II Jobs. 1

Job opportunity at Edify NLRG.. 1

Lectureships in Computing and Informatics. 1

Lecturers/Senior Lecturers Posts. 2

Research Posts In Natural Language Engineering/E-Science/Bioinformatics. 2

Research Associate Scientist in Spoken Dialogue. 3

Open Position at NEC research Institute. 3

UMBC Information System Chair Search. 4

III Notices. 4

III.1 Publications. 4

Special Issue on Online, Interactive, Anytime Data Mining. 4

Knowledge and Information Systems: An International Journal 5

Martin Porter has developed a system called Snowball 5

2001 SIGIR Recommender Workshop Notes Online. 6

III.2 Meetings. 6

The Challenge Of Image And Video Retrieval -CIVR '2002. 6

5th Annual Computational Linguistics UK CLUK Research Colloquium.. 6

The 7th International Workshop on Natural Language Understanding and Logic Programming NLULP-02. 6

Human Language Technology Conference HLT 2002. 7

24th BCS-IRSG European Colloquium on IR Research. 7

The 2001 IEEE International Conference on Data Mining. 7

19th International Conference on Computational Linguistics COLING-2002. 7

40th Anniversary Meeting of the Association for ACL-02. 8

The Challenge Of Image And Video Retrieval CIVR '2002. 8

"Ideas, the Final Frontier: Computers Beyond Hierarchy and the Web beyond HTML". 9

The Deadline for Three of the Alternate Tracks. 9

The 24th BCS-IRSG Colloquium on IR Research. 10

2002 Hypertext Conference ACM SIGWEB.. 10

International Conference on Internet Computing 2002 (IC'02) 11

IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE) 12

Workshop on Natural Language Processing in Biomedical Applications. 12

The Eighth ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining KDD-2002. 12

II Jobs

 

Job opportunity at Edify NLRG

The Edify Natural Language Research Group is looking for an experienced NLP researcher to join a growing team of researchers and software engineers working on innovative technology for intelligent natural language interfaces, using both spoken and text-based interaction.

Candidates should have a track record in the area of robust parsing
and/or information extraction, and should be familiar with finite state and statistical NLP techniques.  Excellent programming skills are required, as is the ability to work both independently and as part of a team. A knowledge of NLP system evaluation methodology and XML would also be desirable.

The Edify Natural Language Research Group is located in Edinburgh, Scotland and enjoys strong cooperative links with the NLP and AI research communities at the University of Edinburgh. Established in 1990, Edify Corporation www.edify.com , a wholly owned subsidiary of S1 Corporation, is a global leader in customer interaction solutions that offer organizations the means to automate, integrate and personalize interactions with customers through multiple channels. Edify's state-of-the art technology is primarily used by companies who desire an open, highly flexible platform to manage and strengthen customer relationships using interactive voice response, natural language speech recognition, web, e-mail, fax, or wireless devices.

Please send your resume and a letter describing your research interests to:
 jennifer.cameron@edify.com
The deadline for applications is 14th December 2001.


Lectureships in Computing and Informatics


With possibility of appointment at Senior Lecturer/Reader level

School of Computing
These permanent posts are available in our expanding School, with the possibility of appointment at Senior
Lecturer/Reader level. You will be required to undertake leading-edge research and teaching of the highest standard within our broadly based degree programmes and should strengthen one of our existing research groups: Computer Vision and Language, Knowledge Representation and Reasoning, Multi-disciplinary Informatics, Scientific Computation and Visualization, Theoretical Computer Science. Prior experience in teaching, preferably in higher education, would be an advantage. Applicants should have a Ph.D. (or equivalent experience) in a relevant discipline. Preference may be given to candidates who can strengthen our teaching across our four B.Sc., two existing M.Sc. degree programmes and a new multidisciplinary M.Sc. in Informatics. The School and the University have made a strategic commitment to developing multidisciplinary research activity; over £2M to date has been invested in the formation of a well-equipped and newly refurbished Informatics Research Institute; applicants who can contribute to its development are especially welcome.

