Information Retrieval List Digest 487 (January 18, 2000) URL = http://hegel.lib.ncsu.edu/stacks/serials/irld/irld-487.txt IRLIST Digest ISSN 1064-6965 January 18, 2000 Volume XVII, Number 3 Issue 487 ****************************************************************** I. QUERIES 1. Request for Information: Tenure and Promotion Guidelines II. JOBS 1. Singingfish: Seattle: Search Engine Position 2. Dalhousie School of Business Administration: Halifax: Assistant/Associate Professor: IS III. NOTICES B. Meetings 1. CIA-2000: Deadline Extension 2. SPIRE'2000: CFPapers ***WITH CORRECTED DATES*** 3. AI for Web Search Workshop at AAAI 2000: CFPapers 4. Defining Information Architecture 5. ECAI 2000/PAIS 2000: Final CFPapers 6. TAG+5: Extended Deadline C. Miscellaneous 1. A Bibliography on Automated Text Categorization IV. PROJECTS C. Awards, Fellowships, Grants, & Scholarships 1. TOP Grants ****************************************************************** I. QUERIES I.1. Fr: Xia Lin Re: Request for Information: Tenure and Promotion Guidelines Here at Drexel College of information Science and Technology, we are in the process of revising the College's Tenure and Promotion Guidelines. The old guidelines were written many years ago. During this period, society and the university have undergone several profound changes. How and what, if any, should such changes be reflected in the guidelines? For example: To what extent does the technology change the research process or the role of faculty? Should the nature of research and scholarship be redefined in the technology era? How do we evaluate the advancement of knowledge and scholarships that are technology-related? How do we define standards of performances in all the three areas, research, teaching, and services, when the institute becomes so diverse and so interdisciplinary? What need to be defined (or not defined) in the guidelines in order to move practices closer to documentation (or perhaps, move documentation closer to practices)? Should the T&P guidelines also include standards for non-tenured-track appointments and promotions? How did teaching evaluations change over the years? As we move to emphasize more on teaching excellence, what standards or evaluation methods need to specify in the guidelines? What are the roles of student-rating, peer-reviews, or self-evaluation, etc., in tenure and promotion decisions? We have reviewed many papers from AAHE that address some of the issues we are discussing. We would also like to hear voices of our communities, in particular ASIS and IR communities. We would appreciate it very much if you could share with us some documentation and experiences related to the above and other related issues. Please send information to me or any faculty members here at Drexel. Thank you very much. Xia Xia Lin, Ph.D. Assistant Professor College of Information Science and Technology Drexel University Philadelphia, PA 19104-2875 215-895-2482 215-895-2494 (fax) xlin@drexel.edu http://faculty.cis.drexel.edu/~xlin/ ****************************************************************** II. JOBS II.1. Fr: Eric Rehm Re: Singingfish, Seattle: Search Engine Position Singingfish.com is developing new search technologies for specialized areas of the Web. Our technologies will keep pace with the Web's growth and return relevant results for specific searches. Singingfish.com combines state-of-the-art algorithms with solid software engineering to provide unique services that will find broad acceptance within the Web community. We're looking for talented people to work on our search engine, in particular, developing the full-text search indexing and ranking strategy for our flagship product, and designing critical interactions with our database. The successful candidate will have a MSCS, MLIS, or equivalent, and experience in three or more of the following: * Application development using C++ or Java * Information retrieval technology and text indexing * Bibliographic and full-text databases * XML and tools for processing that data * Large database performance issues * Experience developing thesauri and controlled vocabularies for IR Systems We have a mixed Unix / Windows development environment, and management that understands that the best kind of management is management that doesn't get in the way. We have an exciting corporate vision, a great location, and a fun group of can-do individuals. The position is located in Seattle. To apply, email your resume to jderosa@singingfish.com.Singingfish.com is an equal opportunity, affirmative action employer. We offer competitive salaries, generous stock options, and a blue-chip benefits package. Contact: John DeRosa jderosa@singingfish.com Singingfish.com 1520 Bellevue Avenue Suite 201 Seattle, WA 98122 206.322.1481 206.322.0534 (fax) http://www.singingfish.com ********** II.2. Fr: Mike Shepherd Re: Dalhousie School of Business Administration, Halifax: Assistant/Associate Professor: IS Position Announcement - Assistant/Associate Professor, Information Systems Dalhousie School of Business Administration has two tenure track positions open in MIS. We are looking for assistant or associate professors. Our critical mass needs are in organizational knowledge management. We believe that Data Mining will lead to an explosion of knowledge development. This will dictate the overdue attention to organizational knowledge management that has been