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IR-L Digest, Vol.XVI, No.12, Issue 449
IRLIST Digest ISSN 1064-6965
April 6, 1999
Volume XVI, Number 12
Issue 449
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III. NOTICES
A. Publications
1. [WASHINGTON-UPDATE] EDUCAUSE Washington Update 3-31-99
2. Version 24, Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography
3. NEW JOURNAL: JOURNAL OF APPLIED SYSTEMS STUDIES: CFP
4. News Items for _Journal of Internet Cataloging_
B. Meetings
1. I'MEDIAT '99
2. SPIRE '99: String Processing & Information Retrieval
3. UM99 REGISTRATION DEADLINE !
4. MT Summit VII Workshop
5. LACUNY INSTITUTE'99
6. CIMI/CHIN Metadata Workshop
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III. NOTICES
III.A.1.
Fr: EDUCAUSE <EDUCAUSE@EDUCAUSE.EDU>
Re: [WASHINGTON-UPDATE] EDUCAUSE Washington Update 3-31-99
EDUCAUSE: Transforming Education through Information Technologies
http://www.educause.edu
EDUCAUSE WASHINGTON UPDATE --- MARCH 31, 1999
***IN THIS ISSUE***
INTERNET GAMBLING BILL REINTRODUCED IN SENATE - ISP LIABILITY AND
ENFORCEMENT QUESTIONS REMAIN
DNS FUND UNDER FIRE ONCE AGAIN - NSF WARNS OF POTENTIAL DISRUPTION OF NGI
AND ADVANCED NETWORKING PROGRAMS
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Written from EDUCAUSE'S Washington office, "The EDUCAUSE Washington Update"
is a free service of EDUCAUSE, an international nonprofit association
dedicated to transforming higher education through information technologies.
Anyone may subscribe to the Update by sending e-mail to
listserv@listserv.educause.edu with "subscribe update firstname lastname"
in the body of the message. To unsubscribe, send a "signoff update" command
to the same address. If you would like more information about the Update or
would like to offer comments or suggestions, please contact Garret Sern at
gsern@educause.edu.
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III.A.2.
Fr: Charles W. Bailey, Jr. <LIB3@UHUPVM1.UH.EDU>
Re: Version 24, Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography
Version 24 of the Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography is now
available. This selective bibliography presents over 950 articles, books,
electronic documents, and other sources that are useful in understanding
scholarly electronic publishing efforts on the Internet and other networks.
HTML: <URL:http://info.lib.uh.edu/sepb/sepb.html>
Acrobat: <URL:http://info.lib.uh.edu/sepb/sepb.pdf>
Word: <URL:http://info.lib.uh.edu/sepb/sepb.doc>
The HTML document is designed for interactive use. Each major section is a
separate file. There are live links to sources available on the Internet.
It can be can be searched, and it includes Scholarly Electronic Publishing
Resources, a collection of links to related Web sites:
<URL:http://info.lib.uh.edu/sepb/sepr.htm>.
The Acrobat and Word files are designed for printing. Each file is over 200
KB.
(Revised sections in this version are marked with an asterisk.)
Table of Contents
1 Economic Issues*
2 Electronic Books and Texts
2.1 Case Studies and History
2.2 General Works
2.3 Library Issues
3 Electronic Serials
3.1 Case Studies and History*
3.2 Critiques
3.3 Electronic Distribution of Printed Journals*
3.4 General Works*
3.5 Library Issues*
3.6 Research*
4 General Works*
5 Legal Issues
5.1 Intellectual Property Rights*
5.2 License Agreements*
5.3 Other Legal Issues*
6 Library Issues
6.1 Cataloging, Classification, and Metadata*
6.2 Digital Libraries*
6.3 General Works*
6.4 Information Conversion, Integrity, and Preservation*
7 New Publishing Models*
8 Publisher Issues*
8.1 Electronic Commerce/Copyright Systems*
Appendix A. Related Bibliographies by the Same Author
Appendix B. About the Author
Best Regards,
Charles
Charles W. Bailey, Jr., Assistant Dean for Systems,
University Libraries, University of Houston, Houston, TX
77204-2091. E-mail: cbailey@uh.edu. Voice: (713) 743-9804.
