Information Retrieval List Digest 479 (November 15, 1999) URL = http://hegel.lib.ncsu.edu/stacks/serials/irld/irld-479.txt IRLIST Digest ISSN 1064-6965 November 15, 1999 Volume XVI, Number 43 Issue 479 ****************************************************************** II. JOBS 1. Rutgers U.: MSIS: Tenure Track Positions III. NOTICES A. Publications 1. New Book: NLP Using Very Large Corpora 2. Medical Data Minding and Knowledge Discovery: Last Call for Chapters 3. ContentsDirect: Information Processing & Management, 00244, 35:6: ToC B. Meetings 1. IASSIST 2000: CFPapers 2. EUROGRAPHICS/IEEE TCVG Symposium on Visualization: Final CFPapers 3. CIR-2000: 2nd CFPapers 4. LREC 2000: CFPapers 5. SLIS Talk: Advanced Indexing and Searching for Free Text 6. Graphics Interface 2000: CFPapers Deadline November 19 ****************************************************************** II. JOBS II.1. Fr: Avigdor Gal Re: Rutgers U.: MSIS: Tenure Track Positions The Department of MSIS (Management Science and Information Systems) has tenure track openings in information technology, broadly defined, at the junior and senior levels for the Fall 2000 semester. The MSIS Department has research strength in operations management, applied and theoretical operations research, statistics, and information technology. Candidates must have a strong quantitative educational background, be active researchers, and have either a proven record of scholarly excellence or a demonstrable potential for such excellence. Candidates must have interest in information technology and a demonstrated skill in at least one of its areas. Special consideration will be given to candidates with skills in data mining, electronic commerce, and telecommunications and their business applications. Affiliation with the Rutgers Center for Operations Research (RUTCOR) is possible. Candidates are expected to teach undergraduate, MBA, and Ph.D. courses in management information systems, electronic commerce, operations management, statistics, or related topics. Applications received by January 31, 2000 are guaranteed full consideration. Applicants should send a resume and the names of at least four references to Carol Gibson, MSIS Department Secretary, 94 Rockafeller Road, Piscataway, NJ 08854; FAX: (732) 445-6329; e-mail: gibson@rbs.rutgers.edu. For more information about the Faculty of Management, visit the Web site at http://business.rutgers.edu. For more information about the department, visit the Web site at http://business.rutgers.edu/~msis. Rutgers is an affirmative action equal opportunity employer. ****************************************************************** III. NOTICES III.A.1. Fr: Jean Veronis Re: New Book: NLP Using Very Large Corpora KLUWER ACADEMIC PUBLISHERS TEXT, SPEECH AND LANGUAGE TECHNOLOGY Volume 11 Series editors: Nancy Ide and Jean Véronis Natural Language Processing Using Very Large Corpora edited by Susan Armstrong Kenneth Ward Church Pierre Isabelle Sandra Manzi Evelyne Tzoukermann David Yarowsky The 1990s have been an exciting time for researchers working with large collections of text. Text is available like never before. It was not all that long ago that researchers referred to the Brown Corpus as a `large' corpus. The Brown Corpus, a `mere' million words collected at Brown University in the 1960s, is about the same size as a dozen novels, the complete works of William Shakespeare, the Bible, a collegiate dictionary or a week of a newswire service. Today, one can easily surf the web and download millions of words in no time at all. What can we do with all this data? It is better to do something simple than nothing at all. Researchers in large corpora are using basically brute force methods to make progress on some of the hardest problems in natural language processing, including part-of-speech tagging, word sense disambiguation, parsing, machine translation, information retrieval, and discourse analysis. They are overcoming the so-called knowledge-acquisition bottleneck by processing vast quantities of data, more text than anyone could possibly read in a lifetime, and estimating all sorts of `central and typical' facts that any speaker of the language would be expected to know (e.g., word frequencies, word associations and typical predicate-argument relations). Much of this work has been reported at a series of annual meetings, known as the Workshop on Very Large Corpora (WVLC) and related meetings sponsored by ACL/SIGDAT (Association for Computational Linguistics' special interest group on data). Subsequent meetings have been held in Asia (1994, 1997), America (1995, 1996, 1997) and Europe (1995, 1996). The papers in this book represent much of the best of the first three years of this workshop/conference as selected by a competitive review process. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht Hardbound ISBN 0-7923-6055-9 November 1999 324 pp. NLG 240.00 / USD 128.00 / GBP 79.00 Contents Introduction. Implementation and Evaluation of a German HMM for POS Disambiguation; H. Feldweg. Improvements in Part-of-Speech Tagging with an Application To German; H. Schmid. Unsupervised Learning of Disambiguation Rules for Part-of-Speech Tagging; E. Brill, M. Pop. Tagging French without Lexical Probabilities - Combining Linguistic Knowledge and Statistical Learning; E. Tzoukermann, et al. Example-Based Sense Tagging of Running Chinese Text; X. Tong, et al. Disambiguating Noun Groupings with Respect to WordNet Senses; P. Resnik. A Comparison of Corpus-based Techniques for Restoring Accents in Spanish and French Text; D. Yarowsky. Beyond Word N-Grams; F. Pereira, et al. Statistical Augmentation of a Chinese Machine-Readable Dictionary; P. Fung, D. Wu. Text Chunking Using Transformation-based Learning; L. Ramshaw, M.P. Marcus. Prepositional Phrase Attachment through a Backed-off Model; M. Collins, J. Brooks. On the Unsupervised Induction of Phrase-Structure Grammars; C. de Marcken. Robust Bilingual Word Alignment for Machine Aided Translation; I. Dagan, et al. Iterative Alignment of Syntactic Structures for a Bilingual Corpus; R. Grishman. Trainable Coarse Bilingual Grammars for Parallel Text Bracketing; D. Wu. Comparative Discourse Analysis of Parallel Texts; P. van der Eijk. Comparing the Retrieval Performance of English and Japanese Text Databases; H. Fujii, W.B. Croft. Inverse Document Frequency (IDF): A Measure of Deviations from Poisson; K. Church, W. Gale. List of Authors. Subject Index. PREVIOUS VOLUMES Volume 1: Recent Advances in Parsing Technology Harry Bunt, Masaru Tomita (Eds.) Hardbound, ISBN 0-7923-4152-X, 1996 Volume 2: Corpus-Based Methods in Language and Speech Processing Steve Young, Gerrit Bloothooft (Eds.) Hardbound, ISBN 0-7923-4463-4, 1997 Volume 3: An introduction to text-to-speech synthesis Thierry Dutoit Hardbound, ISBN 0-7923-4498-7, 1997 Volume 4: Exploring textual data Ludovic Lebart, André Salem and Lisette Berry Hardbound, ISBN 0-7923-4840-0, December 1997 Volume 5: Time Map Phonology: Finite State Models and Event Logics in Speech Recognition Julie Carson-Berndsen Hardbound, ISBN 0-7923-4883-4, 1997 Volume 6: Predicative Forms in Natural Language and in Lexical Knowledge Bases Patrick Saint-Dizier (Ed.) Hardbound, ISBN 0-7923-5499-0, December 1998 Volume 7: Natural Language Information Retrieval Tomek Strzalkowski (Ed.) Hardbound, ISBN 0-7923-5685-3, April 1999 Volume 8: Techniques in Speech Acoustics Jonathan Harrington, Steve Cassidy Hardbound, ISBN 0-7923-5731-0, July 1999 Volume 9: Syntactic Wordclass Tagging Hans van Halteren (Ed.) Hardbound, ISBN 0-7923-5896-1, August 1999 Check the series Web page for order information: http://www.wkap.nl/series.htm/TLTB ********** III.A.2. Fr: Prof. Krzysztof Cios Re: Medical Data Minding and Knowledge Discovery: Last Call for Chapters Two more chapters can be included in the being closed book on MEDICAL DATA MINING AND KNOWLEDGE DISCOVERY to be published by Springer in early 2000. If you happen to have a completed work on applications of data mining methods for knowledge discovery in medicine you might be interested in submitting them by the end of November 1999 for quick inclusion in the book. The chapter must be written very clearly to appeal to a diverse audience of medical doctors, computer scientists, and engineers. Of interest are applications of any data mining methods to any type of medical data as long as the size of the used database is substantial. Krzysztof J. Cios Professor and Interim Chair Department of Bioengineering University of Toledo Toledo, OH 43606-3390, U.S.A. phone: (419)530-8030 fax: (419)530-8076 email: kcios@eng.utoledo.edu web: http://isl1.ni.utoledo.edu/cios/ http://www.wkap.nl/book.htm/0-7923-8252-8 ********** III.A.3. Fr: cdmailer@elsevier.co.uk Re: ContentsDirect: Information Processing & Management, 00244, 35:6 ContentsDirect from Elsevier Science URL: http://www.elsevier.nl/locate/jnlnr/00244 Journal: Information Processing and Management ISSN : 0306-4573 Volume : 35 Issue : 6 Date : 15-Nov-1999 Table of Contents pp 723-725 Editorial: Information seeking in context (ISIC) CC Kuhlthau, P Vakkari pp 727-750 On studying information seeking methodologically: the implications of connecting metatheory to method B Dervin pp 751-763 The production of "context" in information seeking research: a metatheoretical view S Talja, H Keso, T Pietilainen pp 765-782 The role of the internet in information seeking. Putting the networked services in context R Savolainen pp 783-799 Finding without seeking: the information encounter in the context of reading for pleasure CS Ross pp 801-817 Waiting for chiropody: contextual results from an ethnographic study of the information behaviour among attendees at community clinics KE Pettigrew pp 819-837 Task complexity, problem structure and information actions. Integrating studies on information seeking and retrieval P Vakkari pp 839-849 Exploring models of information behaviour: the "uncertainty" project T Wilson pp 851-870 Back to our beginnings: information utilization, Bertram Brookes and the fundamental equation of information science RJ Todd pp 871-890 Toward a reconceptualization of information seeking research: focus on the exchange of meaning K Yoon, MS Nilan pp 899-899 Author Index 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.B.1. Fr: Joan K Lippincott Re: IASSIST 