IRLIST Digest December 1989 Volume VI Number 1 Issue 1 *************************************************************** IRLIST Digest is distributed from the University of California, Division of Library Automation, 300 Lakeside Drive, Oakland, CA. 94612-3550. Send subscription requests to: LISTSERV@UCCVMA.BITNET Send submissions to IRLIST to: IR-L@UCCVMA.BITNET Editorial Staff: Clifford Lynch lynch@postgres.berkeley.edu calur@uccmvsa.bitnet Mary Engle engle@cmsa.berkeley.edu meeur@uccmvsa.bitnet Nancy Gusack ncgur@uccmvsa.bitnet The IRLIST Archives will be set up for anonymous FTP, and the address will be announced in future issues. These files are not to be sold or used for commercial purposes. Contact Mary Engle or Nancy Gusack for more information on IRLIST. The opinions expressed in IRLIST do not represent those of the editors or the University of California. Authors assume full responsibility for the contents of their submissions to IRLIST. *************************************************************** I. NOTICES: Meeting announcements / Calls for papers Publications announcements / Miscellaneous A.1. IJCAI-91, Sydney, Australia, 8/24-30/91 A.2. IJCAI-93, Chambrey, France, 8/29 - 9/3/93 A.3. IJCAI-91, Announcement A.4. ACM/IEEE-CS COIS-90 - MIT, 4/25/90 A.5. COLING-90, Call for Papers A.6. SIGIR-90, Call for Papers B.1. Order Information for LCSH B.2. ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS) II. QUERIES: Questions and answers / Requests for information A.1. LC MARC Tapes A.2. SIGIR, Grenoble, 1988 A.3. MAC Startup Problem A.4. NCSA TELNET A.5. FORUM, Abstracts of 11th ICIR A.6. ACM RFP on Hypertext, Questions B.1. Storage Schemes for Dictionaries B.2. Test Collections B.3. Hypertext B.4. Multilingual Terminology Dictionaries B.5. Hypermedia Medical Information Systems Continued in Volume VI Number 2, Issue 2 *************************************************************** I. NOTICES I.A.1. Fr: Donald E Walker Re: IJCAI-91 announcement; please post or print IJCAI-91, Sydney, Australia, 24-30 August 1991 IJCAI-91 will be held 24-30 August 1991 in Sydney, Australia. Barbara Grosz, Harvard University, has been elected Conference Chair; John Mylopoulos and Ray Reiter, University of Toronto, have been elected Program CoChairs; and Robin Stanton and John Debenham have been appointed to chair the Local Arrangements Committee. Don Walker, Bellcore, the IJCAII Secretary-Treasurer, will also serve as Secretary-Treasurer for the conference. For further information, contact one of the following: Prof. Barbara J. Grosz Conference Chair, IJCAI-91 Aiken Computation Lab 20 Harvard University 33 Oxford Street Cambridge MA 02138, USA (+1-617)495-3673; 277-8383 internet: grosz@harvard.harvard.edu Prof. John Mylopoulos Program CoChair, IJCAI-91 Computer Science Department University of Toronto Toronto, Ontario CANADA M5S 1A4 (+1-416)978-5180 csnet: jm@ai.toronto.edu Prof. Ray Reiter Program CoChair, IJCAI-91 Computer Science Department University of Toronto Toronto, Ontario CANADA M5S 1A4 (+1-416)978-6324 csnet: reiter@ai.toronto.edu Dr. Donald E. Walker Secretary-Treasurer, IJCAI-91 Bellcore, MRE 2A379 445 South Street, Box 1910 Morristown, NJ 07960-1910, USA (+1-201)829-4312 internet: walker@flash.bellcore.com Prof. Robin Stanton Local Arrangements CoChair, IJCAI-91 Australian National University Department of Computer Science GPO Box 4 Canberra, ACT 2601, AUSTRALIA (+61-62)49-3475 usenet: munnari!anucsd.oz.au!rbs Dr. John K. Debenham Local Arrangements CoChair IJCAI-91 School of Computing Sciences University of Technology, Sydney PO Box 123 Broadway, NSW, AUSTRALIA 2007 (+61-2)218-9562 usenet: munnari!nswitgould.oz.au!debenham ********** I.A.2. Fr: Donald E Walker Re: IJCAI-93 site decision made; please post IJCAI-93, Chambery, France, 29 August - 3 September 1993 The Trustees of the International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence, Inc. are pleased to announce that IJCAI-93 will be held 29 August - 3 September 1993 in Chambery, France. Jean-Pierre Laurent, Universite de Savoie, will be responsible for Local Arrangements. The Conference