The School of Information and Library Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill invites nominations and applications for a tenure-track faculty position (at assistant, associate, or full professor rank). The School offers an undergraduate minor in information systems, master's degrees in information science and library science, and the PhD

For details see

http://www.ils.unc.edu

The School seeks a dynamic colleague with an active research agenda and excellent teaching ability with expertise in an area of information systems, such as information retrieval, database management, human-computer interaction, computer supported collaborative work, or information architecture. Candidates should be comfortable in an interdisciplinary environment. Faculty members are expected to engage in research, to teach at both the undergraduate and graduate level, to advise students, and to serve on School and University committee.

An earned doctorate is required. Applicants should provide evidence of research and teaching excellence in their area of expertise.
Salary and rank will be commensurate with qualifications and position level.
Applications will be accepted until the position is filled. Please send a
letter of application, resume, and names of five references to: SILS Search
Committee, School of Information and Library Science, CB #3360 - Manning
Hall, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC
27599-3360. Phone 919-962-8062; fax 919-962-8071, email: daniel@ils.unc.edu
mailto:daniel@ils.unc.edu

III Notices

III.1 Publications

Embedded MT Systems: Leveraging for Real World Applications

Special Issue of Machine Translation
Call For Papers
Schedule
Call for papers issued: 1 June 2001
Papers due: 19 October 2001
Notification to authors: 22 February 20
http://lamp.cfar.umd.edu/Embedded_MT_Systems/

Recommendation Systems: A Probabilistic Analysis

An Interesting Article in: Journal of Computer and System Sciences (0022-0000)
Volume 63, Number 1, August 2001
http://www.idealibrary.com/links/toc/jcss/63/1
Recommendation Systems: A Probabilistic Analysis
Ravi Kumar, Prabhakar Raghavan, Sridhar Rajagopalan, Andrew Tomkins
pp. 42-61 (doi:10.1006/jcss.2001.1757)
http://www.idealibrary.com/links/doi/10.1006/jcss.2001.1757

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

LNAI 2190:
A. de Antonio, R. Aylett, D. Ballin (Eds.):
Intelligent Virtual Agents
Third International Workshop, IVA 2001, Madrid, Spain, September 10-11,
2001,
Proceedings
http://link.springer.de/link/service/series/0558/tocs/t2190.htm

LNAI 2167:
L. De Raedt, P. Flach (Eds.):
Machine Learning: EMCL 2001
12th European Conference on Machine Learning, Freiburg, Germany, September
5-7, 2001,
Proceedings
http://link.springer.de/link/service/series/0558/tocs/t2167.htm

LNCS 2163:
P. Constantopoulos, I.T. Sølvberg (Eds.):
Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries
5th European Conference, ECDL 2001, Darmstadt, Germany, September 4-9,
2001,
Proceedings
http://link.springer.de/link/service/series/0558/tocs/t2163.htm

LNCS 2151:
A. Caplinskas, J. Eder (Eds.):
Advances in Databases and Information Systems
5th East European Conference, ADBIS 2001, Vilnius, Lithuania September
25-28, 2001,
Proceedings
http://link.springer.de/link/service/series/0558/tocs/t2151.htm

Journal: Information Processing and Management

ISSN: 0306-4573
Volume: 38
Issue: 1
Date: Jan-2002
Visit the journal at http://www.elsevier.nl/locate/jnlnr/00244

pp 1-36
Improving the retrieval effectiveness of very short queries
C.J. Crouch, D.B. Crouch, Q. Chen, S.J. Holtz

pp 37-54
Visualizing a high recall search strategy output for undergraduates in an
exploration stage of researching a term paper
C. Cole, B. Mandelblatt, J. Stevenson

pp 55-77
Patterns between interactive intentions and information-seeking strategies
H.(. Xie

pp 79-89
Document organization using Kohonen's algorithm
V.P. Guerrero Bote, F.d. Moya Anegon, V. Herrero Solana

pp 91-109
Effective foreign word extraction for Korean information retrieval
B.-J. Kang, K.-S. Choi

pp 111-140
Discovering authorities and hubs in different topological web graph
structures
G. Meghabghab

pp 141-156
Assessing bias in search engines
A. Mowshowitz, A. Kawaguchi

Prague Dependency Treebank 1.0

The Linguistic Data Consortium (LDC) announces the availability of the Prague Dependency Treebank 1.0.
http://www.ldc.upenn.edu/Catalog/LDC2001T10.html
This single CD-ROM Czech language release contains the following material:
* Morphologically and syntactically annotated Czech data, 1.8MW
* Czech-English parallel Corpus, aligned, 0.9MW/1MW
* Czech raw texts (newspaper and journals), over 30MW
* Czech NLP tools (morphology, tagging)
* General annotation tools (tree editors, tree viewer)