2000: CFPapers IASSIST 2000 Call for Papers Data in the Digital Library: social, spatial, and government data services The International Association for Social Science Information Services and Technology (IASSIST) invites submissions for paper presentations, panel discussions, poster/demonstration sessions, and workshops for its 26th annual conference to be held in the Chicago metropolitan area at Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois on June 7-10, 2000. IASSIST conferences bring together data professionals, data producers, and data analysts from around the world who are engaged in the creation, acquisition, processing, maintenance, distribution, preservation, and use of numeric social science data for research and instruction. CONFERENCE THEMES Over the last four decades, data archives and data libraries have managed, preserved, and provided access to "digital collections" of numeric data. We are at a historic crossroad in the development of standards, technological capability, and innovation in data delivery. This year's theme emphasizes this rich past and looks at innovation in data services operations and current digital library and archive initiatives that will shape access and services in the 21st century. The conference is an opportunity to explore service models for data, government information, and mapping. Invited plenary speakers include Kenneth Prewitt, director, U.S. Bureau of the Census; William Kruskal, emeritus professor of statistics, University of Chicago; and a plenary panel organized by Diane Garner, Librarian for the Social Sciences, Harvard University. Proposals for papers and poster/demonstration sessions in the following areas are particularly welcome: Innovative Services and the Effective Use of Technology Administering and providing data services in an academic library Innovations in data delivery and access methods Implications of Web-based data distribution and access models Integrating GIS and spatial data in the digital library Bringing numeric and spatial data into the classroom Expanding and preserving multi-media resources Developing support services for qualitative analysis Promoting statistical literacy Data warehousing Promoting Preservation and Standards Preserving our (numeric) digital heritage Archival challenges of the digital government Promoting metadata and documentation standards for data Exploring XML, RDF, GILS, FGDC, and Dublin Core applications for data Data quality and authentication PROPOSALS DUE BY DECEMBER 24, 1999 The deadline for paper and poster/demonstration proposals is December 24, 1999. The Conference Program Committee will send notifications of the acceptance of proposals by February 1, 2000. Please send submissions, including proposed title and abstract, to:ia2000@src.uchicago.edu INTERNATIONAL OUTREACH The IASSIST International Outreach Action Group provides support for data professionals from developing economies to attend the annual IASSIST conference. Full application information is available from the conference web site. CONFERENCE DETAILS Three days of plenaries, concurrent sessions, poster/demonstration sessions, and social events on June 7-9, 2000 will be followed by a full day of workshops on Saturday, June 10, 2000. The conference will be held at Northwestern University in Evanston. Located north of Chicago along the shores of Lake Michigan, Northwestern is one of the Midwest's most beautiful campuses. ADDITIONAL INFORMATION Visit the IASSIST website at http://datalib.library.ualberta.ca/iassist/ For the most current information check the IASSIST 2000 conference website at: http://www.src.uchicago.edu/DATALIB/ia2000 or contact: Fay Booker, Data Librarian Social Science Research Computing, University of Chicago booke@src.uchicago.edu (773) 834-0150/FAX (773) 702-2101 Diane Geraci, Data Services Librarian University Libraries, Binghamton University dgeraci@binghamton.edu (607) 777-2181/FAX (607) 777-4848 Ann Janda, Data Consultant University Library, Northwestern University a-janda@nwu.edu (847) 491-4090/FAX (847)491-8306 IMPORTANT DATES December 24, 1999 Deadline for conference proposals February 1, 2000 Notification of proposal acceptance May 8, 2000 Registration deadline June 7-10, 2000 IASSIST 2000 ********** III.B.2. Fr: Robert van Liere Re: EUROGRAPHICS/IEEE TCVG Symposium on Visualization: Final CFPapers CALL FOR PAPERS Joint EUROGRAPHICS/IEEE TCVG Symposium on Visualization May 29-31, 2000 Amsterdam, the Netherlands http://www.cwi.nl/vissym00 Aims and Scope Following nine Eurographics workshops on Visualization in Scientific Computing and the Eurographics - IEEE TCVG Symposium on Visualization in 1999, we invite you to participate in the second Joint Eurographics - IEEE TCVG Symposium on Visualization. Papers and case studies will form the scientific content of the event. Papers are invited that present research results from all areas of visualization. Case studies report on practical applications of visualization to data analysis. Suggested topics for research papers include, but are not limited to : - Flow visualization - Information visualization - Human factors in visualization - Large data