Informal enquiries may be made to
Professor Tony Cohn
Tel: 0113-233-5482; fax: 0113-233-5468;
E-mail: recruit@comp.leeds.ac.uk .
See http://www.comp.leeds.ac.uk for further information about the School and these positions.

Salary: Lecturer A/B (£20,267 - £32,215 p.a). For exceptionally well qualified candidates appointment at Senior
Lecturer or Reader level is possible (£33,820 - £41,319 p.a,).

Further details are available from http://www.leeds.ac.uk/jobadverts/
Or contact  
Human Resources,
Tel:  0113 233 5771
Text phone for deaf applicants only: 0113 233 4353
E-mail
recruitment@adm.leeds.ac.uk  
Quoting ref: 048-181-002-009
Closing date: 19 December 2001.


Lecturers/Senior Lecturers Posts


Faculty Of Information And Engineering Systems
Leeds Metropolitan University
Salary £19,191 - £32,265

The School of Information Management requires two full-time permanent lecturers to strengthen its activity in research, consultancy and course provision. The School provides a range of courses operating at Masters, Undergraduate, Higher national and Access level for in excess of 1000 students.

New post holders will be joining vibrant teams committed to delivering stimulating courses to our students, as well as undertaking research and/or consultancy.
Applicants should be qualified to at least first-degree level and ideally to postgraduate degree level.   Evidence of industrial/commercial and/or research experience is required for the more senior posts. Applications from recent well-qualified graduates with research interests and candidates with at least two years relevant commercial experience would be warmly welcomed.
Informal enquiries for the School Of Information Management can be directed to John Blake, Head of School of Information Management on (0113) 283 7555 (e-mail J.Blake@lmu.ac.uk)

Or visit the Faculty's website at www.lmu.ac.uk/ies/ 
Application forms:
Further details and an application form can be obtained from the Resources Office, Room A133, Faculty of Information & Engineering Systems, Leeds Metropolitan University, Calverley Street, Leeds, LS1 3HE or telephone (0113) 283 6739.
Closing date: Monday 3 December 2001


Research Posts In Natural Language Engineering/E-Science/Bioinformatics


Natural Language Processing Group
Department of Computer Science
The University of Sheffield
Applications are invited for two Research positions in the Natural Language Processing Research Group in the Department of Computer Science, University of Sheffield. Both positions will be up to 3 years, starting as soon as appointments can be made.  The research positions are part of a multi-university, collaborative project called "MyGrid: Directly Supporting the e-Scientist", funded by the UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) under the e-Science initiative (see http://www.mygrid.org.uk for further details).  Sheffield's role in the project is to further develop its natural language processing-based Information Extraction software to support the E-Scientist in extracting key information directly from the scientific literature. To this end we are seeking two researchers:
Position 1: Computational Linguist
Position 2: Information Scientist with Molecular Biology/Biochemical Background

Further detail may be found at:
http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/dept/jobs/mygrid_ad.html

Informal enquiries can be made to:
Dr. Robert Gaizauskas
R.Gaizauskas@dcs.shef.ac.uk.

To apply for either of the above positions, please request an Information Pack from the Personnel Department.
By phone - 24 hour telephone answering service: - +44 (0) 114 222 1631.
By email - jobs@sheffield.ac.uk
By fax: - +44 (0)114 222 1624
By post: - write to
The Personnel Department,
University of Sheffield,
Firth Court, Western Bank,
Sheffield, S10 2TN, United Kingdom.

Please ensure that you include the reference number R2481 and your full postal address when requesting details.
Closing date for applications is December 10, 2001.

Research Associate Scientist in Spoken Dialogue

 

Applicants: Please send CV to dhorowitz@voxgeneration.com addressed to David Horowitz, Chief Scientist


In this position, you will assist in building up resources to establish a strong pan-European R&D group.
You will help write components of grants and help define theoretical approaches towards conversational dialogue systems.

The focus of the work is on Natural Language Parsing and Unified Language Modelling. The Research
Component that you will endeavour in is Unified Language Modelling and Statistical Robust Parsing.

