Information Retrieval List Digest 483 (December 12, 1999) URL = http://hegel.lib.ncsu.edu/stacks/serials/irld/irld-483.txt IRLIST Digest ISSN 1064-6965 December 12, 1999 Volume XVI, Number 47 Issue 483 ****************************************************************** III. NOTICES A. Publications 1. ContentsDirect: Information Processing & Management, 00244, 36:1 2. Version 28, Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography 3. JASIS 51:1: ToC B. Meetings 1. Multi-Agent Information Systems: CFPapers 2. LUMIS 2000: CFPapers 3. CIA-2000: CFPapers 4. SPIRE'2000: CFPapers 5. ANLP/NAACL2000 Workshop: CFPapers 6. Coling-2000: 2nd Announcement IV. PROJECTS C. Awards, Fellowships, Grants, & Scholarships 1. NSF Biocomplexity [nsf0022] ****************************************************************** III. NOTICES III.A.1. Fr: cdmailer@elsevier.co.uk Re: ContentsDirect - Information Processing & Management, 00244, 36:1 ContentsDirect from Elsevier Science URL: http://www.elsevier.nl/locate/jnlnr/00244 Journal: Information Processing and Management ISSN : 0306-4573 Volume : 36 Issue : 1 Date : 09-Dec-1999 pp 1-2 The sixth text REtrieval conference (TREC-6) EM Voorhees pp 3-35 Overview of the sixth text REtrieval conference (TREC-6) EM Voorhees, D Harman pp 37-85 Further reflections on TREC K Sparck Jones pp 87-94 TREC-6: personal highlights AF Smeaton pp 95-108 Experimentation as a way of life: Okapi at TREC SE Robertson, S Walker, M Beaulieu pp 109-131 Using clustering and SuperConcepts within SMART: TREC 6 C Buckley, M Mitra, J Walz, C Cardie pp 133-153 Passage-based query refinement (MultiText experiments for TREC-6) GV Cormack, CLA Clarke, CR Palmer, SSL To pp 155-178 Natural language information retrieval: progress report J Perez-Carballo, T Strzalkowski pp 179-186 Query processing in TREC-6 A Rao, A Lu, E Meier, S Ahmed, D Pliske pp 187-204 Verity at TREC-6: out-of-the-box and beyond J Pedersen, C Silverstein, CC Vogt >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> 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.2. Fr: Charles W. Bailey, Jr. Re: Version 28, Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography Version 28 of the Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography is now available. This selective bibliography presents over 1,060 articles, books, electronic documents, and other sources that are useful in understanding scholarly electronic publishing efforts on the Internet and other networks. HTML: Acrobat: Word 97: The HTML document is designed for interactive use. Each major section is a separate file. There are live links to sources available on the Internet. It can be can be searched using Boolean operators. The HTML document also includes Scholarly Electronic Publishing Resources, a collection of links to related Web sites: The Acrobat and Word files are designed for printing. Each file is over 250 KB. (Revised sections in this version are marked with an asterisk.) Table of Contents 1 Economic Issues* 2 Electronic Books and Texts 2.1 Case Studies and History* 2.2 General Works* 2.3 Library Issues* 3 Electronic Serials 3.1 Case Studies and History* 3.2 Critiques 3.3 Electronic Distribution of Printed Journals 3.4 General Works* 3.5 Library Issues* 3.6 Research* 4 General Works* 5 Legal Issues 5.1 Intellectual Property Rights* 5.2 License Agreements* 5.3 Other Legal Issues* 6 Library Issues 6.1 Cataloging, Classification, and Metadata* 6.2 Digital Libraries* 6.3 General Works* 6.4 Information Conversion, Integrity, and Preservation* 7 New Publishing Models* 8 Publisher Issues 8.1 Electronic Commerce/Copyright Systems* Appendix A. Related Bibliographies by the Same Author Appendix B. About the Author Best Regards, Charles Charles W. Bailey, Jr., Assistant Dean for Systems, University Libraries, University of Houston, Houston, TX 77204-2091. E-mail: cbailey@uh.edu. Voice: (713) 743-9804. Fax: (713) 743-9811. ********** III.A.3. Fr: Richard Hill Re: JASIS 51:1: ToC Journal of the American Society for Information Science JASIS VOLUME 51, NUMBER 1 [Note: below are URLs for viewing contents of JASIS from past issues. Below the contents of Bert Boyce's "In This Issue" has been cut into the Table of Contents as well as material from the introduction to the special section.] CONTENTS EDITORIAL In This Issue Bert R. Boyce 1 SPECIAL TOPIC ISSUE: WHEN MUSEUM INFORMATICS MEETS THE WORLD WIDE WEB