Research Fellow in Computer
Science/Information Studies
Readership/Lectureship in
Robotics, Vision, Graphics
Version 1.9 of the Lemur
Toolkit for language modeling and information Retrieval
Special Issue on
"Summarization and Information Extraction”
Journal of the American
Society for Information Science and Technology JASIST
Lecture Notes in Computer
Science 2406
ASIST 2002 Annual Meeting
Available
ECDL 2002 Programme Now
Available
New issue of Information
Research
IEEE Intelligent Systems:
Special Issue on Advances in Natural Language Processing
Keynote white paper for the
Music Information Retrieval/Music Digital Library Evaluation Workshop
6th EAMT Workshop: Teaching
Machine Translation
Special Track on:
Information Access And Retrieval Systems
ACM SIGIR'2002 Workshop on
"XML AND INFORMATION RETRIEVAL"
COLING-2002: The 19th
International Conference on Computational Linguistics
WWW2003 The Twelfth
International World Wide Web Conference
DIR-2002 Third Dutch-Belgian
Information Retrieval Workshop
ISMIR 2002 3rd International
Conference on Music Information Retrieval
Treebanks and Linguistic
Theories 2002
5th AUSTRALASIAN Natural
Language Processing Workshop (ANLP2002)
Sixth International
Conference and Exhibition LIBCOM-2002
Internet And Libraries -
Information Resources In Science, Culture, Education, And Business
Terminology and Knowledge
Engineering (TKE) 2002
11th Conference of the
European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics
KBCS 2002 International
Conference On Knowledge Based Computer Systems
Association of Information
and Dissemination Centers (ASIDIC) Fall Meeting
SEMANET '02 A COLING
Workshop on Building and Using Semantic Networks
Department of Computer Science
University of Sheffield
Research Fellow in Computer Science/Information Studies
The successful applicant will refine and user test a novel interface for CLIR.
A set of user studies have already been undertaken and a first interface has
been implemented. The selected candidate will carry on the redesign and
evaluation of the Clarity system together with the current testing of the user
interface.
Candidates should hold a relevant post graduate degree, and have previous HCI
and programming experience. Knowledge of natural language processing and
information retrieval, and experience of the following will be an
advantage: interface design and user testing, multiple language skills, and
working in EU funded projects.
Clarity started in February 2001 and will finish in January 2004, and the
proposed appointment is offered until 31 January 2004, with the possibility of
continuation onto another funded EU project.
How to apply
To apply for the above vacancy first obtain an Application Pack from Personnel
Services via one of the following methods:
Online: - see
http://www.shef.ac.uk/jobs/how_to_apply.php
By phone: Call the 24-hour telephone answering service: - +44 (0) 114 222 1631
By post: - write to Personnel Services,
Firth Court,
Western Bank,
Sheffield, S10 2TN, United Kingdom.
By fax: - +44 (0) 114 222 1624.
Collect in person: - Personnel Services reception, 10-12 Brunswick Street,
Sheffield, S10 2FN.
Please ensure that you include the reference number of the post and your full
postal address when requesting details, otherwise you will incur added delay in
the information being sent out to you.
Requests for packs to be posted will normally be mailed out on the working day
following that on which the request is received.
Further information about the post is available from:
Ms Linda Perna
Research Coordinator
Tel: +44 (0)114 222 1815
Email: l.perna@dcs.shef.ac.uk
The University of Melbourne
Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering
Research Fellow Grade 2
The Position: You will be involved in an Australian Research Council (ARC)
funded project on concept-based etrieval and will contribute to identifying new
kinds of knowledge for effective mining of databases that include text and
images. You will carry out research and development in the areas of information
retrieval, image retrieval, machine learning and knowledge discovery (also
known as data mining).
The Person: You will have a PhD degree
in Computer Science or equivalent qualifications, together with strong research
experience in information retrieval, data mining, image retrieval or machine
learning.
The Benefits: Salary range:
$54,249-$64,420 p.a. (Research Fellow Grade 2), plus employer superannuation
contributions of 9 percent, salary packaging options and staff training and
development opportunities.
Duration: This is a full-time fixed
term (research) position available for two and a half years.
Contact: A position description is
available at
www.hr.unimelb.edu.au/r/
Or
www.cs.mu.oz.au
For further information contact
Professor Rao Kotagiri
+61 3 8344-9100
Or
Email rao@cs.mu.oz.au
Applications Close: 4th September 2002
Applicants must address the selection criteria and provide a detailed
curriculum vitae by the closing date.