sets - Volume rendering - Internet-based visualization - User interaction techniques - Multi-Variate visualization - Surface extraction - Data base visualization - Visualization systems - Multi resolution techniques Case studies are invited from any application area, including: Physics, Aerospace, Automotive, Biomedicine, Chemistry, Molecular Biology, Finance, Mathematics, Hypermedia Structures, Data Mining. Accepted papers and case studies will be published in a book by Springer-Verlag. Important Dates 3 December 1999 Paper submission deadline 17 January 2000 Notification of acceptance 18 February 2000: Camera ready copies 29-31 May 2000: EG-IEEE VisSym'00 Paper Submission Authors are requested to prepare their contribution as a full paper. Accepted papers will be published in a book by Springer-Verlag. Accepted research and case study papers are limited to 10 pages. In the book one additional page of color plates per paper is available. Further instructions for the preparation and uploading of papers are available via http://www.cwi.nl/vissym00. If you are not able to upload your paper electronically you alternatively can send two copies of the full paper including figures and images by regular mail to Conference co-chair Robert van Liere (see address below) Symposium Venue and Format The event will be held in Amsterdam at the Center for Mathematics and Computer Science. The event is open to all those with an interest in visualization. Students, in particular, are encouraged to participate. The three-day symposium will be organized as an assembly of plenary presentations. Invited presentations will be included. Related Events VisSym'00 is followed by: 6th Eurographics Workshop on Virtual Environments. This workshop will be held on June 1st and 2nd also at the Center for Mathematics and Computer Science. Contact Any questions concerning the goals, scope, and organization can be addressed to: vissym00@cwi.nl or to: Robert van Liere Symposium Co-Chair of VisSym '00 Center for Mathematics and Computer Science Department of Software Engineering Kruislaan 413 1098 SJ, Amsterdam The Netherlands email: robertl@cwi.nl tel: +31 20 5924118 fax: +31 20 5924199 Robert van Liere Department of Software Engineering Center of Mathematics and Computer Science Amsterdam, The Netherlands ********** III.b.3. Fr: Margaret Graham Re: CIR-2000: 2nd CFPapers SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS CIR-2000: The Challenge of Image Retrieval Third UK Conference on Image Retrieval May 4-5 2000 Brighton, United Kingdom CIR moves to Brighton in 2000, with a new format - separate practitioner and research tracks linked by common plenary sessions. As in previous years, it aims to attract high- quality papers covering all aspects of image and video retrieval from both the UK and overseas. The main themes of CIR-2000 are video asset management, image indexing and metadata, and content-based image retrieval. Our distinguished list of invited speakers includes: Professor Howard Besser, University of California at Berkeley Dr Ruud Bolle, IBM Thomas Watson Research Center Dr Richard Nicol, Head of Research, BT Adastral Park Professor Mark Overmaars, University of Utrecht Image and video storage and retrieval continues to be one of the most exciting and fastest-growing research areas in the field of multimedia technology. However, opportunities within the UK for the exchange of ideas between different groups of researchers, and between researchers and potential users of image retrieval systems, are still limited. The Challenge of Image Retrieval series of conferences was set up specifically to bridge the gap between the different communities with an interest in image retrieval. Successful conferences were held in Newcastle upon Tyne in 1998 and 1999. The 2000 event again aims to bring together researchers and practitioners in the area of image data management, to exchange information and gain some idea of the significance of developments in related disciplines. It should be of interest to researchers in fields as diverse as information retrieval, database, computer vision and image processing, human visual perception and interface design, as well as users and managers of image and video libraries. CALL FOR PAPERS Original papers are solicited for the conference describing research or innovation in any area related to image or video storage and retrieval. Accounts of work in progress are acceptable provided at least some results are reported. Possible topics include, but are not limited to: * Studies of information-seeking behaviour among image users * HCI issues in image retrieval * Evaluation of image retrieval systems * Novel image data management systems and applications * Query models, paradigms and languages for image retrieval * Content-based indexing, search and retrieval of images * Feature extraction and representation * Visual perception and image retrieval * Image search and browsing on the Web * Semantic retrieval of images and video * Neural network techniques for image classification and retrieval * Database architectures for image retrieval * Image data management for multimedia systems The