Information Retrieval List Digest 486 (January 10, 2000) URL = http://hegel.lib.ncsu.edu/stacks/serials/irld/irld-486.txt IRLIST Digest ISSN 1064-6965 January 10, 2000 Volume XVII, Number 2 Issue 486 ****************************************************************** I. QUERIES 1. Embedded Multimedia Electronic Journal Candidates III. NOTICES A. Publications 1. JASIS ToC, 51:2 2. IP&M Special Issue: Interactivity and TREC: CFPapers B. Meetings 1. Pervasive Computing 2000 2. Managing Knowledge to Manage Your Future: Workshop 3. CIR-2000: Final CFPapers 4. Communicating Agents: 3rd CFPapers 5. Symposium on Social Communication 6. Information Doors -- Where Information Search and Hypertext Link: Workshop: CFPapers 7. ICEIS 2000: Final CFPapers 8. Four ANLP/NAACL-2000 Workshops: CFPapers C. Miscellaneous 1. Information on the UK Resource Discovery Network 2. GreyNet Press Release: ALA'2000 Mid-Winter ****************************************************************** I. QUERIES I.1. Fr: Gerry Mckiernan Re: Embedded Multimedia Electronic Journal Candidates _Embedded Multimedia Electronic Journal Candidates_ I am greatly interested in learning of **other** electronic journals that have integrated or incorporated a multimedia component within their issues for listing in _M-Bed(sm)_, my Registry of Embedded Multimedia Electronic Journals. M-Bed(sm) is available at http://www.public.iastate.edu/~CYBERSTACKS/M-Bed.htm Currently, about three dozen embedded multimedia e-Journals are listed in M-Bed(sm). Common types of multimedia include audio and video files as well as two-dimensional and 3-D models, and supplemental datasets. As a adjunct to the registry, I have also compiled a General Bibliography of key works on Web multimedia that include Web sites as well as recent and forthcoming books and articles that I believe will be of interest to a wide audience. I welcome citations to any other significant relevant publications for inclusion in this bibliography. NOTE: I am pleased to announce recent publication (November 1999) of my brief review article "Embedded Multimedia in Electronic Journals" in _Multimedia Information and Technology_ 25(4):338-343, the journal of the Multimedia Group of Aslib and the Multimedia Information and Technology Group of the Library Association (UK). [Pay-per-view copies are available directly from the CatchWord site ( http://www.catchword.com/ ) or through _Just-in-Time_, my clearinghouse devoted to 'as needed' access to e-journal articles ( http://www.public.iastate.edu/~CYBERSTACKS/Just.htm ) ] As Always, Any and All contributions, comments, queries, critiques, questions, etc. etc. regarding multimedia e-journals or candidate book titles about multimedia on the Web are Most Welcome. Regards, /Gerry McKiernan Theoretical Librarian Iowa State University Ames IA 50011 gerrymck@iastate.edu ****************************************************************** III. NOTICES III.A.1. Fr: Richard Hill Re: JASIS ToC, 51:2 Journal of the American Society for Information Science JASIS 51:2 [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.] EDITORIAL In This Issue Bert R. Boyce 93 RESEARCH Probabilistic Datalog: Implementing Logical Information Retrieval for Advanced Applications Norbert Fuhr 95 Interface Metaphors and Logical Analogues: A Question of Terminology Anne Hamilton 111 Citation Ranking Versus Peer Evaluation of Senior Faculty Research Performance: A Case Study of Kurdish Scholarship Lokman I. Meho and Diane H. Sonnenwald 123 Publication Trends of Doctoral Students in Three Fields from 1965-1995 Wade M. Lee 139 Methods for Accrediting Publications to Authors or Countries: Consequences for Evaluation Studies Leo Egghe, Ronald Rousseau, and Guido Van Hooydonk 145 The Influence of Publication Delays on the Observed Aging Distribution of Scientific Literature Leo Egghe and Ronald Rousseau 158 Semantic Similarities Between a Keyword Database and a Controlled Vocabulary Database: An Investigation in the Antibiotic Resistance Literature Jian Qin 166 Readers, Authors, and Page Structure: A Discussion of Four Questions Arising from a Content Analysis of Web Pages Stephanie W. Haas and Erika S. Grams 181 Application of Dublin Core Metadata in the Description of Digital Primary Sources in Elementary School Classrooms Anne J. Gilliland-Swetland, Yasmin B. Kafai, and William E. Landis 193 BRIEF COMMUNICATION Genres and the Web: Is the Personal Home Page the First Uniquely Digital Genre? Andrew Dillon and Barbara A. Gushrowski 202 BOOK REVIEWS Facilitating the Development and Use of Interactive Learning Environments, edited by Charles P. Bloom and R. Bowen Loftin James J. Sempsey 206 Visualizing Subject Access for 21st Century Information Resources, edited by Pauline Atherton Cochrane and Eric H. Johnson Marc Lampson 206 LETTER TO THE EDITOR Relevance Research: The Missing Perspective(s): "Non-Relevance" and "Epistemological Relevance" Birger Hj\orland 209 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.A.2. Fr: William Hersh Re: IP&M Special Issue: Interactivity and TREC: CFPapers CALL FOR PAPERS Special Issue - Information Processing & Management INTERACTIVITY AND THE TEXT RETRIEVAL CONFERENCE (TREC) William Hersh, Oregon Health Sciences University, hersh@ohsu.edu Paul Over, National Institute for Standards & Technology, over@nist.gov Co-Editors The goal of this issue is to bring together research focused on user interaction with queries, collections, and tasks from the Text Retrieval Conference (TREC). While many papers will emanate from the TREC Interactive Track, we also invite submissions from other research groups who have performed experiments with real users in other TREC tasks or using TREC data. For example, those who have employed users in the TREC manual ad hoc track are encouraged to describe their results with a focus on user interaction. Likewise, anyone who has done user experiments with TREC data outside the TREC conference is also encouraged to submit. The deadline for papers is March 1, 2000. The papers will be peer-reviewed in the normal manner. Style and format instructions for the manuscripts can be found in each issue of Information Processing & Management or at the journal's Web site at: http://www.elsevier.nl/locate/infoproman Papers can be submitted in electronic or hard copy format (electronic preferred). Electronic formats accepted include Postscript, PDF, Word, and WordPerfect and should be mailed to William Hersh at hersh@ohsu.edu. For paper submissions, three duplicate copies should be sent to: William Hersh Oregon Health Sciences University 3181 SW Sam Jackson Park Rd. BICC Portland, OR 97201 ********** III.B.1. Fr: Pat Flanagan Re: Pervasive Computing 2000 "PERVASIVE COMPUTING 2000" January 25-26, 2000 National Institute of Standards and Technology Gaithersburg, Maryland For more information and for online registration for this conference, please see our website at http://www.nist.gov/pc2000 "Pervasive Computing" is the strongly emerging trend toward: *Numerous, casually accessible, often invisible computing devices Mobile or embedded in the environment. *Connected to an increasingly ubiquitous network structure *Failing to see and act upon this trend may be very costly to U. S. *Information Technology companies; just as it was for mainframe companies to ignore the emergence of personal computers; and for the PC companies to ignore the infant World Wide Web. *The