Information Retrieval List Digest 404 (May 4, 1998) URL = http://hegel.lib.ncsu.edu/stacks/serials/irld/irld-404.txt IRLIST Digest ISSN 1064-6965 May 4, 1998 Volume XV, Number 18 Issue 404 ****************************************************************** I. QUERIES 1. Electronic Claiming of Serials/Periodicals II. JOBS 1. U. Wolverhampton: RA, Computational Linguistics 2. NTU,Singapore: Faculty Appointments, IS III. NOTICES A. Publications 1. New Draft of CNI Authentication Paper 2. Special Issue on "Relevance" is Available! 3. ACRL/CNI Internet Education Project B. Meetings 1. CIKM'98 Deadline Extended to May 12 2. Prolamat 98 3. MBR'98 4. Workshop on Information Mediation IV. PROJECTS C. Awards, Fellowships, Grants, & Scholarships 1. NSF KDI -- Updates 2. Open Society Institute Network Library Program Fellows ****************************************************************** I. QUERIES I.1. Fr: Donna Forster Re: Electronic Claiming of Serials/Periodicals We are an Innovative Library, using EBSCO and Yankee Book Peddler as our major periodical/serials vendors. We will be acquiring Innovative' Electronic Claiming of serials issues via E-mail in the near future and would like some input from libraries that are currently interested in hearing which vendors you process e-claims with; and what was involved in pre- and post- implementation, e.g.,: 1. What information needs to be included in the Order/CKIN records; 2. Procedures for preparing records; 3. Problems encountered; 4. Level of staff involved in the preparation as well as the actual e-claiming process; 5. Savings in staff time, etc. Also, have you been pleased with the results once all glitches were taken care of? We will be greatful for any information we receive. Donna Forster Cal Poly Pomona Library - Serials Bibliographic Access Services 15-505 3801 W. Temple Avenue Pomona, CA 91768 E-mail: DMFORSTER@CSUPOMONA.EDU FAX: (909) 869-3103 PHONE: (909) 869-3110 ****************************************************************** II. JOBS II.1. Fr: Ruslan Mitkov Re: U. Wolverhampton: RA, Computational Linguistics RESEARCH ASSISTANT Researcher A (Fixed Term, 3 years) 11562 - 13101 UK. pounds per annum (pro rata) depending on age, qualifications and experience. The University of Wolverhampton, School of Languages and European Studies wish to appoint a research assistant to work on anaphora resolution project. The duties will focus on the development and implementation of a robust, knowledge-poor pronoun resolution approach. We are looking for researchers with proven experience in NLP and with excellent programming skills. The successful candidate will have a first degree in Computational Linguistics or Computer Science. Appointees may register for a Ph.D. or an M.Phil. on a part-time basis. The successful candidate is expected to start the job as soon as possible but no later than 1 September 1998. For further information about the project, please contact Prof. Dr. Ruslan Mitkov, tel. 01902 322471, Email R.Mitkov@wlv.ac.uk . Formal applications must be made to: The Personnel University of Wolverhampton Wolverhampton WV1 1SB and must include a completed application form (to be requested at per@wlv.ac.uk, please quote Reference number A1587), a full CV (including details on your experience in NLP projects and programming skills) and one or two relevant publications, if available. Please note the closing date for applications for this post is 18 May 1998. ********** II.2. Fr: Foo Schubert Re: NTU,Singapore: Faculty Appointments, Information Studies NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY SINGAPORE FACULTY APPOINTMENTS DIVISION OF INFORMATION STUDIES SCHOOL OF APPLIED SCIENCE The School of Applied Science invites applications for teaching posts within its expanding Division of Information Studies. Candidates should possess a Ph.D. or is likely to obtain one in a relatively short period and relevant work experience in an aspect of information service, research, or teaching information studies at graduate level. The appointee, in addition to providing teaching and administrative support to the Division, is expected to carry out active research activities in one or more related areas of Internet technology, information retrieval, digital libraries, library automation, collection development and management, bibliometrics, information security, intelligent interfaces and groupware systems. A good track record from a well-known academic institution and quality research publications will be an additional advantage as the appointee will be required to supervise students for research degrees at Master and Doctoral level in the Division's expanding programme of research. In this round of appointments, candidates from a LIS background with work experience in the library services are particularly encouraged to apply. Gross annual emoluments (for 12 months) range as follows: Professor : S$150,000 - S$202,110 Associate Professor : S$122,460 - S$170,100 Senior Lecturer : S$ 