Information Retrieval List Digest 491 (February 14, 2000) URL = http://hegel.lib.ncsu.edu/stacks/serials/irld/irld-491.txt IRLIST Digest ISSN 1064-6965 February 14, 2000 Volume XVII, Number 7 Issue 491 ****************************************************************** II. JOBS 1. Thrownet: A New Search Engine Company 2. UW-Milwaukee: SLIS: Assistant Professor 3. Temple U., Philadelphia: Institute for Information Science and Technology: Director & Multiple Tenure Track Positions 4. Thomas Jefferson U., Philadelphia: Serials and Electronic Collections Librarian III. NOTICES A. Publications 1. ContentsDirect: Information Processing & Management, 00244, 36:2 B. Meetings 1. ANLP/NAACL2000 Workshop: 2nd CFPapers 2. ICCI2000: 2nd CFPapers 3. IRSG 2000: 1st Announcement 4. LREC2000: CFParticipation C. Miscellaneous 1. XML Version of Corpus Encoding Standard IV. PROJECTS C. Awards, Fellowships, Grants, & Scholarships 1. NSF ITR: 2001 Agenda ****************************************************************** II. JOBS II.1. Fr: Philip A. Bralich Re: Thrownet: A New Search Engine Company There is a new search engine company (start up phase) called "Thrownet" at http://www.thrownet.com which is advertising for linguists and computational linguists who can provide a one question one response functionality for a search engine front end. Does anyone know what technologies they are using (if this is public information)? The last I heard they were looking at the Franklin parser out of New Jersey. For those of you who are interested they seem to be offering a lot of jobs. Phil Bralich Philip A. Bralich, Ph.D. President and CEO Ergo Linguistic Technologies 2800 Woodlawn Drive, Suite 175 Honolulu, HI 96822 Tel: (808)539-3920 Fax: (808)539-3924 bralich@hawaii.edu http://www.ergo-ling.com ********** II.2. Fr: Dietmar Wolfram Re: UW-Milwaukee: SLIS: Assistant Professor University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee School of Library and Information Science ASSISTANT PROFESSOR The School of Library and Information Science (SLIS) at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (UWM) invites applications for a new full-time tenure-track position at the Assistant Professor level. The successful candidate will teach courses and conduct research in one or more of the following areas: information science, information technology, computer networking, information resources management, digital libraries, information systems design. The selected applicant will teach courses in the School's undergraduate B.S. program in Information Resources, graduate M.L.I.S. program and multidisciplinary doctoral program in Information Science. A Ph.D. in Information Science or related field is required as is demonstrated ability in research and teaching. Competitive salary for an academic year (9 month) appointment, plus additional compensation for possible summer teaching, and generous fringe benefits. The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee is a major university committed to academic excellence. It is one of the two doctoral degree-granting institutions in the multi-campus University of Wisconsin system, and has a student enrollment of over 22,000. The School of Library and Information Science offers programs leading to a nationally accredited Masters in Library and Information Science, a B. S. program in Information Resources, a certificate in advanced studies, and a multidisciplinary doctorate. The School has a strong research faculty, 350+ students, and state-of-the-art information technology laboratories. UWM is located in the cultural, commercial, and educational hub of the state, in a pleasant residential neighborhood overlooking Lake Michigan. Review of applications will begin March 6, 2000. The starting date is August 21, 2000 or negotiable. Send letters of application, resume, and three letters of reference to: Dietmar Wolfram, Chair, Search Committee School of Library and Information Science University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee P.O. Box 413 Milwaukee, WI 53201 Phone: (414) 229-6836 Fax: (414) 229-4848 Email: dwolfram@uwm.edu The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee is an affirmative action, equal opportunity employer with a strong commitment to the diversity of faculty, staff, and student body. ********** II.3. Fr: Amanda Spink Re: Temple U., Philadelphia: Institute for Information Science and Technology: Director & Multiple Tenure Track Positions TEMPLE UNIVERSITY CENTER FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY DIRECTOR AND MULTIPLE FACULTY POSITIONS IN INFORMATION SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY The College of Science and Technology at Temple University is in the process of a major recruitment effort, and is filling 34 new faculty positions as part of a major expansion. As part of this expansion, the College has formed a Center for Information Science & Technology to promote interdisciplinary information science and technology research within all applicable domains. The College invites applications for multiple positions in Information Science & Technology at the level of Full, Associate, or Assistant Professor in the Center. Newly hired faculty in the Center will be