innovative firms, which establish a critical mass relatively early in the generation life cycle, are usually the ones with superior returns on investment. *For computer users, the underlying premise is compelling: simplicity of use, ubiquitous access, minimal technical expertise, reliability and more intuitive interaction methods. Through intelligent use of technologies, *Pervasive Computing presents an unusual opportunity to better serve human needs. TOPICS: Human-computer interaction, pico-cellular wireless, multimedia information access, service discovery, human-centered integration and interoperability, programming pervasive computing applications, and innovative pervasive computing devices FEATURED SPEAKERS INCLUDE: Keynote Address: Bill Joy Co-Founder, Chief Scientist Sun Microsystems, Inc. Craig Mundie Senior Vice President, Consumer Strategy Microsoft Corporation Janet M. Baker, Ph.D. Chairman Dragon Systems, Inc. Michael Bianchi President Foveal Systems, Inc. Dr. Chatschik Bisdikian Research Staff Member T. J. Watson Research Center IBM Corp. Greg Bollella, Ph.D. IBM Senior Architect, Real-Time Java Expert Group Network Computing Software Division IBM Corp. Yaron Goland Microsoft Corporation Jim Keane Senior Vice President: Corporate Strategy, Research and Development Steelcase Corp. James Kempf Senior Staff Engineer Sun Microsystems Laboratories Sun Microsystems, Inc. Frederick L. Kitson, Ph.D. Director, Clients & Media Systems Lab HP Labs or Mark T. Smith, Ph.D. Manager, Appliance & Media Systems Department HP Labs Hewlett-Packard Co. Dr. Toby Lehman Almaden Laboratory IBM Corp. Dr. Peter A. Lucas President, C.E.O. MAYA Design Group, Inc. Ben Manny Intel Corp. Dr. William (Bill) Mark Vice President, Information and Computing Sciences SRI International Dr. Victor McCrary Technical Manager - Information Storage and Interconnect Systems NIST David Nahamoo Director, Human Language Technologies Group T. J. Watson Research Center IBM Corp. Edward G. Newman President, C.E.O. Xybernaut Corp. Ward Page DARPA / ISO Robert Pascoe President Salutation Consortium, Inc. Alex (Sandy) Pentland Academic Head, M.I.T. Media Laboratory Co-Director, Center for Future Health, University of Rochester Ivan Perez-Mendez, Ph.D. President, C.E.O. Syvox Corporation Carl Sassenrath C.E.O., Founder REBOL Technologies Tim Shepard, Ph.D. M.I.T. Laboratory for Computer Science Peter Sparago Mirror Worlds Technologies, Inc. Jim Waldo Distinguished Engineer, Jini Architect Sun Microsystems, Inc. Dr. Lynn Wilcox Manager, Smart Media Spaces, Fuji Xerox Palo Alto Laboratory John Wroclawski Research Scientist M.I.T. Laboratory for Computer Science FOR MORE INFORMATION AND ON-LINE REGISTRATION, VISIT http://www.nist.gov/pc2000 or contact Bill Young at wtyoung@nist.gov, 301-975-8701. Patricia Flanagan patricia.flanagan@nist.gov (301)975-4495 NIST Bldg. 225, Room B254 Stop 8940 Gaithersburg, MD 20899 ********** III.B.2. Fr: Theodore Allan Morris Re: Managing Knowledge to Manage Your Future: Workshop Managing Knowledge to Manage Your Future: Views From the Experts Thursday, February 3, 2000 Cincinnati State Technical and Community College "We've looked at the future and it is us." Deadline for registration: Thursday, January 27, 2000 SPEAKERS: Charles A. Davis, Senior Fellow Indiana University School of Library and Information Science Tom Sanville, Executive Director OhioLINK Pamela P. Klein, Senior Information Scientist Procter & Gamble Kimber L. Fender, Director/Librarian Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County Danny Wallace, Special Advisor for New Media Programs Kent State University Richard Hulser, Market Segment Manager, Digital Libraries Technologies IBM Corporation PROGRAM: You're going to spend the rest of your life in the future - what do you need to know to meet the technological challenges and take advantage of opportunities? This combined meeting of SLA and SOASIS will celebrate where we have come with technology, and examine where we might go. Charles Davis Where Have We Been PANEL DISCUSSION The Changing Role of Information Professionals Tom Sanville Academic Pamela Klein Corporate Kim Fender Public Danny Wallace Library Education Richard Hulser Where Are We Going? SPONSORED BY: American Society for Information Science, Southern Ohio Chapter (SOASIS) Special Libraries Association, Cincinnati Chapter (SLA) With special thanks to the Greater Cincinnati Library Consortium (GCLC) FOR REGISTRATION INFORMATION: GCLC, 2181Victory Parkway, Suite 214, Cincinnati, OH 45206-2855 Phone: (513)751-4422 - Fax: (513)751-0463 - E-mail: gclc@one.net ********** III.B.3. Fr: Margaret Graham Re: CIR-2000: Final CFPapers FINAL 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 Los Angeles; Dr. Ruud Bolle, IBM Thomas Watson Research Center; Dr. Richard Nicol, Head of Research, BT Adastral Park; and Professor Mark Overmars, 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. FINAL 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 is 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 that 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. Submission can be accepted after the official closing date only by prior agreement with the Programme Chair, Dr. Eakins (john.eakins@unn.ac.uk). 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. PROGRAMME COMMITTEE: * John Eakins (co-chair), University of Northumbria at Newcastle * Peter Enser (co-chair), University of Brighton * Margaret Graham, University of Northumbria at Newcastle * David Harper, Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen * Karina Holm, Getty Images * Paul Lewis, University of Southampton * Martin Nail, Library and Information Commission 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 ********** III.B.4. Fr: Bernhard Schroeder Re: Communicating Agents: 3rd 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. Organizing Committee Roland Hausser, University of Erlangen Hans-Christian Schmitz, University of Bonn Bernhard Schroeder, University of Bonn Contact Bernhard Schroeder Institut für Kommunikationsforschung und Phonetik Universität Bonn Poppelsdorfer Allee 47 D-53115 Bonn Germany B.Schroeder@uni-bonn.de Phone +49 228 735621 Fax +49 228 735639 ********** III.B.5. Fr: leonel@lingapli.ciges.inf.cu Re: Symposium on Social Communication SEVENTH INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON SOCIAL COMMUNICATION CENTER OF APPLIED LINGUISTICS On its 30th Anniversary SANTIAGO DE CUBA JANUARY 23-26, 2001 The Center of Applied Linguistics of the Santiago de Cuba's branch of the Ministry of Science, Technology and the Environment, is pleased to announce on the occasion of its 30 Anniversary, the Seventh International Symposium on Social Communication. The event will be held in Santiago de Cuba January 23rd through the 26th, 2001. This interdisciplinary event will focus on social communication processes from the points of view of Applied Linguistics, Computational Linguistics, Medicine, Voice Processing, Mass Media, and Ethnology and Folklore. The Symposium will be also sponsored by: .. University of Oriente, Cuba .. Higher Institute for Medical Sciences, Santiago de Cuba .. Pedagogical University 'Frank Pais', Santiago de Cuba .. Information for Development Agency, Cuba .. University of Twente, The Netherlands .. National Council of Scientific Research, Italy .. University of Leon, Spain .. University of Malaga, Spain .. University