67,940 - S$138,090 Lecturer : S$ 58,390 - S$ 74,300 (US$ 1.00 = S$ 1.58 or *1 = S$ 2.65 approximately as at 21 April 1998) Leave and medical benefits will be provided. Other benefits, depending on the type of contract offered, include provident fund benefits or an end-of-contract gratuity, settling-in allowance, subsidised housing, children's education allowance, passage assistance and baggage allowance for transportation of personal effects to Singapore. Application forms can be downloaded via Internet at: http://www.ntu.edu.sg/personnel/academic/StaffRec/AdSAS.html More information on the University and Division can be found at http://www.ntu.edu.sg and http://www.ntu.ac.sg/sas/postgrad.htm respectively. The Head of Division, Schubert Foo, can be contacted at : assfoo@ntu.edu.sg. ****************************************************************** III. NOTICES III.A.1. Fr: Joan K Lippincott Re: New Draft of CNI Authentication Paper A second draft of the White Paper on Authentication and Access Management Issues in Cross-organizational Use of Networked Information Resources, edited by Clifford Lynch, was released at the CNI Spring Task Force meeting on April 14. The latest version is available on the CNI website at: http://www.cni.org/projects/authentication/authentication-wp.html ********** III.A.2. Fr: Russ Greiner Re: Special Issue on "Relevance" is Available! We are pleased to announce that the long-awaited special "Aritificial Intelligence Journal" issue on *RELEVANCE* is now available! Its 11 original articles, written by leading researchers from various fields, cover a diverse range of topics, from learning and learnability, to representation and reasoning to game-playing --- and includes both empirical and theoretical results. See http://www.cs.ualberta.ca/~greiner/Relevance-AIJ.html for the titles, authors and abstracts of the articles, including the editors' introduction. ********** III.A.3. Fr: Nerea Llamas Re: ACRL/CNI Internet Education Project ACRL/CNI Internet Education Project The Emerging Technologies in Instruction Committee of the ACRL Instruction Section, in conjunction with the Coalition for Networked Information, is sponsoring a WWW site which identifies exemplary user education and training materials supporting the use of the Internet and other networked information resources. The primary goal of the project is to provide a common focal point for librarians and others involved in the instruction and delivery of networked information to display and share model instructional materials specifically designed for the selection and evaluation of information in a networked environment. Materials selected for inclusion on the site will be considered the professional standard. Of particular interest to the committee are materials which demonstrate innovative and creative use of technology in instruction and those which successfully integrate the selection and evaluation of both print and electronic resources. For examples of projects currently included on the site, go to the following URL: http://www.cwru.edu/affil/cni/base/acrlcni.html. SUBMISSION GUIDELINES: To submit materials to be considered for the Internet Education Projec Site, send mail to: user-ed-submit@po.cwru.edu or to: Internet Education Project c/o Martha Fleming Kelvin Smith Library Case Western Reserve University 10900 Euclid Avenue Cleveland, Ohio 44106-7151 U.S.A. Digital submissions are strongly encouraged. If the submission is available on the Internet, it is sufficient to send the URL. If this is not possible or appropriate, materials may be sent as e-mail attachments or submitted on 3.5" diskette(s). Those sending diskettes should also include two (2) paper copies. Include the following information with each submission: 1.Title. 2.Author(s). 3.Objective(s) of the materials. 4.Intended audience of the materials 5.Your name and complete contact information including mailing address, e-mail, fax, and URL. 6.Permission statement from the author(s) for use on this site. 7.Any necessary copyright clearances. 8.Any necessary disclaimers. Nerea A.LLamas, MLS Davidson Library University of California Santa Barbara, CA 93106 phone:(805) 893-3713 fax: (805) 893-4676 email:llamas@ariz.library.ucsb.edu~ ********** III.A.4 Fr: Ruslan Mitkov Re: Special Issue Machine Translation: Final call for papers FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS THE MACHINE TRANSLATION JOURNAL SPECIAL ISSUE ON ANAPHORA RESOLUTION IN MACHINE TRANSLATION Guest editor: Ruslan Mitkov (University of Wolverhampton) The interpretation of anaphora is crucial for the successful operation of a Machine Translation system. In particular, it is essential to resolve the anaphoric relation when translating into languages which mark the gender of pronouns. Unfortunately, the majority of MT systems developed in the seventies and eighties did not adequately address the problems of identifying the antecedents of anaphors in the source language and producing the anaphoric "equivalents" in the target language. As a consequence, only a limited number of MT systems have been successful in translating discourse, rather than isolated sentences. One reason for this situation is that in addition to anaphora resolution being itself a very complicated task, translation adds a further dimension to the problem in that the reference to a discourse entity encoded by a source language anaphor by the speaker (or writer) has not only to be identified by the hearer (translator or translation system) but also re-encoded in a coreferential expression in a different language. The nineties have seen an intensification of research efforts in anaphora resolution in Machine Translation. This can be seen in the growing number of related projects which have reported promising new results (e.g.Wada 1990; Leass & Schwall 1991; Nakaiwa & Ikehara 1992; Chen 1992; Saggion & Carvalho 1994; Preuss et al. 1994; Nakaiwa et al. 1994; Nakaiwa et al. 1995; Nakaiwa & Ikehara 1995; Mitkov et al. 1995; Mitkov et al. 1997; Geldbach 1997). However, we still feel that additional work is needed to highlight and further explore the specifics of the problem in operational MT environments, including fully automatic Machine Translation and Machine- aided Translation. We are inviting high-quality, original research papers describing recent advances in anaphora resolution in Machine Translation. Topics to be addressed include (but are not limited to) - operational anaphora resolution components in Machine Translation - resolution of zero pronouns in MT environments - lexical transfer of anaphors across languages - to what extent have the latest trends towards knowledge-poor, corpus- driven and robust approaches in anaphora resolution, been called upon in Machine Translation? - what are the most scalable contributory factors /resolution strategies in MT? - what makes anaphora resolution a more complex task in Machine Translation? - multilingual anaphora resolution SUBMISSION AND FORMAT: Articles should be submitted directly to the publishers, either by e-mail to Ellen.Klink@wkap.nl, with the Subject header "Submission to COAT Anaphora special issue", or in hard-copy to Machine Translation Editorial Office Kluwer Academic Publishers P.O. Box 990 3300 AZ Dordrecht The Netherlands or Machine Translation Editorial Office Kluwer Academic Publishers P.O. Box 230 Accord, MA 02018-023 U.S.A. The SUBMISSION DEADLINE is 15 May 1998. The journal is typeset using LaTeX, so the preferred medium for submission of articles in electronic format is LaTeX source (using the Kluwer style file) or gzipped postscript. For more details, please consult the journal's web pages: Home page: http://kapis.www.wkap.nl/journalhome.htm/0922-6567 Instructions for Authors: http://kapis.www.wkap.nl/kaphtml.htm/IFA0922-6567 LaTeX style files: http://kapis.www.wkap.nl/jrnlstyle.htm/0922-6567. If submitting hard-copy, four copies of the paper are required. The length of the papers should be approximately 10-20 pages if using the Kluwer style file (around 20k words). Authors are also requested to send a copy of an abstract of not more than 200 words to the guest editor R.Mitkov@wlv.ac.uk or in hard-copy to Ruslan Mitkov, School of Languages and European Studies, University of Wolverhampton, Stafford St., Wolverhampton WV1 1SB, United Kingdom. GUEST EDITOR: Ruslan Mitkov School of Languages and European Studies University of Wolverhampton Stafford St. Wolverhampton WV1 1SB Telephone (44-1902) 322471 Fax (44-1902) 322739 Email R.Mitkov@wlv.ac.uk GUEST EDITORIAL BOARD: Breck Baldwin (University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia) David Carter (SRI International, Cambridge) Guenter Goerz (University of Nuernberg/Erlangen) Lynette Hirschman (MITRE, McLean) Richard Kittredge (University of Montreal) Susan LuperFoy (MITRE, McLean) Tony McEnery (Lancaster University) Ruslan Mitkov (University of Wolverhampton) Frederique Segond (Ranx Xerox, Grenoble) Harold Somers (UMIST, Manchester) Keh-Yih Su (National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan) Yorick Wilks (University of Sheffield) ********** III.B.1. Fr: James C. French Re: CIKM'98 Deadline Extended to May 12 C I K M '9 8 D E A D L I N E E X T E N D E D New FIRM deadline: May 12, 1998 Seventh International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management November 3--7, 1998, Washington D.C., USA Sponsored by ACM SIGIR and ACM SIGMIS Due to many requests, we have extended the submission deadline to May 12. This is a FIRM deadline. The focus of the conference is new and original research results in the areas of theoretical foundations, design, implementation, and applications of information and knowledge management. We solicit papers that address novel, challenging and innovative results. We also solicit short papers that challenge the field with new technologies or applications and open new horizons of research. Authors are invited to submit complete and original papers. Papers