II Jobs *

Software Design Engineer *

III Notices *

III.I publication: *

Knowledge and Information Systems: An International Journal *

A Comprehensive Online Tutorial on Supervised Learning *

PS/PDF to text conversion tool called PreScript: *

III.II Meetings: *

ACM Symposium on Document Engineering *

Tenth International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management *

SIGIR 2001 Workshop on Recommender Systems *

ACM SIGIR'2001 Workshop Open Archives: Communities, Interoperability, and Services *

The First ACM+IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries *

Workshop: Information Visualisation for Digital Libraries - Defining a Research Agenda for Heterogeneous Multimedia Collections *

12th ASIS&T SIG/CR Classification Research Workshop: an interdisciplinary meeting. *

First International Zigzag Workshop *

Management of uncertainty and imprecision in multimedia information systems *

Workshop on Spatial Hypertext *

4th International Conference on Logical Aspects of Computational Linguistics *

6th International Workshop on Applications of Natural Language to Information Systems *

The Twelfth ACM Conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia: Transforming Information, Entertainment, And Culture *

ICCC/IFIP 5th Conference on Electronic Publishing - ELPUB2001 *

Summer School on Creation and Exploitation of Annotated Language Resources *

5th IEEE International Symposium on Requirements Engineering (RE'01) *

IHM-HCI 2001 *

Second International Workshop on Evaluating Word Sense Disambiguation Systems *

Seminar on Content-Based Image Retrieval *

IV Projects: *

IV.1 Scholarship *

Four Doctoral Scholarships, *

Postdoctoral Fellowship *

II Jobs

 

Software Design Engineer

The Microsoft Natural Language Group seeks a Software Design Engineer
Interested applicants should send resumes and any questions to
softjobs@microsoft.com.

 

 

III Notices

III.I publication:

 

Knowledge and Information Systems: An International Journal

ISSN: 0219-1377 (printed version)
ISSN: 0219-3116 (electronic version)
Volume 3, Number 3, August 2001
By Springer-Verlag
Home Page:
http://kais.mines.edu/~kais/home.html

 

A Comprehensive Online Tutorial on Supervised Learning

http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~tom/mlbook-chapter-slides.html

 

PS/PDF to text conversion tool called PreScript:

http://sequence.rutgers.edu/prescript/

 

III.II Meetings:

 

ACM Symposium on Document Engineering

November 9-10, 2001
Doubletree Hotel, Buckhead, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
In co-operation with ACM SIGCHI and ACM SIGWEB
Final Call for Papers
The key dates for submission and review are:
June 4, 2001: Paper and panel proposal submissions due
August 6, 2001: Authors notified
September 3, 2001: Revised camera-ready papers due
For more information, see the DocEng '01 Web page at:
http://www.documentengineering.org

 

Tenth International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management

ACM CIKM 2001
Nov. 5-10, 2001, Altanta, GA, USA
http://www.cikm.org/2001
The deadline for ABSTRACT submissions is extended to May 28.
The deadline for full paper submissions is extended to June 4.
For full conference details Please see
http://www.cikm.org/2001/

 

SIGIR 2001 Workshop on Recommender Systems

Thursday, September 13th
New Orleans, LA - USA
Call For Participation
Deadlines:
Submissions due: July 2nd, 2001
Notification of presenters: July 16th, 2001
Camera ready copy due: July 30th, 2001
http://www.cs.orst.edu/~herlock/rsw2001/

 

ACM SIGIR'2001 Workshop Open Archives: Communities, Interoperability, and Services

September 13, 2001
New Orleans, LA, USA
http://purl.org/net/oaisept01
For more information contact Edward A. Fox, fox@vt.edu

 

The First ACM+IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries

JCDL'2001
June 24-28, 2001
Roanoke, VA, USA
http://www.jcdl.org/

 

Workshop: Information Visualisation for Digital Libraries - Defining a Research Agenda for Heterogeneous Multimedia Collections

June 28, 2001
Roanoke, Virginia, USA
In conjunction with JCDL 2001 -The First ACM+IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries
Call for Papers
http://www.jcdl.org/

12th ASIS&T SIG/CR Classification Research Workshop: an interdisciplinary meeting.

Call For Papers
J.W. Marriott Hotel, Washington D.C.,
Sunday, November 4, 2001, 8:30am-5: 00pm.
Deadlines & Submission Details:
July 1, 2001: Full paper in English.
August 6, 2001: Notification of acceptance or rejection provided to submitters.
September 4, 2001: Revised papers as camera-ready copy due to workshop chair for publication in the workshop proceedings.
Oct. 15, 2000 Pre-proceedings mailed out to workshop registrants.
Additional Information:
For information regarding ASIS SIG/CR please visit
http://www.panix.com/~schwartz/asis.sigcr
For information about the ASIS SIG/CR Workshop please visit
http://www.asis.org/sigcr
Or contact
efthimis@u.washington.edu
http://www.asis.org/Conferences

 

First International Zigzag Workshop

Held at 2001 ACM Conference on Hypertext.
Tuesday, August 14, 2001
Aarhus, Denmark.
Call for Participation
Early registration deadline: July 1, 2001
Registration information is at
http://www.ht01.org/registration.html
Questions to zigzag-workshop@ecs.soton.ac.uk
Further workshop information can be found at
http://www.ht01.org/workshops.html#W4

