Information Retrieval List Digest 416 (August 3, 1998) URL = http://hegel.lib.ncsu.edu/stacks/serials/irld/irld-416.txt IRLIST Digest ISSN 1064-6965 August 3, 1998 Volume XV, Number 29 Issue 416 ****************************************************************** I. QUERIES 1. Other IR-related Lists? 2. Encoding of Online Interactions II. JOBS 1. NYU: Documents Librarian 2. U. TN: Preservation Coordinator III. NOTICES A. Publications 1. The Washington Update, July 16, 1998 2. The Washington Update, July 31, 1998 B. Meetings 1. NLP+IA 98 /TAL+AI 98 Registration Info + timetable for posters 2. Konvens98 3. UK Academy for Information Systems Annual Conference 4. One Planet, One Net: CPSR, Oct '98 IV. PROJECTS C. Awards, Fellowships, Grants, & Scholarships 1. NSF/CISE Connections to the Internet: Proposals Due 1/31/99 ****************************************************************** I. QUERIES I.1. Fr: Nancy Gusack Crawford Re: Other IR-related Lists? Do any of you IR-L subscribers belong to other IR-related lists? If so, please send me their names and email addresses. I'd like to provide this information to readers who want access to additional IR resources. Thanks! Nancy Gusack Crawford, IR-L Moderator ********** I.2. Fr: Chris Paice Re: Encoding of Online Interactions ENCODING OF ONLINE INTERACTIONS We would be interested to hear of any ideas, whether proposed or implemented, for the capture and/or encoding of sequences of user actions (mouse and keyboard operations) in a typical windowing interface. This is in connection with a planned project on the detection of problems and inefficiencies in the use of interfaces by 'ordinary' (eg, workplace) use= rs. Chris Paice (cdp@comp.lancs.ac.uk) Lancaster University U.K. ****************************************************************** II. JOBS II.1. Fr: Kenzie Tang Re: NYU: Documents Librarian NEW YORK UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES Title: Documents Librarian Description: U.S. government documents librarian and subject specialist i= n U.S. politics and public administration assigned to the Business & Social Science/Documents Center in Bobst Library. Librarians serve as partners i= n the educational mission of NYU by establishing strong relationships with the faculty and students, building appropriate subject collections, and acting as intermediaries to the world of information. Responsibilities include provision of information services to users within and outside Bob= st Library, user education, management and selection of resources in all assigned subject areas, and liaison with NYU faculty and students. Reference librarians also perform administrative duties in support of the unit's mission and participate in library and university committees. The Documents Librarian is also responsible for all functions related to U.S. government publications, including advanced reference assistance; management of government electronic resources; adherence to depository rules and regulations; staff training; administration, planning, evaluation, and promotion of the U.S. depository collection; and supervision of U.S. documents' clerical staff (1 FTE and students). New York University Libraries: Library facilities at New York University serve the school's 50,000 students and faculty and contain more than 4 million volumes. The Elmer Holmes Bobst Library houses 3 million of these volumes and serves as the University's principal research resource. New York University is a member of the Research Libraries Group and serves as the administrative headquarters of the Research Library Association of South Manhattan, a consortium which includes three academic institutions = in Greenwich Village, and isaffiliated with The New-York Historical Society Library. Qualifications: Accredited MLS, subject Master's degree required for tenure. Two years experience with government documents in an academic or special library. Knowledge of emerging trends in government information publication and dissemination is essential. Experience with print and electronic library resources and services, electronic information retrieval, Internet and other electronic resources and user education. Supervisory experience and graduate study in a relevant field are preferred. Excellent oral and written communication skills; strong servic= e orientation. Salary/Benefits: Faculty status, attractive benefits package including fi= ve weeks annual vacation. Salary commensurate with experience and background. Minimum: $36,000. Apply: To ensure consideration, send resume and letter of application, including the name, address and telephone number of three references by August 31, 1998, to: Janet Koztowski, Director, Human Resources, New York University Libraries, 70 Washington Square South, New York, NY 10012. Preliminary interviews will be held at ALA. NYU ENCOURAGES APPLICATIONS FROM WOMEN AND MEMBERS OF MINORITY GROUPS ********** II.2. Fr: Gail Conner Re: U. TN: Preservation Coordinator ANNOUNCEMENT OF PROFESSIONAL VACANCY - JULY 1, 1998 TITLE: Preservation