simmering on the back burner for twenty plus years. The School of Business Administration (SBA) has an enrolment of 900 undergraduate (co-operative) students and 200 resident MBAs. In partnership with The Institute of Canadian Bankers, the SBA delivers an MBA(FS) program through distance education to 250 students. A similar distance education program, MBA (IT) in partnership with Information Technology Institute, has just accepted its first class. The SBA offers general and specialized courses in information systems in all its degree programs. Dalhousie School of Business Administration is one of four schools in the Faculty of Management. The others are: School of Public Administration, School of Library and Information Studies, and School of Resource and Environmental Studies. The Faculty of Management has two associate chairs and one full chair in Informatics and is a partner with Faculty of Computer Science and Faculty of Law to deliver the first G7 approved interdisciplinary Master of Electronic Commerce. The Dalhousie Global Information Network Institute (GINI) is currently seeking status as a national Network Centre of Excellence in Electronic Commerce. Halifax has six universities, a growing IT sector, and numerous easily accessible cultural and outdoor activities. Further information on the University, the Faculty of Management, and the SBA can be found on the world wide web at www.mgmt.dal.ca. The appointments will be effective 1 July 2000. Applicants should have a PhD in a relevant discipline. Successful candidates will be teaching graduate and undergraduate courses in MIS (e.g., Intro to MIS, Database Administration, Systems Analysis and Design, etc). In addition, participation in further developing the MIS curriculum especially at the undergraduate level is expected. Normal administrative responsibilities in the Faculty of Management are also required. Lastly, successful candidates will be expected to work with Industry and Government as part of their research or service responsibilities. Please send a complete CV (education history, teaching, research and other pertinent work experience, evidence of teaching effectiveness, list of publications and presentations, and the names, addresses and telephone numbers of three referees) to: Jack Duffy Chair, MIS Search Committee School of Business Administration Dalhousie University 6152 Coburg Road Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada B3H 3J5 Voice: (902) 494-1838 Fax: (902) 494-1107 Email: Jack.Duffy@dal.ca Consideration of applicants will begin 17 January 2000 and will continue until the positions are filled. In accordance with Canadian Immigration requirements, this advertisement is directed to Canadian citizens and permanent residents. Dalhousie University is an Employment Equity/Affirmative Action employer. The University encourages applications from qualified Aboriginal peoples, persons with a disability, racially visible persons, and women. Michael Shepherd Faculty of Computer Science Dalhousie University 6050 University Avenue Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada B3H 1W5 Phone: (902)-494-3686, Fax: (902)-492-1517 ****************************************************************** III. NOTICES III.B.1. Fr: Matthias Klusch Re: CIA-2000: Deadline Extension CIA-2000 Workshop EXTENDED Deadline: FEBRUARY 7, 2000 As a result of several requests, the deadline for the submission of research papers for the 4th International Workshop on Cooperative Information Agents CIA-2000, to be held in Boston, July 7-9, 2000 has been extended to Monday, February 7, 2000. Further details are available in the Web at http://www.dfki.de/~klusch/cia2000.html Dr. Matthias Klusch DFKI GmbH German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence Stuhlsatzenhausweg 3 66123 Saarbruecken, Germany Phone: +49-681-302-5297, Fax: +49-681-302-2235 klusch@dfki.de ********** III.B.2. Fr: Pablo de la Fuente (by way of Mark Sanderson ) Re: SPIRE'2000: CFPapers ***WITH CORRECTED DATES*** Important note: There was a mistake on the dates of the previous version of this! CALL FOR PAPERS SPIRE'2000 - String Processing and Information REtrieval September 27 - 29, 2000 A Coruña, Spain Sponsored by CYTED-AMYRI Research Project WHAT IS SPIRE'2000? SPIRE'2000 is a Symposium on String Processing and Information Retrieval that is in its seventh edition. The first four editions focused primarily on string processing and originated in South America, and were called WSP (South American Workshop on String Processing). They were held in Belo Horizonte, Brazil (1993), Valparaíso, Chile (1995 and 1997), and Recife, Brazil (1996). Starting in 1998, at Santa Cruz, Bolivia, the focus of the workshop was broadened to include the area of information retrieval due to its increasing relevance and its inter-relationship with the area of string processing. SPIRE'99, at Cancun, Mexico, has continued this trend including also the area of DNA computing and, as a result, there was several papers and three invited talks on this topic. For SPIRE'2000 we expect to have contributions from several related communities. The SPIRE'2000 symposium aims at facilitating the potential benefits of cross- fertilization between different fields. As such, it offers a singular opportunity for researchers interested in working with problems related to these areas. As in the past, the proceedings of SPIRE'2000 will