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IV Projects *

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill seeks candidates for a tenure-track position in the School of Information and Library Science (at assistant, associate, or full professor ranks). The School offers an undergraduate minor in information systems, masters' degrees in information science and library science, and the PhD
For details see
http://www.ils.unc.edu

University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
School of Information Studies
Application review begins June 30th, 2001 until an appointment is made.
The starting date is August 20, 2001 or negotiable
Send letters of application, resume, and three letters of reference to:
Dr. Dietmar Wolfram, Chair, Search Committee
School of Information Studies
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
P.O. Box 413
Milwaukee, WI 53201
Phone: (414) 229-6836
Fax: (414) 229-4848
Email: dwolfram@uwm.edu

1. Postgraduate Research Assistant with research experience in
English or Scots Language or Linguistics
2. Postgraduate Computing Officer with experience of text encoding,
Web server and Unix system administration
University of Glasgow
Department of English Language
(In association with the HCRC Language Technology Group, Division of Informatics, University of Edinburgh)
Closing date: 22/6/01
For further details, see
http://www.arts.gla.ac.uk/SESLL/SCOTS/

New version of WordNet (1.7) coming soon

Is available from MIT press. D-lib magazine
http://www.cogsci.princeton.edu/~wn/

Special Topic Issue of JASIST on Web Retrieval and Mining
The next Special Topics Issue of the is scheduled to come out in 2003 on the topic of Web Retrieval and Mining
Call for Papers
The deadline for accepting manuscripts for consideration for publication in this special issue is October 1, 2001.
A copy of the call for papers will be available on the World Wide Web, as is further information about JASIST, at
http://www.asis.org/

Special Topic Issue on Modelling Vagueness and Subjectivity in Information Access
Call For Papers
Deadline for submission extended to 31 July 2001.
Schedule:
Call for papers issued: December 5, 2000
Papers due: May 15, 2001
Notifications to authors: July 15, 2001
For more details refer to the ``Instructions to contributors'' included in each issue of Information Processing and Management and as found on the journal web site:
http://www.elsevier.nl/locate/infoproman

Tom Mitchell made available the slides drawn from his book on ML. The address is the following:
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~tom/mlbook-chapter-slides.html

John Benjamins Publishers
Launched a new book series on Natural Language Processing
The editor of the book series is Ruslan Mitkov R.Mitkov@wlv.ac.uk
Managing editor at John Benjamins is Kees Vaes kees.vaes@benjamins.nl
For more details see
http://www.wlv.ac.uk/~le1825/NLP_series.htm

Journal: Artificial Intelligence
ISSN: 0004-3702
Volume: 129
Issue: 1-2
Date: Jun-2001
pp 1-4
Heuristic search in artificial intelligence
W. Zhang, R. Dechter, R.E. Korf
http://www.elsevier.nl/PII/S0004370201001114
pp 5-33
Planning as heuristic search
B. Bonet, H. Geffner
http://www.elsevier.nl/PII/S0004370201001084
pp 35-62
LAO*: A heuristic search algorithm that finds solutions with loops
E.A. Hansen, S. Zilberstein
http://www.elsevier.nl/PII/S0004370201001060
pp 63-90
Searching stochastically generated multi-abstraction-level design spaces
L. Steinberg
http://www.elsevier.nl/PII/S0004370201001059
pp 91-131
A general scheme for automatic generation of search heuristics from specification dependencies^*
K. Kask, R. Dechter
http://www.elsevier.nl/PII/S0004370201001072
pp 133-163
Exploiting symmetries within constraint satisfaction search^*
P. Meseguer, C. Torras
http://www.elsevier.nl/PII/S0004370201001047
pp 165-197
Minimax real-time heuristic search
S. Koenig
http://www.elsevier.nl/PII/S0004370201001035
pp 199-218
Time complexity of iterative-deepening-A^*
R.E. Korf, M. Reid, S. Edelkamp
http://www.elsevier.nl/PII/S0004370201000947
pp 219-251
Sokoban: Enhancing general single-agent search methods using domain knowledge
A. Junghanns, J. Schaeffer
http://www.elsevier.nl/PII/S0004370201001096
pp 253-277
The PN^*-search algorithm: Application to tsume-shogi
M. Seo, H. Iida, J.W.H.M. Uiterwijk
http://www.elsevier.nl/PII/S0004370201000844
pp 279-311
Partial order bounding: A new approach to evaluation in game tree search
M. Muller
http://www.elsevier.nl/PII/S0004370201000856
pp 313-314
Special Issue of the journal Artificial Intelligence on ''AI & Law''
E.L. Rissland, K.D. Ashley, R.P. Loui
http://www.elsevier.nl/PII/S0004370201001175
pp 315-317
Forthcoming Papers
http://www.elsevier.nl/PII/S0004370201001151
pp 319-320
Author Index-Volume 129 (2001)
http://www.elsevier.nl/PII/S0004370201001163
Please note that abstracts are freely accessible by all, full text is restricted to subscribers only.
Visit the journal at http://www.elsevier.nl/locate/jnlnr/05255

