Information Retrieval List Digest 460 (June 21, 1999) URL = http://hegel.lib.ncsu.edu/stacks/serials/irld/irld-460.txt IRLIST Digest ISSN 1064-6965 June 21, 1999 Volume XVI, Number 24 Issue 460 ****************************************************************** II. JOBS 1. U.MD Baltimore: Circulation Librarian 2. Canon Research Centre Europe: E-Job IR Researcher 3. Thomas Jefferson U.: Collection Management Librarian 4. Microsoft: Computational Linguist III. NOTICES A. Publications 1. JASS Journal: CFPapers 2. ContentsDirec: IP&M, 00244, Volume 35,Issue 3 3. [WASHINGTON-UPDATE] -- June 21, 1999 B. Meetings 1. IDAMAP 99 - Workshop: Intelligent Data Analysis in Medicine and Pharmacology: CFPapers 2. SCIE99: Final CFParticipation 3. ACM SIGIR MIR Workshop: Final CFParticipation C. Miscellaneous 1. ResearchIndex (CiteSeer): Autonomous Citation Indexing of Web IV. PROJECTS C. Awards, Fellowships, Grants, & Scholarships 1. Wolverhampton: Research Studentship: Multilingual Anaphora Resolution ****************************************************************** II. JOBS II.1. Fr: Beverly Gresehover Re: U.MD Baltimore: Circulation Librarian ASSOCIATE STAFF POSITION Health Sciences & Human Services Library 000992 POSITION TITLE: Circulation Librarian (Associate Librarian II) POSITION DESCRIPTION: An exciting opportunity exists in our beautiful new professional library to lead and manage the Circulation Department of 13 full and part-time employees. Reporting to the Assistant Director for Access Services, you will oversee the daily operations of the department including circulation services, course reserve services, circulation billing, stack maintenance, in-house photocopying, and building operations for evenings and weekends. Responsibilities also include: o Hiring, training, supervising, scheduling and evaluating staff; o Setting and maintaining standards of excellence for the circulation department with establishment and compliance of policies and procedures; o Overseeing course reserve service and related copyright compliance; o Overseeingcollection control; o Participating in the development of short and long term goals for Circulation; o Effectively using new technologies in the delivery of circulation services. QUALIFICATIONS: Requires an MLS from an ALA accredited library school and one year of directly related experience. The desired candidate will have experience supervising and scheduling staff in a Circulation or related library environment. Must have excellent written and oral communications skills; must have excellent interpersonal and organizational skills, must have excellent computer skills and the ability to plan, oversee and automate circulation services. The preferred candidate will have experience in an academic or health sciences library; experience with the DRA circulation subsystem; experience with electronic reserves systems and knowledge of copyright compliance in an academic library environment. Involvement in professional activities a definite plus. ABOUT THE UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND, BALTIMORE The University of Maryland, Baltimore is the campus for the professions and is comprised of 23.7 acres with 45 buildings in the heart of Baltimore City. The UM,B complex includes six professional schools (Dental, Law, Medicine, Nursing, Pharmacy, and Social Work), as well as an interprofessional graduate school. The campus has approximately 4,800 employees and 6,000 students. ABOUT THE HEALTH SCIENCES AND HUMAN SERVICES LIBRARY Established in 1813, the HS/HSL currently has approximately 2,400 current periodical subscriptions and over 338,000 volumes. HS/HSL is a recognized leader in state-of-the-art information technology, and the regional medical library for the Southeastern/Atlantic Region of the National Network of Libraries of Medicine. In 1998, the Library moved into a beautiful and sophisticated, multi-functional library/information services facility. Visit us on the Web at: http://www.ab.umd.edu/hsl/ SALARY: to $35,100 FILING DEADLINE: Open until filled ORIGINAL POSTING DATE 2/22/99 SUBMIT RESUME TO: JD000992 University Of Maryland, Baltimore Office of Human Resource Services 737 W. Lombard Street Baltimore, Maryland 21201 Beverly Gresehover Assistant Director for Access Services Health Sciences and Human Services Library University of Maryland 601 W. Lombard Street Baltimore, MD 21201-1583 410 706 7995 phone 410 706 8403 fax bgreseho@umaryland.edu e-mail ********** II.2. Fr: Tony Rose Re: Canon Research Centre Europe: E-Job IR Researcher Canon Research Centre Europe (CRE) has two positions for top quality researchers in its Core Technology Division. Applications from experienced researchers or recent PhDs/exceptional graduates are invited for the following roles: 1. Senior Information