Information Retrieval List Digest 375 (October 6, 1997) URL = http://hegel.lib.ncsu.edu/stacks/serials/irld/irld-375 IRLIST Digest ISSN 1064-6965 October 6, 1997 Volume XIV, Number 37 Issue 375 ***************************************************************** II. JOBS 1. Erli: English/French Computational Linguist 2. Ferris State U.: Dean, LIS III. NOTICES A. Publications 1. Special Issue of IP&M: IR with Asian Languages B. Meetings 1. ER97 Preconference Symposium IV. PROJECTS D. Initiatives & Proposals 1. Workshop Summary: Visualization of Information and Data Apologies for the weird hex values for "F" in last week's issue. I have no idea what caused them. [the Moderator] ***************************************************************** II. JOBS II.1. =46r: Antoine Ogonowski Re: Erli: English/French Computational Linguist Erli in Paris, France, is looking for a computational linguist, fluent in English and in French. JOB DESCRIPTION: The applicant will join the Linguistic Resources Team within the Product Departement. This team is responsible for the management and development of grammars and lexicon for all Erli products. His/Her main mission will be to take charge of the English Lexicon. Later, he/she will participate in the development of the English-French lexicon. The management of the Erli multi-functional lexicon requires a sound linguistic background, the ability to deal with high-level linguistic models and good skills in language programming. QUALIFICATION: Applicants should - be fluent in English and French - have a linguistic (or lexicographic) background - have a working knowledge of programming languages (C, Perl, SQL) and of Unix - be a good teamworker - be willing to take up technical challenges Previous experience in an industrial context (2 years) is recommended. THE COMPANY: Erli is a French company, started-up 20 years ago, dedicated to Natural Language Processing. It is an European Leader in the field. In the beginning of 1997, with the help of European and American investors, Erli became a software publisher active in the field of access to "non-structured" information (e.g. Internet/Intranet). Technologies embedded in its products are mainly based on linguistic components. =46or more information on the company, please see our Web Site: http://www.erli.com CONTACT: If you are interested, please send your CV and an accompanying letter presenting your motivations to Daniel Bachut Erli 1, Place des Marseillais 94227 Charenton-Le-Pont Cedex daniel.bachut@erli.com ******** II.2. =46r: Kathy_M_Hotz@ferris.edu Re: Ferris State U.: Dean, LIS FERRIS STATE UNIVERSITY Dean of Library & Instructional Services (LIS) RESPONSIBILITIES: The Dean of the LIS reports to the Vice President for Academic Affairs, and is a member of the Deans Council. S/he has administrative responsibility for library-wide planning and policy direction as well as centralized library services such as budget, personnel, systems development, archives, information services and fund raising initiatives. The Dean play a university-wide leadership role in the development and implementation of information access and in integrating emerging technologies and electronic resources with traditional library collections and services. S/he will help plan and oversee the construction and development of FLITE, a new highly-digitalized, technolgically-advanced university library facility. QUALIFICATIONS: REQUIRED: A master's degree in library/information sciences from an ALA accredited program. Five years progressively responsible administrative experience in an academic library which includes successful personnel, budget and resource planning, and management experience. Demonstrate effective organizational, interpersonal, and oral and written communication skills. The candidate must also demonstrate the ability to develop and maintain positive relationships with a culturally diverse staff and student body. PREFERRED: Advanced subject degree; PhD highly desirable. One or more years of experiences as a public or technical services librarian. Demonsrate understanding of and a commitment to resource sharing/networking, library automation, new information technologies, and faculty and staff development. Successful grant acquisition and administration. Experience is a work environment which includes collective bargaining. SALARY: Salary and benefits are competitive and commensurate with experience and qualificiations. APPLICATIONS: Apply with letter addressing qualifications as related to the responsibilities of the position, curriculum vitae and the names of three references from supervisors or colleagues. Please include their current addresses and telephone numbers with your application. Transcripts will be required for candidates invited to interview at FSU. Nominations may be sent to the Chair. APPLY TO: Isabel J. Barnes, Chair LIS Search Committee =46erris State University 200 Ferris Drive, VFS 200-B Big Rapids, MI 49307 APPLICATION DEADLINE: Review of applciations will begin 10/15/97 and conclude when a qualified candidate is chosen, or 11/14/97, whichever is sooner. The preferred starting date is 