of Granada, Spain .. Humboldt University, Germany Authors will be allowed to present only one paper pertaining to the following disciplines: 1. Applied Linguistics: - Spanish and foreign language teaching - Spanish as a second language - Phonetics and Phonology - Lexicology and Lexicography - Morphology and Syntax - Sociolinguistics - Psycholinguistics - Textual Linguistics and Pragmalinguistics - Terminology - Translations 2. Computational Linguistics: - Software related to linguistic research - Automated grammatical tagging of texts - Automated dictionaries - Software related to the teaching of mother tongues and foreign languages - Related issues 3. Voice Processing: - Research related to Cry Analysis - Applications of analysis, synthesis and voice-recognition - Artificial intelligence and voice processing 4. Medical specialties related to speech and voice and with Social Communication in general: - Logopedy and Phoniatry - Neurology - Otorhinolaringology - Stomatology - Child Psychiatry - Pediatrics - Cronobiology 5. Mass Media: - Linguistic research related to the speech of journalists, actors and radio and television announcers. - Textual Analysis of radio and television programs, and of print and electronic media articles 6. Ethnology and Folklore: - Research related to Social Communication Activities that will take place within the event are: - Pre-Symposium seminars - Discussion of papers in commissions - Master conferences - Workshops - Posters PRE-SYMPOSIUM SEMINARS The Symposium will be preceded by two seminars that will be taught by prestigious specialists to be announced. The seminars will take place Monday, January 22nd of 2001 and will focus on the following subjects: - Spanish as a second language - Latest trends in Computational Linguistics Participants should say in advance what pre-symposium seminars they want to take part in. An additional fee of 20.00 USD will be charged for each seminar. Participation certificates will be available. WORKSHOP A workshop entitled 'Applied Linguistics in the Spanish-speaking World' will be held on the occasion of the 30th Anniversary of the Center of Applied Linguistics. MASTER LECTURES During the symposium four master lectures will be delivered by: - Prof. Dr. Anton Nijholt, Professor and Researcher, Twente University, Enschede, Holland. - Dr. Hiroto Ueda, Professor and Researcher, Department of Spanish, Tokyo University, Japan. - Dr. Mercedes Cathcart Roca, Professor and Researcher, Faculty of Humanities, University of Oriente, Santiago de Cuba, Cuba. - Dr. Manuel Vilares Ferro, Professor and Researcher, Vigo University, Spain. ABSTRACTS The deadline of submission of paper abstracts is July 1st, 2000. They should not exceed 250 words. Notification of acceptance of a paper by the Symposium's Scientific Committee will be sent before July 30th, 2000. PAPERS To enable the Organizing Committee to include the Proceedings as part of the Symposium's documentation, accepted papers must be sent before September 1st, 2000, with the following requirements: 1. The paper will not exceed 5 pages including graphics, footnotes and bibliography. 2. It should be written using Word 6.0 or Word 7.0 for Windows and sent to the Symposium's Executive Secretary either via e-mail (attachment) or by mailing a 3½-inch diskette. 3. Each page must be written in an A4 (mail type) format with left, right, top, and bottom margin of 2.5 cm. 4. The paper must be written in one of the event's official languages: Spanish, English or French. Instructions for paper submission: 1. Write down the authors' names, one under the other, at the left top of the first page, all in Arial bold capital letters, 10 points (Word 6.0 or 7.0). Under the authors' names should appear in bold (only initials capital letters) the institution, city, country and e-mail address if available. 2. In a separate line, at the center, the title of the paper must be written in Arial bold, Italics, 11 points size letters. 3. The text will follow -not in bold- with the same Arial letter, 10 points size and leaving one space between lines. 4. Paragraphs will have no indentation. Spaces between paragraphs will be of 3 points. 5. Section titles will be written in Arial bold, and sub-sections titles will be written in Arial Italic. 6. Footnotes will appear at the end of each page in Arial 9 points size letters. Presentation time will be 15 minutes and 5 minutes for discussion. Authors must advise in advance if they will need a tape recorder, video set, computer or other kind of equipment for presentation. POSTERS Posters should be 1 meter wide and 1.2 meter high. Authors will be responsible of displaying them in the morning of the presentation. Abstract submission should include the word POSTERS. For proceedings, follow instructions above. Notice: unlike full papers, posters will not exceed 3 pages. All mail or inquiries should be addressed to: Dr. Eloina Miyares Bermudez Secretaria Ejecutiva Comite Organizador VII Simposio Internacional de Comunicacion Social Centro de Linguistica Aplicada Apartado Postal 4067, Vista Alegre Santiago de Cuba 4, Cuba 90400 Telephones: (53-226) 42760 or (53-226) 41081 Fax: (53-226) 41579 E-mail: leonel@lingapli.ciges.inf.cu http://parlevink.cs.utwente.nl/Cuba/index.html OFFICIAL LANGUAGES: Spanish, English and French IMPORTANT REMINDERS - Abstract Submission deadline: July 1, 2000 - Notification on paper's approval by Scientific Committee: July 30, 2000 - Delivery of papers either by e-mail or by mail using 3½-inch diskette: Sept 1, 2000 - Pre-Symposium seminars: Jan 22, 2001 - 7th International Symposium on Social Communication: Jan 23 - 26, 2001 ********** III.B.6. Fr: Einat Amitay Re: Information Doors -- Where Information Search and Hypertext Link: Workshop: CFPapers Information Doors -- Where Information Search and Hypertext Link May 30th 2000 San Antonio, Texas, USA http://www.ics.mq.edu.au/~einat/info_doors/ A workshop held in conjunction with the ACM Hypertext conference (www.ht00.org/) Introduction The purpose of this workshop is to tackle the problem of creating new hypertexts on-the-fly for representing other hypertext documents in the context of search results. Online search results are, no doubt, a form of hypertext created on-the-fly. Search results pages are also probably the most frequently seen hypertextform of writing nowadays. However, the research community tends to identify the presentation search results with Information Retrieval research. This workshop will consider search results as a form of hypertext, encouraging discussion about the nature of this dynamically created textual point-of-departure. The task of reading from a screen is not a trivial one, nor is the task of navigating between online texts. Even less trivial is creating a new text to represent other texts that are interconnected. In the case of hypertext representation of search results these tasks are combined to create a new on-screen text that describes and links other texts or entities. The purpose of this workshop is to tackle the problem of creating new hypertexts on-the-fly for representing other hypertext documents in the context of search results. The workshop will focus on the textual aspects of the problem: - How texts are read online? - How previously unseen documents might be presented in text to people who search for information? - How people navigate through textual search results? - What are