IRLIST Digest ISSN 1064-6965 March 3, 1997 Volume XIV, Number 9 Issue 347 ********************************************************** II. JOBS 1. ARL Career Resources 2. Drexel U.: Content Access Position, IS III. NOTICES A. Publications 1. FARNET's Washington Update B. Meetings 1. Human-Computer Interaction Laboratory 2. MULSAIC'97: Final Call for Papers 3. Second CFP: ACL/EACL Workshop on Intelligent Scalable Text C. Miscellaneous 1. Wanted: Several East Coast Librarians to present responses to Internet Search-Engine Vendors' presentations at the National Online Meeting 1997 ********************************************************** II. JOBS II.1. Fr: Louise Fisch Re: ARL Career Resources The Association of Research Libraries offers an exciting, cost-effective on-line service for spreading the word about job opportunities in the field of librarianship. Until now, the ARL Career Resources Page has been open to members only. However, in order to offer the most current and comprehensive information about job opportunities throughout the library and information science profession, ARL is opening this service to non-members. Cited in American Libraries (September '96) as a "jewel for job-hunting librarians," the ARL Career Resources Page averages 4000 hits per month and offers broad distribution of your advertisement at rates far lower than traditional print classifieds. Anyone can view the announcements, no password or registration is necessary. Vacancy announcements are posted on the WWW at for 45 days (or longer if specially requested). ARL provides a "fill in the blanks" electronic form for easy submission. To discuss rates, find out more information, or if you have several openings and are interested in a multiple listing discount, please send a message to Allyn Fitzgerald (allyn@cni.org) or call 202-296-2296. ARL reserves the right to refuse any announcement submitted. ********** II.2. Fr: Kate McCain Re: Drexel U.: Content Access Position, IS Drexel University's College of Information Science and Technology (IST) seeks applicants for a full-time position in the area of Content Access Systems. It is anticipated that the position will be filled at the assistant or associate level, on either a tenure or non-tenure track. The faculty member will have responsibility for teaching, oversight of curriculum, and leading a research and development initiative in a selection of the following areas: Organization of knowledge, classification theory, content representation, thesaurus construction, cataloging and classification systems, information systems for libraries, appropriate national and international standards, the Internet, digital libraries and hypermedia, organization of information for access and retrieval, text analysis for information retrieval, cognitive aspects of information-seeking behavior, user studies The IST view of information is broad, multidisciplinary, and practical. We offer a BS and MS in information systems, an ALA-accredited MS in library and information science, and a PhD. Under a four year grant from the Kellogg Foundation, we are reinventing education for information professionals. With a Sloan Foundation grant we have established leadership in distance education. Both master's programs are undergoing substantial redesign. The success of our programs is based on faculty teamwork, enterprise, and industry. The faculty member might teach such existing courses as: Technical Processes, Information Systems and Structures, Cataloging and Classification I and II, Content Representation, Library Automation; and-depending on demand-develop courses in: digital library systems, Internet management systems, Intranet, information visualization. The successful candidate will have an appropriate earned or nearly earned Ph.D. and will have spent substantial time in relevant practice. Please submit a letter of application, curriculum vitae, and names, addresses, and phone numbers of at least three references to Howard D. White, Ph.D., Chair, Search Committee, College of Information Science and Technology, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA 19104. Applications will be considered until the position is filled. Drexel University is an equal opportunity employer. Women and minorities are encouraged to apply. Thomas A. Childers, Ph.D. A.B. Kroeger Professor Director of Library and Information Science Programs College of Information Science & Technology [IST] Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA 19104 USA internet: childeta@dunx1.ocs.drexel.edu phone: (215)895-2479 fax: 215-895-2494 ********************************************************** III. NOTICES III.A.1. Fr: Heather Boyles Re: FARNET's Washington Update FARNET's Washington Update --- February 28, 1997 IN THIS ISSUE: - Senator Burns reintroduces "PRO-CODE" bill - HPCC advisory committee holds two-day meeting to discuss goals and future activities >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Written from FARNET's Washington office, "FARNET's Washington Update" is a service to FARNET members and other interested subscribers. We gratefully acknowledge EDUCOM's NTTF and the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) for additional support. If you would like more information about