The September 2001 issue of D-Lib Magazine

http://www.dlib.org/ is now available. The table of contents is at http://www.dlib.org/dlib/september01/09contents.html

Knowledge and Information Systems: An International Journal

ISSN: 0219-1377 (printed version)
ISSN: 0219-3116 (electronic version)

I. Volume 3, Number 3 (August 2001)
http://link.springer-ny.com/link/service/journals/10115/tocs/t1003003.htm

Regular Papers

- Eamonn Keogh, Kaushik Chakrabarti, Michael Pazzani, Sharad Mehrotra:
   Dimensionality Reduction for Fast Similarity Search in Large Time
   Series Databases, 263-286
   URL:
http://link.springer.de/link/service/journals/10115/bibs/1003003/10030263.htm

- Juan C. Augusto, Guillermo R. Simari:
   Temporal Defeasible Reasoning, 287-318
   URL:
http://link.springer.de/link/service/journals/10115/bibs/1003003/10030287.htm

- Mei-Ling Shyu, Shu-Ching Chen, R. L. Kashyap:
   Generalized Affinity-Based Association Rule Mining for Multimedia
   Database Queries, 319-337
   URL:
http://link.springer.de/link/service/journals/10115/bibs/1003003/10030319.htm

- Guanling Lee, K. L. Lee, Arbee L. P. Chen:
   Efficient Graph-Based Algorithms for Discovering and Maintaining
   Association Rules in Large Databases, 338-355
   URL:
http://link.springer.de/link/service/journals/10115/bibs/1003003/10030338.htm

- Yong S. Choi:
   Discovering Text Databases with Neural Nets, 356-373
   URL:
http://link.springer.de/link/service/journals/10115/bibs/1003003/10030356.htm

Short Papers

- Ujjwal Maulik, Sanghamitra Bandyopadhyay, John C. Trinder:
   SAFE: An Efficient Feature Extraction Technique, 374-387
   URL:
http://link.springer.de/link/service/journals/10115/bibs/1003003/10030374.htm

Announcements

- Peter Debye Prize 2002 on Knowledge Engineering

II. Volume 3, Number 4 (November 2001)

http://www.cs.uvm.edu/~xwu/kais/Vol-3-4.shtml

Selected and Revised Papers from KDD-2000 Workshop on Distributed and
Parallel Knowledge Discovery

- Distributed Web Log Mining Using Maximal Large Itemsets
   by Mehmet Sayal and Peter Scheuermann
- Parallel and Sequential Algorithms for Data Mining Using Inductive
   Logic
   by David B. Skillicorn and Yu Wang
- Distributed Clustering Using Collective Principal Component
   Analysis
   by Hillol Kargupta, Weiyun Huang, Krishnamoorthy Sivakumar, and
   Erik Johnson
- Cost Complexity-Based Pruning of Ensemble Classifiers
   by Andreas L. Prodromidis and Salvatore J. Stolfo

Regular Papers

- Arbitrating Among Competing Classifiers Using Learned Referees
   by Julio Ortega, Moshe Koppel, and Shlomo Argamon-Engelson
- Multivariate Discretization for Set Mining
   by Stephen D. Bay

Call for Papers

- ICDM '02: The 2002 IEEE International Conference on Data Mining
   (pending approval), Maebashi TERRSA, Maebashi City, Japan,
   November 26 - 29, 2002

2001 KAIS Reviewers

Author Index

III.2 Meetings

Speech and Computer SPECOM’2001

Preliminary Program
Moscow, Russia, 29th – 31st October 2001
The preliminary program of SPECOM'2001 is now available at
http://www.elsnet.org/ceenis/specom2001.html

24th BCS-IRSG European Colloquium on IR Research

March 25-27, 2002, Glasgow, Scotland, UK
Preliminary Call for Papers
http://www.cs.strath.ac.uk/ECIR02/

5th Australasian Natural Language Processing Workshop

University of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia
Final 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/
You can contact the workshop organisers for further information:
anlp-info@ics.mq.edu.au

1st International Wordnet Conference

Mysore, India
21-25 January 2002
Call For Papers
The Global Wordnet Association together with CIIL Mysore, IIT Bombay and IIIT Hyderabad are very pleased to announce the first International Conference on Wordnets. The conference will be held at the Central Institute of Indian Languages, Mysore (Karnataka State), India
(http://www.ciil.org/gwn)
Details about the Association and the full announcement for the conference can be found on the GWA website (http://www.hum.uva.nl/~ewn/gwa.htm)
Important dates:
01-09-2001: Call for papers and 2nd announcement
01-10-2001: Deadlines for submissions
01-11-2001: Acceptance of papers
01-12-2001: Final papers, registration is open
21/25-01-2002: Conference

