IRLIST Digest ISSN 1064-6965 February 5, 1996 Volume XIII, Number 6 Issue 293 ********************************************************** II. JOBS 1. Indiana U.: Assistant Professor, SLIS III. NOTICES B. Meetings 1. SDAIR '96 Advance Program 2. Digital Image Access & Retrieval in Libraries C. Miscellaneous 1. Scout Toolkit ********************************************************** II. JOBS II.1. Fr: Javed Mostafa Re: Indiana U.: Assistant Professor, SLIS Announcement of Faculty Position Indiana University School of Library and Information Science Indiana University School of Library and Information Science at Bloomington is recruiting a full-time, tenure-track faculty member at the rank of Assistant Professor to begin fall 1996. HIGHLY DESIRABLE QUALIFICATIONS: Scholarship: Demonstrable research record or potential; willingness to engage in collaborative research and publication; ability to present at major national and international symposia. Vision: Intellectual curiosity; boundary spanning; interest in the intersection of information science with other disciplines. Teaching ability: Commitment to rigor in teaching; ability to excite the best students to explore and experiment. PhD: Completed or expected in information science, computer science, information systems, or related field. AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION (illustrative): Computer-based information tools; networked information retrieval; computer-supported cooperative work; multimedia systems design; user needs and behavior; digital libraries/archives. TEACHING RESPONSIBILITIES: Four courses per academic year. Optional summer and CE teaching opportunities. The School offers the Master of Information Science (MIS) and Master of Library Science (MLS) degrees. There is also a large Ph.D. program and a post-master's specialist degree. Indiana University is a major research university and the candidate will be expected to meet the requirements of scholarship and publication of such an institution. The School of Library and Information Science is one of the largest and most highly ranked in North America, and its faculty are among the most productive in the field. Salary commensurate with experience. Indiana University offers a full range of benefits, including fully employer funded TIAA/CREF. FURTHER INFORMATION: Dr. Debora Shaw Associate Dean and Chair of the Search Committee School of Library and Information Science Indiana University Bloomington, IN 47405-1801 phone: (812) 855-3261 fax: (812) 855-6166 email: shawd@indiana.edu http://www-slis.lib.indiana.edu/ Applications received by March 31, 1996 will be assured of consideration. Applicants should submit a letter of intent, a current resume, and names of three references. Indiana University is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. ********************************************************** III. NOTICES III.B.1. Fr: Debra Wallace Re: SDAIR'96 - Advance Program Fifth Annual Symposium on Document Analysis and Information Retrieval April 15 - 17, 1996 Alexis Park Resort Las Vegas, Nevada Sponsored by the Information Science Research Institute and The Howard R. Hughes College of Engineering University of Nevada, Las Vegas SYMPOSIUM CHAIR: Henry S. Baird, AT&T Bell Laboratories INVITED SPEAKERS: Hans-Peter Frei, Union Bank of Switzerland Michael Lesk, Bellcore Juergen Schuermann, Daimler Benz Research Center DEBATE TEAMS: Henry S. Baird, AT&T Bell Laboratories Robert Haralick, University of Washington Daniel Lopresti, Panasonic Technologies, Inc. George Nagy, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute SYMPOSIUM MANAGER: Debbie Wallace University of Nevada, Las Vegas Information Science Research Institute 4505 Maryland Parkway, Box 454021 Las Vegas, NV 89154-4021 (702)895-3338 fax:(702)895-1183 sdair@isri.unlv.edu CONFERENCE SCHEDULE SUNDAY, APRIL 14, 1996 RECEPTION & REGISTRATION MONDAY, APRIL 15, 1996 REGISTRATION WELCOME: Henry S. Baird, Symposium Chair AT&T Bell Laboratories William R. Wells, Dean Howard R. Hughes College of Engineering University of Nevada, Las Vegas Kazem Taghva, Associate Director Information Science Research Institute University of Nevada, Las Vegas Invited Speaker: Substituting Images for Books: Library Economics, Technology, and Politics, Michael Lesk, Bellcore SESSION 1: Maximum Spanning Trees for Text Segmentation, Antonio P. Dias; Harvard University; In-house Mail Distribution by Automatic Address and Content Interpretation, Thomas Bruckner, Peter Suda, Hans Ulrich Block, Gerd Maderlechner; Siemens AG, Corporate Research and Development. SESSION 2: USeg: A Retargetable Word Segmentation Procedure for Information Retrieval, Jay M. Ponte, W. Bruce Croft; University of Massachusetts; Text Categorization: A Symbolic Approach, Isabelle Moulinier, *Gailius Raskinis, Jean-Gabriel Ganascia; University of Paris, *Vtautas Magnus University; Support Tools for Visual Information Management, Gokhan Kutlu, Bruce A. Draper, Eliot B. Moss, Edward M. Riseman; University of Massachusetts. INVITED SPEAKER: Text Recognition - From Pixels to Meaning, Juergen Schuermann, Daimler Benz Research Center SESSION 3: Edit Distance of Regular