Coordinator, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville Libraries APPOINTMENT RANK: Assistant or Associate Professor SALARY: Minimum $35,000 for Assistant Professor Minimum $42,000 for Associate Professor AVAILABLE: December 1, 1998 The University of Tennessee, Knoxville seeks a dynamic librarian to devel= op and lead a preservation program for the Libraries. In collaboration with representatives from all areas of the Libraries, the Preservation Coordinator formulates a preservation vision, develops plans and goals, a= nd implements projects. Reports to the Team Leader for Collection Developmen= t & Management and the Team Leader to the Dean of Libraries. Thirty subject librarians from across the organization participate in UTK collection development and management activities. The CDM Team, reponsibl= e for a $4+ million information resources budget, consists of a Team Leader= ; Collection Management and Preservation coordinators; 2 CDM librarians; an= d 5 support staff. Coordinators for Humanities, Sciences, Social Sciences, and Electronic Services report to both CDM and Reference. RESPONSIBILITIES: Provides the leadership to enable the Libraries to successfully preserve its information resources. In a collaborative environment plans, organizes, and coordinates preservation activities and projects for the Libraries. Monitors conformance with Libraries preservation policies and procedures, and assesses their effectiveness. Supervises on Senior Library Specialist. Chairs the Preservation Matrix, = a policy-making and implementation advisory group composed of representativ= es from several library teams. Initiates and oversees informational and training programs. Provides consultation and assistance to the Libraries and University community in preservation emergencies, including the development and maintenance of an emergency preparedness program. Identifies appropriate external funding sources and prepares grant proposals. Applies digital and reprographic technologies as they relate t= o preservation. Represents the Libraries on preservation-related groups and programs on the local, regional, and national level. OPPORTUNITIES: A new position for the UTK Libraries, the Preservation Coordinator will integrate several ongoing activities into a preservation program. The Preservation Matrix receives an annual allocation from the information resources budget; funds have been spent on reformatting, including preservation photocopying and preservation microfilm. A small conservation laboratory is available. Binding and reformatting are outsourced. The Libraries organizational structure fosters cooperation an= d offers the potential for preservation advocacy across library teams. The Libraries have participated in national preservation microfilming grants, and are a member of the Digital Library Federation. The Preservation Coordinator may serve as a subject librarian. QUALIFICATIONS: ALA-accredited MLS degree with several years' professional experience. Substantial preservation experience and/or education. Demonstrated knowledge of current preservation practices, including electronic applications. Excellent organizational, interpersonal and communications skills; ability to make decisions; commitment to fostering a collaborativ= e work environment. Preferred: Managerial experience. Experience in an academic or research library. Experienced with one or more of the following: collection management; faculty liasion; selection of library materials. BENEFITS: Librarians at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville have facul= ty rank and status and are appointed for twelve months. This is a tenure tra= ck appointment. Library faculty must meet University requirements for promotion and tenure. Annual leave is accrued at the rate of two days per month and sick leave at the rate of one day per month. Faculty members ha= ve their choice of a state retirement plan or TIAA/CREF. Non-refundable contributions to either retirement plan are paid for the employee by the University. Group health and life insurance plans are available. Tuition remission is available for all university employees; partial undergraduat= e tuition remission is available to dependent children and spouses of UT employees. ENVIRONMENT: The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, a Carnegie Research Level One institution, enrolls approximately 26,000 students from every state in the United States and approximately 100 other countries. As Tennessee's comprehensive campus, UTK offers more doctoral programs than any other institution in the state, and its faculty attract nearly $80 million annually for sponsored research programs. UTK is one of 27 higher education institutions holding the distinction of being both a land-grant institution and state university. The UTK Libraries, with an annual budget of almost $10 million, holds 2 million volumes and receives approximately 14,000 current serials. The Libraries system includes the John C. Hodges Library and four branches on the Knoxville campus: Agriculture-Veterinary Medicine, Map, Music, and