II Jobs
*Research Positions in Edinburgh:
*Dean of the Graduate School of Library and Information Science
*III Notices:
*III.1 Publications:
*Journal of Interacting with Computers, (Vol. 13 Iss6)
*Automatic Summarization
*Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2001)
*Papers of Arabic NLP Workshop at ACL/EACL in Toulouse
*Recherches Sur Le Francais Parle No 16
*Open Domain (Q & A)
*Bulgarian Corpus, A Demo Version of Morphological Processor for Bulgarian.
*A New Issue Of Information Research Is Now Available
*III.2 Meetings
*The Seventh ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining
*Workshop on User Modeling, Machine Learning and Information Retrieval
*Twenty-Fifth Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval
*IRM UK Strategic IT Training is pleased to announce the following seminars:
*Special Track on: Information Access and Retrieval Systems
*Call for Participation ILP/LLL 2001,
http://hydria.u-strasbg.fr/ILP2001/ *NRHM-2001 on Theme of Digital Libraries
*ACM SIGIR 2001 Workshop On: Open Archives: Communities, Interoperability, And Services
*2ème appel - Journée Linguistique de Corpus
*Text Learning: Beyond Supervision
*Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing AMLaP-2001
*5th Australasian Natural Language Processing Workshop
*IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance, 2001, and associated workshops: IEEE SCAM, IEEE WESS, IEEE WSE, TABOO.
*Third International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC)
*Workshop on: Integrating Data Mining and Knowledge Management (ICDM-01)
*Update on SIGIR 2001 Conference Hotel Rate
*Special Session: Multimedia Web Retrieval
*IV Projects
*Funded PhD Opportunities in Computing, Engineering & Technology
*Two PhD Positions and one Postdoc Position
*Assistant Professorship at ILLC
*Research Positions in Edinburgh:
Appointment 1: Research Fellow in Information Extraction
Appointment 2: Research Fellow in Corpus Markup Architecture
Please quote ref: C16579 for Appointment 1 and C16580 for Appointment 2.
The closing date is Friday 10 August 2001.
For further particulars and application pack visit our web site
Dean of the Graduate School of Library and Information Science
The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Nominations and applications (including vita and a list of five references) should be sent by October 1, 2001 to:
Dr. Susan Fowler, Chair
Search Committee for the Dean of the Graduate School of Library and Information Science
C/o Office of the Provost
University of Illinois
Swanlund Administration Building
601 E. John Street
Champaign, IL 61820
Attention: Kathleen H. Pecknold (217/333-4523) (217/244-5639-fax)
Additional information about the Graduate School of Library and Information Science may be found on the web at:
Journal of Interacting with Computers, (Vol. 13 Iss6)
Journal: Interacting with Computers
ISSN: 0953-5438
Volume: 13
Issue: 6
Date: Aug-2001
Please note that abstracts are freely accessible by all, full text is restricted to subscribers only.
pp 627-629
Interfaces for the Active Web (Part 2)
D. Clarke, A. Dix
pp 631-654
Automatic generation of instructional hypermedia with APHID
J.R. Thomson, J. Greer, J. Cooke
Inderjeet Mani
John Benjamins Pub Co; ISBN: 1588110591 (hardcover), 1588110605 (paperback)
Table Of Contents:
PREFACE
I. PRELIMINARIES
1. Introduction
2. Basic Notions for Summarization
3. Abstract Architecture for Summarization
4. Summarization Approaches
5. Current Applications
6. Conclusion
7. Review
II. PROFESSIONAL SUMMARIZING
1. Introduction
2. The stages of abstracting
3. Abstracting Strategies
4. Reading for Abstracting
5. Revision
6. Psychological Experiments
7. Structure of Empirical Abstracts
8. Conclusion
9. Review
III. EXTRACTION
1. Introduction
2. The Edmundsonian Paradigm
3. Corpus Based Sentence Extraction
3.1 General Considerations
3.2 Aspects of Learning Approaches
4. Coherence of Extracts
5. Conclusion
6. Review
IV. REVISION
1. Introduction
2. Shallow Coherence Smoothing
3. Full Revision to Improve Informativeness
3.1 Case Study: Full Revision
3.2 Related Work
3.3 Implications
4. Text Compaction
5. Conclusion
6. Review
V. DISCOURSE-LEVEL INFORMATION
1. Introduction
2. Text Cohesion
