Information Retrieval List Digest 456 (May 24, 1999) URL = http://hegel.lib.ncsu.edu/stacks/serials/irld/irld-456.txt IRLIST Digest ISSN 1064-6965 May 24, 1999 Volume XVI, Number 20 Issue 456 ****************************************************************** I. QUERIES 1. Bug in Frakes' stemmer? Response to I.1.,Issue 455 2. Ramifications of Embedded Multimedia in E-Journals Response to I.2., Issue 455 III. NOTICES A. Publications 1. New Book: Modern Information Retrieval B. Meetings 1. IEEE Visualization 1999 - Hot Topics 2. EACL99 Workshop: Computer and Internet Supported Education in Language and Speech Technology 3. TKE'99 4. 34th Colloquium of Linguistics C. Miscellaneous 1. U. Glasgow: MSc AIS (high IR content) with Funding ****************************************************************** I. QUERIES I.1. Fr: David Eichmann Re: Bug in Frakes' stemmer? I.1., Issue 455 -->Fr: Robert McArthur -->Re: Bug in Frakes' stemmer? --> -->Frakes et al. have source code for the Porter stemmer written in C. --> -->I think there's a 'bug' in Frakes' stemmer, stem.c. I noticed that in the -->function --> EndWithCVC -->the first two lines of code are --> --> if ( (length = strlen(word)) < 2 ) --> return( FALSE ); --> -->Now, I think that it should instead be --> if ( (length = strlen(word)) <= 2 ) --> --> ^ --> | --> '=' added --+ --> -->If this is so, then I wonder how we can inform everyone since the code is -->very well used in the IR community. Robert, My Java implementation of Porter's algorithm for endsWithCVC reads as follows: static private boolean endsWithCVC() { if (word.length() < 3 ) return false; else return ("aeiouwxy".indexOf(word.charAt(word.length()-1)) == -1) && ("aeiouy".indexOf(word.charAt(word.length()-2)) > -1) && ("aeiou".indexOf(word.charAt(word.length()-3)) == -1 ); } - Dave ----------- David Eichmann Asst. Professor of Information Science School of Library and Information Science Phone: (319) 335-5715 3087 LIB fax: (319) 335-5374 University of Iowa Email: david-eichmann@uiowa.edu Iowa City, IA 52242 http://mingo.info-science.uiowa.edu/eichmann/ ********** I.2. Fr: Frank Norman Re: Ramifications of Embedded Multimedia in E-Journals Response to I.2., Issue 455 On Mon, 17 May 1999, Anthony Watkinson wrote: > > It is very encouraging to learn that the opportunities represented by > the extra functionalities available on the Internet are being taken > up by some communities but there are still significant barriers to > the use by authors of multimedia. Yes, I do very much agree. I suspect that we will have to wait until today's generation of (multimedia-literate) students become authors. Perhaps we'll have to wait until they become the editors before multimedia is really common in scholarly articles. The limits are set by the people using the technology not the technology itself! Frank Norman National Institute for Medical Research Deputy Librarian The Ridgeway, Mill Hill London NW7 1AA, UK tel 0181 959 3666 ext 2380 email fnorman@nimr.mrc.ac.uk fax 0181 913 8534 http://www.nimr.mrc.ac.uk/personal/Frank/ ****************************************************************** III.A.1. Fr: rbaeza@dcc.uchile.cl Re: New Book: Modern Information Retrieval The book "Modern Information Retrieval" by Ricardo Baeza-Yates and Berthier Ribeiro-Neto has just been published by Addison-Wesley-Longman (May 1999), including some chapters by leading researchers in the IR field. The chapters of the book are: Introduction Modeling Retrieval Evaluation Query Languages (with Gonzalo Navarro) Query Operations Text and Multimedia Languages and Properties Text Operations (with Nivio Ziviani) Indexing and Searching (with Gonzalo Navarro) Parallel and Distributed IR (by Eric Brown) User Interfaces and Visualization (by Marti Hearst) Multimedia IR: Models and Languages (by Elisa Bertino, Barbara Catania and Elena Ferrari) Multimedia IR: Indexing and Searching (by Christos Faloutsos) Searching the Web Libraries and Bibliographic Systems (by Edie Rasmussen) Digital Libraries (by Edward Fox and Ohm Sornil) Appendix: Porter's Algorithm Glossary References (more than 800) Index More information can be found in: Brazil: http://www.dcc.ufmg.br/irbook Chile: http://sunsite.dcc.uchile.cl/irbook USA: http://www.sims.berkeley.edu/~hearst/irbook Regards, Dr. Ricardo Baeza-Yates email: rbaeza@dcc.uchile.cl Depto. de Ciencias de la Computacion rbaeza@acm.org, r.baeza@ieee.org Universidad de Chile http://www.dcc.uchile.cl/~rbaeza/ Blanco Encalada 2120 FAX: +56-2-689-5531, 671-2799 Santiago 6511224, Chile phone: +56-2-689-2736, 678-4365 ********** III. NOTICES III.B.1. Fr: bartz@gris.uni-tuebingen.de Re: IEEE Visualization 1999 - Hot Topics C A L L F O R P A R T I C I P A T I O N Late Breaking Hot Topics Papers Demonstration Proposals Creative Application Lab Vis99 IEEE Visualization 1999 Celebrating Ten Years Call for Participation October 24 - October 29, 1999 San Francisco Airport Hyatt San Francisco, California http://www.erc.msstate.edu/vis99 