Human Language Technology Conference HLT 2002

March 24-27, 2002
San Diego, California
Preliminary Call for Papers
Important Dates:
January 7: extended abstract submissions due
February 11: Notification of acceptance
March 11: Camera-ready "notebook" papers due
March 24-27: Conference
April 22: Final copy of proceedings papers due
July 29: Proceedings published
Further information will be available at the Conference web site
http://hlt2002.org

First International Conference on Knowledge Capture (K-CAP 2001)

October 21-23, 2001
Victoria, British Columbia
Call For Participation
A detailed schedule for the conference is posted at
http://sern.ucalgary.ca/ksi/K-CAP/K-CAP2001/schedule.html.
http://www.k-cap.org

Registration is Open for ACM CIKM 2001

Call for Participation
The registration form, preliminary Technical Program, and information on tutorials and workshops and more can be found at:
http://cikm2001.cc.gatech.edu/
The early registration deadline is October 1, 2001.

Challenges in Knowledge Representation and Organisation for the 21st Century: Integration of Knowledge across Boundaries

The Seventh International ISKO Conference. Granada, Spain, 10-13 July 2002
International Society for Knowledge Organisation
Capítulo Español - ISKO España
Facultad de Biblioteconomía y Documentación
Universidad de Granada
España

IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance, 2001

Florence, Italy, 6-10 November 2001
ICSM is the major international conference in the field of software and systems maintenance, evolution, and management.
ِAssociated workshops: IEEE SCAM, IEEE WESS, IEEE WSE, TABOO.
http://www.dsi.unifi.it/icsm2001

Evaluation of Information Retrieval, Q&A, and Summarization

The Third NTCIR Workshop (2001/2002)
September 2001 - October 2002
Meeting: October 8-10, 2002, NII, Tokyo Japan
Call For Participation
Workshop Schedule:
2001-09-30 Application Due
2001-10-01 Document release (newspaper)
2001-10/2002-01 Dry Run and Round-Table Discussion (depends on each task)
2001-12 Open Lab start
2001-12/2002-03 Formal Run (depends on each task)
2002-07-01 Evaluation Results Delivery
2002-08-20 Papers for Working Note Due
2002-10-08/10 NCIR Workshop 3 Meeting
Days 1-2: Closed session (task participants only)
Day 3: Open session
2002-12-01 Paper for Final Proceedings Due
URL: http://research.nii.ac.jp/ntcir/workshop/
Enquiries: ntcadm@nii.ac.jp

ACM CIKM 2001

The registration has opened for CIKM 2001 in Atlanta, GA! Highlights of the conference program include keynotes by Alfred Spector (IBM) and Mike Stonebraker (MIT), sessions on data mining, distributed information retrieval, web search, data warehousing, semi structured data, query optimisation, and more.
The registration form, preliminary Technical Program, and information on tutorials and workshops and more can be found at:
http://cikm2001.cc.gatech.edu/
The early registration deadline is October 1, 2001.

CIKM has successfully brought together leading researchers and developers from several information and knowledge management areas, databases and information retrieval in particular. This year, we will continue this tradition of fostering further collaboration between information and knowledge management areas, defined broadly. We have special interest in research that bridges traditionally separated areas such as databases and information retrieval, or that applies techniques from one area to another.

Summer Workshop on Language Engineering

The Centre for Language and Speech Processing at the Johns Hopkins.
Baltimore, MD, USA, from July 8 to August 16, 2002.
The deadline for submitting a 1-2 page proposal is October 8, 2001.
You may already have a good idea about the purpose of these summer workshops, which we have hosted every year since 1995: we attempt to identify specific research topics (suitable for a six week team exploration) on which progress is needed to advance the state of the art in various fields of Language Engineering such as:
* Speech recognition
* Trans-lingual information detection and extraction
* Machine translation
* Speech synthesis
* Information retrieval
* Topic detection and tracking
* Text summarization
* Question answering

The research topics of the participating teams in previous workshops can serve as a good example see:
http://www.clsp.jhu.edu/workshops
Having identified such topics through the review process described below, we then attempt to get the best researchers to collaboratively work on them.

You may also have a good idea about the typical participants of these summer workshops: the workshops bring together diverse teams of leading researchers and students. The senior participants in the workshop are university professors and industrial and governmental researchers working in widely dispersed locations. The graduate students are familiar with the field and are selected in accordance with their demonstrated performance, usually by the senior researchers. The undergraduates, selected through a national search, are entering seniors who are new to the field and who have shown outstanding academic promise.

