Information Retrieval List Digest 372 (September 15, 1997) URL = http://hegel.lib.ncsu.edu/stacks/serials/irld/irld-372 IRLIST Digest ISSN 1064-6965 September 15, 1997 Volume XIV, Number 34 Issue 372 ********************************************************** II. JOBS 1. Universite de Montreal: EBSI: Full-time professor 2. Brandeis U.: Libraries: Information Technologies Coordinator III. NOTICES A. Publications 1. New Web Site: ASIS European Chapter 2. Call for Papers: Machine Learning Journal B. Meetings 1. 5th International ISKO Conference 2. GKPO '98 IV. PROJECTS C. Fellowships, Grants, & Scholarships 1. NSF POWRE Research Grant: Dr. Amanda Spink 2. ISI Research Grant: Dr. Jian Qin ********************************************************** II. JOBS II.1. Fr: Guy Louise Re: Universite de Montreal: EBSI: Full-time professor L'Ecole de bibliotheconomie et des sciences de l'information (EBSI) de la Faculte des arts et des sciences de l'Universite de Montreal is seeking a full-time professor (at the assistant level) in the area of strategic information management. DESCRIPTION: The successful candidate will teach at the graduate level (master and Ph.D. programs) in the following areas: competitive intelligence, corporate information systems, corporate information policies, and research methods in information science. He or she will supervise master's and doctoral research and may also teach at the undergraduate level. He or she will conduct research in the broad context of information science. QUALIFICATIONS: Ph.D. (completed or nearing completion) in information science, management (preferably management of information systems) or in a related discipline. Aptitude for teaching and research. Excellent knowledge of French. SALARY: Based on the Universite de Montreal collective agreement. Starting date January 1st, 1998 Applicants should send a curriculum vitae, with names, addresses and phone numbers of three referees, before October 1st, 1997 to: Dr Gilles Deschatelets Directeur Ecole de bibliotheconomie et des sciences de l'information Universite de Montreal C.P. 6128, succ. Centre-ville Montreal (Quebec) H3C 3J7 CANADA In concordance with the requirements of Immigration Canada, priority will be given to Canadian citizens and permanent residents. The Universite de Montreal is committed to an employment equity program which includes special measures to ensure diversity among its faculty and staff. All teaching activities at the Universite de Montreal are conducted in French. For more information on EBSI, please consult our Web site: http://tornade.ere.umontreal.ca/~carmellu/ebsi/ ********** II.2. Fr: Sue Wawrzaszek Re: Brandeis U.: Libraries: Information Technologies Coordinator INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES COORDINATOR BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES VACANCY #1497 GENERAL FUNCTION: Reporting to the Head of Information Systems and Technology in a library-wide team environment, the Information Technologies Coordinator provides technical leadership, training, project management, and development support for the library's digital information systems and services, including the Brandeis Library Web, digital imaging, and major development projects involving the integrated library system (DRA). This individual assists library departments with workflow, planning and implementation for a broad range of technology applications, providing technical support and assistance where needed, and plans and coordinates staff training and documentation on behalf of the Information Systems and Technology Department. Some collaborative work with the University's new Center for Instructional Media and Technology (CIMTECH) is also anticipated. REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS: M.L.S. or a related degree in computer or information science, and a minimum of two years of professional experience developing and supporting information technologies in an academic, research, or library setting. The successful candidate should possess extensive familiarity and experience with a variety of computer platforms and technologies including world wide web development, CGI and digital imaging. The position requires outstanding interpersonal, project management, and communication skills and the ability to work effectively as part of a team in a demanding and rapidly-changing environment. PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS: Experience with Windows NT, Unix, advanced web programming tools (e.g Java) and multimedia technologies. TO APPLY: Submit resume to: Employment Administrator, Brandeis University, MS 118, PO Box 9110, Waltham, MA 02254-9110. FAX: 617-736-4466. REFERENCE JOB #1497. Resumes and cover letters created or saved in Microsoft Word format may be sent to "joyce@brandeis.edu" via e-mail attachment. This position is available immediately and will remain open until filled. EEO STATEMENT: It is the policy of Brandeis University not to discriminate against any applicant or employee on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, age, national origin, veteran status, or disabled status. The University operates under an affirmative action