http://davinci.informatik.uni-kl.de/vis99/ THE INSTITUTE OF ELECTRICAL & ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS, INC. IEEE COMPUTER SOCIETY Sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Visualization and Graphics In Cooperation with ACM/SIGGRAPH For further information on the conference or symposia contact: Steve Bryson, Conference Co-Chair, NASA Ames Research Center - +1-650-604-4524 - Fax: +1-650-604-3957 - bryson@nas.nasa.gov Theresa-Marie Rhyne, Conference Co-Chair, Lockheed Martin/US EPA Scientific Visualization Center - +1-919-541-0207 - Fax: +1-919-541-0056 - trhyne@vislab.epa.gov See the conference web page for complete up-to-date information and submission details at http://www.erc.msstate.edu/vis99 Conference Topics: Visualization Algorithms: Volume Rendering, Flow Visualization, Isosurfaces, Compression, Vector and Tensor Visualization, Sonification, etc. Visualization Techniques: Information Visualization, Databases, Human Perception, Human Factors, Multi-Variate Visualization, Virtual Reality, etc. Visualization Applications: Archaeology, Astrophysics, Aerospace, Automotive, Biomedicine, Chemistry, Education, Electronics, Environment, Finance, Mathematics, Mechanics, Molecular Biology, Physics, Virtual Reality, WWW, Java, VRML, HTML, AVS, Data Explorer, Iris Explorer, Khoros, etc. IMPORTANT DATES June 15: Conference Late Breaking Hot Topics and Demonstration proposals due July 1: InfoVis '99 Late Breaking Hot Topics papers due July 15: Final Conference papers, final InfoVis '99 papers, and PVG '99 papers due to publisher August 1: Conference Late Breaking Hot Topics selections announced August 21: Conference Late Breaking Hot Topics final papers due to publisher August 31: Conference Late Breaking Hot Topics video submissions due September 25: Close of Early Registration October 24: Conference Commences October 25: InfoVis '99 and PVG '99 Commence Late Breaking Hot Topics Papers (due June 15, 1999) Submissions will be accepted on Late Breaking Hot Topics that pertain to all areas of Visualization. These submissions must be original, may show work in progress, and may not exceed 2500 words or a maximum of 4 pages including images. Images and/or NTSC VHS video to accompany the paper are recommended; the video will be included in the conference video proceedings. Accepted papers will be published and distributed at the conference. Authors of accepted papers will have an opportunity to submit a revised paper. Submissions will be done electronically. Submission details can be found at the conference web site or by contracting Craig Wittenbrink at craig_wittenbrink@hpl.hp.com.Videotapes should be sent to Craig M. Wittenbrink, Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, 1501 Page Mill Rd, MS3U-4, Palo Alto, CA 94304-1126, USA - +1-650.857.2329 - Fax: +1.650.852.3791 Demonstration Proposals (due June 15, 1999) Visualization '99 is a unique opportunity to present your products or research to visualization experts from a wide variety of fields. We invite demonstrations of commercial hardware, software, integrated systems, peripherals, literature, as well as academic research. We encourage demonstrators to have technical representatives in attendance. For more information on participating in Visualization '99 demonstrations, contact Upul Obeysekare at obey@ctc.com Creative Applications Lab (due July 15, 1999) The Creative Applications Lab (CAL) is designed to let Visualization '99 attendees run their software to show off their latest work. CAL will have a variety of computers available. For details on participating in the CAL, see the conference web site or contact Kelly Gaither at +1-601-325-2067 - kelly@erc.msstate.edu Dirk Bartz University of Tuebingen Phone: +49-7071/29-76361 Email: bartz@gris.uni-tuebingen.de Fax: +49-7071/29-5466 WWW: http://www.gris.uni-tuebingen.de/~bartz ********** III.B.2. Fr: Mike Rosner Re: EACL99 Workshop: Computer and Internet Supported Education in Language and Speech Technology POST CONFERENCE WORKSHOP ON COMPUTER AND INTERNET SUPPORTED EDUCATION IN LANGUAGE AND SPEECH TECHNOLOGY EACL-99, University of Bergen 12th June 1999 Sponsored by ELSNET Invited Speaker Dr. Jo Calder (University of Edinburgh) CALL FOR PARTICIPATION The field of language and speech technology is such that curricula have always been closely related to computational theories and related tools. Yet tools that are available to support curricula are often no more than unrefined versions of programs developed in research laboratories that authors have generously made available to the public. The aims of this workshop are: - To present examples of computer/internet supported tools that are in current use or under development. - To establish a registry of computational tools that are currently being used to support Education in Language and Speech Technology (ELST). - To consider the possibility of adopting a common framework for the development of tools and environments specifically designed