be published by IEEE CS Press. TOPICS SPIRE'2000 covers research in all aspects of string processing, information retrieval, computational biology, pattern matching, DNA computing, and related applications. Typical topics of interest include (but are not limited to): * String Processing: dictionary algorithms, text searching, pattern matching, text compression, text mining, voice or natural language processing, and automata based string processing. * Information Retrieval (IR): IR modeling, indexing, ranking and filtering, interface design, visualization, cross-lingual IR systems, multimedia IR, digital libraries, collaborative retrieval, and Web related applications. * Interaction of biology and computation: DNA sequencing and applications in molecular biology, information encoding for DNA computing, evolution and phylogenetics, recognition of genes and regulatory elements, and protein structure prediction. IMPORTANT DATES: Paper submission: April 20th, 2000 Authors notification: May 31th, 2000 Camera ready: June 26th, 2000 INVITED SPEAKERS (Partial list) Uzi Vishkin, Univ. of Maryland, USA SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS Authors are requested to: - prepare an extended abstract or full draft paper of at most 15 pages in standard 11pt Latex article style or equivalent. - send the paper in standard postscript via e-mail (see address below) no later than April 20th, 2000 to the chair of the Program Committee as well as a message containing the paper title, the names of all authors, an indication of the author to be contacted, and the affiliation of such author (including full address, phone/fax numbers, and e-mail address). E-mail: spire2000@infor.uva.es - use the standard IEEE CS format for the final version of accepted papers, which will have to be sent via ftp to the publisher either as postscript or PDF. LOCAL ORGANIZATION The local organization committee is chaired by Nieves R. Brisaboa from Univ. of A Coruña, Spain. For any questions about local matters please send e-mail to spire00@udc.es. WEB HOMEPAGE http://rosalia.dc.fi.udc.es/spire2000/ ********** III.B.3. Fr: Steve Lawrence Re: AI for Web Search Workshop at AAAI 2000: CFPapers Call for Papers/Participation AAAI-2000 Workshop on Artificial Intelligence for Web Search http://archive.org/kurt/aaai2000.html July 30, 2000, Austin, TX Paper submission deadline: 10 March 2000 The World Wide Web offers an immense diversity of knowledge; however, the Web's size, rapid growth, high diversity, and erratic organization often make it difficult to find information. AI techniques can be used for organizing, searching, and classifying information on the Web. A broad range of AI techniques are relevant including machine learning, autonomous agents, expert systems, knowledge representation, data mining, and natural language processing. Topics: Web keyword search - Topical clustering and classification of search results - Learning to suggest keywords - Ranking of results Improving search and browsing by learning from users - Using access information (e.g. collaborative filtering) - Personalized search and browsing Understanding Web structure and organization - Link analysis - Web site/page clustering - Computational complexity issues - Can optimal browsing be learned? Web page features - Feature extraction and knowledge representation for search - Use of Web page metadata Attendance: The workshop will be of interest to academics, graduate students, and industry researchers/engineers in the areas described above. Format: There will be invited speakers, and regular submitted paper presentations, and above all, extensive interactions and discussions among participants. Extensive discussions that we plan will encourage the right kind of interactive atmosphere during the workshop. Submissions from all disciplines related to using AI to find information on the Web are welcome. Speakers will be topically grouped, and presentations will be followed by a moderated discussion on each topic. In a final plenary session, directions for joint post-workshop efforts will be discussed. An opportunity to give demonstrations of research prototypes and techniques may be provided. To encourage discussions, accepted contributions and discussion topics will be published on the Web at http://archive.org/kurt/aaai2000.html before the workshop. As a consequence, the background of all participants will be known beforehand, so that presentations and discussions can focus on the technical questions. Participants will be encouraged to prepare questions for speakers. Submissions: Submissions should be between one and six pages and be formatted using the standard AAAI guidelines. Submissions of brief, concise papers presenting novel ideas are specifically encouraged. Papers should be submitted electronically in Postscript or PDF format (preferably as a MIME attachment to an ASCII cover letter) via e-mail to aaai2000@archive.org. Dates: 10 March 2000: Submissions due to aaai2000@archive.org. 24 March 2000: Notification e-mails sent. 26 April 2000: Camera ready papers due. 30 July 2000: Workshop takes place. Additional Information: See http://archive.org/kurt/aaai200.html for additional details. Also see the AAAI 2000 homepage: http://www.aaai.org/Conferences/National/2000/aaai-iaai2000.html ********** III.B.4. Fr: Richard Hill Re: Defining Information Architecture "Defining Information