IRLIST Digest ISSN 1064-6965 February 22, 1999 Volume XVI, Number 7 Issue 443 ****************************************************************** II. JOBS 1. Catholic U.: Dean, SLIS -- Deadline Approaching for Applications III. NOTICES A. Publications 1. Readings in Information Visualization: Using Vision to Think 2. [WASHINGTON-UPDATE] EDUCAUSE Washington Update 2-19-99 B. Meetings 1. Reminder: CIA-99 Workshop 2. HICSS: Minitrack: "Genre in Digital Documents" 3. 2nd CFP: IEEE Visualization 1999 4. Scholarly Communications Conference 5. 4th International Conference on Grey Literature IV. PROJECTS D. Research 1. Ergo's Parsing Contest ****************************************************************** II. JOBS II.1. Fr: Deborah Barreau Re: Catholic U.: Dean, SLIS -- Deadline Approaching for Applications This is a reminder for those who may be interested that we will begin reviewing applications soon. THE CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA Dean Search School of Library and Information Science The Catholic University of America is seeking a dean for its School of Library and Information Science. This ALA-accredited School enrolls 300 full-time and part-time students on the Washington campus, at the Library of Congress, and at three sites in Virginia. It offers a graduate program that includes a master's degree and a post- master's certificate in library and information science. It also offers joint degrees with law, musicology, history, English, biology, Greek and Latin, and religious studies. The University seeks applicants with a vision for library and information science education and the leadership to guide the program into the 21st century. Candidates are required to hold a doctoral degree in library and information science or a closely related field. It is preferred that candidates also hold a master's degree in library and information science. Applicants should have demonstrated scholarly achievement sufficient for a senior-level appointment and a broad knowledge of library and information science. Applicants should also possess administrative experience or potential. A successful record of grantsmanship is desirable. The Catholic University of America was founded in the name of the Catholic Church as a national university and center of research and scholarship. Regardless of their religious affiliation, all faculty are expected to respect and support the University's mission. Nominations and applications are invited. Applicants should submit a letter of intent, full vitae, and names of three references to Dr. Benedict T. DeCicco, Chair, Search Committee, Office of the Vice Provost for Graduate Studies, The Catholic University of America, Washington, D.C. 20064. Electronic applications should be sent to decicco@cua.edu. Please submit applications by Feb. 28, 1999. Information on the School and the University can be found at http://www.acad.cua.edu/lsc/welcome.htm and http://www.cua.edu/. The Catholic University of America is an Equal Opportunity Employer. ****************************************************************** III. NOTICES III.A.1. Fr: Ben Shneiderman Re: Readings in Information Visualization: Using Vision to Think Readings In Information Visualization: Using Vision to Think. Stuart K. Card, Jock D. Mackinlay, and Ben Shneiderman. Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, San Francisco, January 1999. 686 pages, ISBN 1-55860-533-9. http://www.mkp.com/books_catalog/1-55860-533-9.asp This groundbreaking book defines the emerging field of information visualization and offers the first-ever collection of 43 classic papers of the discipline, with introductions and analytical discussions of each topic and paper. The authors' intention is to present papers that focus on the use of visualization to discover relationships, using interactive graphics to amplify thought. This book is intended for research professionals in academia and industry; new graduate students and professors who want to begin work in this burgeoning field; professionals involved in financial data analysis, statistics, and information design; scientific data managers; and professionals involved in medical, bioinformatics, and other areas. Features Full-color reproduction throughout Author power team-an exciting and timely collaboration among the field's pioneering and most respected names The only book on information visualization with the depth necessary for use as a text or as a reference for the information professional Text includes the classic source papers as well as a collection of cutting-edge work About the Authors Stuart K. Card is a Xerox Research Fellow and manager of the User Interface Research Group at Xerox PARC. He received his A.B. in physics from Oberlin College in 1966 and his Ph.D. in psychology from Carnegie- Mellon University in 1978, where he pursued an interdisciplinary program in psychology, artificial