Information Retrieval List Digest 411 (June 22, 1998) URL = http://hegel.lib.ncsu.edu/stacks/serials/irld/irld-411.txt IRLIST Digest ISSN 1064-6965 June 22, 1998 Volume XV, Number 25 Issue 411 ****************************************************************** I. QUERIES 1. Method of Extracting Links from Web Pages II. JOBS 1. Sharp Laboratories, Oxford: Research Scientist Multimedia Information Management 2. OCLC: Publisher Liaison III. NOTICES A. Publications 1. New Book on OCLC 2. IWE: Special Topic Issue: Multimedia Information Systems B. Meetings 1. NLP+IA Honored by Two Keynote Speakers 2. Genetic Programming 1998 Conference 3. Final Mira Conference on Evaluating Information Retrieval IV. PROJECTS C. Awards, Fellowships, Grants, & Scholarships 1. NSF Instrumentation Grants for Research in CISE Proposals due 8/5/98 ****************************************************************** I.QUERIES I.1. Fr: Karen Harker Re: Method of Extracting Links from Web Pages I am trying to conduct a bibliometric study of library sites. I would like to know if there is an application which can automatically extract the URLs from Web pages after I have downloaded them. Does anybody know of such an animal? Thanks. Karen R. Harker Information Resources Librarian UT Southwestern Medical Library 5323 Harry Hines Blvd. Dallas, TX 75235 214-648-2001 www.swmed.edu/home_pages/library/ ****************************************************************** II. JOBS II.1. Fr: Jan J. IJdens Re: Sharp Laboratories, Oxford: Research Scientist Multimedia Information Management The Information Technology group at Sharp Laboratories of Europe Ltd in Oxford has a vacancy for a Research Scientist to work on commercial projects in Multimedia Information Management. Applicants should have: * In-depth of knowledge of multimedia information indexing and retrieval * Experience in integrating various components in a multimedia system * Knowledge of image, speech and/or video processing * Excellent programming skills in C/C++, Java, etc * Excellent design skills * Higher degree or equivalent experience in relevant areas. The ability to offer one or more of the following would be extremely useful: * Knowledge of multimedia tools, resources and representations * Knowledge of current multimedia products * Knowledge of hypermedia processing * Internet programming experience * Knowledge of techniques for machine learning The following personal qualities are particularly valued: * Creativity, originality with a practical approach to problem solving * Enthusiasm and motivation * Enjoy working in a team, but ability to work independently * Flexibility * Good communication skills * Interest in working in a commercial development environment Sharp Laboratories of Europe Ltd, founded in 1990, is the European Research and Development Centre of Sharp Corporation, Japan. We are situated in a new, well-equipped laboratory in the green surroundings of the Oxford Science Park, two miles south of Oxford city centre and the University. A brand new building for the second phase of expansion of the laboratory's activities has recently been opened. We offer competitive salaries and generous relocation benefits. To apply, please send your curriculum vitae with the names of two referees to Victoria Reid at the address below (email preferred), quoting the reference IT-MM-IRL-98-1: Sharp Laboratories of Europe Ltd Edmund Halley Road Oxford Science Park Oxford OX4 4GA United Kingdom Phone: +44 (0) 1865 747711 Fax: +44 (0) 1865 747717 Email: vee@sharp.co.uk ********** II.2. Fr: Kyle Banerjee Re: OCLC: Publisher Liaison At OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc., an online computer library service and research organization, we serve as both a key global resource and vital information network for the world's information. More than 26,000 libraries in 64 countries have partnered their efforts with OCLC, creating an exciting new opportunity for professionals invigorated by our future-focused environment. We are currently seeking a Publisher Liaison to join our Electronic Journals Division. This person will play a key role in coordinating the implementation and maintenance of electronic journals. The publisher liaison will interface with international scholarly publishers as well as internal programming staff to ensure a smooth implementation process, including gathering journal information, analyzing