Information Retrieval List Digest 480 (November 22, 1999) URL = http://hegel.lib.ncsu.edu/stacks/serials/irld/irld-480.txt IRLIST Digest ISSN 1064-6965 November 22, 1999 Volume XVI, Number 44 Issue 480 ****************************************************************** I. QUERIES 1. Doubt about Metrics for Evaluation in IR II. JOBS 1. Sharp Labs, Oxford, UK: Software Development: (Multimedia) Document Management Applications 2. Do your research projects need a graduate student? III. NOTICES A. Publications 1. JASIS 50:14 TOC: Perspectives on Copyright 2. New PADI Website and Discussion List 3. FoCL (Foundations of Computational Linguistics) 4. [WASHINGTON-UPDATE] CONGRESS WRAPS UP SESSION B. Meetings 1. TSD 2000: Preliminary Announcement 2. EvoIASP2000: Extended Deadline and Best Paper Award 3. LREC2000: Deadline Extension C. Miscellaneous 1. UW-SLIS ISI Lazerow Annual Lecture by Prof. E.D.Liddy ****************************************************************** I. QUERIES I.1. Fr: Franklin Ramalho Re: Doubt about Metrics for Evaluation in IR Hi people, Can someone tell me where I can find research on the other metrics beyond precision and recall, for evaluations about the performance in IR systems? By the way, in the book "Automatic Information Organization and Retrieval" by Gerard Salton, I found something about Pnorm and Rnorm, that he says can be used for systems where ranked document output is obtained. The reason to use these metrics is to avoid many different recall-precision pairs that already recall and precision calculations that are affected by the cutoff point chosen to distinguish retrieved from nonretrieved material. So I have a doubt: Why must I need some recall-precision pairs, if the retrieved document number is finite, and thus I can calculate only one recall-precision pair? In this same string of thought, I could consider the Pnorm and Rnorm as metrics that also need many pairs of recall-precision (Rnorm-Pnorm), considering the retrieved relevant document number by the system like a "cutoff". Best regards, Franklin Ramalho Pos-graduacao em Ciencia da Computacao - DI/UFPE Recife - Brazil E-mail - fsr@di.ufpe.br URL : www.di.ufpe.br/~fsr ****************************************************************** II. JOBS II.1. Fr: Jan J IJdens Re: Sharp Labs, Oxford, UK: Software Development: (Multimedia) Document Management Applications In the Information Technology Department at Sharp Labs in Oxford we are currently looking for two software developers to work on implementing document management and information retrieval applications. Below I have included the job advertisement as it will appear in the newspapers. If you would like to informally discuss these jobs, feel free to email me. If you would like to apply, please contact Victoria Notley, our recruitment coordinator (details in the ad). Jan. Jan J IJdens, Senior Research Scientist, Information Technology Department, Information Management Group, Sharp Laboratories of Europe, Oxford Science Park, Edmund Halley Road, Oxford OX4 4GB, UK. --- Email: jan@sharp.co.uk (SENIOR) SOFTWARE DEVELOPERS OXFORD ATTRACTIVE PACKAGE You will have seen SHARP products such as mini-disc players, electronic organisers, office products and the world’s first LCD ViewCam, but do you know where they came from? Sharp Laboratories of Europe, situated on the Oxford Science Park, is one of Sharp’s global R&D centres creating the technological advances to make such products possible. We are looking for the very best people, and in return we offer a competitive salary, excellent research environment, training and other benefits. Two talented developers, one at senior level, are required to work in a tightly knit community with our existing researchers, building innovative applications for the global consumer and small business markets. Both posts are initially for two years. The senior developer will lead a team building search and language applications as part of an international project. Both developers will be required to communicate with our colleagues in America and Japan and should be prepared to travel occasionally. Applicants must have the following: * The ability to plan and organise your own time and work effectively in a team; * A good computer science degree or equivalent; * Experience of development for PCs in a commercial environment; * At least two years experience with C/C++ and MFC/Win32; candidates with some knowledge of Java will be preferred. Additionally, the senior developer must have: * A track record of project and people management; * An ability to create high level and detailed project implementation plans. To apply, please send your CV with the name of 2 referees to Victoria Notley at the address below (email preferred) quoting reference IT-SD-99-1: Sharp Laboratories of Europe Ltd Edmund Halley Road Oxford Science Park Oxford OX4 4GB Email: Vee.Notley@sharp.co.uk Tel: +44 (0) 1865 747711 Fax: +44 (0) 1865 747717 ********** II.2. Fr: gaoqingzhong Re: Do your research projects need a graduate student? I'm very interested in