that may be submitted for consideration include those that have not previously been published in another forum, or are not currently being published or reviewed by another journal or conference. All submitted papers will be refereed for quality, originality and relevance. Of particular interest are papers which address experiences with concrete applications. All accepted papers will appear in the conference proceedings, to be published by ACM Press, provided at least one author attends the conference to present the paper. Manuscripts should include an abstract and be limited to 5000 words. Submissions should include the title, author(s), author's affiliation, e-mail address, tel/fax numbers and postal address. In case of multiple authors, please indicate which author is responsible for correspondence and preparing the camera ready paper for the proceedings. Seven copies of the manuscript should be submitted by May 12, 1998 to either of the Program Co-Chairs: Dr. James French Dr. Georges Gardarin c/o CIKM'98 (IR track) c/o CIKM'98 (DBMS track) Dept. of Computer Science PRiSM Laboratory (& INRIA) U. of Virginia U. of Versailles SQ Charlottesville VA 22903 78035 Versailles Cedex USA France french@cs.virginia.edu georges.gardarin@prism.uvsq.fr 804/982-2213 33-1-39254054/56 For additional information please consult the conference home page: http://www.csee.umbc.edu/cikm/1998/ ********** III.B.2. Fr: Prolamat 1998 Re: Prolamat 98 Call for participation and Program IFIP PROLAMAT 98 I TRENTO - ITALY September 9-11, & 12 1998 The Call for papers has been very succesful: over 140 refereed papers will be presented at the conference in three technical tracks: 1 Sharing experience from telecom use in industry for agility and innovation 2 Human and machine communications, modeling, standard representation, reuse 3 Telecom and agility impact on software technology for discrete manufacturing The program will include keynote speeches, an applied track organised in thematic sessions, and a selection of R&TD projects co-financed by the European Community on subject areas related to PROLAMAT 98. For information about program, registration fees, accomodation and forms, please find the Call for participation and preliminary Program on the PROLAMAT 98 weekly updated web site: http://prolamat.cs.unitn.it Please note that the deadline for the reduced registration fee is May 10, 1998, and that early registration and early travel & hotel booking is advisable. Prof. Gianni Jacucci, Conference Chair ********** III.B.3. Fr: Lorenzo Magnani Re: MBR'98 Call for Papers MODEL-BASED REASONING IN SCIENTIFIC DISCOVERY (MBR'98) Pavia, Italy, December 17-19, 1998 As from April 15, 1998: up-to date information on the conference will be found at http://philos.unipv.it/courses/progra1.html GENERAL INFORMATION: From Thursday 17 to Saturday 19 December 1998 (three days) the International Conference "MODEL-BASED REASONING IN SCIENTIFIC DISCOVERY" will be held at the University of Pavia (near Milan, Italy). PROGRAM: The conference will deal with the logical, epistemological, and cognitive aspects of modeling practices employed in scientific discovery, including computational models of such practices. Abduction is widely recognized as a significant reasoning process in discovery whose features are in need of explication. We solicit papers that examine various forms of model-based reasoning, such as analogical and visual modeling, from philosophical, historical, sociological, psychological, or computational perspectives. The scientific program will include invited speakers and presentations of accepted papers. RELEVANT RESEARCH AREAS: We shall call for papers that cover topics from the following (not exclusive) list: - abduction - analogical reasoning- computational models of model-based reasoning - conceptual combination and theory formation - hypothetical and explanatory reasoning - logical analyses that may contribute to our understanding of the issues in model-based reasoning - thought experimenting - visual, spatial, imagistic modeling and simulation. SUBMISSIONS OF PAPERS: All submitted papers will be carefully refereed. The precise format of the conference will be fixed after we have an idea of the number of accepted papers. We are thinking in terms of presentations of 40 and 20 minutes. The funding is Italian, but we are also looking elsewhere for further financing (and would appreciate any suggestions). All accepted papers will be presented at plenary sessions and a selected subset will be invited for inclusion (subject to refereeing) in a book which will constitute an advanced handbook for scientists and researchers. The book will be published by an international publishing house. FORMAT: Authors must submit five printed copies and an electronic version - preferably formatted in Microsoft Word (up to 6.0) format - of an extended abstract (about 1000 words) not later than June 30, 1998. For information about paper submission and the program that is not available