Fax: (713) 743-9811.
<URL:http://info.lib.uh.edu/cwb/bailey.htm>
<URL:http://info.lib.uh.edu/sepb/sepb.html>
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III.A.3.
Fr: Nikitas Assimakopoulos <assinik@unipi.gr>
Re: NEW JOURNAL: JOURNAL OF APPLIED SYSTEMS STUDIES: CFP
JOURNAL OF APPLIED SYSTEMS STUDIES
Methodologies and Applications for Systems Approaches
[JASS ]
AIMS AND SCOPE
The mission of the "Journal of Applied Systems Studies" is on the
development of methodologies based on the laws and rules of various
sciences. New designs and functional methodologies are composed for
applications in business, operational and social, as well as biological
phenomena. The objectives of the "Journal of Applied Systems Studies" are
to widespread the science of systems and present the research and
application results of its domain. As the science rapidly changes and
grows, resources and time become more precious, "Journal of Applied Systems
Studies" provides the very best information and analysis to keep up to date
with the latest developments and approaches to other scientific domains,
through the application of systems approaches upon them.
The "Journal of Applied Systems Studies" aims to:
· To provide a forum for the exchange of experiences and information of
studying the systems and the methodologies, tools and products used to
design, measure and achieve it.
· To promote awareness of the crucial role of systems studies in the
effective construction of the information systems developed, used,
and/or maintained by organizations in pursuit of their business
objectives.
· To provide a vehicle for the publication of academic papers related to
all aspects of soft and hard system approaches.
The "Journal of Applied Systems Studies" addresses all aspects of systemic
analysis from both a practical and an academic viewpoint. It invites
contributions from practitioners and academics, as well as national and
international policy, standard-making bodies, and sets out to be the
definitive international reference source for such information.
The readership of the "Journal of Applied Systems Studies" consists of
academics, systems managers, computer scientists, information scientists,
and researchers in applied system theory, as well as those involved in
management, operations and political science in different scientific
discipline i.e. Universities, Consulting Firms, Enterprises and Industries.
Topics of Interest
Topics of interest to JASS include, but are not limited to:
· Applications of cybernetics using the viable system model
· Applications of interactive planning methodology
· Applications of soft systems methodology
· Applied cybernetics in medicine
· Applied living systems
· Cognitive patterns
· Complex systems
· Conceptual systemic models
· Control systems
· Critical systems thinking
· Culture of peace
· Decision support systems
· Dynamical systems approaches
· Electronic service systems (Internet, Intranet, Extranet, Deltanet)
· Human-centered systems
· Human-computer interaction
· Intelligent systems engineering
· Intelligent tutoring systems
· Knowledge based systems
· Knowledge ecology
· Law systems
· Multimedia systems
· Problem structuring approaches
· Project management using systemic approaches
· Religious systems
· Semiotic approaches
· Social systems design
· Systemic metaphors
· Systemic reengineering
· Systems - metasystems and decisions - metadecisions
· Systems and design education
· Systems approaches for information systems
· Systems thinking for total quality management
· Total systems intervention
· Virtual communities
We seek papers that improve on the best academic research or the best
practical applications. Submitted papers should be motivated by the
problems they address with compelling examples from real or potential
applications. Systems papers must contain either a new methodology or
interpreted results through well known methodology(ies) on real systems or
simulations based on representative traces from real systems. Proposals for
special issues, especially on emerging topics, are also welcome.
EDITORIAL BOARD
Editor-in-Chief :
Nikitas A. Assimakopoulos,
Department of Informatics, University of Piraeus,
80, Karaoli & Dimitriou Str., GR-185 34 Piraeus, Greece.
Email : assinik@unipi.gr
Honorary Editor :
Bela H. Banathy,
President of the International Federation for Systems Research
& International Systems Institute, USA.
Editor :
Russell L. Ackoff,
Chairman of the Board of INTERACT, USA.
PUBLISHER
"Cambridge International Science Publishing" , Cambridge, England.