Architecture" Boston, Massachusetts April 7-9, 2000 sponsored by the American Society for Information Science http://www.asis.org/Conferences/Summit2000/ Information Architecture is an emerging and rapidly growing field, merging ideas from many traditional disciplines with the goal of designing better information systems. If you are an information architect or are interested in the field, "Defining Information Architecture" is your opportunity to: * Explore definitions for Information Architecture with a panel of leading thinkers and practitioners. * Understand the types of expertise that should and will have an impact on Information Architecture. * Learn about the role that the Information Architect plays within different settings. * Meet your colleagues and build a broader community of information architects. The American Society for Information Science has assembled a compelling list of speakers (http://www.asis.org/Conferences/Summit2000/speakers.html) representing many relevant perspectives: Anthropology * Data Modeling * Graphic Design * Meta-Data * Human Computer Interaction * Information Design * Information Retrieval * Interface Design * Markup Languages * Librarianship * Technical Communications * Usability Engineering Attendance is limited, so please register soon. Visit http://www.asis.org/Conferences/Summit2000/ for details. Richard Hill American Society for Information Science 8720 Georgia Avenue, Suite 501 Silver Spring, MD 20910 (301) 495-0900 FAX: (301) 495-0810 http://www.asis.org ********** III.B.5. Fr: Markus Hannebauer Re: ECAI 2000/PAIS 2000: Final CFPapers ECAI 2000/PAIS 2000 14th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence Prestigious Applications of Intelligent Systems Berlin, Humboldt University August 20-25, 2000 http://www.ecai2000.hu-berlin.de IMPORTANT DATES 2 Feb 2000 Deadline for paper summaries 4 Feb 2000 Deadline for papers 28 Apr 2000 Notification of acceptance 29 May 2000 Camera-ready copies of papers 23-25 Aug 2000 Technical program at ECAI 2000/PAIS 2000 ECAI 2000 FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS The ECAI 2000 Program Committee invites submission of papers for the technical program of the 14th biennial European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI 2000). Submissions are invited on substantial, original and previously unpublished research in all fields of Artificial Intelligence. FORMATTING GUIDELINES It is highly recommended to submit papers using the final camera-ready formatting style. Submissions must not exceed five pages in camera-ready format. Submissions of unformatted papers are limited to 6000 words including footnotes, figure captions, tables, appendices, and bibliography. Each half-page of figures will be counted as 600 words. (Please note that for some papers five camera-ready pages may be considerably less than 6000 words in practice.) Over-length submissions will be rejected without re- view. Authors submitting unformatted papers must include a word count on their paper. Latex style files to support formatting of submissions will be available. Final versions of accepted papers will be required to conform strictly to the formatting requirements specified in the ECAI 2000 style guide (see ECAI homepage). Each accepted paper will be allocated five pages in the proceedings. SUBMISSION PROCEDURE Submission is a two-stage process. Authors are asked to submit a brief summary of their paper by 2 February 2000. The strongly preferred submission method is to use the web-based summary submission form. Submitted summaries will be assigned a unique tracking number that should be marked on the full paper submission. Authors without access to the web should send a summary including the title, authors, contact address and abstract for the paper (maximum 200 words), plus keywords drawn from the above list (plus other keywords if appropriate) to the ECAI 2000 Program Chair (by email or postal mail). The summary information and the tracking number should also be included with the paper itself, on a separate sheet of paper. (Authors not able to use the web-based submission form may omit the tracking number). Submission of the paper is in hard copy form only, fax or electronic submissions will not be accepted. Six copies of the paper (each including the summary sheet) should be sent by postal mail or courier service to the ECAI 2000 Program Chair at the address below. The deadline for receipt of papers is 4 February 2000. Papers received after this date will not be reviewed. Notification of receipt of full papers will be mailed to the corresponding author soon after receipt. Address for submission Werner Horn ECAI 2000 Program Chair Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence (ÖFAI) Schottengasse 3 A-1010 Vienna Austria Email: ecai2000@ai.univie.ac.at Tel: +43-1-4277-63114 Fax: +43-1-4277-9631 Style guide and summary form http://www.ecai2000.hu-berlin.de/style.html http://www.ecai2000.hu-berlin.de/summary.html Multiple submissions policy ECAI 2000 will not accept any paper that at the time of submission is under review for, or has already been published or accepted for publication in a journal or another conference. Authors are also expected not to submit their papers elsewhere during the review period. These restrictions apply only to journals and conferences and not to workshops or similar specialized meetings with limited audiences. The