Department of Information Studies
The University of Sheffield, UK

Applications are invited for a lecturing post to join a 5*A research-led department to contribute to undergraduate and postgraduate programmes including: MA in Librarianship and BSc and MSc in
Information Management. The successful candidate will ideally have a PhD and a proven track record in funded research and publications in one or more of the following research areas: digital libraries, electronic publishing and resources; legal and policy aspects of information management; information seeking, access, use and human computer interaction; academic libraries and scholarly communication and communities. Further details are available at:
http://www.shef.ac.uk/~is/news/jobs/lectad.html

Post tenable immediately: salary Lecturer B scale £25,455-£32,537
Closing date for applications: 16th May 2002
Post Reference: RW2585

For details of the post E-mail: jobs@sheffield.ac.uk
Or Tel: 0114 2221631 (24hr)
Please quote the post reference for all enquiries
For further information about how to apply for this post see the
University of Sheffield Jobs Web Site:
http://www.shef.ac.uk/jobs/

Lecturer/Senior Lecturer/Reader in Computing and Informatics

School of Computing,
University of Leeds,
Yorkshire, England

Closing date: 30 April 2002.

This permanent post is available in our expanding School, rated 5 in the RAE 2001, 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 GBP2M 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, Head of School
Tel: +44-113-343-5482;
Fax: +44-113-343-5468;
E-mail: recruit@comp.leeds.ac.uk
For further information about the School and this position see
http://www.comp.leeds.ac.uk

Salary: Lecturer A/B (GBP20, 267 -32,215 p.a under review).
For exceptionally well qualified candidates appointment at Senior Lecturer
Or
Reader level is possible (GBP33, 820 - 41,319 p.a, under review).
Exceptional Candidates May Also Apply For A Chair Of Computing, see http://www.comp.leeds.ac.uk/school/vacancies.html

Further details are available from http://www.leeds.ac.jobbox.net
Or
Contact Human Resources
Tel: 0113 343 5771
text phone for deaf applicants only: 0113 343 4353),
e-mail: recruitment@adm.leeds.ac.uk

Job ref: 048-181-002-009,
Closing date: 30 April 2002.

Eric Atwell, Distributed Multimedia Systems MSc Tutor & SOCRATES Tutor
School of Computing, University of Leeds, LEEDS LS2 9JT
TEL: 0113-2335430 MOBILE: 0775-1039104 FAX: 0113-2335468
WWW: http://www.comp.leeds.ac.uk/eric EMAIL: eric@comp.leeds.ac.uk

Three Years, Renewable Research Position at ITC-irst

The Cognitive and Communication Technologies (TCC)
Division of ITC-Irst
Ternto, Italy

Starting as soon as possible.

To apply, please send a CV plus list of publications to:
Fabio Pianesi
Head of the TCC Division,
ITC-irst
38050 Povo (TN) Italy
Email: pianesi@itc.it

And to
Barbara Mezzabotta
ITC-irst
38050 Povo (TN) Italy
Email: mezzabo@itc.it

Applications via e-mail are welcome.

III Notices

III.1 Publications

PARC Releases Popout Prism Software

The Palo Alto Research Center is pleased to announce the release of Popout Prism, an experimental Web browser based on the enhanced thumbnail technology that was discussed in a recent JASIST article. Popout Prism currently runs on Microsoft Windows platforms, and is available under an
alphaWorks-style license at:
http://www.alphaave.com/details.php?tech=Popout%20Prism

Popout Prism makes critical information "pop out" from Web pages and shows enhanced thumbnail overviews of Web pages. When users enter keywords, Popout Prism enhances the display of those keywords throughout the current Web page as well as in a thumbnail overview of the entire document.
The enhancements are designed to attract the users' attention, using principles from PARC visual attention research.

We wanted to give people a chance to see for themselves some of the techniques discussed in the JASIST article (vol.53, n.2), and we would be delighted to receive feedback on this software from the IR community. In the future, we may release a toolkit for generating enhanced thumbnails. If you are interested in being a pilot user for such a toolkit, please send a note to
popoutprism-support@parc.com.