plan and encourages minorities, women, disabled veterans to apply. Brandeis University is a non-smoking environment. ABOUT BRANDEIS: Located just west of Boston in Waltham, Massachusetts, Brandeis University successfully combines the intimacy of a small liberal arts college with the advantages of a major research institution. Brandeis is a nonsectarian institution with a culturally diverse student body of approximately 4,000, drawn from all 50 states and more than 50 countries. The Information Systems and Technology Department of the Brandeis Libraries is comprised of four staff who support the integrated library system (a DRA system presently running under VAX/VMS); various servers for CD-ROM networking, electronic reserves, and world wide web services; the library desktop computing environment; and digital library development projects. The Libraries are presently migrating to a Windows NT environment in preparation for an upgrade to a client-server based library system and are seeking to expand and develop use of the world wide web as a delivery vehicle for library services. ********************************************************** III. NOTICES III.A.1. Fr: Nancy Gusack, IR-L Moderator Re: New Web Site: ASIS European Chapter You are welcome to visit the new ASIS European Chapter website at http:www/inf-wiss.uni-konstanz.de/~brell/asis/asis/html ********** III.A.2. Fr: Yiming Yang Re: Call for Papers: Machine Learning Journal Special Issue of the Machine Learning Journal on Machine Learning in Information Retrieval Applying and extending machine learning (ML) techniques to information retrieval (IR) presents both research challenges and meaningful applications. Automated text categorization, real-time text routing and tracking, new-topic discovery, user profile induction are ameanable tasks for supervised and/or un-supervised learning. These problems present tens of thousands of input features and thousands of target categories, severely challenging ML methods. This ML Special Issue seeks significant contributions in the intersection of IR an ML, ranging from comparative studies with thorough empirical evaluations to creative exploratory and theoretical papers. More specifically, we encourage submisions including but not limited to the following topics: * ML techniques in IR applications: - Text categorization (aka "classification", "routing", "filtering") - Fact extraction (aka "template filling") - Structure/pattern discovery (aka "clustering", "hypothesis formation") - Text summarization (aka "abstracting", "gisting") * Scaling up Challenges for ML in IR - ML methods that scale to IR-size problems - Feature selection and dimensionality reduction - Problem decomposition * Learning about the user - Automated user profiling/modeling - Interactive learning for query formulation. TENTATIVE SCHEDULE: March 15, 1998: Deadline for submissions June 1, 1998: Deadline for getting decisions back to authors Aug 1, 1998: Deadline for authors to submit final versions June 1999: Publication SUBMISSION GUIDELINES: 1) Manuscripts should conform to the formatting instructions in: http://www.cs.orst.edu/~tgd/mlj/info-for-authors.html. The first author will be the primary contact unless otherwise stated. 2) Authors should send 5 copies of the manuscript to: Karen Cullen Machine Learning Editorial Office Attn: Special Issue on Natural Language Learning Kluwer Academic Press 101 Philip Drive Assinippi Park Norwell, MA 02061 617-871-6300 617-871-6528 (fax) kcullen@wkap.com And 1 copy to: Jaime Carbonell Language Technology Institute (Cyert Hall) Carnegie Mellon University 5000 Forbes Avenue Pittsburgh, PA 15213-3891 Phone: 412-268-7279 FAX: 412-268-6298 Email: jgc@cs.cmu.edu Secretary: Jen Potter, 412-268-2623 3) Please also send an electronic ASCII title page (title, authors, email, abstract, and keywords) as well as a postscript version of the manuscript to yiming@cs.cmu.edu. EDITORS: Jaime Carbonell, Carnegie Mellon University, jgc@cs.cmu.edu Yiming Yang, Carnegie Mellon University, yiming@cs.cmu.edu William Cohen, AT&T Labs - Research, wcohen@research.att.com ********** III.B.1. Fr: Widad Mustafa Re: 5th International ISKO Conference IFTH INTERNATIONAL ISKO CONFERENCE Structures and Relations in Knowledge Organization Lille, France August 25-29, 1998 The conference will focus on knowledge structures as represented in the human mind, in the formation of categories, in information handling tools, including classification schemes, thesauri and indexing systems, knowledge structures as represented in computers and intelligent systems, indexing systems. On the other hand the conference will discuss the role of relations in knoweldge organization from diverse perspectives: Papers and panels addressing this theme from any of the following perspectives are invited : 1. Theory of knowledge organization: History, paradigms, philosophy, societal aspects, epistemology, division of the sciences. 2. Disciplinary and interdisciplinary approaches to knowledge organization: The discipline-oriented approach: Formalization of structures and relations in linguistics, in semiotics, in cognitive sciences, in computer science , in artificial intelligence. 