IRLIST Digest ISSN 1064-6965 April 27, 1993 Volume X, Number 16 Issue 160 ********************************************************** I. NOTICES A. Meeting Announcements/Calls for Papers IV. PROJECT WORK B. Bibliographies 1. Computers-Linguistics-Communications Bibliographical DB D. Miscellaneous 1. IR/Document Relevance Study: Call for Participation ********************************************************** I. NOTICES I.A.1. Fr: ACMMujltimedia Conference 93 Re: ACM Multimedia'93 - Advance Program ACM MULTIMEDIA 93 FIRST ACM INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON MULTIMEDIA (co-located with SIGGRAPH 93) (SIGBIO, SIGCHI, SIGCOMM, SIGGRAPH, SIGIR, SIGLINK, & SIGOIS) 1-6 August 1993, Anaheim, California, MONDAY, 2 AUGUST 1993: COURSES: Designing Multimedia Environments for Children (Full Day), A. Druin; & C. Solomon; Multimedia Systems: A Guided Tour (Full Day), B. Furht, & M. Milenkovic; Concept of Color, Video, & Compression (Full Day), C.A. Poynton, D. Farber, E.F. Morrison,. TUESDAY, 3 AUGUST 1993: COURSES: Survey of Formal Standards for Multimedia Systems (Full Day), B.J. Shepherd (Organizer); Copyright Protection for Software, Graphics, & Multimedia (Half Day), P. Samuelson; Multimedia & Multimodal Parsing (Half Day), K. Wittenburg; Structured Design of Hypermedia Applications (Half Day), F. Garzotto & P. Paolini: Large Multimedia Databases (Half Day) R. Jain. WEDNESDAY, 4 AUGUST 1993: 10:15-12:00 Noon: Keynote Session, Chair: J.J. Garcia-Luna-Aceves; Keynote Speaker: Trip Hawkins, President & CEO, The 3DO Company. 1:30-3:15 PM: Communication Protocols, Chair: H. Terada; Optimistic Strategies for Large-Scale Dissemination of Multimedia Information, R. Yavatkar, L. Manoj; MCAM: An Application Layer Protocol for Movie Control, Access, & Management, R. Keller, W. Effelsberg; Synchronous Bandwidth Allocation in FDDI Networks, Q. Zheng, K.G. Shin. 1:30-3:15 PM, Panel: Digital Libraries of the Future, Chair: E.A. Fox. 3:30-5:00 PM: Compression & Coding, Chair: G. Wallace; Real-Time Software-Based Video Coder for Multimedia Communication Systems, H.C. Huang, J.H. Huang, J.L. Wu; Performance of a Software MPEG Video Decoder, K. Patel, B.C. Smith, & L.A. Rowe; Transform Coding of Arbitrarily-Shaped Image Segments, S.F. Chang & D.G. Messerschmitt. 3:30-5:00 PM: Content-Based Retrieval, Chair: P. Mantey. Salient Video Stills: Content & Context Preserved, L. Teodosio & W. Bender; Facial Image Retrieval, Identification, & Inference System J.K. Wu, Y.H. Ang, P. Lam, K. Moorthy, & A.D. Narasimhalu; A Multimedia Mineral Retrieval System D. Cakmakov & D. Davcev; THURSDAY, 5 AUGUST 1993: 8:30-10:15 AM: Communication Systems, Chair: J.R. Cox. High-Bandwidth Multimedia Conferencing through a Long-Haul Packet Network, C. Elliott, BBN Systems & Technologies. Media Scaling with HeiTS, L. Delgrossi, C. Halstrick, D. Hehmann, R.G. Herrtwich, O. Krone, J. Sandvoss, C. Vogt, IBM European Networking Center, Germany. A Multimedia Client to the IBM LAN Server, M. Baugher, S. French, A. Stephens, I. Van Horn; The Vidboard: A Video Capture & Processing Peripheral for a Distributed Multimedia System, J.F. Adam & D.L. Tennenhouse. 8:30-10:15 AM: Hypermedia, Chair: I. Ritchie. An Introduction to the Future MHEG International Standard for Hypermedia Object Interchange, R. Price; HyOctane: A HyTime Engine for an MMIS, J. F. Koegel, L.W. Rutledge, J.L. Rutledge, & C. Keskin; Open Architecture for Multimedia Documents, B.R. Gaines. 10:30-12:00 Noon: Media Synchronization, Chair: J.O. Limb. A Synchronization & Communication Model for Distributed Multimedia Objects, N.U. Qazi, M. Woo, & A. Ghafoor; Synchronization Models for Multimedia Presentation with User B. Prabhakaran & S.V. Raghavan; Specification of Multimedia Composition & a Visual Programming Environment, S. Eun, E.S. No, H.C. Kim, H. Yoon, S.R. Maeng. 