intelligence, and computer science. Jock D. Mackinlay is a member of the User Interface Research Group at Xerox PARC, where he has been developing 3D user interfaces for information access for the last eight years. He received a Ph.D. in computer science from Stanford University and is a member of the editorial board of ACM Transactions on Computer Human Interaction. Ben Shneiderman is a professor in the Department of Computer Science, head of the Human-Computer Interaction Laboratory, and member of the Institute for Systems Research at the University of Maryland, College Park. He is the author and coauthor of many books, technical papers, and textbooks. ********** III.A.2. Fr: EDUCAUSE Re: [WASHINGTON-UPDATE] EDUCAUSE Washington Update 2-19-99 EDUCAUSE: Transforming Education Through Information Technologies http://www.educause.edu/ EDUCAUSE WASHINGTON UPDATE --- FEBRUARY 19, 1999 IN THIS ISSUE: DNS FUND THREATENED AGAIN NEW CONGRESSMAN LEADS FRESH ATTACK AGAINST E-RATE PITAC COMMITTEE PREPARES TO ISSUE FINAL REPORT >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Written from EDUCAUSE'S Washington office, "The EDUCAUSE Washington Update" is a free service of EDUCAUSE, an international nonprofit association dedicated to transforming higher education through information technologies. Anyone may subscribe to the Update by sending e-mail to listserv@listserv.educause.edu with "subscribe update firstname lastname" in the body of the message. To unsubscribe, send a "signoff update" command to the same address. If you would like more information about the Update or would like to offer comments or suggestions, please contact Garret Sern at gsern@educause.edu. ********** III.B.1. Fr: Matthias Klusch Re: Reminder: CIA-99 Workshop 3rd International Workshop on COOPERATIVE INFORMATION AGENTS CIA-99 July 31 - August 2, 1999 Uppsala, Sweden. Workshop home page for information on CIA-99: http://www.informatik.tu-chemnitz.de/~klusch/cia99.html DEADLINE for PAPER SUBMISSION: March 5, 1999 Dr. Matthias Klusch Computer Science Department Technical University of Chemnitz Strasse der Nationen 62, 09107 Chemnitz, Germany Phone: +49-371-531-1511 Fax: +49-371-531-1530 eMail: klusch@informatik.tu-chemnitz.de WWW: http://www.informatik.tu-chemnitz.de/~klusch/ ********** III.B.2. Fr: Mike Shepherd Re: HICSS: Minitrack: "Genre in Digital Documents" Call for Papers for the Minitrack "GENRE IN DIGITAL DOCUMENTS" Part of the Digital Documents Track of the Thirty-Third Annual Hawai'i International Conference on Systems Sciences (HICSS) Maui, HI - January 4 - 7, 2000 We invite papers for a minitrack on "Genre in Digital Documents" as part of the Digital Documents track at the Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS). It is becoming increasingly clear that the successful use of digital media requires new or transformed genres of digital communication. By genres we mean not just particular technologies or modes of communication or presentation (e.g., hypertext, email, the Web, and so on), but complex communicative forms anchored in specific institutions and practices -- the digital analogues of print forms like the newspaper, the annual report, the how-to manual, or the scholarly journal. This includes not just genres replicated from print form, but new and emergent genres that may not have existed before. Topics the minitrack will address include, but are not restricted to, * Genres in non-text digital documents * Issues in the transformation of print genres to digital form * Genres in digital search and classification * Genre theory and its application to digital documents * Investigations of genre in use * Analyses of particular document genres * Designing in support of genre * Evolution of genres of digital documents * Emergent genres * Genres for Electronic Commerce We invite two kinds of submissions: "position papers" that take on the broad questions of the role of genre in our understanding of digital documents, and case studies, designs, or reports that shed light on particular aspects of digital genres. Please submit your paper to: Michael Shepherd Livia Polanyi Faculty of Computer Science FX Palo Alto Laboratories Dalhousie University 3400 Hillview Ave Bldg 4 P.O. Box 1000 Palo Alto, CA 94304 Halifax, Nova Scotia polanyi@pal.xerox.com Canada B3J 2X4 fax: 650-813-7081 shepherd@cs.dal.ca fax: 902-492-1517 Deadlines: April 1, 1999: 300-word abstract submitted to track chairs or minitrack chairs for guidance and indication of appropriate content. June 1, 1999: Full papers submitted to the appropriate minitrack chair. Aug. 31, 1999: Notification of accepted papers mailed to authors. Oct. 1, 1999: Accepted manuscripts, camera-ready, sent to minitrack chair; author(s) must register by this time. Nov. 1, 1999: All other registrations must be received. Registrations received after this deadline may not be accepted due to space limitations. HICSS-33 consists