University Archives and Special Collections. A fifth branch, the Social Work Library, is located in Nashville. Over three hundred persons are employed, including 49 librarians, 8 exempt, 123 non-exempt, and 150 students. UTK Libraries is a member of the Association of Research Libraries, SOLINET, and the Center for Research Libraries. The UTK Libraries installed a client-server integrated system in 1997. The Libraries also offers a Mb-based information system and access to a varie= ty of electronic information sources. Additional information about this position and the UTK community can be found through the links listed on this web page: http://toltec.lib.utk.edu/~lss/search/prescoord.html. APPLICATION PROCEDURE: Send letter of application, a current resume, and the names, addresses, e-mail addresses, and telephone numbers of three recent references to: Jill Keally, Head, Library Support Services, 1015 Volunteer Blvd., Knoxville, TN 37996-1000, fax 423/974-4696. Review of applications will begin September 15, 1998, and will continue until the position is filled. The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, does not discriminate on the basi= s of race, sex, color, religion, national origin, age, disability or vetera= n status in provision of educational programs and services or employment opportunities and benefits. This policy extends to both employment by and admission to the University. The University does not discriminate on the basis of race, sex, or disability in the education programs and activities pursuant to the requirements of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, and the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) of 1990. Inquiries and charges of violation concerning Title VI, Title IX, Section 504, ADA or the Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA) or any of the other above referenced policies should be directed to the Office of Diversity Resources & Educational Services (DRES), 2110 Terrace Avenue, Knoxville, TN 37996-3560, telephone (423)974-2498 (TTY available). Reques= ts for accommodation of a disability should be directed to the ADA Coordinat= or at the Office of Human Resources Management, 600 Henley Street, Knoxville= , TN 37996-4125. Gail Conner SWAT Supervisor Library Support Services 642 Hodges Library 974-4658 Gail-Conner@utk.edu ****************************************************************** III. NOTICES III.A.1. Fr: Garret Sern Re: The Washington Update 7-16-98 EDUCAUSE: Transforming Education through Information Technologies THE WASHINGTON UPDATE --- JULY 16, 1998 IN THIS ISSUE: FCC holds En Banc hearing on broadband network access Networking industry group offers new approach to break encryption impasse >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Written from EDUCAUSE's Washington office, "The Washington Update" is a free service of EDUCAUSE. If you would like more information about the Update or would like to offer comments or suggestions, please contact Garret Sern at gsern@educause.edu. EDUCAUSE: Transforming Education through Information Technologies. (http://www.educause.edu/) ********** III.A.2. Fr: Garret Sern Re: The Washington Update, July 31, 1998 EDUCAUSE: Transforming Education through Information Technologies The Washington Update --- July 31, 1998 IN THIS ISSUE: Commerce report finds growing disparity between information haves and have-nots State legislators balk at Senate committee alterations of Internet Tax Freedom Act Senate approves Internet gambling ban Another e-rate roadblock to be introduced in Congress >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Written from EDUCAUSE's Washington office, "The Washington Update" is a free service of EDUCAUSE. If you would like more information about the Update or would like to offer comments or suggestions, please contact Garret Sern at gsern@educause.edu. EDUCAUSE: Transforming Education through Information Technologies.(http://www.educause.edu/) ********** III.B.1. Fr: Chadia Moghrabi Re: NLP+IA 98 /TAL+AI 98 Registration Info + Timetable for Posters 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 OFFICIAL LANGUAGES: English and French are the official languages of the conference. Proceedings would be published in the language of the submitt= ed 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 and Winsoft Paul Tarau, Professor of Computer Science INVITED SPEAKERS: 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 le lien entre l'enseignement de la langue et le TAL / TALK ON RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN CALL and NLP MAKE SURE NOT TO MISS THEM...Soyez-la! PAPERS & POSTERS TO BE PRESENTED: (In no special order) Modeles humains dans un systeme multi-agents orientes apprentissage et detection-correction d'erreurs. Jacques Menezo; France Multilingual Lexical Resources for large-scale Text Generation. Cornelia M. Verspoor, Vicente Uceda and Cecile Paris; Australia Speech and Language Interaction in a (Virtual) Cultural Theatre. A. van Hessen, A. Nijholt, et al.; Netherlands Un syst=E8me d'apprentissage