IRLIST Digest ISSN 1064-6965 May 17, 1999 Volume XVI, Number 19 Issue 455 ****************************************************************** I. QUERIES 1. Bug in Frakes' stemmer? 2. Ramifications of Embedded Multimedia in E-Journals 3. Response to [I.2.] 4. Response to [I.3.] II. JOBS 1. European Media Laboratory: IR Researchers III. NOTICES A. Publications 1. AIM-J: Special Issue "Knowledge-Based Information Management in Intensive Care and Anaesthesia" 2. JAIR Article: "Learning to Order Things" 3. [WASHINGTON-UPDATE] EDUCAUSE Washington Update 5-14-99 4. Knowledge and Information Systems: Vol 1 No 2 (1999) B. Meetings 1. ACM SIGIR99 MIR Workshop 2. EACL'99 Registration Reminder 3. LINC-99 4. ACL'99 & Co-Located Workshop 5. Network Storage Symposium 6. SCIE99, 2nd Announcement IV. PROJECTS C. Awards, Fellowships, Grants, & Scholarships 1. MURI Announcement on Tutorial Dialog/Discourse ****************************************************************** I. QUERIES I.1. Fr: Robert McArthur Re: Bug in Frakes' stemmer? Frakes et al. have source code for the Porter stemmer written in C. I think there's a 'bug' in Frakes' stemmer, stem.c. I noticed that in the function EndWithCVC the first two lines of code are if ( (length =3D strlen(word)) < 2 ) return( FALSE ); Now, I think that it should instead be if ( (length =3D strlen(word)) <=3D 2 ) ^ | '=3D' added --+ If this is so, then I wonder how we can inform everyone since the code is very well used in the IR community. Yours Robert McArthur Resource Discovery Unit Distributed Technology Research Centre Brisbane, Australia. ********** I.2. Fr: Gerry McKiernan Re: Ramifications of Embedded Multimedia in E-Journals _Ramifications of Embedded Multimedia in E-Journals_ From a brief literature review and as a result of responses received from an earlier post, I have concluded that Embedded Multimedia in E-Journals will become quite common within the next 2-3 years. As more and more libraries are providing access to E-journals either as alternatives or substitutes for paper subscriptions and as E-journals embrace embedded multimedia, it appears that there will be significant ramifications for next generation WebPACs as well as personal workstations.=20 While not all multimedia requires special plug-ins, the range of multi-media is expanding rapidly and thus one can expect that library workstations will need to have the full-range of appropriate plug-ins to accommodate such embedded media.=20 I am greatly interested in current efforts by WebPac vendors to provide built-in default plug-ins for such media as well as information about current library efforts to anticipate these near term developments.=20 BTW: I will be preparing a contribution for a professional newsletter next month and will attempt to provide a sketch of some noteworthy developments relating to Embedded Multimedia in E-Journals. Among the key sites and cites I will be incorporating are: ********************************** Institute of Physics (IOP) > Here at Institute of Physics Publishing we positively encourage=20 > authors to submit multimedia material with a view to enhancing=20 > the readers' understanding of a paper (see our 'Notes for Authors'=20 > at http://www.iop.org/Journals/nfa/node22.html) =20 >=20 > Submissions of this kind are increasing steadily - good examples=20 > can be found in the following titles (demonstrations are available=20 > at the URLs given). >=20 > Nanotechnology -- http://www.iop.org/Journals/na/ >=20 > Combustion Theory and Modelling -- http://www.iop.org/Journals/ct/ >=20 > New Journal of Physics -- http://njp.org/ ********************************** Terry A Brooks / University of Washington / Graduate School of Library=20 and Information Science > I recently wrote a grant to OCLC proposing to investigate > the enhanced writing functionalities provided by embedded multimedia, > etc. The grant application is at >=20 > http://weber.u.washington.edu/~tabrooks/Documents/OCLCGrant.htm=20 ********************************** _Internet Journal of Chemistry_ An e-journal with great embedded multimedia is the _Internet Journal of Chemistry_ at: http://www.ijc.com/multimedia.html http://www.ijc.com/ [It has a separate left-hand frame index with a "Multimedia" index! [Impressive!]] ********************************** _Internet Archeology_ Here is a sitation to an excellent review article I learned about from my earlier posting=20 http://intarch.ac.uk/news/eva97.html It details the early experience with embedded multimedia in an=20 Internet journal of archaeology. ********************************** Multimedia Information Retrieval Of special note in a broader context in a research proposal awarded=20 to Mark Rorvig, Associate Professor with the School of Library and Information Sciences at the University of North Texas that will seek to