This is a highly technical position in mathematics and computer science.
The R&D department collaborates with Professor Yorick Wilks at the University of Sheffield and the position will afford the candidate mentorship from key researchers at Wilks' Natural Language Processing Group.

Qualifications: Ph.D. in rigorous quantitative program such as Computer Science, Mathematical Computational Linguistics, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Mathematics, Physics or Electrical Engineering or computational Linguistics.

Skills: Hands-on software development experience in Java, Prolog and/or C++. Perl required.
_____________________________________
David Horowitz
Chief Scientist
Spoken Language Sciences and Engineering
Vox Generation Ltd
Voice: +44 (0) 20 7592 8155
Fax:     +44 (0) 20 7582 8156
Email:  dhorowitz@voxgeneration.com 
www.voxgeneration.com


Open Position at NEC research Institute



The NEC Research Institute (NECI) has a position open for a postdoctoral research scientist investigating computational issues in ecommerce.

NECI, founded twelve years ago, has as its mission basic research in Computer Science and Physical Sciences underlying future technologies relevant to NEC. The Institute has research programs in theory, machine learning, computer vision, multimedia, computational linguistics, web characterization and applications, and bioinformatics, as well as research activities in Physical Sciences.

NECI's web group conducts research in web characterization, graph algorithms, search, digital libraries, machine learning, information retrieval, and ecommerce. Specific ecommerce interests relevant to the postdoctoral position include prediction markets, market games, auctions, financial markets, recommender systems, decision-theoretic and
game-theoretic reasoning, web analysis and modeling, and web mining.

Postdoctoral research scientists receive full pay and benefits, and enjoy a good deal of intellectual freedom. Intern and summer positions are also available; intern and postdoctoral positions may begin at anytime.

Located near Princeton, NJ (one hour from both New York City and Philadelphia), NECI has close ties with many outstanding research universities in the area.

Applications should include a cover letter, curriculum vitae, statement of research interests, copies of selected publications, and names of at least three references.

Please send applications or inquiries to:
David M. Pennock
NEC Research Institute
4 Independence Way
Princeton, NJ 08540
Email: dpennock@research.nj.nec.com


UMBC Information System Chair Search


Chair, Department Of Information Systems
University of Maryland Baltimore County
An Honors University in Maryland

The UMBC Department of Information Systems (http://ifsm.umbc.edu/) invites applications from experienced leaders/researchers for the position of Chair. The Chair will lead a growing faculty with diverse research interests and backgrounds and promote the Department on and off campus.  The Department has 1400 undergraduate and 150 MS and Ph.D. students. A new, innovative online MS is offered via a partnership with Open University.

UMBC is a medium sized university with about 11,000 students which is ranked in top tier of nation's research universities (Doctoral/Research Universities-Extensive) by the Carnegie Foundation. UMBC's mission is to focus on science, technology, engineering and public policy. The suburban campus is located in the Baltimore-Washington corridor, providing easy access to both metropolitan areas and the numerous federal agencies, industrial research centers, and consulting firms.  A on-campus Technology Center houses a number of technology startup forms and the new on-campus BWTech Research Park is nearing construction.

Information Technology is one of UMBC's focal areas with about 30% of its students majoring in either information systems, computer science, computer engineering, or imaging and digital arts. UMBC currently produces more information technology graduates than any other research university or college in the United States and has a number of new initiatives in the IT area, such as the Center for Women and Information Technology and the Institute for Global Electronic Commerce.  A new building for the Information Technology programs in under construction and will be completed early in 2003.

To apply:
Send a statement of interest, CV, and names of three referees to:
Dr. Robert P. Burchard, c/o Information Systems
Department, UMBC, 1000 Hilltop Circle, Baltimore, MD 21250.
Review will start on October 15, anticipating appointment on July 1, 2002 or earlier.  UMBC is an EO/AA Employer.