Guest Editors: David Bearman and Jennifer Trant Introduction: When Museum Informatics Meets the World Wide Web, It Generates Energy David Bearman and Jennifer Trant 3 Effective Levels of Adaptation to Different Types of Users in Interactive Museum Systems F. Paterno and C. Mancini 5 On Pattern-Directed Search of Archives and Collections Garett O. Dworman, Steven O. Kimbrough, and Chuck Patch 14 On-Line Exhibit Design: The Sociotechnological Impact of Building a Museum over the World Wide Web Paul F. Marty 24 Visiting a Museum Together: How to Share a Visit to a Virtual World Paolo Paolini, Thimoty Barbieri, Paolo Loiudice, Francesca Alonzo, Marco Zanti, and G. Gaia 33 The Neon Paintbrush: Seeing, Technology, and the Museum as Metaphor Peter Walsh 39 Designing Digital Environments for Art Education/Exploration Slavko Milekic 49 RESEARCH Using the Internet for Survey Research: A Case Study Yin Zhang 57 Block Addressing Indices for Approximate Text Retrieval Ricardo Baeza-Yates and Gonzalo Navarro 69 Surname Plus Recallable Title Word Searches for Known Items by Scholars Frederick G. Kilgour and Barbara B. Moran 83 BOOK REVIEWS Communicating Research, by A. J. Meadows Christine L. Borgman 90 Civic Space/Cyberspace: The American Public Library in the Information Age, by Redmond Kathleen Molz and Phyllis Dain Richard J. Cox 91 The ASIS home page contains the Table of Contents and brief abstracts as above from January 1993 (Volume 44) to date. The John Wiley Interscience site includes issues from 1986 (Volume 37) to date. Guests have access only to tables of contents and abstracts. Registered users of the interscience site have access to the full text of these issues. We are still working on restoring access for ASIS members as "registered users." ********** III.B.1. Fr: Geoff Staniford Re: Multi-Agent Information Systems: CFPapers Call for Papers Special Session on Multi-Agent Information Systems Monte Carlo Resort, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA June 26 - 29, 2000 In conjunction with IC-AI'2000 The 2000 International Conference on Artificial Intelligence For web version of this call see http://www.cms.livjm.ac.uk/cmsgstan/mais2000.html Introduction The characteristics of software agents such as autonomy, goal-orientedness, collaboration and mobility present new possibilities for the development of future information systems. An agent-based information system may employ information agents that pro-actively search for and combine relevant information on behalf of users or other agents from various sources. In e-commerce, agents automate various aspects of a business transaction such as price comparison, negotiation, auction, and brokerages, to name a few. The development of complex large-scale information systems such as distributed/federated databases, heterogeneous databases and semi-structured databases in the future are most likely to use agent technology in the design and implementation of various aspects of the system. With the increasing use of such complex and large-scale information systems, new approaches to the design and implementation of these systems merit significant investigation and analysis. Multi-agent systems have been mooted as an important means with which to address the development of large and complex information systems, and provide one such approach to the problem above. Agent technology and multi-agent systems have arisen in an exciting and rapidly changing field during the last ten years, emerging from distributed artificial intelligence. In particular, the exponential growth of the internet as an enabling technology for distributed systems has provided an increasingly urgent need for research into issues surrounding the research paradigms considered in this workshop. Indeed, at this exciting interface between a number of fields of research, there are many open questions to be answered, and many problems to be solved. The design of systems based around multiple interacting agents requires expertise from a number of different research areas. A key aim of this interdisciplinary special session is to bring together active researchers from the different fields to exchange ideas discuss the many open issues that arise in the design, development and implementation of multi-agent information systems. Topics of Interest The special session will be concerned with a broad range of issues relating to the design and implementation of agent-based systems. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: agents in Internet/E-Commerce systems and applications agents in database systems and applications agent coordination and integration of activities agent adaptation and learning information agents mobility and Security Issues middle agents network agents human-agent interaction, collaboration and communication industrial agent systems and applications agent theories and languages agent models and architectures Submission Authors who wish to submit to the session should send either PostScript or PDF versions of their paper by email to the session chair, or else provide a URL for an online version of the paper. Hardcopy submission is possible if arranged in advance. Submissions should be no more than 4000 words length (approx. 10 printed pages). The first page of each submission should list the full contact details (including full name, postal address, email address, phone and fax number) of at least one author. All accepted papers will be published in the IC-AI'2000 proceedings, Your paper should reach us no later than 6th March 2000. Organisation Session Chair: Dr. Geof Staniford School of Computing and Mathematical Sciences Byrom Street Liverpool John Moores University Liverpool L3 3AF United Kingdom. g.staniford@livjm.ac.uk Important Dates: March 6, 2000 (Monday): deadline for paper submission April 3, 2000 (Monday): notification of acceptance/rejection May 1, 2000 (Monday): camera-Ready papers & Pre reg. due June 26 - 29, 2000: IC-AI'2000 Conference Note: For information regarding the IC-AI'2000 conference, contact: Prof. Hamid R. Arabnia, General Chair, IC-AI'2000 The University of Georgia, Department of Computer Science 415 Graduate Studies Research Center Athens, Georgia 30602-7404, USA Phone: (706) 542-3480 Fax: (706) 542-2966 Email: hra@cs.uga.edu ********** III.B.2. Fr: Fabio Crestani Re: LUMIS 2000: CFPapers CALL FOR PAPERS 11th International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications (DEXA 2000) SECOND INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON LOGICAL AND UNCERTAINTY MODELS FOR INFORMATION SYSTEMS (LUMIS 2000) Greenwich, London, 6-8 September 2000 The advent of electronic tools for producing and storing information has resulted in an avalanche of computer readable text. The access to all this information has gone through a slow but steady process to adapt to the growth of availability of electronically stored data, and a large number of tools have been developed to enable users to access and manage these large volumes of information. But what has uncertainty and logic to do with accessing and managing information stored in a computer? Uncertainty plays a very important role in the representation, access, and retrieval of information. The representation of information objects is often uncertain. For example, the extraction of index terms from a document or a query to represent the document or the query information content is a highly uncertain process. The data describing the redness of a red object present in a picture stored in a multimedia database is subject to a certain degree of uncertainty too. Logic plays a very important role in the representation, access, and retrieval of information. Logic has proved over centuries to be a very powerful modelling and reasoning tool, providing a degree of formality and correctness that can be very useful for manipulating information objects. For the task of retrieving information, logic has been used to build models that provide a rich and uniform representation of information with the aim to improve retrieval effectiveness. The purpose of this workshop is to promote discussion and interaction among members of the Information Systems community; in particular among those members with research interests in logical and uncertainty models for the treatment of semi-structured and unstructured information. We are particularly interested in experiences dealing with unstructured or poorly structured information. Papers presented will deal with, but not limited to, the following areas: Information Retrieval, Information Filtering, Multimedia Indexing and Retrieval, Hypermedia, Digital Libraries, Information agents, Ontologies, Formal evaluation where information is modelled and/or managed using any of, but not limited to, the following approaches: Probabilistic Theory, Non-standard Logics, Default Reasoning, Fuzzy Methods, Non-monotonic Logics, Knowledge Acquisition, Theory of Evidence, Meta Logics, Knowledge Representation, Belief Networks, Situation Theory, Machine Learning, Possibility Theory, Multivalued Logics, Inductive Methods, Rough Sets, Description Logics, Abductive Methods, Approximate Reasoning, Belief Revision, Relevance Theory. WORKSHOP CHAIRS: Peter Bruza - Distributed Systems Technology Centre, Queensland, Australia Fabio Crestani - International Computer Science Institute, Berkeley, USA Mounia Lalmas - Queen Mary & Westfield College, London, England PROGRAM COMMITTEE: Gianni Amati - Fondazione Ugo Bordoni, Roma, Italy Anthony Hunter - University College London, England Jian-Yun Nie - University of Montreal, Canada Yukio Osawa - University of Tsukuba, Tokyo, Japan Iadh Ounis - University of Glasgow, Scotland Gabriella Pasi - ITIM-CNR, Milan, Italy Stefan Rueger - Imperial College, London, England Florence Sedes - IRIT-CNRS, Toulouse, France Ulrich Thiel - GMD-IPSI, Darmstadt, Germany Theo van der Weide - Katholieke Universiteit Nijmegen, The Netherlands SUBMISSION DETAILS: Authors are invited to submit research contributions representing original, previously unpublished work. Submitted papers will be carefully evaluated based on originality, significance, and relevance to the workshop. Accepted papers will be published by IEEE Computer Society Press as proceedings of the DEXA 2000 workshops. IMPORTANT DATES: Deadline for submission of papers: 1 March 2000 Authors notified of program committee decision: 1 April 2000 Final submission of camera-ready copy: 1 May 2000 WEB SITE: http://www.dcs.qmw.ac.uk/~mounia/LUMIS.html ********** III.B.3. Fr: Matthias Klusch Re: CIA-2000: CFPapers SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS Fourth International Workshop CIA-2000 on COOPERATIVE INFORMATION AGENTS July 7 - 9, 2000 Boston, USA http://www.dfki.de/~klusch/cia2000.html This workshop is co-sponsored by - NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, USA. - Swiss Life AG, Switzerland. - IFMAS International Foundation for Multiagent Systems. It is co-located with the ICMAS-2000 conference. IMPORTANT DATES Deadline for Paper Submission: JANUARY 24, 2000 Notification of Acceptance/Rejection: March 10, 2000 Deadline for Camera-Ready Paper: March 27, 2000 WORKSHOP THEME Information agent technology is one of the major key technologies for the Internet and worldwide Web. It emerged as a response to the challenges of the cyberspace from both, the technological and human user perspective. An information agent is a computational software entity that has access to one or multiple, heterogeneous and distributed information sources, pro-actively searches for and maintains relevant information on behalf of users or other agents preferably just-in-time. In other words, it is managing and overcoming the difficulties associated with information overload. Although low-level infrastructure has been developed to support interoperability between heterogeneous databases and application programs, this is not sufficient when dealing with higher-level object organizations such as vertical business object frameworks and workflows. Existing multi-database or federated database systems do not even support any kind of pro-active information discovery. One key challenge of advanced information systems is to balance the autonomy of databases and legacy systems with the potential payoff of leveraging them by the use of information agents to perform collaborative work. Development of information agents requires expertise from different research disciplines such as Artificial Intelligence (AI), advanced databases and knowledge base systems, distributed information systems, information retrieval, and Human Computer Interaction (HCI). Like in the previous CIA workshops, all hot topics in the research area of intelligent and collaborating information agents are covered by the CIA-2000 workshop. TOPICS Topics are but not limited to: * SYSTEMS and Applications of Information Agents - Architectures, prototypes and fielded systems of collaborating information agents for information discovery and management in the Internet and Web. - Issues of Programming Collaborative Information Agents for the Internet. * ADAPTATION and Learning Applied to Information Agents - Advanced methods for single