develop and refine a retrieval system for 'composite' formats of text, image, and sound. A description of the proposal is available at: http://archive.lis.unt.edu:2000/fall801/intel.htm ********************************** =20 In addition, I now searched the INSPEC database and identified a good dozen or so articles, papers related to Embedded Multimedia in E-Journals which I will read and weave into my newsletter review [I wish to personally thank Adam Philippidis from IEEE for recommending a key work published last year by the IEEE: Socioeconomic Dimensions of Electronic Publishing Workshop (1998 : Santa Barbara, California). IEEE, 1998. [OCLC: 40391589] Thanks again to all who responded! As Always, Any and All contributions, queries, critiques, comments, questions, concerns, etc., etc. regarding this post are Most Welcome. Regards, /Gerry McKiernan Theoretical Librarian Iowa State University=20 Ames IA 50011 gerrymck@iastate.edu=20 ********** I.3. Fr: Anthony.Watkinson Re: Response to Gerry McKiernan's submission, I.2. It is very encouraging to learn that the opportunities represented by the extra functionalities available on the Internet are being taken up by some communities but there are still significant barriers to the use by authors of multimedia. In particular the SuperJournal project could not extract multimedia components from authors of articles in the journals it was putting up in its clusters in spite of some serious attempts to advertise the facility and encourage potential authors. It seems to me that until authors write articles with the presumption that there will be a choice of journals available to them as potential publishers of articles including multimedia and also that there is some standardisation of what the publishers of these journals will accept, enthusiasts only will offer these components of their overall message to their readers. There is also the unresolved problems of archiving: doubts about archiving as a reason for not writing articles for electronic journals is cited frequently by author organisations and in casual discussions. This all sounds Luddite but I would counsel that the take-up of multimedia may be slower than anticipated or indeed hoped for. ********** I.4. Fr: Gerry Mckiernan Re: Response to Anthony Watkinson's submission, I.3. Thanks (again) for your interest in my posting. I believe it is encouraging and that much will be seen and much remains to be seen [:-)] with embedded multimedia in e-journals. I believe that the incorporation of embedded multimedia can be facilitated by the promotion (development?) of integrated multimedia authoring systems. But here, there is he essential question of skill and time. [Could it be that creation of multimedia adjuncts will be the next stage of scholarly writing? / scholarship?] [Stay Tuned {:-)] Thanks again for your comments! Regards, /Gerry McKiernan Science and Technology Librarian and Bibliographer Iowa State University Library Ames IA 50011 gerrymck@iastate.edu BTW: You may be interested in an *excellent* article on Embedded Multimedia that appeared two years ago in the _Journal of Electronic Publishing_ published by the University of Michigan Press written by Keith L. Seitter and Judy Holoviak entitled: _Earth Interactions_: Transcending the Limitations of the Printed Page" at: http://www.press.umich.edu/jep/03-01/EI.html The Subtitle Says It All! ****************************************************************** II. JOBS II.1. Fr: Claudia Spahn Re: European Media Laboratory: IR Researchers The Human Language Technology and the Personal Memory group at the European Media Laboratory in Heidelberg are seeking several researchers to work in the areas of information retrieval, information extraction, domain ontology building, and human computer interfaces.=20 1. A researcher with experience in terminological ontology building, knowledge representation languages, reasoning, lexical / knowledge acquisition from corpora. The appointee will work in close collaboration with the team of Bio-Informatics (molecular biology) of EML and the Department of Information Science of Tokyo University. We require someone who has a PhD in NLP or in CS with a demonstrated ability to do independent research. Preference will be given to applicants who can demonstrate practical abilities in the building of domain ontologies and who have a strong NLP background.