of eight tracks: Collaboration Systems and Technology Track Digital Documents Track Emerging Technologies Track Information Technology in Health Care Track Internet and the Digital Economy Modeling Technologies and Intelligent Systems Organizational Systems and Technology Track Software Technology Track For more information about these tracks and a list of minitracks each consist of, please check the HICSS web page for full listing of the minitracks: http://www.hicss.hawaii.edu/ Or contact the Track Administrator, Eileen Dennis, at edennis@arches.uga.edu Michael Shepherd Faculty of Computer Science Dalhousie University P.O. Box 1000 Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada B3J 2X4 Phone: (902)-494-3686, Fax: (902)-492-1517 ********** III.B.3. Fr: Dick Bartz Re: 2nd CFP: IEEE Visualization 1999 Second C A L L F O R P A R T I C I P A T I O N Vis99 IEEE Visualization 1999 Celebrating Ten Years Call for Participation October 24 - October 29, 1999 San Francisco Airport Hyatt San Francisco, California THE INSTITUTE OF ELECTRICAL & ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS, INC. IEEE COMPUTER SOCIETY Sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Visualization and Graphics In Cooperation with ACM/SIGGRAPH VISUALIZATION is a vital research and applications frontier shared by a variety of science, medical, engineering, business, and entertainment fields. The tenth IEEE Visualization conference focuses on interdisciplinary methods. Collaboration among developers and users of visualization methods across all of science, engineering, medicine, and commerce is addressed at Visualization '99. Sunday through Tuesday of Conference Week will include tutorials, symposia, and mini-workshops. Papers, panels, case studies, and late-breaking hot topics will be presented Wednesday through Friday. We invite you to participate in IEEE Visualization '99 by submitting your original research through papers, panels, case studies, late breaking hot topics, and demonstrations. Share your perspectives through panels and workshops, or your experience through tutorials. Please select the forum appropriate to your submission, where it will be considered by your peers for presentation. Particular focuses on parallel techniques in visualization and information visualization are addressed in special two-day symposia. For further information on the conference or symposia contact: Steve Bryson, Conference Co-Chair, NASA Ames Research Center - +1-650-604-4524 - Fax: +1-650-604-3957 - bryson@nas.nasa.gov Theresa-Marie Rhyne, Conference Co-Chair, Lockheed Martin/US EPA Scientific Visualization Center - +1-919-541-0207 - Fax: +1-919-541-0056 - trhyne@vislab.epa.gov See the conference web page for complete up-to-date information and submission details at http://www.erc.msstate.edu/vis99 The three conference tracks cover: Visualization Algorithms: Volume Rendering, Flow Visualization, Isosurfaces, Compression, Vector and Tensor Visualization, Sonification, etc. Visualization Techniques: Information Visualization, Databases, Human Perception, Human Factors, Multi-Variate Visualization, Virtual Reality, etc. Visualization Applications: Archaeology, Astrophysics, Aerospace, Automotive, Biomedicine, Chemistry, Education, Electronics, Environment, Finance, Mathematics, Mechanics, Molecular Biology, Physics, Virtual Reality, WWW, Java, VRML, HTML, AVS, Data Explorer, Iris Explorer, Khoros, etc. IMPORTANT DATES March 31: Conference papers, Panels, Case Studies, Tutorials, Mini-Workshops, BOF proposals, InfoVis '99 papers, and PVG '99 papers due May 30: Conference papers, Panels, Case Studies, Tutorials, Mini-Workshops, BOF proposals, and InfoVis '99, and PVG '99 selections announced June 15: Conference Late Breaking Hot Topics and Demonstration proposals due July 1: InfoVis '99 Late Breaking Hot Topics papers due July 15: Final Conference papers, final InfoVis '99 papers, and PVG '99 papers due to publisher August 1: Conference Late Breaking Hot Topics selections announced August 21: Conference Late Breaking Hot Topics final papers due to publisher August 31: Conference Late Breaking Hot Topics video submissions due September 25: Close of Early Registration October 24: Conference Commences October 25: InfoVis '99 and PVG '99 Commence Conference Papers (due March 31, 1999) Papers are solicited that present research results related to all areas of visualization. Original papers are limited to 5,000 words. The submission of NTSC VHS video (up to 5 minutes in length) to accompany the paper is strongly recommended. Please submit 7 copies of all materials to Bernd Hamann (at the address below). Accepted papers will be included in the conference proceedings; the videos will be included in the conference video proceedings. In addition, we must receive, by submission deadline, a complete paper submission form. Paper submissions (hard copy only) should be sent to