Information Retrieval List Digest 493 (February 28, 2000) URL = http://hegel.lib.ncsu.edu/stacks/serials/irld/irld-493.txt IRLIST Digest ISSN 1064-6965 February 28, 2000 Volume XVII, Number 9 Issue 493 ****************************************************************** II. JOBS 1. Brown U.: Lead Research Programmer/Analyst: Scholarly Technology Group 2. Rutgers U.: Information Technology & Informatics: LIS III. NOTICES A. Publications 1. Knowledge and Information Systems: 2:1 (2000) B. Meetings 1. TOOLS USA 2000: CFContributions 2. Dr. Eugene Garfield @ I-ASIS/SOASIS 3. CIR-2000: 3rd Challenge of Image Retrieval Conference 4. ANLP/NAACL2000 Student Research Workshop 5. RIAO 2000 6. TSD 2000: 2nd Announcement & CFPapers 7. Evaluation of Information Management Systems Workshop: 2nd CFPapers 8. Search Results Workshop: 2nd CFPapers C. Miscellaneous 1. Senseval 2: CFInterest IV. PROJECTS C. Awards, Fellowships, Grants, & Scholarships 1. Berners-Lee to Receive Paul Evan Peters Award ****************************************************************** II. JOBS II.1. Fr: Elli Mylonas Re: Brown U.: Lead Research Programmer/Analyst: Scholarly Technology Group POSITION AVAILABLE Lead Research Programmer/Analyst Scholarly Technology Group, Brown University This is a lead technical position in an applied R&D group that is pioneering new tools and methodologies for the application of advanced information technology to academic research, teaching, and communication. Principal responsibilities include providing technical leadership, systems analysis, and research programming. Requirements: Ability to develop innovative solutions to academic research problems, based on knowledge of emerging information technologies and a deep understanding of the methodologies and needs of academic disciplines. Expert knowledge of most of the following: SGML/XML techniques and tools, hypermedia systems, object-oriented programming, relational or object-oriented databases, information retrieval, digital library technologies, and research methods in the humanities and social sciences. Should be able to conduct and publish applied research and development in at least one of the preceding areas. Degree in CS or equivalent required. Advanced degree and research or teaching experience in an academic discipline preferred. Willing to work collaboratively with students and colleagues. The Scholarly Technology Group conducts applied research in the development and use of advanced information technology in academic research, teaching, and scholarly communication. It carries out this mission by exploring new technologies and practices, developing specialized tools and techniques, and providing consulting and project management services to academic projects. STG focuses on four related areas: hypermedia systems, SGML/XML textbase development, interactive networked publishing, and the application of computing methods to academic scholarship. The director of STG is Allen Renear, and chief scientist is Steven J. DeRose. For more information about STG see: http://www.stg.brown.edu. For further information about this position contact: Elli Mylonas, STG Associate Director for Research and Projects, (401 863-7231 or Elli_Mylonas@Brown.Edu). To apply send a cover letter and current c.v. to Human Resources, Box 1879/B00391, Brown University, Providence, RI 02912. [Human Resources posting at: http://www.brown.edu/Administration/Human_Resources/hrweb/jobs/b00391.htm] Brown University is an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer ********** II.2. Fr: Nicholas J. Belkin Re: Rutgers U.: Information Technology & Informatics: LIS RUTGERS, THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW JERSEY SCHOOL OF COMMUNICATION, INFORMATION AND LIBRARY STUDIES DEPARTMENT OF LIBRARY AND INFORMATION SCIENCE The Department of Library and Information Science is seeking a full-time, tenure-track Assistant Professor to begin in Fall 2000. This individual will have responsibility for assisting in the development of a new Information Technology and Informatics undergraduate major for humanities and social science students. This person will also teach in the Master of Library Service program and have opportunities and responsibilities in other programmatic areas of the school. The candidate must have a demonstrated expertise with using the latest information technologies to teach courses and deliver information to students. Candidates will also have a proven record of teaching excellence. S/he will be expected to develop and maintain an active research program; to teach courses in a variety of topics related to the library and information field, to advise undergraduates, M.L.S. and Ph.D. students and to have a commitment to professional service