Languages, Horst Bunke; University of Bern; Language Identification: Examining the Issues, Penelope Sibun, *Jeffrey C. Reynar; Northwestern University, *University of Pennsylvania; Fast Decision Tree Ensembles for Optical Character Recognition, Harris Drucker; AT&T Bell Laboratories. SESSION 4: Length Normalization in Degraded Text Collections, Amit Singhal, Gerard Salton, Chris Buckley; Cornell University; Extraction of Thematically Relevant Text from Images, Francine R. Chen, Dan S. Bloomberg; Xerox Palo Alto Research Center; Measuring the Effects of Data Corruption on Information Retrieval Elke Mittendorf, Peter Schauble; Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH). DINNER: Speaker: William F. Harrah College of Hotel Adminstration, UNLV TUESDAY, APRIL 16, 1996 REGISTRATION INVITED SPEAKER: Information Retrieval - From Academic Research to Practical Applicationsa, Hans-Peter Freia, Union Bank of Switzerland SESSION 5: Keyword-Based Browsing and Analysis of Large Document Sets, Ido Dagan, Ronen Feldman, *Haym Hirsh; Bar-Ilan University, *Rutgers University; Tailoring a Retrieval System for Naive Users, Adrienne J. Kleiboemer, Manette B. Lazear, *Jan O. Pedersen; MITRE Corporation, *Xerox Palo Alto Research Center; Improving Full-Text Precision on Short Queries using Simple Constraints, Marti A. Hearst; Xerox Palo Alto Research Center. SESSION 6: Degraded Character Image Restoration, John D. Hobby, Henry S. Baird; AT&T Bell Laboratories; Automatically-Generated High-Reliability Features for Dichotomies of Printed Characters, George Nagy, Xiaoyin Wang; Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Retrieval Strategies for Noisy Text, Daniel Lopresti, Jiangying Zhou; Panasonic Technologies, Inc. TEAM DEBATE: "Defect Models are Important to Advance the State-of-the-Art of Optical Character Recognition" AFFIRMATIVE TEAM: Henry S. Baird, AT&T Bell Laboratories Robert Haralick, University of Washington. NEGATIVE TEAM: Daniel Lopresti, Panasonic Technologies, Inc.; George Nagy, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. MODERATOR: Tom Nartker, Information Science Research Institute. SESSION 7: A General-Purpose Japanese Optical Character Recognition System, Sargur N. Srihari, Geetha Srikantan, Tao Hong, Brian Grom; State University of New York at Buffalo, Center of Excellence for Document Analysis and Recognition; OCR and Voting Shell Fulfilling Specific Text Analysis Requirements, Thorsten Jager; German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI); Histograms to Evaluate OCR Accuracy and OCR Coupling, Philippe Lefevre; EDF-Direction des Etudes et Recherches. SESSION 8: Logotype Detection in Compressed Images using Alignment Signatures, A. Lawrence Spitz; Daimler Benz Research and Technology Center; Reliable Recognition of Handwritten Marks in Checkboxes, B. Latanzio, A. Garzotto; Swiss Life Information Systems Research; Generalized Form Registration Using Structure-Based Techniques, Michael D. Garris, Patrick J. Grother; National Institute of Standards and Technology. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 17, 1996 ISRI WELCOME: Thomas A. Nartker, Director Information Science Research Institute Howard R. Hughes College of Engineering University of Nevada, Las Vegas THE FIFTH ANNUAL TEST OF OCR ACCURACY: Steve Rice, Information Science Research Institute ISRI RESEARCH REVIEWS ********** III.B.2. Fr: Bryan Heidorn Re: DPC96: Digital Image Access and Retrieval in Libraries 33rd Annual Clinic on Library Applications of Data Processing: "Digital Image Access and Retrieval" The three-day conference will be held March 24-26, 1996, at the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Sponsored by the Graduate School of Library and Information Science and the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. In the last several years digital images have changed from being an expensive high technology peculiarity in libraries into an expectation. Libraries are actively involved in organizing and managing large digital image collections. These collections are now being created in nearly every art and science. The same technologies can impact preservation, interlibrary loan and classroom support. The central problems are the same as they have been in libraries for centuries. How do we organize, assess, store and protect the collections to meet the needs at a reasonable cost? This conference will explore the digital image technology and many facets of its impact on the libraries of today and tomorrow. WHO SHOULD ATTEND: This conference will be of interest to librarians, academic computing staff, digital collection developers, and educators who use visual media. SPEAKERS: Howard Besser (Keynote address) School of Information & Library Studies University of Michigan Meg Bellinger President of Preservation Resources, OCLC. Shih-Fu Chang The Image and Advanced Television Laboratory Columbia University David Forsyth Electronic Environmental Library Project University of California at Berkeley T. S. Huang, K. Ramchandran, and S. Mehrotra University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Some Challenging Issues in Image Content Based Indexing and