Bernd Hamann, Center for Image Processing and Integrated Computing, 2343 Academic Surge Building, One Shields Avenue, University of California, Davis, CA 95616-8553, USA - +1-530-754-9157 - hamann@cs.ucdavis.edu Panel Proposals (due March 31, 1999) Panels should address the most important issues in visualization today. Panel proposals should describe the topic to be addressed and identify the prospective panelists. Each panelist should include a position statement on the topic and a short biography (limit 500 words for both per panelist). The statements will be included in the conference proceedings. Panel proposals (hard copy or email) should be sent to J. Edward Swan, Naval Research Laboratory, Code 5580, 4555 Overlook Ave. SW, Washington, D.C. 20375, USA - +1-202-404-4984 - Fax: +1-202-767-1122 - swan@ait.nrl.navy.mil Case Study Papers (due March 31, 1999) Case studies are reports on how visualization has contributed to the analysis of data. They may have an application focus or relate to the visualization process. Possible application areas include physical, life, social and information sciences, engineering, and commerce. An emphasis on lessons learned from practical experience is strongly encouraged, particularly where visualization has been employed in a real, working environment. A short paper limited to 2500 words (maximum 4 pages B/W plus 1 page color) will be included in the conference proceedings. Images and/or NTSC VHS video to accompany the paper are recommended; the video will be included in the conference video proceedings. Submit six copies of all materials. Case study submissions (hard copy only) should be sent to David Kao, NASA Ames Research Center, M/S T27A-2, Moffett Field, CA 94035-1000, USA - davidkao@nas.nasa.gov Late Breaking Hot Topics Papers (due June 15, 1999) Submissions will be accepted on Late Breaking Hot Topics that pertain to all areas of Visualization. These submissions must be original, may show work in progress, and may not exceed 1000 words or a maximum of 4 pages including images. Images and/or NTSC VHS video to accompany the paper are recommended; the video will be included in the conference video proceedings. Accepted papers will be published and distributed at the conference. Authors of accepted papers will have an opportunity to submit a revised paper. Submissions will be done electronically. Submission details can be found at the conference web site or by contracting Craig Wittenbrink at craig_wittenbrink@hpl.hp.com Videotapes should be sent to Craig M. Wittenbrink, Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, 1501 Page Mill Rd, MS3U-4, Palo Alto, CA 94304-1126, USA - +1-650 857.2329 - Fax: +1-650-852-3791 Tutorial Proposals (due March 31, 1999) Tutorials are full or half-day presentations designed to cover specific visualization methods or application areas in depth. Subjects can include, but are not limited to, standard visualization techniques, existing languages or toolkits, mathematical fundamentals, databases, usability analysis, or commercialization of software. It is the intention of the Vis '99 tutorial committee to provide one classroom equipped with workstations for hands-on instruction. Tutorials proposing to use this interactive classroom should clearly state this preference, and also how the course is designed for this setting. For more detailed information concerning submission and format content, see the conference web site, or contact Kelly Gaither, Mississippi State University, P.O. Box 9627, Mississippi State University, MS 39762, USA - +1-601-325-2067 - Fax: +1-601-325-7692 - kelly@erc.msstate.edu Mini-Workshop and Birds-of-a-Feather Proposals (due March 31, 1999) Proposals may be submitted for Mini-Workshops and evening Birds-Of-A-Feather (BOF) gatherings on visualization methods or application areas. They should deal with state-of-the-art topics and involve experts in the field. Proposals devoted to a particular discipline's methods and needs are encouraged. Mini-Workshop and Birds-of-a-Feather Proposals (hard copy or email) should be sent to Rob Erbacher, University of Idaho, Department of Computer Science, Moscow, ID 83844-1010, USA - erbacher@cs.uidaho.edu Demonstration Proposals (due June 15, 1999) Visualization '99 is a unique opportunity to present your products or research to visualization experts from a wide variety of fields. We invite demonstrations of commercial hardware, software, integrated systems, peripherals, literature, as well as academic research. We encourage demonstrators to have technical representatives in attendance. For more information on participating in Visualization '99 demonstrations, contact Upul Obeysekare at obey@ctc.com Creative Applications Lab (due July 15, 1999) The Creative Applications Lab (CAL) is designed to let Visualization '99 attendees run their software to show off their latest work. CAL will have a variety of computers