the informative role and value of the newly created intermediate page? - Does it influence the reading of the documents followed by users? - Does it change the focus and the meaning of the texts as they are perceived by readers? - Are there any emerging textual or language conventions of presentation within hypertext systems and among hypertext authors that can be used in order to facilitate navigation through search results (e.g. naming of links conventions on the web, similarities in annotation patterns in annotation systems, use of titles and paragraph arrangements and positioning, use of lists and preferred methods of list ordering, and authors' frequent vocabulary choices). The workshop aims to bring together participants from many disciplines such as Human-Computer-Interaction (HCI), Information Retrieval (IR), Natural Language Processing (NLP), Digital Library (DL), applied psychology and psycho-linguistics, to discuss the nature of one of the most frequently seen hypertext presentation in recent years -- online search results. It will address the problem of textual presentation and hypertext representations of search results by looking at evaluations and studies of hypertext representations, studies about interaction with texts, how text representations should be designed in terms of language coherence and on-screen/online reading limitations, how to improve navigation with a smarter choice of textual representation, etc. The term 'textual representation' relates to how a document or a group-of-documents is represented in text (short or long texts, coherently summarised or organised by fixed fields like author, title, last updated, citations, generating descriptions, extracting passages, and so on). We will aim for gathering our knowledge to enhance and integrate our experience about hypertext in order to improve the options users are presented with while searching for information. The goal of the workshop is to create an interdisciplinary community that is able to address issues concerning search results presentation in the context of an online hypertext system. The workshop will specifically focus on the textual representation of results. It will not look at graphical representations of search results unless these shed new light on a textual issue, such as a comparison between textual and graphical representations of documents. The following list of suggested topics is only a short one and authors are encouraged to add more related issues and directions of investigations that are missing from it. Topics Issues of presentation - Choosing what information to show about found entities (summaries, titles, links, annotations, additional related information, etc.) - Grouping of results - Labelling Groups of documents - Creating hierarchies of results - Comparisons between textual & graphical representations of results Issues of results refinement - Similarities detected between results (represented in text) - Query refinement (textual options) Issues of evaluation - How results are read - Does presentation change users navigation experience - Different users - different presentations? - Large scale studies - Task-specific studies Issues of speed and efficiency Commercial applications Important Dates Submission of papers - 5 April 2000 Notification of acceptance - 30 April 2000 Workshop - 30 May 2000 Submission Papers are due on the 5th of April 2000. All papers should be submitted electronically via email (sent to einat@ics.mq.edu.au). PDF submissions are preferred (if this is not possible then try to send it as a .txt, .ps or MSWord file). Papers should be no longer than 6 pages. Workshop Organiser: Einat Amitay (Macquarie University & CSIRO) einat@ics.mq.edu.au ********** III.B.7. Fr: Joaquim Filipe Re: ICEIS 2000: Final CFPapers 2nd International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems (ICEIS 2000) Stafford UK 4-7 July 2000 http://www.soc.staffs.ac.uk/iceis/ IMPORTANT: Call for Papers Deadline: 31-Jan-2000 All accepted papers published in proceedings with ISBN (paper+cdrom) BOOK: Selected papers will be published in a book by a world-wide publisher. Main Topic Areas: 1. ENTERPRISE DATABASE TECHNOLOGY AND ITS APPLICATIONS 2. ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS 3. SYSTEMS ANALYSIS AND SPECIFICATION 4. INTERNET AND ELECTRONIC COMMERCE This international conference is organised by the School of Computing at Staffordshire University, UK and the Escola Superior de Tecnologia of the Instituto Politecnico, Setubal, Portugal. The purpose of this 2nd International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems (ICEIS) is to bring together researchers, engineers and practitioners interested in the advances and business applications of information systems. Four simultaneous tracks will be held, covering different aspects of Enterprise Computing, including Enterprise Database Applications, Artificial Intelligence Applications and Decision Support Systems, Systems Analysis and Specification, and Internet and Electronic Commerce. ICEIS focuses on real world applications therefore authors should highlight the benefits of Information Technology for industry and services. Ideas on how to solve business problems, using IT, will arise from the conference. Papers describing advanced prototypes, systems, tools and techniques and general survey papers indicating future directions are also encouraged. Papers describing original work are invited in any of the areas listed below. Accepted papers, presented at the conference by one of the authors, will be published in the Proceedings of ICEIS. Acceptance will be based on quality, relevance and originality. There will be both oral and poster sessions. Special sessions, dedicated to case-studies and commercial presentations, as well as technical tutorials, dedicated to technical/scientific topics, are also envisaged: companies interested in presenting their products/methodologies or researchers interested in holding a tutorial are invited to contact the conference secretariat. We are building on the success achieved by ICEIS'99 with more than 350 delegates, 8 VIPs and a book published by Kluwer Academic Publishers (in press). Please check http://www.est.ips.pt/iceis where you will find more information concerning ICEIS'99. We also still have a few units of proceedings in CD-ROM to offer - if interested please email a request to iceis@est.ips.pt. TOPIC AREAS / CONFERENCE TRACKS Each of these topic areas is expanded below but the list is not exhaustive. Papers should address one or more of the listed topics, although authors should not feel limited by them. Unlisted but related topics are also acceptable. 1. ENTERPRISE DATABASE TECHNOLOGY AND ITS APPLICATIONS 2. ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS 3. SYSTEMS ANALYSIS AND SPECIFICATION 4. INTERNET AND ELECTRONIC COMMERCE AREA 1: Enterprise Database Technology and its Applications (a) Object-Oriented Database Systems (b) Object-Oriented Database Systems (c) Database Management (d) Distributed Database Applications (e) Performance Analysis (f) Enterprise-Wide Client-Server Architecture (g) Database Security and Transaction Support (h) Internet-enabled Databases (i) Query Processing and Optimisation (j) Graphical User Interfaces (k) Data Warehouses (l) Statistical Applications and Data Mining (m) Information Classification (n) Multimedia Database Applications AREA 2: Artificial Intelligence and Decision Support Systems (a) Industrial and Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence (b) Expert Systems (c) Advanced Applications of Fuzzy Logic (d) Applications of Neural Networks, Neural Networks or Genetic Algorithms (e) Natural Language Interfaces to Intelligent Systems (f) Intelligent User Interfaces (g) Applications of Pattern Recognition to Robotics and Vision Systems (h) Bayesian Networks (i) Decision Support Systems in E-Commerce (j) Artificial Intelligence Programming Languages (k) Agent-Oriented Programming (l) Intelligent Social Agents and Distributed Artificial Intelligence Applications (m) Testbeds and Development Environments (n) Intelligent Tutoring Systems AREA 3: Systems Analysis and Specification (a) Systems Engineering Methodologies (b) Information Engineering Methodologies (c) Semiotics in Computing (d) Requirements Analysis (e) Modelling Formalisms, Languages, and Notations (f) CASE Tools for System Development (g) Modelling of Distributed Systems (h) Systems Integration: Modelling Concepts and Information Integration Tools (i) Organisational Issues on Systems Integration (j) Legacy Systems Integration (k) Re-engineering AREA 4: Internet and Electronic Commerce (a) Languages and Protocols (b) Internet/ Intranet Distributed Computing (c) CASE Tools for Internet Computing Systems (d) Interactive and Multimedia Web Applications (e) Network Implementation Choices (e.g.. SGML/SML) (f) Internet/Intranet Based Systems for Business Processes and E- Commerce (g) Object Orientation In Internet and Distributed Computing (h) Internet and Collaborative Computing (i) Software Agents: Agent-Based Modelling and Agent-Based Programming (j) Agent-Based Systems for Business Applications and E-Commerce (k) Process Design and Organisational Issues in E-Commerce (l) Security, Privacy, Freedom of Information And Other Social and Ethical Issues KEYNOTE SPEAKERS INCLUDE Professor A. Cheng, University of Houston, USA. Professor T. Greene, MIT, USA. Professor J. Mylopoulos, University of Toronto, Canada. Professor Ian C. Ritchie, President of British Computer Society, UK. Professor R. Stamper, University of Twente, Netherlands. Professor C. J. Theaker, Terrafix Ltd, UK. The papers will be reviewed by the International Programme Committee. SUBMISSION OF PAPERS Authors should submit a paper in English of up to 5,000 words, both by e-mail (attached file in an accepted format - see below) and surface mail (2 printed copies) to the conference secretariat (see address below). Papers received after the deadline may be returned unopened. The programme committee will review all papers and the first author of each paper will be notified of acceptance, by email. Each paper should clearly indicate the nature of its technical/scientific contribution, and the problems, domains or environments to which it is applicable. Authors must also indicate the topic area to which the paper is submitted. Due to space limitations in the Proceedings, the maximum number of pages for each paper is limited to 5 (five). If absolutely needed, it is possible to increase the total number of pages up to 8 pages. However, for each page in excess of 5 the authors must pay an additional fee of £50 for each excess page. Format of the paper Submitted papers should be formatted for A4 size paper, and must be written in English, and carefully checked for correct grammar and spelling. Papers should be submitted in a 2-column format; each column should be 7.5cm wide, with a space of 0.8cm between the columns. The text should be in Times New Roman, 11pt, justified and single spaced. There should be no headers/footers and no page numbers. Margins requirements are as follows: Top: 3.3 cm; Bottom: 4.2cm; Left 2.6cm; Right: 2.6cm. The title, author, affiliation(s), contact details, abstract and list of keywords should be justified and single spaced in a single column across the width of the printable area. The paper should include: (a) The title: 14 pt bold type, centered over two columns, and in upper case. (b) Authors and affiliations (incl. full address and e-mail) should all be 11 pt, centered, under the title. Authors (bold) and affiliation/contact details (italic) should be centered. For multiple authors use a superscript to indicate affiliation/contact details. (c) Abstract: maximum 200 words, 11pt. (d) Keywords: maximum of five, under abstract, separated by commas. (e) Headings should be numbered and in mixed case 12 pt. bold text. Generally two, and at most three levels of numbered headings should be used. (f) Figures should be numbered sequentially, with a 10 pt. Caption centered immediately below. Figures should be placed in the main text, as close as possible to their first reference, and centered in a column or across the page if necessary. (g) Bibliographical references should be listed alphabetically at the end of the paper, before any appendices. Use 11 pt. single spaced text. References within the text, should be in the Harvard referencing style. Examples are given below: White, R., 1988. Advertising: what it is and how to do it. 2nd ed. London: McGraw Hill. Greco, A.J. and Swayne, L.D., 1992. Sales response of elderly customers to point-of-purchase advertising. Journal of Advertising Research, 32 (5), 43-63. Silver, K., 1989. Electronic mail: the new way to communicate. In: D.I. Raitt, ed. 9th international online information meeting, London 3-5 December 1988. Oxford: Learned Information, 323-330. For email submission, the only accepted formats are RTF, Postscript or PDF. Multiple submission If a paper has been submitted to other conferences it may also be submitted to ICEIS as long as (1) it is not published or presented at other conferences, (2) the author clearly indicates on the paper the other places where it has been submitted, and (3) the author notifies the programme chair if he/she submits the paper to other conferences during the ICEIS review process. SUBMISSION OF TECHNICAL TUTORIALS, WORKSHOPS OR EXHIBITS Any person interested in organising a tutorial, workshop, or exhibition should submit a proposal to the secretariat by e-mail (iceis-secretariat@staffs.ac.uk). These will be held on 3rd July 2000. Proposals should specify the topic and scope of the tutorial, the background knowledge expected of the participants, and a resumé of the instructor(s). Companies interested in presenting their products, showing documentation about them or demonstrating some application, are invited to contact the secretariat and make a reservation for a booth at the conference site. PROCEEDINGS AND BOOK PUBLICATION All accepted papers whose authors confirm participation at the conference will be published in the ICEIS 2000 proceedings. A number of papers will be selected for publication in book format. IMPORTANT DEADLINES Paper Submissions - 31st January 2000 Author Notification - 30th March 2000 Final Submissions - 30th April 2000 SECRETARIAT ICEIS 2000 Secretariat Staffordshire University School of Computing Beaconside, Stafford ST18 0AD, UK Fax: +44 1785 353561 E-mail: iceis-secretariat@staffs.ac.uk Web: http://www.soc.staffs.ac.uk/iceis/ ********** III.B.8. Fr: Priscilla Rasmussen Re: Four ANLP/NAACL-2000 Workshops: CFPapers The following four Calls for Papers for workshops associated with the ACL-sponsored ANLP/NAACL-2000 Conference are included below, separated by dash lines: 1)Workshop on Conversational Systems