Computing Language. I am eager to get an advanced training and research in your projects, and I hope that you can evaluate me and make your decision. If you have any doubt on the following material, you can contact with me or, or my supervisor Yao tianfang . If you have any question on the project of ACNLG(Applied Chinese Natural Language Generation), you can contact with Uszkoreit , or Horacek , or Huang Xiaorong . Don't hesitate to contact with me. I am eager to communicate with you. Thank you very much! Sincerely yours, Gao qingzhong Introduction about Myself 1.Current interest of Computing Language Although almost every branch of Computer science attracts me, my current interest primarily resides in Computing Language, especially in Natural language Process/Generation. After my graduation in March 1999, I have worked as a software engineer for half a year, and now I am eager to continue study and research in it. 2. My undergraduate education is excellent. An Introduction to MEC In 1992, high school, as a winner of First Class Prize of MOMHS (Mathematics Competition of National High Schools), I was selected to MEC (Mathematics Experiment Class) of NANKAI university, waived of admission test. MEC is founded by great mathematician S.S.Chern, and its goal is to foster young mathematician. It is so highly selective that almost every member of MEC is First Class Prizewinner of MONHS, furthermore, in 1995, MEC representatives won NANKAI the collective First Class Prize of Mathematics Competition of National Universities. Excellent Performance in Courses In MEC and excellent environment of NANKAI Mathematics Institute, I've taken enormous advantage. My formal course involves many advanced mathematics courses specially set for MEC, and general physics, including ODE, PDE, Differential Geometry, Topology, Functional Analysis, Abstract Algebra, Probability and Statistics, etc. My formal training also includes many computer science courses such as FORTRAN/C/C++/Assembly Language, Data Structure and Algorithms, Principle of Computer system, Computer Graphics, Logical Circuit and Single Board Computer, etc. My satisfactory performance in these courses distinguishes myself in tough competition and exams. My good overall grades own me consecutive scholarships, and in 1996, when I graduated, my GPA ranked 10th in MEC (total 30 members), meanwhile above 10% in Mathematics Department (total 130 members). 3. My graduate study is very fruitful. Seek for Best Research Direction In 1996, in order to follow K.C. Chang, famous mathematician in nonlinear analysis, I gave up the privilege to enter the Graduate program at NANKAI University waived of admission test, and entered Shanghai Jiaotong University, and so became Chang's student. Wide Range Knowledge I took many graduate computer science courses including: Artificial Intelligence, Chinese Information Processing, Multimedium Technique and Its Application, Information Management System, Advanced Database, Computer Networks, Expert Systems and Tools, Modern Algebra, Introduction of Computing language, Introduction of Natural Language Processing, etc. My overall grades are good. Research Work Though still good at course study, I transferred my emphasis to research work in the graduate study stage, owing to Advisor Yao's provident suggestion. My Master's thesis was "The Design and Implementation of a Surface Generator for the Multilingual Language Generation System", whose abstract English version was published in Proceedings 5th Natural Language Processing Pacific Rim Symposium 1999 "Closing the Milennium" (P239-244). In the process of researching the project of ACNLG, we have developed two application systems: MLWFA (Multilingual Weather Forecast Assistant System) and MLBSR (Multilingual Bank Statistic Report System), and I was in charge of the development and improvement of the surface generator -- one major module of the whole system which consists of three modules: Macroplanner, Microplanner, and Surface Generator. It is the research work that maneuvers my entire past computer science and maths knowledge, steels my method to research, and enables me to cooperate with different academic members. 4. I have sufficient teaching experience. In the 3rd and 4th semester, 1997-1998, I assisted my supervisor Yao in teaching sophomore students in Department of computer science. 