Twenty (20) University
Research Posts
Research position at
Vredenburg
Journal of Information
Processing and Management
Macquarie Dictionary and
Thesaurus for Research Community
Journal of the American
Society for Information Science and Technology JASIST
Journal of the American
Society for Information Science and Technology JASIST
Journal of Library and
Information Science Research
14th International
Conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia
NTCIR Workshop: Evaluation
of IR, QA and Summarization
Computational Linguistics in
the Netherlands CLIN 2002
Fifth International
Conference on Flexible Query Answering Systems FQAS 2002
6th EAMT Workshop: Teaching
Machine Translation
The Association for Machine
Translation in the Americas AMTA-2002
25th European Conference on
Information Retrieval Research (ECIR-03)
Workshop in Advanced
Internet Search Strategies
The 24th Translating and the
Computer Conference
RIAO'2003 Coupling
approaches, coupling media and coupling languages for IR
Multilingual Information
Access and Natural Language Processing
The 3rd International
Conference On Web Information Systems Engineering WISE 2002
Workshop on Algorithms and
Models for the Web-Graph WAW 2002
JHU Summer Workshop on
Language Engineering
The 2002 IEEE International
Conference on Data Mining ICDM '02:
Does anyone know the origin of the expression "stop word"? It refers
to words that are not indexed by an information retrieval system.
I asked Karen Sparck Jones about it and she didn't know where the expression
came from or when it was first used.
The terms that are considered "stop words" vary depending on
the system. They are typically a subset
of the closed class words (determiners, conjunctions, etc), although the stop
word list used with the CACM collection also includes general verbs like
"become" and "have".
So, any ideas where this expression comes from?
Thanks,
Bob
krovetz@research.nj.nec.com
University Research Opportunities
The Robert Gordon University
Aberdeen, Scotland, UK
Research Professors
Senior Research Fellows
Research Fellows
The University has advertised 20 research posts, available at post-Doctoral
level and above. Appointees will be
designated "academic research staff", and the contract offered is
expected to be an "open-ended" contract.
Appointees will be able to develop and undertake personal programmes of
research, subject to meeting University, Faculty and School strategic
objectives.
The School of Computing has recently re-organised its research into groups as
follows:
Information Retrieval and Interaction
Knowledge-based Systems
Computational Intelligence (including Machine Learning)
Graphics and Image Processing
Mathematics for Computing
Information on the School's research can be found at:
http://www.scms.rgu.ac.uk/research.
A new, 1.5 million pounds, purpose-designed Computing Technologies Research
Centre is currently under construction, and will provide a superb computing
research environment, incorporating the latest innovations in technology. The newly established SmartWeb Technology
Centre (www.scms.rgu.ac.uk/smartweb) will be located within the Centre.
The newly formed "Information Retrieval and Interaction" Group
focuses on information retrieval, presentation, handling and use in the context
of interactive information systems. It
brings together the established, and internationally recognised Information
Retrieval Research group, and researchers in the School working in Interactive
Systems and HCI. Specifically, the
interests of the group encompass: context-aware information retrieval (IR); end
user tools and information seeking environments; customisation and
personalisation of information systems; web retrieval including
content-specialised portal technology; mobile IR; applications of language
modelling in IR; computer-supported collaborative work; e-Learning; information
visualisation and interface design and evaluation.
We would welcome your application for these University Research Fellowships
that provide a huge opportunity to strengthen the already strong research base
of the School, and give an unparalleled opportunity for the appointees to
undertaken computing research. We would encourage applicants to indicate how
their research would contribute to the work of one/more research groups in the
School, and also, where applicable, to the Smart Web Technologies Centre. Naturally, we would also encourage
applications from researchers in areas that complement the existing ones.
For further information on these posts please consult
http://www.rgujobs.ac.uk/
http://www.rgu.ac.uk/files/Research.pdf
David J Harper
Director, Smart Web Technologies Centre
Leader, Information Retrieval and Interaction Group
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Professor David J. Harper, Tel: +44
(0) 1224
262706
School of Computing, Fax: +44 (0) 1224
262727
The Robert Gordon University, Email:
djh@scms.rgu.ac.uk
St Andrew Street,
http://www.scms.rgu.ac.uk/research/ir/
Aberdeen AB25 1HG, United Kingdom.
The Research and Development group at Vredenburg, a private company located
near Washington D.C. in the U.S., is seeking applicants for an opening on its
research staff.
Description:
Conduct research and development projects in natural language processing,
computational linguistics, speech processing, multimedia, and document
processing. Specific areas of research
may include text extraction, document classification and routing, information
retrieval and filtering, visualization, document structure finding, duplicate
document detection, document analysis and processing, name matching, thesaurus
building, controlled vocabulary, and others.
Work includes problem analysis, literature search, software and database design
and development, and product evaluation, as well as reporting and publishing,
for all phases of the group's work.
Incumbents will write and present their research plans and results to
internal audiences and external sponsors.
Software development work includes any
or all of the following: writing shell
scripts, data preparation using sed, awk, Perl and similar tools, writing and
testing, programs in C, C++, Java or other high-level languages. Incumbent is expected to become familiar
with and use desktop software tools such as spreadsheets, slide presentation
software, and word processing. S/he is
expected to learn, use, and develop software for the HighView computing
environment, including applications and, potentially, additions to the HighView
product itself.
Qualifications:
MS / MA or PhD in computer science, linguistics, mathematics, or related
area(s).
At least two years of research and/or development in any area of natural
language processing (NLP), computational linguistics, document analysis, or
allied area(s).
Experience may be in university, government, and/or private industry.