Journal: Information Sciences
ISSN: 0020-0255
Volume: 135
Issue: 1-2
Date: Jun-2001
pp 1-11
Data compression with long repeated strings
J. Bentley, D. McIlroy
http://www.elsevier.nl/PII/S0020025501000974
pp 13-28
An experimental study of a compressed index
P. Ferragina, G. Manzini
http://www.elsevier.nl/PII/S0020025501000986
pp 29-41
Compression in the presence of shared data
M. Factor, D. Sheinwald
http://www.elsevier.nl/PII/S0020025501000998
pp 43-56
Parallelism and dictionary based data compression
S. De Agostino
http://www.elsevier.nl/PII/S0020025501001001
pp 57-70
On the average redundancy rate of the Lempel-Ziv code with the k-error
protocol
Y.A. Reznik, W. Szpankowski
http://www.elsevier.nl/PII/S0020025501001013
pp 71-86
Block matching displacement estimation: a sliding window approach
B. Carpentieri
http://www.elsevier.nl/PII/S0020025501001025
pp 87-105
Optimal encoding of non-stationary sources
J.H. Reif, J.A. Storer
http://www.elsevier.nl/PII/S0020025501001037
pp 107-122
LZ-based image compression
F. Rizzo, J.A. Storer, B. Carpentieri
http://www.elsevier.nl/PII/S0020025501001049
Please note that abstracts are freely accessible by all, full text is restricted to subscribers only.
Visit the journal at http://www.elsevier.nl/locate/jnlnr/07669

Journal: Artificial Intelligence
ISSN: 0004-3702
Volume: 130
Issue: 1
Date: Jul-2001
pp 1-26
The effect of mobility on minimaxing of game trees with random leaf values
M. Levene, T.I. Fenner
http://www.elsevier.nl/PII/S0004370201000728
pp 27-74
Database semantics for natural language
R. Hausser
http://www.elsevier.nl/PII/S0004370201000832
pp 75-84
Hybrid hardware for a highly parallel search in the context of learning classifiers
M. Bode, O. Freyd, J. Fischer, F.-J. Niedernostheide, H.-J. Schulze
http://www.elsevier.nl/PII/S0004370201000534
pp 85-118
Least commitment in Graphplan
M. Cayrol, P. Regnier, V. Vidal
http://www.elsevier.nl/PII/S0004370201000820
pp 119-121
Christoph Adami, Introduction to Artificial Life^*
T. Taylor
http://www.elsevier.nl/PII/S0004370201000911
pp 123-124
Forthcoming Papers
http://www.elsevier.nl/PII/S0004370201001205
Please note that abstracts are freely accessible by all, full text is restricted to subscribers only.
Visit the journal at http://www.elsevier.nl/locate/jnlnr/05255

August 24 -- September 1, 2002
Howard International House, Taipei, Taiwan
Organised by:
Academia Sinica, ACLCLP and National Tsing Hua University
Under the Auspices of:
The International Committee on Computational Linguistics
Call for Papers
Important Dates:
Deadline for Workshop Proposals: January 15, 2002
Deadline for paper submission: February 15, 2002
Notification of Workshops: February 15, 2002
Notification to authors: May 1, 2002
Arrival of final camera-ready copy and registration of authors: June 15, 2002
Tutorials: August 24 - 25, 2002 (Academia Sinica)
Conference: August 26 - 30, 2002 (Howard International House)
Post-Conference Workshops: August 31, September 1, 2002 (Academia Sinica)
http://www.coling2002.sinica.edu.tw/

Seminar announcement:
LA Cataloguing and Indexing Group
ARLIS/UK & Ireland
In association with the Institute for Image Data Research
Library Association, 7 Ridgmount Street, London WC1E 7AE
Monday 16 July 2001, 10.00-16.15 hrs
Further information and a registration form are available at:
http://www.unn.ac.uk/iidr/image.html

Roanoke, Virginia
June 28, 2001
Workshop in conjunction with the 2001 Joint Conference on Digital Libraries:
Call for Participation
http://www.jcdl.org/

FUZZ-IEEE 2001 Conference
University of Melbourne, Australia.
December 2nd / 3rd 2001
Important Dates:
Extended Abstract Submission: June 27, 2001
Notification of Acceptance: July 20, 2001
Final Paper Submission Due: August 10, 2001
Workshop Dates: December 2-3, 2001
Conference Web page
http://www.studentadmin.unimelb.edu.au/fuzzy/

The deadline for final paper submissions has been extended until July 1, 2001
Papers may be submitted in PDF or MS Word format.
For more Information see
http://www.cs.dal.ca/~shepherd/hicss35/dduac35.html

Hypertext 2001
Transforming Information, Entertainment, And Culture
August 14-18, 2001
Lake Lecture Theatre, University of Aarhus, Århus, Denmark
Call For Demonstrations & Posters
Important Deadline Approaching
June 15th, 2001: Poster proposals and Demonstration proposals due
June 25th, 2001: Notification of acceptance for Posters and Demonstrations.
July 1st, 2001: Deadline for early registration fee.
August 14-15, 2001: Hypertext 2001 - Tutorials and Workshops
August 16-18, 2001: Hypertext 2001 - Main Conference
For details:
http://www.ht01.org