in library and information science. A Ph.D. in Library and Information Science, or a related field is required with a demonstrated record in research and publication. The appointment is for an academic year position with an expectation that there may be opportunities for summer teaching. The Department is an ALA accredited institution that offers a nationally ranked MLS program. Applications will be accepted until the position is filled. Inquires and applications should be sent to: Kay E. Vandergrift, Associate Dean Chair, Search Committee School of Communication, Information and Library Studies 4 Huntington Street Rutgers, The State University New Brunswick, NJ 08901-1071 Telephone: 732/932-7419 Fax: 732/932-6916 E-mail kvander@scils.rutgers.edu Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. Minorities, women, and persons with disabilities are encouraged to apply. ****************************************************************** III. NOTICES III.A.1. Fr: Xindong Wu Re: Knowledge and Information Systems: 2:1 (2000) Knowledge and Information Systems: An International Journal ISSN 0219-1377 by Springer-Verlag Home Page: http://kais.mines.edu/~kais/ Volume 2, Number 1 (February 2000): Table of Contents Regular Papers - Integrating Database and Dialogue Design by Klaus-Dieter Schewe and Bettina Schewe - Nesting and Defoliation of Index Expressions for Information Retrieval by B.C.M. Wondergem, P. van Bommel, and Th.P. van der Weide - Neural Network Learning Using Entropy Cycle by Geok See Ng, Khue Hiang Chan, Sevki S. Erdogan and Harcharan Singh - Database Integration Using Neural Networks: Implementation and Experiences by Wen-Syan Li, Chris Clifton, and Shu-Yao Liu - A Temporal Logic for Supporting Historical Databases by Shichao Zhang Short Papers - FANNC: A Fast Adaptive Neural Network Classifier by Zhihua Zhou, Shifu Chen, Zhaoqian Chen ********** III.B.1. Fr: TOOLS Conferences Re: TOOLS USA 2000: CFContributions TOOLS USA 2000 "Software Serving Society" Santa Barbara, California July 30 - August 3, 2000 http://www.toolsconferences.com/usa CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS (deadline 10 March 2000) TOOLS is the major international conference series devoted to applications object technology, component technology and other advanced approaches to software development. TOOLS USA 2000 will be held in Santa Barbara, CA at the Fess Parker Double Tree Resort, one of the most beautiful resorts on the West Coast and will continue the commitment to excellence of earlier TOOLS conferences in Europe, Australia, Asia and the USA since 1989.The proceedings will be published world-wide by the IEEE Computer Society. PAPERS TOOLS USA 2000 is now soliciting papers on all aspects of object and component technology. All submitted papers will be refereed and assessed for technical quality and usefulness to practitioners and applied researchers. TOOLS USA particularly welcomes papers that present general findings based upon industrial experience. Such papers will be judged by the quality of their contribution to industrial best-practice. TUTORIALS, WORKSHOPS AND PANELS Tutorials, workshops, and panels form an important part of the TOOLS conferences. TOOLS USA 2000 is welcoming proposals for tutorials, workshops and panels on topics related to the theme of the conference. FOR MORE DETAILS AND REGISTRATION INFORMATION PLEASE VISIT THE CONFERENCE WEBSITE AT http://www.tools-conferences.com/usa ********** III.B.2. Fr: Theodore Allan Morris Re: Dr. Eugene Garfield @ I-ASIS/SOASIS Indiana and Southern Ohio Chapters of the American Society for Information Science Cordially invite you to attend: ASIS and Beyond: A Look into the Future of Information Professionals and Their Organization with special guest: Dr. Eugene Garfield, ASIS President Wednesday 2000.03.08 Rathskeller Restaurant 401 East Michigan Street Indianapolis, IN 46202 Everyone is invited. $3.00 Members ~ $5.00 Guests (Dinner is optional but lenitive:) Contact Matt Theobald Tentative Schedule: 4:30 - 5:00 pm Begin program: social gathering & cocktails 5:00 - 6:30 pm Gene Garfield, ASIS President 6:30 pm Begin dinner (optional) 8:00 pm End dinner/program We look forward to seeing you March 8! For information & reservations. Driving Directions INDIANA Matt Theobald Program Chair/Chair-Elect Indiana Chapter ASIS phone: 1-317-488-0455 e-mail: theobald@i-N.com OHIO Ted Morris Program Chair/Chair-Elect Southern Ohio Chapter ASIS phone: 1-513-558-0177 e-mail: Ted.Morris@uc.edu URL: http://www.asis.org/Chapters/IASIS/programs/03082000.html ********** III.B.3. Fr: Margaret Graham Re: CIR-2000: 3rd Challenge of Image Retrieval Conference CALL FOR PARTICIPATION: CIR-2000: The Challenge of Image Retrieval Third UK Conference on