title page should include a statement that the paper is not under review or accepted for publication in another conference or journal. REVIEW PROCEDURE All submissions will be subject to academic peer review by the ECAI 2000 Program Committee under the chairmanship of the ECAI 2000 Program Chair. The ECAI 2000 Program Chair has final authority over the review process and all decisions relating to acceptance of papers. Review criteria include originality of ideas, technical soundness, significance of results, and quality of presentation. Notification of acceptance or rejection of submitted papers will be mailed to the corresponding author by 28 April 2000. CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS The conference proceedings will be published and distributed by IOS Press. The authors will be responsible for producing camera- ready copies of papers, conforming to the ECAI 2000 formatting guidelines, for inclusion in the proceedings. The deadline for receipt of the camera-ready copy is 29 May 2000. Note that at least one author of each accepted paper is required to attend the conference to present the paper. ECAI 2000 is organised by the German Informatics Society (GI) and the European Coordinating Committee for Artificial Intelligence (ECCAI) and hosted by Humboldt University Berlin. PAIS 2000 FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS ECAI is pleased to announce its Prestigious Applications of Intelligent Systems (PAIS 2000) sub-conference. The PAIS 2000 Program Committee invites authors to submit application papers. This event, associated with ECAI 2000 is created to specifically highlight significant successful applications of Intelligent Systems (IS) technology. The purpose of the event is to provide a forum for industry practitioners to learn about the power and applicability of selected IS techniques and share experience on the applicability, development and deployment of intelligent systems in industry. This will be the largest showcase in Europe of real application using Intelligent Systems technology and the ideal place to meet with those working to make successful IS-based applications. The Prestigious Applications of Intelligent Systems event will present papers describing successful applications of Intelligent Systems. Papers are selected to highlight critical areas of success (and failure) and to present the benefits and lessons of value to other developers. Submitted papers should make these points clear. Papers should contain sections covering the following information: Descriptive Title and Abstract: These should convey clearly and simply what the application is and its operational status. Do use a title that makes it clear to a reader what the application is. Don't use a clever, or an obscure title. Problem description: This should describe the problem that the application solves, stating the objectives of the application and explaining why an Intelligent Systems solution was required. If other solutions were tried and failed, briefly outline these solutions with reasons for failure. Application description: This should describe the solution to the problem, with technical details on design and implementation. It should describe any methodological approach used, detail the key IS techniques used and if appropriate show how they were integrated with conventional techniques. If commercial tools were used they should be identified and reasons for their selection given. Application building: This should describe the size and skill make-up of the project team, how long is took to build and the costs involved. How it was/will be installed and introduced to the users, with details of any training required. Describe any plans for maintenance, in particular how the knowledge is expected to change over time, and any features to aid the updating of knowledge, etc. Application benefits: Were potential benefits identified before building the application and have these been realised or are likely to be realised? Has the application been in use and, if so, how often has it been used and by how many users? What further long term benefits are expected? What future plans have been made for its enhancement and use? For PAIS 2000, a paper is acceptable even if it describes a system which has not yet been installed, PROVIDED the application is original AND the paper discusses the aspects and issues that would help someone thinking of implementing a similar system in their own organisation. It must concisely describe and scope the problem tackled, saying why it is hard, and why IS techniques are needed. It should also make clear the status of the system, and should discuss such things as the project duration and effort, how the project was justified and the expected benefits estimated, any problems encountered, the performance of the final system and the reactions of users. The review procedure is different and separate from the ECAI technical conference. Papers will be evaluated by experienced application developers, based on the above criterion. Accepted papers will be published in the ECAI proceedings. FORMATTING GUIDELINES It is highly recommended to submit papers using the final camera-ready formatting style. Submissions must not exceed five pages in camera-ready format. Submissions of unformatted papers are limited to 6000 words including footnotes, figure captions, tables, appendices, and