Retrieval Researcher Job Specification: - to perform research & development on advanced information retrieval, multimedia, natural language processing & user interface technology. - to initiate and develop first class research projects in multimedia information retrieval. Requirements: - first class academic background: PhD (or equivalent research experience) in information retrieval, natural language processing or closely related discipline - track record of proven initiative in starting and developing new research projects - the ability to work with product development groups for technology transfer - excellent software engineering skills in a variety of languages including C/C++ Desirable: - experience of working in industry - strong publication record - expertise in the areas of: * speech recognition * multimedia * HCI 2. Information Retrieval Researcher Job Specification: - to perform research & development on advanced information retrieval, multimedia, natural language processing & user interface technology. - to develop and maintain prototypes, demonstrators, tools and product-level software in advanced information retrieval, natural language processing and user interface technologies. Requirements: - first class academic background: honours degree in computer science or related discipline with strong computational component - excellent software engineering skills in a variety of languages including C/C++ and ideally Java - willingness and enthusiasm to implement and evaluate new research ideas - ability to pick up new skills and ideas rapidly Desirable: - higher degree in a relevant discipline - experience of working on commercial software projects - expertise in the areas of: * information retrieval * natural language processing * user interfaces * databases * C++ standard template library Canon has over 75,000 employees worldwide. Since its foundation, Canon has moved forward towards its objective of being the manufacturer of the best products in the world. While pursuing the pinnacle of quality, we have taken the lead in developing electronic and automation technologies to enhance the ease of use of our products. One key to Canon's success has been the spirit of meeting new technological challenges and at CRE you will have the opportunity to play a significant part in this. We offer an excellent working environment and a competitive salary and benefits package. For further details on CRE and these job opportunities, please consult our web pages at: http://www.cre.canon.co.uk/ Informal enquiries may be addressed to Dr TG Rose (tgr@cre.canon.co.uk). To apply, please send your CV with a covering letter to arrive by Monday 12 July to: Paula Mason (recruitment) Canon Research Centre Europe Limited 1 Occam Court Surrey Research Park Guildford GU2 5YJ United Kingdom fax: +44 (0) 1483 448845 email: sljobs@cre.canon.co.uk Because of British law, preference will be given to applicants who already have the right to work in the United Kingdom. ********** II.3. Fr: Diana Zinnato Re: Thomas Jefferson U.: Collection Management Librarian COLLECTION MANAGEMENT LIBRARIAN The Scott Memorial Library at Thomas Jefferson University has an opening for the position Collection Management Librarian. Responsibilities include assuming a leadership role in all aspects of serials and interlibrary loan management including collection evaluation and monitoring the space needs of the journal collection. This position also manages binding and other preservation activities. Some reference desk service is required. Reports to the Director of Collection Management and supervises 5 technicians. Required qualifications: MLS from an ALA accredited institution, a minimum of 3 years professional supervisory experience in serials work, a working knowledge of an ILS serials module, the use of OCLC and other automated library systems for ILL. Salary minimum is $34,000 and we offer excellent flexible benefits including 100% tuition reimbursement. Qualified candidates may send their resume to: Doug Block, Business Manager, Scott Memorial Library, Thomas Jefferson University, 1020 Walnut St., Philadelphia, PA 19107-5587. Thomas Jefferson University is an academic health center consisting of amedical college, college of allied health sciences, college of graduate studies and hospital. Located in center-city Philadelphia, a short walk from museums and historic sites, Scott Memorial Library is a department of Academic Information Services and Research (AISR) which is comprised of the Library, Medical Media Services and the Office of Academic Computing. AISR has a staff of 64 FTE employees and an annual operating budget of $4 million. ********** II.4. Fr: David Parkinson Re: Microsoft: Computational Linguist Enabling computers to understand natural language is a