III Notices

 

III.1 Publications

 

 

Special Issue on Online, Interactive, Anytime Data Mining


SIGKDD Explorations
Guest Editor: Mohammed J. Zaki
SIGKDD Explorations is the official newsletter of ACM's Special Interest Group (SIG) on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining. This special issue (Volume 3, Issue 2) will focus on the topic of Online, Interactive, Anytime Data Mining.
CFP
Invite high quality submissions
Submissions should be made to the guest editor at zaki@cs.rpi.edu
Submissions will be reviewed by the guest editor, external reviewers and/or associate editors as appropriate.
The previous issues of the SIGKDD Explorations are available online at http://www.acm.org/sigkdd/explorations/index.htm.
SIGKDD Explorations newsletter is sent to the ACM SIGKDD membership and to a worldwide network of libraries.
Important Dates:
Submission -December 7th, 2001
Notification -January 4th, 2002
Camera Ready -January 11th, 2002

 

Some words about the SIGKDD newsletter:

SIGKDD Explorations is a bi-annual newsletter dedicated to serve the SIGKDD membership and community. Our goal is to make SIGKDD Explorations a very informative, rapid publication, and interesting forum for communicating with SIGKDD community.

For more information on SIGKDD visit http://www.acm.org/sigkdd and for more information on the SIGKDD Explorations newsletter, please visit
http://www.acm.org/sigkdd/explorations/index.htm

 

Knowledge and Information Systems: An International Journal


ISSN: 0219-1377 (printed version)
ISSN: 0219-3116 (electronic version)
By Springer-Verlag
Home Page: http://www.cs.uvm.edu/~xwu/kais.html


Volume 3, Number 4 (November 2001)
link.springer.de/link/service/journals/10115/tocs/t1003004.htm
Or
link.springer-ny.com/link/service/journals/10115/tocs/t1003004.htm

Mehmet Sayal, Peter Scheuermann:
Distributed Web Log Mining Using Maximal Large Itemsets
Knowledge and Information Systems 3 (2001) 4, 389-404
URL: link.springer.de/link/service/journals/10115/bibs/1003004/10030389.htm

David B. Skillicorn, Yu Wang:
Parallel and Sequential Algorithms for Data Mining Using Inductive Logic
Knowledge and Information Systems 3 (2001) 4, 405-421
URL: link.springer.de/link/service/journals/10115/bibs/1003004/10030405.htm

Hillol Kargupta, Weiyun Huang, Krishnamoorthy Sivakumar, Erik Johnson:
Distributed Clustering Using Collective Principal Component Analysis
Knowledge and Information Systems 3 (2001) 4, 422-448
URL: link.springer.de/link/service/journals/10115/bibs/1003004/10030422.htm

Andreas L. Prodromidis, Salvatore J. Stolfo:
Cost Complexity-Based Pruning of Ensemble Classifiers
Knowledge and Information Systems 3 (2001) 4, 449-469
URL: link.springer.de/link/service/journals/10115/bibs/1003004/10030449.htm

Julio Ortega, Moshe Koppel, Shlomo Argamon:
Arbitrating Among Competing Classifiers Using Learned Referees
Knowledge and Information Systems 3 (2001) 4, 470-490
URL: link.springer.de/link/service/journals/10115/bibs/1003004/10030470.htm

Stephen D. Bay:
Multivariate Discretization for Set Mining
Knowledge and Information Systems 3 (2001) 4, 491-512
URL: link.springer.de/link/service/journals/10115/bibs/1003004/10030491.htm

Online publication: November 21, 2001
(c) Springer-Verlag London Limited 2001

Martin Porter has developed a system called Snowball


Martin Porter has developed a system called Snowball, which is a simple string processing language geared to representing the rules of stemming algorithms. From Snowball scripts you can generate ANSI C programs that make very efficient stemmers. Snowball iself, and stemmers for over ten different European languages, as well as a lot of useful ancillary material, can be found at
http://snowball.sourceforge.net
The work is distributed under the BSD license.