3. Cognitive approaches to knoweldge organization: Conceptual entities and inter-concepts relations, concept representation in systems, classical and faceted classifications and their use in information organization and retrieval, concept representation in knowledge-based systems, object-oriented analysis and design, multimedia architectures, types of relations. 4. Design of information systems: Structure and relations in indexing and retrieval languages, design of controlled vocabularies, terminology building and extraction tools, thesauri and metathesauri, multilingual thesauri, standardization of relationships, problems of compatibility. 5. The Comparative approach: Common and particular relationships in different knowledge systems. 6. Linguistics in knoweldge organization: Special purpose languages, technical writing, intelligent text processing, the use of natural language as specification interface for the design of information systems, natural language processing-based systems and their use in knoweldge representation and extraction. 7. New technologies for knowledge organization: Structures and relations in online environment, applications of classical and faceted structures to computer-based indexing and retrieval systems, search engines, distributed and multilingual knowledge-bases, computer supported co-operative work. 8. The Pragmatic approach: Users profile modelling. 9. Universals in structures and relations in knowledge Organization Theoreticians, researchers and practitioners in the field of structures and relations in knowedge organization are invited to submit abstract of between 500-1000 words by December 1, 1997, to Widad Mustafa Elhadi, Conference Chair UFR IDIST (Information Documentation, Information Scientifique et Technique) University Charles De Gaulle Lille 3 BP 149 59653 Villeneuve D'Ascq France Phone 33 (0) 3 20 41 64 08 Fax: 33 (0) 3 20 41 63 79 E-mail isko.conf@univ-lille3.fr. An international Program Committee will select the papers for presentation, and authors will be notified by February 9, 1998. The deadline for submission of papers for the printed conference proceedings will be May 4, 1998. ********** III.B.2. Fr: Informatica Journal Re: GKPO '98 GKPO'98: 5th International Conference on Computer Graphics and Image Processing The 5th GKPO'98 intends to group the best researchers active in the field of pictorial information exchange between computer and its environment. The reviewing process and strict acceptance criteria assure high quality of the accepted papers (only about half of the submitted papers were accepted for the previous GKPO'96 Conference). Number of participants is limited to 80 persons. The conference will be a forum for presentation of theoretical aspects, methods, applications and systems of image processing. Unpublished research papers are solicited, particularly concerning the following topics: - Physical-based and multisensor models of image formation - Image enhancement, restoration and compression - Image analysis and scene understanding - Models for recognition of objects and scenes - Modeling of human visual perception and mental imagery - Structure reconstruction, 3D imaging and image synthesis - Visualization and graphical data presentation - Virtual reality and pictorial interaction - Pictorial data bases and archivisation - Parallel and neural networks image processing - Computational geometry - Computer-aided graphic arts and animation - Industrial, medical and other applications. The programme will include: invited papers by leading researchers, selected contributions, exhibition of software and hardware products, and social events. DATES: May 18-22, 1998 LOCATION: Borki near Tomaszow Mazowiecki, a little resort in middle of Poland, about 110 km south-west of Warsaw. SUBMISSIONS: Authors are requested to submit three copies of manuscript in English (max. 8 pages). Upon acceptance by the reviewers and programme committee, authors will be asked to submit a PC diskette (in DOS format), containing the text of the paper, prepared with LaTeX (an ASCII form of the text is admissible too), with pictures in POSTSCRIPT or PCX format (at 600 dpi), in accordance with Instruction for Authors of the journal Machine GRAPHICS & VISION. PROCEEDINGS: Proceedings of the Conference will be published as a special issue vol. 7, nos. 1/2 of the Machine GRAPHICS & VISION Journal. DEADLINES: Declaration form: 30 July 1997 Paper submission: 30 October 1997 Notification of acceptance: 30 January 1998 CONFERENCE CHAIR: W. MOKRZYCKI (PL) PROGRAMME COMMITTEE CHAIR: J.L. KULIKOWSKI (PL) FOR COMPLETE INFORMATION, CONTACT: GKPO'98 Institute of Computer Science PAS ul. Ordona 21, 01-237 Warsaw, Poland Fax: ++48-22/37-65-64 E-mail: gkpo@ipipan.waw.pl GKPO'98 on World Wide Web: http://www.ipipan.waw.pl/MGV/GKPO98.html ********************************************************** IV. PROJECTS IV.C.1. Fr: Amanda Spink Re: NSF POWRE Research Grant: Dr. Amanda Spink Dr. Amanda Spink, Assistant Professor in the School of Library and Information Science at the University of North Texas has been awarded a National Science Foundation research grant under the first year of the Professional Opportunities for Women in Research and Education (POWRE) grant program. Dr. Spink is the only research grant recipient to be awarded the full $75,000 award for 1998-99. Dr. Spink's research project is supported by IBM and collaborates with the Department of Information Studies at the University of Sheffield under a British Library Research and Innovation Center Grant. The project entitled:"Interaction in Information Retrieval: Successive Searches By Users Over Time" extends Dr. Spink's research investigating users interactions over time with information retrieval systems when seeking information on a particular information problem. The research also extends Dr. Spink's research with the Web company EXCITE, Inc. investigating users behavior when searching the World Wide Web. IBM is using her research as the basis for the development of the Lexical Navigator Interface for information retrieval. Dr. Spink currently has extensive publications including, 22 journal articles, 35 conference papers and 3 book chapter. She was also recognized for her work in information science research with a University of North Texas Developing Scholar Award. ********** IV.C.2. Fr: Elisa Miller Re: ISI Research Grant: Dr. Jian Qin ISI Selects Research Grant Recipient Announces Second Grant Offering Philadelphia, PA, USA - September 5, 1997 - The Institute for Scientific Information(R)(ISI) today announced that it has selected Dr. Jian Qin of the School of Library and Information Science, University of Southern Mississippi, as the recipient of the first of two 1997 ISI Research Grants. ISI will award Dr. Qin a grant in the amount of $3,000 for her research proposal, which studies the differences between cognitive(citation) indexing and analytical(semantic) indexing and the impacts of these differences on citation and semantic searching. The ISI Research Grant Program was initiated by ISI in 1996 to support research based on citation analysis. Two grants will be awarded this year. The deadline for submissions for the second grant is Oct. 31, 1997. The second award grantee will be notified in December. "We are very pleased to be able to offer these valuable research grants," said Keith MacGregor, Vice President and General Manager of Citation Products, ISI. "We hope these grant awards will help to further encourage important research projects involving citation analysis." Dr. Qin is currently working as an assistant professor at the University of Southern Mississippi. She recently received the OCLC Library and Information Science Research Grant Program award for her research proposal "Computation Representation of Web Objects in an Interdisciplinary Digital Library." Dr. Qin was also awarded a Dissertation Research Grant at the University of Illinois for the bibliometric study and survey on interdisciplinary research in science. Within the past three years, Dr. Qin has been published in the Journal of the American Society for Information Science, Bulletin of the American Society for Information Science, Scientometrics, Social Studies of Science, and proceedings publications. Proposals for the second ISI Research Grant may be submitted in hard copy, e-mail, or by fax using Microsoft Word(R). Submissions must be double-spaced and not exceed a maximum of 1,000 words. Proposals should include the following information: * Name, address, and brief biography of applicant(s) -Brief statement of the research problem * Description of the research design and methodology, including details of how citation data will be used * Discussion of the expected impact of the research results Submissions will be evaluated by an internal ISI committee and will be judged on the proposed application of citation analysis and the significance of the research problem. The winner of the award will be expected to pursue dissemination of the results in an appropriate forum and to acknowledge the support of ISI in any presentation or publication based on the funded work. Two hard copies(or one electronic copy) of the proposal, postmarked/dated no later than Oct. 31, 1997, should be sent to: Barbara Nagy-Teti Marketing Manager Institute for Scientific Information 3501 Market Street Philadelphia, PA 19104-3302 e-mail: bnagy-teti@isinet.com fax: (215)387-4706 For more information about ISI, visit our site on the World Wide Web at http://www.isinet.com. Note: The recipient of the 1996 ISI Research Grant was Professor Charles Oppenheim, of the International Institute for Electronic Library Research, de Montfort University. The research undertaken by Prof. Oppenheim is described in his paper "The correlation between citation counts and the 1992 Research Assessment Exercise ratings for British research in genetics, anatomy and archaeology", to be published in the Journal of Documentation, Vol. 53, no. 5, December 1997 ********************************************************** 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: nancy.gusack@ucop.edu Editorial Staff: Nancy Gusack nancy.gusack@ucop.edu Cliff Lynch (emeritus) cliff@cni.org 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). 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