For more information about Popout Prism, please see
http://www.parc.com/popoutprism.

Lemur Version 1.1

Friends of Lemur,
We are pleased to announce Version 1.1 of the Lemur toolkit. This new version is a collection of minor improvements and upgrades, based in part on comments from the Lemur user community. This new version includes:
Several improvements to the installation process
ReutersParser class added to handle the 2001 Reuters corpus
Relevance feedback capabilities upgraded
Error reporting added to applications
More examples provided in data directory for relevance feedback
Several (mostly minor) errors fixed

The Release Notes link from the Web page provides additional details.

We welcome your comments and suggestions.
The Lemur Development Team
Cheng Zhai, Thi Nhu Truong, Paul Ogilvie, John Lafferty, Jamie Callan

Information Visualization

Information Visualization is a new journal to be published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2002. Edited by Chaomei Chen from Drexel University in Philadelphia, USA, the journal provides a unique, single resource for articles on fundamental research and applications of information visualization.

The first issue will be published in April. It is indicative of the high-quality submissions that will be the journal's trademark.

Contents:
Inventing discovery tools: Combining information visualization with data mining,
Ben Shneiderman, USA
Animated visualization of multiple intersecting hierarchies,
George Robertson, Kim Cameron, Mary Czerwinski and Daniel Robbins, USA
Pixel bar charts: A visualization technique for very large multi-attribute data sets,
Daniel Keim, Ming C Hao, Umesh Dayal and Meichun Hsu, USA

Zoomer user interfaces as a medium for slide show presentations,
Lance Good and Ben Bederson, USA

Filtering and brushing with motion,
Lyn Bartram and Colin Ware, Canada

Authors are invited to submit papers for the remaining issues of the first volume. For more details visit www.palgrave-journals.com/ivs

Xia Lin, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
College of information science and Technology
Drexel University
Philadelphia, PA 19104-2875
215-895-2482
215-895-2494 (fax)
linx@drexel.edu

Special Issue on Machine Learning for the Internet

ACM Transactions on Internet Technology
Special Issue on Machine Learning for the Internet

Call For Papers
Submissions
Authors are requested to send an intention of submission (with authors, title and abstract) as an email message in plain text to acm-toit@dsi.unifi.it by May 1, 2002. Then, papers must be submitted in electronic format as an attachment to the same email address before May 15, 2002. Preferred formats are PDF and PostScript (compressed with gzip or zip). Manuscripts must not exceed 50 single-column, double-spaced pages (including figures and tables) and must be written in English and set in 10 or 11 point font. Please do not send papers directly to guest editors' email addresses.

Important Dates
Intention of submission: May 1, 2002
Submission deadline: May 15, 2002
Notification: August 1, 2002

TREC Web Track Mailing List Message No. 3

Welcome to newcomers to the mailing list.
Previous messages are archived on the track website: www.ted.cmis.csiro.au/TRECWeb/2002/
Does any participant in TREC2001 wish me to amend or add to the Web track overview in the notebook proceedings? We have to finalise it by April 30
We've had some problems with duplication of the CDs for the .GOV dataset. They are now solved and I hope disks will start shipping on April 29 when Daphne Bruce returns to work. (Apologies to those who have been waiting.)

Dave
David Hawking
Email: David.Hawking@cmis.csiro.au
Phone: 6216 7060
Fax: 6216 7111

III.2 Meetings

SIGIR 2002

Twenty-Fifth Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval
August 11 - 15, 2002
Tampere, Finland

For details and updates of the Advance Program, visit our web site at http://www.sigir2002.org/.

Note:
Registration for the conference. Early bird rates until the 15th of May 2002.
See http://www.sigir2002.org/html/registration.htm
Call for workshop papers is now open.
See http://www.sigir2002.org/html/workshops.htm.