2001 SIGIR Recommender Workshop Notes Online


The notes have actually been online for a while - this is just an announcement

On Sept. 13th, there was a Recommender Systems Workshop in New Orleans as part of the ACM SIGIR (Information Retrieval) conference. The workshop was a success, with a room filled to capacity. Almost all of the topics were collaborative filtering related. The workshop notes, including the accepted full papers, are available online at:
http://www.cs.orst.edu/~herlock/rsw2001

Joaquin Delgado, PhD
Chief Technology Officer
45 West 25th Street, 9th Floor
New York, NY 10010
Tel: (212) 243-4660

III.2 Meetings

 

The Challenge Of Image And Video Retrieval -CIVR '2002


European Conference on Image and Video Retrieval
July 18-19, 2002, London, UK
Advanced Call For Papers
Important dates:
March 4, 2002: Submission of full paper
April 10, 2002: Notification of acceptance
May 1, 2002: Camera-ready full paper
Electronic submissions are preferred.  If electronic submission is not possible by the author, then 5 paper copies may be sent to
Dr. Michael Lew
Niels Bohrweg 1
Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science
Leiden University
2333 CA Leiden
Netherlands
Phone: +31-71-527-7077
Email: mlew@liacs.nl or mailto:mlew@liacs.nl
WWW: http://www.liacs.nl/home/mlew


5th Annual Computational Linguistics UK CLUK Research Colloquium


8-9 January 2002
University of Leeds, UK
Final Call for Participation
Deadlines:
Abstract submission deadline: Monday 12 November 2001
Notification of acceptance: Monday 3 December 2001
Camera ready papers due: Monday 17 December 2001
Colloquium: 8-9 January 2002
For further details please see our website:
http://www.comp.leeds.ac.uk/cluk5/


The 7th International Workshop on Natural Language Understanding and Logic Programming NLULP-02


An affiliated workshop with ICLP, as part of FLoC'02
Copenhagen, Denmark, 27-28 July 2002
http://cs.haifa.ac.il/~shuly/nlulp02
Call for Papers
Important dates
February 17, 2002: Deadline for submissions
April 14, 2002: Notification of acceptance
May 14, 2002: Final version due
July 27-28, 2002: Workshop dates
Further information
The Workshop is organized by Shuly Wintner, Department of Computer Science, University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel. For further information about ICLP or FLoC'02 please visit http://floc02.diku.dk/.



Human Language Technology Conference HLT 2002


March 24-27, 2002
San Diego, California
Conference web site:
http://hlt2002.org
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 Conferences
April 22, Final copy of proceedings papers due
July 29, Proceedings published



24th BCS-IRSG European Colloquium on IR Research


March 25-27, 2002, Glasgow, Scotland, UK
http://www.cs.strath.ac.uk/ECIR02/
Call For Papers
Deadline For Submissions: 30 November 2001
Important Dates
Paper submission: 30 November 2001.
Notification of acceptance: 20 December 2001.
Final copy due: 18 January 2002.
Colloquium: 25-27 March
Further Details
For further details regarding travel, programme of events, etc. see
http://www.cs.strath.ac.uk/ECIR02/


The 2001 IEEE International Conference on Data Mining


Doubletree Hotel, San Jose, California, USA
November 29 - December 2, 2001
Final Call for Participation
On-line registration at
http://www.cs.uvm.edu/~xwu/icdm/reg-01.html

Hotel reservation information at
http://www.cs.uvm.edu/~xwu/icdm/hotel-01.shtml

Conference program and other information at
http://www.cs.uvm.edu/~xwu/icdm-01.html

With the support of both world-renowned experts and new researchers from the international data mining community, ICDM '01 has received an overwhelming response compared to any other data mining related conference this year: 365 paper submissions, 8 workshop proposals, and 29 tutorial proposals.
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.