=20 2. A researcher to work on natural language interfaces with excellent knowledge in object-oriented software development (e.g., Java) and XML. The appointee should have experience in GUI programming. Experience in dialog modeling and discourse structure would be an advantage. The successful candidate will be responsible for designing and implementing an interactive interface for information retrieval, database integration and ontological integration. The candidate will join an interdisciplinary team of computational linguists, computer scientists and domain experts who will use the designed interface for practical purposes. = =20 3. A researcher with strong interests in the area of NLP and in particular in statistical NLP. The candidate should have excellent programming skills. The candidate should be familiar with the theory and implementation of finite-state automata, finite-state transducers and robust parsing techniques. The candidate is expected to work on areas such as semantic information retrieval, document classification, and clustering. 4. A Computer Scientist with strong background in one or more of the following areas: adaptive user interfaces, dialog management for human-computer interaction, context and situation modeling. We expect the candidates to have significant experience in object-oriented software development (e.g., Java), machine learning, and databases. Successful candidates should have a PhD or professional experience the field. Successful candidates will join a multi-disciplinary group and will participate in projects that aim at building user-oriented computer systems such as mobile tourism information systems. These projects are embedded into a network of collaborations with national and international research partners from industry and academia.=20 We offer competitive salaries, depending on professional experience and scientific achievements. The positions are available for 3 years, with the possibility of renewing the appointment depending on performance, and availability of funding.=20 EML is a newly established private research laboratory that primarily does contract research for the Klaus Tschira Foundation. It engages in research in the manifold uses of information technology, its primary interest being the development of new ways to increase the usefulness of such technology for the individual and for society. Scientists from many different disciplines and countries work together at the EML, in particular, there is a regular exchange between the EML and national and international institutions. You will experience a challenging and stimulating international work environment here. In addition, the EML is located in one of the most beautiful old mansions of Heidelberg. Should you be interested in working with us please send your application including full CV and relevant material attesting your qualifications by 11th of June 1999 to our secretary, c/o B=E4rbel Mack, Schloss-Wolfsbrunnenweg 33, D-69118 Heidelberg. For further information, please contact our web-site www.eml.org. ****************************************************************** III. NOTICES III.A.1. Fr: Silvia Miksch Re: AIM-J: Special Issue "Knowledge-Based Information Management in Intensive Care and Anaesthesia" CALL FOR PAPER SUBMISSIONS SPECIAL ISSUE of the JOURNAL "ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IN MEDICINE" (published by Elsevier) Theme: Knowledge-Based Information Management in Intensive Care and Anaesthesia. Guest-Editors: Michel Dojat, Silvia Miksch and Jim Hunter INSERM Grenoble (FR), IFS Vienna (AT), Aberdeen U. (UK) Manuscript deadline: November 1 1999 email: michel.dojat@ujf-grenoble.fr OBJECTIVE OF THE SPECIAL ISSUE The care of critically ill patients in Intensive Care Units (ICUs) and during Anaesthesia is becoming increasingly complex. Clinicians are required to rapidly interpret and respond to a large number of clinical parameters, selecting appropriate treatment for the patient among many different options. New measurement technology has increased the demand for improved information management, as has the need to monitor and assess the quality of care provided. Designing computerized systems to assist clinical staff in monitoring, diagnosis and therapy planning tasks is a challenging goal that requires the modeling of several levels of knowledge. The objective behind this special issue is to report on state-of-the art of theoretical and methodological developments for knowledge-based information management in intensive care and anesthesia. Topics of particular interest include, but are not limited to: =B7 quality control and assessment =B7 clinical guidelines and protocols =B7 computational methods for intelligent data analysis =B7 effective and efficient real-time monitoring (including intelligent alarming) =B7 decision support =B7 fusion of data from heterogeneous sources =B7 multi-agent design, distributed architecture =B7 uncertain and temporal reasoning =B7 knowledge acquisition from physiological data =B7 information visualization =B7 information retrieval GUIDELINES & SCHEDULE All manuscripts will be evaluated according to their originality, technical quality and clarity of presentation by at least two independent referees who are authorities