Image Retrieval May 4-5 2000, Brighton, United Kingdom Venue: Old Ship Hotel Kings Road Brighton East Sussex BN1 1NR CIR moves to Brighton in 2000, with a new format - separate practitioner and research tracks linked by common plenary sessions. As in previous years, it aims to attract high-quality papers covering all aspects of image and video retrieval from both the UK and overseas. The main themes of CIR-2000 are video asset management, image indexing and metadata, and content-based image retrieval. Our distinguished list of invited speakers includes: Prof. Howard Besser, University of California at Los Angeles Dr Ruud Bolle, IBM Thomas Watson Research Center Dr Richard Nicol, Head of Research, BT Adastral Park Prof. Mark Overmaars, University of Utrecht Details of the conference, provisional programme, registration details and booking form are available at: http://www.unn.ac.uk/iidr/cir/cir00 Last day for registration at standard rates is 20 April 2000. Bookings after that date will incur an administration surcharge. Bed and breakfast accommodation has been arranged for delegates in the Old Ship Hotel at a special price. Delegates are responsible for booking their own accommodation. (see web site for details) Successful conferences were held in Newcastle upon Tyne in 1998 and 1999. The 2000 event again aims to bring together researchers and practitioners in the area of image data management, to exchange information and gain some idea of the significance of developments in related disciplines. It should be of interest to researchers in fields as diverse as information retrieval, database, computer vision and image processing, human visual perception and interface design, as well as users and managers of image and video libraries. PROGRAMME COMMITTEE: * John Eakins (co-chair), University of Northumbria at Newcastle * Peter Enser (co-chair), University of Brighton * Margaret Graham, University of Northumbria at Newcastle * David Harper, Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen * Paul Lewis, University of Southampton * Martin Nail, Library and Information Commission CONFERENCE SPONSORS: * Institute for Image Data Research, University of Northumbria at Newcastle * The British Computer Society Information Retrieval Specialist Group * The Library and Information Commission * The Institute of Information Scientists * Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen * The British Machine Vision Association Margaret Graham Research and Development Manager Institute for Image Data Research University of Northumbria at Newcastle Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 8ST UK Tel: +44 (0191) 227 4646; Fax: +44 (0191) 227 4637 Email: margaret.graham@unn.ac.uk URL: http://www.unn.ac.uk/iidr/ ********** III.B.4. Fr: Priscilla Rasmussen Re: ANLP/NAACL2000 Student Research Workshop CALL FOR PARTICIPATION: ANLP-NAACL 2000 STUDENT RESEARCH WORKSHOP This year, student members will be presenting their exciting work in progress at the newly designed Student Research Workshop. If you've ever wanted to provide encouragement and scientific guidance to upcoming researchers, this is your opportunity. Registration for the workshop is included in your conference registration fee, and we encourage everyone to attend and participate. The workshop will take place on Sunday, April 30, and will run all day. Our review committee has selected eight student papers for presentation at the workshop based on their scholarship, originality, and technical merit. These papers (listed below) cover many areas of NLP, including: - text planning and natural language generation - corpus-based and statistical text processing - information extraction and information retrieval - machine translation - robust parsing and syntactic error detection - word sense disambiguation and semantic annotation - discourse and aggregation In addition to audience comments, a panel of established scientists, each an expert in areas relevant to the student presentations, will be chosen to provide the students with in-depth feedback and suggestions on future directions, similar to the highly acclaimed Doctoral Consortia at other conferences. This new format is intended to provide students with invaluable exposure to outside perspectives on their work, and will also allow them to put their work into perspective based on feedback from the panel. If you would like to be considered to serve on the scientific panel, please contact the workshop co-chairs at . PLEASE NOTE: pre-registration for the workshop is strongly encouraged. Please indicate your desire to attend by checking the appropriate box on the conference registration form. Registered participants will receive detailed information about the schedule and location of the workshop at a later date. Up-to-date information is also available on the workshop home page . We invite you to come to the Student Research Workshop to hear some excellent presentations by the next generation of CL scientists, and to encourage these and other students in their ongoing and future research! Program Committee: Donna Byron, University of Rochester (Co-Chair) Peter Vanderheyden, University of Waterloo (Co-Chair) Mary Harper, Purdue Univeristy (Faculty Sponsor) ACCEPTED PAPERS "Experimenting with the Interaction between Aggregation and Text Planning" Hua Cheng, University of Edinburgh, Division of Informatics "Efficient Parsing Strategies for Syntactic Analysis of Captions" Krzysztof Czuba, Carnegie Mellon University, Language Technologies Institute "Generating Text with a Theorem Prover" Ivan Garibay, University of Central Florida "A Weighted Robust Parsing Approach to Semantic Annotation" Hatem Ghorbel and Vincenzo Pallota, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, LITH-MEDIA group "Corpus-Based Syntactic Error Detection using Syntactic Patterns" K. Gojenola and M. Oronoz, Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea, Informatika Fakultatea "The use of Error Tags in ARTFL's Encyclopedie: Does good error identification lead to good error correction?" Derrick Higgins, University of Chicago, Department of Linguistics "Creating Hierarchies for Natural Language Generation" Sarah Louise Oates, University of Brighton "Word Sense Disambiguation for Cross-Language Information Retrieval" Mary Xiaoyong Wang, Ted Diamond, and Anne R. Diekema, Syracuse University, School of Information Studies ********** III.B.5. Fr: Donna Harman Re: RIAO 2000 RIAO 2000 6th Conference on "Content-Based Multimedia Information Access" College de France Paris, France April 12-14, 2000 Organized by: Centre de Hautes Etudes Internationales d'Informatique Documentaire (C.I.D., France) & Center for the Advanced Study of Information Systems, Inc (C.A.S.I.S., USA) Under the sponsorship of : the European Commission, the French Ministry of Education, Research and Technology, the DGA, the CEA, ELRA and ELSNET With the collaboration of: AII, ASIS, ESCA and AUF/Francil For the detailed Advance Program, please visit our Web site: http://host.limsi.fr/RIAO The theme of the conference is "Content-Based Multimedia Information Access". The conference scope will range from the traditional processing of text documents to the rapidly growing field of automatic indexing and retrieval of images and speech and, more generally, to all processing of audio-visual and multimedia information on various distribution venues, including the Net. The conference is of interest for several scientific communities, including Information Retrieval, Natural Language Processing, Spoken Language Processing, Computer Vision, Human-Computer Interaction and Digital Libraries. RIAO 2000 will, thereby, serve as a forum for cross-discipline initiatives and innovative applications. RIAO 2000 will present recent scientific progress, demonstrations of prototypes resulting from this research as well as the most innovative products now appearing on the market. The RIAO (Recherche d'Informations Assistee par Ordinateur = Computer- Assisted Information Retrieval) International Conference is held every 3 years. Sites for the conference have been Grenoble, France (1985), M.I.T., Cambridge, Mass. USA (1988), Barcelona, Spain (1991), Rockefeller University, New York, N.Y., USA (1994) and McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada (1997). The Conference Advance Program is highlighted by contributions of authors from 26 countries. The program includes 2 invited speakers, 3 panel sessions, 3 plenary sessions, 8 poster sessions and 16 oral sessions. Among all sessions are 146 papers (73 oral and 73 poster presentations), providing a unique opportunity to present and discuss in depth the state-of-the-art in this rapidly growing scientific and technological field. There will also be many innovative application demonstrations presented by companies from different countries. The application committee has already selected 19 of them covering various applications such as crosslingual English-Arabic Internet search, recognition of printed and handwritten texts, television archives retrieval, sign language indexing, machine translation, etc. The RIAO 2000 Conference Advance Program includes sessions on the following topics: *Plenary sessions: - Content-Based Information Access: from Text to Speech, Image and Multimodality - The Web and the Electronic Book - Radio & TV Broadcast Retrieval * Oral and Poster sessions: Document Processing: - Navigation, User Adaptation & Document Creation - Combining Image & Language Information