1/15/98, unless otherwise negotiated. * * Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer * * ***************************************************************** III. NOTICES III.A.1. =46r: Sung-hyun Myaeng Re: CFP: Special Issue of IP&M: IR with Asian Languages Call for Articles A Special Issue of Information Processing & Management on Information Retrieval with Asian Languages Interest is growing in effective and efficient retrieval of relevant information from large unstructured databases. Research in information retrieval (IR) has expanded its scope widely with advances in related areas such as natural language processing, machine learning, and man-machine interactions. Especially with the explosion of information in the World Wide Web, the need for information retrieval and related functions has become ubiquitos regardless of languages and cultures. This special issue will be devoted to research and development in information retrieval with Asian languages. Suggested topics include, but are not limited to: - retrieval or routing of texts at variouls levels of granularity - cross-language text retrieval - automated text categorization - infomation extraction - automatic text summarization (including automatic abstracting) - use of machine readable dictionaries and/or thesauri - language- or task-specific user interfaces for IR-related systems - various natural language processing techqniques for IR-related tasks Interested authors should submit five copies of their articles by December 15, 1997, to: Prof. Sung H. Myaeng Dept. of Computer Science Chungnam National University Phone: +82-42-821-5446 Yusong-ku, Taejon Korea =46ax: +82-42-305-764 E-mail: shmyaeng@cs.chungnam.ac.kr - The tentative publication date is August, 1988. - Papers not submitted to and accepted by other journak will be considered for publication. However papers already presented at a conference or workshop are acceptable only if they are additionally updated. Revised, or enlarged. - Length: The final article should be about 8-10 typeset pages (approximately 20-25 typed, double-spaced, pages). ********** III.B.1. =46r: Leah Wong Re: ER97 Preconference Symposium - Call For Participation PRECONFERENCE SYMPOSIUM Conceptual Modeling: Historical Perspectives and Future Directions Sunday, November 2, 1997 in conjunction with The 16th International Conference on Conceptual Modeling - ER'97 Los Angeles, California, USA 3-6 November, 1997 Web site: http://osm7.cs.byu.edu/ER97 This special symposium will be open to all ER'97 registrants. We will first look back on the history of conceptual modeling form the perspective of long-term researchers and practitioners in the field. Then we will look forward to the future directions of conceptual modeling. The objectives of the symposium are to: * re-examine the goals of database/information technology wrt conceptual modeling * integrate research on aspects of information technology and other science and technologies * establish methodologies for system development * initiate new research directions in conceptual modeling. SPONSOR: ER'97 Conference INVITED SPEAKERS: *Jacky AKOKA, ESSEC Graduate School of Management, Avenue Bernard Hirsch, BP105, 95021 CERGY Cedex, FRANCE, Paper title : New directions in conceptual modeling *Lois Delcambre, Computer Science and Engineering Department, Director, Data-Intensive Systems Center, Oregon Graduate Institute, Paper Title: Models for Superimposed Information. *Ramez Ekmasri, University of Texas at Arlington, Title: Do we need more conceptual modeling research? *Antonio L. Furtado, Departamento de Informatica, Pontificia Universidade Catolica do R.J., Paper Title: Narratives and temporal databases: an interdisciplinary perspective. *Georges GARDARIN, PRiSM Laboratory University of Versailles, France, Paper Title: Intelligent Agents for a Web-enabled Object-Oriented Federated Database System. *Terrance Goan, Stottler Henke Assoc. Inc., Paper Title: Supporting the User: Conceptual Modeling & Knowledge Discovery. *David Hislop (tentative), Army Research Office. *Hannu Kangassalo, University of Tampere, Finland, Paper Title: Are global understanding, communication, and information management in information systems possible? A conceptual modeling view - problems and proposals for solutions. *Benn Konsynski, George Craft Prof., Emory University. *John Miller, University of Georgia. *Pericles Loucopoulos, Information Systems Engineering Group, University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (UMIST), Department of Computation, Paper Title: Enterprise Knowledge Management - Challenges for Conceptual Modelling. *William E. McCarthy, Arthur Andersen Alumni Professor, Department of Accounting, Michigan State University, Paper Title: Conceptual Modeling of Accounting Phenomena: Its Effect on Research, Teaching, and Practice Since 1979. *Ephraim R. McLean, Professor and Smith Chair in Information Systems, Georgia State University, Paper Title: "The Challenge of Systems Analysis and Design Revisited". 