Information Retrieval List Digest 386 (December 22, 1997) URL = http://hegel.lib.ncsu.edu/stacks/serials/irld/irld-386.txt IRLIST Digest ISSN 1064-6965 December 22, 1997 Volume XIV, Number 48 Issue 386 No issue next week -- See you in 1998 ****************************************************************** II. JOBS 1. U. Pittsburgh: SIS, Assistant Professor 2. MITRE Corporation: Information Analyst 3. Aspens Systems Corporation: Manager, Information Services 4. U. Missouri-Columbia: SLIA, Ass't. or Assoc. Professor III. NOTICES A. Publications 1. FARNET's Washington Update 12-19-97 2. New Book: Discovering Online Resources Across the Humanities: A Practical Implementation of the Dublin Core B. Meetings 1. COLING-ACL'98 COMPUTERM Workshop 2. IBERAMIA-98 - 2nd Call for Papers IV. PROJECTS C. Fellowships, Grants, & Scholarships 1. M. DeBakey Library Services Outreach Award ****************************************************************** II. JOBS II.1. Fr: Hong Xu Re: U. Pittsburgh: SIS, Assistant Professor Faculty Position in Database Management Systems The School of Information Sciences invites applications for a tenure-track faculty position at the Assistant Professor level beginning with the 1998-1999 academic year. Candidates should have a PhD in Information Science, Computer Science, or a related field, with teaching and research interests in the area of database management systems with possible application to object-oriented systems, client-server systems, systems security, geographic information systems, information retrieval, knowledge-based systems, or database design. The position is within the Department of Information Science and Telecommunications, which has 18 faculty members and offers doctoral, masters and bachelors degrees in information science and masters and doctoral degrees in telecommunications. Information about the department and its research activities is available at http://www.sis.pitt.edu/~dist. We seek applicants with balanced research and teaching interests and strongly encourage women and minority candidates to apply. Applications received by January 15, 1998 will receive full consideration. Salaries are competitive. Applicants should send a curriculum vitae, statement of research interests, any relevant reprints or preprints, and the names and addresses of three references to: DIST Faculty Search Chair School of Information Sciences 135 North Bellefield Avenue Pittsburgh, PA 15260 Email inquiries may be directed to issearch@sis.pitt.edu. The University of Pittsburgh is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. ********** II.2. Fr: Susan A. Glenn Re: MITRE Corporation: Information Analyst The MITRE Corporation is seeking an individual with cataloging/systems experience for a position at its Bedford, Massachusetts facility. Duties: Classifying, describing and mapping resources according to nationally adopted standards adjusted to MITRE s needs; advising technical and business departments on indexing and retrieval of documents, records and databases; performing subject and name authority work; and contributing to projects for organizing, sharing, managing and accessing corporate information. Requirements: Graduate degree in information or library science or equivalent experience. Strong interpersonal and communication skills as well as HTML and WEB experience. Please reference: Position #R103-146 FAX: (781) 271-3402 Send Resumes to: The MITRE Corporation Office of Human Resources P. O. Box 0857 Bedford, MA 01730-0857 Email: jobs@mitre.org (ASCII text only) ********** II.3. Fr: Anne Bolin Re: Aspens Systems Corporation: Manager, Information Services Aspens Systems Corporation, a leader in clearinghouse operations, is seeking a highly qualified manager to oversee the design and implementation of new strategies (Business Development and Print on Demand Services) for information acquisition, collection development and electronic dissemination tasks for its Justice operations. Expertise in library management, database development, and Internet applications are required. At least 7 years experience managing multiple resources and technical staff and an advanced degree in information/library science or related discipline is required. For immediate consideration, please fax or mail your resume and cover letter to: Aspen Systems Corporation Attn. HM-SMIS 2277 Research Blvd., Rockville, MD 20850 FAX 301-519-5445 e-mail: hmiller@aspensys.com EOE M/F/D/V ********** II.4. Fr: Jeannie Ruth Re: U. Missouri-Columbia: SLIA, Ass't. or Assoc. Professor Assistant or Associate Professor in School Librarianship and Learning Technology School of Information Science and Learning Technologies The College of Education seeks a highly motivated assistant or associate professor to work with nationally and internationally recognized faculty in contributing to the mission of the School of Information Science and learning Technologies. Candidates will be expected to: attract research funding from external agencies; conduct research; supervise graduate student research; teach graduate courses; and advise students in master's and doctoral programs. The University of Missouri-Columbia, School of Information Science and Learning Technologies wishes to recruit a faculty member specializing in school librarianship, with strong interest in and commitment to integration of information technology. An interest in children's services will be considered. He/she should be able and willing to work with the state school library community. Qualifications: earned doctorate in area supporting the research, development, and instructional mission