with educational goals in mind. - To establish a special interest group (e.g. under the auspices of the learned associations and/or ELSNET) within which the educational issues in our field could be given the time and attention they deserve. Full Programme: http://www.cs.um.edu.mt/~mros/celst/prog.html Registration (via EACL99 Home Page): http://www.hit.uib.no/eacl99/ Further information from coordinator: Workshop Committee Michael Rosner (Malta - Coordinator) mros@cs.um.edu.mt Doug Arnold (Essex) Gerrit Bloothooft (Utrecht) Chris Bowerman (Sunderland) Anders Erikkson (Umea) Steven Krauwer (Utrecht) Mark Huckvale (London) Fabio Pianesi (Trento) Koenraad de Smedt (Bergen) Mark Tatham (Essex) Maria Wolters (Bonn) Felisa Verdejo (Madrid) ********** III.B.3. Fr: Peter Sandrini Re: TKE'99 5th International Conference on 'Terminology and Knowledge Engineering TKE'99' Innsbruck, Austria August 23-27, 1999 Registration: PCO-Tyrol Congress Rennweg 3, A-6020 Innsbruck, Austria Phone +43 512 575600 Fax +43 512 575607 email: tyrol.congress@tirol.com The conference is subdivided into 8 sections with about 80 speakers. Main topics are Philosophy of Science and Terminology Studies, Knowledge Resource Management and all aspects of interdisciplinary research regarding knowledge engineering, information & documentation, classification theory, hyper- and multimedia applications, computerised terminography, specialized translation and culture-related aspects of the multilingual information society. You will find the detailed congress programme at http://gtw-org.uibk.ac.at/tke.html Pre-conference workshops will be organized on Monday August 23 and Tuesday August 24 with congress registration in the morning. The workshops offer an application-oriented approach to key issues. The main conference with two and three parallel sections begins on Wednesday August 25 and closes on Friday August 27. Venue of TKE'99: University of Innsbruck Innrain 52, A-6020 Innsbruck, Austria http://www.uibk.ac.at Organiser: Association for Terminology and Knowledge Transfer (GTW) Fischnalerstr. 4, A-6020 Innsbruck http://gtw-org.uibk.ac.at The exhibition in the lobby of the conference rooms provides an opportunity for vendors or developers of software systems and publishing houses to show their products to a specific world-wide audience. Please contact the exhibition organiser (deadline is June 30, 199): TermNet Simmeringer Hauptstr. 24 A-1110 Vienna, Austria Phone +43 1 740 40 280 Fax +43 1 740 40 281 email termnet@termnet.at Looking forward to an interesting and stimulating conference Yours sincerely. Peter Sandrini (for the organising committee) Peter Sandrini Institut fuer Uebersetzen und Dolmetschen TEL +43 0512 507 4261 der Universitaet Innsbruck (Austria) Fax " 2966 Fischnalerstr. 4, A-6020 Innsbruck ********** III.B.4. 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 LAST CALL FOR ABSTRACTS Deadline: May 31, 1999 Conference Location: Germersheim, Germany Conference Topics: All Fields of Linguistics Conference Languages: English, German, French Submission of Abstracts: May 31, 1999 Submission of Papers: November 30, 1999 Publisher of Proceedings: Peter Lang-Verlag, Frankfurt Bus Excursion: Heidelberg and Speyer Tutorials Peter Hellwig: Natural Language Parsing Sydney M. Lamb: The Neurocognitive Basis of Language Christian Otto: Sprachtechnologie fuer das Internet Uta Seewald-Heeg: Maschinelle Uebersetzung The complete call for papers can be found at: http://www.fask.uni-mainz.de/lk/ Please send requests and correspondence to the following address: 34th Colloquium of Linguistics 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.5. Fr: J. Stephen Downie Re: Music Information Retrieval Workshop "The Exploratory Workshop on Music Information Retrieval" An ACM SIGIR'99 Workshop 19 August 1999 University of California, Berkeley Call for Participation Call for Participation Deadline: 1 July 1999 for presentation proposals; 15 July 1999 for materials Contact Information: J. Stephen Downie, Details Concerning Background Information and Types of Participation: http://www.lis.uiuc.edu/~jdownie/cfp99.html Brief Description: We intend that this workshop will bring together Music Information Retrieval (MIR) researchers, Information Retrieval (IR) researchers; computer scientists; musicologists; music bibiliographers; music, digital, and general librarians; and, music providers and industry members; in a forum exlusively devoted to issues pertaining to Music IR. We present this workshop in order achieve the following: 1.Foster the development of methods and technologies for content-based Music Information Retrieval (MIR) systems by: a. having those on the user side (i.e, musicologists, librarians, etc) inform those on the research side (i.e., IR researchers, computer scientists, etc.)about real-world problems, needs, and opportunities b. having those on the research side inform those on the user side about the strengths and weaknesses of the various approaches to