IRLIST Digest ISSN 1064-6965 May 25, 1998 Volume XV, Number 21 Issue 407 ****************************************************************** II. JOBS 1. Istituto Dalle Molle di Studi sull'Intelligenza Artificiale, Switzerland: Research Associate, Collective/Cooperative Automomous Robotics 2. U. Wolverhampton, U K: Research Fellow: Language Engineering III. NOTICES A. Publications 1. TREC Data Available 2. IP&M: Special Topic Issue 3. B. Meetings 1. CaNew'98: Casual Networks: From Inference to Data Mining 2. SIGIR'98 3. IRAL 98 4. Machine Translation: Special Issue on Spoken Language Translation 5. 2nd ELSNET Bullet Course: TERMINOLOGY 6. Fall '98 School of Information Retrieval ****************************************************************** II. JOBS II.1. =46r: Luca Gambardella Re: Istituto Dalle Molle di Studi sull'Intelligenza Artificiale, Switzerland: Research Associate, Collective/Cooperative Automomous Robotics RESEARCH ASSOCIATE Collective/Cooperative Autonomous Robotics IDSIA Istituto Dalle Molle di Studi sull'Intelligenza Artificiale Lugano, Switzerland http://www.idsia.ch/luca/opening_coll_rob.htm =46or a period of 1 year, starting summer 1998, with possible extensions. Candidates for this position need to have a PhD in Mobile Robotics and experience with learning and/or adaptation paradigms or a PhD in Computer Science and basic knowledge of mobile robotics. Experience with real robot is appreciated. IDSIA's research focuses on artificial neural nets, reinforcement learning, combinatorial optimization, evolutionary computation. More precisely, IDSIA is involved with LAMI EPFL (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology of Lausanne) in a project supported by Swiss National Science Foundation concerning with "Methodology for Collective Robot Design". The goal is to study how to combine reactive behaviour with learning or adaptation capabilities in order to obtain complex, robust and perhaps emergent group behaviors with a team of simple robots. SALARY: Commensurate with experience - There is travel funding in case of papers accepted at important conferences. DEADLINE: June 15th 1998 Applications (including curriculum vitae, names and addresses of at least three references, and a list of publications) should be sent to the following address, where also further information can be obtained: Luca Maria Gambardella IDSIA C.so Elvezia 36 6900 Lugano Switzerland Phone : +41 91-911 98 38 =46ax : +41 91-911 98 39 email: luca@idsia.ch http://www.idsia.ch/luca ********** II.2. =46r: Ruslan Mitkov Re: U. Wolverhampton, U K: Research Fellow: Language Engineering SELECT Project - Research Fellow in Language Engineering (Fixed Term, 12 months) 14648 - 19267 UK pounds per annum (pro rata) depending on age, qualifications and experience. The School of Languages and European Studies at the University of Wolverhampton wishes to appoint a Research Fellow to work on the EU =46ramework IV Language Engineering Project SELECT -- a high-profile international Telematics project involving Klett in Germany, Giunti in Italy and the University of Poitiers in France. The Research Fellow's responsibilities will focus on the development of the "Language Learner's Workbench" (LLW). The aim of the LLW is to develop an electronic resource-based tool which will assist business users to learn and use foreign languages. The tool will involve working with material in French, English and Portuguese. It will also give the user access to Web-based and intranet-based language learning material. The LLW will be developed in collaboration with IAI, Saarbruecken and OFAI, Vienna. For more information on the LLW and SELECT, visit http://www/wlv.ac.uk/sles/select We are looking for researchers with proven experience in NLP and Corpus Linguistics and with programming skills. Candidates should preferably have a knowledge of one of the target foreign languages and fluency in English. The successful candidate may apply to be registered for a higher degree on a part-time basis. =46or further information about the project, please contact Prof. Stephen Hagen (s.g.hagen@wlv.ac.uk) and for specific information about the Language Learner's Workbench -- Prof. Ruslan Mitkov (R.Mitkov@wlv.ac.uk) =46ormal applications must be made to: The Personnel University of Wolverhampton Wolverhampton WV1 1SB and must include a completed application form (to be requested a per@wlv.ac.uk; please quote reference number A1628), a full CV and reference to one or two relevant publications. Please note the closing date for applications for this post is 12 June 1998. ****************************************************************** III. NOTICES III.A.1. =46r: Ellen Voorhees Re: TREC Data Available The Text REtrieval Conference (TREC) series has been creating a set of large IR test collections. NIST is pleased to announce that the intellectual property issues that prevented the general release of the documents used in the most recent collections have been resolved. As a result, the disks of