Please quote position number Y0011737 and include names, phone and
facsimile numbers and email addresses of three professional referees. Applications should be directed to the
Deputy Principal, Human Resources,
University of Melbourne, Victoria,
3010,
Australia, Fax +61 3 8344 6080.
Reference number: 311616
The School of Informatics invites applications from candidates of international
standing for three appointments at the level of either Reader or Lecturer.
Outstanding candidates in all the following areas are invited to apply:
Algorithms; Cognitive Systems; Computer Vision, Graphics and Robotics;
Computing Systems Architecture; Knowledge Representation and Reasoning; Machine
Learning and Probabilistic Modelling; and Software Engineering.
In the area of Computer Vision, Graphics and Robotics there is particular
interest in:
Mobile robotics
Industrial robotics
Robot-based biological emulation
Learning and cooperative agent behaviour
Robot navigation
Complex task planning
Medical/biomedical robotics
Intelligent image analysis and interpretation
Image database access and analysis
3D vision
Virtual and augmented reality.
The successful candidate will contribute to the activities of the Institute for
Perception, Action and Behaviour
http://www.ipab.informatics.ed.ac.uk/
The Lecturer and Reader posts are equivalent to US Assistant and Associate
Professor levels. (We are not looking for
Full Professor candidates at this time, but potential candidates could show
their interest by emailing rbf@dai.ed.ac.uk
Informatics at Edinburgh is one of the top-ranked departments in the United
Kingdom. Candidates should demonstrate a world-class research record and both
interest and ability in teaching. Candidates for a readership will be expected
to demonstrate the ability to take on research leadership in their respective
area.
Informal enquiries to
Bonnie Webber,
+44 131 650 4190
bonnie.webber@ed.ac.uk
or to
Michael Fourman,
+44 131 650 2703
hod@informatics.ed.ac.uk
Further information can be found at both
http://www.informatics.ed.ac.uk/events/vacancies/
and
http://www.jobs.ed.ac.uk/.
Salary scale: Lecturer £20,470 -
£32,537 p.a. (under review)
Reader £34,158 - £38,603 p.a. (under review)
Please quote Ref: 311616
Letters of application should include a curriculum vitae and the names and
addresses of 3 referees. Please include
fax numbers and email addresses for referees if possible. Applications should be addressed to Division
of Informatics (c/o Ms. Eleanor Kerse), University of Edinburgh, and sent, to
arrive not later than 23 August 2002, by post
(80 South Bridge, Edinburgh EH1 1HN, UK), fax (+44 (0)131 650 6516), or email (hod@informatics.ed.ac.uk
). Applications can be made on-line through http://www.jobs.ed.ac.uk/.
Closing date: 23 August 2002
Investigating the Usefulness of Markup-Based Knowledge Extraction
University of Essex
Department of Computer Science
Natural Language Engineering and Distributed Information Systems Group
Applications are invited for the post of Senior Research Officer for a fixed
term of 15 months from 1 January 2003 on an EPSRC-funded project. The project
investigates how searching a document collection can benefit from incorporating
knowledge extracted automatically based on the documents' markup. HTML tags are
just one example of such markup. A major part of the project will be a thorough
evaluation step. Candidates should be graduates of computer science or
computational linguistics with a strong background in natural language
engineering and evaluation of natural language systems. Good programming skills
are essential.
Appointment to this full-time, 15-month fixed term post will be on the Grade 1A
scale for research staff, up to £23,373 per annum depending on qualifications
and experience.
Closing date: 30 September 2002
More details at:
http://www.essex.ac.uk/personnel/Jobs/ads/R149.htmInformal
Enquiries to: Udo Kruschwitz udo@essex.ac.uk
Laboratoire CLIPS-IMAG de Grenoble FRANCE
Domain:
Information retrieval
Multimedia (images)
Development on a multimedia platform
knowledge ergonomy would be appreciate
Context: RIAM projet "Annotation automatique d'images pour la recherché et
la navigation" (Annapurna)
Where: CLIPS-IMAG Lab in Grenoble France, MRIM group, responsables :
Catherine Berrut et Anne Guérin-Dugué
http://www-clips.imag.fr/mrim
Consortium: Thomson Multimédia, LTU Technologie, INRIA Rennes, CLIPS-IMAG
Starting : September or October 2002
Duration: 1 year
Platform:
"Set-top-box" plateform
Content:
Priority: digital and personnal images environment (image retrieval), in
collaboration with the Multicom group from CLIPS lab and Thomson Multimedia
secondary: images calculus with LTU technology
Send a CV to:
Catherine.Berrut@imag.fr
Anne.Guerin-Dugue@imag.fr
Friends of the Lemur Toolkit
We are pleased to announce version 1.9 of the Lemur Toolkit for language
modeling and information retrieval. This release of the toolkit contains some
significant new functionality, some architectural upgrades, and fixes to errors
in previous releases.