SIGIR 2002 - Mobile Personal Information Workshop

Workshop on Mobile Personal Information Retrieval

Call for Participation

Important dates:
When are the submissions due: 17^th May 2002
Notification of acceptance: 1^st June 2002
If you have any questions, please send email to Mun-Kew Leong at
mkleong@lit.org.sg.
http://www.sigir2002.org/html/ws4.htm

SIGIR 2002 - Mathematical/Formal Methods Workshop

Workshop on Mathematical/Formal Methods In Information Retrieval
MF/IR 2002
August 11-15, 2002,
Tampere, Finland

Important Dates
Submission: 31 May 2002
Notification of acceptance: 1 July 2002
Final submission: 15 July 2002
Workshop: 15 August 2002

Further Information
Further information can be found on the SIGIR 2002 Web pages
http://www.sigir2002.org/.

SIGIR 2002 - CLIR workshop

22nd International Conference On Research And Development in Information Retrieval
Cross Language Information Retrieval: A Research Roadmap
A Workshop at
August 15, 2002,
Tampere Finland
http://www.sigir2002.org
Call for Papers for

Cross-Language Information Retrieval (CLIR) has been a research subfield for more than a decade now. The field has sparked three major evaluation efforts: the Cross-Language Evaluation Forum (CLEF) covering many European languages, the NTCIR Asian Language Evaluation (covering Chinese, Japanese and Korean), and the TREC Cross Language Track which currently focuses on the Arabic language. This workshop proposes to review and assess the progress that has been made and to prepare a roadmap for the next five years of research and development. Presentations will summarize the major techniques and accomplishments of the field (e.g. utilization of corpus, dictionary and machine translation techniques for crossing language barriers, strategies for sense disambiguation and query expansion) and position papers will argue the directions the research should go in the next half decade. The expectation is to develop a step-by-step, year-by-year roadmap of research to be undertaken, with each year addressing progressively more difficult goals and expected accomplishments.
Suggested topics include, but are not limited to:
The role of cross-language retrieval for video, image, sounds and music collections, since users can understand the content without expertise. Cross-language speech retrieval.
Interactive CLIR systems, including issues regarding results presentation
Cross-language summarization, cross-language clustering, and cross-language question answering.
Multilingual web retrieval, including development of a web corpus in 25 or more languages
CLIR for languages for which there are limited linguistic resources, such as:
Indian subcontinent languages
Eastern European languages
African continent languages
South-East Asian languages
Share ability of linguistic resources such as stemmers, stop word lists, corpora, transliteration techniques

Two kinds of papers are sought: Short position papers (maximum 4 pages) which focus on particular areas and argue a vision of future research in the area. We will accept as many of these as can be fit into the workshop schedule. Longer research scope papers, invited based upon short papers (up to 10 pages) which provide depth and background as well as a research vision; these papers will be reviewed and a limited number selected for presentation at the workshop.

Workshop Co-Chairs
Fredric C. Gey
University of California, Berkeley
gey@ucdata.berkeley.edu

Noriko Kando
National Institute of Informatics
kando@nii.ac.jp

Carol Peters
Italian National Research Council
carol@iei.pi.cnr.it

Important dates:
May 24, 2002         Papers submitted electronically to Chairs.
June 20, 2002         Notice of acceptance or rejections of papers sent to Authors
July 15, 2002          Final papers submitted for workshop notebook to be distributed at workshop
August 15, 2002                   Workshop held in Tampere, Finland
DRAFT For Discussion Only           April 16, 2002

SIGIR 2002 - XML workshop

Workshop on XML and IR
Second Edition of the "XML and Information Retrieval" Workshop

Call for Papers and Participation
Tampere, Finland: August 15, 2002

Important dates
Submissions: May 31, 2002
Notification of acceptance: July 1, 2002
Final submissions: July 15, 2002
Workshop: August 15, 2002

How to submit a paper/proposal for the workshop:
Each candidate will send to:
yoelle@il.ibm.com
by email in PDF or postscript format. A short bio (between 120 and 500 words). A position paper or extended abstract of less than 2000 words for one of 4 tracks:
(a) short tutorial, (b) research in progress, (c) system presentations/demos or (d) standards proposal
Submissions will be reviewed by the organizing committee and invitations to attend and present will be sent accordingly.
Authors of accepted submissions will be requested to submit a longer version for inclusion in the Working Notes to be distributed during the workshop.