difficult and fascinating task. Microsoft has amassed some of the top linguists in the world, and the company is creating high quality linguistic features such as grammar checkers, search engines, and eventually machine translation. The Natural Language Group (NLG) is the central organization for developing and shipping advanced linguistic technology in Microsoft products. This strategic and growing group is critical for making software easier for customers to use, and is central to the company's future. Our features ship in all of Microsoft's key applications and systems products, including Office, Windows, and several consumer applications. COMPUTATIONAL LINGUIST (SEARCH) The Search linguist is responsible for the application of statistical and NLP techniques to improve results of information retrieval, and will identify problems to address in order to move toward information analysis. Qualifications should include experience (industry or research) in information retrieval or linguistics, and software development; familiarity with natural language processing; and an advanced degree in linguistics, computer science, or a closely related discipline. Practical experience with, and interest in, data analysis, statistical tools, IR techniques, NLP implementation issues, and product development are highly desirable attributes. Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer and supports workforce diversity. Please send your CV in ASCII text or as a Word attachment to nljobs@microsoft.com . ****************************************************************** III. NOTICES III.A.1. Fr: Nikitas Assimakopoulos Re: JASS Journal: CFPapers JOURNAL OF APPLIED SYSTEMS STUDIES Methodologies and Applications for Systems Approaches [ JASS ] http://www.unipi.gr/jass/ CALL FOR PAPERS Topics of interest to JASS include : · Applications of cybernetics using the viable system model · Applications of interactive planning methodology · Applications of soft systems methodology · Applied cybernetics in medicine · Applied living systems · Applied sociocybernetics · Cognitive patterns · Complex systems · Conceptual systemic models · Control systems · Critical systems thinking · Culture of peace · Decision support systems · Dynamical systems approaches · Electronic service systems (Internet, Intranet, Extranet, Deltanet) · Human-centered systems · Human-computer interaction · Intelligent systems engineering · Intelligent tutoring systems · Knowledge based systems · Law systems · Multimedia systems · Problem structuring approaches · Project management using systemic approaches · Religious systems · Semiotic approaches · Social systems design · Systemic metaphors · Systemic reengineering · Systems - metasystems and decisions - metadecisions · Systems and design education · Systems approaches for information systems · Systems thinking for total quality management · Total systems intervention · Virtual communities There is no time limit for the submission of papers. ********** III.A.2. Fr: cdmailer@elsevier.co.uk Re: ContentsDirec: IP&M, 00244, Volume 35,Issue 3 ContentsDirect from Elsevier Science URL: http://www.elsevier.nl/locate/jnlnr/00244 Journal: Information Processing and Management ISSN : 0306-4573 Volume : 35 Issue : 3 Date : 01-Jul-1999 pp 219-225 Progress toward digital libraries: augmentation through integration G Marchionini, EA Fox pp 227-243 What are digital libraries? Competing visions CL Borgman pp 245-254 Delphi study of digital libraries TR Kochtanek, HK Hein pp 255-279 Document structure and digital liabraries: how researchers mobilize information in journal articles A Peterson Bishop pp 281-291 Digital library support for scholarly research RR Downs, EA Friedman pp 293-316 Material mastery: situating digital library use in university research practices LM Covi pp 317-336 Content locality in distributed digital libraries CL Viles, JC French pp 337-362 Discriminating meta-search: a framework for evaluation MH Chignell, J Gwizdka, C Bodner pp 363-379 Support for interactive document selection in cross-language information retrieval DW Oard, P Resnik pp 381-400 Real time video scene detection and classification JM Gauch, S Gauch, S Bouix, X Zhu pp 401-420 Visualising semantic spaces and author co-citation networks in digital libraries C Chen If you have any questions about ContentsDirect, please send an e-mail to: CDhelp@elsevier.co.uk An automatic reply only will be returned with information and instructions. Copyright Elsevier Science Ltd, 1999 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the publisher, Elsevier Science Ltd, The Boulevard, Langford Lane, Kidlington, Oxford OX5 1GB, UK. No responsibility is assumed by the publisher for any injury and/or damage to persons or property as a matter of products liability, negligence or