Information Retrieval List Digest 485 (January 3, 2000) URL = http://hegel.lib.ncsu.edu/stacks/serials/irld/irld-485.txt IRLIST Digest ISSN 1064-6965 January 3, 2000 Volume XVII, Number 1 Issue 485 Happy New Year! ****************************************************************** II. JOBS 1. Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique Grenoble, France: Linguistics Researcher III. NOTICES B. Meetings 1. ASIS/SIGCR Workshop on Classification Research: CFPapers 2. Communicating Agents: 2nd CFPapers 3. Robocup European Championship: CFPapers 4. Graphics Hardware 2000: CFParticipation 5. ECAI 2000 Workshop: CFPapers C. Miscellaneous 1. ELSNET Summer School ****************************************************************** II. JOBS II.1. Fr: Catherine Berrut Re: Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Grenoble, France: Linguistics Researcher Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique http://www.cnrs.fr Laboratoire CLIPS-IMAG http://www-clips.imag.fr A position of senior researcher in Linguistics applied to Computer Science will be created in January 2000 by the CNRS and affected to one of 4 laboratories (among which the CLIPS laboratory). Applications are sought from senior researchers involved in the domain of linguistics in Information Retrieval (IR), with a specific interest for Human-Computer interaction. The research activity will be integrated to the CLIPS-IMAG laboratory ( Re: ASIS/SIGCR Workshop on Classification Research: CFPapers ASIS SIG/CR Classification Research Workshop Classification for User Support and Learning Sheraton Chicago Hotel & Towers Chicago, IL Sunday, Nov. 12, 2000 8:30 a.m. - 5 p.m. Call for Papers Initial Abstract Submission Deadline: April 1, 2000 The American Society for Information Science Special Interest Group on Classification Research (ASIS SIG/CR) invites submissions for the 11th ASIS Classification Research Workshop to be held at the 63rd Annual Meeting of ASIS, November 13-16, 2000 in Chicago, IL. The workshop will be held on Sunday, November 12, 2000, from 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. SCOPE We seek theoretical and applied papers that advance the thinking about classification and ontologies with a non-exclusive focus on the use of these tools for user support and learning in a wide range of application domains such as mathematics, education and e-commerce. We seek submissions from all disciplines concerned with classification and ontologies. In addition to the paper sessions, the workshop will include an "idea mart" which will provide an opportunity for informal presentation and small-group discussion of emerging ideas, research topics and proposals, and prototypes of innovative systems. Potential idea mart presenters need to submit a 1-2 page description of their topic suitable for inclusion in the pre-proceedings. The workshop emphasizes both presentation and discussion of ideas. Participants are strongly encouraged to collaborate not only through presentations and reactions to presentations but also with proactive contributions as per the workshop guidelines that will be posted at the ASIS web site. TOPICS The following list of both general and specific topics is meant as a starting point for the development of further ideas. Knowledge organization schemas for complex information systems, such as the Web as a whole, the NSF-sponsored National SMETE (Science, Mathematics, Engineering, and Technology Education) Digital Library, or e-commerce. Knowledge organization for intelligent information retrieval and question answering to better support users. Knowledge organization for natural language processing, information extraction, summarization, or machine translation. Knowledge organization systems as knowledge bases in their own right providing the information sought by the user. End-user interactions with knowledge organization systems - visualization and browsing to assist in information needs clarification and query formulation. Concept maps in education, collaboration and information system navigation. Tools methodologies and frameworks for assisting users in constructing their own knowledge organization systems. Distributed development of knowledge organization systems. Evaluating ontologies and knowledge organization systems - notions of completeness, accuracy and reliability. Evolution of knowledge schemas - conflict management, versioning and automatic adaptation Ontologies and interlingua. SUBMISSIONS: Those interested in presenting are invited to first submit an extended abstract by April 1, 2000. Submitted abstracts will be reviewed for acceptance. Authors of accepted abstracts will be asked to submit a full version of their paper (June 1, 2000) which will also be refereed for inclusion in the workshop proceedings. Authors of full research papers are expected to attend the workshop. The program committee will assist authors in preparing the final version of their paper. Accepted papers will be published in the preliminary workshop proceedings that are mailed to early registrants prior to the workshop. Following the workshop authors of full papers will be given the opportunity to revise their papers for final publication. The papers will be published in: Advances in Classification Research Vol. 11: Proceedings of the 11th ASIS SIG/CR Classification Research Workshop. Previous proceedings have been published