given tenure track appointments in the interdisciplinary department of Computer and Information Sciences. Successful candidates are expected to have or be able to develop significant research programs and to provide effective instruction at both undergraduate and graduate levels in Information Science & Technology. Appointments are possible at all academic levels appropriate to experience. Candidates for the position of Director and senior faculty positions must have internationally known research programs, funding in Information Science & Technology, and possess a strong commitment to the teaching of undergraduate and graduate students. In addition, the Director of the Center for Information Science & Technology will have demonstrated leadership ability to expand grant-supported research by faculty in Information Science & Technology, and to enhance the academic mission of the Center. Areas of interest in Information Science & Technology include, but are not limited to, information systems development especially in a distributed environment, knowledge management, collaboration systems, human-computer interfaces, scalable information infrastructures, web- based development, multi-media technologies, digital libraries, component-based software engineering, and data mining, warehousing, and filtering. We especially encourage applications from candidates whose research is interdisciplinary in nature. Salaries for new faculty are highly competitive, and substantial resources have been allocated for startup funding. The Computer & Information Sciences Department offers Bachelors, Masters, and Ph.D. Degrees in core and multidisciplinary areas. Temple University, located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, is part of the Pennsylvania Commonwealth System of Higher Education and serves more than 27,000 students. Applicants should submit a curriculum vitae, three representative publications, a statement of research interests, a statement of teaching philosophy, and should arrange for four letters of reference to be sent directly to the address below. Professor John T. Nosek Chair, Faculty Search Committee Office of the Dean College of Science and Technology 409 Barton Hall A Temple University Philadelphia, PA 19122 Temple University is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer and specifically invites and encourages applications from women and minorities. Additional information about the university and the department is available at http://www.temple.edu and http://www.cis.temple.edu. ********** II.4. Fr: Diana Zinnato Re: Thomas Jefferson U., Philadelphia: Serials and Electronic Collections Librarian SERIALS AND ELECTRONIC COLLECTIONS LIBRARIAN The Scott Memorial Library at Thomas Jefferson University seeks energetic and creative applicants for the position of Serials and Electronic Collections Librarian. Working in a highly automated environment under the direction of the Director of Collection Management, this individual will play a leadership role in all aspects of serials and document delivery management. The incumbent will manage a collection of 2,200 serials (print and electronic) and several electronic databases using the SIRSI serials control module. The SECL will lead the Library's initiative to greatly increase its offering of electronic journal subscriptions next year. They will also oversee binding and in-house preservation activities, collection evaluation, space monitoring, journal holdings reporting and inventories as well as supervise 2 technicians in these areas. The SECL is also responsible for the coordination of all document delivery activities supervising 3 technicians in this area. Responsibilities include evaluating ILL policies and procedures to effect efficient and cost-effective operations and overseeing the implementation of various ILL technologies including OCLC, DOCLINE and Ariel. Some minimal reference desk service is also required. Requirements for this position are an accredited MLS, a minimum of 3 years professional experience in serials work, preferably in an academic library, supervisory experience, a working knowledge of an ILS serials module. The salary range for this position is $34,500 - $43,000 per year. Knowledge of the current trends in serials control, especially electronic journal publishing, is highly desirable. The successful candidate must thrive in a dynamic environment, have effective written and oral communication and problem-solving skills and be able to collaborate on team projects. Thomas Jefferson University is an academic health center located in center-city Philadelphia. Scott Memorial Library is a department of Academic Information Services and Research (AISR) which is comprised of the Library, Medical Media Services and the Office of Academic Computing. AISR has a staff of 64 FTE employees and an annual operating budget of $4 million. You are invited to visit JEFFLINE, AISR's information management resource, at http://jeffline.tju.edu for more information. The University offers excellent flexible benefits including tuition reimbursement. Qualified candidates should send a letter of application, their resume, and the names and phone numbers of three references to: Doug Block, Business