otherwise, or from any use or operation of any methods, products, instructions or ideas contained in the material herein. Users should take note that information contained in ContentsDirect is derived directly from a production tracking system which is unchecked and may well be revised or modified in future. ********** III.A.3. Fr: EDUCAUSE Re: [WASHINGTON-UPDATE] -- June 21, 1999 Internet Gambling Bill Goes to Senate Floor for Second Time EDUCAUSE: Transforming Education through Information Technologies http://www.educause.edu EDUCAUSE WASHINGTON UPDATE --- JUNE 21, 1999 ***IN THIS ISSUE*** INTERNET GAMBLING BILL GOES TO SENATE FLOOR FOR SECOND TIME SENATE PASSES Y2K LIABILITY LIMITATION BILL UPCOMING EVENTS: 1) COPYRIGHT AND DIGITAL DISTANCE EDUCATION: HOUSE JUDICIARY SUBCOMMITTEE TO HOLD HEARING ON COPYRIGHT OFFICE REPORT 2) SENATE COMMERCE COMMITTEE TO VOTE ON INTERNET FILTERING >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Written from EDUCAUSE'S Washington office, "The EDUCAUSE Washington Update" is a free service of EDUCAUSE, an international nonprofit association dedicated to transforming higher education through information technologies. Anyone may subscribe to the Update by sending e-mail to listserv@listserv.educause.edu with "subscribe update firstname lastname" in the body of the message. To unsubscribe, send a "signoff update" command to the same address. 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. ********** III.B.1. Fr: Silvia Miksch Re: IDAMAP 99 - Workshop: Intelligent Data Analysis in Medicine and Pharmacology: CFPapers Second Call for Papers for the workshop Workshop: Intelligent Data Analysis in Medicine and Pharmacology (IDAMAP 99) Saturday, November 6, 1999 Washington, DC, USA during the AMIA 1999 Annual Symposium November 6-10, 1999 in Washington, DC, USA (homepage of IDAMAP 99 http://www.ifs.tuwien.ac.at/~silvia/idamap99/ (homepage of AMIA 1999 http://www.amia.org/meetings/f99/call/cover.htm) Important dates * Submission deadline: July 26, 1999 * Notification to authors: September 6, 1999 * Camera-ready paper: October 11, 1999 * Conference: November 6-10, 1999 * Workshop: November 6, 1999 GENERAL INFORMATION: IDAMAP-99 is a Workshop at the AMIA 1999 Annual Symposium - November 6-10, 1999 - Washington, DC prior to the start of the main AMIA conference. Gathering in an informal setting, workshop participants will have the opportunity to meet and discuss selected technical topics in an atmosphere, which fosters the active exchange of ideas among researchers and practitioners. To encourage interaction and a broad exchange of ideas, the workshop will be kept small, preferably under 30 active participants, although registered AMIA 99 Fall Symposium members are welcome to attend. The workshop is intended to be a genuinely interactive event and not a mini-conference, thus ample time will be allotted for general discussion. The workshop will last a half-day. This is the fourth workshop on Intelligent Data Analysis in Medicine and Pharmacology (IDAMAP). The former IDAMAP Workshops were held in Budapest in 1996, in Nagoya in 1997, and in Brighton in 1998. WORKSHOP TOPICS: In all human activities, automatic data collection pushes towards the development of tools able to handle and analyze data in a computer-supported fashion. In the majority of the application areas, this task cannot be accomplished without using the available knowledge on the domain or on the data analysis process. This need becomes essential in biomedical applications, since medical decision-making needs to be supported by arguments based on basic medical and pharmacological knowledge. The topics of the workshop are computational methods for data analysis able to exploit the available knowledge to narrow the gap between data gathering and data comprehension, as well as their applications in medicine and pharmacology. Expert physicians should be included in the preparation of data for IDA process (e.g., data representation, modeling, cleaning, selection, and transformation), as well as in the interpretation and exploitation of results and their (potential) impact on medical practice. Topics include, but are not limited to: * effective data mining techniques: machine learning tools, clustering, etc. * temporal reasoning: applications of IDA in patient monitoring or bio- signal processing, interpretation of time-ordered data (derivation and revision of temporal trends and other forms of temporal data abstraction), * information visualization: visualization of medical data and visualization of IDA's results, * case-based reasoning, * construction of decision models to support medical decision making, * discovery of new diseases and new drug compounds, * pharmacodynamical modeling, * predicting drug activity, etc. Emphasis will