Information Retrieval List Digest 452 (April 27, 1999) URL = http://hegel.lib.ncsu.edu/stacks/serials/irld/irld-452.txt IRLIST Digest ISSN 1064-6965 April 27, 1999 Volume XVI, Number 16 Issue 452 ****************************************************************** II. JOBS 1. Novator Systems, Toronto: MSc or PhD., Natural Language Understanding III. NOTICES A. Publications 1. EM -- Electronic Markets 2. JASIS TOC, Volume 50, Number 8 3. Free Access to New Library World Journal 4. Book: Text, Speech and Language Technology, Vol.7 5. J. of the American Medical Informations Association: Special Issue B. Meetings 1. EACL'99 Conference/Tutorial 2. 34th Colloquium of Linguistics 3. GLDV ´99 4. ACL'99 ****************************************************************** II. JOBS II.1. Fr: Novator Systems Re: Novator Systems, Toronto: MSc or PhD, Natural Language Understanding Novator Systems (http://www.novator.com) is looking to hire an MSc or PhD in Natural Language Understanding. Novator is a web company based in Toronto that specializes in electronic retail. One of the areas in which we have developed software is in automatically responding to customer inquiries over the web, using artificial intelligence techniques. We are currently beta-testing version 1 of our software on one of our customer's sites (http://www.ftd.com) - we can automatically respond to about 55% of the comments we receive with about 2.3% false positives. Our next phase of R&D requires strong Natural Language Understanding skills. We are looking to hire an MSc or PhD in Natural Language Understanding for this next phase. Please send applications to intelliserve@novator.com. ****************************************************************** III. NOTICES III.A.1. Fr: Brigette.Buchet@unisg.ch Re: EM -- Electronic Markets EM - Electronic Markets (formerly known as IJEM) is a key forum for advancing the understanding and practice of electronic markets and commerce (http://www.electronicmarkets.org). We have 3 announcements to make: 1.) Call for papers 99/4, 2.) Call for review board, 99/4, and 3.) Availability of 98/4 (Insurance/Convergence). 1.) Call for Papers, 99/4 Guest Editors: Professor Christopher Holland, University of Manchester and Professor Pieter Ribbers, Tilburg University Focus Issue: International Information Systems Call for Papers focused on the emergence of international information systems across different industrial sectors. In addition, EM is searching for interesting and rigorous work in other subject domains with a significant IS content. The issue will adopt a sectoral view with particular interest in papers written on those sectors in which industry collision figures prominently (e.g. retailing and financial services). The approach is designed to ensure empirical validity and encourages theoretical diversity. It will also provide a valuable collection of papers in one source to illustrate globalisation and IT for teaching and consultancy purposes. A List of Possible Topics includes, but is not limited to: 1. Automotive 2. Retail 3. Financial services including banking and insurance 4. Pharmaceuticals 5. Chemicals 6. Travel and Leisure 7. Manufacturing 8. Education 9. Electronics 10. Textiles EM accepts short papers up to 2500 words, or long papers up to 5000 words. Please refer to the contributors section at http://www.electronicmarkets.org for our templates and more specifications. The deadline for submissions will be May 31, 1999. The issue will be published in mid-September. In 99/4, there will be a secondary focus on electronic commerce and financial services. Please do not hesitate to contact me, if you have any questions. Regarding the financial services topic, or EM - Electronic Markets in general, please contact Brigette Buchet, Executive Editor at em.editors@netacademy.org. Best regards, Chris Holland Guest Editor c.holland@fs2.mbs.ac.uk 2.) Call for Ad Hoc Review Board, 99/4 Focus Issue: International Information Systems Other Electronic Commerce Issues including Financial Services (Reviewers will be matched with paper subjects.) For the upcoming issue on international information systems, we are looking for ad-hoc reviewers with proven competence in this field. They should contact our guest editor Christopher Holland or our editorial offices at em.editors@netacademy.org. If you have would be willing to serve as a reviewer in another area of electronic commerce, please contact Brigette Buchet at em.editors@netacademy.org. 3.) 