Writing, including proposals, reports, papers.
Familiarity with basic statistics and data graphing tools.
U.S. citizen; eligible to apply for clearance to work with classified material.
Competence in programming in one or more of the following: C/C++, Perl, Java.
Relational database knowledge (SQL, PLSQL) helpful.
Familiarity with sed, awk, Perl, and similar tools helpful.
Operating systems (Windows NT, Linux) commands.
Ability to learn new software languages and tools quickly
Vredenburg is an equal opportunity employer. The company's web site is www.vredenburg.com.
If interested, please contact Mark Turner at
mturner@vredenburg.com.
Louisiana State University
Department of Computer Science
New Faculty Positions
The Department of Computer Science at Louisiana State University invites
applications for several positions, generally at the assistant professor level,
starting either in the Spring or Fall 2003.
For any of these positions, applicants must have a Ph.D. in computer
science or a closely related field plus a commitment to excellence in both
research and teaching. Salary will be
competitive and com-mensurate with the qualifications of the candidate.
Tenure-track faculty positions are available, generally at the entry assistant
professor level and starting either in Spring or Fall 2003. Candidates in all areas are encouraged to
apply; however, some areas of particular interest include high performance and
scientific computing, architecture, theory, programming languages, cyber
security, and operating systems. Database management and information retrieval
systems are also areas of interest.
The University is the comprehensive university in Louisiana, and participates
in the Governor’s Information Technology Initiative, under which a number of
additional interdisciplinary positions will be available, in
scalable information infrastructure areas such as high-end computing,
intelligent information and data management, biological computing, medical
imaging, materials science, mobile and wireless network technologies, virtual
organization and commerce, and
geoinformatics.
As part of this initiative, the University has acquired a Beowulf-class
Supercomputer, which will be one of the world's fastest machines, and will be
dedicated to high performance computing. In addition, LSU has many other
research computing facilities to deal with very large, complex problems facing
scientists, engineers, and industry.
The departmental research facilities can be seen on our web site at
http://www.csc.lsu.edu.
Current research interests of the faculty in the department include computer
networks, artificial intelligence, software engineering, robotics, computer
vision and image processing, databases, information retrieval, parallel and
distributed algorithms, theoretical computer science and high performance
computing. The Department offers the
B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees.
A complete application shall include a curriculum vitae, list of publications,
names and addresses of at least three references, and a statement of research
and teaching objectives. The Department will begin reviewing applications by
December 15, 2002 and will continue until the position is filled. Applications and inquires should be sent to:
Professor S.S. Iyengar, Chairman
Department of Computer Science
Louisiana State University
Baton Rouge, LA 70803-4020
(225) 578-1252 Voice
(225) 578-1465 Fax
iyengar@bit.csc.lsu.edu
Journal: Information Processing and Management
ISSN: 0306-4573
Volume: 38
Issue: 6
Date: Nov-2002
For more information about this journal visit:
http://www.elsevier.com/locate/jnlnr/00244
ToC
Interpolation of the extended Boolean retrieval model
D.Z. Zanger
pp 743-748
An information retrieval model based on vector space method by supervised
learning
X. Tai, F. Ren, K. Kita
pp 749-764
In vitro evaluation of a program for machine-aided indexing
C. Jacquemin, B. Daille, J. Royaute, X. Polanco
pp 765-792
A test of genetic algorithms in relevance feedback
C. Lopez-Pujalte, V.P. Guerrero Bote, F.d.M. Anegon
pp 793-805
A new method for selecting English field association terms of compound words
and its knowledge representation
E.-S. Atlam, K. Morita, M. Fuketa, J.-i. Aoe
pp 807-821
Strong similarity measures for ordered sets of documents in information
retrieval
L. Egghe, C. Michel
pp 823-848
Integrated Region-Based Image Retrieval, J.Z. Wang; Kluwer Academic Publishers,
Boston, MA, 2001, Hardbound, xiii+178 pages, US$
99.50/EUR 114, ISBN 0-7923-7350-2
S. Wong
pp 849-850
Volume contents and author index
pp I-VII.
We are pleased to announce the availability of The Macquarie Dictionary (Big Mac) and The Macquarie Thesaurus for
the academic (free) and commercial research communities through CL
Research. The dictionary contains
comprehensive coverage of standard English, while also providing the most
complete coverage of Australian, Aboriginal, and Southeast Asia English. The dictionary is also unique in providing
direct links between individual definitions and the Roget-style thesaurus. CL Research has also created a
machine-tractable version of the dictionary in its dictionary creation and
maintenance software (DIMAP) and then parsed the definitions to add semantic
links between entries (particularly hypernyms, but also including such items as
"typical subject" for verbs). Details, including the license
agreement, are available at
http://www.clres.com/macq-clr.html.
The licensing fees for a two-year period are:
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There is a $200 annual servicing fee for academic license agreements (which
also includes the latest and updated DIMAP during the licensing period). Commercial exploitation agreements will be
developed separately.
Ken Litkowski
TEL.: 301-482-0237
EMAIL: ken@clres.com
CL Research:
9208 Gue Road
Damascus, MD 20872-1025 USA.
Home Page: http://www.clres.com
Volume53, Number 11
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Immediately below, the contents of Bert Boyce's "In this issue" has
been cut into the Table of Contents.]
Editorial
In This Issue
Bert R. Boyce
877
Research
30,000 Hits May Be Better Than 300: Precision Anomalies in Internet Searches
Caroline M. Eastman
Published online 17 June 2002
879
Information Seeking and Mediated Searching. Part 5.User-Intermediary
Interaction
David Ellis, T.D. Wilson, Nigel Ford, Allen Foster, H.M. Lam, R. Burton, and
Amanda Spink
Published online 11 July 2002
883
Facilitating Community Information Seeking Using the Internet: Findings from
Three Public Library-Community Network Systems.
Karen E. Pettigrew, Joan C. Durrance, and Kenton T. Unruh
Published online 21 June 2002
894
A Case Study of Information-Seeking Behavior in 7-Year-Old Children in a
Semistructured Situation
Linda Z. Cooper
Published online 27 June 2002
904
The Effects of Menu Design on Information-Seeking Performance and User's
Attitude on the World Wide Web.
Byeong-Min Yu and Seak-Zoon Roh
Published online 16 July 2002
923
On Using Genetic Algorithms for Multimodal Relevance Optimization in
Information Retrieval
M. Boughanem, C. Chrisment, and L. Tamine
Published online 20 June 2002
934
An Investigation of the Influence of Indexing Exhaustivity and Term
Distributions on a Document Space
Dietmar Wolfram and Jin Zhang
Published online 10 July 2002
943
A Comparison of Foreign Authorship Distribution in JASIST and the Journal of
Documentation
Shaoyi He and Amanda Spink
Published online 10 July 2002
953
Work Tasks and Socio-Cognitive Relevance: A Specific Example
Birger Hjorland and Frank Sejer Christensen
Published online 20 June 2002
960
Book Reviews
The Modern Invention of Information: Discourse, History, and Power.
Frank Exner, Little Bear
Published online 23 May 2002
966
Identifying and Analyzing User Needs: A Complete Handbook and Ready-to-Use
Assessment Workbook with Disk.
Ethelene Whitmire
Published online 13 June 2002
966
Designing with JavaScript: Creating Dynamic Web Pages.
Terrence A. Brooks
Published online 6 June 2002
967
Principles of Web Design.
Dale A. Stirling
Published online 6 June 2002
968
The Laws of the Web: Patterns in the Ecology of Information.
Eric G. Ackermann
Published online 20 June 2002
969
CALL FOR PAPERS
A Perspectives Issue on Knowledge Management in Asia
Published online 28 June 2002
971
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"In This Issue" from January 1993 (Volume 44) to date.
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includes issues from 1986 (Volume 37) to date.
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Journal of the American Society for Information Science
and Technology JASIST
Volume 53, Number 12
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Knowledge Management has been cut into the Table of Contents.]
Editorial
In This Issue
Bert R. Boyce
973
Research
An Exploratory Study of Malaysian Publication Productivity in Computer Science
and Information Technology
Yinian Gu
Published online 7 August 2002
974
Dynamic and Evolutionary Updates of Classificatory Schemes in Scientific
Journal Structures
Loet Leydesdorff
Published online 7 August 2002
987
Conceptualizing Documentation on the Web: An Evaluation of Different
Heuristic-Based Models for Counting Links between University Web Sites
Mike Thelwall
Published online 8 August 2002
995
Special Topic Section: Knowledge Management
Guest Editors: Claire McInerney and Ronald Day
Introduction to the JASIST Special Section on Knowledge Management
Claire McInerney and Ronald Day
Published online 6 August 2002
1008
Knowledge Management and the Dynamic Nature of Knowledge
Claire McInerney
Published online 25 July 2002
1009
Knowledge Management: Hype, Hope, or Help?
David C. Blair
Published online 26 July 2002
1019
Knowledge Integration in Virtual Teams: The Potential Role of KMS
Maryam Alavi and Amrit Tiwana
Published online 19 July 2002
1029
Mundane Knowledge Management and Microlevel Organizational Learning: An
Ethological Approach
Elisabeth Davenport
Published online 25 July 2002
1038
Knowledge Management in Three Organizations: An Exploratory Study
F. C. Gray Southon, Ross J. Todd, and Megan Seneque
Published online 25 July 2002
1047
Organizational Measures as a Form of Knowledge Management: A Multitheoretic,
Communication-Based Exploration
Jennifer K. Lehr and Ronald E. Rice
Published online 19 July 2002
1060
Social Capital, Value, and Measure: Antonio Negri's Challenge to Capitalism
Ronald E. Day
Published online 6 August 2002
1074
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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.
ISSN: 0740-8188
Volume: 24
Issue: 3
Date: 2002
For more information about this journal visit:
http://www.elsevier.com/locate/jnlnr/07459
Table of Contents:
New Members of the Board of Editors
pp 205
The word ''research:'' Having to live with a misunderstanding
P. Hernon, C. Schwartz
pp 207-208
In Memory
pp 209
Describing the economic impacts and benefits of Florida public libraries:
Findings and methodological applications for future work
B.T. Fraser, T.W. Nelson, C.R. McClure
pp 211-233
Automatic extraction of relationships between terms by means of Kohonen's
algorithm
V.P. Guerrero, F. Moya-Anegon, V. Herrero-Solana
pp 235-250
Integrating the imposed query into the evaluation of reference service: A
dichotomous analysis of user ratings
M. Gross, M.L. Saxton
pp 251-263
Exploring behavior of E-journal users in science and technology: Transaction
log analysis of Elsevier's ScienceDirect OnSite in Taiwan
H.-R. Ke, R. Kwakkelaar, Y.-M. Tai, L.-C. Chen
pp 265-291
About the Authors
pp 293-295
Electronic Ecology: A Case Study of Electronic Journals in Context -
By Karla L. Hahn. Washington, DC: Association of Research Libraries,
2001. 79 pp. $45.00 (paperback). ISBN 0-198006-48-1.