8Sham Navathe, Georgia Institute of Technology, Paper Title: Conceptual Modeling for a comprehensive Human Mitochondrial Genome Database. *Peter A. Ng, Department of Computer an Information Science, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Paper Title: An Intelligent Document Browser. *Arnon S. Rosenthal, MITRE Corporation, Paper Title: Challenges in Large-Scale Data Administration. *Edgar Sibley (tentative), George Mason Univ. *Munindar Singh, North Carolina State University, Paper Title: Conceptual Modeling for Multiagent Systems. *Arne S=F8lvberg, The Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway, Paper Title: Data and what they refer to. *Bernhard Thalheim, Prof. at Brandenburgian Technical University at Cottbus, Computer Science Institute, Title: The ER model is sailing on safe grounds where others are sailing somewhere else. REGISTERATION: Required for estimation of number of attendance (see below for the registration fee, which is required). =46EES: Free to all ER conference participants. However, all the organizers, speakers, and participants of the pre-conference symposium are required to register for the main conference. The advance registration fee is $375 for ACM members before 9/30/97. The registration form is available at http://osm7.cs.byu.edu/ER97/register.txt. No food/refreshment will be provided at the preconference symposium but will be provided at the main conference. ***************************************************************** IV. PROJECTS IV.D.1. =46r: Maria Zemankova Re: Workshop Summary: Visualization of Information and Data NSF* Euro-American Workshop on Visualization of Information and Data June 24-25, 1997 Paris, France Co-organizers: Nahum Gershon Jacques-Emile Dubois The MITRE Corp. CODATA International 1820 Dolley Madison Blvd. 51 Boulevard de Montmorency McLean, VA 22102 USA 15016 Paris, France gershon@mitre.org dubois@paris7.jussieu.fr Increasing amounts of data and information and the availability of fast digital network access (e.g., the World Wide Web) have created a demand for querying, accessing, and retrieving information and data. Unlike most scientific numerical data, information is abstract, having no physical form or representation. Information Visualization involves the conversion of the abstract into concrete visual representations and creation of user interfaces to support tasks such as searching, data mining, discovery, and identification. Visualization uses interactive graphics and imaging and relies on the visual system to perceive information. Information visualization is an increasingly important research and development area. Effective visualizations will enable users from all walks of life to use the information highway easily and efficiently. Among the emerging new research and development areas are interaction with large data bases, visualization of text contained in large corpora, and interaction with multi-dimensional information and data. This two-day workshop was held June 24-25, 1997, in Paris, France. Co-chaired by Nahum Gershon (The MITRE Corp.) and Jacques-Emile Dubois (CODATA International), it had an international committee of visualization experts from nine countries. Researchers and developers in information from Europe, the United States and Canada brain-stormed to * Survey current activity in information visualization in Europe and the United States. * Identify research and development issues in visualization. * Forge research collaborations. =46ew algorithms and methods have been implemented to solve real-world problems, especially in North America. This workshop focused on implementing visualization methodology. Attendees represented France, Sweden, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, United Kingdom, Hong Kong, United States, and Canada. Discussions of "where we are" centered on how information visualization merges the areas of user interfaces, scientific visualization, and databases. Information visualization differs from statistical or scientific visualization in its efforts to communicate the structure of information and improve access to large data repositories. Visual data mining techniques were discussed. =46uture directions, or "where we are going," include: - augmented reality b= y embedding virtual information in the physical world, using see-through displays. - wearable/mobile user interfaces to make information available anytime and anywhere. - controlling complex, dynamic, shared information environments. User interfaces for virtual worlds will be enhanced by integrating 3D thematic layers, such as elevation maps, 3D simulation data, and landmarks, into browsable virtual worlds, and by "wayfinding," an ability to find a particular location in an expedient manner and recognize where you are. Information about the workshop is at http://www.nrc.ca/programs/codata/gershon.html The workshop report will be available in near future. * The workshop was supported in part by the National Science Foundation, the Interactive Systems Program and the Database and Expert Systems Program in the Division of Information, Robotics and Intelligent Systems, and the Division of International Programs, under the grant IRI-9711509. 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