as Volumes 1 through 10 of Advances in Classification Research and are available from the publisher: Information Today, Inc., 143 Old Marlton Pike, Medford, NJ 08055. Tel: 609-654-6266. URL: http://www.infotoday.com Electronic submissions for abstracts and papers are strongly encouraged. Submissions should be sent to padmini-srinivasan@uiowa.edu as an attachment to e-mail. The attached file should be in pdf, RTF, or PostScript and titled with the last name of the first submitting author. If electronic submission is not possible, two paper copies should be sent to the address below. Confirmation of receipt of a submission will be sent via e-mail. Padmini Srinivasan SIG/CR Chair School of Library and Information Science The University of Iowa Iowa City, IA, USA - 52242 DEADLINES & SUBMISSION DETAILS April 1, 2000 Extended abstract in English, single-spaced and 2 to 3 pages in length received by the workshop chair. The abstract should provide the name(s), affiliation(s), address(es), fax, phone, e-mail of submitting author(s). May 1, 2000. Notification of acceptance or rejection provided to submitters. Instructions for full papers will be provided at this time. June 1, 2000. Full papers due July 15, 2000. Notification of preliminary acceptance or rejection of papers mailed. Reviewer comments included. Idea mart submissions (1-2 page description) due. Aug. 1, 2000 Notification of selected idea mart submissions. Aug.15, 2000. Final copies of full research papers in camera-ready condition received by the workshop chair for publication in the workshop proceedings. Format for full paper submissions will be announced later. Oct. 10, 2000 Pre-proceedings mailed out to workshop registrants. Oct. 20- Development of workshop web site: discussion questions, background reading etc., in collaboration with workshop registrants ADDITIONAL INFORMATION For information regarding ASIS SIG/CR please visit http://www.panix.com/~schwartz/asis.sigcr. For information about the ASIS SIG/CR Workshop please visit http://uma.info-science.uiowa.edu/sigcr or contact padmini-srinivasan@uiowa.edu ********** III.B.2. Fr: Bernhard Schroeder Re: Communicating Agents: 2nd CFPapers Communicating Agents Workshop of the GLDV special interest group on generation and parsing in morphology, syntax and semantics, IKP, University of Bonn, Feb 15, 2000 http://www.gldv.org/Veranstaltungen/WS_Feb00/ In the focus of this workshop will be approaches to the formal description and eventually to the implementation of communicating agents. We invite papers on the following aspects: 1.incremental analysis / interpretation datastructure of the context (e.g. dynamic semantics) computational reconstruction of reference correlation of semantic and pragmatic interpretation 2.partner oriented generation intentionally directed generation partner knowledge and attribution of belief 3.evolution of systems and strategies of communication concept evolution / formation / construction evolution of linguistic norms repair strategies in disturbed communication Lectures should not be longer than 20 minutes. They will be followed by a 10-minute discussion each. Workshop languages are English and German. We plan to publish workshop proceedings with the full papers. System demonstrations will be possible on demand. Abstracts of no more than 600 words should be sent -- preferably by E-Mail in ASCII, HTML, PS or PDF format -- to Bernhard Schroeder before Jan 10, 2000. Timetable Jan 10, 2000 Deadline for abstracts Jan 24, 2000 Notification on acceptance Feb 15, 2000 Workshop Please register before Feb 8, 2000, if possible. Contact Bernhard Schroeder Institut für Kommunikationsforschung und Phonetik Universität Bonn Poppelsdorfer Allee 47 D-53115 Bonn Germany E-Mail B.Schroeder@uni-bonn.de Phone +49 228 735621 Fax +49 228 735639 ********** III.B.3. Fr: Stefano Cagnoni Re: Robocup European Championship: CFPapers CALL FOR PAPERS AND PARTICIPATION Robocup European Championship-2000 Amsterdam The First Robocup European Championship 2000 and Conferences 28 May - 2 June University Sport Center, Amsterdam, Netherlands See http://www.robocup.org The Robot World Cup, RoboCup, is an international initiative to foster AI and intelligent robotics research by providing a standard problem, a soccer game, where a wide range of technologies can be integrated and examined. This is the first European RoboCup event, and it will be held in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. The competitions will take place at the Sport Center of the University of Amsterdam. The participation of the best teams of this European Championship in the Robot World Cup in Australia will be sponsored by the organizing commitee. The first Robot World Cup, RoboCup-97, was held in Nagoya, Japan, in August 1997, and included the participation of more than 40 teams. The second Robot World Cup, RoboCup-98, was held in Paris, in July 98, and more than 60 teams participated. In 1999 the third Robot Soccer World Cup was held in Stockholm, Sweden. In August 2000 the fourth Robot Soccer World Cup Games will be held in Australia. Future scheduled RoboCup events are: RoboCup-2001 Seattle, RoboCup-2002 Japan. Sites for 2003 and after are not decided. In order for a team of robot agents to play a soccer game, different technologies must be integrated, including design principles of autonomous agents, multi-agent collaboration, strategy