and multiagent system learning. - Performance, relationship and application of multiagent learning for collaborating information agents. - Self-emerging collaboration among information agents. - Computation and action under limited resources. - Methods for automated uncertain reasoning for knowledge based information agents. - Distributed, adaptive Information Retrieval * MOBILE Information Agents and Issues of Security in the Internet - Applications of cooperating mobile information agents in wearable computers, hand-held and/or satellite-based control devices (WAP-compliant Web handies, communicators, etc.). - Architectures, environments and languages for mobile and secure performance of information agents and servers. * RATIONAL Information Agents and Electronic Commerce - Virtual Agent-Based Marketplaces, Coalition Formation, Auctions. - Electronic Commerce with incomplete and uncertain informations. - Economic Models of cooperative problem solving among rational information agents in open information environments. - Standards for privacy of communication, security, and jurisdiction for agent-mediated deals. * Advanced Database, Information System and Knowledge-Base Technology - Application of techniques for Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery in open, distributed and dynamically changing environments. - Management of uncertain and incomplete knowledge for information gathering on the Internet or large corporate Intranets. * Construction and Reuse of Ontologies for Multiagent Information Gathering * Human-Agent Interaction and Intelligent User Interfaces for Information Agents - Synthetic agents, believable avatars, and 3-D multimedia-based representation of user information spaces in the Internet. - Models and implementation of advanced interfaces for conversation and dialogue among information Agents and Users. - Dynamic inspection of information agents' work by the user. PROCEEDINGS The workshop proceedings including all accepted papers will be published by Springer as a volume in the LNAI series (Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence). The proceedings of the CIA-97, CIA-98, CIA-99 workshops appeared as LNAI Vol. 1202, 1435 and 1652 respectively. PREPARATION & SUBMISSION OF PAPERS The length of each paper should not exceed 12 pages. All papers must be written in English. Submissions will be refereed for quality, correctness, originality and relevance. Papers accepted or under review by other conferences, workshops or journals are not acceptable. Papers not conforming to the above requirements may be rejected without review. For preparation of camera-ready papers to be submitted please follow the instructions for authors available at the Springer LNCS Web page: http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html For those not using the Springer LNCS style files: The paper must be formatted in A4 size using 10 point Times. (If Times is not available, please use one of the similar typefaces widely used in phototypesetting.) Printing area should be 12.2 x 19.3 cm, and the interline distance should be arranged in such a way that some 42 to 45 lines occur on a full-text page. Each submission includes the full paper (title, authors, abstract, text), and in addition a separate title page with the title, a 300-400 word abstract, a list of keywords, authors (names, addresses, email addresses, telephone and fax numbers). You may submit your paper by Electronic Mail or Postal Mail. + Submission by E-Mail: Please send your contribution in postscript format (preferably in A4) printable, as compressed file to: klusch@dfki.de + Submission by Postal Mail: Please send 4 hard-copies of your contribution to the following address. (please do not tack the pages together.) Dr. Matthias Klusch DFKI GmbH Stuhlsatzenhausweg 3 66123 Saarbruecken Germany CONTACT For more information about the workshop please contact: Matthias Klusch DFKI German AI Research Center Ltd. Stuhlsatzenhausweg 3 66123 Saarbruecken, Germany Phone: +49-681-302-5297 Fax: +49-681-302-2235 EMail: klusch@dfki.de URL: http://www.dfki.de/~klusch ********** III.B.4. Fr: Mark Sanderson Re: SPIRE'2000: CFPapers CALL FOR PAPERS SPIRE'2000 - String Processing and Information REtrieval September 22 - 24, 2000 A Coruña, Spain Sponsored by CYTED-AMYRI Research Project WHAT IS SPIRE'2000? SPIRE'2000 is a Symposium on String Processing and