documents known as TREC disk 4 and TREC disk 5 are now available through the Standard Reference Data group at NIST. See the Standard Reference Data Products catalog at http://www.nist.gov/srd/special.htm for ordering information. There is a fee of $200 per disk to cover the distribution costs. Some of the data on the disks is copyrighted by the data providers. The data providers have granted permission to use the documents for research purposes only. Organizations wishing to obtain the disks will be required to sign a data use permission form that describes the permissible uses of the data before a disk will be shipped. The disks contain only the documents. Topics (queries) and relevance judgments are available separately from the TREC web site http://trec.nist.gov/data.html ********** III.A.2. =46r: Amanda Spink Re: IP&M: Special Topic Issue CALL FOR PAPERS Special topic issue of Information Processing and Management: Web Research and Information Retrieval A special topic issue of Information Processing and Management is scheduled to appear in 1999 on the topic of Web Research and Information Retrieval. Dr. Amanda Spink of the University of North Texas and Dr. Jian Qin of the University of Southern Mississippi will be the guest editors. This special topic issue provides a forum for original research that is targeted to theories and applications in information organization and retrieval in the Web environment. Papers in this area are being solicited. Specific topics of interest include, but are not limted to, the following: 1. Content acquisition and processing in Web-based digital libraries 2. Information retrieval research and its implications on methods and tools for information organization and retrieval on the Web, including search engines 3. Information retrieval and knowledge discovery in the transition from conventional systems such as DIALOG and Lexis/Nexis to Web-based systems 4. Interaction between users and Web-based information and search engines, and design of interfaces 5. Evaluative and comparative study of conventional and Web-based information organization and retrieval systems Information about IP&M as well as Instructions to Contributors is available on the WWW server: http://www/elsevier.nl/locate/infoproman/ All manuscripts will be reviewed by a select panel of referees. Interested authors should submit four copies (hard-copy only) of their article by 1 November 1998 to: Dr. Amanda Spink School of Library and Information Sciences University of North Texas P.O. Box 311068 Denton Texas 76203 Phone: 940-565-2187 =46ax: 940-565-3101 Email: spink@lis.admin.unt.edu Dr. Jian Qin School of Library and Information Science University of Southern Mississippi Box 5146 Hattiesburg, MS 39406-5146 Phone: 601-266-4232 =46ax: 601-266-5774 Email: jqin@ocean.otr.usm.edu ********** III.B.1. =46r: Joao Balsa da Silva Re: CaNew'98: Casual Networks: From Inference to Data Mining Call for Workshop Submissions/Participation CaNew'98: Causal Networks: From Inference to Data Mining 3 October, 1998 A workshop held in conjunction with the sixth biennial Iberoamerican Conference on Artificial Intelligence IBERAMIA'98 Universidade Nova de Lisboa =46aculdade de Ci=EAncias Sociais e HumanasOctober 5-9, 1998, Lisbon, Portug= al. kindly supported by ACIA Workshop Information * What the Workshop is About * Instructions for Participants * Instruction for Submissions * Workshop Committee * Important Dates * Address for Submisssions and Further Information WHAT THE WORKSHOP IS ABOUT: Causality has a natural representation in the form of Directed Acyclic Graphs. Causal associations have been represented in the framework of Bayesian Networks and Possibilistic Causal Networks and also by means of special logics. There is a growing interest both in defining more precisely the causal semantics equivalences of the existing representations as well as in developing efficient methods for reasoning and learning that could be used in practical applications. The workshop will focus on several topics on this area, basically in properties of causal networks related to inference and learning methods. Participants are encouraged to submit descriptions of work in progress specially in the areas of learning and practical application but not limited to these ones. Topics: * Properties and expressiveness of causal networks o Conditional Independency relationships in causal networks o Relation to other causal formalizations + Causal theories + Default Logics o Expression in other formalisms * Learning methods o Identifying Causal Parameters o Dependence-based methods o Information-based methods o Hybrid methods o Comparative studies * Practical applications o Scaling up to large volumes of data o Data Mining o Applications to industry and services INSTRUCTIONS FOR PARTICIPANTS: All workshop participants must register both for the main IBERAMIA'98 conference and the workshop itself. We expect the number of participants to be around 20, and attendance will not be limited