98/4, which focuses on Insurance and Convergence can be found at http://www.electronicmarkets.org. Electronic Markets - International Journal of Electronic Commerce & Business Media Editorial Office: ¦ Editor-in-Chief: ¦ Professor Beat F. Schmid mcm institute ¦ mcm institute for Media and University of St.Gallen ¦ Communications Management, Mueller-Friedberg-Strasse 8 ¦ University of St.Gallen CH-9000 St.Gallen ¦ Phone 0041/71/224 21 96 ¦ Dorian Selz - Editor-at-Large Fax 0041/71/224 27 71 ¦ Brigette Buchet - Executive Ed. eMail em.editors@netacademy.org ¦ MCM Institute http://www.electronicmarkets.org ¦ University of St.Gallen ********** III.A.2. Fr: Richard Hill Re: JASIS TOC, Volume 50, Number 8 Journal of the American Society for Information Science JASIS VOLUME 50, NUMBER 8 [Note: below are URLs for viewing contents of JASIS from past issues. Below the contents of Bert Boyce's "In This Issue" has been cut into the Table of Contents.] EDITORIAL In This Issue Bert R. Boyce 637 RESEARCH Images of Similarity: A Visual Exploration of Optimal Similarity Metrics and Scaling Properties of TREC Topic-Document Sets Mark Rorvig 639 A Visual Exploration of the Orderliness of TREC Relevance Judgments Mark Rorvig 652 Automatic Indexing of Documents from Journal Descriptors: A Preliminary Investigation Susanne M. Humphrey 661 Bibliometric Overview of Library and Information Science Research in Spain V. Cano 675 User Reactions as Access Mechanism: An Exploration Based on Captions for Images Brian C. O'Connor, Mary K. O'Connor, and June M. Abbas 681 Medical Students' Confidence Judgments Using a Factual Database and Personal Memory: A Comparison Karen M. O'Keefe, Barbara M. Wildemuth, and Charles P. Friedman 698 Employing Multiple Representations for Chinese Information Retrieval K. L. Kwok 709 BOOK REVIEWS Deep Information: The Role of Information Policy in Environmental Sustainability, by John Felleman Mike Steckel 724 Electronic Databases and Publishing, edited by Albert Henderson Marianne Afifi 725 Localist Connectionist Approaches to Human Cognition, edited by Jonathan Grainger and Arthur M. Jacobs Chaomei Chen 726 Ethics, Information and Technology: Readings, edited by Richard N. Stichler and Robert Hauptman Thomas A. Peters 727 Indexing and Abstracting in Theory and Practice, by F. W. Lancaster Jens-Erik Mai 729 Remediation: Understanding New Media, by Jay David Bolter and Richard Grusin Ronald Day 731 CALL FOR PAPERS 733 The ASIS home page contains the Table of Contents and brief abstracts as above from January 1993 (Volume 44) to date. The John Wiley Interscience site includes issues from 1986 (Volume 37) to date. Guests have access only to tables of contents and abstracts. Registered users of the interscience site have access to the full text of these issues and to preprints. We are still working on restoring access for ASIS members as "registered users." ********** III.A.3. Fr: Claire Jones Re: Free Access to New Library World Journal Each week, you can have free online full text access to current and past journal volumes in MCB University Press's 'Journal of the Week' campaign. A different journal will be featured every week. The 'Journal of the Week' for 19/04-26/04/99 is New Library World. New Library World provides an international appraisal of current library trends and emerging patterns for the future, encompassing subjects like developments in the educational environment; the impact of electronic publishing; new information technology; the service of future libraries; the role of the library in its sale of knowledge; and the modern library - news and views on what's to come. To access this journal and others FREE for a week go to the 'Journal of the Week' homepage at http://www.mcb.co.uk/jotw/ Claire Jones +44 (0) 1274 