19th International Conference on Computational Linguistics COLING-2002


August 24 - September 1, 2002
Howard International House, Taipei, Taiwan
Call for Papers

Important Dates:
Deadline for Workshop Proposals: 15 January 2002
Deadline for paper submission: 15 February 2002
Notification of Workshops: 15 February 2002
Notification to authors: 1 May 2002
Final camera-ready copy and pre-registration:  15 June 2002
Tutorials: 24 - 25 August 2002
(Academia Sinica)
Conference: 26 August - 30 August 2002
(Howard International House)
Post-Conference Workshops: 31 August, 1 September 2002
(Academia Sinica)

For details please
go to:
http://www.ikp.uni-bonn.de/coling2002/psg.html


 

40th Anniversary Meeting of the Association for ACL-02


Computational Linguistics
7 - 12 July 2002
Philadelphia, PA, USA
Call for Papers

Deadlines
Paper registration deadline: January 25th, 2002
Paper submissions deadline: February 1st, 2002
Notification of acceptance: April 8th, 2002
Camera ready papers due: May 10th, 2002
ACL-02 Conference: July 7th-12th, 2002
http://www.acl02.org



The Challenge Of Image And Video Retrieval CIVR '2002


European Conference on Image and Video Retrieval
July 18-19, 2002, London, UK
Advanced Call For Papers

Important dates:
March 4, 2002: Submission of full paper
April 10, 2002: Notification of acceptance
May 1, 2002: Camera-ready full paper
http://www.civr2002.org



Electronic submissions are preferred.  If electronic submission is not possible by the author, then 5 paper copies may be sent to


Dr. Michael Lew
Niels Bohrweg 1
Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science
Leiden University
2333 CA Leiden
Netherlands

Phone:
+31-71-527-7077
Email:
mlew@liacs.nl  
mailto:mlew@liacs.nl

WWW:
http://www.liacs.nl/home/mlew
http://www.liacs.nl/home/mlew



 

"Ideas, the Final Frontier: Computers Beyond Hierarchy and the Web beyond HTML"


Prof. Ted Nelson,
Just in case you don't know who this is...  Ted
Nelson is the man who invented the word "Hypertext".

11:00 a.m.
Lecture Theatre, St. George Church
St. George Terrace and Portobello Street
Sheffield, U.K.

TITLE:
"Ideas, the Final Frontier:
 Computers Beyond Hierarchy and the Web beyond HTML"

ABSTRACT:
Most uses of computers simulate either hierarchy, paper, or both (Acrobat and the Web).  Hierarchy is notably unsuited to most human thought, creativity, and ongoing changes of projects; paper is a form of confinement to which we have adapted for two millennia, though the ideas have tried to escape for a thousand years-- through footnotes, annotations, parallelisms, and creative layout.

If we dare to challenge these traditions, the alternatives still need structuring for implementation.  The issue is the optimal representation of ideas-- what relations among discrete structures can best replace hierarhical directories, and what generalizations of electronic document will allow profuse bidirectional connections, track content flow from version to version, allow publishing of annotations and ongoing parallel documents, and permit large-scale quotation of copyrighted material? (All are vital for a true electronic literature.)
The alternatives Ted proposes are simple, straightforward, and deeply different from the prevailing paradigms.

Ted Nelson is a Project Professor at Keio University in Fujisawa, Japan.
"From October 1960, Ted firmly predicted the era of personal computing and mass-marketed software as a direct extrapolation of early CRT-based computers, such as the PDP-1 of that year); the universal migration of work to computer screens; interactive media based on personal computers, generalizing writing and movies as we already knew them; and populist world-wide uncontrollable anarchic hypertext based also on personal computers, both as distributed small servers and as mass-market clients. He did not make these predictions diplomatically, so that many who heard him were enraged at the time and do not like to remember or acknowledge now that he said all these things that early.  (Indeed, very little that he said was actually comprehended.)

In his software designs he has always urged breaking away from the paper model, rather than imitating paper-- but since the Xerox PARC interfaces were popularised in 1984 as the Macintosh, computers have been made to imitate paper.  This is rather like the way that trained animals are made to imitate people, because it makes people feel comfortable, unthreatened and smug.

Ted has always had a complete general design for a complete general alternative world of software, based on parallel documents, deep interconnection, side-by-side intercomparison and swooping high performance, massive   rearrangement with origins showing, and new forms of copyright permission and micropayment.
The details of this vision and design have continually changed, but the ideas have stayed the same.  These designs have been generally considered ignorant, silly, bizarre, too radical, unimaginable, impossible, deranged, delirious, insane and crazed. "Until now."