assist=E9 par ordinateur de la g=E9n=E9ratio= n de phrases en Arabe. Riadh ZAAFRANI; France Structuring a network of lexical cooccurrences into topic representations by analyzing texts. Olivier Ferret and Brigitte Grau; Fra= nce Producing NLP-based On-line Contentware. Francis Wolinski, Frantz Vichot, Olivier Gr=E9mont; France Integration of NLP Tools in an Intelligent Computer Assisted Language Learning Environment for Basque: IDAZKIDE. D=CCaz de Ilarraza, A. Maritxa= lar, M. Maritxalar & M. Oronoz; Spain Using constraints for suppressing dead ends in grammars. Cyril Garde & Claude Lai; France Improving Tagging Accuracy by Using Voting Taggers. L. M=E0rquez, L. Padr= =F3, H. Rodr=EDguez; Catalonia, Spain Translation examples browser: Japanese to English translation aid for news articles. Tadashi Kumano, Hideki Tanaka, Noriyoshi Uratani & Terumas= a Ehara; Japan A Statistics-based Approach to Chinese Prepositional Phrase Disambiguatio= n. Kam-Fai WONG & Wen-Jie LI; Hong Kong Minori-Fra: Logiciel d'enseignement du Francais en milieu minoritaire. Chadia Moghrabi; Canada SAFRAN-Grammaire. Marie-Josee Hamel & Anne Vandeventer; UK & Suisse Learning Spanish and Catalan verbs Through EuroWordnet. M. Antonia Marti = & Roser Morante; Spain Error Diagnosis for Language Learning Systems. Wolfgang Menzel & Ingo Schroeder; Germany Computer-Assisted Writing System: Improving Readability with Respect to Information Structure. Nobo Komagata; USA =C9limination de la redondance dans la g=E9n=E9ration automatique de desc= ription de comportement de syst=E8mes dynamiques. Nicole TOURIGNY et Laurence CAP= US; Canada Un Syst=E8me Automatique de diagnostic d'Erreurs pour l'ELAO. Anne Vandeventer; Suisse G=E9n=E9rer De Fa=E7on Automatique Des R=E9sum=E9s Gr=E2ce =C0 Des Exp=E9= riences Similaires. Laurence CAPUS et Nicole TOURIGNY; Canada A syntactic verification system for arabic texts based on a robust parser and using a large compressed lexicon. Riadh Ouersighni; France Natural Language Technology in Precision Content Retrieval. Jacek Ambrozi= ak and William A. Woods Ficus - un agent dictionaire coop=E9ratif extensible. Mathieu LAFOURCADE = & Jacques CHAUCHE; France A Two-Stage Model for Robust Parsing. Erik Oltmans; Netherlands Analyse morphologique et voyellation assist=E9e par ordinateur de la lan= gue arabe. Malek GHENIMA Ontologies-based relevant information retrieval F.-Y. Villemin; France Delegating Actions from Texts in a Virtual Environment. Fabrice Tabordet = , Fabrice Pied , and Pierre Nugues; France An autonomous, web-based, multilingual corpus collection tool. Jim Cowie, Eugene Ludovik & Ron Zacharski; USA Probl=E8mes scientifiques int=E9ressants en traduction de parole. Christi= an Boitet; France Centering Theory and Resolving It in Business Texts. Gregory F. Roberts; = USA TR-AID : A Memory-based translation aid framework Stelios Piperidis, Christos Malavazos, Ioannis Triantafyllou; Gre= ece A Transformational Approach to NL Understanding in Dialogue Systems. Dann= y Lie, Joris Hulstijn, Rieks op den Akker, Anton Nijholt; Netherlands Reluctantly Paraphrasing Text. Mark Dras; Australia Improving robust domain independent summarization. Jim Cowie, Eugene Ludovik, & Hugo Molijna-Salgado; USA Language Learning Data: Online Confusion. Lisa Harper and Florence Reeder= ; USA NLP and Radiology reports. Gees C Stein & Tomek Strzalkowski; USA BLAK, un assistant de d=E9couverte des caract=E8res chinois, fonctionneme= nt par acc=E8s dynamique =E0 des ressources lexicales vari=E9es. L. Fischer,= G. Fafiotte; France Text Expansion Using Temporal and Causal Relations. Yllias Chali; Canada Automatic Generation of On-Line Help: A Practical Approach. Cecile Paris and Keith Vander Linden; Australia &USA To Integrate Your Language web Tools - CALL Web CT. Sabine Siekmann; USA L'=E9dition lexicographique dans un syst=E8me g=E9n=E9rique de gestion de bases lexicales multilingues. G. S=E9rasset, M. Mangeot; France How the construction of a Computer System may influence language teaching practices: the communication situation variables. R. Lelouche, D. Huot; Canada Concordances avanc=E9es sur corpus sp=E9cialis=E9 pour l'enseignement de l'anglais technique. P.-Y. Foucou & N. K=FCbler; France Cross-linguistic Resources for MT Evaluation and Language Training. Lisa Hale Decrozant, Dr Clare R. Voss; USA NLP for text classification: the TREVI experience. R.Basili, M. V. Marabello, L. Mazzucchelli, & M. T. Pazienza; Italy Dictionnaires =E9lectroniques et analyse morphologique. Jerzy Sitko; Fran= ce Integrating language generation and prosody control. Pierre Larey, Nadine bigouroux, & Guy P=C8rennou; France MULINEX Multilingual web search and anvigation. Joanne Capstick, Abdel Kader Diagne, Gregor Erbach, & Hans Uszkoreit; Germany, Italy, France & Belgium Kurdish Language Technology and Planning. Siamak Rezaei Durroei; UK Intonation, vowel length, and 'well': Thhe intersection of phonology and discourse analysis and its effects on meaning interpretation in conversation. Jason Miller; USA Repr=E9sentation S=E9mantique Orient=E9e-Objets de