available. For details on participating in the CAL, see the conference web site or contact Kelly Gaither at +1-601-325-2067 - kelly@erc.msstate.edu Parallel Visualization and Graphics Symposium (PVG '99) Co-sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society and ACM/SIGGRAPH October 25-26, 1999 - San Francisco Airport Hyatt - San Francisco, California The First Parallel Visualization and Graphics Symposium (the successor to the Parallel Rendering Symposium) will be held October 1999 in conjunction with IEEE Visualization '99. Papers and case studies containing original work in all areas of parallel visualization and graphics are solicited. Case studies describe how parallel visualization and graphics techniques have contributed to achieving a concrete objective for a specific application. Of special interest are submissions on using clusters of commodity PCs and graphics cards for high-performance visualization and graphics tasks. Suggested topics include: - Visualization algorithms - Graphics algorithms - Frameworks and application programmer interfaces - Load balancing, scheduling - Hardware and software architectures - Performance modeling and analysis - Real-time systems for 3D virtual reality - Internet-based visualization - Visualizing extremely large datasets - High-performance computation/visualization environments Submissions: The deadline for submissions is March 31, 1999. Final papers will be limited to 8 proceedings pages plus one page of color figures. Case studies are limited to four proceeding pages plus one page of color figures. To submit a contribution, e-mail your submission in compressed postscript format to: hwshen@nas.nasa.gov. Please specify the type of submission in the subject line of your e-mail (PAPER or CASE STUDY). In addition, please send five copies of any accompanying NTSC video to the following postal address: Han-Wei Shen, NASA Ames Research Center, Mail Stop T27A-2, Moffett Field, CA 94035 - 650-604-4451 URL: http://www.acl.lanl.gov/PVG99/pvg99.html Symposium Co-Chairs James Ahrens, Los Alamos National Laboratory Alan Chalmers, University of Bristol Han-Wei Shen, MRJ/NASA Ames IEEE Symposium on information visualization (INFOVis '99) Sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Visualization and Graphics October 25-26, 1999 - San Francisco Airport Hyatt - San Francisco, California InfoVis '99, the fifth Information Visualization Symposium, will be held to focus on the rapidly growing area of information visualization. Increasing amounts of data and information and the availability of fast digital network access are creating a rapidly growing demand for accessing, querying and retrieving information and data. However, information technology will not transform business, science, medicine, engineering, and education if users cannot use it easily and efficiently. Technology must come to the users, taking their needs into account. If we do not involve the users, we will develop useless systems. InfoVis '99 will focus on all aspects of information visualization and human-centered information interfaces, and on ways in which advances in interactive computer graphics hardware, mass storage, and data visualization can be used to visualize information. Submissions are solicited in all areas of information visualization and human-centered information interfaces, including, but not limited to, such topics as: - Interactive information visualization - Multi-dimensional informationvisualization - Information presentation - Visualization of complex information - Information visualization for heterogeneous audiences - Visualizing the internet and WWW - Browsing and other Navigation methods - Visualization Algorithms - Visualization of Algorithms - Visualization of textual information - Visualization and Knowledge Discovery - Graph / Network Visualizations - Geographic Visualizations Submissions: The deadline for submission is March 31, 1999. Papers should be at most 8,000 words including an abstract, affiliation, and keywords, and should present previously unpublished original results. Please submit 8 copies of your paper. Video submissions (NTSC VHS) with papers are welcome (4 copies), but are not required. Videos will assist reviewers' assessment of the papers. Submit to: Graham Wills, Lucent Technologies Bell Labs, Room 2F-323, 263 Shuman Blvd., Naperville IL 60566, USA - +1-630-979-7338 - Fax: +1-630-713-4982 - gwills@research.bell-labs.com URL: http://www.infovis.org/infovis99/cfp.html InfoVis Late Breaking Hot Topics (due July 1, 1999) Submissions will be accepted on Late Breaking "Hot Topics" that pertain to all areas of Information Visualization. These submissions must be original, may show work in progress, and may not exceed 1,000 words or a maximum of 4 pages including images. Images to accompany the paper are recommended. Accepted papers will published and distributed at the conference. Authors