test data and checking data quality on an ongoing basis. This position requires a Bachelor's degree in Marketing, Business Administration or related degree/experience. Minimum three years experience with project management and client support in the field of electronic information products. Highly motivated, self-directed person who performs well under pressure. Strong communications and problem-solving skills. Experience with relational databases and spreadsheets (Microsoft Office applications). Experience with online systems, SGML, and HTML preferred. Knowledge of the Internet and the World Wide Web. Experience with the scholarly publishing community and library community helpful. OCLC offers competitive salaries, an excellent benefits package including medical, dental, vision, life insurance and tuition reimbursement, an enjoyable work environment situated on a 100 acre campus with on-site fitness center and the opportunity to work in a progressive technological and global organization. Please send or fax your resume to: OCLC Attn: Human Resources 6565 Frantz Road Dublin, OH 43017-3395. Fax: 614-798-5718 Internet: jobs@oclc.org. Please access our Website for more information: www.oclc.org OCLC is an Equal Opportunity Employer and is actively seeking qualified minority candidates for this position. ****************************************************************** III. NOTICES III.A.1. Fr: getinfo@havorthpressinc.com Re: New Book on OCLC NEW BOOK JUST PUBLISHED from The Haworth Press! http://www.haworthpressinc.com e-mail: getinfo@haworthpressinc.com OCLC 1967-1997: Thirty Years of Furthering Access to the World's Information Edited by K. Wayne Smith, PhD President and Chief Executive Officer, Online Computer Library Center, Inc. (OCLC), Dublin, Ohio (A monograph published simultaneously as the Journal of Library Administration, Vol. 26, Nos. 1/2.) OCLC 1967-1997 commemorates the thirtieth anniversary of OCLC's founding as a nonprofit, membership, computer library service and research organization on July 6, 1967. As chapters show, the OCLC story is fundamentally one of the power of library cooperation for the common good. It is also a story of the age-old dream of people seeking more information and using modern technology to further access and reduce costs. Finally, the story is a tribute to member libraries, regional networks, international distributors, and, most of all, to the thousands of anonymous catalogers and librarians who, keystroke by keystroke, record by record, have created a commons for the world's libraries that has forever altered scholarship and research. Contents Introduction: What WorldCat (the OCLC Online Union Catalog) Means to Me Users Council: An Institutionalized Role for Libraries in OCLC's Governance The Strategic Alliance Between OCLC and Networks: Partnerships That Work OCLC and Its Advisory Committees Changing the Tasks of Cataloging Reference Revolutions An Ongoing Revolution: Resource Sharing and OCLC Cooperation Among Research Libraries: The Committee on Institutional Cooperation Context for Collaboration: Resource Sharing at the State Level The University System of Georgia's GALILEO Telecommunications Options Connect Libraries and OCLC to the Future: The Co-Evolution of OCLC Connectivity Option and the Library Computing Environment OCLC in Asia Pacific OCLC in Europe OCLC in Latin America and the Caribbean The Transformation from Microfilm to Digital Storage and Access The OCLC Institute: Genesis and Prospectus OCLC's Office of Research: Past, Present, and Future The New Electronic Scholarship and Libraries; Or the Medium Became the Message OCLC: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow Index Reference Notes Included SPECIAL DISCOUNT TO LISTSERV SUBSCRIBERS Indicate Code LS-4734 to receive your discount! (Good only in U.S. and Canada) Published 1998. Available now. 289 pp. with Index. The Haworth Press, Inc. 10 Alice St., Binghamton, NY 13904-1580 USA Tel: 1-800-HAWORTH * Fax: 1-800-895-0582 Outside US/Canada Tel: 1-607-722-5857 * Fax: 1-607-722-6362 http://www.haworthpressinc.com e-mail: getinfo@haworthpressinc.com ********** III.A.2. Fr: Pedro Hipola Re: IWE: Special Topic Issue: Multimedia Information Systems The next special topic issue of IWE is scheduled to come out in November 1998 on "Multimedia information systems". IWE editors will be pleased to receive