Requ=E8tes en Langage = Naturel. Abdelmajid Benhamadou; Tunisia PROGRAMME OF ACTIVITIES: Tuesday August 18: 19:00-21:00 Registration Wednesday August 19: 8:30-17:30 Opening plenary session Invited speaker (Thierry Chanier) Oral presentations 18:30-19:15 CashBar 19:30- Banquet =3D=3D=3DChange=3D=3D=3D Thursday August 20: 8:30-12:30 Invited speaker (Margaret King) Oral sessions 13:30-15:00 Posters and demo sessions 15:30- Outing and dinner Friday August 21: 8:30-17h30 Oral presentations Closing plenary session EXHIBITS: Anyone wishing to arrange an exhibit or present a demonstration can still send a brief electronic description along with a specification = of physical requirements (table size, power, telephone connections, number o= f chairs, etc.) to nlp+ia-98@imag.fr with the single word EXHIBIT in the subject line. REGISTRATION FEES: The registration fees are 475 Canadian dollars per participant. They include: Conference Proceedings * Continental breakfast for three days * Coffee breaks for three days * Banquet on Wednesday evening * Taxes FOR COMPLETE INFORMATION: http://www.sciences.umoncton.ca/infoque/dinfo.htm ********** III.B.2. Fr: Bernhard Schroeder Re: Konvens98 CALL FOR PARTICIPATION KONVENS 98 Computer, Linguistik und Phonetik zwischen Sprache und Sprechen - Computers, Linguistics, and Phonetics between Language and Speech 4. Konferenz zur Verarbeitung natuerlicher Sprache - 4th Conference on Natural Language Processing Oct. 5-7, 1998, University of Bonn, Germany http://www.ikp.uni-bonn.de/Konvens98 Organized by: Gesellschaft fuer Linguistische Datenverarbeitung (GLDV)(responsible in 1998); Deutsche Gesellschaft fuer Sprachwissenschaf= t (DGfS); Gesellschaft fuer Informatik (GI), FA 1.3 "Natuerliche Sprache"; Informationstechnische Gesellschaft/Deutsche Gesellschaft fuer Akustik (ITG/DEGA); Oesterreichische Gesellschaft fuer Artificial Intelligence (O= eGAI) CALL FOR PARTICIPATION: Subjects of the conference are all areas of language processing dealing with language in its written or spoken form. Special attention will be paid to approaches focussing on the structural and the phonological/phonetic aspects of computer-aided/based language research and aimed at bridging the gap between both aspects. Conference languages are German and English. PROGRAMME *** Monday, Oct., 5 1998 9:00 a.m.-1:00 p.m. Tutorials: Christian Otto: Sprachtechnologie fuer das Internet Thomas Portele, Bernhard Schroeder: Fokus aus prosodischer und semantischer Sicht 2:00 p.m. Opening 2:30-4:00 p.m. Section 1: Prosody Kai Alter, K. Steinhauer, A. D. Friederici, J. Matiasek, H. Pirker: Exploiting Syntactic Dependencies for German Prosody: Evidence from Speech Production and Perception Erhard Rank, Hannes Pirker: Realization of Prosody in a Speech Synthesizer for German Maria Wolters, Petra Wagner: Focus Perception and Prominence 2:30-4:00 p.m. Workshop: Evaluation of the linguistic performance of commercial machine translation systems Part 1: Results of the evaluation of commercial machine translation systems Rita Nuebel, Uta Seewald: Zur Relevanz linguistisch orientierter Evaluationen Grundlagen des vom AK "Maschinelle Uebersetzung" der GLDV initiierten Evaluationsverfahrens Stephan Mehl, Martin Volk: Zur Problematik der maschinellen uebersetzung von Nebensaetzen zwischen den Sprachen Englisch und Deutsch Ulrike Ulrich: Probleme bei der maschinellen Uebersetzung mit domaenentypischen sprachlichen Phaenomenen von appellativen Texten mit kommerzieller Intention (Internetseiten der Hotelbranche) 4:15-4:45 p.m. Workshop: Part 1 (continued) Rita Nuebel: Phaenomenspezifische Evaluation maschineller Uebersetzung am Beispiel von Koordinationen Workshop Part 2: Methods and tools of MT evaluation Judith Klein, Sabine Lehmann: MUe-Evaluation mit DIET Joerg Schuetz: Blueprint: Evaluation im Usability Lab 4:30-5:45 p.m. Section 2: Grammar Engineering Brigitte Krenn: A Representation Scheme and Database for German Support-Verb Constructions Jonas Kuhn: Towards Data-intensive Testing and Applications of a Broad Coverage LFG Grammar Partial Target Specifications As a Filter on Parser Output Stefan Mehl, Hagen Langer, Martin Volk: Statistische Verfahren zur Zuordnung von Praepositionalphrasen 6:00 p.m. Plenary Session Manfred Pinkal: Von der Sprachphilosophie zur Sprachtechnologie Stand und Perspektiven der semantischen Verarbeitung 7:30 p.m. Reception *** Tuesday, Oct., 6 1998 09:00-10:30 a.m. Section 3: Speech Recognition/Synthesis Thomas Portele: Grapheme to Phoneme Conversion for Speech Synthesis Tanja Schultz, Alex Waibel: Das Projekt GlobalPhone: Multilinguale Spracherkennung Christian-M. Westendorf, M. Wolff: Automatische Generierung von Aussprachewoerterbuechern aus Signaldaten 09:00-10:30 a.m. Workshop Part 3: Results of the evaluation of commercial machine translation systems Uta Seewald: Textsortenspezifische Evaluation maschineller Uebersetzung am Beispiel von Instruktionstexten Martin Volk: Probleme bei der maschinellen Uebersetzung von idiomatischen Wendungen Jutta Marx: Bewertung von MT-Systemen aus Benutzersicht: Evaluierung im Projekt MIROSLAV 11:00 a.m.