10:30-12:00 Noon, Panel: Networked Multimedia Emerging Software Architectures, Co-Chairs: R. Pearson & R. Aronoff. 10:30-12:00 Noon: Multimedia Toolkits, Chair: M. Brown. Toolkit for Shared Hypermedia on a Distributed Object Oriented Architecture, R. Trehan, N. Sawashima, K. Yamaguchi, & K. Hasebe; CMIFed: A Presentation Environment for Portable Hypermedia Documents, G. van Rossum, J. Jansen, K.S. Mullender, & D.C.A. Butlerman; Programming the Multimodal Interface, E.P. Glinert & M.M. Blattner. 1:30-3:15 PM: Delay-Sensitive Retrieval, Chair: P.B. Berra. Multimedia Network File Servers: Multi-Channel Delay Sensitive Data Retrieval, D.J. Gemmell; Optimization of the Grouped Sweeping Scheduling (GSS) with Heterogeneous Multimedia Streams, M.S. Cheng, P.S. Yu, D.D. Kandlur; Disk Scheduling in a Multimedia I/O System, A.L. Narasimha Reddy & J. Wyllie. 1:30-3:15 PM: Using Video in Group Collaboration, Chair: J. Rosenberg. What Video Can & Can't Do for Collaboration, E.A. Isaacs & J.C. Tang; Where We Were: Making & Using Near-Synchronous, Pre-narrative Video, S.L. Minneman & S.R. Harrison; Architectures for Multi-Source Multi-User Video Compositing, L.C. Yun. 3:30-5:00 PM: Video Processing Chair: D. DeGroot. Projection Detecting Filter for Video Cut Detection, K. Otsuji & Y. Tonomura; MPEGTool: An X Window Based MPEG Encoder & Statistics Tool, T. Urabe, H. Afzal, G. Ho, P. Pancha, M. El Zarki; Image Processing on Compressed Data for Large Video Databases, F. Arman, A. Hsu, & M.Y. Chiu. 3:30-5:00 PM, Panel: Multimedia Publishing; Chair: R. Rada. FRIDAY, 6 AUGUST 1993: 8:30-10:15 AM: Network Performance, Chair: A. Lazar. Analysis of Video Conferencing on a Token Ring Local Area Network, S.M. Crimmins; Algorithms and Performance Evaluation of the Xphone Multimedia Communication System, A. Eleftheriadis, S. Pejhan, & D. Anastassiou; A Performance Analysis of the IBM Subsystem Control Block Architecture in a Video Conferencing Environment, K. Huynh & T. Khoshgoftaar. 8:30-10:15 AM: Authoring, Chair: P. Dewan. Object Composition & playback Model for Handling Multimedia Data, R. Hamakawa & J. Rekimoto; Structured Multimedia Authoring, L. Hardman, G. van Rossum, D.C.A. Bulterman; A Multimedia Testbed, V. de Mey & S. Gibbs. 10:30-12 Noon: Documents, Chair: E. Hoffert. Synchronization in the MAEstro Multimedia Authoring Environment, G.D. Drapeau; Automatic Temporal layout Mechanisms, M.C. Buchanan & P.T. Zellweger; CircusTalk: An Orchestration Service for Distributed Multimedia, Y.S. Gutfreund, J. Diaz-Gonzales, R. Sasnett, & V. Phuah. 1:30-3:15 PM: Video Servers, Chair: S. Christodoulakis. News On-Demand for Multimedia Networks, G. Miller, G. Baber, & M. Gilliland; Streaming RAID: A Disk Storage System for Video & Audio Files, F.A. Tobagi, J. Pang, R. Baird, & M. Gang; Multi-resolution Video Representation for Parallel Disk Arrays, T. Chiueh. 1:30-3:15 PM: Information Access, Chair: F. Golshani. Panoramic Overviews for Navigational Real-World Scenes, L. Teodosio & M. Mills; Design of an Information Skimming Space, M. Ohkubo, N. Kobayashi, & T. Nakagawa; Phoneshell: The Telephone as a Computer Terminal, C. Schmandt. 