bibliography. Each half-page of figures will be counted as 600 words. (Please note that for some papers five camera-ready pages may be considerably less than 6000 words in practice.) Overlength submissions will be rejected without re- view. Authors submitting unformatted papers must include a word count on their paper. Latex style files to support formatting of submissions will be available. Final versions of accepted papers will be required to conform strictly to the formatting requirements specified in the ECAI 2000 style guide (see ECAI homepage). Each accepted paper will be allocated five pages in the proceedings. SUBMISSION PROCEDURE Submission is a two-stage process. Authors are asked to submit a brief summary of their paper by 2 February 2000. The strongly preferred submission method is to use the web-based PAIS summary submission form. Submitted summaries will be assigned a unique tracking number that should be marked on the full paper sub- mission. Authors without access to the web should send a summary including the title, authors, contact address and abstract for the paper (maximum 200 words), plus a set of indicative keywords to the ECAI 2000 Program Chair (by email or postal mail). The summary information and the tracking number should also be included with the paper itself, on a separate sheet of paper. (Authors not able to use the web-based submission form may omit the tracking number). Submission of the paper is in hard copy form only, fax or electronic submissions will not be accepted. Six copies of the paper (each including the summary sheet) should be sent by postal mail or courier service to the ECAI 2000 Program Chair at the address below. The deadline for receipt of papers is 4 February 2000. Papers received after this date will not be reviewed. Notification of receipt of full papers will be mailed to the corresponding author soon after receipt. Address for submission Werner Horn PAIS 2000 Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence (ÖFAI) Schottengasse 3 A-1010 Vienna Austria Email: pais2000@ai.univie.ac.at Tel: +43-1-4277-63114 Fax: +43-1-4277-9631 Style guide and summary form http://www.ecai2000.hu-berlin.de/style.html http://www.ecai2000.hu-berlin.de/summary.html REVIEW PROCEDURE All submissions will be subject to review by a team of experienced application developers in the PAIS 2000 Program Committee under the chairmanship of the PAIS 2000 Program Chair, Rob Milne. The PAIS 2000 Program Chair has final authority over the review process and all decisions relating to acceptance of papers. Notification of acceptance or rejection of submitted papers will be mailed to the corresponding author by 28 April 2000. CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS Accepted PAIS 2000 papers will appear in a special section of the ECAI conference proceedings and will be published and distributed by IOS Press. The authors will be responsible for producing camera-ready copies of papers, conforming to the ECAI 2000 formatting guidelines, for inclusion in the proceedings. The deadline for receipt of the camera-ready copy is 29 May 2000. Note that at least one author of each accepted paper is required to attend the conference to present the paper. PAIS 2000 is organised by the German Informatics Society (GI) and the European Coordinating Committee for Artificial Intelligence (ECCAI) and hosted by Humboldt University Berlin. ECAI 2000 PUBLICITY OFFICE | Markus Hannebauer Dipl.-Inform., Research Fellow hannebau@first.gmd.de Research Institute for Computer Architecture and Software Technology (FIRST) phone: +49- 30-63 92 18 66 German National Research Center cell. p.: +49-177-267 43 60 for Information Technology (GMD) fax: +49- 30-63 92 18 05 | ********** III.B.6. Fr: Lionel Clement Re: TAG+5: Extended Deadline TAG+5 International Workshop on Tree Adjoining Grammars and Related Formalisms May 25 - 27, 2000 Jussieu, Paris, France CALL FOR PAPERS EXTENDED DEADLINE: January 31, 2000 The fifth workshop on tree-adjoining grammars and related frameworks (hence the + after TAG) will be held at the University of Paris 7, from May 25 to May 27 2000, sponsored by ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues). Previous workshops were held at Dagstuhl (1990), UPenn (1992), Univ. Paris 7 (1994) and UPenn (1998). Original submissions on all aspects of TAGs (linguistic, mathematical, computational, and applicational) are invited, as well as those relating TAGs to other frameworks, lexicalized (dependency grammars, categorial grammars...), tree-based (DTG, TFG, GB...) or feature-based (LFG, HPSG...). As in the past, there will be some invited talks on other grammar formalisms that have interesting relationships to TAGs. ABSTRACTS: You can submit papers for three kinds of presentations: long talks (25 minutes + 5 min for discussion), short talks (10 min + 5) and/or tool demonstrations. Please note that an author (or a given set of co-authors) should not submit more than one paper. Submissions will be anonymous, and should therefore not include the author's name, nor any self-reference. Abstracts should be no longer than 4 pages. 