contributions. Further information for contributors is available upon request. El Profesional de la Informacion (formerly Information World en Espanol) is a monthly journal addressed to Spanish language information professionals. Launched in 1992 by Learned Information (Oxford, UK), IWE is now published by Swets & Zeitlinger Publishers (Lisse, The Netherlands). The IWE team also created in 1993 IweTel, the main email list in Spanish for information professionals (more than 2,000 subscribers). http://www.rediris.es/list/info/iwetel.html Tomas Baiget and Pedro Hipola IWE editors IWE editors: iwe@sarenet.es IWE suscriptions: orders@swets.nl Advertising in IWE: akeefer@arrakis.es http://www.ugr.es/~phipola/ ********** III.B.1. Fr: Chadia Moghrabi Re: NLP+IA Honored by Two Keynote Speakers INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING AND INDUSTRIAL APPLICATIONS NLP+IA 98 Special accent on Computer assisted language learning Conference internationale sur le traitement automatique des langues et ses applications industrielles TAL+AI 98 Attention speciale portee a l'enseignement de la langue AUGUST / aout 18-21, 1998 Moncton, New-Brunswick, CANADA WE ARE HONORED THAT TWO RENOUNED SPEAKERS HAVE ACCEPTED OUR INVITATION / Nous sommes honores par deux conferenciers de grande renommee qui ont accepte notre invitation: Margaret King: ISSCO, University of Geneva, Switzerland Talk on language resources and evaluation/ Ressources et evaluation linguistiques Thierry Chanier: Universite Franche-Comte, France Presentation sur l'enseignement de la langue et le TAL / Talk on language learning and NLP MAKE SURE NOT TO MISS THEM...Soyez-la! OFFICIAL LANGUAGES: English and French are the official languages of the conference. Proceedings would be published in the language of the submitted texts. CONFERENCE ORGANIZATION: The conference is organized by GRETAL, Groupe d'etude sur le traitement automatique des langues at the Universite' de Moncton and GETA-CLIPS in Grenoble. ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Chadia Moghrabi, Professor of Computer Science, Chair Jalal Almhana, Professor and director of Computer Science Julien Chiasson, Professor of Computer Science Sadek Eid, Professor of Industrial engineering, director Manufacturing Technology Centre, Boubakeur Meddeb-Hamrouni, Researcher GETA-CLIPS and Winsoft Paul Tarau, Professor of Computer Science ********** III.B.2. Fr: John R. Koza Re: Genetic Programming 1998 Conference THIRD ANNUAL GENETIC PROGRAMMING CONFERENCE (GP-98) CALL FOR PARTICIPATION July 22 - 25 (Wednesday - Saturday), 1998 University of Wisconsin - Madison, Wisconsin (Held just before AAAI-98 on July 26 - 30, 1998 in Madison) www.genetic-programming.org In Cooperation with the American Association for Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), the IEEE Neural Networks Council, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), ACM SIGART, and IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society GENERAL INFORMATION: Genetic programming is an automatic programming technique for evolving computer programs that solve (or approximately solve) problems. Over 800 technical papers have been published since 1992 in this rapidly growing field. There will be 132 papers presneted at the GP-98 conference as well as additional late-breaking papers and a pre-conference PhD workshop. There are 23 tutorials at GP-98. Attendance of GP-97 was 341. TOPICS: Topics include, but are not limited to, applications of genetic programming, theoretical foundations of genetic programming, implementation issues, technique extensions, use of memory and state, cellular encoding (developmental genetic programming), evolvable hardware, evolvable machine language programs, automated evolution of program architecture, evolution and use of mental models, automatic programming of multi-agent strategies, distributed artificial intelligence, automated circuit synthesis, automatic programming of cellular automata, induction, system identification, control, automated design, compression, image analysis, pattern recognition, molecular biology applications, grammar induction, and parallelization. The main focus of the GP-98 conference (and most of the papers) is on genetic programming. In addition, papers describing recent developments in closely related areas of evolutionary computation will be reviewed and selected by special program