3:30-5:00 PM: Collaboration Systems, Chair: S. Ahuja. CECED: A System for Informal Multimedia Collaboration, E.J. Craighill, R. Lang, K. Skinner, & M. Fong; Collaborative Multimedia Scientific Design in SHASTRA, V. Anupam, C.L. Bajaj, M. Alternfofen, et al. 3:30-5:00 PM: Support for Video Applications, Chair: G. Davenport. Integrating Video into an Application Framework, P. Schnorf; VideoScheme: A Programmable Video Editing System for Automation & Media Recognition, J. Matthews, P. Gloor, & F. Makedon; A Digital On-Demand Video Service Supporting Content-Based Queries, T.D.C. Little, R.J. Folz, F.W. Reeve, D.H. Schelleng, & S.D. Venkatesh. FOR COMPLETE REGISTRATION AND HOTEL INFORMATION, contact: SIGGRAPH 93 Conference Management at 401 North Michigan Avenue, Chicago IL 60611, 1.312.321.6830, 1.312.321.6876 (FAX), or multimedia93@siggraph.org. The complete advance program is available over the Internet via anonymous ftp to siggraph.org (128.248.245.250). ********** I.A.3. Fr: usui@tut.ac.jp Re: Internatinal Joint Conference on Neural Networks Call for Papers (Second Version) IJCNN'93-Nagoya, Japan International Joint Conference on Neural Networks Nagoya Congress Center, Japan October 25-29,1993 FOR REGISTRATION AND COMPLETE INFORMATION PLEASE CONTACT: IJCNN'93-NAGOYA Secretariat: Travel Plaza International Chubu, Inc. Shirakawa Dai-san Bldg., 4-8-10 Meieki, Nakamura-ku, Nagoya, 450 Japan Phone: +81-52-561-9880/8655 Fax: +81-52-561-1241 CONFERENCE SCHEDULE: AM PM Evening '93.10.25(Mon.) Registration Registration Tutorial Tutorial 10.26(Tue.) Opening Ceremony Industry Forum Reception 10.27(Wed.) Technical Sessions (Oral,Poster) 10.28(Thu.) Technical Sessions Banquet (Oral,Poster) 10.29(Fri.) Technical Sessions Closing KEYNOTE SPEAKERS INCLUDE: David E. Rumelhart, Methods for Improving Generalization in Connectionist Networks: Shun-ichi Amari, Brain and Computer - A Perspective PLENARY SPEAKERS INCLUDE: Rodney Brooks, (TBD); Edmund T. Rolls, Neural Networks in the Hippocampus and Cerebral Cortex Involved in Memory; Kunihiko Fukushima, Improved Generalization Ability Using Constrained Neural Network Architectures TECHNICAL SESSIONS: Papers may be submitted for consideration as oral or poster presentations in the following areas: Neurobiological Systems; Self-organization; Cognitive Science; Learning & Memory; Image Processing & Vision; Robotics & Control; Speech, Hearing & Language; Hybrid Systems (Fuzzy, Genetic, Expert Systems, AI); Sensorimotor Systems; Implementation (Electronic, Optical, Bio-chips); Neural Network Architectures; Other Applications (Medical and Social Systems, Art, Economy, etc.); Network Dynamics; Optimization. Please specify the area of the application) Four(4) page papers MUST be received by April 30, 1993. Papers received after that date will be returned unopened. International authors should submit their work via Air Mail or Express Courier so as to ensure timely arrival. All submissions will be acknowledged by mail. Papers will be reviewed by senior researchers in the field, and all authors will be informed of the decisions at the end of the review process by June 30, 1993. A limited number of papers will be accepted for oral and poster presentations. No poster sessions are scheduled in parallel with oral sessions. All accepted papers will be published as submitted in the conference proceedings, which should be available at the conference for distribution to all regular conference registrants. Please submit six (6) copies (one camera-ready original and five copies) of the paper. Do not fold or staple the original camera-ready copy. The four page papers, including figures, tables, and references, should be written in English. The paper submitted over four pages will be charged 30,000 YEN per extra page. Papers should be submitted on 210mm x 297mm (A4) or 8-1/2" x 11" (letter size) white paper with one inch margins on all four sides (actual space to be allowed to type is 165mm (W) x 228mm (H) or 6-1/2" x 9"). They should be prepared by typewriter or letter-quality printer in one or two-column format, single-spaced, in Times or similar font of 10 points or larger, and printed on one side of the page only. Please be sure that all text, figures, captions, and references are clean, sharp, readable, and