2 hardcopies should be sent by surface mail to: TAG+5 UFRL, Université Paris 7 TALaNa, case 7003 2, place Jussieu F-75251 Paris cedex 05 A separate identification page (with the following information : title of the paper, author's name, affiliation, postal address, email address, fax and telephone number) should also be included. Please also indicate if you submitted your abstract to other conferences. Also a postcript file should be sent to tag+@linguist.jussieu.fr. Please indicate "tag+5 submission" in the subject field. Important: all postcript files MUST be in an A4 format Proceedings including extended versions of accepted abstracts will be available at the workshop. Languages of the workshop: English and French If you do not want to submit an abstract, but would like to attend, we would appreciate if you could send a message. If you would like to present a demo, please let us know as soon as possible, including information about required hardware and software. DATES: Extended deadline for submissions: January 31 Notification of acceptance: March 3 Deadline for camera-ready extended abstract: April 15 Workshop Dates: May 25 to May 27 CONTACT ADDRESS TAG+5 UFRL, Université Paris 7 TALaNa, case 7003 2, place Jussieu F-75251 Paris cedex 05 phone: +33 1 44 27 53 70 fax: +33 1 44 27 79 19 email: tag+@linguist.jussieu.fr web: http://tagplus.linguist.jussieu.fr/ ********** III.C.1. Fr: Fabrizio Sebastiani Re: A Bibliography on Automated Text Categorization I have recently created an up-to-date bibliography on automated text categorization. Its emphasis is on the induction of automatic text classifiers by machine learning techniques, and contains references on theoretical, experimental, and applicative work on ATC. It contains more than 160 entries, 75% of which have pointers to online .ps copies of the papers, and it will be regularly (I hope) updated. The bibliography may be accessed from http://faure.iei.pi.cnr.it/~fabrizio/central.html#ATCbiblio, and is fully searchable thanks to the software provided by Alf-Christian Achilles . Everyone is welcome to let me know either additional references or corrections and additions (e.g. URLs, where they are not already present) to the existing ones. Fabrizio Sebastiani Istituto di Elaborazione dell'Informazione Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche Via S. Maria, 46 - 56126 Pisa (ITALY) Phone: +39.050.593407 Fax: +39.050.554342 E-mail: fabrizio@iei.pi.cnr.it WWW: http://faure.iei.pi.cnr.it/~fabrizio/ ****************************************************************** IV. PROJECTS IV.C.1. Fr: Joan K. Lippincott Re: TOP Grants COMMERCE ANNOUNCES $12.5 MILLION IN GRANTS TO BE AWARDED TO HELP CLOSE THE DIGITAL DIVIDE Secretary Daley to launch 12-city tour next month to highlight efforts to close digital gap WASHINGTON * Approximately $12.5 million will be awarded in a new round of grants by the Commerce Department this year as part of the Clinton-Gore Administration's on-going efforts to close the gap between Americans with access and those without access to new technologies, tools critical to economic success and advancement, Commerce Secretary William M. Daley announced today. "New technologies are now the major driving force of our country's economic growth," Daley said, noting that more than one-third of U.S. growth stems from the nation's burgeoning information technology industries. "Access and training, therefore, become even more essential so that all Americans have the ability to participate and benefit from the new economy," Daley added. Daley also announced that the grant program, formerly known as the Telecommunications and Information Infrastructure Assistance Program (TIIAP), has been renamed the Technology Opportunities Program (TOP) to better reflect opportunities the many new technologies provide for economic advancement. The grants announced today are being awarded to state, local and tribal governments and non-profit entities as part of the Administration's program to extend the benefits of the Internet and other information technologies to all Americans, especially those in underserved rural and urban communities. "There are still many Americans who do not receive the benefits of our nation's digital economy," said Gregory L. Rohde, assistance secretary of Commerce for communications and information and head of National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA), which administers the grant program. "These grants play a vital role in the Administration's efforts to provide otherwise disadvantaged populations, low-income persons and the less educated with access to information sources," Rohde said. "Since 1994, the TOP program has helped close the digital divide for minorities, low-income and rural populations, and explored useful applications of new technologies that deliver the dividends of the digital era," Rohde said. Last July, NTIA released the findings of a major study that reported the gap between American information "haves" and "have nots" has widened significantly. On Dec. 9 Daley hosted a Digital Divide Summit at the Commerce Department, which Rohde said was a critical step in bringing together the public and private sectors to expand collectively initiatives that promote technology and economic development in underserved communities. Next month Daley is scheduled to launch a 12-city tour to raise public awareness of the need to improve access to new technologies by all Americans and to highlight initiatives aimed at closing the digital divide. TOP is a highly-competitive, merit-based program that provides start-up money for innovative, practical projects that use advanced telecommunications and information