-12:00 Plenary Session Gerrit Bloothooft: A European Masters in Language and Speech 12:00-1:00 p.m. Presentation of Posters Posters see below 2:00-3:00 p.m. Section 4: Parsing Hagen Langer: Experimente mit verallgemeinerten Lookahead-Algorithmen Stefan Riezler: Statistical Inference and Probabilistic Modeling for Constraint-Based NLP 2:00-3:00 p.m. Workshop Part 4: Reports from industrial users Carmen Andres Lange: Erfahrungen mit Logos Ursula Bernhard: Bemerkungen zur Evaluation maschineller Uebersetzungssysteme aus Anwendersicht 3:30-5:00 p.m. Section 5: Dialogue and Semantics Bernd Ludwig, Guenther Goerz, Heinrich Niemann: User Models, Dialog Structure, and Intentions in Spoken Dialog Manfred Stede, Stefan Haas, Uwe Kuessner: Understanding and Tracking Temporal Descriptions in Dialogue Bernhard Schroeder: Unifikation hoeherer Ordnung und strikte syntaktische Abhaengigkeit 3:30-6:00 p.m. Workshop Teil 5: Evaluation from provider and user perspective Margaret King: Evaluation Design: the EAGLES Framework Juergen Kinscher: Vor- und Nachteile elektronischer Uebersetzungshilfen und Uebersetzungsprogramme, von der Textbausteinsammlung bis zur automatischen Voll|bersetzung Hans Haller: Maschinelle (Roh-)Uebersetzung als Vorlage bei einer Fachtextuebersetzung: Bericht |ber ein Experiment Rita Nuebel, Uta Seewald: Resuemee und Ausblick auf weitere Evaluationsaktivitaeten *** Wednesday, Oct., 7 1998 9:00-10:30 a.m. Section 6: Grammar and Tagging Kordula De Kuthy, Walt Detmar Meurers: Reducing the Complexity of a Theory of Unbounded Dependencies: Evidence Against Remnant Movement in German Stefan Langer: Zur Morphologie und Semantik von Nominalkomposita Martin Volk, Gerold Schneider: Comparing a Statistical and a Rule-based Tagger for German 9:00-10:30 a.m. Section 7: Translation and Generation Munpyo Hong: Treating the Multiple-Subject Construction in a Constraint-based MT-System Juergen Wedekind: Probleme der ambiguitaetserhaltenden Generierung 11:00 a.m.-12:00 Section 8: Phonetics and Psycholinguistics Reinhard Rapp: Das Kontiguitaetsprinzip und die Simulation des Assoziierens auf mehrere Stimuluswoerter Adrian P. Simpson: Characterizing the Formant Movements of German Dipthongs in Spontaneous Speech 11:00 a.m.-12:00 Section 9: Information Retrieval Michael Hess: Antwortextraktion ueber beschraenkten Bereichen T. Kemp, M. Weber, P. Geutner, J. Guertler, P. Scheytt, M. Schmidt, B. Tomaz, M. Westphal: Automatische Erstellung einer Video-Datenbank: das View4You-System 12.00 (noon) Plenary Session Helmut Schnelle: Sprache im Gehirn 13.00 p.m. Closing Session POSTERS: Istvan S. Batori, Krisztian Nimeth, Holger Puttkammer: Lautreprdsentation in etymologischen Wvrterb|chern anhand der Uralischen Etymologischen DatenBasis Gregor Buechel: Ein WWW-gef|hrtes System zur datenbankgestuetzten Segmentierung von Satzteilen und zur Analyse praepositionaler Phrasen Karl Ulrich Goecke, Jan-Torsten Milde: Situations- und Aktionsbeschreibungen durch einen teilautonomen Montageroboter Johannes Heinecke, Ingo Schroeder: Multilevel Representation of the Robust Analysis of Language Alexandra Klein, Matthias E. Koelln, Soenke Ziesche: Towards Generating Dialogue Contributions Under Resource Constraints Jacques Koreman, Bistra Andreeva, William J. Barry: Die Abbildung akustischer Parameter auf phonetische Merkmale in der automatischen Spracherkennung Doris Muecke: CMC: Prosodische und extralinguistische Notationsformen in textbasierten Konferenzsystemen Sandro Pedrazzini, Pius ten Hacken: Centralized Lexeme Management and Distributed Dictionary Use in Word Manager Barbertje Streefkerk, Louis C.W. Pols: Prominence in Read Aloud Dutch Sentences as Marked by Naive Listeners Petra Wagner: Mutual Constraints at the Phonetics-Phonology-Interface LOCAL ORGANIZERS: Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Hess Prof. Dr. Winfried Lenders Dr. Thomas Portele Dr. Bernhard Schroeder PROGRAMME COMMITTEE: Dr. Ernst Buchberger, Wien (OeGAI) Dr. Stefan Busemann, Saarbruecken (GI) Prof. Dr. Dafydd Gibbon, Bielefeld (DGfS) Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Hoeppner, Duisburg (GI) Prof. Dr. Roland Hausser, Erlangen (GLDV) Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Hess, Bonn (ITG/DEGA) Prof. Dr. R. Hoffmann, Dresden (ITG/DEGA) Dr. Tibor Kiss, Heidelberg (DGfS) Prof. Dr. Winfried Lenders, Bonn (GLDV) Dr. Harald Trost (OeGAI) CONFERENCE OFFICE: Gisela von Neffe Institut fuer Kommunikationsforschung und Phonetik der Universitaet Bonn Poppelsdorfer Allee 47 D-53115 Bonn Internet: http//:www.ikp.uni-bonn.de/Konvens98/index.en.html Email: konvens98@uni-bonn.de Phone: +49-228-735638 Fax: +49-228-735639 WORLD WIDE WEB http://www.ikp.uni-bonn.de/Konvens98 ********** III.B.3. Fr: Christopher Kimble Re: UK Academy for Information Systems Annual Conference 1999 Announcement and Call for Papers - UKAIS '99 Information Systems: The Next Generation UK Academy for Information Systems Annual Conference April 7-9, 1999, 7-9 Hosted by: Department of Computer Science York, UK Conference Objectives: This