programme committee are aiming to ensure a balance between technical and user orientation in the submitted papers presented at the conference. To achieve this, we particularly welcome submissions which deal with user issues. SUBMISSION DETAILS: Authors are asked to submit full papers (no longer than 5000 words), in English, to the Programme Chair, Dr John Eakins. Electronic submission is strongly encouraged. Authors wishing to submit electronically should consult the CIR-2000 Web pages at http://www.unn.ac.uk/iidr/cir/cir00/cfp.html for details of submission procedures and guidelines. Authors who do not wish to submit electronically are asked to send three paper copies of their submission, together with a covering letter containing contact information, to: Dr John P Eakins, The Challenge of Image Retrieval, Institute for Image Data Research, University of Northumbria at Newcastle, Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 8ST. The closing date for both electronic and paper submissions is Friday 21 January 2000. Authors whose contributions are accepted for presentation will be notified by Friday 3 March 2000. They will be required to submit final versions of their papers, for inclusion in the conference proceedings, by Friday, 7 April 2000. It is intended that all accepted papers will be published in the BCS electronic Workshops in Computing series. CONFERENCE SPONSORS (PROVISIONAL): * Institute for Image Data Research, University of Northumbria at Newcastle * The British Computer Society Information Retrieval Specialist Group * The Library and Information Commission * The Institute of Information Scientists * Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen * The British Machine Vision Association IMPORTANT DATES: Deadline for Submission: 21 January 2000 Notification of Acceptance: 3 March 2000 Final version due: 7 April 2000 Margaret Graham Research and Development Manager Institute for Image Data Research University of Northumbria at Newcastle Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 8ST UK Tel: +44 (0191) 227 4646; Fax: +44 (0191) 227 4637 Email: margaret.graham@unn.ac.uk URL: http://www.unn.ac.uk/iidr/ ********** III.B.4. Fr: Priscilla Rasmussen Re: LREC 2000: CFPapers The European Language Resources Association (ELRA), the Institute for Language and Speech Processing (ILSP, Athens, Greece), and the National Technical University of Athens, Greece are pleased to announce: The 2nd International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC2000) http://www.icp.grenet.fr/ELRA/lrec2000.html) Athens, Greece 31 May - 2 June 2000 The Second International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation has been initiated by ELRA and is organised in cooperation with other Associations and Consortia, including ACL, ALLC, COCOSDA, ORIENTAL COCOSDA, EAFT, EAGLES, EDR, ELSNET, ESCA, EURALEX, FRANCIL, LDC, PAROLE, TELRI, etc., and with major national and international organisations, including the European Commission - DG XIII, ARPA, NSF, the IC/863 HTRDP Project (China), the National Natural Science Foundation of China, the ICSP Permanent Committee (Korea), The Natural Language Technical committee of JEIDA (Japan), and the Japanese Project for International Coordination in Corpora, Assessment and Labelling. Cooperation and support from other institutions is currently being sought. CONFERENCE AIMS In the framework of the Information Society, the pervasive character of human language technologies (HLT) and their relevance to all the fields of Information Society Technologies (IST) has been widely recognised. Two issues are currently considered to be particularly relevant: 1) the availability of language resources and 2) the methods for the evaluation of resources, technologies and products. Substantial mutual benefits can be expected from addressing these issues through international cooperation. The term language resources (LR) refers to sets of language data and descriptions in machine readable form, used specifically for building and evaluating natural language and speech algorithms or systems, for software localisation industries and language services, for language enabled information and communication services, for electronic commerce, electronic publishing, language studies, subject-area specialists and end users. Examples of language resources are written and spoken corpora, computational lexica, grammars, terminology databases, and basic software tools for the acquisition, preparation, collection, management, customisation and use of these and other resources. The relevance of evaluation for Language Engineering is increasingly recognised. This involves assessment of the state of the art for a given technology, measuring the progress achieved within a programme, comparing different approaches to a given problem and choosing the best solution, knowing its advantages and drawbacks, assessment of the availability of technologies for a given application, product benchmarking, and assessment of user satisfaction. Language engineering and R&D in language technologies have made important advances in the recent past in various aspects of both written and spoken