and Program Chairs for IJCAI-93 will be elected by the IJCAI Executive Committee during the IJCAI-89 conference. Don Walker, Bellcore, the IJCAII Secretary-Treasurer, will also serve as Secretary-Treasurer for the conference. For further information, contact one of the following: Prof. Jean-Pierre Laurent Local Arrangements Chair, IJCAI-93 Universite de Savoie BP 1104 F-73001 Chambery, FRANCE (+33-79)961-062 usenet: jplaure@imag.fr Dr. Donald E. Walker Secretary-Treasurer, IJCAI-93 Bellcore, MRE 2A379 445 South Street, Box 1910 Morristown, NJ 07960-1910, USA (+1-201)829-4312 internet: walker@flash.bellcore.com ********** I.A.3. Fr: grosz@HARVARD.HARVARD.EDU Re: Donald E Walker's message of Wed, 15 Mar 89 10:33:21 EST IJCAI-91 announcement; please post or print 495-3673 is my office phone number and is the only one that should be made public. thanks ********** I.A.4. Fr: rba@flash.bellcore.com (Robert B Allen) Re: ACM/IEEE-CS Conf. on Office Information Systems - MIT - 4/25/90 COIS90 - Conference on Office Information Systems MIT - Cambridge, Mass. April 25-27, 1990 Sponsored by ACM-SIGOIS and IEEE Computer Society TC-OA The coordination and support of cooperating computer users and computer agents present both human and technical difficulties. On one hand groups and organizations provide an inspiration and a metaphor to manage this interaction. On the other hand, they provide a challenge to effective interaction. This 5th meeting of the Conference on Office Information Systems continues a tradition of studies of areas such as: coordination technology, hypertext/multimedia, object-oriented systems, artificial intelligence, social impact, information retrieval, and user interfaces. Conference Information: Papers (due Nov. 3): General Chair, Robert B. Allen Program Chair, Fred Lochovsky Room 2A-367 Computer Systems Research Institute Bellcore University of Toronto 445 South St. Toronto, Ontario M5S 1A4 Morristown, NJ 07960-1910 Canada (201)829-4315 (416)978-7441 rba@bellcore.com fred@csri.toronto.edu ********** I.A.5. Fr: Donald E Walker Re: COLING-90 Call for Papers The Thirteenth International Conference on Computational Linguistics, COLING 90 will be arranged on August 20-25, 1990, at the University of Helsinki. Pre-Coling tutorials take place on August 16-18, 1990. YOU ARE INVITED TO SUBMIT - a topical paper on some critical issue in computational linguistics, - a project note with software demonstration The written part of your presentation should not exceed 6 pages in A4 format or 12,000 characters for a topical paper, and half that length for a project note. The final version of the paper should follow the COLING 88 style sheet. Send your text NOT LATER THAN DECEMBER 1, 1989, as electronic mail or as five paper copies to the Coling 90 Program Committee. The Program Committee will respond by February 1, 1990. All prospective participants are kindly requested to indicate their interest to the Conference Bureau by January 15, 1990. Detailed information (on e.g. accommodation) will be sent to all participants by February 1, 1990. Deadline for preregistration will be May 1, 1990. The registration fee will be 750 FIM (certified students 400 FIM). The late registration fee is 1100 FIM. Inquiries concerning papers should be directed to the Program Committee and concerning accommodation to the Conference Bureau. Other inquiries are handled by the local organizers. COLING 90 PROGRAM COMMITTEE Hans Karlgren KVAL Skeppsbron 26 S-111 30 STOCKHOLM Sweden Phone: +46 8 7896683 Fax: +46 8 7969639 Telex: 15440 kval s E-mail: COLING@COM.QZ.SE or: COLING@QZCOM.BITNET COLING 90 CONFERENCE BUREAU Riitta Ojanen Kaleva Travel Agency Ltd Congress Service Box 312 SF-00121 HELSINKI Finland Phone: +358 0 602711 Fax: +358 0 629019 Telex: 122475 kleva sf LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS Fred Karlsson Dept of General Linguistics University of Helsinki Hallituskatu 11 SF-00100 HELSINKI Finland Phone: +358 0 1911 Fax: +358 0 656591 Telex: 124690 unih sf E-mail: COLING@FINUH (in BITNET) ********** I.A.6. Fr: Ulbvm.fnrs-nfwo.ac.be by CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU (IBM VM SMTP R1.2.1MX) To: fox@VTOPUS.CS.VT.EDU Re: SIGIR '90 ACM SIGIR 90 CALL FOR PAPERS 13th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE on RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT in INFORMATION RETRIEVAL ULB Brussels BELGIUM September 5-7, 1990 In co-operation with the ACM INFORMATION RETRIEVAL The annual ACM SIGIR conference is the leading conference on research and development in I.R. covering classical aspects of document and text retrieval as well as newer multidisciplinary facets. There is a particular need for increased effort aimed at more effective implementation. At the same time, a number of basic theoretical issues remain far from well-established. In both of these areas, there are a variety of interactions with a number of disciplines, as can be seen from the list of topics proposed below. It is intended that the 13th Annual ACM SIGIR Conference will directly address the important relationship between practical demand analysis and the progress which has been made in fundamental theory, especially in Natural Language Processing and Artificial Intelligence. TOPICS FOR SIGIR '9O Original research papers and panel proposals are solicited on topics including, but not limited to, the following : Artificial intelligence and information retrieval Knowledge-based methods and connectionism. Natural language processing and information retrieval Syntactical models, Deep understanding, Multilingual systems, User interfaces. Information retrieval theory Retrieval models, Evaluation. Hypertext and multimedia systems applications Software re-use, Office information systems, Case-based retrieval. Implementation issues File organization, Parallel processing, Text searching hardware, Storage devices. INSTRUCTIONS FOR CONTRIBUTORS CONTRIBUTED PAPERS Persons wishing to contribute original research papers should send four copies of the full paper to the appropriate program chair, as incated below. No extended abstracts will be accepted. Full-length papers should not exceed twenty pages. Papers will be published in the conference proceedings and authors will be required to sign an ACM copyright release form. SUBMISSIONS ARE DUE 31 JANUARY 1990. PANEL PRESENTATIONS Suggestions for panels should contain descriptions of the topic to be covered, the names of proposed speakers and moderators, brief abstracts of the proposed presentations and the desired length of time for the panel. Four copies of proposals, of no more than three pages, should be sent to the appropriate program chair. PROPOSALS ARE DUE 31 JANUARY 1990. TUTORIALS Proposals for tutorials should consist of the topic to be discussed, the name(s) and brief biographies of the presenter(s), and an outline of the tutorial. FOUR COPIES OF PROPOSALS, OF NO MORE THAN THREE PAGES, ARE DUE 28 FEBRUARY 1990. Proposals should be sent to the tutorial chair : Georges Van Slype Bureau Marcel van Dijk Avenue Louise 250 Bte 14 1050 BRUSSELS BELGIUM TELECOPY : 32 2/648.82.30 IMPORTANT DATES 31 January 1990 Full papers and panel proposals due to program chairs 28 February 1990 Tutorial proposals due to program chairs. 31 March 1990 Authors informed of acceptance of papers and proposals. 30 April 1990 Final versions of papers due to program chairs. PROGRAM CHAIRS Leo EGGHE LIMBURGS UNIVERSITAIR CENTRUM Universitaire Campus B - 3610 DIEPENBEEK BELGIUM Phone : 32 11/22.99.61 Telecopy : 32 11/22.32.84 (EUROPE, AFRICA, AUSTRALIA) Gerard SALTON CORNELL UNIVERSITY Department of Computer Science 4130 UPSON HALL ITHACA N.Y. 4853-7501 USA Phone : 1-607/255.73.16 Telecopy : 1-607/255.44.28 E-mail : gs@cs.cornell.edu (AMERICAS and ASIA) PROGRAM COMMITTEE Robert B. Allen, Bell Communication Research (USA) Nick Belkin, Rutgers University (USA) Helene Bernet, Universite Libre de Bruxelles (BELGIUM) Abraham Bookstein, University of Chicago (USA) Giorgio Brajnik, Universita degli Studi di Udine (ITALY) Yves Chiaramella, Universite de Grenoble (FRANCE) Bruce Croft, University of Massachusetts (USA) Martin Dillon, OCLC, Dublin (USA) Tom Doszkocs, National Library of Medicine, Bethesda (USA) Leo Egghe, Limburgs Universitair Centrum, UIA (Belgium) Edward A. Fox, Virginia Polytechnic Institute (USA) Norbert Fuhr, Technische Hochschule Darmstadt (F.R. GERMANY) Peter Ingwersen, Royal Danisch School of Librarianship (DANMARK) Margaret King, ISSCO Universite de Geneve (SWITZERLAND) H.F.Moed, Rijksuniversiteit Leiden (the NEDERLANDS) Fausto Rabitti, IBI-CNR (ITALY) Vijay Raghavan , University of Southwestern Louisiana (USA) Stephen Robertson, The City University, London (UNITED KINGDOM) Ronald Rousseau, Katholieke Industriele Hogeschool, UIA (BELGIUM) Gerard Salton, Cornell University (USA) Karen Sparck-Jones, Cambridge University (UNITED KINGDOM) Carlo Tasso, Universita degli Studi di Udine (ITALY) Frank W. Tompa, University of Waterloo (CANADA) Keith Van Rijsbergen, Glasgow University (UNITED KINGDOM) Peter Willet, University of Sheffield (UNITED KINGDOM) Michael S.K.M. Wong, University of Regina (CANADA) Clement Yu, University of Illinois at Chicago Circle (USA) CONFERENCE COMMITTEE Conference chair : Jean-Luc VIDICK, UNIVERSITE LIBRE DE BRUXELLES, C.P. 142 Av. F.D. Roosevelt, 50 B-1050 Brussels BELGIUM Program chairs : Leo EGGHE, LIMBURGS UNIVERSITAIR CENTRUM (LUC) UNIVERSITAIRE INSTELLING ANTWERPEN (UIA), BELGIUM and Gerard SALTON, CORNELL UNIVERSITY, ITHACA, USA Tutorials Chair: Georges VAN SLYPE, Bureau Marcel van DIJK UNIVERSITE LIBRE DE BRUXELLES, BELGIUM Local arrangements Chair: Pierre GEILFUS, SIE, Brussels, BELGIUM Publicity Chair : Egbert DE SMET, UNIVERSITAIRE INSTELLING ANTWERPEN (UIA), BELGIUM Treasurer : Jean-Luc VIDICK, UNIVERSITE LIBRE DE BRUXELLES (ULB), BELGIUM REPLY CARD Return address : SIGIR '90 Jean-Luc VIDICK UNIVERSITE LIBRE DE BRUXELLES Avenue F.D. Roosevelt 50 C.P. 142 1050 - BRUSSELS - BELGIUM 13th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT IN INFORMATION RETRIEVAL BRUSSELS, SEPTEMBER 5-7, 1990 NAME : FIRST NAME : ORGANIZATION : ADDRESS : POSTAL CODE : CITY : COUNTRY : TELEPHONE : TELECOPY : ELECTRONIC ADDRESS : - I intend to participate in the conference and would like to receive the final program. - I intend to submit a paper . - Selected topic : (see above list) - Other topic : (of your own choice) - Provisional title : ********** I.B.1. Fr: Jeff Huestis @ Washington University Re: Order Info for LCSH Here is the ordering information for Library of Congress Subject Headings in machine-readable form, current as of 1988: Order from: Library of Congress Customer Services Division Cataloging Distribution Services Washington, DC 20541 Prices: 1. Subscription to current weekly distribution tape: $2,970 per year 2. Retrospective (complete) file on tape: $855 (one time) As alternative to above: 3. Subscription to CD-ROM format (including 3 fully cumulative updates): $300 per year The tapes contain MARC records, one for each authorized subject heading (as 1xx fields), containing "see from" and "see also" references in 4xx and 5xx fields, respectively. When we purchased the base file it contained about 150,000 records, and we think about 10,000 records have been added since then. I don't know what the format of the CD-ROM is, either in terms of intellectual organization or in terms of physical compatibilities. However, a phone call to LC should resolve that. --Regards, Jeff ********** I.B.2. Fr: rba@flash.bellcore.com (Robert B Allen) Re: ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS) ACM has approved the name Transactions on Information Systems in place of Transactions on Office Information Systems as of Jan. 1989. TOIS will cover a broad range of topics relating to Information Systems including information retrieval, user interfaces, object- oriented and knowledge-based systems, and coordination technology. This change reflects the apparent potential of the new generation of information systems and it is hoped that readers of IRLIST will be active contributors to TOIS. Robert B. Allen Editor-in-Chief *************************************************************** II. QUERIES II.A.1. Fr: LARSON@UCBCMSA (Ray Larson) Re: LC MARC Tapes, etc. In response to the inquiries from Hsinchen Chen, and your response