of accepted papers will have an opportunity to submit a revised paper. Submissions of printed papers (8 copies, due July 1, 1999) should be sent to Nahum Gershon, The MITRE Corporation, 1820 Dolly Madison Blvd., McLean, VA 22102, USA - 701-883-7518 - Fax: 703-883-3615 - gershon@mitre.org Symposium Chair Stephen G. Eick, Visual Insights, Lucent Technologies Bell Labs IEEE Visualization '99 Conference Committee Conference Co-Chairs: Steve Bryson, NASA Ames Research Center Theresa-Marie Rhyne, Lockheed Martin U.S. EPA Scientific Visualization Center Dirk Bartz University of Tuebingen Phone: +49-7071/29-76361 Email: bartz@gris.uni-tuebingen.de Fax: +49-7071/29-5466 WWW: http://www.gris.uni-tuebingen.de/~bartz ********** III.B.4. Fr: Clifford Lynch Re: Scholarly Communications Conference New Challenges for Scholarly Communication in the Digital Era: Changing Roles and Expectations in the Academic Community March 26-27, 1999 Washington, DC Sheraton City Center Hotel Sponsored by: American Association of University Professors American Council of Learned Societies Association of American University Presses Association of Research Libraries Coalition for Networked Information The academic community has been deeply affected by the changes brought about by the digital era. The individual communities within the academy face seemingly unique challenges that are in fact interconnected in the broad system of scholarly communication. This conference, sponsored by organizations representing faculty, publishers, librarians, and learned societies, will explore the nature and scope of the challenges and seek to define new roles that build on the strengths and needs of all sectors. This conference is a sequel to the successful conference on the Specialized Scholarly Monograph in Crisis held in September 1997. The exciting and frank discussions at that meeting led the organizers to plan a follow-up opportunity to bring these groups together on a broader set of topics. Conference Topics: Getting Ahead in the Digital World - Faculty are being encouraged to employ digital technology in the classroom, develop digitally-based distance learning courses, submit manuscripts to electronic journals, and mentor graduate students and junior faculty during this time of incredible transition. This panel will address how these pressures and some current initiatives, such as electronic dissertations and the separating of peer review from publication, affect faculty careers and opportunities for advancement. Distance Education - Many universities are moving into distance education, some with enthusiasm and some feeling driven by necessity. This panel will address the issues and challenges presented by the delivery of instruction to students outside the physical campus classroom, including expectations for faculty, changing teaching roles, ownership of the courses developed, quality of the learning experience, academic freedom, library support, and potential roles for societies and presses. What Does it Mean to Publish? - The ability of authors to post their own work on their websites and the introduction of electronic dissertations have created intense discussions of what it means to "publish" in the digital era. Do online preprints and electronic dissertations constitute prior publication? If so, what are the implications for tenure and promotion? How do faculty balance the desire to get their ideas out with the need for review for tenure? Economics of Scholarly Communication - There is a disjunction between the sociology and economics of scholarly publishing, primarily in the sciences, that has affected the access to scholarship in all disciplines. Can the new technologies provide better and more cost-effective solutions for scholarly communication? Do solutions vary by discipline? What new economic challenges does the electronic environment introduce? Preservation and Access - The new technologies bring great opportunity for expanded access to a wide array of electronic resources which can be searched with powerful search engines across distributed systems. This panel will examine how we can assure that the electronic publications and data resources of 1999 will be accessible years, decades, and centuries from today. Keynote speakers include: Daniel D. Barron, College of Library and Information Science, University of South Carolina Richard Ekman, Secretary, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Clifford Lynch, Executive Director, Coalition of Networked Information Teresa Sullivan, Vice President and Graduate Dean, University of Texas at Austin Conference Schedule The conference will begin at 1:00 p.m. on Friday, March 26. A light lunch will be available at noon. Friday's session will conclude at 5:30 p.m., followed by a reception from 6:00-7:00 p.m. On Saturday, March 27, the program will begin at 8:30 a.m. and conclude at 5:00 p.m. A continental breakfast