Retrieval: - Internet & Cross-Language Information Retrieval - Information Retrieval Systems & Techniques - Interactive & Multimedia Information Retrieval - Information Retrieval Methods - Classification & Clustering - Filtering, NLP & Text Retrieval - Information Visualization Spoken Language and Audio Processing: - Speech and Information Retrieval - Speech & Multimedia Processing Techniques - Musical Information Processing Natural Language Processing: - Multilingual Document Handling & Machine Translation - Terminology - NLP Techniques for Document Processing - NLP Methods Image processing: - Scanned Document Analysis - Image & Video Processing Techniques - Image Indexing, Browsing & Retrieval - Video Indexing, Browsing & Retrieval - System Architecture, Usage and Applications - Evaluation and Best Practice * Panel sessions: - Multilingual Information Access - Information Retrieval Evaluation Worldwide - Usage of Information Retrieval Systems For more information on the program, conference location and registration, please visit our Web site : http://host.limsi.fr/RIAO or contact us at: - For all scientific and technical matters: riao2000@limsi.fr - For all organizational and practical matters: cidcol@club-internet.fr ********** III.B.6. Fr: Robert Batusek Re: TSD 2000: 2nd Announcement & CFPapers TSD 2000 - SECOND ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PAPERS Third International Workshop on TEXT, SPEECH and DIALOGUE (TSD 2000) Brno, Czech Republic 13-16 September 2000 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. PROGRAM COMMITTEE Jelinek Frederick, USA (general chair) Hermansky Hynek, USA (executive chair) Baudoin Genevieve, France Cermak Frantisek, Czech Republic Ferencz Attila, Romania Hajicova Eva, Czech Republic Hanks Patrick, GB Kilgariff Adam, GB Kopecek Ivan, Czech Republic Kucera Karel, Czech Republic Matousek Vaclav, Czech Republic Moon Rosamund, GB Noeth Elmar, Germany Pala Karel, Czech Republic Pavesic Nikola, Slovenia Petkevic Vladimir, Czech Republic Psutka Josef, Czech Rep. Schukat-Talamazzini E.G., Germany Skrelin Pavel, Russia Vintsiuk Taras, Ukraine Wilks Yorick, GB 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 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 The official TSD 2000 homepage is: http://www.fi.muni.cz/tsd2000/ ********** III.B.7. Fr: Jane Reid Re: Evaluation of Information Management Systems Workshop: 2nd CFPapers One-day Workshop on Evaluation of Information Management Systems Queen Mary and Westfield College University of London 15 September 2000 With a growing amount of electronic, multi-media data being accessed by an increasing number and variety of end-users, it is becoming ever more important to design and build effective information management systems which meet users' needs. An essential part of this process is the identification of suitable techniques and systems for particular users, or groups of users, in particular information-seeking situations. Considerable research has already been carried out into methods of evaluating the effectiveness, efficiency and usability of information management systems. However, there are still many theoretical and practical issues that remain unsolved. Much more work is required in order to move towards the development of a comprehensive framework for evaluation of information management systems. This workshop is open to anyone with an interest in information management system evaluation, including academic and industrial researchers and practitioners working in the areas of information retrieval, library and information science, databases, artificial intelligence, digital libraries, the Web, and other related areas. Content of papers Papers discussing work in progress or completed work on evaluation of information management systems are invited. Topics include, but are not limited to: * Problem issues in evaluation * Application of existing or traditional evaluation techniques * Novel evaluation techniques and methodologies * System-centred or user-centred evaluation, or integration of these two approaches * Theoretical or empirical evaluation, or integration of these two approaches * Evaluation of quality of results or quality of interaction, or integration of these two approaches * Evaluation of multi-media information management systems * Application of HCI principles and techniques to evaluation Authors are invited to submit three copies of their paper, in English, to be received by Friday 31 March 2000. Papers should be no more than 10 pages (of A4) in length, and should be formatted according to Springer Verlag's formatting guidelines for workshops in the electronic Workshops in Computing (eWiC) series. The guidelines can be found at