Information Retrieval, which is in its seventh edition. The first four editions focused primarily on string processing and originated in South America, and were called WSP (South American Workshop on String Processing). They were held in Belo Horizonte, Brazil (1993), Valparaíso, Chile (1995 and 1997), and Recife, Brazil (1996). Starting in 1998, at Santa Cruz, Bolivia, the focus of the workshop was broadened to include the area of information retrieval due to its increasing relevance and its inter-relationship with the area of string processing. SPIRE'99, at Cancun, Mexico has continued this trend including also the area of DNA computing and, as a result, there was several papers and three invited talks on this topic. For SPIRE'2000 we expect to have contributions from several related communities. The SPIRE'2000 symposium aims at facilitating the potential benefits of cross-fertilization between different fields. As such, it offers a singular opportunity for researchers interested in working with problems related to these areas. As in the past, the proceedings of SPIRE'2000 will be published by IEEE CS Press. TOPICS SPIRE'2000 covers research in all aspects of string processing, information retrieval, computational biology, pattern matching, DNA computing, and related applications. Typical topics of interest include (but are not limited to): * String Processing: dictionary algorithms, text searching, pattern matching, text compression, text mining, voice or natural language processing, and automata based string processing. * Information Retrieval (IR): IR modeling, indexing, ranking and filtering, interface design, visualization, cross-lingual IR systems, multimedia IR, digital libraries, collaborative retrieval, and Web related applications. * Interaction of biology and computation: DNA sequencing and applications in molecular biology, information encoding for DNA computing, evolution and phylogenetics, recognition of genes and regulatory elements, and protein structure prediction. IMPORTANT DATES: Paper submission: April 20th, 2000 Authors notification: May 31th, 2000 Camera ready: June 26th, 2000 SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS Authors are requested to: - prepare an extended abstract or full draft paper of at most 15 pages in standard 11pt Latex article style or equivalent. - send the paper in standard postscript via e-mail (see address below) no later than April 20th, 2000 to the chair of the Program Committee as well as a message containing the paper title, the names of all authors, an indication of the author to be contacted, and the affiliation of such author (including full address, phone/fax numbers, and e-mail address). E-mail: spire2000@infor.uva.es - use the standard IEEE CS format for the final version of accepted papers, which will have to be sent via ftp to the publisher either as postscript or PDF. LOCAL ORGANIZATION The local organization committee is chaired by Nieves R. Brisaboa from Univ. of A Coruña, Spain. For any questions about local matters please send e-mail to spire00@udc.es. WEB HOMEPAGE http://rosalia.dc.fi.udc.es/spire2000/ ********** III.B.5. Fr: Priscilla Rasmussen Re: ANLP/NAACL2000 Workshop: CFPapers Call for Papers Workshop on Automatic Summarization (pre-conference workshop in conjunction with ANLP-NAACL2000) website: http://www.isi.edu/~cyl/was-anlp2000 sponsored by ACL (Association for Computational Linguistics) MITRE Corporation Sunday, April 30, 2000 Seattle, Washington, USA I. OVERVIEW The problem of automatic summarization poses a variety of tough challenges in both NL understanding and generation. A spate of recent papers and tutorials on this subject at conferences such as ACL/EACL, AAAI, ECAI, IJCAI, and SIGIR point to a growing interest in research in this field. Several commercial summarization products have also appeared. There have been several workshops in the past on this subject: Dagstuhl in 94, ACL/EACL in 97, and the AAAI Spring Symposium in 98. All of these were extremely successful, and the field is now enjoying a period of revival and is advancing at a much quicker pace than before. ANLP/NAACL'2000 is an ideal occasion to host another workshop on this problem. The Workshop on Automatic Summarization program committee invites papers addressing (but not limited to): Summarization Methods: use of linguistic representations, statistical models, NL generation for