Highlights include:
Document summarization
Distributed IR (query-based sampling, resource selection, results merging)
Additional smoothing methods
A document manager interface
A new inverted index class
Compression for "push" indexes
Partial loading of some indexes
See
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~lemur/
For details and downloading instructions.
The new release is supported on Solaris, Linux, Windows NT, Windows 2000, and
Windows XP.
See
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~lemur/
For details and downloading instructions.
The new release is supported on Solaris, Linux, Windows NT, Windows 2000, and
Windows XP.
In case you haven't checked the Web page recently, we now have an open
discussion forum for Lemur toolkit users and developers. It's a good starting point for questions,
answers, comments, and suggestions about what should be in future releases of
the toolkit. We welcome your comments
and suggestions.
Journal "Artificial Intelligence in Medicine"
Special Issue on:
Summarization and Information Extraction from Medical Documents
http://www.iit.demokritos.gr/skel/en/Announcements/cfp.htm
Call for papers
Reviewing Process
Papers will be reviewed by at least two reviewers apart from the guest editors
and the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal. Acceptance will be based on
originality, significance of findings, and relevance to the subject of the
special issue. Please note that the usual reviewing procedures and editorial
standards to the Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Medicine will apply to
the Special Issue manuscripts.
PAPER LENGTH
A manuscript should no exceed the limit of 10,000 words or 20 pages including
tables, figures and the list of references. Manuscripts should be prepared
according to the journal "submission guidelines" see:
http://authors.elsevier.com/)
SCOPE
The current special issue of AIM is looking for research or R&D work in the
fields of summarization and information extraction from medical documents in
various formats, such as medical records (structured documents), web medical
pages (semi-structured documents), or medical news and articles (unstructured
documents).
Indicative but not restrictive topics are:
-Named entity recognition,
-Event/topic detection,
-Multi-document information extraction,
-Multi-lingual information extraction,
-Multimedia information extraction,
-Domain adaptive information extraction,
-Multidocument summarization,
-Multi-lingual summarization,
-Multimedia summarization,
-Evolving summarization,
-Domain adaptive summarization,
-Text mining.
Schedule
Call for papers 22 July
2002
Expression of interest 15
September 2002
Submission of full papers 15
December 2002
Notification of acceptance 28
February 2003
Submission of final papers 31 May
2003
Delivery to AIM 30 June
2003
The Journal "Artificial Intelligence in Medicine", will publish the
special issue on "Information Extraction and Summarization from Medical
Documents", during the year 2003.
Address For Submission And Further Information
Manuscripts should be sent to:
Dr. Constantine D. Spyropoulos or Dr. Vangelis Karkaletsis
NCSR "DEMOKRITOS", Institute of Informatics & Telecommunications
15310 Aghia Paraskevi Attikis, Athens, Greece
E-mail: {costass, vangelis}@iit.demokritos.gr
Tel: +3010 6503196-7,
Fax: +3010 6532175
Dr. Vangelis Karkaletsis
Tel.:+30-1-06503197
Researcher
Software and Knowledge Engineering Lab
Inst. of Informatics & Telecommunications |
N.C.S.R. "Demokritos" |
15310 Aghia Paraskevi
Fax: +30-1-06532175 |
Greece
E-mail: vangelis@iit.demokritos.gr
Katerina Pastra
Research Assistant & ILASH Research Co-ordinator
Natural Language Processing Group
Department of Computer Science, University of Sheffield
Volume 53, Number 10
Note: URLs for viewing contents of JASIST from past issues are at the
bottom. Immediately below, the contents
of Bert Boyce's "In This Issue" and part of Andrew Dillon's
introduction to the special issue on Information Architecture has been cut into
the Table of Contents.]