also be given to solving of problems, which result from automated data collection in modern hospitals, such as analysis of computer-based patient records (CPR), data warehousing tools, intelligent alarming, effective and efficient monitoring, etc. In particular, we will ask the participants to address the following points: - what kind of knowledge they have used and/or extracted; - why they need to exploit the available prior knowledge in their problem; - how they have represented the available knowledge; - how they plan to use / have used the derived knowledge. SUBMISSION OF PAPERS: The workshop invites submission of long and short papers written in English to the workshop chair, Yuval Shahar (email: shahar@smi.stanford.edu), preferably in electronic format (pdf or postscript) no later than ** July 26, 1999 **. The length of long papers is of about 5000 words (10 pages) and length of short papers is about 1500 words (3 pages). Authors will be notified of acceptance by September 6, 1999. Papers will appear as separate workshop notes. SUBMISSION ADDRESS: Yuval Shahar Stanford Medical Informatics Medical School Office Building x215 251 Campus Drive Stanford University Stanford, CA 94305-5479 email: shahar@smi.stanford.edu SCIENTIFIC PROGRAM: The scientific program of the workshop will consist of presentations of accepted papers and panel discussions. Papers are invited both on methodological issues of intelligent data analysis as well as on specific applications in medicine and pharmacology. Panel discussions will be organized into two phases: the first one will be devoted to identify clusters of basic approaches presented to intelligently analyze data, the second one will deal on discussions initialized by participants. PROGRAM COMMITTEE: Sarabjot Anand, University of Ulster, Northern Ireland Steen Andreassen, Aalborg University, Denmark Lars Asker, Stockholm University, Sweden Riccardo Bellazzi, University of Pavia, Italy Werner Horn, Austrian Research Institute for AI, Austria Elpida Keravnou, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Cristiana Larizza, University of Pavia, Italy Nada Lavrac, J. Stefan Institute, Slovenia Xiaohui Liu, Birkbeck College, University of London, U.K. Silvia Miksch, Vienna University of Technology, Austria (co-chair) Christian Popow, University of Vienna, Austria Yuval Shahar, Stanford University, CA, USA (chair) Blaz Zupan, J. Stefan Institute, Slovenia WORKSHOP REGISTRATION: No extra registration. All registered AMIA 99 Fall Symposium members are welcome to attend. NEW Phone-number: +43-1-58801-18824 NEW Fax-number: +43-1-58801-18899 Silvia Miksch silvia@ifs.tuwien.ac.at Vienna University of Technology http://www.ifs.tuwien.ac.at/ Department of Computer Science Institute of Software Technology (IFS) +43-1-58801-18824 Resselgasse 3/188 +43-1-58801-18801 (phone-sec) A-1040 Vienna, Austria, Europe +43-1-58801-18899 (fax) ********** III.B.2. Fr: SCIE99 Re: SCIE99: Final CFParticipation Final Call for Participation School on Information Extraction SCIE99 Frascati(Rome) June 28, July 3, 1999 http://scie99.info.uniroma2.it/ IMPORTANT NEWS EXTENDED registration deadline: June 28 The Artificial Intelligence group of the Department of Computer Science, Systems and Production of the University of Roma Tor Vergata (Italy), in cooperation with the Italian Association of Artifical Intelligence (AI*IA), is pleased to announce the second Second edition of the School on Information Extraction (SCIE99), to be held in Frascati (Roma), Italy, from June 28 to July 3, 1999 . The school provides a forum for researchers and practitioners with different background and expertise, to discuss ideas and describe experiences in defining and implementing IE systems. To maximize interaction among SCIE-99 participants, the attendance will be limited to 80 persons. CONTENTS The school is organized as a set of lectures held by internationally renown experts from the different disciplines concerning IE themes. These lectures are explicitly meant to address interdisciplinary issues and will introduce common goals, needs and problems of the different approaches. Demo sessions on current IE technologies and systems will be also held at the school. INVITED SPEAKERS *Jean Pierre CHANOD (XEROX Research Centre Europe, FR) "Natural Language Processing and Digital Libraries" *Veronica DAHL (Simon Fraser Univ. CA) "From Speech to Knowledge" *Maria Teresa PAZIENZA (Univ. Rome Tor Vergata, IT) "Engineering IE systems: an Object Oriented approach" *Harold SOMERS (UMIST, UK) "Knowledge extraction from bilingual corpora" *John SOWA (Westchester Polytechnic Univ. USA) "Relating Templates to Language and Logic" *Marc VILAIN (The MITRE Corporation, MA, USA) "Inferential Information Extraction" *Ellen VOORHEES (NIST, MD, USA) "Natural Language