H.J. Butler
pp 297-299
Evaluating Networked Information Services, Techniques, Policy and Issues
By Charles R. McClure and John Carlo Bertot (Eds.). Medford,
NJ: Information Today, 2001. (ASIST Monograph Series). 344 pp. $35.60
(ASIST Members), $44.50 (Non-Members) (hardcopy). ISBN 1-5387-118-4.
Y. Zhang
pp 299-301
Getting It Published: A Guide for Scholars and Anyone Else Serious about
Serious Books –
By William Germano. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago
Press, 2001. 197 pp. $35.00 (hardcover). ISBN 0-226-28843-9; $15.00
(paperback). ISBN 0-226-28844-7.
M.D. White
pp 301-303
Measuring Service Quality –
By Martha Kyrillidou and Fred M. Heath
(Eds.). Library Trends, 49(4), 2001. Champaign, IL: Graduate School of Library
and Information Science, University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign, 2001. 259 pp. $25.00 (paperback). ISSN 0024-2594
E.G. Abels
pp 303-305
Editor's notes
pp 305-306
August 26-30 2003,
Nottingham U.K.
www.ht03.org
Preliminary Call for Papers and other contributions:
The Fourteenth International ACM Conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia will
explore the many dimensions of linking information for human communication,
whether in literary texts, semantic knowledge bases, multimedia presentations,
web sites, documents, films or multimedia databases. These are just a selection
of the stored forms
of information being investigated by researchers from diverse disciplines
around the world. From the World Wide Web to online documentation aboard
aircraft carriers and from distance-learning degree programs to interactive
entertainment, hypertext and hypermedia have been transforming our world. The
ACM Hypertext Conferences are
the foremost international conferences on hypertext and hypermedia, and have
brought scholars, researchers, authors, critics and poets together with
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 2003 will continue to provide an environment where attendees can
exchange and discuss ideas on hypermedia, as well as its design and use in a
variety of domains, while also considering the transformative power of
hypermedia and its ability to potentially alter the way we read, write, argue,
work, exchange information, or entertain ourselves. Hypertext 2003 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.
Original contributions on the following topics are encouraged as submissions to
the conference.
Hypertext and hypermedia construction
Link authoring
Link maintenance
(X) Link databases
Web authoring
Automated Web generation
Metadata and annotation
Multimedia and Synchronisation
New hypermedia environments
Grid and E-Science
Scholarly and scientific communication
Pervasive information architectures
Semantic Web
Knowledge Management
Virtual and augmented reality environments
Hypermedia navigation strategies
User interface and interactions
Adaptive hypermedia
Browsing assistance
Fluid Links
Trails
Co-operative Hypermedia
Web site design and evaluation
Structuring hypermedia documents for reading and retrieval
Large-scale and distributed Web environments
Metrics and measurement
Web structures characterization
Innovative web hypertexts
Link analysis
Effects of hypermedia on business or industry
Experiences with the application of hypermedia
Innovative hypertexts and novel uses of hypertext and hypermedia
Hypermedia architectures
Hypermedia infrastructure technologies
Hypermedia middleware and components
Web Integration
Architecture issues
Link Services
Open hypermedia architectures
Large-scale distributed hypermedia
Theories, models, architectures, standards, and frameworks
Applications
Hypertext in workflow management systems
Web-based hypermedia drama
Hypermedia in fiction, scholarship, and technical writing
Hypermedia in education and training
Hypermedia and time: narratives and storyboarding
Hypertext rhetoric and criticism
Interactive games and entertainment
Museums and archives
Submission categories:
Full papers
Short papers
Posters
Workshops
Tutorials
Doctoral consortium
Demonstrations
The Final Call for Papers and submissions for all categories will be released
in October 2002, with the first round of submissions (full papers, workshop
proposals and tutorial proposals) being due during February 2003. The second
round of submissions (short papers, poster abstracts and doctoral consortium
papers) will be due in May 2003.
Individual workshops will advertise their own submission dates. Exact dates
will be advised when the Final CFP is released in October 2002.
For enquiries about submissions, please contact the programme chairs,
Les Carr (lac@ecs.soton.ac.uk) and
Lynda Hardman (lynda.hardman@cwi.nl).
Please send general enquiries to
Helen Ashman and
Tim Brailsford at
ht03@ht03.org
Call for Participation for General/Special Participants the 3rd NTCIR Workshop:
Evaluation of IR, QA and Summarization
8-10 October 2002, NII,
Tokyo, Japan
http://research.nii.ac.jp/ntcir-ws3/
Enquiry: ntcadm@nii.ac.jp
The NTCIR is an evaluation workshop of information access technologies with
special focus on Japanese and other East Asian Languages.
This year, the NTCIR Workshop hosted 5 tasks;
CLIR,_$B!!_
(B2) Patent retrieval,
Question answering,
Automatic_$B!!_(Btext summarization, and
Web retrieval.
63 groups from 10 countries submitted the task results.
DAY-1 is an open forum of IR, QA and Summarization.
Everyone is welcome.
DAY-2 & 3 are the sessions that the research done by each task participant
will be reported out.
If you are not active task participants, but researchers of the topics related
to this workshop and would like to attend the sessions in DAY-2 and 3, please
apply to be a "SPECIAL PARTICIPANTS" through the online registration.
The applications will be reviewed by the program committee.
Thirteenth CLIN Meeting: Computational Linguistics in the Netherlands
Friday, 29 November 2002
University of Groningen
Second call for papers call for participation
We are happy to announce the thirteenth CLIN meeting which will be hosted by
the department of Humanities Computing at the University of Groningen. The languages
of the conference are Dutch and English.