Editorial
In This Issue
Bert R. Boyce
781
Research
Relevance of Web Documents: Ghosts Consensus Method
Andrey L. Gorbunov
Published online 6 June 2002
783
Duality Revisited: Construction of Fractional Frequency Distributions Based on
Two Dual Lotka Laws
L. Egghe and I.K. Ravichandra Rao
Published online 11 June 2002
789
The Impact of the Internet on Public Library Use: An Analysis of the Current
Consumer Market for Library and Internet Services
George D'Elia, Corinne Jorgensen, Joseph Woelfel, and Eleanor Jo Rodger
Published online 30 May 2002
802
Special Topic Issue: Information Architecture
Guest Editor:
Andrew Dillon
Information Architecture in JASIST: Just Where Did We Come From?
Andrew Dillon
Published online 17 May 2002
821
Information Architecture: Notes Toward a New Curriculum
Don Latham
Published online 30 May 2002
824
Information Architecture for the Web: The IA Matrix Approach to Designing
Children's Portals
Andrew Large, Jamshid Beheshti, and Charles Cole
Published online 20 May 2002
831
Information Architecture Without Internal Theory: An Inductive Design Process
Marsha Haverty
Published online 17 May 2002
839
When a Better Interface and Easy Navigation Aren't Enough: Examining the
Information Architecture in a Law Enforcement Agency
Roslin V. Hauck and Suzanne Weisband
Published online 14 May 2002
846
Information Interaction: Providing a Framework for Information Architecture
Elaine G. Toms
Published online 14 May 2002
855
Designing a New Urban Internet
Lauren Burke
Published online 11 June 2002
863
Information Architecture for Bilingual Web Sites
Daniel Cunliffe, Helen Jones, Melanie Jarvis, Kevin Egan, Rhian Huws, and Sian
Munro
Published online 9 May 2002
866
Information Architecture: Looking Ahead
Louis Rosenfeld
Published online 11 June 2002
874
[Note: The ASIST home page
http://www.asis.org/Publications/JASIS/tocs.html
contains the Table of Contents and abstracts from Bert Boyce's
"In This Issue" from January 1993 (Volume 44) to date.
The John Wiley Interscience site
http://www.interscience.wiley.com
Includes issues from 1986 (Volume 37) to date.
Guests have access only to tables of contents and abstracts. Registered users of the interscience site
have access to the full text of these issues and to preprints.]
LNCS 2406:
C.A. Peters et al. (Eds.)
Evaluation of Cross-Language Information Retrieval Systems
Second Workshop of the Cross-Language Evaluation Forum, CLEF 2001,
Darmstadt, Germany, September 3-4, 2001. Revised Papers
http://link.springer.de/link/service/series/0558/tocs/t2406.htm
Or
http://link.springer-ny.com/link/service/series/0558/tocs/t2406.htm
Information, Connections And Community
ASIST 2002 Annual Meeting
Philadelphia, PA
November 17-21,2002
Available now online
http://www.asis.org/Conferences/AM02/index.html
The programme of the 6th European Conference on Digital Libraries being held in
Rome on 16-18 September 2002 is now available from the ECDL 2002 web site:
http://www.ecdl2002.org/
The programme looks very promising and we hope to see you in Rome next
September.
On the conference web site you can also find the on-line registration form and
hotel listing. Please feel free to disseminate this information to anyone you
think might be interested in digital libraries.
A new issue of Information Research will be on line shortly there'll be some
things omitted, simply because holidays and foreign travel have taken their
toll on my time. Missing bits will be inserted when I return from the CoLIS 4
conference.
Apologies to regular readers who are not getting a personal e-mail for the same
reason, plus the fact that they now number more than 1,500 and I now need to
set up some kind of automatic mailing system from the reader database. Anyone
got any idea of how to do that in Access?
Here's the issue Editorial.
For this issue we have four papers on the special theme of the Semantic Web and
two on other topics, along with the usual set of book reviews (my thanks to
Dr.Elena Macevičiūtė for the latter). I shall leave
it to the
Issue Editor, Dr. Terrence Brooks of the University of Washington, to introduce
the papers on the special topic and I shall concern myself with other matters.
The two additional refereed papers deal with quite different areas. First Aiki
Tibar of the Tallinn Technical University Library reports on her Ph.D.
investigation into the information needs of Estonian industry through an
analysis of the critical success factors reported by respondents. This work was
of considerable practical significance to the Technical University Library,
since it has the largest collection of technologically-related materials in the
country and was looking for ways of improving its information services to
industry.