http://www.ewic.org.uk/ewic/editors/submitting.cfm. Papers will be refereed and, if accepted, will be published in the proceedings of the workshop. There is also the possibility (currently under discussion) of publishing the workshop proceedings as part of the eWiC series. Papers should be sent to: Jane Reid Department of Computer Science Queen Mary and Westfield College University of London London E1 4NS Tel: +44 (0)20 7882 5236 Fax: +44 (0)20 8980 6533 Important dates Deadline for submission of papers: Friday 31 March 2000 Authors notified of program committee decision: Friday 9 June 2000 Final submission of camera-ready copy: Friday 21 July 2000 Organisers Workshop organisers: Jane Reid, Mounia Lalmas (QMW) Program committee: Pia Borlund (Royal School of Library and Information Science, Denmark), Nathalie Denos (CLIPS IMAG, France), Mark Dunlop (Risoe National Laboratory, Denmark), Theo Huibers (KPMG Consulting, The Netherlands), Frances Johnson (Manchester Metropolitan University, England), Tony Rose (Canon Research Centre Europe, England) Local organiser: Sue White (QMW) Further information Further information can be found at http://www.dcs.qmw.ac.uk/~mounia/EIS.html. Informal enquiries regarding the workshop can be directed to the workshop organisers: Jane Reid Mounia Lalmas Department of Computer Science Department of Computer Science Queen Mary and Westfield College Queen Mary and Westfield College University of London University of London London London E1 4NS E1 4NS Tel: +44 (0)20 7882 5236 Tel: +44 (0)20 7882 5200 Fax: +44 (0)20 8980 6533 Fax: +44 (0)20 8980 6533 e-mail: jane@dcs.qmw.ac.uk e-mail: mounia@dcs.qmw.ac.uk This event in sponsored by the British Computer Society Information Retrieval Specialist Group, in association with the IEE Informatics Professional Group A4 (Artificial intelligence). ********** III.B.8. Fr: Einat Amitay Re: Search Results Workshop: 2nd CFPapers Information Doors -- Where Information Search and Hypertext Link May 30th 2000 San Antonio, Texas, USA http://www.ics.mq.edu.au/~einat/info_doors/ A workshop held in conjunction with the ACM Hypertext conference (www.ht00.org/) Introduction The purpose of this workshop is to tackle the problem of creating new hypertexts on-the-fly for representing other hypertext documents in the context of search results. Online search results are, no doubt, a form of hypertext created on-the-fly. Search results pages are also probably the most frequently seen hypertext form of writing nowadays. However, the research community tends to identify the presentation search results with Information Retrieval research. This workshop will consider search results as a form of hypertext, encouraging discussion about the nature of this dynamically created textual point-of-departure. The task of reading from a screen is not a trivial one, nor is the task of navigating between online texts. Even less trivial is creating a new text to represent other texts that are interconnected. In the case of hypertext representation of search results these tasks are combined to create a new on-screen text that describes and links other texts or entities. The purpose of this workshop is to tackle the problem of creating new hypertexts on-the-fly for representing other hypertext documents in the context of search results. The workshop will focus on the textual aspects of the problem: - How texts are read online? - How previously unseen documents might be presented in text to people who search for information? - How people navigate through textual search results? - What are the informative role and value of the newly created intermediate page? - Does it influence the reading of the documents followed by users? - Does it change the focus and the meaning of the texts as they are perceived by readers? - Are there any emerging textual or language conventions of presentation within hypertext systems and among hypertext authors that can be used in order to facilitate navigation through search results (e.g. naming of links conventions on the web, similarities in annotation patterns in annotation systems, use of titles and paragraph arrangements and positioning, use of lists and preferred methods of list ordering, and authors' frequent vocabulary choices). The workshop aims to bring together participants from many disciplines such as Human-Computer-Interaction (HCI), Information Retrieval (IR), Natural Language Processing (NLP), Digital Library (DL), applied psychology and psycho-linguistics, to discuss the nature of one of the most frequently seen hypertext presentation in recent years -- online search results. It will address the problem of textual presentation and hypertext representations of search results by looking at evaluations and studies of hypertext representations, studies