to Jerry Caswell, the following are some recent prices and the address for ordering machine-readable cataloging files from Library of Congress. MARC BOOKS file - Subscription $10,280 per year retrospective tapes (1968-1987) ca. 2,338,700 records $9,655. MARC Subject Authorities - Subscription $2,970 per year retrospective file (1986-1987) ca. 165,100 records $855. Both are available (along with many other files, such as the MARC Serials file, and the Govt. Printing Office Catalog) on 1600 or 6250 bpi tape, although a CDROM version of the Subject Authorities (and soon, the Name Authorities) is available. For ordering information and catalog write to: Library of Congress Customer Services Section Cataloging Distribution Service Washington, DC 20541 Phone (202) 287-6100 Ray Larson School of Library and Information Studies University of California at Berkeley ********** II.A.2. Fr: Michael Shepherd Re: Grenoble How can I get a copy of the proceedings of the sigir conference held in Grenoble last year? I had placed an order with ACM single copies but they just told me that they will not be distributing the proceedings. Thanks. my bitnet address is now: shepherd@ac.dal.ca this may be better than my other addresses. mike shepherd ********** II.A.3. Fr: John Salmento Re: MAC startup problem - ........S.O.S.!! Jose, It sounds to me like your disk is getting very fragmented. DiskExpress is an excellent utility to unfragment a disk and rearrange the files so it doesn't occur as often. I believe CopyII Mac and SUM utilities also provide file defragmentation programs. In my opion I think DiskExpress is the best. John Salmento ziggy@andrew.cmu.edu Carnegie Mellon University ********** II.A.4. Fr: David Wilson Re: NCSA Telnet The NCSA Telnet is telling you that there is another computer on your Network using the same IP number that you assigned to your computer in the configuration file. SU-MacIP, I believe, has a facility for dynamically assigning unused IP numbers, and thus does not have this difficulty. ********** II.A.5. Fr: BITNET%"C37@TAUNOS" 27-JAN-1989 15:57 Re: FORUM I have found in the last FORUM abstracts of the 11th International Conference of Information Retrieval (D.L. MCGUINNESS). As my research deasls with history instruction and information retrieval I am interested in the article of D.C. CASE, I will be grateful if somebody could inform me how to get this article. thanks, Avigail Oren ********** II.A.6. Fr: Ben Shneiderman Re: Q&A? What's happening with the ACM RFP on hypertext...Charlie and the Cognetics folks were interested and so was I...I am intrigued to know what kind of replies you got - are there others out there who are eager to build hypertext for ACM? Thanks...Ben ********** II.B.1. Fr: kearns@read.cs.columbia.edu (Steve Kearns) Columbia University Department of Computer Science Re: Information search I am looking for papers describing efficient storage schemes for Dictionaries, (such as would be used with a spelling checker.) I would appreciate any leads people could give me. Steve (kearns@cs.columbia.edu on Arpanet) ********** II.B.2. Fr: dcrouch@gw.d.umn.edu (don crouch) Re: Information search I have ordered an Apple CD-ROM Reader for my MACII. I am interested in obtaining test collections which may be available on above referenced CD. Could you arrange for one to be sent to me. What is cost associated with this? Secondly, could you recommend where I might begin to find out what CDs are available? My mailing address is Donald B. Crouch Dept of Computer Science 320 Heller Hall University of Minnesota Duluth, MN 55812 Thank you. Donald ********** II.B.3. Fr: aviram%BIMACS.BITNET@rutgers.edu (Aviram dilian) Re: Scientific Articles in Computer Science. Hello Friends !! 