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SRA International, based in Fairfax, Virginia, is currently seeking computer scientists who are interested in working on information extraction and other Natural Language Processing (NLP) research and development in an exciting, dynamic, collegial, advanced technology organisation.
Send your resume to careers@sra.com and indicate Source Code: ICORPORA
http://www.sra.com

Reuters seeks an energetic and highly motivated Language Technologist for a one-year placement within Reuters Chief Technology Office. The post would particularly suit an experienced academic looking for a sabbatical placement or a recent PhD graduate seeking to gain industrial experience.

The position would suit candidates with a NLP background who are interested in diversifying, or alternatively, candidates who have an IR background but who have interest and knowledge of NLP techniques. We seek candidates with good fundamental knowledge who wish to broaden their interests and see their expertise applied in a practical business context. Candidates with a PhD are preferred, although those with relevant experience are also invited to apply. Application areas of interest include:

Text classification and coding
Document summarisation
Document processing using XML
Information retrieval, including cross-language information retrieval
Information extraction
Machine translation
Navigation of unstructured data
Question answering systems
Speech recognition & synthesis

Responsibilities include the investigation and evaluation of new technologies and software applications, identifying those, which can have a major impact on the business, and assisting in the transfer of these technologies into the business units. You must be a good team-worker, a good communicator, self-motivated and eager to learn. Good programming experience and a willingness to tackle a wide range of problems are essential. The successful candidate will join a close knit group of highly qualified and motivated individuals who are based in London. It is hoped that the placement will start in October 2001 or asap thereafter. Candidates are therefore encouraged to submit applications at their earliest convenience.

Letters of application (including full CV) or informal enquiries should be addressed (preferably via email) to:
Dr. TG Rose, Leader of Language Technology, Reuters Ltd., 85 Fleet Street, London EC4P 4AJ, UK
Email: tony.rose@reuters.com
Visit our Internet site at:
http://www.reuters.com

The `Computational and Applied Logic' group of the Institute for Logic, Language and Computation invites applications for a full-time assistant professor.
Important Dates:
Starting date: January 1, 2002, or as soon as possible thereafter.
Application deadline: To assure full consideration, applications must be received by August 31, 2001.
Further information about this position may be obtained from Dr. M. de Rijke (+31 20 525 6511, mdr@illc.uva.nl
Further details on the `Computational and Applied Logic' group are available on the web at http://www.illc.uva.nl/~mdr/CALG/.

CSIRO Mathematical and Information Sciences,
Melbourne, Australia
More details regarding the research group's activities can be obtained from our Web site: http://www.cmis.csiro.au/tim/
Further information about the position can be obtained by contacting Dr Ross Wilkinson on:
Tel: +61 3 8341 8210
Email: Ross.Wilkinson@cmis.csiro.au
A job description and the selection criteria can be obtained from our Web site: http://www.cmis.csiro.au/Positions.Vacant/
Or from Ms Yvonne Craig on:
Tel: +61 3 9545 8009
Email: Yvonne.craig@cmis.csiro.au

http://link.springer.de/link/service/journals/00778/tocs/t1010001.htmb

Fabio Casati, Ming-Chien Shan, Dimitrios Georgakopoulos:
Editorial Guest editorial
The VLDB Journal 10 (2001) 1, 1-1; DOI 10.1007/s007780100041
URL:
http://link.springer.de/link/service/journals/00778/bibs/1010001/10100001.htm


Massimo Mecella, Barbara Pernici:
Special section Designing wrapper components for e-services in integrating heterogeneous systems
The VLDB Journal 10 (2001) 1, 2-15; DOI 10.1007/s007780100044
URL:
http://link.springer.de/link/service/journals/00778/bibs/1010001/10100002.htm


Anat Eyal, Tova Milo:
Special section Integrating and customizing heterogeneous e-commerce applications
The VLDB Journal 10 (2001) 1, 16-38; DOI 10.1007/s007780100045
URL:
http://link.springer.de/link/service/journals/00778/bibs/1010001/10100016.htm


Angela Bonifati, Stefano Ceri, Stefano Paraboschi:
Special section Active rules for XML: A new paradigm for E-services
The VLDB Journal 10 (2001) 1, 39-47; DOI 10.1007/s007780100039
URL:
http://link.springer.de/link/service/journals/00778/bibs/1010001/10100039.htm


R. Braumandl, M. Keidl, A. Kemper, D. Kossmann, A. Kreutz, S. Seltzsam, K.
Stocker:
Special section ObjectGlobe: Ubiquitous query processing on the Internet
The VLDB Journal 10 (2001) 1, 48-71; DOI 10.1007/s007780100043
URL:
http://link.springer.de/link/service/journals/00778/bibs/1010001/10100048.htm