of high contrast. Fax submissions are not acceptable. Centered at the top of the first page should be the complete title, author(s), affiliation(s), and mailing address(es), followed by a blank space and then an abstract, not to exceed 15 lines, followed by the text. In an accompanying letter, the following should be included. Send papers to: IJCNN'93- NAGOYA Secretariat. Full Title of the Paper Presentation Preferred Oral or Poster Corresponding Author Presenter* Name, Mailing address Name, Mailing address Telephone and FAX numbers Telephone and FAX numbers E-mail address E-mail address Technical Session Audio Visual Requirements 1st and 2nd choices e.g., 35mm Slide, OHP, VCR * Students who wish to apply for the Student Award, please specify and enclose a verification letter of status from the Department head. Tutorials for IJCNN'93-NAGOYA will be held on Monday, October 25, 1993. Each tutorial will be three hours long. The tutorials should be designed as such and not as expanded talks. They should lead the student at the college Senior level through a pedagogically understandable development of the subject matter. Experts in neural networks and related fields are encouraged to submit proposed topics for tutorials. EXHIBIT INFORMATION: Exhibitors are encouraged to present the latest innovations in neural networks, including electronic and optical neuro computers, fuzzy neural networks, neural network VLSI chips and development systems, neural network design and simulation tools, software systems, and application demonstration systems. A large group of vendors and participants from academia, industry and government are expected. We believe that the IJCNN'93-NAGOYA will be the neural network largest conference and trade-show in Japan, in which to exhibit your products. Potential exhibitors should plan to sign up before April 30, 1993 for exhibit booths since exhibit space is limited. Vendors may ********************************************************** IV. PROJECT WORK IV.B.1. Fr: Sabourin Conrad Re: Bibliographical database COMPUTERS - LINGUISTICS - COMMUNICATIONS BIBLIOGRAPHICAL DATABASE For the last 15 years, we have been compiling a bibliographical database on all aspects of computer processing of natural language communications. The bibliography, which now holds more than 67,000 references, is indexed with a thesaurus of over 3,400 keywords. More than 13,000 titles are related to artificial intelligence. The references cover the period beginning with the inception of the computer to the present and include theses, research reports, books, articles from specialized periodicals, papers in conference proceedings, etc. The entries were obtained mostly by systematically scanning more than 400 periodicals and 800 conference proceedings. Some of the thematic sections of the database are near completion and will be published in print in the coming months. Each thematic volume will have a two-level analytical index. Many researchers collaborated by sending us their lists of publications. All others who are interested are invited to do so. In the list that follows, the numbers refer to the approximate number of entries of some of the subsections of the database. ===================================================================== NATURAL LANGUAGE INTERFACES (3000) Conversation, interfaces to database, to expert system, to robot, to operating system, to question answering system, etc. TEXT UNDERSTANDING (3800) PARSING (7000) Syntactic analysis, semantic analysis, semantic interpretation. COMPUTATIONAL MORPHOLOGY (2000) Morphological analysis and generation, lemmatization. TEXT GENERATION (2000) Generation from data or linguistic structure, explanation generation, paraphrasing, etc. SPEECH