Processing and Information Retrieval" *Yorick WILKS (Univ. of Sheffield, UK) "Can we make Information Extraction more adaptive?" The speakers contributions will be published by Springer-Verlag in the Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence series. SCHOOL VENUE The school will be hosted by the European Space Agency at ESRIN establishment. Thanks to this hospitality, we hope to reach a friendly atmosphere as in the past edition of the school, which enabled fruitful exchanges of ideas among participants. The School will be held in the pleasant atmosphere of the historic city of Frascati (near Rome, Italy) Any information for SCIE-99 participation (registration fees, accommodation, lectures, demos, ...) may be found at the school web page: http://scie99.info.uniroma2.it SCIE-99 Program Committee: * Luigia Carlucci Aiello (Univ. of Roma La Sapienza) * Elisa Bertino (Univ. of Milano) * Maria Teresa Pazienza (Univ. of Roma, Tor Vergata) (chair) * Domenico Sacca' (Univ. of Calabria) * Lorenza Saitta (Univ. of Torino) SCIE-99 Organizing Committee: - R. Basili (Univ. Roma Tor Vergata) (chair) - C. Cardani (Univ. Roma Tor Vergata) - M. Di Nanni (Univ. Roma Tor Vergata) - M. Vindigni (Univ. Roma Tor Vergata) - F. Zanzotto (Univ. Roma Tor Vergata) School e-mail: scie99@info.uniroma2.it For more information contact: prof. Maria Teresa Pazienza Dept. of Computer Science, Systems and Production University of Roma, Tor Vergata Via di Tor Vergata 00133 ROMA (ITALY) tel: +39 06 72597378 (office); fax +39 06 72597460; e_mail: pazienza@info.uniroma2.it SCIE99 Dept. of Computer Science, Systems and Management University of Roma Tor Vergata Via di Tor Vergata 00133 Roma (ITALY) Phone: +39 06 72597378 FAX: +39 06 72597460 Web site:http://scie99.info.uniroma2.it e-mail: scie99@info.uniroma2.it ********** III.B.3. Fr: Zhongfei Zhang Re: ACM SIGIR MIR Workshop: Final CFParticipation Note that the paper/statement of interest submission deadline has been extended to June 25th, 1999. ACM SIGIR'99 Post-Conference Workshop on Multimedia Indexing and Retrieval Berkeley, CA, August 19, 1999 Call For Participation Background This workshop is a follow-up to last year's very successful workshop on the same topic. Since the field is advancing so rapidly, it was felt that an annual workshop would be worthwhile. The focus is on the required functionality, techniques, and evaluation criteria for multimedia information retrieval systems. Researchers have been investigating content-based retrieval from non-text sources such as images, audio and video. Initially, the focus of these efforts were on content analysis and retrieval techniques tailored to a specific media; more recently, researchers have started to combine attributes from various media. The goal of multimedia IR systems is to handle general queries such as "find outdoor pictures or video of Clinton and Gore discussing environmental issues". Answering such queries requires intelligent exploitation of both text/speech and visual content. Multimedia IR is a very broad area covering both infrastructure issues (e.g. efficient storage criteria, networking, client-server models) and intelligent content analysis and retrieval. Since this is a one-day workshop, we have chosen three focus areas in the intelligent analysis and retrieval area. About the workshop The first focus of this workshop is on integrating information from various media sources in order to handle multimodal queries on large, diverse databases. An example of such a collection would be the WWW. In such cases, a query may be decomposed into a set of media queries, each involving a different indexing scheme. The interaction of various media sources that occur in the same context (e.g., text accompanying pictures, audio accompanying video) is of special interest; such interaction can be exploited in both the content analysis and retrieval phases. The second focus deals with examples of research using content and organization of multimedia information into semantic classes. Users pose and expect a retrieval to provide answers to semantic questions. In practice this is difficult to achieve. Building structures that encode semantic information in a fairly domain independent and robust manner is extremely difficult. A quick review of computer vision research over the last few years points to this difficulty. In many cases, image content can be used in conjunction with user interaction and domain specificity to retrieve semantically meaningful information. However, it is clear that retrieval by similarity of visual attributes when used arbitrarily cannot provide semantically meaningful information. For example, a search for a red flower by color red on a very heterogeneous database cannot be expected to yield meaningful results. On the other