We are soliciting proposals for research projects from a wide range of academic and government institutions, as well as from industry. An independent panel of experts will screen all proposals received by the deadline for suitability to the workshop goals and format. Results of this screening will be announced no later than October 22, 2001. Proposals passing this initial screening will be presented to a peer-review panel that will meet in Baltimore on November 9-11, 2001. One or two authors of the screened proposals and other leading researchers will be invited to this meeting. It is expected that the proposals will be revised at this meeting to address any outstanding concerns or new ideas. Out of these panel reviews and ensuing discussion, three research topics will finally be selected for the 2002 workshop. Authors of successful proposals will typically be the team leaders.

Would you be interested and available to participate in the 2002 Summer Workshop? If so, we ask that you submit a one or two page research proposal for consideration, detailing the problem to be addressed and a rough agenda to be followed by the team in the six-week period. If your proposal passes the initial screening, we will invite you to join us for the organizational meeting in Baltimore (as our guest) for further discussions aimed at consensus. If a topic in your area of interest is chosen as one of the three to be pursued next summer, we expect you to be available for participation in the six-week workshop. We are not asking for an ironclad commitment at this juncture, just a good faith understanding that if a project in your area of interest is chosen, you will take an active role in pursuing it.

Proposals may be faxed (410-516-5050), sent via e-mail sec@clsp.jhu.edu
or via regular mail (CLSP, Johns Hopkins University, 320 Barton Hall, 3400
N. Charles St., Barton 320, Baltimore, MD 21218).

Libraries in the Digital Age (LIDA) 2002

Libraries in the Digital Age (LIDA) is an annual course and conference started in 2000 and held at the Inter-University Centre in Dubrovnik, Croatia. The general aim is to address the changing and challenging environment for libraries and information systems and services in the digital age, with an emphasis on examining contemporary problems, advances and solutions. Each year a different and ‘hot’ theme is addressed in two parts - one more theoretical and the other more practical.
Themes for LIDA 2002
Integrating Information Seeking And Information Retrieval

23 – 26 May 2002
Dubrovnik, Croatia
Inter-University Centre
Don Ivana Bulica 4, 20000 Dubrovnik, Croatia.
http://www.hr/iuc
Course web site: http://www.ffzg.hr/infoz/lida
Course email: lida@ffzg.hr.

6th Natural Language Processing Pacific Rim Symposium (NLPRS-2001)

27-30 November 2001
Tokyo, Japan
http://www.r.dl.itc.u-tokyo.ac.jp/NLPRS2001.html

ACM Symposium on Document Engineering 2001

November 9-10, 2001
Doubletree Hotel, Buckhead, Atlanta, Georgia, USA in conjunction with ACM CIKM 2001
Call For Participation
Registration Now Open
Early registration deadline: October 1, 2001
Complete program and registration information is available via the Symposium Web site:
http://www.documentengineering.org

Test Collection Of Structured Documents

Test collection of structured documents is constructed recently at:
Queen Mary, University of London as part of the FOCUS project
http://qmir.dcs.qmw.ac.uk/Focus/index.htm
More information and the collection is available at:
http://qmir.dcs.qmw.ac.uk/Focus/resources2.htm
Or you can contact:
Gabriella Kazai
Tel: +44 (0) 20 7882 5256
Email: gabs@dcs.qmw.ac.uk
Department of Computer Science
Tel: +44 (0) 20 7882 5200
Queen Mary & Westfield College
Fax: +44 (0) 20 8980 6533
University of London
London E1 4NS
http://www.dcs.qmw.ac.uk/~gabs

IV Projects

AHRB Research Studentship in Text Summarisation

The University of Wolverhampton, School of Humanities, Languages and Social Sciences invites applications for an AHRB-funded research studentship in text summarisation.
Applications should be sent to:
Prof. R. Mitkov
School of Humanities, Languages and Social Sciences
University of Wolverhampton
Stafford St.
Wolverhampton
WV1 1SB
And must include:
Completed application form
a CV
Copy of university degree
Evidence of postgraduate qualification or experience (if applicable)
Proof of nationality or residence status
A covering letter in which candidates explain why they have applied for the studentship, give details of any relevant experience/interests
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 30th September 2001.
The short-listed applicants will be interviewed in the week starting 1^st October.
For further information/queries, please contact
Prof. Ruslan Mitkov, tel. 01902 322471,
Email R.Mitkov@wlv.ac.uk or in6093@wlv.ac.uk

EPSRC PhD Studentship in Intelligent Multimedia Information Retrieval

Department of Computing, School of Electronics, Computing and Mathematics
University of Surrey
For more information and an informal discussion please contact
Dr Andrew Salway,
Email: a.salway@surrey.ac.uk,
Tel: +44 (0) 1483 683133.
You may also find our Annual Report of interest, please see
http://www.eim.surrey.ac.uk/
The Postgraduate Prospectus is at
http://www.surrey.ac.uk/Postgrad/index.htm