Information Retrieval List Digest 489 (January 31, 2000) URL = http://hegel.lib.ncsu.edu/stacks/serials/irld/irld-489.txt IRLIST Digest ISSN 1064-6965 January 31, 2000 Volume XVII, Number 5 Issue 489 ****************************************************************** II. JOBS 1. Xigo, Inc., San Francisco: Search Engine Engineers/ Text Analysis Engineers III. NOTICES A. Publications 1. Book Reviewers & Books Sought by Kluwer's "Information Retrieval" B. Meetings 1. 5th IDAMAP-2000: CFPapers 2. GMDS2000/MIE2000: CFPapers & Invitation: Extended Deadline 3. TSD 2000: First Announcement & CFPapers 4. NERCOMP / ITC 2000 Conference C. Miscellaneous 1. Titanic 2020 Paper 2. Report on Database Protection from National Academies 3. Electronic Records Presentations ****************************************************************** II. JOBS II.1. Fr: Dan Rose Re: Xigo, Inc., San Francisco: Search Engine Engineers/ Text Analysis Engineers Xigo, Inc. is a well-funded San Francisco startup developing services to empower, inform and entertain involved investors with intelligent tools and information that will improve investment performance. The Company is privately held and financed by New Enterprise Associates, Angel Investors, L.P., and a stellar group of private investors including John McKinley, Jr. (Merrill Lynch's Chief Technology Officer), David Rice (former CFO of TIBCO), Greg Gretsch (Chairman of Connectify). Of the many positions we have open, two are particularly relevant to IRLIST readers: SEARCH ENGINE ENGINEERS Location -- San Francisco, CA Xigo is looking for really smart programmers with experience in persistent storage management to join us as search engine engineers. This is a mid-level engineering position or the perfect spot for a super-talented, newer engineer. You will be challenged with building, extending and maintaining external textual data access systems including text indexing and retrieval systems. Successful candidates will demonstrate professional programming experience in traditional computer science data structures and knowledge of information retrieval as well as object-oriented programming. A BS or equivalent is required for this job. Interested? E-mail your resume to eng-jobs@xigo.com, include the job title, and mention that you saw this on IRLIST -- thanks! TEXT ANALYSIS ENGINEERS Location -- San Francisco, CA As a text analysis engineer at Xigo you will be building, extending and maintaining advanced text analysis systems, including text categorization, routing and filtering. This is a mid-level engineering position or the perfect spot for a super-talented, newer engineer. You should have experience with text indexing systems, traditional computer science data structures and object-oriented programming. NLP or AI experience is a plus. You must have at least one year of relevant professional programming experience and a BS or equivalent. Interested? E-mail your resume to eng-jobs@xigo.com, include the job title, and mention that you saw this on IRLIST -- thanks! If you have questions or would like additional information about career opportunities at Xigo, please visit the careers section of our web site at: http://www.xigo.com/careers.html or contact Kenan Rappuchi, Xigo Staffing, 415-495-1073, kenan@xigo.com. Dan Rose rose@xigo.com Xigo, Inc. Tel. 415-495-1068 249 Shipley St., #4 Fax 415-896-5767 San Francisco, CA 94107-1979 ****************************************************************** III. NOTICES III.A.1. Fr: Efthimis Efthimiadis Re: Book Reviewers & Books Sought by Kluwer's "Information Retrieval" Dear IR researchers: The new journal "Information Retrieval" is an international forum for theory and experiment in information retrieval and its application in the networked information environment. The editors-in-chief are Paul Kantor and Stephen E. Robertson. We are seeking book reviewers, as well as, we are soliciting books from publishers. Please take a look at the IR book review page: http://faculty.washington.edu/efthimis/kluwer_bks/IR_Books.html Book reviewers if you are interested in a book that's not listed on the page please contact me with full bibliographic information and I'll request it from the publishers. Publishers keep on sending your books in. Thanks, Efthimis N. Efthimiadis Book Review editor Associate Professor School of Library & Information Science University of Washington tel.(off.) 206-616-6077 Box 352930 tel.(schl) 206-543-1794 Seattle, WA 98195-2930 fax. 206-616-3152 ********** III.B.1. Fr: Silvia Miksch Re: 5th IDAMAP-2000: CFPapers 5th International Workshop INTELLIGENT DATA ANALYSIS IN MEDICINE AND PHARMACOLOGY (IDAMAP-2000) Berlin, Tuesday, August 22, 2000 http://www.ifs.tuwien.ac.at/~silvia/idamap-2000 A call for papers for the Workshop at ECAI-2000 14th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence Co-Chairs: Nada Lavrac (J. Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia) Silvia Miksch (Vienna University of Technology) Important dates: - Paper submission deadline: April 20, 2000 - Notification to Authors: May 18, 2000 - Camera-ready papers: June 1, 2000 General information: IDAMAP-2000, an ECAI-2000 workshop, will be held in Berlin on August 22, 2000, immediately before the main ECAI-2000 conference, August 23-25, 2000. The workshop will last one full day. To encourage interaction, the workshop will be kept small, preferably under 30 active participants. This is the fifth international workshop on Intelligent Data Analysis in Medicine and Pharmacology (IDAMAP). The former IDAMAP Workshops were held in 1996 in Budapest, 1997 in Nagoya, 1998 in Brighton, and 1999 in Washington DC. Workshop topics: The topics of the workshop are computational methods for intelligent data analysis in medicine and pharmacology that are able to exploit the additional expert knowledge of the problem domain. Expert physicians should be involved in the preparation of data for IDA processes (e.g., data representation, modeling, cleaning, selection, and transformation), as well as in the interpretation and exploitation of results and their (potential) impact on medical practice. * effective data mining techniques: inductive learning, clustering, etc. * temporal reasoning: applications of IDA in patient monitoring or bio-signal processing, interpretation of time-ordered data (derivation and revision of temporal trends and other forms of temporal data abstraction), * information visualization: visualization of medical data and visualization of IDA results, * case-based reasoning, * construction of decision models to support medical decision making, * discovery of new knowledge and trends, * pharmacodynamical modeling, * predicting drug activity, etc. Emphasis will also be given to solving of problems, which result from automated data collection in modern hospitals, such as analysis of computer-based patient records (CPR), data warehousing tools, intelligent alarming, effective and efficient monitoring, etc. The participants will be asked to address the following points: - what kind of knowledge they have used and/or extracted; - why they need to exploit the available prior knowledge in their problem; - how they have represented the available knowledge; - how they plan to use / have used the derived knowledge. Important dates: - Paper submission deadline: April 20, 2000 - Notification to Authors: May 18, 2000 - Camera-ready papers: June 1, 2000 Paper submission: We invite submission of long and short papers, to be sent to the workshop chair Nada Lavrac. The length of long papers is max. 5000 words (10 pages) and length of short papers is about 1500 words (3 pages). Papers will be published in ECAI workshop notes. Electronic submissions are encouraged: - a gzip compressed PostScript - an electronic version of the title page in plain ASCII to be sent to Nada.Lavrac@ijs.si, cc: silvia@ifs.tuwien.ac.at, cc: Branko.Kavsek@ijs.si Nada Lavrac J. Stefan Institute Jamova 39 1000 Ljubljana Slovenia phone: +386-61-1773272 fax: +386-61-1251038, 219385 email: Nada.Lavrac@ijs.si, cc: Branko.Kavsek@ijs.si Silvia Miksch Vienna University of Technology Institute of Software Technology (IFS) Favoritenstrasse 9-11 / 188 A-1040 Vienna, Austria phone: +43-1-58801-18824 phone-sec: +43-1-58801-18801 fax: +43-1-58801-18899 email: silvia@ifs.tuwien.ac.at Workshop registration: - Attendees at workshops must register also for the main ECAI conference. ********** III.B.2. Fr: Rolf Engelbrecht Re: GMDS2000/MIE2000: CFPapers & Invitation: Extended Deadline Update January 30, 2000 There were some technical problems to submitting a paper using www.mie2000.de They are solved and the site is open for submission until February 15, 2000. Please prepare your paper as a MS-Word paper and use DOS naming conventions. Further hints you will find on the Web pages. This may also solve the problem how and what to submit. See also section FAQ at the end. http://www.mie2000.de or http://www.hcc.de MIE2000 GMDS2000 Medical Infobahn for Europe International Congress on Medical Informatics, Biometry and Epidemiology August 27 - September 1, 2000 Hannover Germany I am pleased to invite you to our Congress during EXPO 2000 in Hannover, Germany. The Call for Paper has been mailed in paper form in big numbers. Actually we are distributing the electronic version. Due to technical problems we are a little late in our mailing. Therefore the deadline for paper submission has been prolonged. We are expecting proposals for a sound contribution from you and your colleagues. Instructions how to prepare research papers and application reports are enclosed. A description of the procedure to submit proposals for tutorials and workshops is also given in the enclosed material. Electronic registration of contributions is available on our web-sites http://www.hcc.de and http://www.mie2000.de) Please have a look at the announcement and find those topics that describe your research area. Present results of your activities in the framework of our international congress during EXPO2000. Awards will be given to authors and best contributions (see enclosure). Do not miss this event! Participation will be exciting and affordable. Registration fees are lower than ever and include nearly all you expect from a conference like that. Accommodation is available in various categories but needs an early booking for receiving reasonable rates. MIE 2000 /GMDS 2000 addresses especially young scientists. We are preparing support for presentation and travelling. Feel free to contact us. Looking forward to see you in Hannover, one of the origins of medical informatics. Rolf Engelbrecht President EFMI The complete Call for Papers and Invitation can be downloaded as PDF file from www.mie2000.de or www.hcc.de FAQs The conference language is English for MIE2000 (presentations Monday, 28 August - Friday, 1 September), for GMDS2000 English and German (presentations Thursday, 31 August and Friday, 1 September) For evaluation a paper with a maximum of 5 pages should be submitted until 15 February as a draft following the guideline for the final camera-ready paper. The final version (also maximum 5 pages) is requested until 5 May. The electronic submission forms will ask you for address details, topic that is covered, type of presentation etc. You will be guided through this section. The evaluation has been started. You will receive notification of acceptance within 4 weeks after submission. The application for the awards should be sent seperately now or after acceptance to mie2000pc@gsf.de with reference to the title of the paper and reference number (is mailed after submission by internet) and all necessary information The type of presentation can be indicated during online submission (oral long or oral short with poster presentation and discussion). The programme committee will evaluate first the quality and then decide about the best suitable presentation form. ********** III.B.3. Fr: Robert Batusek Re: TSD 2000: First Announcement & CFPapers Third International Workshop on TEXT, SPEECH and DIALOGUE (TSD 2000) Brno, Czech Republic 13-16 September 2000 The official TSD 2000 homepage is: http://www.fi.muni.cz/tsd2000/ TSD Series TSD series evolved as a prime forum for interaction between researchers in both spoken and written language processing from the former East Block countries and their Western colleagues. Proceedings of TSD form a book (currently published by Springer-Verlag in their Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence series). TOPICS Topics of the TSD 2000 workshop will include (but are not limited to): text corpora and tagging; transcription problems in spoken corpora; sense disambiguation; links between text and speech oriented systems; parsing issues, especially parsing problems in spoken texts; multi-lingual issues, especially multi-lingual dialogue systems; information retrieval and text/topic summarization; speech modeling; speech segmentation; speech recognition; text-to-speech synthesis; dialogue systems; development of dialogue strategies; prosody in dialogues; user modeling; knowledge representation in relation to dialogue systems; assistive technologies based on speech and dialogue; applied systems and software. Papers on processing of languages other than English are strongly encouraged. ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Bartek Ludek, Batusek Robert, Gaura Pavel, Horak Ales, Komarkova Dana (secretary), Kopecek Ivan (co-chair), Matousek Vaclav, Nygryn Pavel, Pala Karel (co-chair), Sedlacek Radek, Smrz Pavel, Sojka Petr, Staudek Jan, Veber Marek, Zackova Eva, Zizka Jan FORMAT OF THE WORKSHOP TSD 2000 is an international workshop with a limited number of participants and priority given to the active participants. The workshop program will include oral presentations and a poster/demonstration sessions with sufficient time for discussions of the issues raised. The program will also involve short communications, reports about ongoing projects and industrial presentations. The latter types of contributions will not appear in the proceedings and the deadline for their submission will be announced later. Social events including a trip in the vicinity of Brno will allow for additional informal interactions. TSD 2000 is supported by International Speech Communication Association (ISCA). The organizing committee is applying for a grant from the European Committee (High Level Scientific Conference). If the application is successful the organizing committee would subsidize young researchers and participants from East Europe significantly. SUBMISSION OF PAPERS Authors should submit extended abstracts not exceeding 1000 words by March 10, 2000 to the e-mail address: tsd2000@fi.muni.cz Submission must also include the author(s) name, affiliation, address, telephone and fax numbers and e-mail address. Acceptance of the submissions will be acknowledged by e-mail. Papers have to follow the Springer-Verlag instructions for the authors for Lecture Notes in Computer Science series. The instructions can be found at the www address: http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html