Stanley Y.W. Su, Chunbo Huang, Joachim Hammer, Yihua Huang, Haifei Li, Liu
Wang, Youzhong Liu, Charnyote Pluempitiwiriyawej, Minsoo Lee, Herman Lam:
Special section An Internet-based negotiation server for e-commerce
The VLDB Journal 10 (2001) 1, 72-90; DOI 10.1007/s007780100051
URL:
http://link.springer.de/link/service/journals/00778/bibs/1010001/10100072.htm


German Shegalov, Michael Gillmann, Gerhard Weikum:
Special section XML-enabled workflow management for e-services across heterogeneous platforms
The VLDB Journal 10 (2001) 1, 91-103; DOI 10.1007/s007780100038
URL:
http://link.springer.de/link/service/journals/00778/bibs/1010001/10100091.htm


Anindya Datta, Kaushik Dutta, Debra VanderMeer, Krithi Ramamritham,
Shamkant B. Navathe:
Special section an architecture to support scalable online personalization on the Web
The VLDB Journal 10 (2001) 1, 104-117; DOI 10.1007/s007780100037
URL:
http://link.springer.de/link/service/journals/00778/bibs/1010001/10100104.htm

http://link.springer.de/link/service/journals/10032/tocs/t1004001.htm

Andreas Dengel, Markus Junker:
Editorial
IJDAR 4 (2001) 1, 1-1
URL:
http://link.springer.de/link/service/journals/10032/bibs/1004001/10040001.htm

Oronzo Altamura, Floriana Esposito, Donato Malerba:
si: document analysis for office systems> Transforming paper documents
into XML format with WISDOM++
IJDAR 4 (2001) 1, 2-17
URL:
http://link.springer.de/link/service/journals/10032/bibs/1004001/10040002.htm


Stefan Klink, Thomas Kieninger:
si: document analysis for office systems Rule-based document structure understanding with a fuzzy combination of layout and textual features
IJDAR 4 (2001) 1, 18-26
URL:
http://link.springer.de/link/service/journals/10032/bibs/1004001/10040018.htm


Shuhua Wang, Yang Cao, Shijie Cai:
si: document analysis for office systems Using citing information to understand the logical structure of document images
IJDAR 4 (2001) 1, 27-34
URL:
http://link.springer.de/link/service/journals/10032/bibs/1004001/10040027.htm


A. Belaid:
si: document analysis for office systems Recognition of table of contents for electronic library consulting
IJDAR 4 (2001) 1, 35-45
URL:
http://link.springer.de/link/service/journals/10032/bibs/1004001/10040035.htm


Fu Chang:
si: document analysis for office systems Retrieving information from document images: problems and solutions
IJDAR 4 (2001) 1, 46-55
URL:
http://link.springer.de/link/service/journals/10032/bibs/1004001/10040046.htm


Sonia Garcia-Salicetti, Bernadette Dorizzi, Patrick Gallinari, Zsolt
Wimmer:
si: document analysis for office systems Maximum mutual information training for an online neural predictive handwritten word recognition system
IJDAR 4 (2001) 1, 56-68
URL:
http://link.springer.de/link/service/journals/10032/bibs/1004001/10040056.htm

http://link.springer.de/link/service/journals/00799/first/tfirst.htm

[Special issue on technological challenges in electronic commerce]
Optimizing sunk investments in e-commerce: a quality assurance challenge for small businesses
Christina A. Fader
URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s007990100042

[Special issue on technological challenges in electronic commerce]
An n-gram-based approach for detecting approximately duplicate database records
Zengping Tian, Hongjun Lu, Wenyun Ji, Aoying Zhou, Zhong Tian
URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s007990100044

[Special issue on technological challenges in electronic commerce]
Performance stress vectors and capacity planning for e-commerce applications
M. Litoiu, D. Krishnamurthy, J. Rolia
URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s007990100045

[Special issue on technological challenges in electronic commerce]
Patrick Martin, Wendy Powley, Hoi-Ying Li, Keri Romanufa
Managing database server performance to meet QoS requirements in electronic commerce systems
URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s007990100046

Stefan Wermter, Jim Austin, David Willshaw 2001, Springer, Heidelberg, 577p
For more detailed information, table of contents, abstracts and chapters see:
http://www.his.sunderland.ac.uk/emernet/newbook.html
Emergent Neural Computational Architectures based on Neuroscience can be ordered from Springer-Verlag using the booking form and accessed on-line using the appropriate login and password from Springer.
http://www.his.sunderland.ac.uk/emernet/newbook.html
http://www.springer.de/cgi-bin/search_book.pl?isbn=3-540-42363-X

Harnessing the Flow
ASIST Annual Meeting
November 3-8, 2001
Washignton, DC
The Annual Meeting program is now available online at
http://www.asis.org/Conferences/AM01/index.html

LNAI 2168:
L. De Raedt, A. Siebes (Eds.):
Principles of Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery
5th European Conference, PKDD 2001, Freiburg, Germany, September 3-5, 2001,
Proceedings
http://link.springer.de/link/service/series/0558/tocs/t2168.htm