hand retrieval of red flowers in a database of flowers can be achieved using color. In context therefore, examples of research using content and organization of multimedia information into semantic classes will be discussed. Many systems, particularly image and video based ones require an example picture which can be used as a query (alternatively, the user may be required to draw a picture). It may be unrealistic to expect an example image to be always available. Thus, it would be useful to find ways of generating new queries. Can NLP techniques be combined with computer vision techniques to generate such queries? Or can multi-modal retrieval techniques be combined to create queries suitable for image, video and audio retrieval? In general, a question is how can we create realistic queries for realistic systems. The third focus of this workshop is on evaluation techniques for multimedia retrieval. Currently, most researchers are using the standard evaluation measures defined for text documents; these need to be extended/modified for multimedia documents. There is also a high degree of subjectivity involved that needs to be addressed. Finally, we will also devote one session to discussing MPEG-7 standards and content. By the time of the workshop, the selection committee would have made their choices for standards. We will focus on the following specific topics: - content analysis and retrieval from various media (text, images, video, audio) - interaction of modalities (e.g., text, images) in indexing, retrieval - effective user interfaces (permitting query refinement etc.) - evaluation methodologies for multimedia information. We have found that researchers pay insufficient attention to it. - techniques for relevance ranking - multimodal query formation/decomposition - logic formalisms for multimodal queries - indexing and retrieval from scanned documents - e.g., extracting text from images, word spotting - as a retrieval technique for both handwritten and printed documents. - testbeds for evaluating multimodal retrieval: it would be nice to have some resource sharing here since annotating these, and coming up with a good query set are difficult Participation Two types of participation are expected. Those interested in making a presentation at this workshop should submit their full papers either in online postscript version or in hardcopy by regular mail to the address given below. The papers should not exceed 5,000 words, including figures, tables, and references. Those interested in participating, but not presenting papers, should submit a statement of interest, not to exceed 500 words. This should clearly state what aspect(s) of the workshop reflect their research interest. These will be used to select panelists. Both types of submissions are due on Friday, June 25th. Decisions will be made no later than Friday, July 2nd. In the case of paper submission, the final camera-ready papers are due on July 23rd. Working notes will be made available to all participants at the workshop. All the submissions should be sent to: Dr. Rohini K. Srihari CEDAR/SUNY at Buffalo UB Commons 520 Lee Entrance, Suite 202 Amherst, NY 14228 - 2583 Email: rohini@cedar.buffalo.edu Phone: (716) 645-6164 ext. 102 Fax: (716) 645-6176 Organization Workshop chairs (also program chairs): Rohini K. Srihari CEDAR, SUNY at Buffalo Amherst, NY 14228 - 2583 rohini@cedar.buffalo.edu Zhongfei Zhang CEDAR, SUNY at Buffalo Amherst, NY 14228 - 2583 zhongfei@cedar.buffalo.edu R. Manmatha Computer Science Dept., Univ. of Massachusetts Amherst, MA 01003 manmatha@cs.umass.edu S. Ravela Computer Science Dept., Univ. of Massachusetts Amherst, MA 01003 ravela@cs.umass.edu Timetable Paper or statement of interest submission: June 25th, 1999. Decision: July 2nd, 1999. Camera-Ready Paper Due: July 23rd, 1999 SIGIR Conference: August 15 - 19, 1999 Workshop Date: to be announced Further information Further questions may be directed to the address above, or go to the Web page of this workshop at http://www.cedar.buffalo.edu/sigir99/ or the SIGIR Conference main Web Page at http://www.sims.berkeley.edu/conferences/sigir99/ ********** III.C.1. Fr: Gerry Mckiernan Re: ResearchIndex (CiteSeer): Autonomous Citation Indexing of Web Posted on behalf of Steve Lawrence. Steve Lawrence 06/13 9:49 PM ResearchIndex (formerly CiteSeer), a digital library of scientific literature that automatically performs citation indexing is available at: http://researchindex.com/ ResearchIndex aims to improve the dissemination and feedback of scientific literature, and to provide improvements in functionality, usability, availability, cost, comprehensiveness, efficiency, and timeliness. The ResearchIndex software is available without cost for non-commercial use. The demonstration service indexes over 