IMPORTANT DATES Preliminary registration and deadline for submission of extended abstracts: March 10, 2000 Notification of acceptance sent to the authors: April 30, 2000 Final papers (camera ready) and registration: May 30, 2000 Workshop date: September 13-16, 2000 The contributions to the workshop will be published in proceedings that will be made available to participants at the time of the workshop. The proceedings of the last TSD workshop were published by Springer-Verlag in the series Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and we anticipate the same format for TSD 2000. OFFICIAL LANGUAGE The official language of the workshop is English. ADDRESS All correspondence regarding the workshop should be addressed to: Dana Komarkova TSD 2000 c/o Faculty of Informatics Masaryk University Botanická 68a CZ-602 00 Brno Czech Republic telephone: ++420 5 41 512 359 fax: ++420 5 41 212 568 e-mail: tsd2000@fi.muni.cz ********** III.B.4. Fr: Joan K. Lippincott Re: NERCOMP / ITC 2000 Conference "Technology and Renewal: Creating and Supporting the Learning Place" The New England Regional Computing Program (NERCOMP) (An EDUCAUSE Affiliate) http://www.educause.edu/nercomp/ NERCOMP is higher education's premier New England regional conference focusing on information technology. The conference includes corporate partners and product exhibits, and it takes place March 19-21, 2000, in Sturbridge, Massachusetts. New this year, the fourth annual University of Massachusetts Instructional Technology Conference 2000 will be held on Tuesday, March 21, in conjunction with the NERCOMP conference. ITC 2000 will feature more than 100 UMass faculty, staff, and students demonstrating uses of technology to enhance teaching and learning. Best of all, participants can attend both UMass and NERCOMP sessions for the price of a single conference. The NERCOMP / ITC 2000 conference brings together a national audience to meet in one of New England's most charming locations to discuss the impact of information technology on higher education. The program includes preconference seminars, general session speakers, and dozens of presentations on today's most pressing information technology issues. To top it all off, corporate representatives will be there to share their expertise on the latest hardware, software, and services. Here's a sample of what you can expect: GENERAL SESSION SPEAKERS Richard Katz, Vice President, EDUCAUSE TOPIC: "Dancing with the Devil: Information Technology and the New Competition in Higher Education" Mark C. Taylor, Cofounder of the Global Education Network and Professor of Humanities, Williams College TOPIC: "Useful Devils" PRECONFERENCE SEMINARS Both preconference seminars are Sunday, March 19, 1:00 p.m.- 4:30 p.m. (Separate registration and fee required for preconference seminars.) Seminar 1 "Evaluating Performance: Strategies for a Technology-Enhanced Learning Environment" Karen L. Smith, Director, Faculty Center for Teaching and Learning, University of Central Florida This workshop explores two issues associated with using technology enhancements to add value and opportunity to higher education. The first issue involves strategies for using technology to help students employ their personal learning styles and learn to use new ones. The second issue involves strategies for evaluating student performance in interactive learning environments. Seminar 2 "IT Customer Service Skill and Competency Program" Catherine L. Lilly, Customer Services Manager, ITD ITCom University of Michigan-Ann Arbor Explore how a customer service skill and competency development program can increase job satisfaction for staff and managers in your organization. Learn about what the University of Michigan is doing to train staff in customer service interaction, process, systems, and teamwork skills, and how such a program helps staff and managers cope with escalating demands in a diverse service environment. CONCURRENT SESSIONS This part of the program continues to grow, but so far the lineup of topics for the 2000 conference includes: -- Authentication/authorization issues -- Learning disabilities and the use of technology -- Historical material in the electronic environment -- Instructional technology -- Libraries and technologies -- Wireless network technology -- Evaluating Web courses -- Survey report of IT trends, literacy, and library trends -- Getting the most from your student service portal -- Teaching with technology from the student perspective -- Distance education and the law -- Distributed learning technologies -- Using the Web to enhance interactivity and communication Visit the Web site for more information on these sessions and for program updates. CORPORATE PARTICIPATION Don't forget, the conference also has an exhibit area where you can meet with corporate representatives to discuss problems, solutions, and techniques; and learn about the latest hardware, software, and services. We have already sold all of our exhibit space, which means you have the