on the web site, please contact the program chair. For information about local arrangements, registration, forms, etc., please also contact the program chair. IMPORTANT DATES: Registration deadline............................15 July 1998 Submission deadline..............................15 July 1998 Notification of acceptance.......................15 Oct 1998 Final papers (from those selected for publication) due........30 Jan 1999 Conference....................................17-19 Dec 1998 PROGRAM CHAIR: Lorenzo MAGNANI Department of Philosophy University of Pavia 27100 Pavia, ITALY lorenzo@philos.unipv.it PROGRAM CO-CHAIR: Nancy J. NERSESSIAN School of Public Policy and College of Computing Georgia Institute of Technology 30332 0345 Atlanta, GA, USA nancyn@cc.gatech.edu PROGRAM CO-CHAIR: Paul THAGARD Department of Philosophy University of Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA N2L 3G pthagard@watarts.uwaterloo.ca PROGRAM COMMITTEE: - Silvana Borutti, Department of Philosophy, University of Pavia, Pavia, ITALY - Ronald Giere, Department of Philosophy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA - David Gooding, Department of Psychology, University of Bath, UK - Lorenzo Magnani, Department of Philosophy, University of Pavia, Pavia, ITALY - Joke Meheus, University of Ghent, Ghent, BELGIUM - Nancy Nersessian, School of Public Policy and College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, USA - Claudio Pizzi, Department of Philosophy and Social Sciences, University of Siena, Siena, ITALY - Mario Stefanelli, Department of Computer Science, University of Pavia, Pavia, ITALY - Paul Thagard, Department of Philosophy, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, CANADA IMPORTANT ADDRESSES: Submitted extended abstracts should be sent to the Program Chair: LORENZO MAGNANI: Dipartimento di Filosofia Piazza Botta 6 27100 PAVIA - ITALY phone: +39 382 506341/506283 fax: +39 382 23215 email: lorenzo@philos.unipv.it home: Via Dante Alighieri 2, 27053 LUNGAVILLA (PV) - ITALY phone: +39 383 371067 CONFERENCE SITE: Collegio Ghislieri Piazza Ghislieri 27100 PAVIA, Italy, phone +39 382 22044. Collegio Borromeo Piazza Borromeo 27100 PAVIA, Italy, phone +39 382 24787. The Conference is sponsored by the UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA and by CARIPLO (Cassa di Risparmio delle Provincie Lombarde, Milan) ********** III.B.4. Fr: Stephane Bressan Re: Workshop on Information Mediation I'MEDIAT'98 Call for Papers and Demonstrations First International Workshop on Practical Information Mediation and Brokering, and the Commerce of Information on the Internet. Tokyo, Japan, September 14 1998 In Conjunction with The Eleventh International Conference on Applications of Prolog (INAP'98) (http://www.ap.kagu.sut.ac.jp/PAJ/inap98/) The development of the Internet has created a new space for the exchange and the commerce of information. From search engines and bargain finders to expert information servers we are witnessing the development of a new range of mediation and intermediation services. I'MEDIAT is a forum of discussion and presentation of new ideas and technologies for value adding services in information mediation and brokering. The goal of the workshop is to bring together practitioners, researchers, users and information providers involved in the development and deployment of commercial, industrial and practical applications. We solicit papers describing novel information mediation applications and systems. Papers reporting on commercial or experimental applications as well as demonstrations are strongly encouraged. The main topics for papers and demonstrations include, but are not limited to: * Mediated access to heterogeneous information sources; * Mediation systems architecture; * Internet tools for information and knowledge sharing; * Advanced information search and filtering; * Information extraction from unstructured or semi-structured documents; * Information personalization and customization techniques; * Information distribution protocols (channels, push/pull technologies, etc.); * User interfaces; * Trust, privacy, and security; * Business models for the commerce of information: technological implications; * Policy (intellectual property, privacy, etc.): technological implications; * Information mediation applications. Committee: Oskar Bartenstein,IF Computer, Japan Stephane Bressan, MIT Sloan School of Management, USA Cheng Hian Goh, National University of Singapore, Singapore Alexander Herold, Siemens Medical Systems, Germany Mauricio Lopez, G.I.E. Dyade (Bull/INRIA), France Louiqa Rachid, University of Maryland, USA Raphael Yahalom, MIT Sloan School of Management, USA PAPER FORMAT: Authors are invited to submit research contributions representing ongoing or completed work. All papers are subject to peer review. Papers and demo descriptions should be between 3000 and 5000 words. Papers and demo descriptions will be published in informal proceedings distributed