Manager, Scott Memorial Library, Thomas Jefferson University, 1020 Walnut St., Philadelphia, PA 19107-5587. Screening of applications will begin on March 1st, 2000. ****************************************************************** III. NOTICES III.A.1. Fr: cdmailer@elsevier.co.uk Re: ContentsDirect: Information Processing & Management, 00244, 36:2 ContentsDirect from Elsevier Science URL: http://www.elsevier.nl/locate/jnlnr/00244 Journal: Information Processing and Management ISSN : 0306-4573 Volume : 36 Issue : 2 Date : 17-Feb-2000 pp 205-206 Introduction to the special issue on web-based information retrieval research A Spink, J Qin pp 207-227 Real life, real users, and real needs: a study and analysis of user queries on the web BJ Jansen, A Spink, T Saracevic pp 229-251 Users' interaction with World Wide Web resources: an exploratory study using a holistic approach P Wang, WB Hawk, C Tenopir pp 253-273 Design and empirical evaluation of search software for legal professionals on the WWW BJ Dempsey, RC Vreeland, RG Sumner, K Yang pp 275-289 A system for supporting cross-lingual information retrieval J Capstick, AK Diagne, G Erbach, H Uszkoreit, A Leisenberg, M Leisenberg pp 291-311 Relevance ranking for one to three term queries CLA Clarke, GV Cormack, EA Tudhope pp 313-330 Adapting a diagnostic problem-solving model to information retrieval I Syu, SD Lang pp 331-333 Book review: How classifications work: problems and challenges in an electronic age J Qin pp 333-336 Book review: High technology and low-income communities: prospects for the positive use of advance information technology C Cole pp 336-338 Book review: Summarizing information M Mitra pp 338-339 Book review: Slaves of the Machine DG Roussinov ********** III.B.1. Fr: Priscilla Rasmussen Re: ANLP/NAACL2000 Workshop: 2nd CFPapers 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 developers to attend, contribute and benefit from the workshop. WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION As 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. ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Carol Van Ess-Dykema, US Dept. of Defense Clare R. Voss, US Army Research Lab Florence Reeder, MITRE Corp. PROGRAM COMMITTEE Gary Coen, Boeing Phantom Works Bob Frederking, LTI, Carnegie Mellon Univ. Laurie Gerber, SYSTRAN Inge Gorm Hansen and Henrik Selsoe Sorenson, Copenhagen Business School Lori Levin, LTI, Carnegie Mellon Univ. Bill Ogden, CRL, NMSU Kathi Taylor, Georgetown U. ********** III.B.2. Fr: M. Almulla Re: ICCI2000: 2nd CFPapers The 10th International Conference on Computing and Information ICCI '2000, Kuwait, November 18-21, 2000 http://mcs.sci.kuniv.edu.kw/~icci2000 http://kais.mines.edu/~xwu/icci-00/ Second Call for Papers Paper submission deadline: March 1, 2000 ICCI2000 will provide an international forum for researchers and practitioners to present new results in research, development, and applications in computing and information. Since 1989, ICCI conferences have attracted participants from over 40 different countries. ICCI '2000 will consist of five streams ranging from theoretical computer science to applied software systems. It will provide a unique opportunity for cross-fertilization and interdisciplinary information exchange. Stream A: Theory. Theory of Data and Logic. Information and Coding Theory. Algorithms. Theory of Computation. Chair: Monty Newborn, newborn@opus.cs.mcgill.ca Stream B: Distribution and Parallelism. Distributed Computing and Communications. Concurrency and Parallelism. Cluster Computing. Chair: Albert Zomaya, zomaya@ee.uwa.edu.au Stream C: Systems and Development. Database Systems. Software Engineering and CASE Methodologies. Expert Systems. Chair: Hans Loeper, Loeper@mcs.sci.kuniv.edu.kw Stream D: Data and Knowledge Engineering. AI Methodologies. User Interfaces. Data Mining. Approximate Reasoning. Chair: Susan Craw, smc@scms.rgu.ac.uk Stream E: Networking and Internet. Information Exploration on the World Wide Web. Mobile Computing. Chair: Richard Lai, lai@cs.latrobe.edu.au Papers for any of the above streams are welcome. All submissions should be limited to a maximum of 5,000 words (approximately 15 A4 pages), and will be reviewed on the basis of technical correctness, quality, relevance, originality, significance, and clarity. Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings by Springer-Verlag in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series. Furthermore, a selected number of the accepted papers will be expanded and revised for possible inclusion in the following journals: * Journal of Computing and Information * Knowledge and Information Systems: An International Journal All paper submissions (by e-mail or in hardcopy) should be sent to the Program Committee Chair at the following address. Xindong Wu (xwu@kais.mines.edu) Department of Mathematical and Computer Sciences Colorado School of Mines 1500 Illinois Street Golden, Colorado 80401, USA Phone: +1-303-273-3874 Fax: +1-303-273-3875 Important Dates March 1, 2000 Paper submissions. May 1, 2000 Acceptance notices. July 1, 2000 Final camera-readies. November 18-21, 2000 Conference. Organization General Chair: Waldemar W. Koczkodaj, Laurentian University, Canada. E-mail: icci@nickel.laurentian.ca; URL: http://www.cs.laurentian.ca/faculty/wkoczkodaj.html Organizing Committee Chair: Mohammed Almulla, Kuwait University, Kuwait. E-mail: almulla@mcs.sci.kuniv.edu.kw; URL: http://www.sci.kuniv.edu.kw/~almulla/ Program Committee Chair: Xindong Wu, Colorado School of Mines, USA. E-mail: xwu@kais.mines.edu; URL: http://kais.mines.edu/~xwu/ General inquiries should be sent to the Organizing Committee Chair at Mohammed Almulla Department of Mathematics and Computer Science Kuwait University P.O.Box 5969 Safat, 13060, Kuwait Telephone: (965) 481-1188 Ext. 5303 or 5624 Fax: (965) 481-7201 E-mail: almulla@mcs.sci.kuniv.edu.kw ********** III.B.3. Fr: Andrew MacFarlane Re: IRSG 2000: 1st Announcement First announcement IRSG 2000 The IRSG 2000 Colloquium on IR Research will be held at Sidney Sussex College Cambridge, U.K. 5-7 April 2000 Keynote speaker: Donna Harman Schedule to be announced in late February Expected start 10.30 am 5th April, finish after lunch 7th April Further details are available from the website: http://www.soi.city.ac.uk/~andym/colloq2000/ (also linked from the main IRSG website, http://www.irsg.eu.org/) Registration is now open. There are some funds for financial help for young European researchers to attend the conference -- see the website. ********** III.B.4. Fr: Jeff Allen Re: LREC2000: CFParticipation Call for Participation 2nd International Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC2000) Year 2000 marks the beginning of a new era for Human Language Technology and Language Engineering. The European Commission and the US National Science Foundation have announced Multilinguality as one of their main action points. The 2nd international Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC2000), the second of a series of leading biennial events representing cross-sectoral research and development in speech, text, multi-media, and multi-modal processing, is committed to promoting the language engineering initiatives of these and similar organizations. LREC2000, scheduled to take place 29 May - 2 June 2000 in Athens, Greece, has accepted nearly 300 papers for presentation at the main conference. About 10 pre- and post-conference satellite workshops will also take place. Many commercial and research systems for speech and natural language processing will be demonstrated at the LREC2000 Exhibition in parallel with the conference sessions. From 500 to 700 conference delegates are expected to attend this conference, with half coming from the corporate and industrial sectors and half coming from the academic field. For more information with regard to LREC2000, please contact: LREC2000 Conference Secretariat Institute for Language and Speech Processing 6, Artemidos & Epidavrou Str. 15125 Marousi Athens, Greece Tel: (+301) 6800959 Fax: (+301) 6856794 E-mail: LREC2000@ilsp.gr LREC2000 Web site: http://www.elda.fr/lrec2000.html For more information about the European Language Resources Association (ELRA), please contact: Khalid Choukri, ELRA CEO 55-57, rue Brillat-Savarin 75013 PARIS, FRANCE Tel: (+33) 1 43 13 33 33 Fax: (+33) 1 43 13 33 30 E-mail: choukri@elda.fr ELRA Web site: http://www.icp.grenet.fr/ELRA/home.html ********** III.C.1. Fr: Nancy M. Ide Re: XML Version of Corpus Encoding Standard XCES XML version of the Corpus Encoding Standard BETA RELEASE http://www.cs.vassar.edu/XCES We are pleased to announce the availability of a Beta release of XCES, which instantiates the Corpus Encoding Standard (CES) DTDs for linguistic corpora endorsed by the Expert Advisory Group for Language Engineering Standards (EAGLES). XCES was developed by the Department of Computer Science, Vassar College, and Equipe Langue et Dialogue, LORIA/CNRS. The current version includes a set of XSL stylesheets for cesDoc documents. We are in the process of developing stylesheets for cesAna and cesAlign documents. We appreciate feedback on XCES. Please contact Nancy Ide (ide@cs.vassar.edu) or Patrice Bonhomme (bonhomme@loria.fr). ****************************************************************** IV. PROJECTS IV.C.1. Fr: Maria Zemankova, Maria Re: NSF ITR: 2001 Agenda The following document (fsitr2001) is now available from the NSF Online Document System Title: Fact Sheet: Information Technology Research Type: General Information Subtype: Computer/Information Sciences, NSF-wide It may be found at: http://www.nsf.gov/cgi-bin/getpub?fsitr2001 Excerpt: The Administration has outlined the following emphases in fiscal 2001: * Educating and Training a New Generation of Researchers * Data Storage * Data Management and Preservation * Managing and Ensuring the Security and Privacy of Information * Ubiquitous Computing and Wireless Networks * Intelligent Machines and Networks of Robots * Quantum Computation * DNA Computers * "No Surprise" Software * Broadband Optical Networks NSF Custom News Service http://www.nsf.gov/home/cns/start.htm Please send questions and comments to webmaster@nsf.gov ****************************************************************** IRLIST Digest is distributed from the University of California, California Digital Library, 1111 Franklin Street, Oakland, CA. 94607-5200. 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