to active participants. INSTRUCTIONS FOR SUBMISSIONS: Interested authors may submit papers (max. 12 pages) addressing issues that are clearly relevant to the workshop theme, including an additional brief (max. 1 page) description of their ongoing research projects as well as applications in the area. Also, authors planning to submit a contribution must contact as soon as possible to the Workshop Organizing Committee by e-mail. A provisional title must be provided. Authors should send a copy of their original manuscript to Workshop Organizing Committee by June 10, 1998. The length of each manuscript including figures should be limited to 12 pages typed double-spaced using font size 12. Each manuscript should start with an abstract of no more than 150 words and should include a list of five keywords. Submissions will be peer reviewed by at least two referees. Following the recommendations by the reviewers, authors of accepted papers will prepare a presentation. Presentations will be grouped into sections to foster focused discussions. The workshop schedule will provide time for specific discussions directly after each presentation as well as for extended more general exchange of ideas between presentations and sessions. Some of the attendees will be asked to serve as session commentators who summarize and critically reflect on the presentations of a session. In addition to the camera ready paper for the Workshop Notes that will be distributed at the workshop, authors must prepare electronic versions of their papers to be made available prior to the workshop. The Workshop Proceedings will be published as a special issue of a relevant publication after the conference. In this case, authors will have the opportunity to revise and extend their contributions. IMPORTANT DATES: * June 10, 1998 Deadline for submission of papers * July 8, 1998 Authors notification of acceptance/rejection * July 15, 1998 Publication of final workshop program * September 8, 1998 Final revised camera-ready papers * October 3, 1998 Workshop at IBERAMIA 98 ADDRESS FOR SUBMISSIONS AND FURTHER INFORMATION: Proposals should be submitted via surface mail or electronically (in UNIX compatible postscript, html, or RTF) to Ulises Cort=E9s, at following address: Ulises Cort=E9s Dept. of Software Technical University of Catalonia Campus Nord-Edifici C5 C. Jordi Girona 1-3 08034 Barcelona Catalonia, Spain Tel.: + 34 3 401 70 16 =46ax: + 34 3 401 70 14 e-mail: ia@lsi.upc.es =46urther information on IBERAMIA'98 is available at the IBERAMIA98 Homepage= : http://www-ssdi.di.fct.unl.pt/~iberamia/ The URL of this Workshop Homepage will be: http://www.lsi.upc.es/~sanguesa/canew.html There exists a text and PostScript of this call. ********** III.B.2. =46r: Michael Fuller Re: SIGIR'98 Call For Attendance: SIGIR'98 Registrations Now Open Registrations for SIGIR'98, the 21st ACM-SIGIR International Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, are now open. SIGIR'98 will be held in Melbourne, Australia, from 24-28 August 1998. SIGIR is the premier international conference in Information Retrieval. Now in its 21st year, SIGIR showcases new research and technology in areas such as text retrieval, multimedia database systems, Web technology, and user interfaces, and is attended by representatives of both industry and academia. The conference schedule includes a keynote address by Steve Kirsch, CEO of Web search company Infoseek; a full program of research paper presentations; a poster session; and demonstration of research and commercial information retrieval software systems. The conference is preceded by a day of tutorials, and concludes with a day of workshops. A list of the tutorials and workshops appears below. =46or details, and to register for the conference, see the web site at http://www.cs.mu.oz.au/sigir98/ or send email to sigir98@cs.mu.oz.au. Alistair Moffat, University of Melbourne Justin Zobel, RMIT Conference Chairs. TUTORIALS (Monday 24 August): * Multimedia Information Retrieval. Presenter: Norbert Fuhr (University of Dortmund) * Models in Information Retrieval. Presenter: Fredric C. Gey (University of California, Berkeley) * Metadata on the Internet. Presenter: Renato Iannella (DSTC, Australia) * Evaluation of Information Retrieval Systems. Presenter: William R. Hersch (Oregon Health Sciences University) * Machine Learning for Information Retrieval. Presenter: David D. Lewis (AT&T Labs) * Content-Based Image Retrieval. Presenters: R. Manmatha and S. Ravela (University of Massachusetts) * Practical Digital Libraries. Presenters: Ian H. Witten and Rodger J. McNab (University of Waikato) WORKSHOPS (Friday 28 August): * Hypertext Information Retrieval for the Web. Alan Smeaton (Dublin City University) * Information Retrieval: Theory into Practice. Chairs: Justin Zobel (RMIT) and David Hawking (Australian National University) * Multimedia Indexing and Retrieval. Chairs: Rohini K. Srihari, Zhongfei Zhang (CEDAR, State University of New York), R. Manmatha, and S. Ravela (University of Massachusetts) * Query Input and User Expectations. Chairs: B. Schmidt-Wesche (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center) and G. Golovchinsky (FX Palo Alto Laboratory) ********** III.B.3. =46r: K. Rajaraman Re: IRAL 98 =46inal Call for Papers (submission dateline extension) The 3rd International Workshop on Information Retrieval with Asian Languages - IRAL'98 SUBMISSION DATELINE EXTENSION 15-16 October, 1998 Organized by, and to be held at: Kent Ridge Digital Labs (KRDL) Singapore URL: http://sdmc.krdl.org.sg/IRAL98 (Note: KRDL is a new Research Institute incorporating the former Kent Ridge Digital Labs and the Information Technology Institute) ABOUT THE WORKSHOP: The purpose of the IRAL workshop is to bring together researchers and developers who are interested in exchanging new ideas and presenting results in the field of information retrieval (IR), with an emphasis on the issues related to Asian languages and multilingual applications. The first International Workshop was held with the name "Information Retrieval with Oriental Languages" in 1996, in Taejon, Korea, and the second, renamed as "Information Retrieval with Asian Languages" to increase the scope, was held in Tsukuba City in Japan in 1997. INSTRUCTIONS FOR CONTRIBUITORS: Papers (4 hardcopies) should be submitted in English only to the Program Chair of the 3rd International Workshop as follows: Dr. Mun-Kew Leong (IRAL'98 submission) Kent Ridge Digital Labs 21 Heng Mui Keng Terrace Singapore 119613 Email: mkleong@krdl.org.sg Electronic submissions WILL NOT be supported because of the difficulty of printing different language fonts. Papers should be at most 5000 words in length, and should be double-spaced. The first page must contain the title of the paper and an abstract of no more than 100 words, and no indication about the author(s) and affliation(s). In addition, authors must attach a separate page with the title, the author name(s) and respective affiliations, plus complete contact information (mailing address, telephone, fax, email) for the author to whom correspondence should be sent. Email will be the default means of communication. IMPORTANT DATES (DATELINES HAVE BEEN EXTENDED, and are reflected below) 29 May 1998: The NEW deadline for receipt of papers (4 hardcopies) 27 Jul 1998: Notification of result to authors (by email) 21 Aug 1998: Final manuscript due in camera ready format LOCATION OF THE WORKSHOP: Kent Ridge Digital Labs 21 Heng Mui Keng Terrace Singapore 119613 Please see web site: http://sdmc.iss.nus.sg/IRAL98 for details. Note that KRDL was formerly the Kent Ridge Digital Labs (ISS) and is located within the National University of Singapore. ********** III.B.4. =46r: Steven Krauwer Re: Machine Translation: Special Issue on Spoken Language Translation REMINDER -- DEADLINE IS JULY 1 1998 CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS MACHINE TRANSLATION SPECIAL ISSUE ON SPOKEN LANGUAGE TRANSLATION Guest editor: Steven Krauwer (Utrecht University) Guest editorial board: Doug Arnold (University of Essex) Pascale Fung (HKUST, Hong Kong) Walter Kasper (DFKI, Saarbrucken) Alon Lavie (CMU, Pittsburgh) Lori Levin (CMU, Pittsburgh) Hermann Ney (RWTH, Aachen) Harold Somers (UMIST, Manchester) Some 15 years ago, when Machine Translation had become fashionable again in Europe, few people would be prepared to consider seriously embarking upon spoken language translation research. After all, where both machine translation of written text, and speech understanding and production (despite important achievements) were still quite far from showing robustness in domain-independent applications, it seemed clear that putting three not even halfway understood technologies together would be premature, and bound to fail. Since then, the world has changed. Many researchers, both in academia and in industry, have taken up the challenge to build systems capable of translating spoken language. Does that mean that most of the problems involved in speech-to-text, text-to-text translation, and text-to-speech have been solved? The answer is no: although we have made a tremendous progress, both from a scientific and from a technological point of view, many of the fundamental problems in MT and in speech understanding remain unsolved. Yet a certain degree of optimism is justified here. First of all, it is clear that on the whole general expectations of what MT will do are changing. Where in the past the ultimate goal of MT seemed to be to provide a perfect, but cheaper and faster alternative to the human translator, there is now a clear shift from the ideal of fully automated high quality translation of unrestricted texts to the more practical problem of overcoming the language barriers we encounter in various situations. This shift of focus allows us to partition the problem we address into a series of smaller ones, the solution to which may be within our reach. This applies both to spoken and written language translation. If we look at spoken