and lunch will be provided. Details of the program and confirmed speakers will be available at . To register online, go to OR Mail or fax your name, institution, address, and credit card information to: Association of Research Libraries Mary Jane Brooks - New Challenges 21 Dupont Circle, NW Washington, DC 20036 phone: 202-296-2296 fax: 202-872-0884 email: maryjane@arl.org ********** III.B.5. Fr: GreyNet Re: 4th International Conference on Grey Literature Conference Information: http://www.konbib.nl/infolev/greynet/frame1.htm GL'99 CALL FOR PAPERS N E W F R O N T I E R S I N G R E Y L I T E R A T U R E GL'99 - FOURTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON GREY LITERATURE Kellogg Conference Center Washington D.C. USA October 4-5, 1999 PROGRAM OUTLINE SESSION 1: Global Assessment of Grey Literature: A brave new world of topics, formats, and uses SESSION 2: Archiving Electronic Grey Literature: >From bibliographic retrieval to full-text storage and distribution SESSION 3: Copyright and Grey Literature: Authorship, Ownership, and Property Rights CONFERENCE GOALS AND OBJECTIVES The theme 'New Frontiers' captures the real spirit of The Fourth International Conference on Grey Literature, whose goals and objectives are reflected in the topics comprising the main sessions. At the Third International Conference in this series, not only was the definition of grey literature redefined but also the direction research should take in the 21st Century. Grey Literature ("that which is produced on all levels of government, academics, business and industry in print and electronic formats, but which is not controlled by commercial publishers") moves the field of grey literature beyond established borders into new frontiers, where lines of demarcation between conventional/non-conventional and published/unpublished literature cease to obstruct further development and expansion. At the same time, this new definition challenges commercial publishers to rethink their position on grey literature. The first session at GL'99 confronts these and other issues. The papers will demonstrate the value of grey literature for researchers, policy makers, and information professionals in diverse disciplines and sectors of the global information community. The second session will confront the challenges facing librarians and information technicians in archiving electronic grey literature for subsequent full-text retrieval and document delivery. The final session will address issues of authorship, copyright, and ownership of grey literature. Matters that affect the very processes of knowledge generation and information dissemination. Your intellectual contribution, either by way of a conference paper or as a conference participant pursuing discussion and debate are both solicited and welcome by the GL'99 Sponsors and Program Committee Organisations. GUIDELINES FOR THE SUBMISSION OF ABSTRACTS Participants who wish to present a paper at GL'99 are invited to submit an English abstract. The abstract should deal with the problem/goal, the research method/procedure, and the specific results/conclusions of the research. Accompanying the text of the abstract should be the title of the paper, the author(s) name(s) and institution(s), and the complete address/phone/fax/email information. This data will be used to compile the GL'99 Information Products. DUE DATE AND FORMAT USED FOR SUBMISSION The abstract must be submitted on or before the 1st of March 1999 either by electronic mail or on a diskette in WordPerfect, Word or ASCII (not Macintosh). Please attach a copy in print form. The author will receive written verification upon receipt of the abstract. The GL'99 Program Committee will use these abstracts in order to finalize the GL'99 Program and Agenda. TITLE OF YOUR PAPER: Author's Name(s) : Organisation : Address/P.O. Box : Postcode/City : Country : Telephone : Fax : E-mail : URL : PLEASE INDICATE YOUR SESSION: [ ] Global Assessment of Grey Literature: A brave new world of topics, formats, and uses [ ] Archiving Electronic Grey Literature: From bibliographic retrieval to full-text storage and distribution [ ] Copyright and Grey Literature: Authorship, Ownership, and Property Rights PREFERRED PRESENTATION : [ ] Main Session [ ] Break-out Session ABSTRACT OF YOUR PAPER: To be Submitted in Print & Electronic Format NB The Abstract is the only tangible source which will allow the GL'99 Program Committee to judge the content and value of the proposed paper. Every effort should be made to reflect the content of your work in the abstract submitted. PLEASE COMPLETE AND FORWARD TO: GreyNet, Grey Literature Network Service Koninginneweg 201, 1075 CR Amsterdam, Netherlands Fax: 31-20-671.1818 - GreyNet@inter.nl.net URL: http://www.konbib.nl/infolev/greynet ****************************************************************** IV. PROJECTS IV.D.1. Fr: Philip A. Bralich Re: Ergo's Parsing