COLIN 2002 Workshop

SemaNet'02: Building and Using Semantic Networks
Workshop in conjunction with COLING 2002,
1 September 2002,
Taipei, Taiwan
Second announcement and call for papers

Submissions:
Submission Deadline Monday May 6th, 2002
Instructions on submitting papers can be found on the workshop website at
http://www.ee.ust.hk/~semanet02/

Important Dates:
Submission deadline: May 6th, 2002
Notification of Acceptances: June 17th, 2002:
Camera-Ready Copies due: July 1st
Workshop: August 31

Workshop website: http://www.ee.ust.hk/~semanet02/
COLING website: http://www.coling2002.sinica.edu.tw/

Thirty-sixth Annual Hawaii International Conference On System Sciences

Information Retrieval and Applications Minitrack
Part of the Digital Documents And Media Track
January 6 - 9, 2003
Hilton Waikoloa Village on the Big Island of Hawaii
Call for Papers

Mini Track Co-Chairs
Fredric C. Gey
UC DATA,
University of California, Berkeley
Tel: (510) 643-1298 FAX: (510) 643-8292
gey@ucdata.berkeley.edu

Ray R. Larson
SIMS,
University of California, Berkeley
Tel: 510-642-6046 FAX: (510) 642-5814
ray@sherlock.berkeley.edu

Important Dates:
ASAP (NOW!)     Abstracts (less than 300 words) submitted electronically to Minitrack Chairs
June 1, 2002           Full papers submitted to Minitrack Chairs. Contact minitrack chairs for submission instructions.
August 31, 2002   Notice of acceptance or rejections of papers sent to Authors by Minitrack Chairs.
October 1, 2002     Accepted manuscripts submitted electronically to the publisher of the conference proceedings.

For the latest information visit the HICSS web site at:
http://www.hicss.hawaii.edu

CoNLL-2002 Sixth Conference on Natural Language Learning

COLING-2002 workshop W11
August 31 - September 1, 2002
Taipei, Taiwan,

Second Call For Papers and
Second Call For Participation In Shared Task: Named Entity Recognition
More information on the shared task is available at:
http://lcg-www.uia.ac.be/conll2002/ner/

Important Dates:
Deadline for Abstract Submission: May 2, 2002
Deadline for Shared Task Submission: May 15, 2002
Notification: May 22, 2002
Deadline camera-ready full paper: June 8, 2001
Conference: 31-September 1, 2002
http://www.aclweb.org/signll/conll02/cfp.html

A Roadmap for Computational Linguistics

Saturday, August 31 2002
Second announcement and call for papers and other contributions
Submission Deadline Sunday May 5

Workshop in conjunction with COLING 2002
August 24 - September 1, 2002,
Taipei, Taiwan)
Organized by ELSNET

Important Dates:
Deadline for Submissions: Sun 05 May 2002
Notification of Acceptance for papers,
Panels and rapporteurs: Fri 24 May 2002
Final Versions of Papers Due: Fri 28 June 2002
Workshop: Sat 31 August 2002

Registration and other information
Registration details and other information will be published on the main conference website:
http://www.coling2002.sinica.edu.tw/
The URL for this workshop is:
http://www.elsnet.org/roadmap-coling2002.html

String Processing and Information Retrieval SPIRE 2002

September 11-13, 2002
Lisbon, Portugal

Final Call For Papers
Papers should be submitted electronically, using the links available at the Symposium Web page. Paper submissions in the Springer LNCS format (http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html) are highly appreciated

What is SPIRE 2002?
SPIRE 2002 is the ninth edition of the International Symposium on String Processing and Information Retrieval. It has its origins in the South American Workshop on String Processing, which was first held in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, in 1993. Starting in 1998, the focus of the symposium was broadened to include the area of information retrieval} due to its increasing relevance and its inter-relationship with the area of string processing.

The scope of the symposium includes not only fundamental algorithms in string processing but also contributions in different application areas like bio computing, DNA sequencing, WWW based IR systems and IR related languages like SGML and XML. Given its inter-disciplinarily, it offers a singular opportunity for researchers interested in working in these areas.