language processing. Although the evaluation paradigm has been studied and used in large national and international programmes, including the US ARPA HLT programme, the EU LE programme Francophone Aupelf-Uref programme and others, and in the localisation industry (LISA and LRC), it is still subject to substantial unresolved basic research problems. The aim of this conference is to provide an overview of the state of the art, to discuss problems and opportunities, and to exchange information regarding ongoing and planned activities, language resources and their applications. We also intend to discuss evaluation methodologies and demonstrate evaluation tools, and explore possibilities and promote initiatives for international cooperation in the areas mentioned above. CONFERENCE TOPICS The following non-exhaustive list gives some examples of topics that could be addressed by papers submitted to LREC2000: I. Issues in the design, construction and use of Languages Resources (LR) (theoretical & best practice): * Guidelines, standards, specifications, and models for LR * Organisational issues in the construction, distribution, and use of LR * Methods, tools, procedures for the acquisition, creation, annotation, management, access, distribution, and use of LR * Legal aspects and problems in the construction, access, and use of LR * Availability and use of generic vs. task/domain specific LR * Methods for the extraction and acquisition of knowledge (e.g. terms, lexical information, language modelling) from LR * Monolingual and multilingual LR * Multimodal and multimedia LR * LR and the needs/opportunities of the emerging multimedia cultural industry * Industrial production and use of LR * Integration of various modalities in LR (spoken, visual, gestual, textual) * Exploitation of LR in different types of applications (language technology, information retrieval, vocal interfaces, electronic commerce, etc.) * Industrial LR requirements and the community's response * Analysis of user needs for LR * Mechanisms of LR distribution and marketing * Economics of LR * Customisation and use of LR * Research issues relevant for LR II. Issues in Human Language Technologies evaluation: * Evaluation, validation, quality assurance of LR * Benchmarking of systems and products; resources for benchmarking and evaluation * Evaluation in written language processing (text retrieval, terminology extraction, message understanding, text alignment, machine translation, morphosyntactic tagging, parsing, semantic tagging, word sense disambiguation, text understanding, summarisation, localisation, etc.) * Evaluation in spoken language processing (speech recognition and understanding, voice dictation, oral dialog, speech synthesis, speech coding, speaker and language recognition, etc.) * Evaluation of document processing (document recognition, on-line and off-line machine and hand-written character recognition, etc.) * Evaluation of (multimedia) document retrieval and search systems * Evaluation of multimodal systems * Qualitative and perceptive evaluation * Evaluation of products and applications * Blackbox, glassbox and diagnostic evaluation of systems * Situated evaluation of applications * Evaluation methodologies, protocols and measures * From evaluation to standardisation of LR * Research issues relevant to evaluation III. General issues: * National and international activities and projects * LR and the needs/opportunities of the emerging multimedia cultural industry * Priorities, perspectives, strategies in the field of LR national and international policies * Needs, possibilities, forms, initiatives of/for international cooperation The Scientific Programme will include invited talks, presentations of accepted papers, poster sessions, referenced demonstrations and panels. Pre-Conference Workshops will be organized on the 29th and 30th of May and post-Conference Workshops on the 3rd and 4th of June 2000. Please consult the conference Web site (http://www.icp.grenet.fr/ELRA/lrec2000.html) for complete information about submission guidelines, contact people, submission dates, various conference committees and members, and other general information. IMPORTANT DATES TO REMEMBER * 20 NOVEMBER 1999: Submission of proposals for papers, posters, referenced demos, panels And workshops * 10 DECEMBER 1999: Notification of acceptance of workshop and panel proposals * 2 FEBRUARY 2000: Notification of acceptance of papers, posters, referenced demos * 2 APRIL 2000: Final version of the articles for the proceedings * 31 MAY - 2 JUNE 2000: Conference For general information about the conference, please contact: LREC Secretariat: Ms. Despina Scutari Institute for Language and Speech Processing (ILSP) 6, Artemidos & Epidavrou Str. 15125 Marousi, Athens, GREECE Tel: +301 6800959 ; Fax: +301 6854270 e-mail: LREC2000@ilsp.gr LREC2000 website: http://www.icp.grenet.fr/ELRA/lrec2000.html For general information about ELRA, please contact: Khalid CHOUKRI 55-57 Rue Brillat-Savarin 75013 Paris FRANCE Tel. +33 1 43 13 33 33 - Fax. +33 1 43 13 33 30 e-mail: choukri@elda.fr http://www.icp.grenet.fr/ELRA/home.html ********** III.B.5. Fr: Efthimis Efthimiadis Re: SLIS Talk: Advanced Indexing and Searching for Free Text The School of Library & Information Science, University of Washington, and the student chapter of ASIS invite you to a talk on: Advanced Indexing and Searching for Free Text by Lance N. Otis, Thomas E. Bougan & Jonathan Ultis Applied Technical Systems, Inc. Tuesday November 23, 1999 2:30-4:30pm Room 315 (Computer Classroom), Old Electrical Enginneering Blg; School of Library & Information Science, University of Washingon. 