2.1 Introduction
2.2 Cohesion Graph Topology
2.3 Topic Characterization
3. Text Coherence
3.1 Introduction
3.2 Coherence Relations
3.3 Rhetorical Structure Theory (RST)
3.4 Rhetorical Structure and Cue Phrases
3.5 The Document Scheme, Revisited
4. Conclusion
5. Review
VI. ABSTRACTION
1. Introduction
2. Abstraction from Templates
2.1 Introduction
2.2 Case Study: Sketchy Scripts
2.3 Modern Information Extraction
3. Abstraction by Term Rewriting
4. Abstraction using Event Relations
5. Abstraction using a Concept Hierarchy
5.1. Domain Knowledge Base Activation
5.2. Generic Thesaurus Activation
6. Synthesis for Abstraction
6.1. Pretty printing
6.2. Graphical Output
6.3. Extraction
6.4. Generation for Synthesis
7. Conclusion
8. Review
VII. MULTI-DOCUMENT SUMMARIZATION
1. Introduction
2. Types of relationships across documents
3. MDS methods
3.1 Overview
3.2 Specific Approaches
4. Case Study: Biographical Summarization
4.1 Introduction
4.2 Example Architecture
4.3 Algorithm Steps
4.4 Bio Summarizer Components
4.5 Assessment
5. Conclusion
6. Review
VIII. MULTIMEDIA SUMMARIZATION
1. Introduction
2. Dialog Summarization
3. Summarization of Video
4. Summarization of Diagrams
5. Automatic Multimedia Briefing Generation
6. Conclusion
7. Review
IX. EVALUATION
1. Introduction
2. Intrinsic Methods
2.1 Assessing Agreement Between Subjects
2.2 Quality
2.3 Informativeness
2.4 Component-level tests
3. Extrinsic Methods
3.1 Relevance Assessment
3.2 Reading Comprehension
3.3 Presentation Strategies
3.4 Mature System Evaluation
4. Conclusion
5. Review
X. POSTSCRIPT
REFERENCES
INDEX
John Benjamins’ NLP series (NLP-3)
Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2001)
2001 SIGDAT Conference
Online proceedings
Papers of Arabic NLP Workshop at ACL/EACL in Toulouse
You can now access the papers presented at the Arabic NLP Workshop at ACL2001 in Toulouse from the following URL:
Recherches Sur Le Francais Parle No 16
256 Pages
ISBN 2-85399-482-1
Publications de l'Université de Provence
Order form and details:
Editors: Tomek Strzalkowski (SUNY Albany) and Sanda Harabagiu (University of Texas at Austin)
Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers B.V. Dordrecht
Publication date (expected): winter 2002
Call For Contributions
Bulgarian Corpus, A Demo Version of Morphological Processor for Bulgarian.
Available on the web page of the BulTreeBank Project:
A New Issue Of Information Research Is Now Available
The Seventh ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining
KDD-2001
August 26-29, 2001, San Francisco, CA, USA
KDD-2001 Call for Participation
Register online at
Workshop on User Modeling, Machine Learning and Information Retrieval
UM2001 8th International Conference on User Modeling
July 13-14, 2001 - Sonthofen, Germany
Call for Participation & Schedule
SIGIR 2002
August 11 - 15, 2002
Tampere, Finland
Preliminary Call for Papers
Important Dates:
January 28: Paper submissions due
February 28: Proposals for tutorials, workshops, demonstrations and posters due
April 19: Notification of acceptance for all submissions
May 24: Final camera-ready copy due
For requirements and details on submission of posters and on proposals for tutorials, workshops, and demonstrations of systems, see
IRM UK Strategic IT Training is pleased to announce the following seminars:
Meta Data Recovery: Planning for XML-Based Implementation,
27-28 September 2001, London
XML: It's Impact on Data Management, Administration and Architecture
24-26 September 2001, London
Enterprise Architecture: A Framework for Managing Information, Technology and Organisational Change
24-25 September 2001, London
Special Track on: Information Access and Retrieval Systems
http://www.cs.strath.ac.uk/~fabioc/SAC2002/
Call for Participation ILP/LLL 2001,
http://hydria.u-strasbg.fr/ILP2001/Third workshop on Learning Language in Logic, September 8-9
NRHM-2001 on Theme of Digital Libraries
Important Dates:
Submission deadline: 1st August 2001
Acceptance notification: 1st October 2001
Final manuscripts due: 1st November 2001
For additional information on NRHM, see
ACM SIGIR 2001 Workshop On: Open Archives: Communities, Interoperability, And Services
September 13, 2001
New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S.A.