of the position; experience in application of research to information and learning applications; potential to attract external R&D funding. AA/EOE/ADA Apply to: MaryEllen Sievert, SISLT, 217 Townsend Hall, Columbia, MO 65211. The School of Information Science and Learning Technologies offers an M.A. in Library Science, an M.A./M.Ed. In Educational Technology, and an interdisciplinary Ph.D. Collaborative research among faculty is facilitated by research groups with interests in Information Retrieval Research, Cognition and Information Technology, Medical Informatics, and Technology Innovations in Education. MU is the oldest state university west of the Mississippi River and the largest of the four institutions in the University of Missouri System. It is one of the most comprehensive and diverse universities in the United States and proudly embraces the land grant mission. MU has a student body of over 22,000 at both the graduate and undergraduate levels. The College of Education is one of 18 schools/colleges on campus, has a population of 1,200 undergraduate and 900 graduate students, and a tenure-track faculty of some 90 members. As a member of the American Association of Universities, a state land grant institutions, and a university classified Research I by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, MU is a premier provider of graduate and professional education. MU is engaged in building on strengths and comparative advantages. A bottom-up planning process is in place which captures the enthusiasm and motivation of our best faculty. The University of Missouri-Columbia complies with the guidelines set forth by the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990. If you have special needs as addressed by this legislation and need assistance with this or any portion of the application process, notify us at the address below as soon as possible. Efforts will be made to accommodate your special needs. Salary: Competitive and commensurate with experience and qualifications Appointment: Nine-month, tenure track appointment beginning September 1, 1998. Application: Submit a letter of application including the names of three references; a vitae; a statement of research, development, and teaching interest; selected publications; and evidence of teaching effectiveness to: Dr. MaryEllen C. Sievert, Chair of Search Committee 217 Townsend Hall College of Education University of Missouri-Columbia Columbia, MO 65211 msievert@showme.missouri.edu Closing Date: Formal review of applications begins December 1997, and will continue until the position is filled. The University of Missouri-Columbia is an Equal Opportunity/ Affirmative Action Employer. Applications from women, minorities, and individuals with disabilities are strongly encouraged. ****************************************************************** III. NOTICES III.A.1. Fr: Garret Sern Re: FARNET's Washington Update 12-19-97 FARNET'S WASHINGTON UPDATE --- DECEMBER 19, 1997 FARNET (http://www.farnet.org) is a non-profit public interest Internetworking organization with a primary focus on the education, research and related communities. In this issue: New FCC chairman announces "ramping down" of universal service fund for first half of 1998 >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> 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. Fr: Joan K Lippincott Re: New Book: Discovering Online Resources Across the Humanities: A Practical Implementation of the Dublin Core NINCH (National Initiative for a Networked Cultural Heritage) is distributing this important new publication. "DISCOVERING ONLINE RESOURCES ACROSS THE HUMANITIES: A PRACTICAL IMPLEMENTATION OF THE DUBLIN CORE" Edited by P Miller and D Greenstein on behalf of AHDS and the UK Office for Library and Information Networking (UKOLN). "Discovering Online Resources" provides a practical and accessible introduction to the importance and use of Dublin Core "metadata" for the purposes of describing and discovering humanities information resources online. Resulting from an extensively consultative study funded by the UK's Joint Information Systems Committee and involving hundreds of information specialists and humanities scholars, this volume will be essential to anyone interested in cataloguing, finding, or integrating access to distributed online information resources. The work comprises six chapters and an extensive "bibliography" providing pointers to those who require further information about metadata, the Dublin Core, cataloguing standards currently in use in the humanities, and the Z39.50 network application protocol. TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction: "Crossing the Great Divide: Integrating Access to the Scholarly Record" Daniel Greenstein (Arts and Humanities Data Service Executive) and Lorcan Dempsey (UK Office for Library and Information Networking) Chapter 1: "The Dublin Core: A Simple Content Description Model for Electronic Resources" Stuart Weibel (OCLC Office of Research) Chapter 2: "Reports From the Front: Domain-Specific Perspectives on Cross-Domain Discovery" Chapter 3: "Unifying Resource Discovery Metadata for the Implementation Based Upon the Dublin Core" Paul Miller (Archaeology Data Service) Chapter 4: "Metadata and Middleware: A Systems Architecture for Cross-Domain Discovery" Daniel Greenstein (Arts and Humanities Data Service Executive) and Robin Murray (Fretwell-Downing Informatics) Chapter 5: "In at the Shallow End: Metadata and Cross-Domain Resource Discovery" Lorcan Dempsey, Rosemary Russell, and Rachel Heery (UK Office for Library and Information