The guest speaker of CLIN 2002 is:
Hugo Brandt Corstius
Author of numerous books and columns on computational linguistics, as well as
on Dutch language and literature. The topic of his talk will be announced
later.
Researchers are invited to present papers on all aspects of computational
linguistics (phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics,
machine translation, computational lexicography, formal languages, grammar
formalisms, information retrieval, information extraction, text mining,
knowledge representation, parsing and generation, dialogue management, embodied
conversational agents, corpus-oriented methods, etc.).
Authors should submit an abstract in English or Dutch (preferably by e-mail, in
flat ASCII). The abstract should contain:
A title
Your name, address, affiliation, and e-mail address
A short outline of the paper (10-20 lines)
You can send your abstract to:
clin@let.rug.nl
Or, if email is not possible, to:
CLIN 2002
Tanja Gaustad
Alfa-Informatica
University of Groningen
P.O. Box 716
9700 AS Groningen
The Netherlands
Important dates
Deadline for submission: 27 September 2002.
Notification of acceptance: 11 October 2002.
CLIN 2002: 29 November 2002.
The local organiser of this year's meeting is Tanja Gaustad.
A volume with proceedings of the twelfth CLIN meeting (held 28 November 2001,
in Enschede) will be available at this year's meeting. We intend to produce a
volume of the proceedings of CLIN 2002 before CLIN 2003. Papers for these
proceedings will have to be written in English; they will be reviewed by a
committee to be appointed in due time.
Participants are kindly asked to register online on the CLIN 2002 home page.
The participation fee is EUR 35,- which includes a copy of the proceedings of
last year's meeting, as well as lunch and drinks.
CLIN 2002 is organized in cooperation with SIKS, and sponsored by NWO, BCN and
CLCG.
This and future information about CLIN 2002 will be made available via the CLIN
2002 home page:
http://www.let.rug.nl/clin2002/
October 27 - 29, 2002
Copenhagen, Denmark
http://www.fqas2002.org/
FQAS is the premier conference for researchers and practitioners concerned with
the vital necessity to provide easy, flexible, and intuitive access to
information for every type of need. This multidisciplinary conference draws on
several research areas, including databases, information retrieval, knowledge
representation, soft computing, multimedia, and human-computer
interaction. Previous FQAS events were
held in 1994, 1996, 1998 and 2000.
Call for papers
The conference is interested in papers in all areas of research related to its
theme, including formal models, algorithms, applications, and experiments
Overall Theme And Topics Of Interest
The overall theme of the FQAS conferences is innovative query systems aimed at
providing easy, flexible and intuitive access to information. Such systems are intended to facilitate
retrieval from information repositories such as atabases, libraries, and the
World Wide Web. These repositories are
typically equipped with standard query systems, which are often inadequate, and
the focus of FQAS is the development of query systems that are more expressive,
informative, cooperative and productive.
The conference brings together researchers in diverse areas, including:
- Database Management
- Information Retrieval
- Domain Modeling, Knowledge Representation and Ontologies
- Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining
- Artificial Intelligence
- Classical and Non-Classical Logics
- Computational Linguistics and Natural Language Processing
- Multimedia Information Systems
- Human-Computer Interaction
Subject: 6th EAMT Workshop: Teaching Machine Translation
Date: 14 - 15 November 2002
Venue: UMIST, Manchester, England
Web site: http://www.ccl.umist.ac.uk/events/eamt-bcs
Call for participation
The sixth EAMT Workshop will take place on 14-15 November 2002 hosted by the
Centre for Computational Linguistics, UMIST, Manchester, England.
Organised by the European Association for Machine Translation, in association
with the Natural Language Translation Specialist Group of the British Computer
Society, the Workshop will focus on the topic of: Teaching Machine Translation
Twenty papers have been accepted, covering the following topics:
* State of the art surveys in various countries
* Approaches to teaching MT/CAT tools to translators
* Tools for developing prototype or toy MT systems
* Teaching of linguistic issues relevant to MT
* Training in specific elements of CAT: pre- and post-editing
The full programme is accessible from the Workshop's website, along with
on-line registration form, information about accommodation etc.
http://www.ccl.umist.ac.uk/events/eamt-bcs/
Register by November 5th to avoid late registration penalties; and you should
hurry to book your accommodation, as the best (and least expensive) rooms are
going fast!
Call For Participation
The Association for Machine Translation in the Americas (AMTA) invites all
those interested in translation automation to attend AMTA-2002, the
Association's fifth biennial conference, which will be held in Tiburon,
California (across the Bay from San Francisco) on October 8-12, 2002.
The theme of this year's conference is "From Research to Real Users".
AMTA-2002 will feature invited talks by:
Ken Church of AT&T Labs -Research;
Yorick Wilks of the University of Sheffield; and
Jaap van der Meer, former CEO of ALPNET.
The full program, as well as online registration forms, are available on the
conference Web site:
http://www.amtaweb.org/AMTA2002/
We encourage people to register now, particularly for the tutorial program.
(Tutorials with insufficient registration are subject to cancellation PRIOR TO
the conference.) We also encourage you to reserve your accommodations ASAP, in
order to take advantage of the discounted rates at the conference venue.
Maebashi TERRSA,
Maebashi City, Japan
Workshop Date: December 9, 2002
Conference Date: December 9-12, 2002
Web Page: http://kis.maebashi-it.ac.jp/icdm02/
Mirror Page: http://www.wi-lab.com/icdm02/
As an important part of the 2002 IEEE International Conference on Data Mining
(ICDM '02), the ICDM '02 workshops program will focus on new research
challenges and initiatives in data mining. It will provide a venue for several
topical workshops on specific data mining research and/or application problems.