in the field. A manuscript should be about 20 pages excluding tables and figures but including the list of references. Manuscripts should be prepared in accordance with the journal "submission guidelines",that are available on request, and may also be retrieved from http://www.elsevier.nl/locate/aimed. Three copies of a manuscript should be sent by surface mail before November 1st, 1999 to: Michel Dojat INSERM U438 "RMN Bioclinique" CHU de Grenoble Pavillon B BP 217 38043 Grenoble Cedex 9 Phone: 33 4 76 76 57 48 Fax: 33 4 76 76 58 96 email : mdojat@ujf-grenoble.fr Electronic submissions (to mdojat@ujf-grenoble.fr) are strongly encouraged in PDF or PS format only. Perspective authors are strongly encouraged to contact the guest editor at the address above and to declare their intention to participate in the special issue as early as possible. To this end, please submit by email a tentative title and a short summary before September 1st, 1999. IMPORTANT DATES September 1, 1999 Submission of tentative title and abstract to=20 Declare intention to submit paper November 1, 1999 Receipt of full papers January 31, 2000 Notification of acceptance March 1, 2000 Receipt of final-version of manuscripts November 2000 Publication of AIM special issue ********** III.A.2. Fr: Steve Minton Re: JAIR Article: "Learning to Order Things" Readers of this mailing list may be interested in the following article, which was just published by JAIR: Cohen, W.W., Schapire, R.E., and Singer, Y. (1999) "Learning to Order Things",=20 Volume 10, pages 243-270. Available in PDF,PostScript and compressed PostScript. For quick access via your WWW browser, use this URL: http://www.jair.org/abstracts/cohen99a.html More detailed instructions are below. Abstract: There are many applications in which it is desirable to order rather than classify instances. Here we consider the problem of learning how to order instances given feedback in the form of preference judgments, i.e., statements to the effect that one instance should be ranked ahead of another. We outline a two-stage approach in which one first learns by conventional means a binary preference function indicating whether it is advisable to rank one instance before another. Here we consider an on-line algorithm for learning preference functions that is based on Freund and Schapire's 'Hedge' algorithm. In the second stage, new instances are ordered so as to maximize agreement with the learned preference function. We show that the problem of finding the ordering that agrees best with a learned preference function is NP-complete. Nevertheless, we describe simple greedy algorithms that are guaranteed to find a good approximation. Finally, we show how metasearch can be formulated as an ordering problem, and present experimental results on learning a combination of 'search experts', each of which is a domain-specific query expansion strategy for a web search engine. The article is available via: =20 -- comp.ai.jair.papers (also see comp.ai.jair.announce) -- World Wide Web: The URL for our World Wide Web server is http://www.jair.org/ For direct access to this article and related files try: http://www.jair.org/abstracts/cohen99a.html -- Anonymous FTP from either of the two sites below. Carnegie-Mellon University (USA): ftp://ftp.cs.cmu.edu/project/jair/volume10/cohen99a.ps The University of Genoa (Italy): ftp://ftp.mrg.dist.unige.it/pub/jair/pub/volume10/cohen99a.ps The compressed PostScript file is named cohen99a.ps.Z (229K) -- automated email. Send mail to jair@cs.cmu.edu or jair@ftp.mrg.dist.unige.it with the subject AUTORESPOND and our automailer will respond. To get the Postscript file, use the message body GET volume10/cohen99a.ps (Note: Your mailer might find this file too large to handle.) Only one file can be requested in each message. For more information about JAIR, visit our WWW or FTP sites, or send electronic mail to jair@cs.cmu.edu with the subject AUTORESPOND and the message body HELP, or contact jair-ed@ptolemy.arc.nasa.gov. ********** III.A.3. Fr: EDUCAUSE Re: [WASHINGTON-UPDATE] EDUCAUSE Washington Update 5-14-99 EDUCAUSE: Transforming Education Through Information Technologies http://www.educause.edu EDUCAUSE WASHINGTON UPDATE --- MAY 14, 1999 IN THIS ISSUE: HOUSE TELECOMMUNICATIONS SUBCOMMITTEE CHAIR PLANS TO EASE RBOC LONG-DISTANCE RESTRICTIONS SENATE TECHNOLOGY SUBCOMMITTEE APPROVES INTERNET GAMBLING BILL; SEN. FEINSTEIN PROMISES AMENDMENT TO CLARIFY ISP ROLE FCC CHAIR REQUESTS E-RATE BE FUNDED TO FULL LEVEL AS CONGRESSMEN REINTRODUCE LEGISLATION TO ALTER PROGRAM'S FUNDING MECHANISM HOUSE TELECOMMUNICATIONS SUBCOMMITTEE CHAIR PLANS TO EASE RBOC LONG-DISTANCE RESTRICTIONS >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> 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.A.4. Fr: Xindong Wu Re: Knowledge and Information