Information Retrieval List Digest 345 (February 17, 1997) URL = http://hegel.lib.ncsu.edu/stacks/serials/irld/irld-345.txt IRLIST Digest ISSN 1064-6965 February 17, 1997 Volume XIV, Number 7 Issue 345 ********************************************************** II. JOBS 1. U. Western Ontario: 3 1-Year Lectureships, GSLIS 2. NYMC: Infomatics Positions III. NOTICES A. Publications 1. Library Trends: Resource Sharing in a Changing Environment 2. Info Connect List of Library Records 3. FARNET's Washington Update, 2/7/97 4. FARNET's Washington Update, 2/14/97 B. Meetings 1. EMNLP-2: 2nd CFP 2. International Summer School on the Digital Library 1997 IV. PROJECTS C. Fellowships, Grants, & Scholarships 1. ISA Research Grant 2. TARGET date for NSF Database & Expert Systems Proposals ********************************************************** II. JOBS II.1. Fr: Bernd Frohmann Re: U. Western Ontario: 3 1-Year Lectureships, GSLIS The Graduate School of Library and Information Science at The University of Western Ontario invites applications for three one-year, limited-term faculty appointments, at the rank of Lecturer. A minimal requirement is a PhD degree completed or nearing completion in library and information science or a related discipline. Candidates without approved proposals for their doctoral dissertations will not be considered. The closing date for these positions is April 1, 1997. The position starting date is 1 September, 1997. The School seeks to fill positions in the following areas: (1) specialization in cataloguing and classification theory and practice; (2) specialization in information resources and services and reference work, including some of the following: collection management; resources and services in special user or subject areas; (3) specialization in management, including some of the following: human resource management; financial management; records management; (4) specialization in the management of Internet and World Wide Web resources. In addition to the specializations above, strength in foundations of library and information science, indexing, applications of online/ondisc searching in information work, special libraries, information policy, information media, or information sources in science and technology would be an asset. Interested candidates should specify their areas of specialization with reference to (1)-(4) above, and send their curriculum vitae together with the names of three (3) referees to: Bernd Frohmann, Acting Dean, Graduate School of Library and Information Science, Elborn College, The University of Western Ontario London, Ontario, CANADA, N6G 1H1. Positions are subject to budget approval. In accordance with Canadian immigration requirements, priority will be given to Canadian citizens and Permanent Residents of Canada. The University of Western Ontario is committed to employment equity, welcomes diversity in the workplace, and encourages applications from all qualified individuals including women, members of visible minorities, aboriginal persons, and persons with disabilities. Bernd Frohmann, Associate Professor & Acting Dean Graduate School of Library & Information Science University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada N6G 1H1 voice: (519) 661-3542 | fax: (519) 661-3506 | http://www.uwo.ca/gslis/faculty/frohmann/ ********** II.2 Fr: Joanne Caldera Re: Library Trends: Resource Sharing in a Changing Environment **This information, as well as abstracts from the articles, can be found at http://edfu.lis.uiuc.edu/puboff/catalog/trends/45_3.html** "Resource Sharing in a Changing Environment" Edited by Chandra Prabha & Gay N. Dannelly Library Trends 45(3) Winter 1997 The diffuse and diverse nature of the elements of resource availability and the potential for resource sharing in the present library environment complicate an already difficult process. However, the activities of the growing number of consortia are providing new models for ways to simplify and enhance such processes. These programs of cooperation are developing new alliances among libraries, information providers and vendors, and the many funding mechanisms being used to support such new services. And while the immediacy of information provision has certainly improved, the long-term health of the library and of the cultural record is being challenged as information rights concentrate in the hands of fewer producers, and access to information is ceded to commercial organizations. This new issue of Library Trends presents strategic aspects of the current environment in resource sharing, with increasing interdependence between libraries and, perhaps more uneasily, dependence on external commercial resources for the provision of information. CONTRIBUTORS AND ARTICLES: * Edward Shreeves, Is There a Future for Cooperative Collection Development in the Digital Age? * Trisha L. Davis, The Evolution of Selection Activities for Electronic Resources * John H. Barnes, One Giant Leap, One Small Step: Continuing the Migration to Electronic Journals * William Gray Potter, Recent Trends in Statewide Academic Library Consortia * David F. Kohl, Resource Sharing in a Changing Ohio Environment * Clifford A. Lynch, Building the Infrastructure of Resource Sharing: Union Catalogs, Distributed Search, and Cross Database Linkage * Jennifer A. Younger, Resource Description in the Digital Age * Tona Henderson and Bonnie MacEwan, Electronic Collections and Wired Faculty * Czeslaw Jan Grycz, Resource Sharing in the Systemic Context