More details and a poster for the event can be downloaded at:
http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/research/ilash/Seminars/index.html

The Deadline for Three of the Alternate Tracks


This is a reminder that the deadline for three of the Alternate Tracks is only four days away - these are Education, Global Community and Web Engineering. Submissions will close at 12 midnight Hawaii Standard Time
(HST) on Nov. 27, 2001. Hawaii's time zone is -10 GMT.

The Alternate Tracks aim to broaden the conference with new areas and formats, and this year's themes have been developed from very successful tracks at previous events.  The Alternate Tracks are also peer-reviewed.
Details can be found on the Call For Participation page at:
http://www2002.org/cfp.html
To see latest information about the WWW2002 Conference, please visit us at:
http://www2002.org
Aloha,
The WWW2002 Conference Team
info@www2002.org


The 24th BCS-IRSG Colloquium on IR Research


The 24th BCS-IRSG Colloquium on IR Research will be held next March (2002) in Glasgow, Scotland, and details are available at
http://www.cs.strath.ac.uk/ECIR02/

The executive committee of "Council of European Professional Informatics Societies - European Information Retrieval Specialist Group" (CEPIS-EIRSG), one of the sponsoring organisations, are interested in hearing from organisations bidding to host the 25th colloquium in Spring 2003.  The previous five colloquia have been held in Darmstadt (2001),
Cambridge (2000), Glasgow (1999), Grenoble (1998), and Aberdeen (1997).

Those interested in hosting the event in 2003 should submit their bid by email to each of the 4 executive committee members (emails above) before the end of January 2002 and an announcement will follow shortly afterwards

The CEPIS-EIRSG executive consists of:
Keith van Rijsbergen, Glasgow
Maristella Agosti, Padua
Norbert Fuhr, Dortmund
Alan Smeaton, Dublin


2002 Hypertext Conference ACM SIGWEB


June 11th - 15th, 2002
College Park, MD, USA

Hypertext
From online documentation aboard aircraft carriers to distance learning degree programs to interactive entertainment, hypertext and hypermedia have transformed our world. The foremost international conference on hypertext and hypermedia, the International Hypertext conference brings together scholars, researchers, and practitioners from a diverse array of disciplines--including computing, literature, law, art, medicine, business, journalism, philosophy, psychology, and engineering--to consider the form, role, and impact of hypertext and hypermedia. Hypertext 2002 will continue to provide a forum where attendees can exchange and discuss ideas on hypermedia, its design and use in a variety of domains, while also considering the ability of these technologies to alter the way we read, write, argue, learn, exchange information, or entertain ourselves.

Scope
Hypertext 2002 welcomes discussions from designers and users of hypermedia applications and works in academia, business, entertainment, and industry. Here attendees can discuss all aspects of hypermedia, ranging from navigational aids, time, and infrastructures to digital libraries, interactive literature, virtual and augmented reality environments, gaming, human-computer interaction, software engineering, computer-supported collaborative work, and, of course, the World Wide Web.

Formats for presentation include papers, panels and technical briefings, short papers and posters, demonstrations, exhibits, courses, workshops, and a doctoral consortium.

Paper topics include but are not limited to:
Interactive games and entertainment
Effects of hypermedia on business or industry
Experiences with the application of hypermedia
Innovative hypertexts and novel uses of hypertext and hypermedia
Web-based hypermedia drama
Collaborative hypermedia technology and applications
Hypermedia in virtual environments and augmented reality environments
Hypermedia in fiction, scholarship, and technical writing
Hypermedia in education and training
Empirical studies and hypermedia evaluation
Hypermedia and time: narratives and storyboarding
Hypertext rhetoric and criticism
Integration and open hypermedia architectures
Large-scale distributed hypermedia
Structuring hypermedia documents for reading and retrieval
Theories, models, architectures, standards, and frameworks
Hypermedia user interfaces
Object-oriented hypermedia
Hypermedia infrastructure technologies
Hypermedia middleware and components
Hypermedia authoring
Hypermedia for the Internet