23/1/89 I need your help. I'm doing a research on the "hypertext" idea. In order to test some of these ideas and software I need: - A resonable collection ( about 60 articles, but it can be 50 - 100) of full text (and not titles only, abstracts, or bibliographic information) of papers (they have to be on disks or tape) in computer science, that have therefore a structure (author, title, affiliation, paragraphs, references, etc.) The articles preferably have to be in ASCII format, with a minimum of coding or fonts I will use an algorithm to decompose the articles into keywords and then the user will retrieve them. Please, check how you can send them to me. I mean by 'bitnet' or diskettes, tape ?? The subjects must be any kind of subject in computer science. Please, let me know what you could send to me. How many articles and in what subjects ??. I hope that I explaind my idea enough. You can ask any question because it must be very clear before sending. I will be very thankful for your help. Please, if you can, don't answer me to group-news but just directly to my e-mail address: aviram@bimacs.bitnet Aviram Dilian. ********** II.B.4. Fr: rd1632.Dayton.NCR.COM!king@RELAY.CS.NET Re: Information search Are you familiar with a thing called: On-Line Relational Database for generation, retrieval, update, reporting, archiving, and publishing of the Multilingual Terminology Dictionary on Computers and Data Processing? OR Multilingual Terminolgy Dictionaries? Any input is helpful. Also: Would you consider the following to be posted in the IR-Digest: SIMILARITY ... What does it mean? for ANALOGY What are the measures? for REMINDING Are there generalities or is it domain-specific? for EXEMPLARS ... Etc. Etc. I am performing independent research in the area of Case-Based Reasoning, CBR, and I am working on various metrics for similarity. In general, what ideas do you (the net-world) have about: - What about a new situation reminds you of a prior experience? OR - How does one situation remind you of another? This is obviously a (too) wide open question and requires some clarity, but I would rather not focus the discussion to a set of examples yet. That is, unless it is more productive to do so. A little more focus might be how does one discriminate and weight features of a new situation (case) in relationship to a large case-base of experiences that may or may not have a bearing on the new situation. Did that provide more focus or fuzziness!? I send this notice out as a preliminary "attention-getter" to provide myself with some input to help form a more formal survey. Once written I hope to send it to a specific set of researchers (consisting mostly of people in the CBR, information retrieval (IR), doc. mngt. areas) and to anyone in netland that requests so. My goals are to: - Produce some consensus of opinion on a view, or approach(es), to similarity and the possibility of codifying it to aid in reminding and retrieval of prior experiences. If anyone is interested in responding to any of this: - I will watch the "nets" for replies - Email to: j.a.king@dayton.ncr.com - Call: (513)-445-1090 before 4:30 (EST) (317)-478-5910 after 6:00 - Mail: NCR Corp. 1700 S. Patterson WHQ-5E Dayton, OH 45479 After listening, talking to people, etc. for the next couple weeks I will write up the survey (anyone can help form the survey) over Christmas and send it out the first week in January. By February-March (15th?) I will hopefully be able to publish preliminary results (to the net, respondents, etc.). I am fairly familiar with the discussions of similarity by Kolodner, Schank, Rissland, Porter and others in the CBR field - also from the IR field, Fox, Croft, Salton, etc. I have built one CBR system and two applications where the similarity metric was determined from the experts. BUT ... I am open to anyone's suggestions on reference works for understanding similarity metrics, methodologies, etc. Thank you for your time. Jim King ********** II.B.5. Fr: hersh@mcs.nlm.nih.gov (William Hersh) Re: Information search Do you know of any people doing IR work in Boston? I have begun to get very interested in IR, with regards to my research in hypermedia medical information systems. (I am a research fellow in Medical Informatics at Harvard School of Public Health; my fellowhip is funded by the NLM.) *************************************************************** Continued in Volume VI Number 2, Issue 2 ***************************************************************