committees appointed and supervised by special program chairs. These areas will include * genetic algorithms - Kalyanmoy Deb and David E. Goldberg * evolutionary programming - Kumar Chellapilla and David Fogel * evolution strategies - Wolfgang Banzhaf * classifer systems - Rick Riolo * evolvable hardware - Hitoshi Iba * DNA computing - Max Garzon * evolutionary robotics - Marco Dorigo. GRADUATE STUDENT WORKSHOP: On Tuesday July 21, 1998, there will be a one-day workshop where 12 graduate students will make a presentation on their ongoing PhD thesis work to a faculty mentor panel and other students. Chair: Una-May O'Reilly. See www.genetic-programming.org for details. 10 CO-LOCATED CONFERENCES: There are a total of 10 conferences in Madison at the same (or adjacent times) in Madison as GP-98. Various joint activities are currently being planned among the various concurrent and co-located conferences. TUTORIALS: There will be 23 tutorials at GP-98 (12 on Wednesday July 22, 1998 and 3 or 4 on each of the next 3 days). FOR COMPLETE INFORMATION: See the GP-98 WWW home page at www.genetic- programming.org. For administrative matters, e-mail to gp@aaai.org or contact GP-98 Conference c/o American Association for Artificial Intelligence 445 Burgess Drive Menlo Park, CA 94025 PHONE: 650-328-3123 FAX: 650-321-4457 For technical matters, e-mail to John Koza at koza@cs.stanford.edu. ********** III.B.3. Fr: Mark Dunlop Re: Final Mira Conference on Evaluating Information Retrieval Final Mira Conference on Evaluating Information Retrieval Glasgow - 14-16 April 1999 Deadline for Papers - 10 January 1999 http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/mira/workshops/conference/ Mira is a European Union funded working group looking at how information retrieval should accommodate interactivity and multimedia, and what the implications of these are for the evaluation of IR systems. This announcement forms (1) a call for papers to be published on the themes of the Mira working group and (2) an open call for attendance at the final conference of the Mira working group. PAPERS: Papers describing work in progress or completed work are invited on any topic affecting the area of IR evaluation. Possible topics include, but are not limited to: * The user in the evaluation process * The changing nature of IR tasks * Traditional evaluation methodologies * Field studies of (multimedia) IR in work domains * The relationship between Evaluation and IR design * A balanced approach to evaluation (software vs. user) * How interaction affects evaluation * The move from static to dynamic evaluation * The effects of new media on IR. Authors are invited to submit camera-ready copies of their paper, in English, to be received no later than 10 January 1999. Papers should contain at most 7500 words and should be formatted in accordance with Springer-Verlag's Electronic Workshop guidelines. The submission should include two copies of the paper: one anonymous copy for refereeing and one full copy for publication in the draft proceedings. Papers will be refereed and, if accepted, will be published in the Electronic Workshops in Computing series, provided that the overall quality of papers is high enough. Accepted papers will also be included in the form submitted in a draft proceedings which will be distributed to all Mira Conference attendees. Authors will then have until 16 May 1999 to revise their paper in light of referees' comments and feedback from the workshop itself. The final version of papers will then be included in an e-WIC publication. Authors should note that acceptance for publication in the proceedings does not guarantee presentation time at the conference. The Programme Committee will select a sub-set of papers for presentation to achieve a balance of topics discussed. However, all accepted papers will appear in both the draft and final proceedings (subject to referee comments). Please note: papers should not be submitted to the electronic Workshops in Computing editors directly! Initial submission is as camera ready - not electronic. Paper submissions should be sent to: Mira Conference Organisation Computing Science Department University of Glasgow 17 Lilybank Gardens Glasgow G12 8RZ Scotland Enquiries to: mailto:mira99@dcs.gla.ac.uk Phone: +44 141 330 4264 Fax: +44 141 330 3661 CONFERENCE: The conference will be designed to explore and exchange the best