785132 Internet Brand Executive cjones@mcb.co.uk MCB University Press http://www.mcb.co.uk ********** III.A.4. Fr: Jean Veronis Re: Book: Text, Speech and Language Technology, Vol.7 **** NEW BOOK *** NEW BOOK *** NEW BOOK *** NEW BOOK *** NEW BOOK **** KLUWER ACADEMIC PUBLISHERS TEXT, SPEECH AND LANGUAGE TECHNOLOGY Volume 7 Series editors: Nancy Ide and Jean Véronis Natural Language Information Retrieval edited by Tomek Strzalkowski The last decade has been one of dramatic progress in the field of Natural Language Processing (NLP). This hitherto largely academic discipline has found itself at the center of an information revolution ushered in by the Internet age, as demand for human-computer communication and information access has exploded. Emerging applications in computer-assisted information production and dissemination, automated understanding of news, understanding of spoken language, and processing of foreign languages have given impetus to research that has resulted in a new generation of robust tools, systems, and commercial products. This volume focuses on the use of Natural Language Processing (NLP) in Information Retrieval, the technology that grew out of library research to become our best hope in dealing with today's information overload. The book gives a broad overview of the work being done at the junction of these two important fields, and suggests directions for future explorations. It is organized into two loosely structured parts. The first part, consisting of Chapters 1 through 7, discusses research systems and evaluations that represent major avenues where the impact of NLP technologies in information retrieval is being explored. The second part (Chapters 8 through 14) describes specific implementations and prototypes of information systems where NLP techniques are used or proposed to assist in accurate retrieval, text categorization, question answering, and in organizing the results for the user. Audience: This book will be a valuable reference to researchers and practitioners in the fields of Natural Language Processing, Information Retrieval, and Computational Linguistics. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht Hardbound, ISBN 0-7923-5685-3 April 1999, 384 pp. NLG 240.00 / USD 144.00 / GBP 84.00 Contents and Contributors Preface Contributing Authors 1. What is the Role of NLP in Text Retrieval? K.S. Jones. 2. NLP for Term Variant Extraction: Synergy Between Morphology, Lexicon, and Syntax; C. Jacquemin, E. Tzoukermann. 3. Combining Corpus Linguistics and Human Memory Models for Automatic Term Association; G. Ruge. 4. Using NLP or NLP Resources for Information Retrieval Tasks; A.F. Smeaton. 5. Evaluating Natural Language Processing Techniques in Information Retrieval; T. Strzalkowski, et al. 6. Stylistic Experiments in Information Retrieval; J. Karlgren. 7. Extraction-Based Text Categorization: Generating Domain-Specific Role Relationships Automatically; E. Riloff, J. Lorenzen. 8. Lasie Jumps the Gat; Y. Wilks, R. Gaizauskas. 9. Phrasal Terms in Real-World IR Applications; J. Zhou. 10. Name Recognition and Retrieval Performance; P. Thompson, C. Dozier. 11. Collage: An NLP Toolset to Support Boolean Retrieval; J. Cowie. 12. Document Classification and Routing; L. Guthrie, et al. 13. Murax: Finding and Organizing Answers from Text Search; J. Kupiec. 14. The Use of Categories and Clusters for Organizing Retrieval Results; M. Hearst. Index ********** III.A.5. Fr: William Hersh Re: J. of the American Medical Informations Association: Special Issue Call for Papers Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association Special Issue Electronic Publishing of Scholarly Communication in the Biomedical Sciences William Hersh, M.D. and Thomas Rindfleisch, M.S., Guest Editors The main purpose of biomedical publishing is to convey the scientific basis of health care among researchers, practitioners, and (increasingly) consumers. Published papers also serve as an archive of scientific knowledge, documenting both successful and unsuccessful results. Biomedical journals serve other roles as well, such as providing benchmarks for academic