conference is a timely consideration of the opportunities for those involved with information systems into the next millennium. It will be an excellent opportunity to consider some of the issues which are currently preoccupying academics and practitioners in th= e IS community and to assess their impact beyond the year 2000. It will be = an arena where the future of the next generation of information systems and the future of information systems professionals and academics will be debated. This conference, to be held near the beautiful medieval city of York, will bring together researchers and practitioners of information systems for an exchange of ideas and experience. The program will consist of invited talks, paper presentations, panels, and exhibitions. Conference Topics: Contributions will address either current developments in the field or the predicted future of those areas. Topics of interest will include, but not be limited to, the following: * Knowledge Management * Information and Communication Economics * Strategic Information Systems * IS Strategy * National and International Information Policies * Emerging Forms of Organisations and IT * Virtual Organisations * Organisational Intelligence * Knowledge Based Systems * Electronic Commerce/Business * Datawarehousing, Datamining * IS Design * IS Modelling * IS Evaluation * IS Methods * Requirements Engineering * IT tools in teaching * WWW development * Conference Structure: We recognise that the UKAIS and its conference serv= e people at different stages in their careers and with different perspectiv= es on their research and practice. In order to ensure optimal rapport betwee= n audience and speaker, we will structure the conference to reflect these different categories. Areas of interest will include the following: * IS in Business and Organisations - for those taking an applied approach= ; * Current research - research in established and emerging topic areas; * Research outcomes - orientated towards design and the production of val= id outcomes/results; * Teaching and Learning - experiences of teaching in the information systems field, especially the use of IT in IS education. New presenters - presenters with all levels of experience are encouraged = to submit papers; in particular the conference aims to encourage and support the current and next generation of people who are presenting at a nationa= l conference for the first or second time. UKAIS '99 Organisers Joint Conference Chairs: Laurence Brooks, University of York (lsb@cs.york.ac.uk) Chris Kimble, University of York (kimble@cs.york.ac.uk) UKAIS `99 Department of Computer Science University of York York, YO10 5DD UK Tel. (44) 1904 433242 Fax. (44) 1904 432767 ukais99@cs.york.ac.uk http://www.cs.york.ac.uk/~lsb/ukais99 Important Dates: Please make sure you these dates in your diary now: * October 09 1998: draft full papers due; * November 20 1998: notification of provisional acceptance and comments from referees; * January 08 1999: final camera-ready copy due; * January 31 1999: confirmation of final acceptance. If you intend to submit a paper please return the attached slip to receiv= e your contributors information guide and UKAIS'99 conference template guidelines. Information for Authors: Standard Papers should be of 3-5 000 words. Sho= rt Papers, including concept papers, position papers, and research-in-progre= ss should be of 2-3 000 words, will also be considered. All papers should be formatted using the UKAIS'99 conference template and one copy supplied in Word 6.0/97 as an email attachment to ukais99@cs.york.ac.uk. The paper title and authors' names and contact details should appear on a cover sheet as should a clear indication of th= e topic areas for which the presenter is aiming. To facilitate the refereei= ng process the body of the paper should be presented anonymously, with the title at the head of each page. All accepted papers will appear in the published proceedings of the conference. Conference Exhibitions: Exhibition space will be provided for tabletop displays of hardware and software products related to the general theme o= f the conference. Professional societies and publishers are encouraged to participate in the exhibitions. ********** III.B.4. Fr: sevoy@QUARK.CPSR.ORG Re: One Planet, One Net: CPSR, Oct '98 COMPUTER PROFESSIONALS FOR SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY ONE PLANET, ONE NET: THE PUBLIC INTEREST IN INTERNET GOVERNANCE AN INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM OCTOBER 10-11, 1998 MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY MIT Building 6, Room 120 CAMBRIDGE, MA, USA Keynote: LAWRENCE LESSIG Professor, Harvard Law School Law of Cyberspace, Constitutional Law Saturday, October 10, 9:00am Norbert Wiener Award Banquet and Ceremony Saturday, October 10, 7:30-11:30pm The Computer Museum Boston, MA, USA Norbert Wiener Award: Presented to the INTERNET ENGINEERING TASK FORCE (IETF) for the exceptionally open and democratic process with which it ha= s effected the evolution of the Internet. Norbert Wiener