Next, Jillian Griffiths and colleagues at Manchester Metropolitan University
report on a novel method of collecting data from diverse sources during
user-system interaction. The method employs the Grand Art screen capture
technology along audio-recording of 'talking aloud', and computer logs. The
more ethnographic techniques are used in information behaviour research, the
more likely we are to see such methods gaining sophistication.
I announced some changes to the Editorial Board in the last issue: this was the
result of the resignation of the Editorial Board of the Journal of
Documentation consequent upon its sale by Aslib to MCB Press. Professors
Charles Oppenheim and Elizabeth Davenport were already members of the Information
Research Board and I invited Professors Peter Ingwersen, Blaise Cronin, Stephen
Robertson, and Christine Borgman to join the Board. All have now accepted and
information about them can be found at the Editorial Board page
The next issue will be our special issue on 'Knowledge Management' as well as
the launch of the first issue of Volume 8. Sometimes I think I've been
producing this journal for ever (especially when the time comes to put a new
issue on the site) but at other times the eight years seems to have flashed by.
The submission continue to increase, putting more demand on the work of
voluntary referees and I though that those contemplating a submision might be
interested to see what instructions referees are give, so I've put a copy of the
evaluation form on the site.
'Best sellers': an update on the most 'hit' papers on the site, expanded
backwards in time to Volume 4 no. 1 - there's been one change in the list from
Vol. 5 No. 1 - see if you can spot it. The list raises a question in my mind
-does the use of an issue of an electronic journal decline less rapidly than a
print journal?
Vol. 4 No. 1 - The Internet as a learning tool: a preliminary study, by Kate
Garland, S.J. Anderson, and J.M. Noyes, University of Bristol – 5431 hits
Vol. 4 No. 2 - Student attitudes towards electronic information resources, by
Kathryn Ray & Joan Day, Department of Information and Library Management,
University of Northumbria at Newcastle, UK - 8011 hits
Vol. 4 No. 3 - Information in organisations: directions for information
management, by Joyce Kirk, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia 9832
hits
Vol. 5 No. 1 - Experiencing information seeking and learning: a study of the
interaction between two phenomena, by Louise Limberg, Hِgskolan I Borهs Borهs, Sweden - 4417 hits
Vol. 5 No. 2 - Textual and chemical information processing :different domains
but similar algorithms, by Peter Willett, Department of Information Studies,
University of Sheffield, UK. - 3103 hits
Vol. 5 No. 3 - Recent trends in user studies: action research and qualitative
methods, T.D. Wilson, Department of Information Studies, University of
Sheffield, Sheffield, UK - 7219 hits
Vol. 5 No. 4 - Information exchange in virtual communities: a typology, by Gary
Burnett, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida, USA – 3508 hits
Vol. 6 No. 1 - Designing internet research assignments: building a framework
for instructor collaboration., by David Ward and Sarah Reisinger, University of
Illinois, USA - 7162 hits
Vol. 6 No. 2 - Where is meaning when form is gone? Knowledge representation on
the Web, by Terrence A. Brooks, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington,
USA - 2252 hits
Vol. 6 No. 3 - Determining organizational information needs: the Critical
Success Factors approach, by Maija-Leena Huotari, University of Tampere,
Finland and T.D. Wilson, University of Sheffield, U.K. - 4286 hits
Vol. 6 No. 4 - Scholarly communication, scholarly publication and the status of
emerging formats, by Leah Halliday, Department of Information Science,
Loughborough University, UK - 964 hits
Vol. 7 No. 1 - Bibliometrics of electronic journals in information science, by
Donald T. Hawkins, Information Science Abstracts, USA – 3758 hits
Vol. 7 No. 2 - Critical realism and information systems research: why bother
with philosophy?, by Philip J. Dobson, School of Management Information
Systems, Edith Cowan University, Churchlands, Western Australia – 812 hits
Vol. 7 No. 3 - Understanding on-line community: the affordances of virtual space,
by Karen Ruhleder, Graduate School of Library and Information Science,
University of Illinois Urbana Champaign, Illinois, USA - 529 hits
Professor Tom Wilson Publisher/Editor-in-Chief
Professor T.D. Wilson, PhD
Publisher/Editor in Chief
Information Research
InformationR.net
University of Sheffield
Sheffield S10 2TN, UK
E-mail: t.d.wilson@shef.ac.uk
Web site: http://InformationR.net/
Co-editors:
Fabio Ciravegna University of Sheffield, UK
Sanda Harabagiu , University of Texas at Dallas, USA
The inherent complexity of processing human language imposes several
challenging difficulties for the integration of the Natural Language Processing
(NLP) technology in current systems. This special issue intends to present the
tate-of-the-art in Natural Language Technology when applied to either text or
speech processing. We invite original and high quality submission reporting on
NLP applications or describing implemented NLP systems either in isolation or
as part of broader systems.