technology. The program has provided more than $135 million in matching grants since its inception in 1994. This year, the program is specifically encouraging projects developed by smaller, locally-based organizations that both serve and represent technologically underserved communities. Grant applicants are also encouraged to consider the use of advanced network technologies to enhance the quality and efficiency of services delivered through non-profit entities. Moreover, TOP is interested in cross-cutting projects involving partnerships among its four application areas--community networking and services; lifelong learning and the arts; health; and public safety. NTIA will hold a series free regional Technical Assistance Workshops to discuss the TOP funding priorities, application requirements, and lessons learned from previous TOP grantees. This is a key opportunity for interested parties to understand the TOP goals and process, and meet representatives of other organizations interested in the TOP program. The Technical Assistance Workshops will be held on January 31, in New York, New York; February 2, in Houston, Texas; and February 4, in Los Angeles, California. Online registration for the workshops is now available at http://www.ntia.doc.gov/ Assistant Secretary Rohde will hold a special briefing for interested parties in Washington, D.C. on January 19, 2000, at the Department of Commerce, Room 4830, at 2:00 p.m. The press is invited to attend. Information about the program's regulations and procedures can be found in the Notice of Availability of Funds, published in the Federal Register on January 5, 2000. The deadline for receiving applications is March 16, 2000. For more information about TOP and the Technical Assistance Workshops, call (202) 482-2048, or e-mail to: top@ntia.doc.gov, or access NTIA's website at http://www.ntia.doc.gov/ NTIA serves as the principal adviser to the President, Vice President and Secretary of Commerce on domestic and international communications and information issues. Note to Editors: A fact sheet on the TOP program is attached. Press may also visit TOP's readable database http://www.ntia.doc.gov/ to review TOP projects in their respective areas and follow pointers to grants and search funded projects. FACT SHEET: TECHNOLOGY OPPORTUNITIES PROGRAM (TOP) Objectives: The Department of Commerce's Technology Opportunities Program (TOP) promotes the widespread availability and use of advanced telecommunications technologies in the public and non-profit sectors. As part of the Department's National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA), TOP gives grants for model projects demonstrating innovative uses of network technology. TOP evaluates and actively shares the lessons learned from these projects to ensure the benefits are broadly distributed across the country, especially in rural and underserved communities. Grants: Since 1994, TOP has made matching grants to state, local and tribal governments, health care providers, schools, libraries, police departments, and community-based non-profit organizations. TOP projects demonstrate how networks support lifelong learning for all Americans, help public safety officials protect the public, assist in the delivery of health care and public health services, and foster communication, resource-sharing, and economic development within rural and urban communities. To date, TOP has awarded 421 grants, in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, and the U.S. Virgin Islands, totaling $135.8 million and leveraging $203 million in local matching funds. TOP projects are nationally significant demonstrations of how telecommunications and information technologies can be used to extend and improve the delivery of valuable services and opportunities to all Americans, especially the underserved. By serving as models that can be replicated in similar communities across the country, TOP projects extend their benefits far beyond the communities in which they take place, and provide economic and social benefits to the nation as a whole. Evaluation & Dissemination: By working closely with its grantees, TOP has accumulated a significant body of knowledge about the creation and management of information technology applications. For example, in February, 1999, TOP released the first report evaluating the program's impact and synthesizing the lessons learned by early TOP grant recipients. This initial TOP Evaluation Report (and the accompanying 24 Case Studies) focuses on the 1994 and 1995 TOP grantees. Since then, TOP has evaluated grants made in 1996, and an additional 12 case studies are now available online. In addition, TOP continuously disseminates the results and insights learned from the projects it supports by providing technical assistance, creating publications, newsletters and online resources, and hosting conferences. TOP is administered by the United States Department of Commerce's National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA). For more information on the 1999 TOP grant round and a complete list of TOP grants, including project descriptions and contact information, as well as TOP publications and case studies, see NTIA's Home Page on the Web at http://www.ntia.doc.gov/ or contact TOP at (202) 482-2048. To be added to the TOP mailing list, call or email TOP@ntia.doc.gov. 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