acquisition, real-time reasoning, sensor-fusion, and learning. RoboCup is a task for a team of multiple fast-moving robot agents in a dynamic, non-deterministic, and adversarial environment. The different leagues emphasize different aspects of the challenge of creating teams of autonomous agents. As a test bed for progressing the technology of multiple agent systems Robocup serves to bring together teams of researchers in a cooperative environment. It is a condition of entry that teams must disclose the technology used in the creation of their teams. The competitions themselves are very exciting and provide both educational and entertainment interest for the audience that attends Robocup events. Real Robot Small League (F180): Teams of up to five real robots of small size (approximately 15 cm in diameter) compete on a 1.525 x 2.74 m field. Real Robot Medium League (F2000): Teams of up to five real robots of medium size (approximately 50cm in diameter) compete on a 4.575 x 8.22m field. Simulation League: Software agents play soccer using the RoboCup soccer server simulator, available from the RoboCup Web page. The competition will be played on a parallel machine running Linux. The registered teams will have the possibility to experiment on this system during the last two months before Robocup European Championship 2000. We plan to have also an application available that can be downloaded, so that people can see the simulation competition on Internet in real-time. Visualization: A number of groups in the world work on 3D visualization systems of the log-file data of the robot simulator, automatic commenting systems and automatic systems for the selection of the most challenging events during the competition. These systems will be demonstrated during the event Legged Robot League: A demo of Sony legged robots playing soccer games will be given. Workshop: A workshop will be held to present and discuss technical details of the robots and software agents which participate in the competition, as well as other research and educational topics related to RoboCup. The workshop submission is open to anyone interested in science and technology related to RoboCup. It is not limited to participants of RoboCup competition program. RoboCup commentators, 3D visualization, theoretical analysis of real soccer games, application and relevance of RoboCup to significant social program, specific technologies which may be applied to improve RoboCup's team performance, educational issues, etc, are all welcome contributions to the workshop program. Post-workshop proceedings will be published from Springer-Verlag as a sub-line of Lecture Notes on Artificial Intelligence (LNAI). Details about the paper submission will be made available at the RoboCup official Web site. Rules and selection: Details of the rules for the different competitions are available at the RoboCup official Web site http://www.robocup.org. Selection of teams to compete at RoboCup is the responsibility of each league. Teams wishing to enter should consult the league pages at the RoboCup official Web site and take care to read the qualification requirements carefully. General Questions on RoboCup may be send to kitano@csl.sony.co.jp. Important: All teams intending to participate will have to make a pre-registration before the 31st of December 1999. The registration form will be made available on the RoboCup Web home page. For registration and all questions on Robocup European Championship-2000, please contact Gerrie Rijnsburger gerrie@nat.vu.nl, Faculty of Sciences, De Boelelaan 1081, 1081 HV Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Tel. +31 20 444 7891, Fax +31 20 444 7899. All papers for the workshop should be submitted in a camera ready fashion before February 15 2000 to Dr. W. van der Hoek, wiebe@cs.uu.nl, Computer Science Department, Utrecht University, Padualaan 14, De Uithof, 3584 CH Utrecht, Tel. +31 - 30 - 253 3599, Fax. +31 - 30 - 251 3791 Important Dates: Obligatory pre-registration: December 31, 1999 Deadline for papers for workshop: February 15, 2000 Final registration Robocup European Championship. Access to the parallel LINUX system: April 1, 2000 Simulation: teams can test their code on the target machine of the competition: April and May 2000 Simulation teams deliver their final code: May 27 (Saturday) Small/Middle size: teams can set up and test their equipment: May 28 - May 29 Pre-round in parallel: May 30 - May 31 Robocup European Championship Workshop: June 1 Quarter, Semi-finals and finals: June 2 For further details, please visit http://robocup.ce.unipr.it/Eurobocup and http://robocup.ce.unipr.it/Eurobocup/org-Eurobocup.html or download the files (MS Word97 format) http://robocup.ce.unipr.it/Eurobocup/CFP-Eurobocup.doc http://robocup.ce.unipr.it/Eurobocup/org-Eurobocup.doc ********** III.B.4. Fr: HWWS2000@gris.uni-tuebingen.de Re: Graphics Hardware 2000: CFParticipation Graphics Hardware 2000 in cooperation with Eurographics and ACM SIGGRAPH (to be confirmed) Interlaken, Switzerland Monday and Tuesday, August 21-22, 2000 Graphics Hardware is a highly visible, established international forum for exchanging experience and knowledge related to computer graphics hardware. The workshop offers a unique perspective on graphics hardware by combining discussions and constructive critique of innovative concepts as well as product-level designs. The