Do you know what "OAI" is?
Do you know how "Open Archives" relates to IR?
Are you interested in interoperability of digital libraries and information >systems?
Would you like to help "archives of the world unite"? (And other types of collections)
Would you like to promote information sharing, from the small to the large?
Do you want to take a practical step to move WWW to the Semantic Web?
Are you concerned about new architectures for digital libraries and IR systems?
Do you have personal or group or department or organization collections where the metadata could be shared, inside a community or worldwide?
Are you part of a community with distributed information resources that need to be searched?
Do you want a very simple scheme that supports some of the functions of Z39.50, where all the code is free and simple to install and use?
Important Dates:
Submission (position statement): July 16, 2001
Notification of acceptance: July 31, 2001
Final submission (of revised position statement): August 15, 2001
Workshop: September 13, 2001
For further Information see website at
2ème appel - Journée Linguistique de Corpus
Journée « Linguistique de Corpus et Linguistique Appliquée »
Université de Bretagne Sud, Lorient,
14 septembre 2001
Le programme sera communiqué sur le site
Text Learning: Beyond Supervision
Workshop at IJCAI 2001
August 6, 2001
Seattle, Washington
FINAL CFP
Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing AMLaP-2001
Call for Participation
20-22 September 2001
Saarbruecken, Germany
Full conference and registration details, including registration forms can be found at:
5th Australasian Natural Language Processing Workshop
University of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia
11th December 2001
Call for Papers
Important Dates
Paper submission: Friday 21st September 2001.
Notification of acceptance: Monday 8th October 2001.
Camera-ready copy: Monday 29th October 2001.
Workshop: Tuesday 11th December 2001.
More Information
The ANLP5 webpage will regularly be updated with useful information about the workshop:
Florence, Italy, 6-10 November 2001
Third International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC)
Las Pas, Canary Islands - Spain.
The dates are as follows:
Main Conference: 29-30-31 May 2002
Workshops: 27-28 May and 1-2 June 2002
The detailed announcement will be available at the following addresses:
Workshop on: Integrating Data Mining and Knowledge Management (ICDM-01)
Doubletree Hotel, San Jose, California, USA
November 29 - December 2, 2001
Call for Papers
Update on SIGIR 2001 Conference Hotel Rate
The room rate at the conference hotel, the Radisson Hotel New Orleans, during the SIGIR '01 conference has been lowered from $129/night to $99/night, single or double.
Reservations information is available at the conference web site:
Special Session: Multimedia Web Retrieval
IEEE ITCC2002; 3rd International Conference on Information Technology: Coding and Computing.
April 1-3, 2002, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.
Call For Papers
Important Dates:
Papers due: October 1, 2001
Notification of Acceptance: November 13, 2001
Camera-Ready Paper Due: December 15, 2001
ITCC2002 URL:
Funded PhD Opportunities in Computing, Engineering & Technology
The School of Computing, Engineering & Technology
University of Sunderland
You may also find out more about either our PhD or MPhil research degrees, the current studentships and grants available by looking at:
Two PhD Positions and one Postdoc Position
Institute for Logic
Language and Computation Cognitive Systems and Information Processing group
University of Amsterdam
Project "Towards a Unifying Model for Linguistic, Musical and Visual
Processing"
Applicants should submit a full resume including a statement of research interests, and the names and email addresses of at least two references to
Assistant Professorship at ILLC
The `Computational and Applied Logic' group
The Institute for Logic, Language and Computation
University of Amsterdam
Starting date: January 1, 2002, or as soon as possible thereafter.
Application deadline: August 31, 2001.
Further information about this position may be obtained from Dr. M. de Rijke
Tel: +31 20 525 6511
Email: