Information Retrieval List Digest 374 (September 29, 1997) URL = http://hegel.lib.ncsu.edu/stacks/serials/irld/irld-374 IRLIST Digest ISSN 1064-6965 September 29, 1997 Volume XIV, Number 36 Issue 374 ********************************************************** II. JOBS 1. Virginia Tech: Assistant Professor, IS 2. Rutgers: Assistant Professor Positions, SCILS 3. UW-Madison: Sr. Spec. Librarian, L&S/Data & Pgm. Lib.Service III. NOTICES A. Publications 1. Washington Update 9/17/97 2. Version 12, Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography 3. New Book on Information Science B. Meetings 1. FLAIRS-98 Special Track on NLP and HCI 2. 2nd CFP: AAAI 98 Spring Symposium on Intelligent Text Summarization ********************************************************** II. JOBS II.1. =46r: Edward A. Fox Re: Virginia Tech: Assistant Professor, IS Hi! I'm writing to encourage those interested in tenure-track faculty positions to apply ASAP for an Assistant Professor level job to start January 1998. We have courses like: CS4624 Multimedia, Hypertext and Information Access CS5604 Information Storage and Retrieval CS6604 Advanced Topics in Information Systems (e.g., Digital Libraries) as well as a number of related research projects. See the ad at http://info.cs.vt.edu/faculty_ad.html, general departmental information at http://info.cs.vt.edu/, campus info at http://www.vt.edu/ and my home page at http://fox.cs.vt.edu/. We have particular interest in software engineering, distributed computing, networking and information systems, visualization, multimedia, and problem-solving environments --- and particular strength in software engineering, scientific computing, and human-computer interaction (HCI) as well as other areas. I strongly encourage applicants interested in IR, digital libraries, multimedia, hypertext, etc. Regards, Ed Fox ********** II.2. =46r: Nicholas J. Belkin Re: Rutgers: Assistant Professor Positions, SCILS RUTGERS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF COMMUNICATION INFORMATION & LIBRARY STUDIES CURRENT POSITION VACANCIES AT SCILS ASSISTANT PROFESSORS (TENURE TRACK) POSITION ANNOUNCEMENT We seek applications for several anticipated tenure-track Assistant Professor positions. SCILS is a multidisciplinary professional school that includes the faculty of thre departments: Communication, Journalism/Mass Media, and Library and Information Studies. These positions include the opportunity to participate in undergraduate, masters and doctoral programs and an emerging emphasis in distance education. Salary highly competitive. QUALIFICATIONS: Successful applicants will have a completed doctorate, excellence in teaching, prior publications, and a developing line of original research. We seek candidates who teach and conduct research in one of the following primary areas and in at least one of the following secondary areas. In your cover letter, state explicitly in which primary and secondary areas you have expertise; discuss the teaching experience and methodological and conceptual approaches you bring to your research; and, discuss your fit within a multidisciplinary professional school. PRIMARY AREAS: * Digital, Networked, or Multimedia Information * Information Skills and Services * Interpersonal/Public Communication * Media Studies, Ethics, and Literacy * Organizational Communication * Public Relations SECONDARY AREAS: * Diversity in Professional Practice * Feminist/Critical Theory * Health Communication * Human-Computer Interaction and Interfaces * International/Intercultural Communication * Library Automation and Cataloguing * Quantitative Methodology APPLICATION DEADLINE: December 1, 1997 or until positions are filled. Send cover letter, vita, a representative sample of scholarship, and names, addresses, and phone numbers of three references (do not request reference letters) to: Todd Hunt Acting Dean School of Communication Information and Library Studies Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey 4 Huntington St., New Brunswick, NJ 08901-1071 =46or further information about SCILS, go to: http://www.scils.rutgers.edu/ ********** II.3. =46r: Robin Rice Re: UW-Madison: Sr. Spec. Librarian, L&S/Data & Pgm. Lib.Service UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON POSITION VACANCY LISTING L&S/DATA AND PROGRAM LIBRARY SERVICE POSITION: Senior Special Librarian APPT TYPE: Academic Staff =46ULLTIME SALARY: Minimum $39,000 Annually Depending on Qualifications PVL#: 28347 PERCENT APPT: 100 =46UND: 101/6 DATE POS AVAILABLE: 12/01/97 WITH POSSIBILITY OF RENEWAL NO. OF POSITIONS: 1 APPLICATION DEADLINE TO INSURE CONSIDERATION: 10/31/97 A PERIOD OF EVALUATION WILL BE REQUIRED CONTACT: Associate Professor Ken Mayer Director 3313 Social Science Building 1180 Observatory Drive Madison, WI 53706 TEL: 608-263-2286 DEGREE AND AREA OF SPECIALIZATION: MLS or advanced degree in social science discipline. MINIMUM NUMBER OF YEARS AND TYPE OF RELEVANT WORK EXPERIENCE: At least 7 years of experience in a data library and archival setting, or in a special library setting including familiarity with social science data, 3 of which must involve supervisory experience. Systems administration skills (Windows NT, Networking, Web-based applications) desirable. PRINCIPAL DUTIES: Responsible for day-to-day operations and management of an academic social science numeric data library and archive (a special library on the U.W. Madison campus). Manages and works with professional library staff (currently 1.2 FTEs), and supervise student hourly employees (currently 1 FTE). Responsible for the management and administration of library budget, and works with the Faculty Director and library staff to allocate funds and establish spending priorities. Responsible for administration and management of the library's computer systems, which include Windows NT, Internet, and Web-based applications, and the library's Microsoft Access database system. Provides reference services to library users. Outreach to other campus librarians, University faculty, and external users to facilitate access to library data. Will manage the library's large and growing on-line data archive, and work with U.W. faculty to facilitate the archiving of original datasets at the library. Depending on qualifications, may assume duties of the Official Representative of the campus' membership to the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research. APPLICATION: When submitting application, please include cover letter, resume, and two references along with their phone numbers. NOTE: Unless confidentiality is requested in writing, information regarding the applicants must be released upon request. Finalists cannot be guaranteed confidentiality. THE UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON IS AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER The University of Wisconsin, Madison is located on one thousand acres along the shore of Lake Mendota near the heart of Wisconsin's capitol city. There are some 850 buildings -- including farms, an Arboretum, and Center for Health Sciences. A city within a city, nearly 58,000 people are associated with the university as students or employees. Madison is a progressive, cosmopolitan city of nearly 200,000. It has 4 beautiful lakes, over 200 parks, world-class performing arts, and is frequently cited by numerous sources (including Money Magazine, Utne Reader, Parenting, American Health, and Outside Magazine) as an excellent place to live. Robin Rice, Special Librarian Data and Program Library Service University of Wisconsin-Madison http://dpls.dacc.wisc.edu rice@dpls.dacc.wisc.edu ********************************************************** III. NOTICES III.A.1. =46r: Garret Sern Re: Washington Update 9/17/97 =46ARNET'S WASHINGTON UPDATE --- SEPTEMBER 17, 1997 IN THIS ISSUE: House Science Committee offers support to NGI, but is it too late to save funding? CATO Institute holds forth forum on the future of telecom deregulation. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> 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 (CNI) for additional support. If you would like more information about the Update or would like to offer comments or suggestions, please contact Garret Sern at garret@farnet.org. ********** III.A.2. =46r: Charles W. Bailey, Jr. Re: Version 12, Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography Version 12 of the Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography is now available. This selective bibliography presents over 600 articles, books, electronic documents, and other sources that are useful in understanding scholarly electronic publishing efforts on the Internet and other networks. HTML: Acrobat: Word: The HTML document is designed for interactive use. Each major section is a separate file. There are live links to sources available on the Internet. It can be can be searched, and it includes a collection of links to related Web sites that deal with scholarly electronic publishing issues. The Acrobat and Word files are designed for printing. Each file is over 160 KB. (Revised sections in this version are marked with an asterisk.) Table of Contents 1 Economic Issues* 2 Electronic Books and Texts 2.1 Case Studies and History 2.2 General Works* 2.3 Library Issues 3 Electronic Serials 3.1 Case Studies and History* 3.2 Critiques 3.3 Electronic Distribution of Printed Journals 3.4 General Works* 3.5 Library Issues* 3.6 Research 4 General Works 5 Legal Issues 5.1 Intellectual Property Rights 5.2 License Agreements* 5.3 Other Legal Issues* 6 Library Issues 6.1 Cataloging, Classification, and Metadata 6.2 Digital Libraries* 6.3 General Works* 6.4 Information Conversion, Integrity, and Preservation 7 New Publishing Models* 8 Publisher Issues 8.1 Electronic Commerce/Copyright Systems Appendix A. Related Bibliographies by the Same Author Appendix B. About the Author Best Regards, Charles Charles W. Bailey, Jr., Assistant Dean for Systems, University Libraries, University of Houston, Houston, TX 77204-2091. E-mail: cbailey@uh.edu. Voice: (713) 743-9804. =46ax: (713) 743-9811. ********** III.A.3. =46r: Birger Hj=F8rland Re: New Book on Information Science I would like to inform you, that I hav just published a book: "Information seeking and subject representation. An activity-theoretical approach to Information Science" at Greenwood Press. ISBN: 0-313-29893-9. In this book I discuss the basic approaches to Information Science, including many concrete theories, e.g. Don Swanson's, Nic. Belkins cognitive theory, the semiotic theory, and so on. Review copies are send to all the major IS journals. I would of course welcome any comment or discussion. Kind regards, Birger Hj=F8rland Head of Department, Ph.d. Birger Hjorland Royal School of Library and Information Science 6 Birketinget DK-2300 Copenhagen S, Denmark Phone: +45 32 58 60 66 =46ax: +45 32 84 02 01 e-mail: bh@db.dk homepage: http://www.db.dk/nhs/bh/home_uk.htm ********** III.B.1. =46r: Susan Haller Re: FLAIRS-98 Special Track on NLP and HCI CALL FOR PAPERS Special Track on Natural Language Processing and Human-Computer Interaction =46LAIRS-98 The 11th International FLAIRS Conference Sundial Beach Resort Sanibel Island, Florida May 17-20, 1998 Sponsored by the Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society The annual International FLAIRS Conference is an international forum for the exchange of ideas relating to various aspects of Artificial Intelligence. It attracts attendees from academia, industry and government. Due to the significance of Natural Language Processing (NLP) in Human Computer Interaction (HCI), a conference track has been dedicated to this topic. All accepted papers will appear in the conference proceedings, and selected authors will be invited to submit a full paper to a special issue of the International Journal of Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence or the International Journal of Artificial Intelligence Tools. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): * Empirical studies in specifying, designing, implementing, and/or evaluating Natural Language Interfaces * Multimodal Interfaces with Natural Language modalities * Natural Language Processing and Computer-Supported Cooperative Work * Knowledge Representation and Reasoning for Natural Language/Human-Computer Interfaces and Cooperative Work systems * Symbolic, connectionist, statistical, and hybrid architectures for Natural Language/Human-Computer Interfaces * Speech Recognition and Speech Synthesis in Human-Computer Interfaces * Demonstrations of implemented NLP/HCI systems (video, on-site, or Internet). AUTHOR INFORMATION: Authors must submit 6 copies of an extended abstract of 1200 to 1600 words (in English). The extended abstract should not identify the author(s) in any manner. Please include one separate cover page containing the author name(s), address, phone number, affiliation, paper title, and topic area. In cases of multiple authors all correspondence will be sent to the first author unless otherwise requested. Electronic submissions are encouraged. Abstracts must be received by October 20, 1997. Abstracts received after this date will not be considered. Notification of acceptance will be mailed by December 15, 1997. Authors of accepted papers will be expected to submit the final camera-ready copy of their full papers by February 23, 1998. Final papers will consist of at most 5 galley pages (approximately 10 double spaced pages). =46or information concerning submissions or to submit an abstract contact: Track Chairs Dr. Susan Haller Computer Science and Engineering Dr. Bill Manaris Department Computer Science Department University of Wisconsin - University of Southwestern Parkside Louisiana 241 Molinaro Hall 2 Rex St., P.O. Box 41771 Kenosha, Wisconsin 53141-2000, Lafayette, LA 70504-1771, USA USA Tel: 414-595-2343 Tel: (318) 482-6638 =46ax: 414-595-2114 Fax: (318) 482-5791 E-mail: haller@cs.uwp.edu E-mail: manaris@usl.edu WWW: WWW: http://cs.uwp.edu/staff/haller/ http://www.usl.edu/~manaris ********** III.B.2. =46r: Dragomir R. Radev Re: 2nd CFP: AAAI 98 Spring Symposium on Intelligent Text Summarization INTELLIGENT TEXT SUMMARIZATION http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~radev/aaai-sss98-its With the proliferation of online textual resources, it has become very difficult to find information of interest. Improving access to online information includes finding relevant documents (Information Retrieval) and presenting only information that matches the user's interests (Text Summarization). In the recent very successful workshop on Intelligent Scalable Text Summarization at the ACL/EACL conference, papers focused largely on statistical approaches. In this symposium, we aim to discuss also the strengths of other, symbolic/rule-based, techniques. We particularly welcome contributions that address some of the fundamental issues underlying summarization: what is a summary? What is an abstract? How can one evaluate the quality of a summary? The symposium will include formal presentations and discussions of existing techniques and open problems. Using input from potential participants, the program committee will present a series of questions to which attendees will be encouraged to suggest approaches and solutions. Sample topics: - Knowledge Representation Issues - AI and Statistical Techniques - Discourse Analysis and Discourse Planning - Concise Text Generation - Summarization of Multiple Documents - Generation of Updates - Architectures for Summarization - Multilingual and Multimodal Summarization - User Modeling - Scalability - Evaluation of Text Summarization Potential participants should submit one of the following: o =46ull technical paper (PostScript, 11-point font, up to 5000 words). o Statement of interest (up to 1000 words):- description of an ongoing research effort, - position statement, - description of a problem to be discussed, - proposal for an activity related to text summarization that can take place at the symposium, - description of a completed summarization system, or - descriptions of tools, corpora, or other resources, especially if they can be shared with others. o Description of a demonstration or video. Participants are encouraged to include URLs related to text summarization (bibliographies, papers, projects, tools, corpora). Selection will be made in the following order: 1. people who present papers (one person per paper) 2. other presenters 3. collaborators of the above 4. people with strong statements of interest 5. others as space permits. Submissions for the symposium are due on October 24, 1997. Notification of acceptance will be given by November 14, 1997. Materials to be included in the working notes of the symposium must be received by January 17, 1998. Send all submissions electronically to radev@cs.columbia.edu If you are unsure whether your file will print at our site, please submit four days before the deadline in order to receive a confirmation. 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