200,000 computer science articles (containing over 2 million citations). Many digital libraries of scientific literature are available (e.g. LANL e-Print archive, ACM DL, IEEE DL, UCSTRI, CORR, ML Papers, NCSTRL, LTRS, HP Bib, CS Bibliographies, NZDL etc.). These services offer varying degrees of functionality, comprehensiveness, and freshness. Rather than creating just another digital library, ResearchIndex provides algorithms, techniques, and software that can be used in other digital libraries. ResearchIndex indexes Postscript and PDF research articles and provides: - Autonomous Citation Indexing (ACI). ResearchIndex uses ACI to autonomously create a citation index that can be used for literature search and evaluation. Compared to traditional citation indices, ACI provides improvements in cost, availability, comprehensiveness, efficiency, and timeliness. - Information on all cited documents, not just indexed documents. ResearchIndex computes citation statistics and related documents for all articles cited in the database, not just the indexed articles. - Reference linking. As with many online publishers, ResearchIndex allows browsing the database using citation links. - Citation context - ResearchIndex can show the context of citations to a given paper, allowing a researcher to quickly and easily see what other researchers have to say about an article of interest (useful for literature search and evaluation). - Awareness and tracking - ResearchIndex provides automatic notification of new citations to given papers, and new papers matching a user profile. Machine learning is used to automatically learn user profiles. - Related documents - ResearchIndex locates related documents using citation and word frequency measures and displays an active and continuously updated bibliography for each document. - Similar documents - ResearchIndex computes the percentage of matching sentences between documents, allowing, for example, the detection of minor revisions to a paper. - Full-text indexing - ResearchIndex indexes the full-text of the entire articles and citations. Full Boolean, phrase and proximity search is supported. - Query-sensitive summaries - ResearchIndex provides the context of how query terms are used in articles, instead of a generic summary, improving the efficiency of search. - Citation graph analysis - ResearchIndex analyzes the graph of citations, e.g. to identify authoritative and review style articles. - Page images - ResearchIndex allows quick and easy viewing of page images. - Up-to-date - ResearchIndex is continuously updated 24 hours a day. - Powerful search - e.g. ResearchIndex allows using author initials to narrow a citation search. - Autonomous location of articles - ResearchIndex uses search engines, crawling, and mailing list monitoring to efficiently locate papers on the Web. ResearchIndex can also be used on existing digital libraries. - Source code available - The full source code of ResearchIndex is available without cost for non-commercial use. A demonstration service is at: http://researchindex.com/ For more details or to obtain the software see http://www.neci.nec.com/~lawrence/researchindex.html http://www.neci.nec.com/~lawrence/aci.html The following papers contain details of the system: "Digital libraries and Autonomous Citation Indexing", Volume 32, Number 6, 67-71, 1999. "CiteSeer: An automatic citation indexing system", Digital Libraries, June 1998 [shortlisted for best paper]. "CiteSeer: An autonomous Web agent for automatic retrieval and identification of interesting publications", Autonomous Agents, May 1998. "CiteSeer: Autonomous Citation Indexing and Literature Browsing Using Citation Context", Technical Report, NEC Research, 1997. We currently only have a small capacity machine on our external network for demonstration. The demonstration service indexes over 200,000 computer science articles. Credits: We would like to thank Joshua Alspector, Jose Nelson Amaral, Anders Ardo, Shumeet Baluja, Arunava Banerjee, Eric Baum, Robert Cameron, Rich Caruana, Ingemar Cox, Scott Fahlman, Gary Flake, Bill Gear, Paul Ginsparg, Eric Glover, Alan Gottlieb, Steve Hanson, Haym Hirsh, Steve Hitchcock, Paul Kantor, Jon Kleinberg, Bob Krovetz, Andrea LaPaugh, Michael Lesk, Andrew McCallum, Steve Minton, Tom Mitchell, Michael Nelson, Craig Nevill-Manning, Andrew Ng, Max Ott, Brian Pinkerton, Alexandrin Popescul, Ben Schafer, Bruce Schatz, Terrence Sejnowski, Warren Smith, Dagobert Soergel, Amanda Spink, Harold Stone, Valerie Tucci, Lyle Ungar, David Waltz, Ian Witten, and Peter Yianilos for useful comments and suggestions. Steve Lawrence - http://www.neci.nec.com/~lawrence/ ****************************************************************** IV. PROJECTS IV.C.1. 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