Hypertext 2002 Program Committee
Program Chairs

Kenneth M. Anderson, University of Colorado
Stuart Moulthrop, University of Baltimore

Program Committee

Mark Bernstein, Eastgate Systems
Hugh Davis, University of Southampton
Paul De Bra, Eindhoven University of Technology
David De Roure, University of Southampton
Jane Yellowlees Douglas, University of Florida
Kaj Gronbaek, University of Aarhus
Joerg Haake, FernUniversitaet Hagen
David Hicks, Aalborg University Esbjerg
Cathy Marshall, Microsoft
Frank Nack, CWI
Peter J. Nuernberg, Aalborg University Esbjerg
Siegfried Reich, Salzburg Research
Jim Rosenberg
Frank Shipman, Texas A&M University
E. James Whitehead, University of California, Santa Cruz
Uffe Wiil, Aalborg University Esbjerg

Important Dates
Papers
Papers due January 3rd, 2002
Notification of acceptance March 15th, 2002
Camera-ready copy due April 15th, 2002
Tutorials
Proposals due January 15th, 2002
Notification of acceptance January 30th, 2002
Workshops
Proposals due January 3rd, 2002
Notification of acceptance March 15th, 2002
Doctoral Consortium
Submissions due March 10th, 2002
Notification of acceptance March 31st, 2002
Panels
Proposals due January 3rd, 2002
Notification of acceptance March 15th, 2002
Demos and Posters
Due dates and notification TBA

PDF Version of Call for Participation available at:
http://www.cs.umd.edu/ht02/ht02.pdf



International Conference on Internet Computing 2002 (IC'02)


Special Session on Web Mining
International Conference on Internet Computing 2002 (IC'02)
June 24 - 27, 2002
Monte Carlo Resort, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Call for Papers

The 2002 International Conference in Internet Computing (IC'02) will be held in Las Vegas, Nevada, June 24-27, 2002.  This conference will be held simultaneously with a number of other international conferences (PDPTA'2002, CISST'2002, IC-AI'2002...) - for a complete list, refer to:
http://www.ashland.edu/~iajwa/conferences
(This site is under construction - a link to IC'02 will soon be added to this site.)
Important dates:
February 22, 2002 (Friday): Draft papers (about 4 to 5 pages) due
March 21, 2002 (Thursday): Notification of acceptance
April 22, 2002 (Monday): Camera-Ready papers & Prereg. Due
June 24-27, 2002: IC’02 International Conference

Refer to
http://www.ashland.edu/~iajwa/conferences/pdpta
For up-to-date conference information (currently under construction; will be available soon.)


IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE)


Special Issue on Mining and Searching the Web
Call For Papers
Deadlines for the special issue:
Paper submission deadline: July 1, 2002
Acceptance notification: Oct. 20, 2002
Final versions of papers: Dec. 20, 2002
Publication: Summer or fall 2003
http://www.comp.nus.edu.sg/~liub/tkdeWeb.html


Workshop on Natural Language Processing in Biomedical Applications


Organized by the Working Group 8 of EFMI on Natural Language Understanding
Held in conjunction with the EFMI Special Topics Spring Conference
University of Nicosia, Cyprus
8-9 March 2002
First Call for Papers
Important Deadlines:
Submission deadline: January 20, 2002
Acceptance notification: February 15, 2002
Final submission: March 1, 2002
Workshop date: March 8-9, 2002

For further details regarding travel, programme of events, etc. see
http://lithpc2.epfl.ch/NLPBA02/


The Eighth ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining KDD-2002


July 23-26, 2002, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Call for Papers
Important Dates:
Deadlines are for both Research and Industrial tracks
Abstract Submission Deadline: February 22nd, 2002
Workshop/Tutorial/Panel Proposal Submission Deadline: February 22nd, 2002
Paper Submission Deadline: March 1st, 2002
Notification of Acceptance: May 17th, 2002
Camera Copy Deadline: May 31st, 2002
http://www.acm.org/sigkdd/kdd2002