summarization, production of abstracts and extracts, multi-document summarization, narrative techniques in summarization, multilingual summarization, text compaction, multimodal summarization (including summarization of audio), use of information extraction, studies and modeling of human summarizers, improving summary coherence, concept fusion, use of thesauri and ontologies, trainable summarizers, applications of machine learning, knowledge-rich methods. Summarization Resources: development of corpora for training and evaluating summarizers, annotation standards, shared summarization tools, document segmentation, topic detection, and clustering related to summarization Evaluation Methods: intrinsic and extrinsic measures, on-line and off-line evaluations, standards for evaluation, task-based evaluation scenarios, user studies, inter-judge agreement Workshop Themes: 1. Multilingual Text Summarization 2. Generation for Summarization 3. Topic Identification for Summarization 4. Multidocument Summarization 5. Evaluation and Test/Training Corpora 6. Integration with web and IR access II. IMPORTANT DATES Paper submission deadline: February 4, 2000 Notification of acceptance for papers: March 1, 2000 Camera ready papers due: March 13, 2000 Workshop date: April 30, 2000 III. FORMAT FOR SUBMISSION Submissions must use the ACL latex style (http://www.isi.edu/~cyl/was-anlp2000/latex/index.html) or Microsoft Word style WAS-submission.doc (both available from the Automatic Summarization workshop web page). Paper submissions should consist of a full paper (5000 words or less, including references). Please send submission questions to cyl@isi.edu Submission Procedure: Electronic submission only: send the pdf (preferred), postscript, or MS Word form of your submission to: cyl@isi.edu. The Subject line should be "ANLP-NAACL2000 WORKSHOP PAPER SUBMISSION". Because reviewing is blind, no author information is included as part of the paper. An identification page must be sent in a separate email with the subject line: "ANLP-NAACL2000 WORKSHOP ID PAGE" and must include title, all authors, theme area, keywords, word count, and an abstract of no more than 5 lines. Late submissions will not be accepted. Notification of receipt will be e-mailed to the first author shortly after receipt. IV. Organizing Committee: Udo Hahn University of Freiburg hahn@coling.uni-freiburg.de Chin-Yew Lin USC/Information Sciences Institute cyl@isi.edu Inderjeet Mani MITRE imani@mitre.org Dragomir Radev University of Michigan, Ann Arbor radev@umich.edu V. Program Committee: Elisabeth Andre DFKI GmbH Branimir Boguraev IBM Research Chris Buckley SabIR Research Michael Elhadad Ben Gurion University Takahiro Fukushima Telecommunications Advancement Organization of Japan Eduard Hovy USC/Information Sciences Institute Hongyan Jing Columbia University Elizabeth Liddy Syracuse University Daniel Marcu USC/Information Sciences Institute Shigeru Masuyama Toyohashi University of Technology Mark Maybury MITRE Vibhu Mittal Just Research Sung Hyon Myaeng Chungnam University Akitoshi Okumura NEC Chris Paice Lancaster University Karen Sparck-Jones University of Cambridge Tomek Strzalkowski GE CRD Simone Teufel University of Edinburgh Benjamin Tsou City University of Hong Kong ********** III.B.6. Fr: Priscilla Rasmussen Re: Coling-2000: 2nd Announcement COLING 2000 - SECOND ANNOUNCEMENT The International Conference on Computational Linguistics (http://www.coling.org) COLING 2000 will take place in three countries in the heart of Europe - Nancy (Tutorials 29/30 July, 2000) - Saarbrücken (Conference 31 July - 4 August, 2000) - Luxembourg (Workshops 5/6 August 2000) Transportation between the three almost neighboring sites will be provided. COLING 2000 will be the ideal place to - present your latest results at the conference and workshops - demo your systems to colleagues - study new trends and techniques in the tutorials - exhibit your language technologies for the 21st century - hire needed specialists before somebody else does Check out the calls for - papers (http://www.coling.org/call.html) - workshop proposals (http://www.coling.org/workshops.html) - tutorial proposals (http://www.coling.org/tutorials.html) - demos/exhibits (http://www.coling.org/exhibition.html) At the conference, we will provide space for announcing job openings, as well as a sign-up desk and rooms for job interviews Check