To: NCG@stubbs IRLIST Digest ISSN 1064-6965 June 22, 1993 Volume X, Number 24 Issue 168 ********************************************************** I. NOTICES A. Meeting Announcements/Calls for Papers 1. SIGIR Workshops 2. EP94: The Conference on Electronic Publishing, Document Manipulation, and Typography 3. COLING '94 IV. PROJECT WORK C. Abstracts 1. IR-Related Dissertation Abstracts ********************************************************** I. NOTICES I.A.1. Fr: Edie Rasmussen Re: SIGIR Workshops Final Programs: RESEARCH WORKSHOPS Pittsburgh, PA, USA Thursday, July 1, 1993 TWO ONE-DAY WORKSHOPS: User Interfaces for Online Public Access Catalogs and Information Access and the Networks (IANET '93) are being presented in connection with ACM SIGIR '93 (the 16th International Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval). The cost for either workshop is $50, which includes a Wednesday night reception, coffee and lunch during the Thursday workshop. For a registration form contact sigir@lis.pitt.edu *************************** USER INTERFACES FOR ONLINE PUBLIC ACCESS CATALOGS: A RESEARCH WORKSHOP OPACS were among the first online information retrieval systems made available to their end-users. This full-day workshop will examine the lessons that have been learned from over a decade of public access to these systems, and explore the desirable and possible changes to OPACS to meet the needs of the future. The workshop will include plenary sessions that provide a historical overview of the developments and experimentation in interface design -- providing a retrospective on the evolution of OPAC Interfaces -- and an overview of the types of research and evaluation studies that have examined OPACS -- providing a retrospective on methodologies for research on OPAC interfaces. ***************************** INFORMATION ACCESS AND THE NETWORKS (IANET'93) Information access involving networks is one of the most important growth areas in the broad field of information technology. This workshop brings together researchers and developers to discuss network-based information services in both general and specific terms, drawing upon those attending ACM SIGIR '93 and the communities related to: * Archie NNTP/Usernet * Digital Libraries Prospero * Gopher Veronica * HyperPage WAIS * Knowbots WWW (WorldWideWeb) * NCSA Mosaic Z39.50 along with other related initiatives, protocols, systems, and services. Attendees include persons with an active interest in network-based information systems and relevant research. Presentations will include design and implementation of client-server architectures, resource discovery, distributed file systems and services, development of integrated network tools, and innovative applications of more basic technologies, such as bulletin board systems and electronic mail. The workshop format involves a plenary session from 8:30-11:30 a.m., with invited speakers each addressing a major theme in the area of wide-area networking. After discussion, the workshop will discuss selected projects over a working lunch, then break up into groups (based on a short interest statement provided by each participant). The workshop will conclude with brief summary presentations by group leaders. If you are interested in attending IANET '93, please prepare a 1-page statement of interest, covering your background, experience, and topics of interest and mail to ianet@lis.pitt.edu. Registration forms for both workshops are available from sigir@lis.pitt.edu. ********** I.A.2 Fr: Christoph Hueser Re: EP94: The Conference on Electronic Publishing, Document Manipulation, and Typography EP94, the Conference on Electronic Publishing, Document Manipulation and Typography will be held in Darmstadt, Germany, on April 13-15, 1994. This conference will take place the same week and at the same location as the third Conference on Raster Imaging and Digital Typography (RIDT), the workshop TEP94 (Teaching Electronic Publishing and Digital Typography), and the workshop PODP94 (Principles Of Document Processing). This conference will be the fifth in a series of international conferences organised to promote the exchange of novel ideas in the area of computer document manipulation. The first two conferences in the series, EP86 held in Nottingham, England, and EP88 in Nice, France, concentrated mainly on specific aspects of the production of documents by computer: from composition to printing. EP90, which was held in Washington D.C., adopted a broader definition of the term Computer Assisted Publication, and accordingly included more material on such new topics as hypertext and hypermedia systems, document recognition and analysis, and application of data-base techniques to document handling. EP92, held in Lausanne, Switzerland, confirmed the trend for documents to impact more and more areas of computer science; EP94 is expected to follow this trend. A day of tutorials is planned just before the Conference. Suggestions for contributions with introductory and survey topics are sollicited. Demonstrations of research prototypes and experimental systems will be organized during the conference. Proposals of such demonstrations are sollicited. For details, please contact the conference secretariat. Authors are invited to submit papers describing original research results. Submissions will be refereed by the programm committee. Accepted papers will be collected in a proceedings that the organizers intend to make available at the conference. Complete papers in English on the following topics are welcomed: TOPICS - Modelling and representation