206-543-1794 Advanced Indexing and Searching for Free Text by Lance N. Otis, Thomas E. Bougan & Jonathan Ultis Natural searching in free text is a very difficult problem in information retrieval. The complexities of natural language make such searches a combination of luck, experience, and creativity. For example, analysts may need to search for all conjugations of a root (ship, shipped, shipping) in order to find information. In addition, the analyst may have to think of synonyms (ship, boat, raft, canoe) in order to retrieve all the information required. In short, accurate information retrieval in free text is hit or miss. The seminar will present an overview of advanced indexing and searching techniques for free text, including discussions of advanced data structures that can be used to represent text. A means for bottom-up thesaurus construction based on those structures and techniques for using a thesaurus to aid in the synonym or similar word selection in text searches will be discussed. In addition, the investigators will address usability issues such as misspelled words in a query or data, or mismatches between root words and conjugated versions of the root in the query or data. Data navigation techniques, query methods that can allow more natural exploration of free text, user interface issues, and some areas that bear further research will also be discussed. Following the theoretical discussion on information retrieval in text, a demonstration of a text searching and indexing engine that uses the advanced features will be provided. Brief Biographical Information of Speakers: Lance N. Otis is Chief Scientist at Applied Technical Systems, Inc., Bremerton, WA. He is responsible for design and development of CCM, a new object-oriented multidimensional client/server database system for application to a broad set of business problems too complex for traditional relational databases. CCM out performs relational database query speed by a factor of 10 to 100. This product is presently in use for text mining, decision support, and multimedia data management in various applications in the intelligence community, bioinformatics, nuclear power plants, and digital image cataloging. He received his M.S. in Nuclear Engineering from the University of Washington and is a co-holder of a patent for computer-based management of complex data relationships and roles for text and data retrieval. Otis is a member of IEEE, ACM, the American College of Forensic Examiners, the International Association of Law Enforcement Intelligence Analysts, and the National Military Intelligence Association. He is a former Deputy Director at Naval Sea Systems Command, W. D.C. Thomas E. Bougan is the Senior Project Manager for the Advanced Systems Division of Applied Technical Systems, Inc., Bremerton, WA. He is responsible for design and development of the University of Washington Pharmaceuticals drug interaction database and web site as well as numerous other projects. He has developed advanced database and user-interface applications in fields as diverse as government grants management to torpedo maintenance. He received his M.A. in Geography from the University of South Carolina and taught for three years there. He is a former naval flight officer. Jonathan Ultis is a Programmer/Systems Analyst in the Advanced Systems Division of Applied Technical Systems, Inc., Bremerton WA. He is researching advanced knowledgebase systems for managing and indexing very large text corpora. He recently co-developed a socket interface to the CCM engine. The socket interface provides high-performance access to the CCM database system over a network at a lower price than previous solutions. He was responsible for development of a text mining system for Clinton Nuclear Power and developed a tool for the U. S. Office of Personnel Management for ranking resumes by comparing the number of like concepts in a job description using the CCM's text analysis features. He holds a B.Sc. in Computer Science from Harding University and is attending the University of Washington. He won World Finalist honors in the 1998 ACM C++ Programming Competition. Efthimis N. Efthimiadis Associate Professor School of Library & Information Science University of Washington tel.(off.) 206-616-6077 Box 352930 tel.