The proceedings of SPIRE 2002 will be published by Springer as a volume in their Lecture Notes in Computer Science series. Selected papers will be invited for publication (in extended version, subject to refereeing) in a special issue of an international journal.

Important Dates
Paper submission: April 22nd, 2002
Authors notification: May 24th, 2002
Camera ready copies due: June 21st, 2002

For further inquires, please contact the Program Committee Chair:
Alberto Laender
Computer Science Department
Federal University of Minas Gerais
31270-901 - Belo Horizonte - MG
Brazil
Email: laender@dcc.ufmg.br
http://www.inesc-id.pt/spire2002

Operational Text Classification Systems (OTC-02)

2nd Workshop on: Operational Text Classification Systems (OTC-02)
Tampere, Finland
August 15, 2002
http://faure.iei.pi.cnr.it/~fabrizio/otc2002.html

Held in conjunction with
ACM SIGIR 2002
August 11-15, 2002
http://www.sigir2002.org/

Call for Abstracts
Submissions should be sent in ASCII or PDF form to: otc2002submit@iei.pi.cnr.it

Important dates:
Abstracts must be received by: May 8, 2002
Notification of acceptance mailed by: June 8, 2002
Extended talk abstracts must be received by: July 15, 2002
Workshop takes place on: August 15, 2002

More information could be found on the web version:
http://faure.iei.pi.cnr.it/~fabrizio/otc2002.html

Electronic Archives and Digitisation

Aslib Biosciences Group Annual Conference
Old wine in new bottles: electronic developments, archives and digitisation
23rd May 2002, 09.45-16.30
Zoological Society of London, Regent's Park, London

With publishers and institutions now providing information electronically, many are looking to archive data to provide a sometimes vital resource for biological and biomedical research. The conference will look at some of these initiatives and the technologies which make archiving and digitisation one of the vital areas for today's information professional.

If you would like to join us and learn more about this topic, please contact:
Nigel Robinson, ABG Meetings Secretary, c/o BIOSIS UK, 54 Micklegate,
York YO1 6WF (Tel: 01904 642816; fax: 01904 612793; email:
nrobinson@york.biosis.org)

Booking Form
Aslib Biosciences Group Annual Conference Old wine in new bottles: electronic developments, archives and digitisation

Please return this form no later than 10th May 2002 to:
Nigel Robinson, ABG Meetings Secretary, c/o BIOSIS UK, 54 Micklegate, York YO1 6WF
(Tel: 01904 642816; fax: 01904 612793; email:
nrobinson@york.biosis.org)

Please reserve places at the ASLIB Biosciences Group Conference on
23rd May 2002 at a cost of £60 per member / £70 per non member / £25 (unwaged)

Please make cheques payable to 'ASLIB Biosciences Group'

I am / am not an ABG member
I enclose payment of £ . . . . . . . . . . . .
Please invoice me / my institution

Vegetarian meal
Other special requirements

Name ......................................................................
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Evaluation Initiative for XML Document Retrieval

Call for Participation
April 2002 - December 2002

Schedule:
April 15: Deadline for the submission of "Application for Participation" (described below).
April 15 - May 1: The collection of XML documents will be distributed to all participants on the receipt of their signed data handling agreement. Participants will also be provided with detailed instructions and formatting criteria for candidate topics/queries.

May 6: Submission deadline for candidate topics.
May 13: Distribution of final set of topics/queries to participants along with detailed information on the formatting requirements of the search results.
August 1: Submission deadline of search results.
August 19: Distribution of merged results to participants for relevance assessments.
October 1: Submission deadline for relevance assessments.
November 1: Distribution of XML tests collection and evaluation scores to participants.
December 9-11: Workshop in Schloss Dagstuhl (http://www.dagstuhl.de/).