the Update or would like to offer comments or suggestions, please contact Heather Boyles at heather@farnet.org. ********** III.B.1. Fr: Ben Shneiderman Re: Human-Computer Interaction Laboratory Human-Computer Interaction Laboratory University of Maryland Institute of Advanced Computer Studies http://www.cs.umd.edu/projects/hcil/ 14th Annual Symposium & Open House Universal Access Friday, May 30, 1997 9am - 5pm to register contact Cecilia Kullman cecilia@umiacs.umd.edu Tel (301) 405-0304 Fax (301) 314-9658 Organized with the Institute of Advanced Computer Studies Department of Computer Science College of Library and Information Services Department of Psychology Institute for Systems Research WELCOME: Ben Shneiderman, Head of HCIL and Joseph Jaja, Director of UMIACS USER INTERFACE DESIGN: Catherine Plaisant Elastic Windows for rapid multiple window management: Eser Kandogan, Ben Shneiderman Tightly-coupled views: Chris North, Ben Shneiderman Visualizing medical patient records with LifeLines: Yi Qiu, Catherine Plaisant The effects of spacial visualization abilities on dual task performance: Diane Alonso, Kent Norman DIGITAL VISUAL LIBRARIES: Gary Marchionini Bringing treasures to the surface: Library of Congress National Digital Library Program Anita Komlodi, Dave Nation, Ara Shirinian, Gary Marchionini, Catherine Plaisant Exploring NASA's massive, networked earth science data: - Query previews: Stephan Greene, Catherine Plaisant - Dynamic queries with a million records? Egemen Tanin, Richard Beigel Video previews and speech analysis for the retrieval of multimedia objects: Tony Tse, Wei Ding, Doug Oard, Gary Marchionini LEARNING TOOLS: Gary Rubloff An interface suite for exploring and using multimedia learning resources: Josephus Beale, Wei Ding, Anne Rose, Gary Marchionini Teaching/learning in a high-tech classroom: Lessons learned from faculty and students: Ellen Borkowski Simulations in engineering education: Anne Rose, David Oveissi Computer Science AV Williams Bldg - room 3174 Library of Congress National Digital Library Visible Human Explorer LifeLines for medical patient records. LifeLines for juvenile justice records Query previews for NASA earth science data Elastic Windows and tightly-coupled views Personal Role Manager Psychology Zoology-Psychology Bldg - room 3111 Experiments on interface apparency and dual task performance Questionnaire for User Interaction Satisfaction on the Web College of Library & Information Services Hornbake Library - room 4121 Library of Congress National Digital Library Video-on-demand for learning communities Video previews and speech analysis for searching multimedia objects Zooming in text: experiments with Pad++ Academic Information Technology Services Van Munching - room 2203 Teaching/learning in the high-tech classroom The Museum Educational Site Licensing Project: digital representations of art from museum collections Space Sciences Lab Neutral Buoyancy Research Facility - room 2100-C Human control station design for space robotics Computer Mapping & Spatial Analysis Lab (to be confirmed) Lefrak Hall - room 1140 GUIs for geographic data - for library patrons and students MATERIAL PACKAGE: (provided to all Industry/Government and Faculty/Staff registrants): Collection of recent HCIL technical reports Full set of visual materials used in the morning lectures Video Technical Report (one hour, VHS/NTSC tape) Demo disk of Spotfire from IVEE Development (a product based on HCIL Dynamic queries and Information Visualization research) REGISTRATION >>>>> To guarantee reservation of lunch and materials >>>>> we need your registration by MAY 20 ********** III.B.2. Fr: Costas Spyropoulos Re: MULSAIC'97: Final Call for Papers Final Call for Papers Extended Deadline: 17 March 1997 The 2nd Workshop on "Multilinguality in Software Industry: the AI Contribution (MULSAIC'97)" (http://www.iit.nrcps.ariadne-t.gr/~costass/mulsaic97.html) International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-97) Nagoya, Japan, August 23-29, 1997 The best contributions to MULSAIC'97 will be published in a special issue of the Journal "Applied Artificial Intelligence: An International Journal" WORKSHOP OBJECTIVES: This workshop aims to bring together people from the software industry and the AI research community. It will provide an opportunity for people from the software industry to present particular problems and questions associated with multilinguality as well as an opportunity for AI researchers to show that AI-based methods and tools can help improve the current situation. WORKSHOP BACKGROUND: The ability to develop multilingual products is a prerequisite for software companies wishing to be active internationally. However, multilinguality in software industry imposes problems on processes such as: - exchanging data in different languages, - supporting different languages in the user interface, - processing multilingual documents, - retrieving multilingual information, - ensuring consistency in terminology and in writing and translation style, - reducing the translation and in general the localisation cost. AI provides methods, techniques and tools that can improve these processes. MULSAIC'97, based on the results of the MULSAIC'96 Workshop held in ECAI-96, intends