Award Keynote: EINAR STEFFERUD Internet pioneer; Founder, Network Management Associates & First Virtual "Internet Paradigms & Their Consequences for Society" The explosive growth of the Internet, combined with rapid globalization a= nd the convergence of major telecommunications services, has strained curren= t methods for administering the Net. New organizations are coalescing to ta= ke on the tasks of Internet governance, while traditional organizations try = to redefine their relationship to emerging electronic networks. As this new system is shaped, the public risks losing to corporate and government dominance of the discussions. The debate concerning who administers the Internet and how that administration is achieved will hav= e enormous social implications, affecting access to information, privacy rights, and freedom of speech for the population at large. CPSR's international symposium, "One Planet, One Net," will bring togethe= r concerned computer professionals, Internet experts, and corporate, nonprofit, academic and governmental leaders to define the public interes= t and set the stage for an advocacy coalition, to make sure the public voic= e is heard. Panels and Interactions Saturday, October 10, 9:00am-6:00pm Public Interest in the Age of the Behemoth Panic over Privacy: A Case Study in Regulation Universal Access: A Global Perspective Convergence and the Internet's Future: Avoiding the Tragedy of the Common= s Action and Coalition Sunday, October 11, 9:00am-12noon Our goal is to create a coalition of activists, community members, political leaders, educators, and socially responsible business leaders w= ho will work together to draft an action plan representing the public intere= st in the development of a new order of Internet governance. Join us at MIT and help shape the future of the Internet. Banquet and Award Ceremony at the Computer Museum Saturday, October 10, 7:30-11:30pm CPSR's prestigious Norbert Wiener Award for Social Responsibility in Computing Technology will be presented to the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). CPSR recognizes the IETF for the exceptionally open and democratic process with which it has effected the evolution of the Internet. Join with members of the Internet Society (ISOC), the IETF, and CPSR. The festivities include a keynote talk by the Internet pioneer Eina= r Stefferud. CPSR joins with the Free Software Foundation as they present FSF's first annual Awards for the Advancement of Free Software Friday, October 9, 7:0= 0 pm CPSR ANNUAL MEETING Sunday, October 11, 3-6:00 pm Free and open to everyone ****************************************************************** IV. PROJECTS IV.C.1. Fr: Maria Zemankova Re: NSF/CISE Connections to the Internet: Proposals Due 1/31/99 Connections to the Internet (NSF 98-102) Program Annoucement (Replaces nsf9664) http://www.nsf.gov/cgi-bin/getpub?nsf98102 Proposal submission deadline dates: January 31 and July 31, annually EXCERPT: The purpose of this announcement is to encourage U.S. research a= nd education institutions and facilities to connect to the Internet and to establish high performance connections to support selected meritorious applications. It updates NSF 96-64 Connections to the Internet. This includes three connections categories: a) connections for K-12 institutions, libraries, and museums that utilize innovative technologies for Internet access; b) new connections for higher education institutions; c) connections for research and education institutions and facilities tha= t have meritorious applications with special network requirements (such as high bandwidth and/or bounded latency) that cannot readily be met through commodity network service providers. The NSF Division of Advanced Networking Infrastructure and Research (ANIR= ) has advanced and supported inter-institutional computer networking for research and education since 1986. With this support, the Internet has become an essential infrastructure for that community and is used extensively to facilitate communication and collaboration and to provide access to information and computing resources. The number of Internet users, the number of connected networks, and the amount of network traffi= c continue to grow rapidly. NSF supports the goals of the National Science and Technology Council Committee on Information and Communications (CIC) "America in the Age of Information: A Forum (July 1995)" http://www.hpcc.gov ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: Frequently asked questions are maintained on the web page: http://www.cise.nsf.gov/anir/connect.html General inquiries should be made to Division of Advanced Networking Infrastructure and Research Room 1175 National Science Foundation 4201 Wilson Blvd. Arlington, VA 22230 (703) 306-1949 or anir-info@nsf.gov ****************************************************************** IRLIST Digest is distributed from the University of California, Division = of Library Automation, 1111 Franklin Street, Oakland, CA. 94607-5200. 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