current thinking and opinion on the conference theme. With this in mind the preliminary programme plans an approximately equal mix of participatory demonstrations and exercises, discussion panels or debates on key questions, and selected invited papers. Demonstrations or exercises are currently planned on the following topics: * Photographic retrieval for journalists * How much consensus is found for relevance judgements? * Exploring the possibility of a multimedia test collection * Applying a multi-level evaluation framework to IR. Panels are currently planned on the following topics: * The worth of the TREC programme * What kind of relevance should we measure? * Interactive system performance depends on work context,so standard test-beds are of no use * Many levels of evaluation are essential. Programme Chair: Prof Keith van Rijsbergen Programme Committee: Dr Stephen Draper, Dr Mark Dunlop Local Organiser: Fiona Nixon This conference is organised and underwriten by the Mira working group on evaluation in information retrieval. Unlike previous meetings of Mira this conference is open to attendees without invitation, but a small registration fee will be charged. The conference will be held in Glasgow City Centre with a range of accommodation being available throughout the City - more details to follow. Enquiries to: mailto:mira99@dcs.gla.ac.uk Phone: +44 141 330 4970 Fax: +44 141 330 3661 ********** Fr: Alison Mitchell III.C.1. Fr: Alison Mitchell Re: U. Glasgow: M.Sc. Course: Advanced Information Systems M.Sc. Advanced Information Systems at the University of Glasgow The Department of Computing Science would like to bring to your attention our advanced M.Sc. course in Advanced Information Systems. This is a challenging and powerful course which provides the student with up-to-the-minute high-level expertise in understanding the kinds of complex computing systems which are becoming so essential to the working of modern enterprises. The course furnishes the student with extremely marketable skills. We are looking for high quality Computing Science graduates looking to build on their first degree. For such students, EPSRC scholarships are available. If you are interested then please contact Richard Cooper, Course Director email: rich@dcs.gla.ac.uk. If you know of students who might be interested then please pass this information to them. More detailed information is available at http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/courses/MScPhD_AIS/. Application packs are available by e-mailing ais@dcs.gla.ac.uk. ****************************************************************** IV. PROJECTS IV.C.1. Fr: Maria Zemankova Re: NSF Instrumentation Grants for Research in CISE Proposals due 8/5/98 Instrumentation Grants for Research in Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) NSF 98-132 (Replaces NSF 96-113) http://www.nsf.gov/cgi-bin/getpub?nsf98132 THIS YEAR'S PROPOSAL SUBMISSION DEADLINE: WEDNESDAY AUGUST 5, 1998 NATURE OF THE AWARD: The equipment should be necessary for the pursuit of specific research projects in CISE disciplines. Local computing equipment (including workstations, specialized processors, parallel processors, and local area networks) may be supported under this program. General-purpose office equipment is not eligible for support. Particular emphasis is given to those unique or new research capabilities that will ensue from the acquisition of the equipment. The equipment should be required for at least two research projects and no more than four research projects. The CISE Research Instrumentation Grants will be forthree years and they typically range from $30,000 to $200,000. In particular, requests should not be for equipment that could be expected to be provided on existing research grants. Twenty to thirty awards are anticipated. For inquiries on this year's proposals, please contact: Dr. Rita Rodriguez Program Director, CISE Research Instrumentation Program Experimental and Integrative Activities Division, Room 1160 National Science Foundation 4201 Wilson Boulevard Arlington, VA 22230 Telephone No. (703) 306-1981 CISEINST@nsf.gov (Internet) ****************************************************************** IRLIST Digest is distributed from the University of California, Division of Library Automation, 300 Lakeside Drive, Oakland, CA. 94612-3550. 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