workshop is an inclusive forum for the entire graphics hardware community and brings together researchers, engineers, and architects. This year's workshop will be held in Interlaken, Switzerland, jointly with Eurographics 2000. Please visit our website at http://www.merl.com/hwws00/ Schedule April 12 Deadline for paper submissions May 8 Notification of acceptance May 22 Camera-ready papers due July 12 Deadline for Hot 3D Systems submissions Aug 21-22 Workshop Traditional Papers Track We invite high-quality, original papers on all aspects of computer graphics hardware describing either proven and tested solutions or novel ideas and concepts. Possible topics include: Graphics accelerator architectures Performance issues Pixel operations and frame buffer techniques Multi-processor architectures for graphics Hardware support for image-based rendering Load balancing in graphics systems Expansion and acceleration of shading models Volume rendering architectures Space, screen, and model partitioning Hardware support for photorealism Media processors Exploitation of new memory technologies for 3D graphics Authors are invited to send papers electronically, in Adobe PDF format as an email attachment, to lastra@cs.unc.edu. Please limit the length to 10 typeset pages or 20 double-spaced pages. If electronic submission is not feasible, please send six copies of the paper to the address below. If you would like to send videotapes to accompany the paper, please make six copies and mail them to the address below. An effort should be made to include the segment in both PAL and NTSC on the same VHS tape, to ensure that it can be seen by all reviewers. Submission address: Anselmo Lastra Department of Computer Science CB 3175, Sitterson Hall University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3175 USA Phone +919-962-1958 FAX +919-962-1799 Email: lastra@cs.unc.edu If you wish to send papers electronically, but via an alternate method such as ftp, please contact lastra@cs.unc.edu for instructions. Hot 3D Systems Track We invite industry groups to present their latest and greatest 3D chips or system designs. Presentations should be technical, rather than marketing, and should focus on real products and their performance evaluation. Presentations should last approximately 20-25 minutes. Bound copies of the slides will be prepared for attendees, and presentation slides will be made available on the workshop web page after the workshop. Contributors are invited to send their presentation slides electronically, in Microsoft PowerPoint format, as an email attachment to bosch@us.ibm.com by July 12, 2000. If electronic submission is not feasible, please send a hardcopy of the slides to the address below. Submission address: Bengt-Olaf Schneider IBM T.J. Watson Research Center P.O. Box 218, Yorktown Heights NY 10598 U.S.A. Phone: +914-945-1585 Fax: +914-945-4297 E-mail: bosch@us.ibm.com The Workshop The workshop will take place in Interlaken, Switzerland in a hotel during Monday and Tuesday of Eurographics 2000 week. The workshop will feature two full days of paper and industry presentations and invited talks. We will continue the workshop's tradition of a sumptuous banquet at a unique location. Registration The registration fee (in US $) includes the workshop proceedings, banquet, coffee, and lunches. The workshop fee does not cover accommodations. Please see our website for full details on registration and accommodations. Best Paper Award An award of $500 will be given to the authors of the paper considered the outstanding paper presented at the workshop. The award is based on the accuracy, originality, and importance of the technical concept, the quality and readability of the manuscript, as well as the content and delivery of the verbal presentation. To qualify for this award, one or more of the principal authors must be enrolled at the workshop and present the paper. The winner will be chosen by the organizing committee based on audience feedback and will be announced at the end of the workshop. Demonstrations Presenters and workshop participants are invited to bring prototypes or products for demonstration at the workshop. Demonstrations will be held on Monday and Tuesday during breaks and before and after workshop sessions. We highly encourage paper authors and industry presenters to demonstrate their systems at the workshop. Please contact the workshop chairs to arrange for space or electrical connections that may be required for your demonstration. For more information please visit http://www.merl.com/hwws00/ ********** III.B.5. Fr: Markus Hannebauer Re: ECAI 2000 Workshop: CFPapers First Call for Papers/Participation ECAI 2000 Workshop on BALANCING REACTIVITY AND SOCIAL DELIBERATION IN MULTI-AGENT SYSTEMS http://www.first.gmd.de/plan/ecai-2000-ws.html Berlin, Germany, August 22, 2000 Important Dates Deadline for submission: 1.5.2000 Notification: 1.6.2000 Deadline for camera-ready papers: 10.6.2000 Workshop: 22.8.2000 Scope Today's envisioned applications of intelligent systems in general and multi-agent systems in particular confront researchers and developers with the difficulty of finding the right balance between reactive and socially deliberative behavior. Reactive systems are capable of adapting very quickly to unforeseen changes in the environment and are hence said to be more robust and efficient. On the other