opportunity to meet with 40 of the top information technology companies. Details are available on the Web site under Corporate Participation. WEB AND REGISTRATION INFORMATION The conference schedule, fee and hotel information, online registration, and information on corporate participation can be found at: http://www.educause.edu/nercomp/ Registration forms are also available by either fax or mail. Please contact us at: nercomp@educause.edu 303-449-4430 (voice) 303-440-0461 (fax) We look forward to seeing you in Sturbridge, and we would appreciate it if you would pass this information along to others who might be interested in the conference. NERCOMP, an EDUCAUSE affiliate, is a regional association dedicated to enhancing the dissemination of information on the use and management of computers, networks, telecommunications, and information technology in education, academic research, and administration. EDUCAUSE is an international nonprofit association dedicated to helping shape and enable transformational change in higher education through the introduction, use, and management of information resources and technologies in teaching, learning, scholarship, research, and institutional management. ********** III.C.1. Fr: Clifford Lynch Re: Titanic 2020 Paper This paper, which is described by the press release below (it also has a URL for the PDF of the complete paper) contains some interesting numbers and observations and may be of interest to those concerned with electronic records and archiving. My thanks to Rodney Petersen of the University of Maryland for bringing it to my attention. http://www.censa.org/html/Press-Releases/Titanic2020.htm Clifford Lynch Director, CNI ********** III.C.2. Fr: Clifford Lynch Re: Report on Database Protection from National Academies Some readers may be interested in the recent report from the National Research Council titled "A Question of Balance: Private Rights and the Public Interest in Scientific And Technical Databases". This report, which builds on earlier work such as the 1997 "Bits of Power" report from the NRC and complements the study "The Digital Dilemma: Intellectual Property in the Information Age" (which deals primarily with copyright). The report is, or shortly will be, available at www.nap.edu, and is also available in hardcopy for purchase from National Academies Press. The report is also supplemented by a separate report of a workshop that was held as part of the development of "A Question of Balance", and my understanding is that the workshop report will be available ONLY online at . Clifford Lynch Director, CNI ********** III.C.3. Fr: Joan K. Lippincott Re: Electronic Records Presentations Press Release For Immediate Release Contact: Rob Spindler University Archivist Department of Archives and Manuscripts Arizona State University Libraries Tempe AZ 85287-1006 (480-965-9277) fax (480-965-9277) Robert.Spindler@asu.edu Electronic Records Conference Presentations Available Tempe, AZ -- This week Arizona State University officials announced that presentations from the "Preservation and Access for Electronic University Records" conference are now available to the public on the internet. The conference hosted by Arizona State in October featured presentations by seventeen experts regarding management of electronic records, courseware and research products created at colleges and universities. Experts included archivists, technology professionals, attorneys, university registrars and librarians from ten universities across the nation. Presentation notes or resource lists from thirteen sessions are available for viewing and downloading. The topics addressed include records management for electronic courseware, metadata, collaborative enterprise system design issues and web page preservation. "Since this was the first conference concentrating on university electronic records issues and given the diverse professional backgrounds of our speakers we felt it was important to make these presentations widely available," said conference co-chair Rob Spindler. The presentations are available at . Conference officials at Arizona State are already planning for another conference entitled ECURE 2000: Preservation and Access for Electronic College and University Records, to be held in Tempe, Arizona on October 12-13, 2000. Details for ECURE 2000 will also be made available at the website address above. ****************************************************************** IRLIST Digest is distributed from the University of California, California Digital Library, 1111 Franklin Street, Oakland, CA. 94607-5200. Send subscription requests and submissions to: nancy.gusack@ucop.edu Editorial Staff: Nancy Gusack nancy.gusack@ucop.edu Cliff Lynch (emeritus) cliff@cni.org The IRLIST Archives is set up for anonymous FTP. Using anonymous FTP via the host hibiscus.ucop.edu, the files will be found in the directory /data/ftp/pub/irl, stored in subdirectories by year (e.g., data/ftp/pub/irl/1993). 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