about interaction with texts, how text representations should be designed in terms of language coherence and on-screen/online reading limitations, how to improve navigation with a smarter choice of textual representation, etc. The term 'textual representation' relates to how a document or a group-of-documents is represented in text (short or long texts, coherently summarised or organised by fixed fields like author, title, last updated, citations, generating descriptions, extracting passages, and so on). We will aim for gathering our knowledge to enhance and integrate our experience about hypertext in order to improve the options users are presented with while searching for information. The goal of the workshop is to create an interdisciplinary community that is able to address issues concerning search results presentation in the context of an online hypertext system. The workshop will specifically focus on the textual representation of results. It will not look at graphical representations of search results unless these shed new light on a textual issue, such as a comparison between textual and graphical representations of documents. The following list of suggested topics is only a short one and authors are encouraged to add more related issues and directions of investigations that are missing from it. Topics Issues of presentation - Choosing what information to show about found entities (summaries, titles, links, annotations, additional related information, etc.) - Grouping of results - Labelling Groups of documents - Creating hierarchies of results - Comparisons between textual & graphical representations of results Issues of results refinement - Similarities detected between results (represented in text) - Query refinement (textual options) Issues of evaluation - How results are read - Does presentation change users navigation experience - Different users - different presentations? - Large scale studies - Task-specific studies Issues of speed and efficiency Commercial applications Important Dates Submission of papers - 5 April 2000 Notification of acceptance - 30 April 2000 Workshop - 30 May 2000 Submission Papers are due on the 5th of April 2000. All papers should be submitted electronically via email (sent to einat@ics.mq.edu.au). PDF submissions are preferred (if this is not possible then try to send it as a .txt, .ps or MSWord file). Papers should be no longer than 6 pages. Workshop Organiser: Einat Amitay (Macquarie University & CSIRO) einat@ics.mq.edu.au Committee: Chaomei Chen (IS & Computing, Brunel University) Mary Czerwinski (Microsoft) Andrew Dillon (SLIS, Indiana University) Sue Dumais (Microsoft) Raya Fidel (SLIS, University of Washington) Gene Golovchinsky (FXPAL) Stephen Green (Sun Microsystems) Christina Haas (English, Kent State University) Johndan Johnson-Eilola (English, Purdue University) Chris Manning (CS & Linguistics, Stanford University) Vibhu Mittal (Just Research) Einat Amitay einat@ics.mq.edu.au http://www.ics.mq.edu.au/~einat ********** III.C.1. Fr: Priscilla Rasmussen Re: Senseval 2: CFInterest SENSEVAL 2 FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT CALL FOR EXPRESSIONS OF INTEREST Following the success of the first SENSEVAL in 1998, we are now beginning the planning for SENSEVAL-2. As before, it will proceed as an ACL-SIGLEX activity. The evaluation will take place over a year, concluding with a workshop in Pisa in Spring 2001. Last time, there were evaluations for English, French and Italian. We are keen to encourage evaluations for further languages, so would particularly like to hear from people who are interested in setting up evaluations for the language they work in. If you wish to join the discussion group that works out how the evaluation should proceed (and were not on the mailing list for the first SENSEVAL) please let me know and I will add you to the list. Adam Kilgarriff SENSEVAL co-ordinator adam@itri.bton.ac.uk ****************************************************************** IV. PROJECTS IV.C.1. Fr: Joan K Lippincott Re: Berners-Lee to Receive Paul Evan Peters Award It is with great pleasure that CNI joins EDUCAUSE and ARL in announcing that Tim Berners-Lee will be the first recipient of the Paul Evan Peters award. The award will be presented at the closing plenary session of the Spring CNI Task Force meeting on March 28. --Joan Lippincott Berners-Lee Receives Paul Evan Peters Award for Founding World Wide Web February 28, 2000 -- Web pioneer Tim Berners-Lee will soon be honored as the first recipient of the Paul Evan Peters Award, which recognizes notable, lasting achievements in the use of networked communications to advance scholarship and intellectual productivity. Presented by the Association of Research