of documents Document structures Integration of text, images, graphics, sound and video Integration of document manipulation systems with other software tools Standards: evaluation and implementation Active documents, documents as user agents Object oriented approaches - Document management Document preparation systems Hypermedia and multimedia: production, editing and visualisation Large document collections Distributed documents: parallel algorithms, multi-user documents User-machine interfaces - Document recognition and interpretation Structural recognition of documents Filtering and image handling techniques Multi-lingual documents Semantic document structures Indexing and retrieval techniques - Typography and graphics Graphics and imaging Pagination and layout Papers that are ambiguous or misdirected will be forwarded to the RIDT94 program committee. MAIN DEADLINES These deadlines are common to EP94 and RIDT94. Today Fill out and mail the reply form to the conference secretariat August 16, 1993 Full paper received by the secretariat. October 15, 1993 Notification of acceptance or rejection. November 1993 Distribution of the program. December 3, 1993 Final versions of accepted papers received by the Secretariat. April 13-15, 1994 EP94 Conference. INSTRUCTIONS FOR SUBMISSION: The proceedings of the conference will be published as a special issue of the journal "Electronic Publishing - origination, dissemination and design". Submitted papers should preferably follow the style of the journal. Information about submission can be obtained from the conference secretariat or by FTP: ftp ipsi.darmstadt.gmd.de or ftp 141.12.39.2 UserID: anonymous Password: then: cd ep94 get EP94.README get epoddmac.ps (the instructions to authors as PostScript File). This file exists as well in LaTeX: epoddmac.tex get epodd.sty ********** I.A.3. Fr: Makoto Nagao Re: COLING '94 COLING 94 CALL FOR PAPERS August 5-9, 1994 Miyako Hotel, Kyoto, Japan General Chairman: Prof. Makoto Nagao Department of Electrical Engineering Kyoto University Tel. +81-75-753-5344 Fax. +81-75-751-1576 Email. coling94@pine.kuee.kyoto-u.ac.jp The International Committee on Computational Linguistics invites the submission of papers for COLING 94, the 15th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, in Kyoto, Japan. TOPICS OF INTEREST: Papers are invited on substantial, original, and unpublished research on all aspects of computational linguistics, including, but not limited to, the followings. - syntax - parsing - semantics - generation - phonetics - language understanding - phonology - speech analysis/synthesis - morphology - computational lexicons - discourse - electronic dictionaries - pragmatics - terminology - quantitative/qualitative linguistics - text database and retrieval - mathematical linguistics - documentation - contrastive linguistics - machine translation - cognitive linguistics - machine aids for translation - large text corpora - natural language interface - text processing - dialogue systems - hardware/software for NLP - multimedia systems REQUIREMENTS FOR SUBMISSION: Papers should be either topical papers (maximum six pages in final format) or project notes with demonstration (maximum four pages), preferably in English. Both should describe original work. The project note should specify the computer platform that will be used. They should emphasize completed work rather than intended work, and they should indicate clearly the state of completion of the reported results. A paper accepted for presentation at the COLING Conference cannot be presented at another conference. FORMAT FOR SUBMISSION: Authors should submit four copies of preliminary versions of their papers with the page limits above, on A4 paper with the title, author(s), addresses (including email if possible), affiliation across the page top, a short (five line) summary, the words: topical paper or project note, and a specification of the topic area preferably drawn from the list above. As well, authors are strongly urged to email the title page information by the deadline date. Send the papers and emails to: COLING 94 Department of Computer Science University of Sheffield Sheffield S10 2UH, England Email: coling@dcs.sheffield.ac.uk IMPORTANT DATES: Preliminary paper submission due: 6 January, 1994 Acceptance notification: 15 March, 1994 Camera-ready copies due: 1 May, 1994 REVIEW SCHEDULE: Preliminary papers are due by 6 January 1994. Papers received after that date will be returned unopened. Notification of receipt will be mailed to the first author (or designated author) soon after receipt. All inquiries regarding lost papers must be made by 27 January 1994. Designated authors will be notified of acceptance by 15 March, 1994. Camera-ready copies of final papers prepared in a double-column format, preferably using a laser printer, must be received by 1 May 1994 at Prof. Makoto Nagao Department of Electrical Engineering Kyoto University Sakyo, Kyoto, Japan along with a signed copyright release statement. Papers received after that date may not be included in the proceedings. ********************************************************** IV. PROJECT WORK IV.C.1. Fr: Susanne M. Humphrey Re: Selected IR-Related Dissertation Abstracts The following are citations selected by title and abstract as being related to Information Retrieval (IR), resulting from a computer search, using BRS Information Technologies, of the Dissertation Abstracts Online database produced by University Microfilms International (UMI). Included are UMI order number, title, author, degree, year, institution; number