Retrieval Ramesh Jain Visual Computing Laboratory University of California at San Diego Donald Luman State Geological Survey University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Rajiv Mehrotra University of Missouri, St. Louis Techniques for Retrieval of Similar Shapes Rohini K. Srihari State University of New York, Buffalo Jennifer Trant Getty Imaging Initiative PANEL SESSION: Impact on Technology on Libraries GENERAL INFORMATION: Location: All conference events (except for the Sunday evening reception/dinner) will take place in the Beckman Institute, a high-tech interdisciplinary research institute located on the campus of the University of Illinois, 405 N. Mathews, Urbana. Time: The first session of the conference will be the Sunday evening (March 24) reception (5-6:00 pm) and dinner (6-7:30 pm) in the Illini Union Ballroom [This is included in your registration fee.]. The Keynote Address (at Beckman Institute Auditorium) will be at 8:00 pm. The conference will end at 12:30 pm on Tuesday, March 26. There will not be any preconference workshops. REGISTRATION AND FEES: The fee for the conference is $340 ($380 after March 4, 1996), which includes all conference sessions, the Sunday night dinner, refreshments, and a copy of the Clinic proceedings. FOR COMPLETE INFORMATION, CONTACT: DPC '96 Graduate School of Library and Information Science University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 501 E. Daniel Street Champaign, IL 61820-6211 Email: dpc@alexia.lis.uiuc.edu Telephone: (800) 982-0914 or (217) 244-3274 (Kathy Painter) http://alexia.lis.uiuc.edu/dpc ********** III.C.1. Fr: Paul Evan Peters Re: Scout Toolkit Scout Toolkit Released by Net Scout Services and the InterNIC MADISON, Wisconsin, January 9, 1996 - The Info Scout project of the InterNIC has announced a new name, a new Web site, and a new service -- The Scout Toolkit. The InterNIC and Net Scout Services*, providers of the Scout Report and Net-happenings, announce the release of the Scout Toolkit, a new service designed to help new users identify the network tools most appropriate for their needs. The Scout Toolkit was built by collecting, organizing, and annotating a subset of the most effective network information tools available. The Toolkit is made available for researchers, educators, and others interested in using the Internet for access to quality resources. The Toolkit is not meant to be a comprehensive listing of all network tools, rather a select collection of tools organized by function. Internet users can investigate searchable indexes, subject catalogs, and annotated resource indexes and decide which tool best fits their needs. Links to comprehensive listings of network tools are also provided for further investigation. Each service included in the Toolkit is previewed with a brief description, allowing the user to determine its appropriateness before linking to the site. In addition to information about search tools, a Notable Browsers section provides information about widely used and advanced Web clients. A Staying Current section offers a dozen effective ways to stay informed of new Internet resources. The Specialized Tools section takes a look at current and near future graphical, 3D, audio, and video services. If you find the Scout Toolkit useful for yourself and your users, let us know at scout@internic.net. Based on feedback and input from the community the Toolkit will be maintained and expanded as a permanent service of Net Scout Services. http://rs.internic.net/scout/toolkit *The Info Scout project, a part of the InterNIC since 1993, has been renamed Net Scout Services and relocated to the University of Wisconsin - Madison. Scout Services produces a weekly newsletter, The Scout Report, and a daily Internet announcement service, Net-happenings. Scout Services has a staff of three: Susan Calcari, Info Scout, Jack Solock, Special Librarian, and Gleason Sackman, moderator of Net-happenings from his office in Fargo, North Dakota. Net Scout Services has established a new Web site which links to the Scout Report, Net-happenings, and the Scout Toolkit. Search capabilities are provided for all three services. http://rs.internic.net/scout Net Scout Services is one of 3 projects which together comprise the InterNIC. The other InterNIC projects are Registration Services, managed by Network Solutions, Inc. of Herndon, Virginia, and Directory and Database Services managed by AT&T of South Plainfield, New Jersey. Visit the newly designed Net Scout Services pages for more information. http://rs.internic.net/scout As always, questions, contributions and feedback on the Scout Toolkit, the Scout Report, or the new Web site can be sent to scout@internic.net. ********************************************************** IRLIST Digest is distributed from the University of California, Division of Library Automation, 300 Lakeside Drive, Oakland, CA. 94612-3550. Send subscription requests and submissions to: NCGUR@UCCMVSA.UCOP.EDU Editorial Staff: Clifford Lynch calur@uccmvsa.ucop.edu Nancy Gusack ncgur@uccmvsa.ucop.edu The IRLIST Archives is set up for anonymous FTP. 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