ANALYSIS, CODING, AND SYNTHESIS (2800) Speech compression, encryption, transmission, speech to tactile display, phoneme identification, speaker identification, tone recognition, etc. SPEECH RECOGNITION AND UNDERSTANDING (3000) Connected, continuous, isolated words, speaker dependent and independent, etc. TEXT INFORMATION EXTRACTION (2000) Indexation (automatic and computer aided), text condensation, content analysis, etc. INFORMATION RETRIEVAL (3000) Full text, conceptual. COMPUTER TRANSLATION (7000) Bilingual, multilingual, aids to translation MATHEMATICAL AND FORMAL LINGUISTICS (3000) COGNITIVE LINGUISTICS AND PSYCHOLINGUISTICS (1600) LITERARY COMPUTING (3000) Concordances, author identification, style analysis, poetry analysis and production, text collation, literary criticism, etc. QUANTITATIVE AND STATISTICAL LINGUISTICS (2400) Frequencies of characters, phonemes, words, grammatical categories, syntactic structures; lexical richness, word collocations, etc. COMPUTER ASSISTED LANGUAGE TEACHING (5500) Teaching foreign languages, composition, writing, grammar, spelling, vocabulary, reading, translation, listening, speaking; text composition aids, etc. ELECTRONIC DOCUMENT PROCESSING (2300) Document editing, formatting, typesetting, coding, storing, interchanging, etc. COMPUTATIONAL LEXICOGRAPHY (3000) Dictionaries, thesauri, terminological databanks; parsing, transfer and generation dictionaries; lexical semantics, etc. OPTICAL CHARACTER RECOGNITION (2900) Character preprocessing, feature extraction, isolation, segmentation, thinning; multi-font recognition, writer identification, etc. CHARACTER PROCESSING (2200) Character coding (external and internal), input, output, synthesis, ordering, conversion, encryption, string matching, font design, etc. COMMUNICATING THROUGH COMPUTERS (2100) E-Mail, computer conferencing, electronic publishing, hypermedia, hypertext, etc. CORPUS LINGUISTICS AND DIALECT STUDY (1000) ===================== Conrad F. Sabourin sabourco@ere.umontreal.ca P.O. Box 187, Snowdon Montreal, Qc, H3X 3T4 Canada ********** IV.D.1. Fr: Michelle Toon Re: Call for Participation in IR/Document Relevance Study This is a call for volunteers to participate in a NASA-sponsored information retrieval/document relevance study. This study will evaluate the scope, coverage, and record content of the NASA RECON database, as well as develop a methodology to test the performance of other retrieval systems. Discipline-specific queries will be made of the RECON database and resulting abstracts will be forwarded to participants to determine the value and relevance of the citations according to the degree to which each document would be useful in conducting research on that specific topic. Examples of queries which might be used are: Rorbital insertion parametersS or Rzero gravity and prolonged space flight with emphasis on physiology and endurance of the human body under these conditions.S This project will require approximately 2-3 hours to complete, and participants will be given 2-3 days to complete the task. Participants will be sent abstracts of documents and will be asked to judge pairwise relevance. If you are willing to participate in this project, please respond to the following: name: area of interest: occupation: last degree earned: field degree is in: number of years experience in field: E-mail address: Return E-mail response to: Michelle_Toon@Education.Baylor.edu Michelle Toon Assistant Director of Instructional Tech Baylor University School of Education ********************************************************** IRLIST Digest is distributed from the University of California, Division of Library Automation, 300 Lakeside Drive, Oakland, CA. 94612-3550. 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