Contest The parsing contest we announced six weeks ago is still open and will close in six more weeks (the end of March) though this could be extended if there are such requests. To date no one has dared to take our challenge on these very practical and relatively easy parsing tasks. We can only assume that the computational linguistics community is that much behind us, because, if there were any tools that would even come close to the practical abilities we offer, those who had such tools would have a simple and straightforward opportunity to demonstrate the superiority of their methods and tools over ours with just one demonstration. That is, we assume that the only reason that this opportunity for a demonstration of the superiority of other's tools is being ignored is because there are no tools currently superior to those we offer. To reiterate briefly, Ergo Linguistic Technologies is offering its first annual parsing contest based on a fixed set of sentences and a fixed set of tasks to be performed on that set of sentences. The area of NLP to be explored is that of increased syntactic analysis to provide: 1) improvements in navigation and control technology through more complex commands and chained commands, 2) improvements in the implementation of question/answer, statement/ response dialogs with computers and computer characters, and 3) improvements in web and database searching using natural language queries. The contest will be based on a comparison of results for parses of a fixed set of sentences (included on our web site) and various tasks that can be performed as a result of those parses. Ergo's results on these tasks for these questions as well as for the Air Travel Industry Sentences (ATIS) can be downloaded from our site. That is, the comparison will be based on the actual parse tree and the ability to use that parsed output to generate theory independent parse trees and output and to perform various NLP tasks. The judging will be based on the standards for evaluating NLP that have been proposed previously on this list by myself and Derek Bickerton and which are currently being developed into an ISO standard for the Virtual Reality Modeling Language (VRML) as part of the VRML Consortium's development efforts (http://www.vrml.org/WorkingGroups/ NLP-ANIM). The standards proposed are theory and field independent standards that allow both linguists and non-linguists to evaluate NLP systems in the areas of navigation and control, question/answer dialogues, and database and web searching. The sentences chosen for this contest are rather simple, but as we find more and more parsers that can accomplish the tasks on this list, we will add more complex sentences and tasks to the list. Please, be aware that systems that may be designed for large corpora of unrestricted text actually cannot work in this domain. Thus, while such systems may be useful for certain searching tasks, they are not useful in the domain explored in this contest - and this is evidenced by their inability to perform on tests such as the one provide here. The full contest instructions and an HTML document of Ergo's results in this area can be found at http://www.ergo-ling.com. The standards were designed to allow the developers of a parsing system (statistical or syntactic) to demonstrate the thoroughness and accuracy of the parses they produce by using the parsed output to perform a number of straightforward, traditional syntactic tasks such as changing a statement to a question or an active to a passive as well as demonstrating an ability to create standard trees (Using the Penn Treebank II guidelines) and standard grammatical analyses. All the standards chosen were chosen to be theory independent measures of the accuracy of a parse through the use of standard and ordinary grammatical and syntactic output. The contest officially begins on January 15th and will be closed on March 31st. This will allow developers 2.5 months to develop tools and to work with trouble spots that they may have with the set of sentences offered in this contest. The contest will be offered in subsequent years from January to March. As time develops we hope the parsers, the contest rules, and the test sentences will all grow in sophistication and scope. However, as most parsers have existed many more years than ours has, it is reasonable to think these tools exist already. Philip A. Bralich, Ph.D. President and CEO Ergo Linguistic Technologies 2800 Woodlawn Drive, Suite 175 Honolulu, HI 96822 Tel: (808)539-3920 Fax: (808)539-3924 bralich@hawaii.edu http://www.ergo-ling.com ****************************************************************** IRLIST Digest is distributed from the University of California, Division of Library Automation, 1111 Franklin Street, Oakland, CA. 94607-5200. 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. 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