ICDM '02 workshops will foster the discussion of exciting research directions
and works in progress through paper presentations, round table and panel
discussions, and invited talks.
Call for Papers
We are inviting you to submit paper(s) to the following workshops:
ICDM 2002 Workshops
International Workshop on Active Mining (AM-2002)
Web Page: http://www.ar.sanken.osaka-u.ac.jp/activemining/am2002.html
Deadline of paper submission: September 30, 2002
The Foundation of Data Mining and Discovery
Web Page: http://www.mathcs.sjsu.edu/faculty/tylin/icdm02_workshop.html
Deadline of paper submission: October 1, 2002
Workshop on Data Mining for Cyber Threat Analysis
Web Page: http://www-users.cs.umn.edu/~aleks/icdm02w/
Deadline of paper submission: September 27, 2002
Workshop on Privacy, Security, and Data Mining
Web Page: http://www.cs.purdue.edu/homes/clifton/psdm.html
Deadline of paper submission: September 13, 2002
First International Workshop on Data Cleaning and Preprocessing
Web Page: http://www-staff.it.uts.edu.au/~zhangsc/dataclean.htm
Deadline of paper submission: October 25, 2002
Detailed and up-to-date information can be found from the Web page of each
workshop. Please follow links from the Web page of ICDM'02:
http://kis.maebashi-it.ac.jp/icdm02/
April 14-16, 2003 -- Pisa, Italy
http://ecir03.isti.cnr.it/
The annual European Conference on Information Retrieval Research, organized by
the Information Retrieval Specialist Group of the British Computer Society
(BCS-IRSG), is the main European forum for the presentation of research results
in the field of information retrieval. We encourage the submission of papers
reporting original, unpublished research results in information retrieval,
broadly intended to cover all aspects of computer-based access to data with
poorly specified semantics.
Preliminary call for papers
Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):
Text search and browsing
Text representation and indexing
Formal models and language models for information retrieval
Cross-lingual and multilingual information retrieval
Metasearching, rank aggregation and data fusion
Text classification (categorization or clustering)
Text mining and information extraction
Content-based adaptive filtering and routing
Collaborative filtering and recommender systems
Topic detection and tracking
Text summarization
Question answering
Information retrieval on the Web
Retrieval of structured documents, including XML documents
Usability, interactivity, and visualization issues in information Retrieval
User modelling and user studies for information Retrieval
Evaluation issues and test collections
Distributed information retrieval and source selection
Compression, scalability, and other performance issues in information Retrieval
Architectures for information retrieval
Spoken text retrieval and music retrieval
Image and video retrieval
Optical character recognition and information retrieval
Natural language processing for information retrieval
Information retrieval on mobile platforms
Information retrieval for lexical acquisition
Information retrieval for digital libraries
Submissions
Papers should be submitted through the Web site of the conference (http://ecir03.isti.cnr.it/)
only. Papers must be in English, which is the official language of the conference.
Since no more than 15 proceedings pages will be allocated to each paper, it is
strongly encouraged that the format of SUBMITTED papers complies with the
guidelines specified at
http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html
in the section "Proceedings and Other Multi-author
Volumes"; this will allow both authors and reviewers to check that the
paper does not exceed the page number limit.
Important Dates:
Paper submission: 20 November 2002
Acceptance/rejection notification: 20 December 2002
Submission of camera-ready copy: 20 January 2003
Conference: 14-16 April 2003
Publication
All papers will be refereed according to the usual scientific standards.
Accepted papers will appear in the proceedings published by Springer-Verlag in
the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series
http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/index.html
which will be distributed to all delegates at the Conference.Awards will be
presented to the author of the Best Paper and to the author of the Best Student
Paper.
Logistics
The conference will take place in Pisa, Italy, at the congress facilities of
the Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche. Detailed information about the ECIR-03
logistics will be published at http://ecir03.isti.cnr.it/ as soon as they become available.
Grants
A number of grants will probably be available in order to help students to take
part in the conference. Priority will be given to authors of accepted papers.
Proof of student status will be required.
Further Information
Address any further inquiry to:
Fabrizio Sebastiani (Chair of ECIR-03)
Istituto di Scienza e Tecnologie dell'Informazione
Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche
Via Giuseppe Moruzzi, 1
56124 Pisa (ITALY)
Phone: +39.050.3152892
Fax: +39.050.3153464
E-mail: ecir03info@isti.cnr.it
Fabrizio Sebastiani
Istituto di Scienza e Tecnologie dell'Informazione
Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche
Via Giuseppe Moruzzi,
56124 Pisa (ITALY)
Phone: +39.050.3152892
Fax: +39.050.3153464
E-mail: fabrizio@iei.pi.cnr.it
Web site http://faure.iei.pi.cnr.it/~fabrizio/
Workshop: Advanced Internet Search Strategies
Organiser: RBA Information Services
Course leader: Karen Blakeman
Venue: Reading Business School, Reading, Berkshire
Date: Tuesday, 15th October 2002, 9.30 - 16.30
URL: http://www.rba.co.uk/training/searching.htm
The aim of this workshop is to provide users of the Internet with the essential
techniques needed to search the Internet more effectively.