content-based MIR (both extant and under research & development) c. having those with a specific research interest in MIR demonstrate to other IR researchers the interesting, unique, and non-trivial research issues involved in the development of MIR systems 2.Foster a framework for future fruitful research into MIR by: a. having participants explore consensus opinion on the establishment of research priorities, inter-disciplinary collaborations, evaluation standards, test collections, resource sharing, funding opportunities, communication channels, etc. b. having participants begin work on the establishment of a formal organization of those interested in MIR. Such an organization will have as its mandate those items mentioned above. Organizers: --J. Stephen Downie (Workshop Chair), Information Retrieval Group, Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. --Craig Nevill-Manning, Computer Science, Rutgers University --David Huron, School of Music, Ohio State University ********** III.C.1. Fr: Alison Mitchell (by way of Mark Dunlop) Re: U. Glasgow: MSc AIS (high IR content) with Funding M.Sc. Advanced Information Systems ADVANCED STUDY WITH FUNDING AVAILABLE The M.Sc. in Advanced Information Systems is a challenging and powerful postgraduate course that provides up-to-the-minute high-level expertise in the range of complex computing systems at the heart of modern media and enterprise. Extremely marketable skills are developed through advanced postgraduate study achieving a flexibility in thinking and technical expertise which is welcomed in a rapidly changing industry as well as providing preparation for future postgraduate study. AIS Graduates are very well qualified for research or development work in industry, commerce, or the public sector. The course is taught in a top-rated research environment by international experts in their fields and overseen by an industrial board to ensure sustained industrial relevance. We are looking for recent Computing Science graduates with good degrees who want to build on their first degree. For such students, EPSRC scholarships are available. Progression to PhD is possible. The course is organised into an initial 5 month modular taught component followed by a 6 month project. Modules on offer for 1999-2000 academic year will be: * Technical foundations for creative media * Information retrieval * Building interactive information systems * Persistent and distributed systems Richard Cooper, Course Director, will answer questions regarding the course. email: rich@dcs.gla.ac.uk Background 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. Here is a profile from one of our current students: My first degree was a mixture of psychology and computing subjects. My postgraduate study is a Master of Science degree in Advanced Information Systems. The course is partly taught and partly research. The first six months consists of lectures in Information Retrieval, Interactive Systems, Persistent and Distributed Systems and Technical Foundations of Creative Media. This is followed by a project which can be chosen from one or more of these areas. I have chosen to do my project in the area of Information Retrieval and am looking at methods of improving the performance of Internet search engines. The first part of the course involved a lot of time spent in lectures, then tracking down papers in the library and preparing presentations to be delivered to the rest of the class. Now, most of my time is spent in the AIS lab, where we have access to a mixture of Windows NT,Macintosh and Unix machines. I chose this course because of the reputation of the department for the quality of its research (it is one of only 6 in the UK to achieve the prestigious 5* rating for research of international standing). The Masters course gave me the opportunity to get a wide view of the research being done at Glasgow before I had to commit myself to doing research in a specific area. Choosing further study rather than going out to work was a difficult decision. However, I feel the extra year will increase my long-term prospects and studying the Masters has helped me get interviews with several top companies. The course has a powerful supporting Industrial Board. The Masters has also given me the chance to see if I would prefer an academic career. IT has taught me a lot about what is involved and has put me in a good position to continue to do further research. Several of the final projects on offer give you the opportunity to produce papers of sufficient merit to be published in academic journals. The biggest change from undergraduate study is the fact that the course is assessed solely on the basis of your project. You choose the project from a wide range suggested by members of the department or you can suggest your own. This means you can finally follow your own interests rather than having to worry about what someone else wants you to learn for an exam. 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