5. I have good language ability. My scores in International English Test are as follows: GRE (Nov, 1998): verbal 540 analysis 700 quantity 790 total 2030. TOEFL (Oct, 1999): 600-620 (estimated) GRE MATH SUB (Nov, 1999): 930-990 (estimated). ****************************************************************** III. NOTICES III.A.1. Fr: Richard Hill Re: JASIS 50:14 TOC: Perspectives on Copyright Journal of the American Society for Information Science JASIS VOLUME 50 NUMBER 14 DECEMBER 1999 CONTENTS EDITORIAL In This Issue Bert R. Boyce 1263 RESEARCH Children's Relevance Criteria and Information Seeking on Electronic Resources Sandra G. Hirsh 1265 Indirect-Collective Referencing (ICR): Life Course, Nature, and Importance of a Special Kind of Scientific Referencing Endre Szava-Kovats 1284 Computer and Natural Language Texts--A Comparison Based on Long-Range Correlations Peter Kokol, Vili Podgorelec, Milan Zorman, Tatjana Kokol, and Tatjana Njivar 1295 PERSPECTIVES ON COPYRIGHT AND FAIR-USE GUIDELINES FOR EDUCATION AND LIBRARIES [From the acknowledgment: I also extend my thanks to Lois Lunin and her colleagues at John Wiley & Sons, Inc. They expressed an early interest in publishing these essays, continued to push us when the project needed additional motivation, and they kindly cooperated in permitting the authors to enter into a most extraordinary agreement for these essays. The fundamental objective of these essays is to assist decision makers at libraries and educational institutions throughout the country, who may be struggling with the question of whether the CONFU guidelines on fair use may be appropriate standards for local policies and practices. We hope that these essays will assist with those decisions, and promote discussion of these issues. To that end, the agreement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc. allows the publisher to retain the copyright to these works, but this published version includes the statement that they may be reproduced and distributed by nonprofit educational institutions and libraries. We hope that this permission will allow the articles to be widely shared at colleges and universities and at libraries to increase awareness of copyright and to help those institutions make more informed decisions with respect to fair use.] Introduction and Overview Kenneth D. Crews 1304 CONFU-sed: Security, Safe Harbors, and Fair-Use Guidelines Dwayne K. Buttler 1308 What's Right About Fair-Use Guidelines for the Academic Community? Mary Levering 1313 What's Wrong With Fair-Use Guidelines for the Academic Community? Kenneth Frazier 1320 The Multimedia Guidelines Joann Stevens 1324 Testing the Limits: The CONFU Digital-Images and Multimedia Guidelines and Their Consequences for Libraries and Educators Christine L. Sundt 1328 Guidelines for Distance Learning and Interlibrary Loan: Doomed and More Doomed Laura N. Gasaway 1337 Electronic Reserves and Fair Use: The Outer Limits of CONFU Kenneth D. Crews 1342 The Economics of Publishing: The Consequences of Library and Research Copying Colin Day 1346 The Immunity Dilemma: Are State Colleges and Universities Still Liable for Copyright Infringements? Kenneth D. Crews and Georgia K. Harper 1350 Fair-Use Guidelines: A Selected Bibliography Noemi A. Rivera-Morales 1353 AUTHOR INDEX 1361 SUBJECT INDEX 1367 VOLUME CONTENTS I The ASIS home page contains the Table of Contents and brief abstracts as above from January 1993 (Volume 44) to date.n The John Wiley Interscience site includes issues from 1986 (Volume 37) to date. Guests have access only to tables of contents and abstracts. Registered users of the Interscience site have access to the full text of these issues and to preprints. We are working on restoring access for ASIS members in the near future. Richard Hill American Society for Information Science 8720 Georgia Avenue, Suite 501 Silver Spring, MD 20910 (301) 495-0900 FAX: (301) 495-0810 http://www.asis.org ********** III.A.2. Fr: Deborah Woodyard Re: New PADI Website and Discussion List Are you concerned about the dangers of losing our fragile digital heritage? The National Library of Australia invites all those with an interest in ensuring continuing access to digital information to visit the PADI website: http://www.nla.gov.au/padi/. In response to a growing recognition of the need to safeguard digital heritage, the National Library of Australia established its Preserving Access to Digital Information (PADI) website in 1997. The Library has recently redeveloped this site into a comprehensive 'subject gateway' with more powerful search capabilities and efficient maintenance processes that will help the Library keep it up-to-date. Cooperation has played a crucial role in the PADI initiative that has been carried out in partnership with Australian and international experts. Users are now invited to suggest resources for the PADI database using a new online form. A new discussion list, padiforum-l, has been set up for the exchange of news and ideas about digital preservation issues. Subscribers are encouraged to post digital preservation news, including announcements of forthcoming events, to padiforum-l. Discussion on all aspects of preserving access to digital information is also welcome. To subscribe to padiforum-l: 1. send an email to listproc@nla.gov.au; 2. leave the subject line blank; 3. type in the first line of the message: 'subscribe padiforum-l [your name]'. For further information about the PADI initiative, including padiforum-l, please contact the PADI Coordinator, email: padi@nla.gov.au. Deborah Woodyard PADI / Digital Preservation National Library of Australia Canberra ACT 2600 AUSTRALIA mailto:dwoodyar@nla.gov.au ph: +61 2 6262 1366 PADI: http://www.nla.gov.au/padi/ ********** III.A.3. Fr: Edmund Schwabacher Re: FoCL (Foundations of Computational Linguistics) The slides for Foundations of Computational Linguistics man-machine communication in natural language* Roland Hausser Springer-Verlag 1999, ISBN: 3540660151 534pp. are now available at http://www.linguistik.uni-erlangen.de/~rrh/Slides.html The slides for Hausser's NLPRS'99 paper (Beijing, China, Nov. 6, 1999) may be found at http://www.linguistik.uni-erlangen.de/~rrh/Schriftenverzeichnis.html For comments, problems, etc., please contact me. Best regards, Eduard Schwabacher * See also http://www.springer.de/cgi-bin/bag_generate.pl?ISBN=3-540-66015-1 or http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/3540660151/qid%3D939451185/sr%3D1-1/1 02-0913947-4074441 ********** III.A.4. Fr: EDUCAUSE Re: [WASHINGTON-UPDATE] CONGRESS WRAPS UP SESSION EDUCAUSE: Transforming Education Through Information Technologies http://www.educause.edu EDUCAUSE WASHINGTON UPDATE --- NOVEMBER 22, 1999 IN THIS ISSUE CONGRESS WRAPS UP SESSION WITH PASSAGE OF INTERNET LEGISLATION -House and Senate Pass Electronic Signature Bills - Fight in Conference Expected Next Session -Anti-Cybersquatting Legislation Rides Controversial Satellite Bill -Database Protection Bill Deferred Until Next Session - Library and Higher Education Community Urged to Contact Congress -Senate Would Pull the Plug on Most Internet Gambling DEPLOYMENT OF ADVANCED NETWORKS -FCC Directs Telephone Companies to Share Lines with Data Providers E-RATE FILING WINDOW OPENS FOR FY 2000 >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> 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: Robert Batusek Re: TSD 2000: Preliminary Announcement The Third International Workshop on TEXT, SPEECH and DIALOGUE (TSD 2000) Brno, Czech Republic 13-16 September 2000 TSD Series TSD series evolved as a prime forum for interaction between researchers in both spoken and written language processing from the former East Block countries and their Western colleagues. Being held in Czech Republic, the cost of attending is very reasonable. Proceedings of TSD form a book (currently published by Springer-Verlag in their Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence series). TOPICS Topics of the TSD 2000 workshop will include (but are not limited to): text corpora and tagging; transcription problems in spoken corpora; sense disambiguation; links between text and speech oriented systems; parsing issues, especially parsing problems in spoken texts; multi-lingual issues, especially multi-lingual dialogue systems; information retrieval and text/topic summarization; speech modeling; speech segmentation; speech recognition; text-to-speech synthesis; dialogue systems; development of dialogue strategies; prosody in dialogues; user modeling; knowledge representation in relation to dialogue systems; assistive technologies based on speech and dialogue; applied systems and software. Papers on processing of languages other than English are strongly encouraged. FORMAT OF THE WORKSHOP TSD 2000 is an international workshop with a limited number of participants and priority given to the active participants. The workshop program will include oral presentations and a poster/demonstration sessions with time for discussions of the issues raised. Social events including a trip in the vicinity of Brno will allow for additional informal interactions. SUBMISSION OF PAPERS Authors should submit extended abstracts not exceeding 1000 words by March 10, 2000 to the e-mail address: tsd2000@fi.muni.cz Submission must also include the author(s) name, affiliation, address, telephone and fax numbers and e-mail address. Acceptance of the submissions will be acknowledged by e-mail. Papers have to follow the Springer-Verlag instructions for the authors for Lecture Notes in Computer Science series. The instructions can be found at the www address: http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html IMPORTANT DATES Preliminary registration and deadline for submission of extended abstracts: March 10, 2000 Notification of acceptance sent to the authors: April 30, 2000 Final papers (camera ready) and registration: May 30, 2000 Workshop date: September 13-16, 2000 The contributions to the workshop will be published in proceedings that will be made available to participants at the time of the workshop. The proceedings of the last TSD workshop were published by Springer-Verlag in the series Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and we anticipate the same format for TSD 2000. OFFICIAL LANGUAGE The official language is English. ADDRESS All correspondence regarding the workshop should be addressed to: Dana Komarkova TSD 2000 c/o Faculty of Informatics Masaryk University Botanická 68a CZ-602 00 Brno Czech Republic telephone: ++420 5 41 512 359 fax: ++420 5 41 212 568 e-mail: tsd2000@fi.muni.cz The official TSD 2000 homepage is: http://www.fi.muni.cz/tsd2000/ ********** III.B.2. Fr: Stefano Cagnoni Re: EvoIASP2000: Extended Deadline and Best Paper Award EvoIASP 2000: 2nd European Workshop on