Networking) Conclusion: "Engendering Consensus" Paul Miller (Archaeology Data Service) Appendix: "Sample Records Utilizing the Dublin Core" Compiled by Paul Miller (Archaeology Data Service) "References and Further Reading" Compiled by Daniel Greenstein (Arts and Humanities Data Service Executive) and Paul Miller (Archaeology Data Service) NINCH-ARL ARL Publications - Dept. #0692 Washington, DC 20073-0692 ********** III.B.1. Fr: Christian Jacquemin Re: COLING-ACL'98 COMPUTERM Workshop ACL/COLING-98 COMPUTERM Workshop First Workshop on Computational Terminology August 15, 1998 (immediately following ACL/COLING-98) University of Montreal, Montreal (Quebec, Canada) PRELIMINARY CALL FOR PAPERS DESCRIPTION: The workshop will provide a forum to bring together researchers from the fields of computational linguistics, terminology, automated translation, information retrieval and lexicography who share an interest in computational aspects of terminology processing: acquisition, extraction, indexing, machine-aided thesaurus building, dictionary construction, etc. The aim of the workshop is to stimulate the exchange of innovative ideas and results of diverse aspects of automatic term processing in order to bridge the gap between these fields. TOPICS:The topics of the workshop include (but are not limited to): - Construction of terminology resources - Semi- or automatic acquisition of terms - Semi- or automatic acquisition of conceptual knowledge - Thesaurus construction and maintenance - Use of terminology resources (term banks, thesauri, specialized lexicons,...) - Terms in information retrieval (stemming, automatic indexing, query expansion, ...) - Multi-lingual terminological resources for cross-language IR - Terminology management in machine-aided translation - Terminology and NLP (parsing, tagging, text understanding, generation,...) - Terminology processing for other applications SUBMISSIONS: Only hard-copy submissions will be accepted. Authors should submit six (6) copies of their full-length paper (3500-5000 words). Submissions should be sent to: Didier Bourigault Laboratoire de Linguistique Informatique Universite Paris XIII Avenue J.-B. Clement F-93430 Villetaneuse France Style Files and Templates for Preparing Submissions: http://coling-acl98.iro.umontreal.ca/Styles.html The official language of the Conference is English. However, papers can also be submitted in French. The final version of the papers will be accompanied by two long abstracts in two different languages. All the presentation at the workshop will be given in English. IMPORTANT DEADLINES: Submission Deadline: March 23, 1998 Notification Date: May 15, 1998 Camera ready copy due: June 15, 1998 EMAIL CONTACT: db@lli.univ-paris13.fr, Christian.Jacquemin@iut-nantes.univ-nantes.fr, lhommem@ere.umontreal.ca ********** III.B.2. Fr: Joao Balsa da Silva Re: IBERAMIA-98 - 2nd Call for Papers 2 N D C A L L F O R P A P E R S IBERAMIA-98 SIXTH IBERO-AMERICAN CONFERENCE ON ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE Lisbon, Portugal October 5-9,1998 Under the auspices of the Portuguese Association for Artificial Intelligence DEADLINES - Submission of papers . January, 28, 1998 - by e-mail . February, 2, 1998 - by mail - Submission of tutorials, working groups and workshop proposals: . March, 2, 1998 - Submission of proposals for the concourse of the best thesis (M. Sc. or Ph.D.): . April 2, 1998 OTHER IMPORTANT DATES: Notification of acceptance of papers: May 15, 1998 Notification of acceptance of tutorials, working groups, and workshops: June 1, 1998 Deadline for receipt of paper's final version: June 15, 1998 PUBLICATION: The contributions to the paper track will be published by Springer Verlag. Please visit the following Web pages: http://www-ia.di.fct.unl.pt/~iberamia/ - for the most recent information on the conference http://www-ia.di.fct.unl.pt/~iberamia/cfp.html - for the complete Call for Papers http://www-ia.di.fct.unl.pt/~iberamia/submissions.html - to obtain detailed instructions on how to submit a paper FOR FURTHER INFORMATION: E-mail: iberamia@di.fct.unl.pt ****************************************************************** IV. PROJECTS IV.C.1. Fr: Richard Hill Re: M. DeBakey Lib. Services Outreach Award Friends of the NLM announce the 1998 Michael E. DeBakey Library Services Outreach Award The Michael E. DeBakey Library Services Outreach Award recognizes an outstanding librarian in the area of outreach to rural, unaffiliated or underserved medical populations. Outreach is an effort to assist health professionals and students by promoting awareness of and providing access to the nation's biomedical literatures. Entries are judged on innovation, longevity of the outreach program, success of the program (number of people served, number of institutions involved, geographic area, etc.) and outcomes achieved. A cash prize of $500 plus travel expenses and one night accommodation in Washington, D.C. will be given to the award recipient to attend the Third Annual Conference, "The Emerging Health Information Infrastructure (HII98)," April 27-28, 1998, Georgetown University Conference Center, Washington, D.C. Applications due January 31, 1998: For detailed information please write: The Michael DeBakey Library Services Outreach Award c/o Friends of the National Library of Medicine 1555 Connecticut Avenue, NW, Suite 200 Washington, D.C. 20036 Phone: (202) 462-0992, ext. 21; Fax (202) 462-9043 http://www.fnlm.org ****************************************************************** 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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