Topics covered will include:
Introduction to search tools and how they work
Limitations of search tools, the "invisible web"
Essential and advanced searching techniques
Features of the major search tools
Finding people and biographies
Searching for images
Limiting your searches by date, country, type of organisation, type of document
How to search Usenet newsgroups and discussion lists more effectively
Meta-search tools and software, "intelligent" agents
Virtual libraries, evaluated listings, portals
A significant part of the day will be taken up with practical sessions;
exercises will be provided but delegates are free to try out searches of their
own. Course documentation includes a free copy of the latest edition of Search
Strategies for the Internet, course notes and worked examples.
Booking Form
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Enquiries:
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Tel: 0118 947 2256
Cancellations: There will be no refund for non-attendance or cancellations
within the last seven working days before the date of the course. Substitutions
can be made at any time at no extra cost or penalty.
Karen Blakeman, RBA Information Services
88 Star Road, Caversham, Berks RG4 5BE, UK
Tel: +44 118 947 2256, Mobile: +44 7764 936733
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Foundations on Data Mining and Discovery
Dec 9, 2002,
near Tokyo, Japan
Call for papers
Important dates:
Submission date Oct 1,
Notice of acceptance Oct 15
Camera Ready manuscript Nov 10
Workshop only registration $80 IEEE members, $100(non-members)
Click workshop button on
http://kis.maebashi-it.ac.jp/icdm02/
Or Go directly to
http://www.mathcs.sjsu.edu/faculty/tylin/icdm02_workshop.html
We have many eminent speakers
T. Y. Lin & S.Ohsuga
Workshop Chairs
2nd Workshop on NLP and XML (NLPXML-2002)
Held in conjunction with COLING-2002
Taipei, Taiwan
September 1, 2002
Call for Participation
http://www.ling.helsinki.fi/~gwilcock/NLPXML/
Call For Task Proposals
The Senseval Committee invites proposals for tasks to be run as partof
Senseval-3. We welcome proposals for
any kind of task that can test a word sense disambiguation (WSD) system, be it
application dependent or independent. We especially encourage tasks for
different languages, cross-lingual tasks, and tasks that are relevant to
particular NLP applications such as MT and IR.
We also encourage tasks for areas related to WSD such as semantic
tagging and domain classification.
It will help us if tasks are designed in such that they can be run and scored
automatically from a central website (as in Senseval-2). We'll be happy to help
with task design, data formatting, and so on.
Information on the design of Senseval-1 and -2 tasks can be found at:
http://www.itri.bton.ac.uk/~Adam.Kilgarriff/framework.pdf
http://www.sle.sharp.co.uk/senseval2/archive/
The time period for Senseval-3 has not yet been finalised, but it
will be held over a 1-2 month period after July 2003.
Submission Details
Proposals for tasks will ideally contain:
A description of the task (max 1 page)
How the training/testing data will be built and/or procured
The evaluation methodology to be used including clear evaluation criteria
The availability of the resources to the participants (copyright, costs, etc)
The resources required to prepare the task (time, money, and human)
How much of the resources your team can supply or muster
If you aren't yet at a point to provide outlines of all of these, that's fine,
but please give some thought to each, and present a note of your first
ideas. We will gladly give feedback.
Please submit proposals as soon as possible, preferably by electronic mail in
plain ASCII text to the Senseval chair: Phil Edmonds,
phil@sharp.co.uk
Important Dates
Sep 21, 2002 Intention to submit (send a short-paragraph description)
Oct 26, 2002 Submission deadline for task proposals
Nov 23, 2002 Notification of acceptance
24th Translating and the Computer Conference,
London,
21-22 November,
With a pre-conference seminar on XML taking place on 20
November 2002.
Details of the conference, including the programme, exhibitors, pre-conference
seminar and fees, can be found at:
www.aslib.com/conferences
NICOLE ADAMIDES,
Training Aslib/IMI, Staple Hall, Stone House Court, London EC3A 7PB
Tel: +44 (0) 20 7903 0031
Fax: +44 (0) 20 7903 0011
www.aslib.com
Email: nadamides@aslib.com
Current approaches to content-based information management involve many
different disciplines. Interesting research is addressing the problems of
information retrieval from mixed media and languages (e.g. from video with
images, sound and text; documents with text, image and graphics), and from
applying mixed approaches from different domains (e.g., from speech and text
processing, from machines learning and linguistics). Applications such as
question answering involve both semantics and syntax; some approaches involve
analyzing both the reference database and the Web. As information technology
spreads throughout the world, it must handle a wider variety of languages,
retrieving information in and between increasingly complex combinations of
languages.
Call for papers
As a response to this evolution, RIAO'2003 calls for papers covering the
coupling of techniques from different domains to improve information retrieval
from a single media, or from across media (indexing one media for find
information in another), or from coupling unstructured and structured
information (e.g. exploiting both text and XML structure), or from across
languages.
RIAO'2003 will also present innovative research and developments illustrating
the important obstacles in multi-media and multi-language information
retrieval. In RIAO'2003 there will be special focus on techniques which couple
disparate technologies or approaches.