The ECSQARU-2001 Workshop
Toulouse, France, September 18th, 2001
Call For Papers
Extended Deadline to June 15th 2001
Deadlines:
Submission deadline: New Deadline June 15th 2001
Acceptance decision: June 30th 2001
Camera-ready copy due: July 31st 2001
The workshop Web page can be found at:
http://www.irit.fr/ECSQARU-2001/workshop2.html
The ECSQARU-2001 Web page (with preliminary contents) can be found at: http://www.irit.fr/ECSQARU-2001/Ecsqaru-2001.html

Sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society
November 29 - December 2, 2001
Doubletree Hotel, San Jose, California, USA
Call for Papers
Papers due: June 15, 2001
Submission web site:
http://wie.mines.edu/register/login.jsp
Home Page:
http://kais.mines.edu/~xwu/icdm/icdm-01.html

Fourth International Conference, 2002.
Harvard University
Wednesday March 27th- Saturday March 30th.
Call For Papers
Submission Deadline: October 31st, 2001.
Web site for this conference:
http://www.ling.ed.ac.uk/evolang2002/

8th - 9th September 2001,
Strasbourg
Call For Work-In-Progress Papers
Important Dates:
Paper submission deadline: June 24
Notification of acceptance: July 9
Final version due: July 27
http://www.fi.muni.cz/ilpnet2/LLL2001

University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, USA
11-13 December 2001
Call For Abstracts and Proposals
Timetable:
Friday 14 September: Proposals for tutorials and position papers - please email the organisers.
Friday 14 September: Abstracts for papers (400 words) and demonstrations (200 words).
Friday November 30: Final papers (10-page limit)
http://www.ldc.upenn.edu/annotation/database/

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

Embedded MT Systems: Leveraging for Real World Applications
Call For Papers
Schedule:
Call for papers issued: 1 June 2001
Papers due: 19 October 2001
Notification to authors: 22 February 200
Details concerning the format for initial submissions forthcoming and will be posted on the homepage:
http://lamp.cfar.umd.edu/Embedded_MT_Systems/

The submission deadline has been extended to 25 June (from 10 June).
http://www2.sis.pitt.edu/~sigir01

The 24th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in
Information Retrieval
September 9 - 13, 2001
New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
Is available at the conference web site http://www.sigir2001.org
Registration forms are now available from http://www.sigir2001.org

A special session within the Pacific Symposium on Bio-computing 2002
January 3-7, 2002
Second Call for Papers
Kauai Marriott Resort and Beach Club
Submission information:
Submissions are due 16 July 2001
Decisions are announced 31 August 2001
Camera ready copy due 24 September 2001
Poster abstracts due 5 November 2001
Further information http://psb.stanford.edu

Institute for Logic, Language and Computation
University of Amsterdam
November 29-30, 2001
Call For Submissions
Deadline: October 12, 2001
www.science.uva.nl/~m4m

27 - 29 November, 2001
National Center of Science
Tokyo, Japan
NLPRS 2001 Final Call For Papers
Important Dates:
Paper registration deadline: July 10th, 2001
Paper submissions deadline: July 16th, 2001
Notification of acceptance: September, 3rd, 2001 (*NEW)
Camera ready papers due: October, 5th, 2001 (*NEW)
NLPRS 2001 Conference: November 27-29, 2001
URL: http://www.r.dl.itc.u-tokyo.ac.jp/NLPRS2001.html

September 2001
University of Sheffield
More information about the departments may be found at:
http://www.shef.ac.uk/english/language/index.html
And
http://www.shef.ac.uk/~is.

Computer Science, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow,
Scotland, UK
For informal inquiries, please contact Dr Fabio Crestani, e-mail:
fabioc@cs.strath.ac.uk.
http://www.dis.strath.ac.uk/

The University of Wolverhampton, School of Humanities, Languages and Social Sciences
Applications should be sent to
Prof. R. Mitkov
School of Humanities, Languages and Social Sciences
University of Wolverhampton
Stafford St.
Wolverhampton
WV1 1SB
The application form can be downloaded from
http://www.wlv.ac.uk/sles/compling/news/AHRB_app_form.doc
The closing date for applications is 12 July 2001.
The short-listed applicants will be interviewed in the week starting 23 July.
For further information/queries, please contact
Prof. Ruslan Mitkov, tel. 01902 322471,
Email R.Mitkov@wlv.ac.uk.

Institute for Logic, Language and Computation
Universiteit van Amsterdam
For more information about the project Please consult:
http://www.science.uva.nl/~mdr/Projects/ComputingwithMeaning/

Division of Informatics and Human Communication Research Centre,
University of Edinburgh
Application deadline: July 15th 2001
Information about students, the PhD Programme, and how to apply for a PhD can be found by following the various links from the following URL:
http://www.informatics.ed.ac.uk/prospectus/graduate/research.html