of pages, one or more Dissertation Abstracts International (DAI) subject descriptors chosen by the author, and abstract. Unless otherwise specified, paper or microform copies of dissertations may be ordered from University Microfilms International, Dissertation Copies, Post Office Box 1764, Ann Arbor, MI 48106; telephone for U.S. (except Michigan, Hawaii, Alaska): 1-800-521-3042, for Canada: 1-800-268-6090. Price lists and other ordering and shipping information are in the introduction to the published DAI. An alternate source for copies is sometimes provided. Dissertation titles and abstracts contained here are published with permission of University Microfilms International, publishers of Dissertation Abstracts International (copyright by University Microfilms International), and may not be reproduced without their prior permission. AN University Microfilms Order Number ADG92-25175. AU DAVALOS, SERGIO VICTOR. TI KNOWLEDGE-STRUCTURED INFORMATION SYSTEMS FOR UNDERSTANDING: AN ARCHITECTURE AND AN IMPLEMENTATION. IN The University of Arizona Ph.D. 1992, 203 pages. SO DAI V53(04), SecA, pp1210. DE Business Administration, Management. Information Science. Computer Science. AB This research addresses the problem of developing computer-based systems to support the understanding of information by executive level users. The approach taken is based on the use of prior knowledge in the form of knowledge (cognitive) structures to understand new information. The knowledge structures used are case, schemata, concepts, and semantic networks. A system architecture for supporting information understanding, the Understanding Support System (USS), was developed and was implemented on an Apple Mac using HyperCard software. The USS is implemented in an object-oriented architecture using hypertext organization methods to support the cognitive process of associative information development and retrieval. Node and link representation and associative schemes are used to store and represent cognitive structures in the form of networks of interlinked nodes of knowledge. These networks are treated as individual units by the USS. The current system supports a single user for: (1) building mental representations, (2) using prior knowledge in the form of knowledge nodes, knowledge structures, and case knowledge, (3) using knowledge structures for knowledge base access, and (4) navigation of the knowledge base through links that associate knowledge nodes in the cognitive structures. Eventually the USS can support use of a corporate knowledge base by many users. An evaluation of the USS based on human-computer research methodologies for systems development is discussed. AN University Microfilms Order Number ADG92-23855. AU CRAIN, JEFFREY LIN. TI MALARIA TRAVELLERS ADVISORY SYSTEM. IN The Union Institute Ph.D. 1992, 145 pages. SO DAI V53(04), SecB, pp1921. DE Computer Science. Engineering, System Science. Artificial Intelligence. Health Sciences, Medicine and Surgery. AB The study was performed to understand the past history of artificial intelligence systems in medicine and to design and test a simple, but effective method to notify travellers of the risk of Malaria. Various publications and information systems have been created in an attempt to simplify information and provide it to medical practitioners and to travellers themselves. There is a plethora of publications, some good (particularly the World Health Organization), but much of it has been popularized, superficial or inaccurate. As malaria is a focal disease, previous information available to alert travellers of the risk has been of a general nature and did not dwell upon focal geographies. The Malaria Travellers Advisory System is a prototype system based upon identifiable geographic areas. It contains a database of information for specific locations, the months that malaria exists in each location, environmental factors relating to the presence of vector mosquitoes that transmit malaria, the environmental conditions for travelling and lodging in locations and the types of malaria parasites (and known drug resistance) that exist in each specific area. MTAS contains consensus information from the World Health Organization and utilizes high level conceptual approaches of intelligent databases, logic programming, consensus theory and expert system theory. The problem was solved by understanding why medical problems have been addressed through mathematics, data bank systems, reasoning systems and currently, with intelligent database techniques and consensus oriented systems. A knowledge base (database) was created that reflects the current malaria situation for each specific area where malaria is known by the World Health Organization. The system accepts input for the months of travel, lodging, local transportation and specific health oriented information. MTAS then uses forward looking routines to determine what risk, if any, exists for the traveller. The system has the ability to create letters for travellers that provide generic information about their voyage and cautionary procedures to follow to not get malaria. The work performed verified that this approach should be expanded to include more detail information to generate and provide individual dosage recommendations to travellers who receive information from the system. ********************************************************** IRLIST Digest is distributed from the University of California, Division of Library Automation, 300 Lakeside Drive, Oakland, CA. 94612-3550. 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