May 4, 2000, following ANLP/NAACL 2000 2)EMBEDDED MACHINE TRANSLATION SYSTEMS WORKSHOP II Thursday, May 4, 2000 3)Workshop on Applied Interlinguas: Practical Applications of Interlingual Approaches to NLP Sunday, April 30, 2000 4)Workshop on Reading Comprehension Tests as Evaluation for Computer-Based Language Understanding Systems Thursday, May 4th, 2000, Seattle, Washington, USA ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Papers Workshop on Conversational Systems May 4, 2000, following ANLP/NAACL 2000 The purpose of this workshop is to focus the discourse and dialogue community on best practices as well as theory of conversational systems, both speech based and text based. The workshop will also bring together creators of working conversational systems to discuss their efforts, both successes and limitations. In this workshop we encourage papers on either theoretical or applied research with a focus on results in working systems. We also welcome papers on working systems that provide a critical appraisal of their capabilities as well as their limitations; we encourage such papers to provide the criteria of critique that the authors feel are most relevant to their work. This workshop will consider in particular: - How can systems be designed so that it is easier to build applications in new domains? - What significant features of dialogue are beyond current working systems? What proposals show the most promise for capturing these features? - What knowledge does a system need to represent about a domain, tasks and discourse to support intelligent conversational interaction? - What can be learned from data and what should be learned from data? Can robust systems be built for domains where there is not a large Amount of data available? - What is the role of natural language generation in conversational systems? - What aspects of discourse prosody are now feasible in conversational systems? - What aspects of nonverbal behavior are now feasible -- and worthwhile implementing -- in conversational systems? - How can the real-world performance of conversational systems be measured and anticipated? How can the performance of different systems be compared? In addition to the presentation of papers and the discussions that will result from them, we plan demonstration sessions and a panel session. The demonstration sessions will be open to anyone who wishes to bring their conversational systems for demonstration to other members of the workshop. Presenters are asked to submit a paper that is specifically directed at a demonstration of their current systems. These papers should cover the following topics as well as others the presenters think are relevant: -a short system description, -an example dialogue or dialogues, as space permits, -discussion of the most important contribution of the work, -discussion of the most significant limitation of the work. These papers will be included in the workshop proceedings. In the panel session we plan to bring together a set of experts to compare various approaches (including frame-based, finite-state, plan-based and statistical and logical reasoning-based) to dialogue in working conversational systems. A website which will provide additional information on the workshop as it becomes available is located at: http://www.cs.umd.edu/users/traum/ConvSys/. I. 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: May 4, 2000 II. FORMAT FOR SUBMISSION Submissions must use the ACL latex style or ACL Microsoft Word style, both of which can be found at http://www.gte.com/AboutGTE/gto/anlp-naacl2000/cfp_submission.html. Paper submissions should consist of a full paper of 8 pages (including references). Please send submission questions to Alex Rudnicky,air@cs.cmu.edu, before, not after, January 31, 2000. Submission Procedure: Electronic submission only: send the pdf (preferred), postscript or MS Word form of your submission to: Alex Rudnicky, air@cs.cmu.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. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Call for Papers Embedded Machine Translation Systems Workshop II held in conjunction with NAACL/ANLP2000 Thursday, May 4, 2000 Seattle, Washington, USA Embedded MT Systems homepage for this workshop http://lamp.cfar.umd.edu/Embedded_MT_Systems WHAT IS AN "EMBEDDED MACHINE TRANSLATION (MT) SYSTEM"? An "embedded MT system" is a computational system with one or more MT engines among its components. These systems accept multilingual, multimodal inputs and create various outputs that enable the users to access the original information in their own language. An MT component embedded in an end-to-end system allows users to perform their specific tasks on foreign language input that they previously only had been able to perform in their native language. To date, these tasks have included summarization, content extraction, filtering and document retrieval. BACKGROUND The first workshop on Embedded MT Systems was held in conjunction with the biennial meeting of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas (AMTA), in October, 1998, in Langhorne, PA. The Embedded MT Systems Workshop II is a response to the growing community commitment to translingual information research, e.g., the DARPA TIDES initiative. By holding the workshop at the combined NAACL and ANLP conferences this year, there will be an opportunity for a multi-disciplinary mix of researchers and to attend, contribute and benefit from the workshop. WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION The strengths and weaknesses of machine translation engines have become better understood and accepted. There has been a marked increase in the development of a range of computer systems containing an MT component. This workshop will focus on the system designs, the associated information access tasks of such end-to-end systems, and the measures of system effectiveness. Of particular interest are systems that accept one or another of various types of input including hard-copy pages, online text files, and speech (natural or transcribed). These inputs present real-world, noisy data that challenge MT engine capabilities. We would like to know the degradation in performance that these challenges present and the compensation strategies that system developers have tested or used. We also seek submissions describing possible channel-specific feedback processes from other system components that help correct the noisy input. Papers describing multiple MT engines and algorithms for selecting among their outputs are encouraged. It would be interesting to hear how these complex MT components have been integrated into specific applications. For example, do certain MT engines produce results better suited for summarization, retrieval, or online foreign language tutoring? The field of MT evaluation currently lacks an adequate methodology. There are no widely used standards and few statisticians have been called upon to assess the metrics that have been proposed. We will look for submissions that include measures for the individual system components and end-to-end system evaluation. Also of interest are measures that evaluate user performance on specific tasks. We expect that the range of papers from both the first and this second workshop will provide sufficient material for us to pursue a special journal issue dedicated to Embedded MT Systems. IMPORTANT DATES Intent to submit: Friday, Feb. 11, 2000 Paper submission deadline: Wednesday, Feb. 16, 2000 Notification of acceptance of papers: Friday, March 3, 2000 Camera-ready papers due: Monday, March 13, 2000 SUBMISSION PROCEDURE Electronic submission of Intent to Submit should have the following subject line: "NAACL-ANLP2000 WORKSHOP - Intent to submit" Body of message should include Identification Page information: - title of submission - names of all authors - primary author name and email address, phone and fax - presentation type preference (select one or more per system: demo, poster, or paper) - keywords Authors may submit short papers, full-length papers, poster presentations and/or demos. For electronic submission, include the Identification Page Information (see above) as a separate page from the paper itself. Reviewing will be blind. No author information should be included with the main body of the paper. Full paper submissions may be up to 5000 words in length, including references. Submissions for poster presentations and short papers may be up to 2000 words in length, including references. Demo presentations are encouraged in conjunction with papers or posters. For demo-only presentations, submissions up to two pages long should describe the system design and capabilities with respect to (ii) above: an end-to-end process flow covering the system input, any pre-MT processing, the MT component itself, any post-MT processing, and the system output. FORMAT FOR SUBMISSION Submissions must use the ACL latex style or Microsoft Word style. Both are available from the ANLP-NAACL2000 Conference web page: http://www.gte.com/AboutGTE/gto/anlp-naacl2000/ Please send submissions and questions to: voss@arl.mil. Notification of receipt will be sent to the primary author. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Call for Papers Workshop on Applied Interlinguas: Practical Applications of Interlingual Approaches to NLP (pre-conference workshop in conjunction with ANLP-NAACL2000) Sunday, April 30, 2000 Seattle, Washington, USA The organizing committee wishes to invite submissions to the Workshop on the Practical Applications of Interlingual Approaches to NLP which will be held on Sunday, April 30, 2000, in conjunction with the ANLP-NAACL2000. Interlingual approaches to NLP have been developed within the field of Machine Translation. The central goal is to analyze natural language expressions in terms of a representation language that will capture those aspects of a communication which permit the generation of an equivalent expression in some other language (that is, a representation of the communicative intent of the utterance). An interlingual representation of some utterance should ideally represent what was said by whom and to whom and relevant information about where, when, why and how it was said. The representations are usually very rich and extremely knowledge intensive. Many aspects of such representation systems are unknown or underdeveloped. Often, though not invariably, the lexicon of an IL representation will be drawn from the names of nodes in an Ontology, representing classes, events, or concepts. The syntax of the IL prescribes how these nodes are combined into an utterance representation. An IL-based approach to Machine Translation then specifies how a source language sentence can be analyzed into an IL representation and how this representation can then generate a natural language output. This workshop will focus on these latter two aspects of the IL approach: the syntax of the IL and the techniques used to analyze and generate natural language. The uses of an Ontology outside of Knowledge-based Machine Translated is a related, but slightly different subject. To date, such approaches have been essentially theoretical (although a number of limited applications exist). One of the criticisms of such approaches is that they are impractical -- requiring too much hand-coding or too deep a knowledge-representation to be useful. However, several examples of IL specifications are available. For example, there is the Text Meaning Representation of the Mikrokosmos Knowledge-based Machine Translation system at the Computing Research Laboratory (http://crl.nmsu.edu/Research/Projects/mikro/index.html). the IL used in ISI's GAZELLE MT project (http://www.isi.edu/natural-language/mt/interlingua.html) IL representations of a Spanish text produced by the KANT system at the Language Technologies Institute (http://www.lti.cs.cmu.edu/IRW/) (http://www.lti.cs.cmu.edu/Research/Kant) IL representation developed for a speech-to-speech system dealing with travel planning by the Consortium for Speech Translation Advanced Research (C-STAR) (http://www.c-star.org) Interlingual approaches offer powerful semantics-based and pragmatics-based solutions to any number of NLP problems (disambiguation, reference resolution, interpretation of figurative speech to name a few). This workshop will focus on methods for making interlingual approaches tractable within specific, well-defined tasks not only for machine translation but for a range of NLP applications. The goal of the workshop is to stimulate interest in more cognitive research in NLP while focusing such work on near term, practical applications. Papers are invited on: - methods for developing (or extending) underlying knowledge sources, - techniques for processing in the face of knowledge-poor sources or gaps in knowledge sources, - interlingual approaches to particular NLP tasks (reference resolution, disambiguation, interpretation of ellipsis, etc.), - interlingual approaches to different NLP applications (MT--including speech-to-speech translation, Information Extraction, Summarization, NL generation, Intelligent Tutoring Systems, etc.). Since there is limited work on the application of IL approaches to NLP currently, concept design papers are encouraged. Preference will be given to actual research projects focusing on actual processing problems and exploiting extant sources, but any contribution should clearly focus on one of the topics above. The workshop will consist of 6 30-minute presentations, each followed by a half-hour discussion, beginning with two informal 6-minute critical responses from reviewers followed by a short rebuttal by the author and open discussion. Ideally, the critical responses will also be available by the March 1 acceptance date, but in no case later than March 31. All critiques and rebuttals received by March 13 will be included in the proceedings. The remainder will be made available at the workshop itself. The Journal of Machine Translation will consider the results of the workshop for publication in a special issue in 2001. In addition, the contributions will be published as an NAACL workshop proceedings. The workshop is sponsored in part by the Special Interest Group on Interlinguas of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas. For further information about this series of workshops see: http://crl.nmsu.edu/Events/FWOI/index.html. Dates Submission of papers: February 4, 2000 Notification of acceptance: March 1, 2000 Submission of Final Copies: March 13, 2000 Critiques of Accepted Papers: March 31, 2000 Author's Rebuttals: April 21, 2000 Workshop: April 30, 2000 The dates related to the preparation of a special issue of the Journal of Machine Translation will be made public at the workshop. Paper Requirements Submissions must use the ACL latex style or Microsoft Word style (both available from the ANLP-NAACL2000 Conference web page -- http://www.gte.com/AboutGTE/gto/anlp-naacl2000/). Paper submissions should consist of a full paper (5000 words or less, including references). Please send papers and submission questions to shelmrei@crl.nmsu.edu. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Papers Workshop on Reading Comprehension Tests as Evaluation for Computer-Based Language Understanding Systems Thursday, May 4th, 2000, Seattle, Washington, USA (post-conference workshop in conjunction with ANLP-NAACL2000) Reading Comprehension tests, such as the one below, are designed to help evaluate a reader's understanding of a text passage. How Maple Syrup is Made Maple syrup comes from sugar maple trees. At one time, maple syrup was used to make sugar. This is why the tree is called a "sugar" maple tree. Sugar maple trees make sap. Farmers collect the sap. The best time to collect sap is in February and March. The nights must be cold and the days warm. The farmer drills a few small holes in each tree. He puts a spout in each hole. Then he hangs a bucket on the end of each spout. The bucket has a cover to keep rain and snow out. The sap drips into the bucket. About 10 gallons of sap come from each hole. 1. Who collects maple sap? (Farmers) 2. What does the farmer hang from a spout? (A bucket) 3. When is sap collected? (February and March) 4. Where does the maple sap come from? (Sugar maple trees) 5. Why is the bucket covered? (to keep rain and snow out) Such tests exist in many languages, have human performance benchmarks associated with them, and come in a variety of types (short-answer, multiple choice) and levels of difficulty. In addition, they are generally written to make each story and set of questions self-contained, in order to require as little outside knowledge as possible to answer the questions. The focus of the proposed workshop will be to explore the following questions: - Can such exams be used to evaluate computer-based language understanding effectively and efficiently? - Would they provide an impetus and test bed for interesting and useful research? - Are they too hard for current technology? - Or are they too easy, such that simple hacks can score high, although there is clearly no understanding involved? The most direct method of exploring these questions is to choose a set of tests and build a system that takes these tests. Some preliminary results indicate that such tests are tractable, but not trivial and that linguistic processing is helpful (Hirschman, et al. ACL-99). A test set, evaluation routines, prototype system, and documentation are available upon request to light@mitre.org. We hope that a number of submissions will present results based on actual reading comprehension systems. In addition, we encourage submissions that report on other kinds of tests or similar tests in other languages, or that address our list of questions by other means. Note that submissions are encouraged that describe work in progress with preliminary empirical results. Invited speaker: Karen Kukich (Educational Testing Service) "NLP Tools for Analyzing TOEFL Reading Comprehension Passages and Items" Format for Submission Authors are asked to submit previously unpublished papers only; a workshop proceedings will be published. Our target submission length is 2000 words but both shorter and longer submissions will also be considered. Electronic submission of postscript will be accepted. Hard copy submissions should include 4 copies of the paper. Since the papers will be reviewed anonymously, please do not place the author name on the paper. Instead include a separate title page with title, abstract, author, and e-mail address. Unless requested otherwise, notification of acceptance will be sent electronically to the first author. Parallel submission is unproblematic; however if your paper is accepted to this workshop and you decide to present it here, we will ask you to withdraw it from any other events. Important Dates Deadline for submission: February 11th, 2000 Notification of authors: March 1st, 2000 Final versions due: March 10th, 2000 Address for Submission and Further Information Marc Light The MITRE Corporation 202 Burlington Rd. M/S K329 Bedford, MA 01730 USA Phone: 1-781-271-5579 light@mitre.org (The mailing list, read-comp@linus.mitre.org, has been set up to discuss reading comprehension tests as evaluation for computer-based language understanding systems. It is open subscription and unmoderated. To subscribe, send email to majordomo@linus.mitre.org with 'subscribe read-comp' in the body.) ********** III.C.1. Fr: Clifford Lynch Re: Information on the UK Resource Discovery Network The Resource Discovery Network (RDN) http://www.rdn.ac.uk/ A major new network of discipline-based gateways or "hubs" has been set up to provide students, lecturers and researchers with better access to high quality resources on the Internet. The Resource Discovery Network (RDN) catalogues and provides links to web sites containing a wide range of educational materials, whether they are electronic journals, database records, bibliographies or teaching resources. All the resources in the network have been selected by subject experts who provide in-depth descriptions of their quality, utility, and reliability. Users can either access these resources via the individual hubs or, by taking advantage of the RDN's sophisticated cross-searching software, run interdisciplinary searches across the entire network. The RDN also offers academics and lecturers the opportunity to forward their own resources (including articles, databases and newsletters) to the relevant hubs, allowing them to reach a wider audience. Funded by the UK's Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC), the RDN is organised into five hubs, some of which already existed as subject-based gateways. The RDN covers Medicine and the Life Sciences; Engineering, Computing and Mathematics; the Humanities; the Physical Sciences; and the Social Sciences, Business and Law. A hub for the Creative Arts and Industries will be added at a later date. Because of the variety of resources it catalogues, the RDN will be relevant to non-academics working in related professional fields, such as medicine or engineering. The RDN is expected to develop significant links beyond academia. Many of the hubs have been developed in partnership with learned societies and related professional and cultural institutions. The RDN will continue to establish partnerships in both the public and private sectors in order to expand, creating opportunities for content provision and funding. The RDN hubs are based at various universities around the United Kingdom: o BIOME (Medicine and Life Sciences) is led by the University of Nottingham o Humbul (Humanities) is led by the University of Oxford o EMC (Engineering, Mathematics and Computers) is led by Heriot-WattUniversity o PSIgate (Physical Sciences) is led by CALIM, the Consortium of Academic Libraries In Manchester o SOSIG (Social Sciences, Business and Law) is led by the University of Bristol The RDN is presently funded by the JISC, the Arts and Humanities Research Board (AHRB) and the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC). The RDN is managed by the RDN Centre, based at King's College, London and The University of Bath. 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