Evolutionary Computation in Image Analysis and Signal Processing (April 17,2000) EXTENDED DEADLINE (DECEMBER 1, 1999) AND BEST PAPER AWARD We are pleased to notify you that: A) we could extend the deadline for submissions to EvoIASP (for the full CALL FOR PAPERS please consult the official Web page at http://www.ce.unipr.it/evoiasp2000 ) until DECEMBER 1, 1999 B) a Best Paper Award will be offered to the author(s) of the paper that the Program Committee will judge as the most innovative and original submitted to the Conference. Authors who have already submitted papers will be allowed to submit a revised version of their paper before the new deadline. Looking forward to meeting you in Edinburgh Riccardo Poli and Stefano Cagnoni EvoIASP2000 co-chairs ********** III.B.3. Fr: Jeff ALLEN Re: LREC2000: Deadline Extension EXTENDED DEADLINE LREC2000 Please note that, due to the number of requests, the submission deadline (abstracts for papers, posters or demos; proposals for panels or workshops) for the 2nd International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC2000) to be held in ATHENS, GREECE, 31 MAY- 2 JUNE 2000 has been postponed until Saturday 27 November 1999 (instead of the original Saturday 20 November 1999 deadline). All detailed submission information can be found at: http://www.elda.fr/lrec2000.html New Calendar of IMPORTANT DATES Submission of proposals for papers, posters, referenced demos, panels and workshops: 27 NOVEMBER 1999 Notification of acceptance of workshop and panel proposals: 10 DECEMBER 1999 Notification of acceptance of papers, posters, referenced demos: 2 FEBRUARY 2000 Final version of the articles for the proceedings: 2 APRIL 2000 CONFERENCE DATES: 31 MAY - 2 JUNE 2000 Jeff ALLEN - Technical Manager/Directeur Technique European Language Resources Association (ELRA) & European Language resources - Distribution Agency (ELDA) (Agence Europe'enne de Distribution des Ressources Linguistiques) 55, rue Brillat-Savarin 75013 Paris FRANCE Tel: (+33) 1.43.13.33.33 - Fax: (+33) 1.43.13.33.30 mailto:jeff@elda.fr http://www.icp.grenet.fr/ELRA/home.html *** See the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC) 2000 Web site: http://www.icp.grenet.fr/ELRA/lrec2000.html *** ********** III.C.1. Fr: Efthimis Efthimiadis Re: UW-SLIS ISI Lazerow Annual Lecture by Prof. E.D.Liddy The University of Washington School of Library and Information Science invites you to the 1999 Samuel Lazerow Memorial Lecture. Professor Elizabeth D. Liddy, Syracuse University, will deliver a lecture on "Text Mining for Decision Making." Date: Tuesday, November 30th, 1999 Time: 4:00 pm Place: U.W. Odegaard Undergraduate Library, Room 220 Map available from: http://www.washington.edu/home/maps/northcentral.html The lecture is free and will be followed by a reception for Dr. Liddy. Abstract: Complex decisions involve, of necessity, large amounts of complex data containing a broad range of variables - a situation that makes clarity in decision-making a challenge. Coupled with this is the added complexity that much of the information needed for making decisions lies in non-structured, textual files. To resolve this situation, recent advances in Natural Language Processing-based information access and analytic technologies have been coupled with clarifying visualization techniques to produce systems that can facilitate advanced text-mining capabilities - a specialized form of data mining. Along with details of her recent NLP research, Dr. Liddy will describe her research in information extraction and summarization, intelligent agent-based decision support; semantically based tools for viewing, organizing, and retrieving text, and text mining of complex document types for knowledge management. Biographical Information: Dr. Elizabeth D. Liddy earned her Masters of Library Science and PhD from the School of Information Studies at Syracuse University. Her dissertation research, which was one of the first successful attempts at using NLP for Information Retrieval, was the recipient of three national/ international awards. Dr. Liddy is the author of 70+ professional papers, the recipient of 30+ research grants, and a frequent speaker at professional conferences on the leading-edge NLP technology she has developed as a professor of Information Science at Syracuse University and as founder and former President of TextWise, LLC. She is the recently appointed Director of the new Center for Natural Language Processing at Syracuse University. Additionally, Dr. Liddy teaches graduate courses in Information Retrieval, Natural Language Processing, and Data Mining. Information on the Samuel Lazerow Lecture Series: The distinguished Samuel Lazerow Lecture, an annual event, is sponsored by the Institute for Scientific Information's Corporate Awards Program (http://www.isinet.com/). The Lecture Series was established by ISI in 1983, to honor the memory of Samuel Lazerow, who was an outstanding librarian, administrator, and pioneer in library automation. 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