out our low conference fees: (http://www.coling.org/reg.html). To increase student participation, we have decided on very favorable conference fees for bona fide students. Students who would still not be able to attend for financial reasons, please contact us at: org@coling.org If you live and work in an economically disadvantaged country and have no possibility of obtaining funding or if you are experiencing special personal hardships, we will try to help. All this information and more at: http://www.coling.org ****************************************************************** IV. PROJECTS IV.C.1. Fr: Maria Zemankova Re: NSF Biocomplexity [nsf0022] NSF 00-22 BIOCOMPLEXITY: SPECIAL COMPETITION Integrated Research to Understand and Model Complexity Among Biological, Physical, and Social Systems DEADLINE DATES: MESSAGE OF INTENT - JANUARY 31, 2000 RESEARCH PROPOSALS - MARCH 1, 2000 INCUBATION ACTIVITIES - MARCH 1, 2000 The following document (nsf0022, replaces nsf9960) is now available from the NSF Online Document System Title: Biocomplexity: Special Competition 2000 Type: Program Announcements & Information Subtype: Biology, Computer/Information Sciences, Crosscutting Programs, Engineering, Geosciences, Math/Physical Sciences, NSF-wide, Polar Programs, Social/Behavioral Sciences It may be found at: http://www.nsf.gov/cgi-bin/getpub?nsf0022 Short Description/Synopsis of Program: This special competition will support integrated research to better understand and model complexity that arises from the interaction of biological, physical, and social systems. Biocomplexity arises from dynamics spanning several levels within a system, between systems, and/or across multiple spatial (microns to thousands of kilometers) and temporal (nanoseconds to eons) scales. This special competition will specifically support Research Projects which directly explore nonlinearities, chaotic behavior, emergent phenomena or feedbacks within and between systems and/or integrate across multiple components or scales of time and space in order to better understand and predict the dynamic behavior of systems. The competition will also support Incubation Activities that enable groups of researchers who have not historically collaborated on biocomplexity research to develop projects via focused workshops, virtual meetings, and other types of development and planning activities. NOTE: The Biocomplexity initiative calls for interdisciplinary research. In particular, CISE researchers are encouraged to collaborate with biologists and researchers in other fields on solving biocomplexity problems while advancing the CISE research fields. E.g. (from the announcement): "Decades of fruitful research, following the reductionist paradigm, generated a vast wealth of knowledge about the living and non-living subcomponents of many environmental systems. Now researchers from a broad spectrum of fields, armed with burgeoning databases and a new array of computational, observational, and analytical tools can undertake the integrative research necessary to tackle biocomplexity. The study of biocomplexity offers many challenges to modeling methods, including mathematical and computational ones. Descriptions of aggregate behavior, nonlinear phenomena, networks with distributed or local control, or combinations of continuous and discrete behavior as well as new visualization methods can be applied to address biocomplexity. Genome sequencing, DNA-chips, robotics, computer simulations, new sensors and monitoring systems, along with satellite-based imaging of the land and seas, all contribute to the flood of data relevant to the understanding of biocomplexity. Knowledge discovery techniques (e.g., datamining, visualization, summarization, trend extraction, etc.) are being developed to convert the volumes of data into new knowledge." Cognizant Program Officer for Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE): Y. T. Chien Phone: (703) 306-1980 E-mail: ytchien@nsf.gov You are encouraged to subscribe to the NSF Custom News Service http://www.nsf.gov/home/cns/start.htm and receive relevant information as soon as it becomes available. ****************************************************************** IRLIST Digest is distributed from the University of California, California Digital Library, 1111 Franklin Street, Oakland, CA. 94607-5200. 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