to promote the discussion between people from software industry and AI in issues such as the following: * Multiscript communication through networks * Localisation of user interfaces * Cross-language, language-independent text retrieval * Language identification techniques * Multilingual text generation * Multilingual nformation extraction * Machine Translation (MT) and Machine-Assisted Human Translation (MAHT) * Creation and use of multilingual resources (dictionaries, terminologies, corpora) We would like to receive papers of two kinds. Papers presenting the current situation and the experiences of software industry people concerning multilinguality, as well as papers presenting AI-based methods and techniques in the above issues. We would also encourage the demonstration of AI-based tools as well as the demonstration of off-the-shelf tools used by software companies. WORKSHOP FORMAT AND ATTENDANCE REQUIREMENTS: The format of this one-day workshop will encourage interaction and discussion between people from software industry and AI researchers. Invited speakers from the software industry will present particular problems and questions concerning multilinguality. There will be two types of submission for interested participants: papers and statements of interest. The workshop will be kept small, with no more than 40 participants. We intend the workshop sessions to contain discussion periods long enough to allow real exchange of ideas. At the workshop end there will also be a discussion on the major issues addressed, directed by a panel. We hope to foster the workshop atmosphere by having the written versions of the accepted presentations circulated a few weeks in advance of the event, thus enabling the presenters to relate their work as much as possible to that of the others and also allowing non-presenting participants to be prepared for the discussion. Please note that workshop participation is not possible without registration for the IJCAI'97 conference. SUBMISSION FORMAT: Interested authors are requested to submit a two page abstract before 17 March 1997 (FINAL DEADLINE). The abstract should start with the title, authors, full address, telephone, fax and e-mail. The authors are requested to state clearly the problem examined and the AI method used as well as to discuss the costs and benefits of their approach. Performance evaluation results are also encouraged. Authors of accepted abstracts will be asked to provide a camera-ready version of their paper before 18 April 1997. The best contributions to MULSAIC'97 will be published in a special issue of the Journal "Applied Artificial Intelligence: An International Journal". The authors of these contributions will be invited to submit extended journal versions (appr. 8,000 to 10,000 words, which comes to about 20 to 25 printed AAI pages) of their workshop papers, taking into consideration the "AAI Notes for Authors". Other potential participants are requested to register, sending a one page summary of their interests and experience on relevant matters, before 18 July 1997. Submission (preferably ASCII, via e-mail) should be sent to: Dr. Costas Spyropoulos, Institute of Informatics & Telecommunications, National Centre for Scientific Research (NCSR) "Demokritos", 15310 Aghia Paraskevi, Athens, Greece Tel: +301-6510310, +301-6513110 ext.520, Fax: +301-6532175 E-mail: costass@iit.nrcps.ariadne-t.gr IMPORTANT DATES: 17 March 1997 Deadline for two-page abstracts 2 April 1997 Notification of acceptance or rejection 18 April 1997 Deadline for final camera ready versions of papers 1 May 1997 MULSAIC committe sends working notes to IJCAI 18 July 1997 Deadline for registration 21 July 1997 MULSAIC committe sends workshop material to all participants 23 August 1997 Workshop date ********** III.B.3. Fr: Dragomir R. Radev Re: Second CFP: ACL/EACL Workshop on Intelligent Scalable Text Summarization ACL'97/EACL'97 Workshop on INTELLIGENT SCALABLE TEXT SUMMARIZATION (at ACL'97/EACL'97 Joint Conference) Madrid, Spain July 11, 1997 With the explosion in the quantity of on-line information in recent years, demand for text summarization technology appears to be growing. Commercial companies are increasingly starting to offer text summarization capabilities, often bundled with information retrieval tools. These recent developments offer opportunities as well as substantial challenges for research in text summarization. In general, such developments create a practical need for summarization systems which scale up when applied to large volumes of unrestricted text. At ACL'97/EACL'97, a particular challenge is to identify the niches where natural language processing (NLP) can make an impact. For example, there are applications which require characterizing the content of large text collections to support data mining functions, but NLP has not been used much in such applications. Traditionally, shallower techniques have been leveraged to achieve the desired levels of scalability and domain-independence, but recent advances in robust information extraction as well as approaches integrating statistical and symbolic techniques open up possibilities for more powerful yet scalable summarization techniques. With the renewed interest in text summarization, another