communication between human beings with different native languages, very often the main success criterion for this communication is not whether or not the individual utterances produced by the participants have been expressed or understood without errors (which will rarely be the case), but rather whether the intended goal of the communication has been attained (hotel room reservation, airline information, etc). This observation is extremely important when we try to set our goals for spoken translation systems. Once we have realized that communication takes place in a specific context, with a specific goal, and have accepted that sentence-by-sentence linguistically correct translation is not a necessary condition for successful multilingual communication, we can start exploiting the full potential of spoken dialogues in human-human and human-machine interaction: the basic structure of dialogues, the ways to control dialogue flow, the possibility for repair. A workshop dedicated to spoken language translation, organized in conjunction with EACL/ACL 1997 in Madrid, showed that there was a keen interest in the topic, and that many acedemic and industrial research teams have interesting results to report. Therefore we feel that the time has come to dedicate a special issue of the journal Machine Translation to this topic, and we are inviting high-quality, previously unpublished research papers addressing problems in the whole field of spoken language translation. (Note: authors who had papers accepted for the Madrid workshop are especially encouraged to submit papers which have developed out of their workshop contributions, though they should note that we do not intend simply to reprint the workshop papers in their original form.) We are especially interested in papers addressing problems or solutions that are typical for spoken language translation (as opposed to written language translation). =46ORMAT FOR SUBMISSION: Please consult the journal's web pages: home page: http://kapis.www.wkap.nl/journalhome.htm/0922-6567 Instructions for Authors: http://kapis.www.wkap.nl/kaphtml.htm/IFA0922-6567 LaTeX style files: http://kapis.www.wkap.nl/jrnlstyle.htm/0922-6567 Articles should be submitted DIRECTLY TO THE PUBLISHERS, either by e-mail to ELLEN.KLINK@wkap.nl, with the subject header "Submission to COAT Speech special issue", or in hard-copy to either of the following addresses: Machine Translation Editorial Office, Kluwer Academic Publishers P.O. Box 990 3300 AZ Dordrecht The Netherlands or Machine Translation Editorial Office Kluwer Academic Publishers P.O. Box 230 Accord, MA 02018-023 U.S.A. The journal is typeset using LaTeX, so the preferred medium for submission of articles in electronic format is LaTeX source (using the Kluwer style file) or gzipped postscript. If submitting hard-copy, four copies of the paper are required. The length of the papers should be approximately 10-20 pages if using the Kluwer style file (around 20k words). Authors are requested to send a copy of an Abstract of not more than 200 words to the guest editor Steven.Krauwer@let.ruu.nl or in hard-copy to Steven Krauwer Utrecht Institute of Linguistics OTS Trans 10, 3512 JK Utrecht The Netherlands SUBMISSION DEADLINE: Submissions and abstracts should be received by July 1 1998. Papers will be reviewed by at least three members of the editorial board. We are aiming for publication as issue 3 or 4 of volume 13 (Autumn or Winter, 1998). ********** III.B.5. =46r: Jan Fr=F8nsdal Re: 2nd ELSNET Bullet Course: TERMINOLOGY HUMANITIES INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES An Interdisciplinary Research Programme BULLET COURSE IN TERMINOLOGY Bergen, Norway, Autumn 1998 PROGRAMME OUTLINE AND CALL FOR PREREGISTRATION The Humanities Information Technology Research Programme, University of Bergen, is pleased to announce the following bullet course: "The role of computer-based terminology management systems in translational information management." The course is organized in cooperation with the ELSNET task group on training and mobility (www.elsnet.org). A sufficient number of preregistered participants is a prerequisite for organizing the course (see below). 1. GENERAL COURSE DESCRIPTION: It is a well known fact that translation of expert documentation is a time-consuming and expensive activity. In technical writing it is also increasingly recognized that easy access to well-structured terminologies in the relevant fields will reduce the cost of this activity considerably.Electronic management of terminology spans a range of interdependent phases, such as organizing documentation and capturing data from running text, storing, editing, maintaining and updating data using various data structures. It also includes electronic publication. All these things can be carried out electronically by means of a terminology management workbench.In this "bullet course" the role of terminology management systems in the translation process of professional texts will be focussed. The primary goal of the course is to describe and demonstrate both the design and user possibilities of terminology management systems. Each course lecture will adopt the following approach: - State-of-the-art of current methodologies and computer-based tools (systems & software) - Merits and shortcomings of current methodologies and computer-based tools (systems & software) - Prospects for the (near) future These questions will be dealt with within a principled framework of current theory of terminology, its goals and basic concepts. 2. TARGET GROUPS, GOALS AND RELEVANCE: This course is relevant to documentalists, information managers, technical writers, translation managers and librarians in public administration and in private companies. The participants should gain a better platform for improving their knowledge concerning - identifying and specifying terminology-related problems within their own company or field of activity - assessing available technology and software for improving their terminological practice 3. CONTENT: I Introductory lectures: *Terminology and terminology management: fundamentals and state-of-the art -Terminology and classification - Indexing and thesauri. * Termbanks: design and maintenance - Terminology in machine translation - (Semi-)automatic translation: overview - Translation memory systems. II IN-DEPTH LECTURES: *The use of text encoding for indexing and terminological purposes - Electronic publishing and terminology - Corpus methodology and term extraction in termbank design - Integrating termbanks into terminology management systems - Standardization and information quality requirements - standardizing objects - standardizing terms - standardizing texts - Information and terminology exchange (e.g. MARTIF and/or equivalent formats) - Web resources in terminology management - the European infrastructure - Nordterm and Nordterm-Net - Integrating text and terminology in documentation management - Summing up: The interaction of different competences in terminology: - the interdisciplinarity problem - linguistic vs. expert knowledge - linguistic vs. IT knowledge CONFERENCE INFORMATION: Dates: September 7- 9 1998 (NB: May be subject to change). Price: 800 ECU - lectures, course material and accomodation included. (Travel expenses not included.) Course venue: Hotel Terminus, City centre, Bergen. Lecturers: International experts in the field of terminology management. Preregistration deadline: June 2, 1998. The course will be arranged on the condition of 15 registered participants within June 2, 1998. We also welcome registrations after that date, within a maximum number of 30. No fee will be charged until the course has been confirmed by the organizers. INFORMATION AND PREREGISTRATION: Humanities Information Technology Research Programme The HIT Centre Eldbj=F8rg Gunnarson / Johan Myking Allegaten 27 N-5007 Bergen NORWAY Tel. +47 5558 2970 =46ax. +47 5558 9785 E-mail: adm@hit.uib.no =46or updated information, see http://www.hit.uib.no/konferanser/ebct-98.html ********** III.B.6. =46r: Marc Rittberger Re: Fall '98 School of Information Retrieval =46all 98 School Information Retrieval Today, effective search for information gains more and more importance. This is why the special interest group 'Information Retrieval' of the German Computer Society GI (Gesellschaft fuer Informatik) holds the first 'Fall 98 School Information Retrieval' in Schwerte/Germany from 27th September to 2nd October 98. The invitation goes to all those interested, be they in industry or science -- the users of search machines and databases as well as developers of information systems. The fall school aims at communicating knowledge of specific and successful searching for information. Topics will be search methods within the WWW, patent information retrieval, searching in multilingual or multimedia data or intelligent and linguistic retrieval as well as user interfaces and methods for evaluation. =46urther information and details on the registration you will find at http://www.inf-wiss.uni-konstanz.de/IR/ . Registration deadline: 25th July 1998 Chairwoman: Christa Womser-Hacker Contact: Marc Rittberger Marc Rittberger Tel.~49-7531/883595, Fax.~49-7531-882048 email: ir@inf-wiss.uni-konstanz.de ****************************************************************** 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: nancy.gusack@ucop.edu Editorial Staff: Nancy Gusack nancy.gusack@ucop.edu Cliff Lynch (emeritus) cliff@cni.org The IRLIST Archives is set up for anonymous FTP. Using anonymous =46TP via the host ftp.cdl.ucop.edu, the files will be found in the directory /data/ftp/pub/irl, stored in subdirectories by year (e.g., data/ftp/pub/irl/1993). Search or browse archived IR-L Digest issues on the Web at: http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/idom/irlist/ These files are not to be sold or used for commercial purposes. Contact Nancy Gusack for more information on IRLIST. 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