Organisers
DELOS Network of Excellence for Digital Libraries http://delos-noe.iei.pi.cnr.it/

Project Leader
Professor Norbert Fuhr
University of Dortmund
Computer Science VI
August-Schmidt-Straكe 12
44227 Dortmund (Germany)
http://ls6.cs.uni-dortmund.de/ir
Email: fuhr@ls6.informatik.uni-dortmund.de

Mounia Lalmas
Department of Computer Science
Queen Mary University of London
Mile End Road
London, E1 4NS
Tel: (+44) 20 7882 5200
Fax: (+44) 20 8980 6533
http://qmir.dcs.qmw.ac.uk
Email: mounia@dcs.qmul.ac.uk

Contact person (clearinghouse)
Gabriella Kazai
Department of Computer Science
Queen Mary University of London
Mile End Road
London, E1 4NS
Tel: (+44) 20 7882 5256
Fax: (+44) 20 8980 6533
http://qmir.dcs.qmw.ac.uk
Email: gabs@dcs.qmul.ac.uk

Application to participate
Organisations wishing to participate should respond to this call by submitting their application on-line at
http://qmir.dcs.qmw.ac.uk/XMLEval.html#App
Or by filling in the application below and sending it via email to Gabriella Kazai at: gabs@dcs.qmul.ac.uk.
All responses should be submitted by the 15th of April. Confirmation of the receipt of your application will be sent via email within 3 working days. Any questions should also be sent to same address.

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Contact Information
Main Contact
Name:
Affiliation:
Tel. Number(s):
Fax Number(s):
Email Address(es)
Full Postal Address:
Additional Contact
Name:
Affiliation:
Tel. Number(s):
Fax Number(s):
Email Address(es):
Full Postal Address:
Description of retrieval approach:
(Please provide details of your retrieval approach and interest in XML retrieval)
Other Tasks:
(Please indicate here what additional tasks would you be interested in)

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Interested in Interface Design or Intelligent Access: Workshop and Special Issue

Interested in Interface Design or Intelligent Access?
Consider submitting a brief paper to:
Workshop on Document Search Interface Design and Intelligent Access in Large-Scale Collections in the ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries 2002
Deadline for submission: May 31, 2002.
Workshop Date: July 18, 2002

More details at: http://lair.indiana.edu/jcdlwsui.html

Or, consider submitting a journal paper to:
The Journal of the American Society for Information Science & Technology Special issue on Document Search Interface Design and Intelligent Access
Deadline for submission: October 1, 2002

More details at: http://lair.indiana.edu/jasist.html

Interested in both options?
Send a brief paper to the JCDL workshop first.
If the brief paper is accepted, you will be invited to submit a journal paper for the JASIST special issue.

Questions? Send email to Javed Mostafa: jm@indiana.edu

EUROFUSE Workshop on Information Systems

September 23-25, 2002,
Villa Monastero, Varenna, Italy

EUROFUSE, a Working Group of EURO and EUSFLAT, invites you to participate in the EUROFUSE Workshop on Information Systems. This meeting will be held at Villa Monastero, Varenna, Como Lake, Italy, during September 23-25, 2001.
http://villamonastero.org

Aims and scope:
The aim of EUROFUSE is to bring together researchers and practitioners applying fuzzy set techniques in operations research and related fields. After successful editions on Planning and Scheduling (Mons, 2000), Preference Modelling and Applications (Granada, 2001), the coordinators have choosen to dedicate the 2002 workshop to Information Systems. More specifically, the workshop will address recent advances in the management of uncertainty and imprecision in information systems, and will concentrate on the definition of models and systems in the following application areas:

- Decision support
- Information retrieval and filtering
- Database management
- Biological information management
- Geographical information management
- Multi media
- The World Wide Web
- Electronic commerce
- User interfaces.

Call For Papers
Invited presentations: five to six guest speakers will deliver a 45 min talk covering a broad variety of interests. Contributed papers: contributed papers will be presented in plenary sessions (25 minutes for each paper, 5 minutes for discussion).

Important dates:
April 15, 2002: Deadline for submission of extended abstracts.
June 15, 2002: Notification of acceptance.
July 31, 2002: Deadline for submission of camera-ready manuscripts.
August 31, 2002: Workshop program on the web.
September 22, 2002: Start of the workshop.