Systems: Vol 1 No 2 (1999) Knowledge and Information Systems: An International Journal ISSN 0219-1377 by Springer-Verlag Home Page: http://kais.mines.edu/~kais/ Volume 1 Number 2 (1999): Table of Contents Critical Reviews - Agent-Based Systems for Intelligent Manufacturing: A State-of-the-Art Survey, by Weiming Shen and Douglas H. Norrie Regular Papers - On Modeling and Verification of Temporal Constraints in Production Workflows, by Olivera Marjanovic and Maria E. Orlowska - Making Database Schema Hierarchical for Visual Access to Databases, by Ping-Kuen Chen and Gwo-Dong Chen - Scan: A Hierarchical Algorithm for Similarity Search in Databases Consisting of Long Sequences, by Chung-Sheng Li, Philip S. Yu, and Vittorio Castelli Short Papers - IMC: A Method for Interval Calculus in Matrix, by Shichao Zhang and Chengqi Zhang A subscription form and other accepted papers are available on the journal home page (http://kais.mines.edu/~kais/). ********** III.B.1. Fr: Zhongfei Zhang Re: ACM SIGIR99 MIR Workshop ACM SIGIR'99 Post-Conference Workshop on Multimedia Indexing and Retrieval Berkeley, CA, August 15 - 19, 1999 Call For Participation Background This workshop is a follow-up to last year's very successful workshop on the same topic. Since the field is advancing so rapidly, it was felt that an annual workshop would be worthwhile.=20 The focus is on the required functionality, techniques, and evaluation criteria for multimedia information retrieval systems. Researchers have been investigating content-based retrieval from non-text sources such as images, audio and video. Initially, the focus of these efforts were on content analysis and retrieval techniques tailored to a specific media; more recently, researchers have started to combine attributes from various media. The goal of multimedia IR systems is to handle general queries such as "find outdoor pictures or video of Clinton and Gore discussing environmental issues". Answering such queries requires intelligent exploitation of both text/speech and visual content. Multimedia IR is a very broad area covering both infrastructure issues (e.g. efficient storage criteria, networking, client-server models) and intelligent content analysis and retrieval. Since this is a one-day workshop, we have chosen three focus areas in the intelligent analysis and retrieval area.=20 About the workshop The first focus of this workshop is on integrating information from various media sources in order to handle multimodal queries on large, diverse databases. An example of such a collection would be the WWW. In such cases, a query may be decomposed into a set of media queries, each involving a different indexing scheme. The interaction of various media sources that occur in the same context (e.g., text accompanying pictures, audio accompanying video) is of special interest; such interaction can be exploited in both the content analysis and retrieval phases.=20 The second focus deals with examples of research using content and organization of multimedia information into semantic classes. Users pose and expect a retrieval to provide answers to semantic questions. In practice this is difficult to achieve. Building structures that encode semantic information in a fairly domain independent and robust manner is extremely difficult. A quick review of computer vision research over the last few years points to this difficulty. In many cases, image content can be used in conjunction with user interaction and domain specificity to retrieve semantically meaningful information. However, it is clear that retrieval by similarity of visual attributes when used arbitrarily cannot provide semantically meaningful information. For example, a search for a red flower by color red on a very heterogeneous database cannot be expected to yield meaningful results. On the other hand retrieval of red flowers in a database of flowers can be achieved using color. In context therefore, examples of research using content and organization of multimedia information into semantic classes will be discussed. Many systems, particularly image and video based ones require an example picture which can be used as a query (alternatively, the user may be required to draw a picture). It may be unrealistic to expect an example image to be always available. Thus, it would be useful to find ways of generating new queries. Can NLP techniques be combined with computer vision techniques to generate such queries? Or can multimodal retrieval techniques be combined to create queries suitable for image, video and audio retrieval? In general, a question is how can we create realistic queries for realistic systems.=20 The third focus of this workshop is on evaluation techniques for multimedia retrieval. Currently, most researchers are using the standard evaluation measures defined for text documents; these need to be extended/modified for multimedia documents. There is also a high degree of subjectivity involved that needs to be addressed.