(schl) 206-543-1794 Seattle, WA 98195-2930 fax. 206-616-3152 ********** III.B.6. Fr: Sidney Fels Re: Graphics Interface 2000: CFPapers Deadline November 19 GRAPHICS INTERFACE 2000 Palais des Congrès Montréal, Québec, Canada 15-17 May 2000 Call for Papers GI 2000 is a unique event that presents the latest results in computer graphics and human-computer interaction. It offers three days of Invited Speakers, Posters, and Submitted Papers. A Banquet and Electronic Theatre provide additional opportunities to meet speakers and other attendees for informal discussion in a social setting. This conference is sponsored by Canadian Human-Computer Communications Society. This year will be the 26th annual Graphics Interface. It is the oldest regularly scheduled computer graphics and human-computer interface conference in the world. Graphics Interface has established a reputation for a high-quality technical program, and the excellence of its invited speakers. Full details are on the GI 2000 web site (http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~gi2000) GI 2000 will be held at the Palais des Congrès, Montréal, Québec, Canada, in conjunction with four other conferences: AI 2000 (Artificial Intelligence), VI 2000 (Vision Interface), 10th annual PRECARN-IRIS (Institute for Robotics and Intelligent Systems), and ISR 2000 (31st International Symposium on Robotics). This special joint event offers a unique opportunity to broaden dissemination of the scientific results and to foster the exchange of expertise across adjacent research fields. To promote these exchanges, all attendees will have access to the presentations of these parallelconferences, as well as to the following exhibitions: Robotics of Tomorrow Exhibition, the Montreal Fabricating and Machine Tool Show, and the National Factory Automation Show. Montréal is a lively Canadian city located on an island in the St. Lawrence River. It is well connected by all major international airlines. Its four universities, several research institutes, world class technologies industry, theatres, and museums have contributed to its international reputation as a dynamic business, scientific, and cultural center. With a population representing 80 ethnic groups, Montréal is known for its "joie de vivre"! Conference and Program Chairs Sidney Fels, University of British Columbia Pierre Poulin, Université de Montréal Posters Chair Wolfgang Stuerzlinger, York University Videos Chair Pierre Poulin, Université de Montréal Invited Speakers Henry Fuchs, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Hiroshi Ishii, MIT Media Lab Demitri Terzopolous, University of Toronto Important Dates Papers due: 19 November 1999 Decision for Papers: 1 February 2000 Posters due: 7 March 2000 Videos due: 7 March 2000 Camera-ready papers due: 3 April 2000 Decision for Posters: 10 April 2000 Decision for Videos: 10 April 2000 Submissions Contributions are solicited describing unpublished research results and applications experience in all areas of computer graphics and human-computer interaction, specifically including the following: - Image synthesis & realism - User interfaces & modeling - Image-based rendering techniques - Shading & rendering algorithms - Windowing systems - Hardware techniques - Geometric modeling & meshing - Computer cartography - Computer supported cooperative work - Computer animation - Image processing - Interaction techniques - Medical graphics - Graphics for CAD/CAM - Graphics in education - Computer-aided building design - Graphics & the arts - Industrial & robotics applications - Visualization - Graphics in business - Graphics in simulation - Mobile computing - Haptic interfaces - Human interface devices Papers (20 double-spaced pages or fewer) must be received by 19 November 1999. The submissions this year will be entirely electronic. Please visit the Graphics Interface web site for the description of the submission process. In exceptional cases, traditional submissions will be accepted by first contacting one of the conference co-chairs. Refereeing will be double blind. Only the title, without any indication of authorship or author location, should appear on the manuscript body. A separate file (sheet) should contain the manuscript title, abstract, and the full names, postal addresses, phone numbers, fax numbers, and email addresses for all authors. One author should be designated the contact author for subsequent correspondence regarding the paper. Accepted papers will be published in the Proceedings of Graphics Interface 2000. Notification of acceptance or rejection will be mailed to the contact author by 1 February 2000. Camera ready copy of accepted papers is due 3 April 2000. Each paper will be allotted up to eight (8) pages in the proceedings. Extra charges will be made for papers exceeding the limit and for coloured photos. The GI 2000 proceedings will be available to SIGGRAPH Plus members. Exceptionally good papers will be considered for publication in journals. Arrangements exist for the best graphics papers to be considered by Computer Graphics Forum and for the best human-computer interface papers to be considered by Behaviour & Information Technology. Conference Co-Chair addresses: Sidney Fels Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering The University of British Columbia Vancouver, B.C., Canada V6T 1Z4 Phone: +1 604-822-5338 Fax: +1 604-822-5949 Email: ssfels@ece.ubc.ca Pierre Poulin Dép. I.R.O. Université de Montréal C.P. 6128, succ. 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