Conference Themes:
Submissions should cover one or more of the following themes:
Multimedia information: Media-specific indexing techniques (text, speech, fixed
and animated images, music)
Indexing composite documents
Querying multimedia documents
Automatically generating text from images and from video
Indexing interactive documents
Multilingual Information:
Cross-lingual information retrieval
Automatic construction of bilingual lexicons and term banks
Production de multilingual documents
Man Machine Combinations:
Coupling search and browsing
Coupling search and semantic mapping (ontologies, SOM, etc)
Multimodal interfaces
Coupling access through structure and through content
Automatic presentation of search aids (e.g. key words, phrases)
Neuroscience applied to information recognition
Architecture for Combined Approaches:
Architecture for coupling techniques (e.g. Machine Learning for content
management)
Architecture for coupling media
Architecture for treating multilingual information
Specific Systems Combining Diverse Approaches:
Systems for Collaborative Information Retrieval
Question answering systems
Multidocument or multilingual summarization
Automatic translation, translation memory
Combining Linguistic and Statistics for Retrieving Content:
Improved linguistic analyzers for information retrieval
Exploiting linguistic knowledge in retrieval
Integrating search and linguistic treatments
Extracting knowledge
Semantics in indexation and retrieval
Composite Documents and Content:
Exploiting document structure
Semantic Web
Exploiting new multimedia norms for content-based information management
Evaluation of Combined Approaches:
User oriented retrieval metrics
New retrieval metrics
Question-Answering systems evaluation metrics
Application domains combining techniques: (descriptions of systems involving
the following domains)
Cultural heritage
Indexation and retrieval of medical images
Applications concerning security
Protection of intellectual property
Protection of minors
E-learning
Technology Watch
VIII Iberoamerican Conference on Artificial Intelligence
Universidad de Sevilla (Spain),
12 November 2002
A workshop of IBERAMIA 2002, in cooperation with ELSNET (European Language and
Speech Network) and RITOS-2 (Red iberoamericana de tecnologيas del software para la
década del 2000)
This workshop is planned as a meeting point for Ibero-American research groups
in Natural Language Processing, Information Retrieval and Digital Libraries
around the generic topic of Multilingual Information Access, including (but not
limited to)
Multilingual Information Retrieval and Filtering
Multilingual and multidocument Text summarization
Representation, storage and retrieval of semi-structured information in
multilingual digital libraries.
Machine Translation.
Multilingual Question Answering systems.
Multilingual Knowledge Management
information Extraction and Text Mining.
Natural Language Processing of Ibero-American languages.
Second Call for Papers
Publication
A selection of the best papers will be published in a monographic number of the
Ibero-american Journal of Artificial Intelligence.
Submission Instructions
Papers can be written in Spanish, Portuguese or English, and must have a
maximum length of 4000 words. Papers should consist in original research or/and
a summary of the activities and results of Ibero-American research groups
actively working in some of the workshop topics.
Schedule:
Deadline for submission: 25 September
Acceptance notification: 15 October
Final Program: 20 October
Workshop: 12 November
For further information, please visit:
URL
http://sensei.lsi.uned.es/iberamia-mlia
http://sensei.lsi.uned.es/iberamia-mlia
13th International Workshop on Research Issues on Data Engineering:
Multi-lingual Information Management.
Hyderabad, India
March 10-11, 2003
In conjunction with ICDE'03
Sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society (pending)
RIDE is a satellite workshop of the International Conference on Data
Engineering with a research focus that varies from year to year. This year's focus for RIDE is Multilingual
Information Management, which is a natural match for the interests of
participants in CLEF, NTCIR, and the TREC CLIR track. The location, Hyderabad India, offers some interesting
opportunities to engage the research community in a region that has had
relatively little involvement with the global CLIR community to this community,
so this workshop might be of particular interest to groups working on
lesser-studied languages (one theme that received significant attention at the
recent SIGIR workshop on the future of CLIR research).
Deadline extended: RIDE Workshop on Multilingual Information Management
The deadline for submitting papers to the RIDE workshop has been extended to
Sep 30.
Important Dates
Submission of Papers: September 15, 2002
Notification of Acceptance: October 31, 2002
Final Camera Ready Copies: November 30, 2002
Workshop: March 10-11, 2003
For more information on RIDE, check out:
http://www.iiit.net/conferences/ride2003.html
The updated date is not yet shown on that page, but it has indeed
been extended
Workshops: 11th Dec 2002,
Conference: 12-14th Dec 2002
Grand Hyatt, Singapore
http://www.cais.ntu.edu.sg:8000/wise2002
Held in conjunction with the International Conference on Asian Digital Library
ICADL2002
Organised by School of Computer Engineering, Nanyang Technological University,
& WISE Society.
Saturday, November 16, 2002
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
(Co-located with FOCS 2002)
Second Call for Papers & Participation
Important Dates
To participate, please submit a one-page abstract describing your intended
contribution. We welcome both new and old results and surveys of relevant
literature.
Sept 30: One-page abstracts due to Andrei Broder abroder@us.ibm.com
Oct 10: Final program announced.
Nov 1: Hardcopy of final presentations due.
Please notice that deadline extended to Sep 30!
http://www.almaden.ibm.com/cs/people/ravi/waw.html
The Centre for Language and Speech Processing at the Johns Hopkins University
invites research proposals for a Summer Workshop on Language Engineering, to be
held in
Baltimore, Maryland, USA,
July 14 to August 22, 2003.
Call For Research Proposals
The deadline for submitting proposals is October 15, 2002.
Proposals may be:
Faxed to (410-516-5050),
Or sent via e-mail to:
sec@clsp.jhu.edu
Or regular mail to:
CLSP, Johns Hopkins University,
320 Barton Hall,
3400 N. Charles St., Barton 320,
Baltimore, MD 21218).
Please notice that the research topics of the participating teams in
previous workshops can serve as a good example (see: http://www.clsp.jhu.edu/workshops
Maebashi TERRSA, Maebashi City, Japan
Tutorials Date: December 9, 2002
Conference Date: December 9-12, 2002
Sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society
The details of the tutorials can be seen in the ICDM 2002 web pages at
Home Page: http://kis.maebashi-it.ac.jp/icdm02
Mirror Page: http://www.wi-lab.com/icdm02