Areas of interest include but are not limited to:
Question answering
Information Extraction
Dialogue
Summarization and generation
Machine translation
In particular we welcome papers focusing on:
Applications involving the use of NLP; Opportunities for the use of NLP;
Challenges and requirements of current state-of-the-art Natural Language
Processing techniques (e.g. portability, robustness, efficiency and
effectiveness issues); Novel applications of NLP techniques.
Schedule:
September 15, 2002: Deadline for submission.
October 15, 2002: Notification of acceptance
November 7, 2002: Deadline final versions.
Format of Submission
Please follow the instruction at
http://www.computer.org/intelligent/author.htm
Manuascript should be no longer than 35 double-spaced pages.
For any information, please refer to Fabio Ciravegna,
F.Ciravegna@dcs.shef.ac.uk
, or Sanda Harabagiu, sanda@cs.utdallas.edu "
Please visit the workshop page at:
http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/~fabio/IEEE_IS.html
Dr. Ellen Voorhees, of the National Institute of Standards and Technology
(United States), has just submitted her keynote white paper for the Music
Information Retrieval/Music Digital Library Evaluation Workshop (Joint
Conference on Digital Libraries 2002, 18 July 2002). I am pre-releasing Dr.
Voorhees' excellent discussion of the background of the Text REtrival
Conference (TREC) and its potential applicability as a model for MIR/MDL
evaluation. I hope that the early release of the paper will prompt responses
from all those interested in MIR/MDL evaluation issues in particular, and IR/DL
evaluation in general.
Whither Music IR Evaluation Infrastructure: Lessons to be Learned from TREC
http://music-ir.org/evaluation/voorhess.pdf
Also at:
http://www.itl.nist.gov/iaui/894.02/works/papers/jcdl_wkshop.pdf
If anything in Dr. Voorhees paper prompts a comment or an argument or a
suggestion, please share it with the group or with me personally at jdownie@uiuc.edu Even
if you do not have a compelling interest in MIR/MDL issues, but have some
experience in other evaluation projects, I both welcome and encourage your
feedback.
If possible, I would like to gather up some of the salient responses for
inclusion as an appendix to handouts that will be given to participants of this
workshop and the upcoming Panel on MIR evaluation at the International
Conference on Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR 2002, Paris), etc. to aid in
our discussions. So, if you would be so kind as to indicate that it would be
acceptable to you that we reproduce your comments, etc., I would appreciate it
greatly.
Cheers, and I hope all is well with each of you.
J. Stephen Downie
Background URLS:
Conference and Workshop URLS
http://www.ohsu.edu/jcdl/
http://www.ohsu.edu/jcdl/ws.html#W4
Please visit the following URLs for other important details:
http://music-ir.org/MIR_MDL_evaluation.html
http://music-ir.org/JCDL_Workshop_Info.html
Stephen Downie, PhD
Assistant Professor,
Graduate School of Library and Information Science; and,
Fellow, National Center for Supercomputing Applications (2000-01)
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
(217) 351-5037
Date: 14 - 15 November 2002
Venue: UMIST, Manchester, England
Call for papers
The deadline for the submission of extended abstracts expired on Wednesday, 31
July 2002. You may for some reason have missed that deadline.
Late submissions received by (and preferably before, please)
Thursday 8th August will be welcome. The Call for Papers is appended below.
Important dates:
Deadline for extended abstract: 31 July 2002:
EXPIRED
Acceptance notification: 6 September 2002
Final copies due: 14 October 2002
Conference dates: 14-15 November 2002
For further information se Web-site:
http://www.ccl.umist.ac.uk/events/eamt-bcs/cfp.html
18th ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC 2003)
March 9-12, 2003, Melbourne, Florida, USA
Call for Papers
Guidelines for Submission
Original papers from the above-mentioned or other related areas will be considered. This includes three categories of submissions:
1) Original and unpublished research;
2) ) Reports of innovative computing applications in the arts, sciences, engineering, business, government, education and industry; and
3) ) Reports of successful technology transfer to new problem domains. Each submitted paper will be fully refereed and undergo a blind review process by at least three referees. The accepted papers in all categories will be published in the ACM SAC 2003 proceedings.