of Scholarly Communication * Bruce R. Kingma, Interlibrary Loan and Resource Sharing: The Economics of the SUNY Express Consortium * Randall W. Marcinko, Issues in Commercial Document Delivery * Chandra Prabha and Elizabeth C. Marsh, Commercial Document Suppliers: How Many of the ILL/DD Periodical Requests Can They Fulfill? Single copies are $18.50, including postage. Subscription rates are Institutional: $75 per volume ($82 for international subscribers); Personal: $50 per volume ($57 for international subscribers); and Student $25 per volume ($32 for international subscribers). Order from the University of Illinois Press, Journals Department, 1325 S. Oak Street, Champaign, IL 61820. ISSN 0024-2594 VISIT US ON THE WWW! http://edfu.lis.uiuc.edu/puboff ********** III.A.2. Fr: Godfrey Oswald Re: Info Connect List of Library Records The Info Connect List of Library Records has now been launched. It is sure to start heated debates as many records listed in the web page are disputed. The web page is at http://www.users.dircon.co.uk/~kush/Page1.htm Please remember the web page is still in infant stages so many real mistakes may have been made. Thanks, Godfrey Oswald London ********** III.A.3. Fr: Heather Boyles Re: FARNET's Washington Update FARNET's Washington Update --- February 7, 1997 IN THIS ISSUE: - Federal research and education funding for FY98 - New domain names to hit the net >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> 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.A.4. Fr: Heather Boyles Re: FARNET's Washington Update FARNET's Washington Update --- February 14, 1997 IN THIS ISSUE: - One year anniversary of Telecom Act provokes renewed debate over telecom reform >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> 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: Claire Cardie Re: EMNLP-2: 2nd CFP SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS Second Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP-2) WHEN: August 1-2, 1997 (Immediately following AAAI-97) WHERE: Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, USA CONFERENCE DESCRIPTION: In the spirit of SIGDAT events, this conference will offer a general forum for novel research in corpus-based and statistical natural language processing. Areas of interest include (but are not limited to): - robust parsing, phrase structure analysis - part of speech tagging - term and name identification - word sense disambiguation - morphological analysis - anaphora resolution - event categorization - discourse structure identification - alignment of parallel texts and bilingual terminology - language modelling - lexicography - machine translation - spelling and grammar correction. SPECIAL SESSIONS: INFORMATION EXTRACTION and INFORMATION RETRIEVAL In addition, we encourage submissions that describe and evaluate the strengths, weaknesses, and recent advances in corpus-based NLP as applied to INFORMATION EXTRACTION and INFORMATION RETRIEVAL (IR). In recent years a number of corpus-based techniques for the automatic linguistic annotation of text have been developed. How well do these techniques for lexical tagging, parsing, anaphora resolution, etc., handle the specific problems encountered in practical language processing tasks like information extraction and information retrieval? When and how do current techniques fail? What new methods have been developed to address the deficiencies of existing algorithms for these tasks or to address problems specific to information extraction? What problems still lack an adequate empirical solution? How can data-driven NLP methods be used to improve the performance of IR systems? Conversely, how can feedback from an IR system effectively inform empirical techniques for natural language understanding? PROGRAM CHAIRS: Claire Cardie Cornell University (chair) Ralph Weischedel BBN Systems and Technologies (co-chair) SPONSOR: SIGDAT (ACL's special interest group for linguistic data and corpus-based approaches to NLP) FORMAT FOR SUBMISSION: Authors should submit a full-length paper (3500-8000 words) either electronically or in hardcopy. Electronic submissions should be mailed to "cardie@cs.cornell.edu" and must either be (a) plain ascii text, (b) a single postscript file (US letter format), or (c) a LaTex file. In the latter case, please use the aclsub style file and include only .EPS (encapsulated postscript) figures. The aclsub style file is available at http://www.cs.cornell.edu/Info/People/cardie/emnlp/aclsub.sty or via ftp from ftp.cs.cornell.edu/pub/cardie/emnlp/aclsub.sty. Hardcopy submissions should be mailed to Claire Cardie (address below), and should include six (6) copies of the paper. REQUIREMENTS: Papers should describe original work. A paper accepted for presentation cannot be presented or have been presented at any other meeting. Papers submitted to other conferences will be considered, as long as this fact is clearly indicated in the submission. SCHEDULE: Submission deadline: March 3, 1997 Notification date: April 21, 1997 Camera-ready copy due: June 10, 1997 Conference dates: August 1-2, 1997 CONTACTS: Claire Cardie Ralph Weischedel Cornell University BBN Systems and Technologies Department of Computer Science 70 Fawcett Street 4142 Upson Hall Cambridge, MA 02138 Ithaca, NY 14850 USA USA cardie@cs.cornell.edu weischedel@bbn.com (607)255-9206 (617)873-3496 FURTHER INFORMATION: http://www.cs.cornell.edu/Info/People/cardie/emnlp2.html http://www.cs.jhu.edu/~yarowsky/sigdat.html ********** III.B.2. Fr: Jola Prinsen Re: International Summer School on the Digital Library 1997 Second International Summer School on the Digital Library The second International Summer School on the Digital Library will be held at Tilburg University, the Netherlands, from Sunday 10 up to and including Friday 22 August 1997. This provides an excellent refreshment opportunity for librarians from university, college, research and business libraries as well as for teachers at library schools. Some 30 lectures, case studies and demonstrations will be presented by international experts. Lecturers include: - Prof. Mel W. Collier (De Montfort University, UK) - Ronald J. Dietz (Elsevier Science, USA) - Mr. Hans Geleijnse (Tilburg University, NL) - Emanuella Giavarra (Chambers of Mark Watson-Gandy, UK) - Wendy Lougee (University of Michigan, USA) - Drs. J. Mackenzie Owen (Ticer B.V., NL) - Prof.dr. Kees Mouwen (Tilburg University, NL) - Albert Prior (Swets & Zeitlinger, NL) - Herbert Van de Sompel (University of Ghent, BE) Themes include: - the changing information chain (publishers, subscription agents) - the future role of libraries - strategic planning - financial issues - electronic documents (formats, copyright, dissertations, journals, research papers) - information technology (networks, CD-ROMs, integrated desktops) - Internet and WWW - users in an electronic environment - preparing your library staff You will gain practical experience in hands-on sessions, getting you access to advanced tools and digital library products. Group discussions will enable you to present your own library case and discuss it with lecturers and fellow participants. The first Summer School was a great success. It was attended by 60 participants from 15 different countries. Ninety per cent of the participants indicated that they would recommend the Summer School to colleagues in the field. The Summer School is organized by Ticer (Tilburg Innovation Centre for Electronic Resources) in cooperation with Tilburg University and Elsevier Science. You can put in a request for a brochure on the Summer School at Ticer B.V., P.O. Box 4191, 5004 JD Tilburg, the Netherlands, telephone +31-13-4668310, telefax +31-13-4668383, electronic mail Ticer@kub.nl. The text of this brochure can also be found on the home page of Ticer: http://cwis.kub.nl/~ticer/ ********************************************************** IV. PROJECTS IV.C.1. Fr: Kate McCain Re: ISA Research Grant DOCUMENTATION ABSTRACTS, INC. BOARD OF DIRECTORS THE INFORMATION SCIENCE ABSTRACTS (ISA) RESEARCH GRANT TO BE AWARDED BY DOCUMENTATION ABSTRACTS, INC. New 8ork, NY, January 31 -- The Board of Directors of Documentation Abstracts, Inc. (DAI) announces it will award the Information Science Abstracts (ISA) Research Grant of $1,500 in 1997. This grant is awarded annually by DAI to one or more information professionals to conduct a research project oriented toward the study of the primary or secondary literature of information science. All applicants for the ISA Research Grant must be information professionals and hold a graduate degree in library or information science. No individuals who are associated with ISA are eligible. This includes members of the Board of Directors of DAI, employees of Plenum Publishing Corporation, SilverPlatter, and KRI/Dialog. Applicants must submit a completed application package by August 31, 1997 outlining the scope and nature of the proposed project, providing evidence of an established methodology and a viable research design. Examples of possible topics for research include: the use of information resources, comparison of tools, quality of the literature, and bibliometric analysis. Recipients of previous ISA grants have researched such topics as: ISA and ARIST: Linkages to Enhance Literature Searching, A Model for Quantitative and Qualitative Database Evaluation Using the ISA Database, and Selecting Literature on Bibliometrics Through Bradford's Law. The goal of the research must be to produce a publishable paper. Half the amount of the $1,500 grant will be paid upon announce- ment of the award and the balance will be paid upon successful completion of the research project. In addition to the cash award, access to ISA CD-ROM will be provided for the length of the grant. Announcement of the award will be made December 1, 1997. Documentation Abstracts, Inc. is owner/sponsor of the monthly abstracting and indexing publication, Information Science Abstracts (ISA), published for DAI by Plenum Publishing Corporation. Inter- national in scope, ISA provides references to and abstracts of the useful literature in the fields of information science and library science dating back to 1966. Its coverage extends to journal articles from over 400 journals, to conference proceedings, books, reports and patents. The entire file is available for searching via Dialog Fil 202 and on SilverPlatter CD-ROM. CONTACT: For further information and for application instructions, Judith E. Watson, CAS P.O. Box 3012, Columbus OH 43210 Phone 614/447-3662, E-mail:jwatson@cas.org Fax 614/461-7158 ********** IV.C.2. Fr: Maria Zemankova Re: TARGET date for NSF Database & Expert Systems Proposals Please note that February 15 is a TARGET date, NOT a DEADLINE. This means that proposals will be accepted AFTER Feb. 15. Every effort will be made to include all proposals received under this target date in the evaluation cycle aiming to provide funding starting in Summer 1997. 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