(ICONIP'02) (SEAL'02) (FSKD'02)

9th International Conference on Neural Information Processing (ICONIP'02)
4th Asia-Pacific Conference on Simulated Evolution And Learning (SEAL'02)
International Conference on Fuzzy Systems and Knowledge Discovery (FSKD'02)
November 18 - 22, 2002,
Orchid Country Club, Singapore
http://www.ntu.edu.sg/home/nef

Organized by:
School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Sponsored by:
Asia-Pacific Neural Network Assembly SEAL & FSKD Steering Committees
Singapore Neuroscience Association

In Co-Operation with:
IEEE Neural Network Society
International Neural Network Society
European Neural Network Society
SPIE

Supported by:
Lee Foundation
US AOARD, AROFE
Singapore Exhibition & Convention Bureau

Call For Papers, Sponsorships, And Special Session Proposals
Submission Deadline: April 30, 2002

Conference Secretariat
FSKD'02-ICONIP'02-SEAL'02 Secretariat
Conference Management Center/CCE, NTU
Administration Annex Building #04-06
42 Nanyang Avenue, Singapore 639815
Email: nef@ntu.edu.sg
Fax: +65 6793 0997

CoNLL-2002, Sixth Conference on Natural Language Learning COLING-2002 workshop W11

Taipei, Taiwan, August 31 - September 1, 2002

Call For Papers
Main Session Submissions
Submit an abstract of maximum 1500 words (Postscript, PDF or plain text ASCII) by May 2nd, 2002 electronically to the address below.
Authors of accepted abstracts will be invited to produce a full paper to be published in the proceedings of the workshop, which will be available at the workshop for participants, and distributed afterwards by COLING. Final submissions must follow the COLING style
http://www.ikp.uni-bonn.de/coling2002/psg.html
We strongly recommend the use of these style files also in the submission.

Submit main session abstracts to:
Dan Roth, danr@uiuc.edu
Department of Computer Science,
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
1304 West Springfield Ave. Urbana, IL 61801 USA
Tel: 217 244 7068 Fax: 217 244 6500

Or
Antal van den Bosch, Antal.vdnBosch@kub.nl
Computational Linguistics, Tilburg University,
P.O. Box 90153
NL-5000 LE Tilburg, The Netherlands
Tel: +31.13.4663117 Fax: +31.13.4663110

Shared Task Submissions
Submit an abstract of maximum 1500 words describing the learning approach, and your results on the test set by April 6, 2001 to the address below (preferably by email). A special section of the proceedings will be devoted to a comparison and analysis of the results and to a description of the approaches used. Submit shared task submissions to:

Erik Tjong Kim Sang, erikt@uia.ua.ac.be
Centrum Nederlandse Taal en Spraak
Linguistics, Department of Germanic languages and literature
UIA, University of Antwerp
Universiteitsplein 1, B-2610 Wilrijk, Belgium

Important Dates:
Deadline for Abstract Submission: May 2, 2002
Deadline for Shared Task Submission: May 2, 2002
Notification: May 22, 2002
Deadline camera-ready full paper: June 8, 2001
Conference: August 31-September 1, 2002
http://www.aclweb.org/signll/cfp.html

Workshop on Personalization Techniques in Electronic Publishing on The Web: Trends and Perspectives

28/5/2002 - Malaga, Spain
http://www.dimi.uniud.it/~mizzaro/AH2002/
At
2nd International Conference on Adaptive Hypermedia and Adaptive
Web Based Systems
29/5/2002 - 31/5/2002
Malaga, Spain
http://sirius.lcc.uma.es/AH2002/

Important dates
March 25: deadline for submission
April 18: notification of acceptance
May 15: submission of the final camera ready
October 1: final papers due for publication in the proceedings

IEEE ICDM '02: The 2002 IEEE International Conference on Data Mining

Sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society
Maebashi TERRSA, Maebashi City, Japan
December 9 - 12, 2002
Home Page: http://kis.maebashi-it.ac.jp/icdm02
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HCI 2002

Important Attention:
Final Call For Submissions
1st May 2002
HCI 2002

The Premiere British HCI Conference, Submission deadline - 1st May 2002

Short papers
Posters
Doctoral Consortium
HCI & EUPA Workshops
Panels
Interactive Experiences