promotion as well as serving as revenue sources for professional societies and publishers. While MEDLINE has become ubiquitous and an increasing number of journals are available electronically, the fundamental model of publishing is unchanged. However, a number of challenges to that model are emerging. In some other scientific fields, electronic publishing is becoming more pervasive. And of course the World Wide Web allows anyone to become a publisher, including in anonymous formats, threatening the traditional model of peer review. The Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association (JAMIA) will be devoting a special issue to the topic of electronic publishing of scholarly information in the biomedical sciences. We seek a diverse set of original research as well as perspective articles to highlight the issues and the research they motivate. The focus will be on how electronic publishing affects the use of health and medical information by researchers, clinicians, consumers, and publishers. Below is a non-exhaustive list of possible article topics: - Does the electronic format allow for innovative presentation? Or will readers simply print off electronic copies? Are there opportunities for new types of content, e.g., systematic reviews linked to original content, threaded discussions and commentary? - Can advances in data sharing, analysis, and publication from the genome community be brought to the clinical arena? - What will be the impact on the business/legal side, e.g., intellectual property rights, economics of electronic publishing, advertising? - How will the roles of classical "players" change, e.g., authors, professional societies, publishers, readers/users, libraries, etc.? Will there be opportunities for new players, e.g., information integrators? How will the peer review process fare in this new world? How will academic credit and promotion be handled? - How can we control the quality of health information on the World Wide Web? Should there be standards? Who would set them? Can we build "quality" filters? - Do electronically published resources have any impact on clinician behavior or performance? How might they impact medical education and CME/life-long learning? - What will be the meaning of an archival record under new models of publishing, e.g., certifying content, origin, etc.; durable over time and technologies; able to capture increasingly dynamic kinds of publications (database-derived, simulations, etc.)? - What standards will be necessary for markup and interchange, for searching and linking, for access and retrieval, etc.? - Where are the new informatics and technology challenges for digital publishing? Those interested in submitting an article are strongly encouraged to submit a letter of intent to William Hersh by email (hersh@ohsu.edu) by July 1, 1999. Any questions can be directed to Dr. Hersh as well. Initial papers will be due August 15, 1999. Authors should follow the standard JAMIA Instructions for Authors which are published in every January issue. Electronic submissions are preferred. A cover letter or email should indicate the article is a submission for the special issue on electronic publishing. It is suggested that a copy of the paper also be submitted directly to Dr. Hersh electronically (hersh@ohsu.edu) or by hard copy to: William Hersh, M.D. Associate Professor and Chief Division of Medical Informatics & Outcomes Research School of Medicine Oregon Health Sciences University BICC 3181 SW Sam Jackson Park Rd. Portland, OR 97201 Papers will first be reviewed by the guest editors, followed by the usual JAMIA peer review process. We anticipate publication of the issue in the spring of 2000. ********** III.B.1. Fr: Priscilla Rasmussen Re: EACL'99 Conference/Tutorial EACL '99 9th Conf. of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics Bergen, June 8-12, 1999 TAKING REGISTRATIONS NOW ! http://www.hit.uib.no/eacl99 The EACL '99 conference is this year's biggest academic event in Computational Linguistics taking place in Europe. Programme overview: June 7 Pre-conference excursion to the fjords June 8 Tutorials June 9-11 