hand, they usually lack the necessary overview to produce behavior that can compete with the results of in-depth reasoning techniques. In contrary to that, socially deliberative systems allow for exploiting environmental information and coordination mechanisms to build up through-thought individual and even team- oriented strategies. Though their problem-solving results are usually much better than in reactive systems, deliberative systems are much more susceptible to dynamic environments and often lack the potential for real-time computation. This workshop focuses on theoretical, technical and practical work on balancing between these two extremes in the context of collaborative work in multi-agent systems. Contributions from Artificial Intelligence as well as Robotics are welcome. Theoretical and technical topics of interest include, but are not restricted to: - Extension of reactive systems by cooperation - Teaching deliberative systems reactivity and real-time - Efficient coordination, cooperation and organization approaches - Anytime approaches and algorithms - Design and evaluation of hybrid multi-level agent architectures - Short-term, medium-term and long-term intentionality - Enriching group behavior by environmental, opponent and social models - Individual and social adaptivity To keep the workshop focussed, we encourage practical contributions to be directed at: - Multi-agent problem solving (planning, scheduling, control) Real-world problems often require distributed solving strategies, because of natural distribution, social competence and efficiency matters. Multi-agent approaches to such problems are said to be more robust than monolithic systems, but usually entail worse solutions. How can this be overcome by better balancing between reactive and deliberative behavior? - RoboCup RoboCup has proven to be a great and challenging benchmarking scenario both to Robotics and Artificial Intelligence. In RoboCup reactivity and real-time are a must, but social deliberation gets more and more important to match the world's leading teams. Hence, there is much research work to be done considering the topics of this workshop. IMPORTANT: Papers that focus on RoboCup-specific topics should make clear how the work could be applied to other domains as well. We encourage you to pick at least one specific domain and argue that such is the case. Submissions Participation in the workshop will be restricted to 30 persons. We encourage active participation by inviting only people with submitted papers or with a single-page statement of interest, reflecting the authors' concrete relation to the field and topic. All workshop participants must register for ECAI 2000. Informal pre-proceedings of the workshop will be published in time to be available at the workshop. Additionally, Springer-Verlag has committed to publish an edited version of the workshop proceedings in its well-known Lecture Notes on Artificial Intelligence series (http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/index.html). Authors of selected papers will be asked to extend their articles for inclusion in this LNAI volume. Papers should be formatted according to the LNAI style guide for authors (refer to http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html) and should not exceed 12 pages. Papers should be submitted as Postscript-files and additionally as pure Tex- and Eps-files via eMail to the contact person named below. Alternatively, send four copies of your paper via ordinary mail to the address of the contact person. Electronic submission is strongly preferred. Deadline for submission: 1.5.2000 Notification: 1.6.2000 Deadline for camera-ready papers: 10.6.2000 Workshop: 22.8.2000 Additional information ECAI-2000 homepage http://www.ecai2000.hu-berlin.de Workshop homepage http://www.first.gmd.de/plan/ecai-2000-ws.html ********** III.C.1. Fr: Mariken Broekhoven Re: ELSNET Summer School 8th European Summer School on Language and Speech Communication "Text and Speech Triggered Information Access (TeSTIA)" Chios Island, Greece 15-30 July 2000 The 2000 ELSNET Summer School will be organized by the Institute for Language and Speech Processing (ILSP) in Athens, Greece. The event will be sponsored by ELSNET, IHP and ILSP, and receive further support from ISCA and EACL. Years of speech and billions of characters are stored in various media including the Internet. How can we ever find useful information in such vast archives? Automatic procedures that can recognize speech accurately and linguistic tools that automatically take out essential information components may do the job. The 2000 Summer School will present the current state of the art. For details of the programme, which will consist of plenary sessions, parallel courses and workshops, please check the summer school homepage: http://www.ilsp.gr/testia/testia2000.html Mariken Broekhoven ELSNET Assistant Coordinator European Network in Language and Speech email: elsnet@let.uu.nl mail : Utrecht Institute of Linguistics OTS, Trans 10, 3512 JK, Utrecht, The Netherlands tel : +31 30 253 6039 fax : +31 30 253 6000 www : http://www.elsnet.org ****************************************************************** IRLIST Digest is distributed from the University of California, California Digital Library, 1111 Franklin Street, Oakland, CA. 94607-5200. 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