=20 Finally, we will also devote one session to discussing MPEG-7 standards and content. By the time of the workshop, the selection committee would have made their choices for standards.=20 We will focus on the following specific topics:=20 - content analysis and retrieval from various media (text, images, video, audio)=20 - interaction of modalities (e.g. text, images) in indexing, retrieval=20 - effective user interfaces (permitting query refinement etc.)=20 - evaluation methodologies for multimedia information. We have found that researchers pay insufficient attention to it.=20 - techniques for relevance ranking=20 - multimodal query formation/decomposition=20 - logic formalisms for multimodal queries=20 - indexing and retrieval from scanned documents - e.g extracting text =20 from images, word spotting - as a retrieval technique for both handwritten and printed documents.=20 - testbeds for evaluating multimodal retrieval: it would be nice to have some resource sharing here since annotating these, and coming up with a good query set are difficult=20 Participation Two types of participation are expected. Those interested in making a presentation at this workshop should submit their full papers either in online postscript version or in hardcopy by regular mail to the address given below. The papers should not exceed 5,000 words, including figures, tables, and references. Those interested in participating, but not presenting papers, should submit a statement of interest, not to exceed 500 words. This should clearly state what aspect(s) of the workshop reflect their research interest. These will be used to select panelists. Both types of submissions are due on Friday, June 18th. Decisions will be made no later than Friday, July 2nd. In the case of paper submission, the final camera-ready papers are due on July 23rd. Working notes will be made available to all participants at the workshop. All the submissions should be sent to:=20 Dr. Rohini K. Srihari=20 CEDAR/SUNY at Buffalo=20 UB Commons=20 520 Lee Entrance, Suite 202=20 Amherst, NY 14228 - 2583=20 Email: rohini@cedar.buffalo.edu=20 Phone: (716) 645-6164 ext. 102 Fax: (716) 645-6176=20 Timetable Paper or statement of interest submission: June 18th, 1999.=20 Decision: July 2nd, 1999.=20 Camera-Ready Paper Due: July 23rd, 1999=20 SIGIR Conference: August 15 - 19, 1999=20 Workshop Date: to be announced.=20 Further information Further questions may be directed to the address above, or go to the Web page of this workshop at http://www.cedar.buffalo.edu/sigir99/ or the SIGIR Conference main Web Page at http://www.sims.berkeley.edu/conferences/sigir99/ ********** III.B.2. Fr: Priscilla Rasmussen Re: EACL'99 Registration Reminder EACL '99 9th Conf. of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics Bergen, June 8-12, 1999 TAKING REGISTRATIONS NOW ! http://www.hit.uib.no/eacl99 The EACL '99 conference is this year's biggest academic event in Computational Linguistics taking place in Europe. Programme overview: June 7 Pre-conference excursion to the fjords June 8 Tutorials June 9-11 Main sessions, student sessions, posters&demos Invited speakers Bruce Croft & Wolfgang Wahlster Exhibit & Job Fair Social programme (reception & banquet) June 12 Workshops Please consult the website for the full programme, venue and local information, registration and hotel accommodation: http://www.hit.uib.no/eacl99 Welcome to Bergen ! Henry Thompson & Alex Lascarides, Programme Chairs=20 Koenraad de Smedt, Chair of the Local Organization Committee Sponsors: LINGSOFT, University of Bergen (Humanities Faculty), Bergen University Fund, Norwegian Ministry of Education, Research and Church affairs CALL FOR PARTICIPATION EACL'99 TUTORIALS PROGRAMME The EACL '99 conference is this year's biggest academic event in Computational Linguistics taking place in Europe. There will be two tutorial sessions on June 8th, 1999, with two tutorials each. TIME TABLE 8:30 Registration 9:30 Start Morning Session (1 and 3 below) 11:00 Break 11:30 Morning Session continued 13:00 Lunch 14.00 Start Afternoon Session (2 and 4 below) 15:30 Break 16.00 Afternoon Session continued 17:30 End of Sessions 1. Practical Text Mining Lecturer: Ronen Feldman 2. Natural Language Learning with the Maximum Entropy Framework Lecturer: Adwait Ratnaparkhi=20 3. Building Natural Language Generation Systems Lecturers: Robert Dale, Ehud Reiter 4. Lexicography for Computationalists Lecturers: Adam Kilgarriff, Michael Rundell The URL for the tutorials programme (with abstracts and further information) is http://ilk.kub.nl/~walter/eacl/prog.html The URL for the EACL'99 homepage is http://www.hit.uib.no/eacl99 ********** III.B.3. Fr: Thorsten Brants Re: LINC-99 EACL-99 Post-Conference Workshop on LINGUISTICALLY INTERPRETED CORPORA (LINC-99) June 12th, 1999, Bergen, Norway ** CALL FOR PARTICIPATION AND PRELIMINARY PROGRAM ** URL: http://www.coli.uni-sb.de/linc99/ BACKGROUND: The need for large linguistically interpreted (annotated) corpora keeps growing in an increasing number of applications and research tasks in the field of computational linguistics. Many groups have started to create corpus resources for a variety of languages and domains. These corpora are used for a broad range of different applications and theoretical investigations. This workshop aims at bringing together these activities in order to facilitate advanced and efficient corpus annotation providing re-usable resources. CONTRIBUTED PAPERS: Jose Mari Arriola, Xabier Artola, Aitor Maritxalar, Aitor Soroa "Methodology for the Analysis of Verb Usage Examples in a Context of Lexical= =20 Knowledge Acquisition from Dictionary Entries" Tamaz Varadi, Csaba Oravecz "Morpho-syntactic ambiguity and tagset design for Hungarian" Anne Abeille, Lionel Clement "A tagged reference Corpus for French" Massimo Poesio, Renate Henschel, Janet Hitzeman, Roger Kibble,=20 Shane Montague, Kees van Deemter "Towards An Annotation Scheme For Noun Phrase Generation" Kemal Oflazer, Dilek Hakkani-Tur, Gokhan Tur "Design for a Turkish Treebank" John Carroll, Guido Minnen, Ted Briscoe "Corpus Annotation for Parser Evaluation" Ian Lewin, Pierrette Bouillon, Sabine Lehmann, David Milward,=20 Ludovic Tanguy "Discourse Data in DiET" Chris Brew "An extensible visualization tool to aid treebank exploration" Frank Keller, Martin Corley, Steffan Corley, Matthew Crocker,=20 Shari Trewin "Gsearch: A Tool for Syntactic Investigation of Unparsed Corpora" Tomaz Erjavec "A TEI Encoding of Aligned Corpora as Translation Memories" =20 Josef van Genabith, Louisa Sadler, Andy Way "Data-Driven Compilation of LFG Semantic Forms" CONTACT: Thorsten Brants Saarland University Computational Linguistics, Geb. 17 P.O.Box 151150 D-66041 Saarbruecken GERMANY email: thorsten@coli.uni-sb.de URL: http://www.coli.uni-sb.de/linc99/ REGISTRATION: URL: http://www.hit.uib.no/eacl99/howtoregister.html ********** III.B.4. Fr: Priscilla Rasmussen Re: ACL'99 & Co-Located Workshop ACL '99 37th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, USA June 20-26, 1999 TAKING REGISTRATIONS NOW ! http://www.mri.mq.edu.au/conf/acl99 =20 The ACL '99 conference this year will offer a larger and more diversified program than ever before. Below is a Program Overview. Detailed information and the entire registration brochure may be found at the website above. The registration brochure has also been sent to all ACL members in hardcopy on 19th April, 1999. If you would like an emailed version of the VERY LONG brochure, please contact Priscilla Rasmussen at acl@aclweb.org. We also plan to have the online registration working (hopefully) by the end of April. =20 19 June Registration and Tutorial Reception 20 June Tutorials--3 morning and 3 afternoon=20 21-22 June Workshops--4 1-day and 2 2-day workshops 23-26 June Technical, Thematic, and Student Sessions (23rd and 26th Technical, 24th and 25th Thematic and Student sessions); Invited Speakers: Marti Hearst, Sadaoki Furui, and George Miller. ACL Business Meeting and Student Member Lunch Meeting. Social program (Opening Reception, 22nd June, and Banquet, 23rd June) Please consult the website for the full program, venue and local information, registration and hotel accommodation: =20 We hope to see you there! =20 Robert Dale and Kenneth Church, Program Chairs=20 Bonnie Dorr, Local Arrangements Chair CO-LOCATED MEETING: There will also be a co-located symposium, Computer-Mediated Language Assessment and Evaluation in Natural Language Processing, organized by Mari Broman Olsen. This symposium will take place Tuesday, June 22nd on the University of Maryland campus. For further information, please contact Mari Olsen, molsen@umiacs.umd.edu or see the web http://umiacs.umd.edu/~molsen/acl-iall=20 ********** III.B.5. Fr: Clifford Lynch Re: Network Storage Symposium NetStore '99: Call for Participation Network Storage Symposium (NetStore '99) Seattle, WA October 14 & 15, 1999 http://dsi.internet2.edu/netstore99/ NetStore '99: The End of End-to-End? =20 The Network Storage Symposium (NetStore '99) is devoted to exploring technical issues in logistical networking: the use of storage resources as a component of the network's communicative infrastructure. The most common examples of logistical networking in today's global Internet are caching and replication. NetStore '99 is targeting an expanded area of investigation that includes more general and innovative applications of storage resources in networking. Of particular interest are issues in the development of