challenge is to develop criteria to help evaluate different methodologies, in order to better advise investors and the interested public on technology choices. While there have been focused workshops in the past on text summarization, they have pre-dated the tremendous expansion of on-line information access fueled by the recent growth of the World Wide Web. This workshop would bring together researchers interested in advancing the scientific frontiers of text summarization to meet these new practical challenges and opportunities. Submissions are invited on original research in all aspects of text summarization, including, but not limited to: * Statistical, linguistic, and knowledge-based techniques in intelligent summarization * Multimodal summarization strategies * Exploiting advances in information extraction in summarization * Text generation for scalable summarization * Classification criteria for summarization systems * Evaluation methods and metrics * Summarization in operational contexts: requirements, architectures lessons learned * Tailoring summaries to particular users, tasks, and contexts * Theoretical foundations, including cognitive models * Combining scalability with abstraction in summarization * Summarization across multiple documents/sources * Multilingual summarization Criteria for selection will include clarity, originality, relevance, and significance of results. Attendees at the workshop MUST register for the main ACL/EACL conference. SUBMISSION INFORMATION: DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION: March 15, 1997 Acceptance Notification: April 28, 1997 Interested participants should submit a previously unpublished paper addressing a specific text summarization issue or reporting novel methods and results. Authors should indicate whether the paper is being submitted elsewhere. As the papers will be reviewed anonymously, please do not include author names in the body of the paper; instead provide a separate title page with title, author names and email addresses. The paper length (excluding separate title page) should be no longer than 8 pages. For email submissions, please submit postscript. (If the postscript doesn't print properly here, you may eventually have to submit a hardcopy, so please budget enough time for that.) For hardcopy submissions, please submit FIVE copies of the paper. Please send submissions to: Inderjeet Mani The MITRE Corporation, W640 1820 Dolley Madison Blvd McLean, VA 22102-3481, USA Phone: 1-703-883-6149 Fax: 1-703-883-1279 Email: imani@mitre.org ********** III.C.1. Fr: Darren C Du Vall Re: Wanted: Several East Coast Librarians to present responses to Internet Search-Engine Vendors' presentations at the National Online Meeting 1997 MESSAGE FROM: Marth E. Williams, Program Chair, National Online Meeting 1997 University of Illinois Coordinated Science Laboratory 1308 West Main Urbana, IL 61801 The National Online Meeting (NOM) will be held in New York City on May 13-15, 1997. I am program chair for the meeting and have set up 4 sessions on Search Engines. Representatives of Hot Bot, AltaVista, Excite and Lycos will talk about the design and implementation considerations associated with their search engines. How is matching of query to file accomplished?=20 How are sites selected and indexed? How many sites are included? How frequently are they updated? What general trends are anticipated and how will the anticipations be met? What improvements and new function / features are planned? I would like to identify several people in the New York area who would be willing to give Users responses. One respondent would speak about one search engine. Users of Hot Bot, AltaVista, Excite and Lycos will discuss the experiences in searching.=20 They will talk about ease of use, useful features, pros, cons, strengths and weaknesses. What types of searches are more suited to the Web vs. traditional online systems. Search Engine representatives will present on Tuesday, May 13th at the times given below : (1) HotBot, presented by Erik Brewer, Chief Technology Officer, Inktomi (11:15 -12:15); (2) Lycos, presented by Mark Simmer, Vice President of Online Publishing, Lycos Inc. (2:00-2:45); (3) AltaVista, presented by Bob Lehmenkuler, AltaVista Search Product Marketing Manager, AltaVista (3:00-3:45); and=20 (4) Excite, presented by Graham Spencer, Chief Technology Officer and Founder, Excite (4:00-5:00). Responses to HotBot and Lycos are scheduled for Wednesday, May 14th 10:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. and AltaVista and Excite from 11:30 a.m. to 12:15 p.m. If you would like to give a presentation from the user's point of view to one of the search engines, please let me know which one(s) you would be willing to handle. Please email me at m-will13@uiuc.edu with a copy to my research assistant, Darren Du Vall at d-duvall@uiuc.edu . I will be out of town next week, so if you have questions, please contact Darren via email or phone: 217/333-8462 [W] and 398-0091 [H]. ********************************************************** IRLIST Digest is distributed from the University of California, Division of Library Automation, 300 Lakeside Drive, Oakland, CA. 94612-3550. 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