Submission guidelines must be strictly
followed:
Submit your paper electronically in either PDF or PS format to the e-mail
addresses of the Track Program Chairs (with subject SAC03). Submissions should
be printable on a standard printer on common paper formats, such as US letter
and A4.
The author(s) name(s) and address(es) must not appear in the body of the paper,
and self-reference should be in the third person. This is to facilitate blind
review. The body of the paper should not exceed 5,000 words (approximately 15
pages, double-spaced). Authors should
also attach to the message a separate cover sheet, showing the title of the
paper, the author(s) name(s) and affiliation(s), and the contact address
(including e-mail, telephone, and fax).
Important dates:
September 6, 2002 Paper Submission
October 18, 2002 Author Notification
November 8, 2002 Camera-Ready Copy
March 9-12, 2003 SAC 2003 takes
place
For further information see:
http://www.cis.strath.ac.uk/SAC2003/
Call for Participation
August 15, Tampere, Finland
Call for participation
Further information
Additional information is available at the XML and IR Workshop Web page
http://www.sigir2002.org/html/ws6.htm
And questions can be sent directly to:
yoelle@il.ibm.com
Information about the workshop venue and local arrangements (hotel
reservations etc.) as well as the sponsoring conference can be found at the
SIGIR Conference main Web page
http://www.sigir2002.org
Third Call for Participation
COLING-2002 (Taipei)
The 19th International Conference on Computational Linguistics
24 August - 1 September 2002
Official URL:
http://www.coling2002.sinica.edu.tw/
Organized by Academia Sinica, ACLCLP, and National Tsing Hua
University
New! Conf program:
http://www.coling2002.sinica.edu.tw/c-conference.html
Reminder
Online registration deadline: 15 August (Thu) (GMT+0800) [Save Your Fees!!]
http://www.coling2002.sinica.edu.tw/r-online.html
Important Dates:
Tutorials: 24 (Sat) - 25 (Sun) August 2002 (Academia Sinica)
Conference: 26 (Mon) - The online registration deadline of August 1530 (Fri)
August, 2002 (Howard International House) Post-Conference Workshops: 31 (Sat) -
1 September, 2002 (Academia Sinica)
For further details, please visit our official conference website at:
http://www.coling2002.sinica.edu.tw/
May 20-24, 2003,
Budapest, Hungary
Call For Papers
Paper submission deadline: November 15, 2002
Important Dates
Paper submission deadline: November 15, 2002
Author notification (papers): January 31, 2003
Final papers due: February 28, 2003
Poster submission deadline: January 15, 2003
Author notification (posters): February 28, 2003
Tutorial/workshop proposals deadline: October 15, 2002
Panel proposals deadline: November 15, 2002
Industrial track deadline: March 15, 2003
Developers Day deadline: March 15, 2003
Conference: May 20-24, 2003
Inquiries
can be sent to
www2003-pc-chairs@necmail.com.
General questions about WWW2003 may be sent to
info@www2003.org
Website
http://www2003.org/
December 6, 2002
http://www.law.kuleuven.ac.be/icri/dir2002/
2d Call for Abstracts
The third Dutch-Belgian Workshop on Information Retrieval will take place on
Friday 6/12/2002 at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Belgium). The keynote
speaker will be Prof. Dr. Karen Sparck-Jones (Computer Laboratory, Cambridge
University). The primary aim of the workshop is to provide a meeting place
where researchers from the Low Countries (and neighbouring countries) who are
working in the domain of information retrieval and related disciplines can
exchange information and present new research developments.
Call for abstracts
Authors who are interested in presenting original research at the workshop are
invited to submit an extended abstract. Abstracts should be maximum 2 pages
long and should be submitted September 16, 2002. Depending on their number, the
submissions will be reviewed by two or three domain experts.Abstracts can cover
any topic related to IR:
- Retrieval models, language models
- Text representation, information extraction, text summarization, text
categorization, topic tracking and event detection
- Query processing, thesaurus construction, user models
- Cross-language IR
- IR for the Web, XML and metadata, link analysis
- Multimedia IR, video retrieval, audio retrieval
- Question answering systems
- Domain-specific IR applications
- IR evaluation
Abstracts should be sent to
rik.debusser@law.kuleuven.ac.be
as a postscript or PDF file.