Conference Dates:
2-6 September 2002

South Bank, London

Details can be found at
http://www.hci2002.org

IV Projects

Research Fellows/ Research Assistants (2-3 posts) (Ref: T204)

Research Fellows/ Research Assistants (2-3 posts) (Ref: T204)
"Ambient, Personalised, and Context-sensitive Info Systems for Mobile Users "
(2 / 2.5 - Year Fixed Term)

The AmbieSense project is a 30-month large European R&D project funded by the Information Society Technologies (IST) R&D programme of the EU. The goal of IST is to implement future and emerging information society technologies for the European citizens and businesses. The AmbieSense project is one of the important projects that will achieve this goal.

The EU-IST AmbieSense project (IST-2001-34244) aims to use information about the surroundings together with individual user context information to develop leading edge personalised interactive services for mobile users. One key project objective is to build intelligent agents that are mobile and distributed in order to support users' mobile info spaces. Multi-agent and context-sensitive technology are of key concern. These agents will help users to get relevant information in the right situation/context. The application domain is ambient, personalised and context-sensitive info services for business travellers and tourists. The ambient technology will be tested and evaluated with real
Mobile users at an international airport and in a large European city. Tourist information, infotainment and XML-based electronic maps will be put together on mobile and wireless computers that the users carry with them whilst on the move.

Keywords: ambient/ ubiquitous computing, intelligent agents, personalisation, context-aware applications, human-centred computing.

Total budget of the project is 5 million Euros.

The project partners include:
* Robert Gordon University (RGU),
* SINTEF Telecom and Informatics,
* Reuters Ltd,
* Lonely Planet Ltd,
* Oslo Airport,
* Siemens AG,
* CognIT AS,
* Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU),
* Seville Global,
* YellowMap AG.

The Robert Gordon University's role in project is to:

* Contribute to intelligent agents for acquiring user profiles for contexts;
* Implement information sharing and distribution;
* Creating models and user techniques for specifying contextual information;
* Demonstrating personalisation of info systems;
* Liase with content providers.

The School of Computing has a reputation for high quality and innovative research in design and development of Intelligent Systems and developing Interactive Systems. The Information Retrieval Group focuses on the effective delivery and presentation of information and the end-user service. The groups' work bridges the two larger groupings of Intelligent and Interactive Systems. These research strengths are brought together in the new Smart Web Technologies Centre, which will investigate intelligent, computing technologies and apply these to new types of web-based systems and services.

The successful candidate will have good development skills and knowledge/experience of at least 2 (for RA post) or 3 (for RF post) of the following: mobile computing, agents and multi-agent architecture, information retrieval, personalisation, machine learning.

Experience in the following would be an advantage:
* Information/text processing,
* Web-based applications,
* Modeling and design,
* Knowledge of relevant standards.

The successful candidate for the RF post should have a PhD in Computer Science or any cognate discipline or 3-5 years' equivalent experience in research and development.

The successful candidate for the RA post will have a degree or equivalent in Computer Science or any cognate discipline, and may have the opportunity to pursue an MPhil/PhD within this field.

Further details available on:
http://www.scms.rgu.ac.uk/staff/asga/ambiesense
(Includes pdf version of advertisement)

Other relevant links:
* http://www.scms.rgu.ac.uk/research/ir
* http://www.scms.rgu.ac.uk/smartweb/
* http://www.scms.rgu.ac.uk/staff/asga/

Informal enquiries to the project leader: Dr. Ayse Goker, Senior Lecturer, School of Computing, Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen AB25 1HG,
Scotland,
UK,
Tel: +44 (0) 1224-262713, Email: asga@scms.rgu.ac.uk

Candidates are encouraged to declare their intention to apply to the project leader, as soon as possible.

Formal Applications to: Human Resources Department, The Robert Gordon University, Schoolhill, Aberdeen AB10 1FR, Tel: +44-1224-262085,
staffrec@rgu.ac.uk
http://www.rgujobs.ac.uk/
Applicants are also encouraged to send a CV with their application forms

Salary -
Research Fellow: up to £26491
Research Assistant: up to £19681

Closing Date: 18 April 2002