 

Management of uncertainty and imprecision in multimedia information systems

The ECSQARU-2001 Workshop
September 18th, 2001
Toulouse, France.
Call For Papers
Deadlines:
Submission deadline: may 31st 2001
Acceptance decision: June 30th 2001
Camera-rady copy due: July 31st 2001
The ECSQARU-2001 Web page (with preliminary contents) can be found at
http://www.irit.fr/ECSQARU-2001/Ecsqaru-2001.html
The workshop Web page can be found at
http://www.irit.fr/ECSQARU-2001/workshop2.html

 

Workshop on Spatial Hypertext

Held at the 2001 ACM Conference on Hypertext
Tuesday, August 14, 2001
Aarhus, Denmark
Call For Position Papers
Important Dates:
Position papers due: June 11, 2001
Acceptance notification: June 22, 2001
Early registration deadline: July 1, 2001

Papers should be emailed as PDF files (or other reasonable attachment formats) to Frank Shipman (shipman@cs.tamu.edu

4th International Conference on Logical Aspects of Computational Linguistics

LACL 2001
June 27 -- 29, 2001
Le Croisic (on the ocean coast, nearby Nantes), France
Second Call for Participation
The deadline for early registration: June 1st
Practical information, schedule, on-line registration:
http://www.irisa.fr/manifestations/2001/LACL2001
http://www.irisa.fr/LACL2001

 

6th International Workshop on Applications of Natural Language to Information Systems

NLDB’01
June 28-29, 2001.
Madrid, Spain
Call for Participation
http://www.ls.fi.upm.es/nldb01

 

The Twelfth ACM Conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia: Transforming Information, Entertainment, And Culture

Hypertext 2001
August 14-18, 2001
Århus, Denmark
Call For Participation
July 1st is the deadline for early bird registration rate

http://www.ht01.org/

 

ICCC/IFIP 5th Conference on Electronic Publishing - ELPUB2001

2001 in the Digital Publishing Odyssey
5-7 July 2001, University of Kent at Canterbury, UK.
For further information including an Advance Programme and Registration information see:
http://library.ukc.ac.uk/iccc/2001/
Or e-mail:
elpub-2001@ukc.ac.uk

 

Summer School on Creation and Exploitation of Annotated Language Resources

EUROLAN 2001

5th in the series of Eurolan Schools
30 July - 11 August 2001
Iasi, Romania
You can still register before 7 June at:
http://www.infoiasi.ro/~eurolan2001/fees.html

 

5th IEEE International Symposium on Requirements Engineering (RE'01)

August 27-31, 2001
Royal York Hotel, Toronto, Canada
Call for Participation
For information and registration details, see
http://www.re01.org/

 

IHM-HCI 2001

10-14 September 2001
Lille
The full programme for the conference will be available in early/mid June
Registration is now open Goto
http://www.ihm-hci2001.org

 

Second International Workshop on Evaluating Word Sense Disambiguation Systems

SENSEVAL-2
JULY 5-6, 2001,
Toulouse, France
Call For Participation
Registration:
Register here:
http://www.irit.fr/ACTIVITES/EQ_ILPL/aclWeb/acl2001.html
Early registration: by May 24 (lower registration fee)
Late registration: May 25 - June 24
After June 24th, registration will be on site only
www.sle.sharp.co.uk/senseval2

 

Seminar on Content-Based Image Retrieval

A Joint seminar by:
Institute for Image Data Research, University of Northumbria and
Manchester Visualisation Centre, University of Manchester
Friday 6 July, 2001, at University of Northumbria, Newcastle upon Tyne
10.00 - 16.30 hrs
Friday 20 July, 2001, at University of Manchester, Manchester
10.00 - 16.30 hrs
To register for either seminar, complete the online booking form at
http://www.cbir.org.uk/seminar/register.html
The general programme is given below and the specific programme for each seminar date is available at
http://www.cbir.org.uk/seminar/

 

IV Projects:

 

IV.1 Scholarship

 

Four Doctoral Scholarships,

Beginning October 1st, 2001,
European Post-Graduate College
Language Technology and Cognitive Systems
Saarbruecken - Edinburgh
Closing date for applications is May 31st, 2001
Applications should be sent to the speaker of the college (see address below)
Prof. Dr. Matthew Crocker (Speaker)
Department of Computational Linguistics
Saarland University
P.O. Box 15 11 50
D-66041 Saarbruecken, Germany
Tel: +49 (0) 681 302-6560 E-mail:
egk-admin@coli.uni-sb.de
Fax: +49 (0) 681 302-6561 Internet: http://www.coli.uni-sb.de/egk

 

Postdoctoral Fellowship

Smart Media Institute
University College Dublin
To apply, send a CV, three letters of reference, and copies of several recent papers to: Dr Nicholas Kushmerick: email-
nick@ucd.ie; post-Nicholas Kushmerick, Computer Science Department, University College Dublin, Dublin 4, Ireland. University College Dublin is an Equal Opportunity Employer.