LNCS 2115:
K. Bauknecht, S.K. Madria, G. Pernul (Eds.):
Electronic Commerce and Web Technologies
Second International Conference, EC-Web 2001 Munich, Germany, September 4-6, 2001,
Proceedings
http://link.springer.de/link/service/series/0558/tocs/t2115.htm

LNCS 2114:
Y. Kambayashi, W. Winiwarter, M. Arikawa (Eds.):
Data Warehousing and Knowledge Discovery
Third International Conference, DaWaK 2001 Munich, Germany, September 5-7, 2001,
Proceedings
http://link.springer.de/link/service/series/0558/tocs/t2114.htm

February 17 to 23, 2001
Mexico City, Mexico
Call for Papers
Important dates
Full paper
Submission deadline: October 10
Notification of acceptance: November 1
Camera-ready deadline: November 15
Short paper
Submission deadline: November 5
Notification of acceptance: November 15
Camera-ready deadline: November 20
Conference: February 17-23
For more information please see
http://www.cicling.org/2002

Institute for Logic, Language and Computation
University of Amsterdam
November 29-30, 2001
Call For Submissions
www.science.uva.nl/~m4m
Important Dates
Deadline for submissions: October 12, 2001
Notification: November 5, 2001
Workshop dates: November 29-30, 2001
Further Information
Please visit www.science.uva.nl/~m4m for further information about M4M

March 13-15, 2002
Palais du Grand Large
St-Malo / France
Call For Papers
Important Dates:
Submission Deadline: September 15, 2001 (New Deadline!)
Notification: October 30, 2001
Camera ready papers: December 15, 2001
Conference: March 13-15, 2002
Web site: http://www.irisa.fr/jadt

Doubletree Hotel, San Jose, California, USA
November 29 - December 2, 2001
Call for Participation
Important Dates:
Paper Presentations (November 30 - December 2, 2001): Out of 365
Paper submissions, the IEEE ICDM '01 Program Committee accepted 72 Papers for regular presentation, and an additional 39 papers for poster presentation.
On-line registration (and other information) at
http://www.cs.uvm.edu/~xwu/icdm-01.html

July 14-18, 2002
Portland, Oregon, USA
Call for Papers
Deadlines
January 14, 2002 - Full papers, panel and tutorial proposals due
February 11, 2002 - Short papers, posters, proposals for workshops and demonstrations due
April 8, 2002 - Final submissions due
http://www.jcdl2002.org/

The 7th annual conference on Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing
Saarbruecken Germany
20-22 September 2001
Call for Participation
Urgent: Early Registration Deadline & Hotel Booking
Full conference and registration details, including registration forms can be found at:
http://www.amlap.org/2001/

Date: Sept. 20-21, 2001
Title: Metatopia; A Symposium on Metadata and Data Management
Location: NIST, Gaithersburg MD
Contact: Data Management Association - National Capital Region
Phone: 301-843-2456
Email: MickeyJem@aol.com
mailto:MickeyJem@aol.com
Web:
http://www.dama-ncr.org
http://www.dama-ncr.org/
OR
http://www.jeffersonmd.net/Metatopia2001/index.htm
http://www.jeffersonmd.net/Metatopia2001/index.htm
Short Summary (275 Characters):
This is a seminar on the development of Metadata Registries.
Tracks include standards by W3C, ISO, OASIS, OMG, MISB, and Systems Engineering.
Speakers Include experts on Standards, Data Quality and Knowledge Representation.
There will be exhibits of the latest data management tools.
If you have additional questions please contact:
Rosie Field
VP Publicity, DAMA-NCR
703-921-1657
rfield@mcneiltech.com

Sponsored by ACL/SIGPARSE
17-19 October, 2001
Beijing, China
Further information
Additional information about IWPT'01 is available at the URL:
http://www.icl.pku.edu.cn/iwpt2001/

Hyatt Regency San Francisco
Room Garden A
San Francisco, CA
August 26, 2001
Call For Participation
http://www.dmg.org

University of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia
Second 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 web page will regularly be updated with useful information about the workshop: http://www.comp.mq.edu.au/hlt/events/anlp5/

Tzigov Chark, Bulgaria,
5-7 September 2001
Call For Participation and Preliminary Program
For more information please visit
http://lml.bas.bg/ranlp2001

The Department of Information and Communications (Library and Information Management)
Manchester Metropolitan University has been allocated two studentships
Important dates:
Closing date for receipt of applications of 28th September 2001.
It is anticipated that interviews will take place around the middle of October with the successful candidates commencing their research by the beginning of November, at the latest.
More details on our research activities can be accessed at:
http://www.mmu.ac.uk/h-ss/dic/research/research.htm
To request an application form or make specific enquiries, please contact Seamus Simpson
s.simpson@mmu.ac.uk
Research Co-ordinator, Dept. of Information and Communications.