Main sessions, student sessions, posters&demos Invited speakers Bruce Croft & Wolfgang Wahlster Exhibit & Job Fair Social programme (reception & banquet) June 12 Workshops Please consult the website for the full programme, venue and local information, registration and hotel accommodation: http://www.hit.uib.no/eacl99 Welcome to Bergen ! Henry Thompson & Alex Lascarides, Programme Chairs Koenraad de Smedt, Chair of the Local Organization Committee Sponsors: LINGSOFT, University of Bergen (Humanities Faculty), Bergen University Fund, Norwegian Ministry of Education, Research and Church affairs CALL FOR PARTICIPATION EACL'99 TUTORIALS PROGRAMME The EACL '99 conference is this year's biggest academic event in Computational Linguistics taking place in Europe. There will be two tutorial sessions on June 8th, 1999, with two tutorials each. TIME TABLE 8:30 Registration 9:30 Start Morning Session (1 and 3 below) 11:00 Break 11:30 Morning Session continued 13:00 Lunch 14.00 Start Afternoon Session (2 and 4 below) 15:30 Break 16.00 Afternoon Session continued 17:30 End of Sessions 1. Practical Text Mining Lecturer: Ronen Feldman 2. Natural Language Learning with the Maximum Entropy Framework Lecturer: Adwait Ratnaparkhi 3. Building Natural Language Generation Systems Lecturers: Robert Dale, Ehud Reiter 4. Lexicography for Computationalists Lecturers: Adam Kilgarriff, Michael Rundell The URL for the tutorials programme (with abstracts and further information) is http://ilk.kub.nl/~walter/eacl/prog.html The URL for the EACL'99 homepage is http://www.hit.uib.no/eacl99 ********** III.B.2. Fr: Reinhard Rapp Re: 34th Colloquium of Linguistics 34th COLLOQUIUM OF LINGUISTICS 34. LINGUISTISCHES KOLLOQUIUM 34e COLLOQUE LINGUISTIQUE September 7-10, 1999 University of Mainz, Germany SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS NEW NEW NEW NEW NEW NEW NEW NEW NEW NEW Additional Tutorial - Sydney M. Lamb: "The Neurocognitive Basis of Language" Travel Support for Scientists from Eastern Europe We cordially invite you to participate in the 34th Colloquium of Linguistics which will take place at the Johannes Gutenberg- Universitaet Mainz, Faculty of Applied Linguistics and Cultural Studies in Germersheim, from September 7 to September 10, 1999. The motto of this year's conference will be "Linguistics on the Way into the New Millennium". Continuing the tradition of the colloquium, there will be no restrictions regarding the choice of topics. The conference languages are English, German, and French. Presentations should not exceed 30 minutes which includes 10 minutes of discussion. The deadline for abstracts is May 31, 1999. A volume of abstracts will be available at the conference. The proceedings with the full papers will be published after the conference with Peter Lang-Verlag. In a break with tradition, this year's conference program will be supplemented by a number of tutorials. Each tutorial comprises three hours and is intended to give a concise introduction to a specific field for audiences with a different focus of research. We are particularly happy to offer you a bus excursion to the old city of Heidelberg with a guided tour through the castle on Thursday, September 9. On the way, we will stop in Speyer, whose Cathedral (Kaiserdom) is part of the UNESCO's world cultural heritage. Please do not hesitate to bring this announcement to the attention of interested colleagues. More information can be found on our website at http://www.fask.uni-mainz.de/lk/ Prof. Dr. Dieter Huber Dr. Reinhard Rapp IMPORTANT DATES May 31, 1999 - Submission of abstracts (confirmation within two weeks) - Conference registration (reduced rate) - Registration for tutorials & excursion - Hotel reservation Nov. 30, 1999 - Submission of full papers for the proceedings PRELIMINARY PROGRAM Morning Afternoon Evening Tue, Sept. 7 Tutorials Tutorials Germersheim Guided Tour Wed, Sept. 8 Opening & Papers Reception Papers (Town Hall) Thu, Sept. 9 Papers Excursion to Heidelberg and Speyer Fri, Sept. 10 Papers & (Departure) Conference End The presentations will be organized in parallel sections. TUTORIALS Time Tutorial Language 9.00-12.30 Prof. Peter Hellwig: Natural English Language Parsing, Part 1 9.00-12.30 Christian Otto: Sprachtech- German nologie fuer das Internet 14.00-17.30 Prof. Peter Hellwig: Natural English Language Parsing, Part 2 14.00-17.30 Prof. Uta Seewald-Heeg: German Maschinelle Uebersetzung 14.00-17.30 Prof. Sydney M. Lamb: The Neu- English rocognitive Basis of Language The Tutorials take place during the first full day of the conference (Sept. 7, 1999). Therefore, the official opening is on the second day. For each tutorial, a description can be found at http://www.fask.uni-mainz.de/lk/ FOR COMPLETE REGISTRATION INFORMATION: http://www.fask.uni-mainz.de/lk/ CONFERENCE ADDRESS Please send all correspondence to the following address: 34th Colloquium of Linguistics http://www.fask.uni-mainz.de/lk/ c/o Dr. Reinhard Rapp rapp@usun2.fask.uni-mainz.de Universitaet Mainz, FASK Phone: (+49) 7274 / 508-457 D-76711 Germersheim Fax: (+49) 7274 / 508-429 Germany ********** III.B.3. Fr: Bernhard Schroeder Re: GLDV ´99 C A L L F O R P A P E R S "Multilingual Corpora: Encoding, Structuring, Analysis" The 11th Annual Meeting of the Society for Computational Linguistics and Language Technology (GLDV) will take place in July 8-10, 1999. Main topic: "Multilingual Corpora: Encoding, Structuring, Analysis". The meeting will be hosted by the Institute of Comparative Linguistics of Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universitaet, Frankfurt am Main (Germany). Papers can be offered for plenary sessions as well as sessions of the Special Interest Groups (Arbeitskreise) of GLDV. Papers that are NOT related to the main topic (e.g. Computational Linguistics, Language Technology, Linguistic Data Processing, etc.). are ALSO welcome! Extended abstracts must be sent in by April 30 via mail to titus@em.uni-frankfurt.de * Size: 2-3 pages (2000 words maximum); * Format: RTF, HTML, ASCII. The program committee will decide about acceptance of the papers on May 28, 1999. For details go to: http://titus.uni-frankfurt.de/curric/gldv99e.htm ********** III.B.4. Fr: Priscilla Rasmussen Re: ACL'99 ACL '99 37th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, USA June 20-26, 1999 TAKING REGISTRATIONS NOW ! http://www.mri.mq.edu.au/conf/acl99 The ACL '99 conference this year will offer a larger and more diversified program than ever before. Below is a Program Overview. Detailed information and the entire registration brochure may be found at the website above. The registration brochure has also been sent to all ACL members in hardcopy on 19th April, 1999. If you would like an emailed version of the VERY LONG brochure, please contact Priscilla Rasmussen at acl@aclweb.org. We also plan to have the online registration working (hopefully) by the end of April. 19 June Registration and Tutorial Reception 20 June Tutorials--3 morning and 3 afternoon 21-22 June Workshops--4 1-day and 2 2-day workshops 23-26 June Technical, Thematic, and Student Sessions (23rd and 26th Technical, 24th and 25th Thematic and Student sessions); Invited Speakers: Marti Hearst, Sadaoki Furui, and George Miller. ACL Business Meeting and Student Member Lunch Meeting. Social program (Opening Reception, 22nd June, and Banquet, 23rd June) Please consult the website for the full program, venue and local information, registration and hotel accommodation: http://www.mri.mq.edu.au/conf/acl99 We hope to see you there! Robert Dale and Kenneth Church, Program Chairs Bonnie Dorr, Local Arrangements Chair ****************************************************************** IRLIST Digest is distributed from the University of California, California Digital Library, 1111 Franklin Street, Oakland, CA. 94607-5200. Send subscription requests and submissions to: nancy.gusack@ucop.edu Editorial Staff: Nancy Gusack nancy.gusack@ucop.edu Cliff Lynch (emeritus) cliff@cni.org The IRLIST Archives is set up for anonymous FTP. Using anonymous FTP via the host hibiscus.ucop.edu, the files will be found in the directory /data/ftp/pub/irl, stored in subdirectories by year (e.g., data/ftp/pub/irl/1993). 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