Libraries and EDUCAUSE, sponsoring organizations of the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI), the award honors the memory and accomplishments of Paul Evan Peters (1947-1996), founding executive director of CNI. CNI, with some 200 institutional members, promotes the creation and use of networked information resources and services that advance scholarship and intellectual productivity. Berners-Lee is widely recognized as the creator of the World Wide Web, which opened the Internet to the world. He is a uniquely appropriate choice as the first recipient of the award: in the course of more than a decade he developed a vision and a design for the Web and brought it to life, creating a capability that would revolutionize communication. He designed the first version of the protocol for transmitting information on the Web (Hypertext Transfer Protocol, or HTTP), the first version of Hypertext Markup Language (HTML), devised the method for addressing documents on the Web (later known as Universal Resource Locators, or URLs), and developed the first Web server and the first Web browser, which was also an editor. His creation has changed the way people communicate and work together worldwide. In his current role as director of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), Berners-Lee continues to encourage the development of open specifications to enhance the functionality of the Web as a mode of free expression and global communication. W3C, a non-profit, member-sponsored organization, is headquartered at MIT's Laboratory for Computer Science (LCS), at the National Institute for Research in Computer Science and Control (INRIA) in France, and Keio University in Japan. Berners-Lee serves as principal research scientist at MIT/LCS, which he joined in 1994. Berners-Lee received the Kilby Foundation's Young Innovator of the Year award for 1995. In 1998 he was named one of 29 MacArthur Fellows, receiving $270,000 in this unrestricted "genius grant" program. He is the author of Weaving the Web: The Original Design and Ultimate Destiny of the World Wide Web by its Inventor. Berners-Lee will accept the Paul Evan Peters Award and give the award address as the closing plenary presentation at the CNI Spring Task Force meeting in Washington, D.C., on March 28. The award will be presented by Clifford A. Lynch, executive director of CNI, and Brian L. Hawkins, president of EDUCAUSE. "It's rare that we have an opportunity to honor someone who has had such a powerful and multifaceted impact, not just within the academic world but on our society as a whole," commented Hawkins. "Tim's creativity and his commitment to developing the Web as a vehicle for open communication are remarkable." Speaking from the perspective of the library community, ARL Executive Director Duane E. Webster noted that "Tim Berners-Lee, like Paul Peters, recognized the potential of the Internet for access to content at a time when the Net was primarily a communications channel. His vision of establishing a web of links between and among discrete pieces of information, allowing researchers to create and share new knowledge, has had a profound and long-lasting impact on scholarship." Paul Evan Peters was a visionary and a coalition builder in higher education and scholarly communication, providing new insights and direction to the world of networked information for librarians, technologists, and publishers. He was named one of the 100 most important leaders in 20th century librarianship in the December 1999 issue of American Libraries magazine, published by the American Library Association. "My friend Paul would have been absolutely delighted to know that Tim had been selected as the first recipient of this award," observed Lynch. "The Web has had a transforming effect on scholarship and on our society as a whole; it has created entire new industries. Tim's long-standing commitment not only to furthering the standards and technologies underlying the Web, but to understanding and shaping the broader social implications make him an extraordinary figure in the networked information age." The award program established in his memory is supported by an endowment from ARL, EDUCAUSE, Microsoft Corporation, and Xerox Corporation. The mission of the Association of Research Libraries is to shape and influence forces affecting the future of research libraries in the process of scholarly communication. EDUCAUSE is an international, nonprofit association whose mission is to help 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. For more information about Paul Evan Peters and this award as well as its sponsoring organizations see http://www.educause.edu/awards/pep/pep.html. 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