during the workshop. ELECTRONIC SUBMISSION: Papers and demo descriptions must be submitted by e-mail to the addresses below. Submissions can be either in HTML or Postscript formats. In alternative, submission can by done by emailing a URL pointing to an HTML version of the paper. Contact: imediat98@context.mit.edu IMPORTANT DATES: * Submission deadline: June 19th 1998 * Acceptance notification: July 20th 1998 * Camera ready paper due: August 10th 1998 * Workshop dates: September 14th 1998 Home and updates: (http://context.mit.edu/imediat98) Stephane Bressan Research Scientist MIT Sloan School of Management E53-320, 50 Memorial drive Cambridge, MA, 02139 Tel: +1 (617) 253-0151 Fax: +1 (617) 253-4424 ****************************************************************** IV. PROJECTS IV.C.1. Fr: Maria Zemankova Re: NSF KDI -- Updates Updated information is now available on the NSF Online Document System for the following document (nsf9855): Title: KDI: Knowledge and Distributed Intelligence Type: Program Announcements & Information Subtype: Computer/Information Sciences, Crosscutting Programs, Education, Social/Behavioral Sciences, Biology Note: Full proposal deadlines have changed; see the KDI home page (http://www.ehr.nsf.gov/kdi/)for details. For proposals encompassing more than one KDI component, the deadline is determined by the primary component, indicated by the choice of organizational unit -- KDI/KN, KDI/LIS, KDI/NCC -- at the top of the cover sheet in FastLane. It may be found at: http://www.nsf.gov/cgi-bin/getpub?nsf9855 NSF Custom News Service http://www.nsf.gov/home/cns/start.htm Please send questions and comments to webmaster@nsf.gov ********** IV.C.2. Fr: Terry Kuny Re: Open Society Institute Network Library Program Fellows NLP Fellows Program The Open Society Institute Network Library Program welcomes proposals from libraries, information centers, and schools of library and information science to host librarians and information professionals from the following countries: Albania, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Bosnia-Hercegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Estonia, Georgia, Hungary, Kazakstan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia, Moldova, Mongolia, Poland, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Tajikistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Yugoslavia. The Fellowship should last from three to six months. Hosts may be in English-speaking, French-speaking, German-speaking, Italian-speaking, or Russian-speaking countries. The aim of the program is to familiarize Fellows with the practice of librarianship in other countries, and to give them some work experience in libraries or information centers, or to help teachers in the LIS field to broaden their knowledge and upgrade their skills. Proposals that focus on helping Fellows to develop skills and strategies for sharing their new knowledge with colleagues upon their return home will receive top priority. Please address the following points in your application: Why are you interested in hosting Fellows? What do you hope to accomplish? What does your institution have to offer NLP Fellows? What is your institution's experience in LIS education and/or continuing professional development for librarians? If you have had any experience with international activities in this area, please describe it. What program will you offer Fellows? (Describe how you plan to orient them to your lnstitution and community; what kinds of work experience you can provide) How many Fellows are you prepared to host? How will you recruit and select Fellows? (Note that recruitment must be done in conjunction with the Soros Foundations Network.) What in-kind contributions is your institution prepared to contribute? What are the benefits to Fellows? What are the benefits to your institution? What are the living conditions for Fellows you host? (Describe housing, community) What is your plan for evaluating the success of your Fellows Program? PROPOSALS INVOLVING GROUPS OF FELLOWS AND MULTIPLE COUNTRIES WILL BE ESPECIALLY WELCOME The application must be submitted in English, and the budget must be in U.S. dollars. Budget should include accommodation, stipend for the Fellow, health insurance, local transportation, airport transportation, attendance at additional training workshops, conferences that could be part of the Fellowship, package of training material. Please note that the NLP does not pay overhead costs. Please note that this program is for working professionals, not for students. If you are interested in an exchange or twinning program, please apply under the NLP Matching Funds Grants Training Program. Applications must be received by the NLP office in Budapest by 1 August 1998. Decisions will be made in the middle of September. MAILING ADDRESS: Open Society Institute Network Library Program Oktober 6 utca 12 1051 Budapest Hungary tel. (361) 327 3100 fax. 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