the [2] Internet2 Distributed Storage Infrastructure Project (I2-DSI) and applications supported by it. Symposium topics include but are not limited to: - Network file system caching - Replication of files and services - Portable servers and object representation - Network proximity and server load metrics - Prediction of network resource performance - Modeling of network services - Network object caching - Resolution of URIs and service requests - Applications enabled by network storage - Global information services infrastructure - Remote buffer management - Manipulation of massive data files - Quality of service delivery of stored data - Management of distributed sensor data The symposium proceedings will include both submitted and invited papers. We are in the process of negotiating for publication of selected papers in a journal special issue. Submissions Extended abstracts up to five pages in length are encouraged, but due to the short notice, one page abstracts will be accepted. Abstracts will be accepted by e-mail only, and should be sent to Jim Plank (plank@cs.utk.edu) in text, PostScript, or PDF format. Deadlines Paper abstracts due July 1 Notification of acceptance August 1 Final paper due September 15 General Chair Micah Beck, mbeck@cs.utk.edu, University of Tennessee, Knoxville Vice Chair Terry Moore, tmoore@cs.utk.edu, University of Tennessee, Knoxville Program Co-Chairs James S. Plank, plank@cs.utk.edu, University of Tennessee, Knoxville ********** III.B.6. Fr: SCIE99 Re: SCIE99, 2nd Announcement SECOND ANNOUNCEMENT Call for Participation School on Information Extraction SCIE99 Frascati(Rome), June 28, July 3, 1999 http://scie99.info.uniroma2.it/ IMPORTANT DATES Early registration deadline: May 15 Grant application deadline: May 15 The Artificial Intelligence research group of the Department of Computer Science, Systems and Production of the University of Roma Tor Vergata (Italy), in cooperation with the Italian Association of Artifical Intelligence (AI*IA), is pleased to announce the second edition of the School on Information Extraction (SCIE99), to be held in Frascati (Roma), Italy, from June 28 to July 3, 1999. The school provides a forum for researchers and practitioners with different background and expertise, to discuss ideas and describe experiences in defining and implementing IE systems. To maximize interaction among SCIE-99 participants, the attendance will be limited to 80 persons.=20 CONTENTS=20 The school is organized as a set of lectures held by internationally renown experts from the different disciplines concerning IE themes. These lectures are explicitly meant to address interdisciplinary issues and will introduce common goals, needs and problems of the different approaches. Demo sessions on current IE technologies and systems will be also held at the school. INVITED SPEAKERS -Jean Pierre CHANOD (XEROX Research Centre Europe, FR) "Finite-state linguistic components: the case of digital libreries"=20 -Veronica DAHL (Simon Fraser Univ. Ca) "From Speech to Knowledge"=20 -Maria Teresa PAZIENZA (Univ. Rome Tor Vergata, IT) "Engineering IE systems: an Object Oriented perspective" -Harold SOMERS (UMIST, UK) "Knowledge extraction from bilingual corpora"=20 -John SOWA (Westchester Polytechnic Univ. USA) "Relating Templates to Language and Logic"=20 -Marc VILAIN (The MITRE Corporation, MA, USA) "Multilingual IE systems"=20 -Ellen VOORHEES (NIST, MD, USA) "Natural Language Processing and Information Retrieval"=20 -Yorick WILKS (Univ. of Sheffield, UK) "Can we make Information Extraction more adaptive?"=20 GRANTS=20 Thanks to the support of the AI*IA (Italian Association of Artificial Intelligence) and some of the sponsors, grants will be available for advanced students and young researchers. Details at the SCIE99 web site.=20 SCHOOL VENUE=20 The School will be held in the pleasant atmosphere of the historic city of Frascati (near Rome, Italy). The school will be hosted by the European Space Agency at ESRIN establishment. Thanks to this hospitality, we hope to reach a friendly atmosphere as in the past edition of the school, which enabled fruitful exchanges of ideas among participants. =20 Any information for SCIE-99 participation (registration fees, grants, lectures, accommodation, etc.) may be found at the school web page http://scie99.info.uniroma2.it School e-mail: scie99@info.uniroma2.it=20 For more details, please contact:=20 prof. Maria Teresa Pazienza =20 Dept. of Computer Science, Systems and Production =20 University of Roma, Tor Vergata =20 Via di Tor Vergata 00133 ROMA (ITALY) =20 tel: +39 06 72597378 (office);=20 fax +39 06 72597460; =20 e_mail: pazienza@info.uniroma2.it=20 ********** ****************************************************************** IV. PROJECTS IV.C.1. 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