Important dates
Deadline for abstracts: September 16, 2002
Notification of acceptance: October 7, 2002
Deadline for final copies: November 7, 2002
Workshop: December 6, 2002
Registration
Participants are kindly asked to register online on the workshop home page.
Attendance to the workshop is free. For participation at the lunch, a fee of
EUR 20 will be asked. In exchange for publicity on the workshops announcements
and website, company representatives who attend the workshop are invited to
donate a contribution of EUR 100.
Program committee
Marie-Francine Moens (K.U.Leuven, Belgium)
Djoerd Hiemstra (University of Twente, the Netherlands)
Wessel Kraaij (TNO Delft, the Netherlands)
This workshop is organized by the Interdisciplinary Centre for Law and IT in
cooperation with - IWT Vlaanderen
Research school SIKS.
IRCAM - Centre Pompidou
Paris, France
October 13-17, 2002
Last reminder: deadline for early registration for ISMIR 2002 is August 3,
2002.
Information (full program, including selected papers, tutorials and panels) and
registration can be found on the conference Web site.
http://ismir2002.ircam.fr/
20th and 21st September 2002,
Sozopol, Bulgaria
Call for Participation
http://www.BulTreeBank.org/TLT2002.html
Workshop: 2nd December 2002
Canberra, Australia
Last Call for Papers
Submissions due: 31st July 2002
Important Dates
Paper submission: Wednesday 31st July 2002
Notification of acceptance: Monday 16th September 2002
Camera-ready copy: Wednesday 16th October 2002
Workshop: 2nd December 2002
More Information
The ANLP2002 webpage will regularly be updated with useful information about
the workshop: http://www.clt.mq.edu.au/Events/Conferences/anlp2002
You can contact the workshop organisers for further information:
anlp-info@ics.mq.edu.au
Information Technologies, Computer Systems and Publications for Libraries
November 11-15, 2002
Zvenigorod, Moscow Region, Russia
Announcement and Call For Papers
Online registration is available at:
http://www.gpntb.ru/
Contacts:
Ms. Nadezhda Garmashova
Tel: 7-095-923-1249
Fax: 7-095-921-9862
Email: sigla@gpntb.ru
Ms. Ksenia Volkova
Tel: 7-095-928-1340
Fax: 7-095-921-9862
E-mail: kv@gpntb.ru
Mailing address:
"LIBCOM-2002" Organizing Committee
12 Kuznetsky Most, GSP-6, K-31, Moscow, 107996, Russia
Central Asia-2002
International conference
Letter Of Announcement And Invitation
October 14-18, 2002
Bukhara, Uzbekistan
You can find more information about the Bukhara Conference on the following
website of the Uzbekistan Library Association
http://ula.uzsci.net
Nancy, France,
28th-30th August 2002
Call For Participation
For registration and other conference details, see
http://tke2002.loria.fr
AMTA-2002 Conference
Location: Tiburon, California
Dates: October 8-12, 2002
Online Registration Now Available
The Association for Machine Translation in the Americas (AMTA) is pleased to
announce its fifth biennial conference, planned for October 8-12, 2002, in
Tiburon (near San Francisco), California.
Call For Participation
Online registration is now available on the conference web site:
http://www.amtaweb.org/AMTA2002/
Budapest, Hungary
April 12-17 2003
Student Research Workshop during EACL-03
Note: The exact dates of the Workshop have not been firmly established yet. It
is expected that the session will be part of the main conference, April 15-17
2003
Call for Papers
Submission deadline: November 15th 2002
This information can also be found at
http://www.coli.uni-sb.de/conf/eacl03-student/
Mumbai, India,
December 18 - 21, 2002
Second call for papers
Submission Deadlines:
Papers Due: July 31, 2002
Acceptance Notification: September 30, 2002
Camera Ready Copy Due: October 30, 2002
Tutorial Proposals Due: August 30, 2002
Acceptance Notification: September 15, 2002
Materials Due: November 25, 2002
http://www.ncst.ernet.in/kbcs2002
Theme: "Digital Content: Selling the Past, Present, and Future"
September 22-24, 2002
Sheraton Society Hill,
Philadelphia, PA
Contact: info@asidic.org
Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan
August 31, 2002
Call For Participation
Full (and updated) details of the workshop can be found at
http://www.ee.ust.hk/~semanet
Details for online registration can be found on the COLING web page
at
http://www.coling2002.sinica.edu.tw/r-online.html.