Economic intelligence - Information technologies for education and training - Managing the intangible 4 - Public-information distribution media - Complementary and competing operators - Legal requirements versus diversity of situations - Service costs and pricing 5 - Functions and demands of information professionals - Initial and continuing training - Services for end users; processing by experts - Selection of products and services 6 - European programmes and international industrial projects - Restructuring the information market - Aims of European content and multimedia programmes - The roles of new operators 7 - Legal issues - Copyright and Internet - The EU Directive relating to legal protection of databanks - Access to public sources: towards a European Directive FOR COMPLETE INFORMATION, CONTACT: Ditinfo 25, rue Claude Tillier - 75012 Paris TThetal. : 33 (1) 43 72 36 63 - Fax : 33 (1) 43 72 36 62 E-mail : info@idt.fr ********** III.B.4. Fr: Cassandra Armstrong Re: U.S. RESEARCHERS: Major Research Instrumentation Program NSF is announcing the Foundation-wide Major Research Instrumentation (MRI) program to replace the instrumentation program of the Academic Research Infrastructure Program. Like its predecessor, the MRI Program assists in the acquisition or development of major research instrumentation by U.S. institutions. The maintenance and technical support associated with these instruments are also supported. Proposals may be for a single instrument, a large system of instruments, or multiple instruments that share a common research focus. Computer systems, clusters of advanced workstations, networks, and other information infrastructure components necessary for research are encouraged. The MRI Program complements other NSF instrumentation programs by supporting projects that are generally too costly for other programs to support. Awards for instrumentation range from $100,000 to $2 million. Lesser amounts are considered in proposals from non-Ph.D. granting institutions or from the social, behavioral and economic science communities. The goals of the Major Research Instrumentation Program are to: * Support the acquisition, through purchase, upgrade, or development, of major state-of-the-art instrumentation for research and research training at U.S. institutions; * Improve access to and increase use of modern research and research training instrumentation by scientists, engineers, and graduate and undergraduate students; * Foster the development of the next generation of instrumentation for research and research training; and * Promote partnerships between academic researchers and private sector instrument developers. PROPOSAL DEADLINE: FEBRUARY 20, 1997 FOR MORE INFORMATION, SEE http://www.nsf.gov/od/osti/mri/mriintro.htm ********************************************************** 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 set up for anonymous FTP. Using anonymous FTP via the host ftp.dla.ucop.edu, the files will be found in the directory /data/ftp/pub/irl, stored in subdirectories by year (e.g., data/ftp/pub/irl/1993). Search or browse archived IR-L Digest issues on the Web at: http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/idom/irlist/ These files are not to be sold or used for commercial purposes. Contact Nancy Gusack for more information on IRLIST. 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