GUIDELINES FOR CONTRIBUTORS
Authors should send to the Editor-in-Chief via email (assinik@unipi.gr) the
paper in attached file(s) using "winzip32" for compression, with a
description in the body of the message, and by post a printed copy along
with the electronic file(s) submission on a 3½ diskette which should
conform the following requirements:
1. Manuscripts must be submitted in English and spelling should be adapted
with The Concise Oxford Dictionary. Original papers (not published or not
simultaneously submitted to another journal) will be reviewed by three
anonymous referees. Upon acceptance of an article by the journal, the
author(s) will be asked to transfer copyright of the article to the
publisher which it will insure the widest possible dissemination of
information under applicable copyright law.
2. The disk should be in IBM PC format; the files should be saved in
Microsoft Word for PC, version 97 for Windows. Any other word-processing
package will not be approved for submission. For artwork, figures and
tables should only use the Ms-Office 97 package facilities and must be
grouped and pasted, in the proper place, into the Word document.
3. Papers should be typed on one side of the paper. The pages should be
numbered consecutively at the bottom centre of the page. The length of the
paper should not exceed 10 journal pages (or about 5000 words), and hence
manuscripts should not exceed 15 typed single-space A4 (printing area 14.7
x 24.7 cm) pages including title page, abstract, text, figures, tables and
references. The number of artworks, figures and tables must be kept up to a
minimum. Do not start a new page after the title information and abstract.
Do not use tab for the first text line of each main section. Paragraphs
should be both right and left justified.
4. The font (typeface) is Times New Roman. The text type size should be 11
points. Please use the page set-up command to ensure that your paper is
prepared on A4 size paper (21 x 29.7 cm) using the default format for text
and margins at the top and the bottom of the page for Microsoft Word 97.
5. The title should be written on the first line of the first page, left
justified in upper and lower case letters (20-points bold). The authors'
names should be left justified two lines below the full title in upper and
lower case letters (14-points). Affiliation and mailing address (including
email) should follow left justified also in upper and lower case letters
(11-points).
6. Two lines below the author's name and affiliation start an abstract as
the first paragraph of the paper. The abstract should follow the title,
author's name, and mailing address on the first page (10-points) and must
be up to 150 words. At the end of the abstract, skip a line and then, left
justified, type "Keywords" (10-points bold) : followed by up to three (3)
sets of words that describe the focus and contribution of the paper
(10-points). The first set of keyword must be one of the topics of interest
to JASS. Skip two lines and then begin the body of the paper (after an
Introduction heading if required) immediately after the abstract.
7. All major headings are left justified. They are to be written in
12-points bold font and numbered consecutively followed by a period and the
default tab, with Arabic numerals, e.g., 1. Introduction. Do not put a
period after the text of the heading. Leave two lines above a major heading
and one line before the start of the next paragraph or second-level
heading. Subheadings are flush left in 11-points bold. There should be one
line space before and after this level of heading. The paragraph should be
numbered as a subsection of the previous major heading and the default tab
e.g., 7.1 Subheadings. Sub-subheadings are flush left, in italics and in
11-points type. The paragraphs should be numbered as a sub-section of the
previous subsection heading and the default tab e.g., 7.1.1
Sub-subheadings. There should be one line space before this level of
heading and after this level of heading and the following paragraph.
8. The electronic version of the art should be included in the attached
files and on the diskette, and it must be incoprorated into the
word-processing file. Figures should be labeled in the text as "Figure x".
Figure captions should be typed directly below the figure, in upper and
lower case (11-points), and centred.
9. Table captions should be centered above the table. Tables should be
included in the manuscript proper and referred to in the text as "Table x".
10. When numbering equations, enclose numbers in parenthesis ( ) and place
them flush with the right-hand margin. Refer to them in the text as
"Equation (x)".
11. Papers should be written without the use of footnotes.
12. Mathematical expressions and Greek or other symbols should be typed
using the facilities of Ms-Word 97 and must be written clearly with ample
spacing. Use the widely accepted symbols and abbreviations following the
style of BS 1991 Part 2 1954.
13. All papers should end with a conclusion which summarizes the value of
the work end, where appropriate, indicates possible directions for future
developments.
14. References must be indicated in the text by brackets [ ]. Identify
references in the text of the paper by typing the corresponding surname (or
first surname) and year in brackets e.g.: [Aauthor (1998)]. They are listed
alphabetically at the end of the paper under the major heading "References"
(12-point bold font) left justified. List authors alphabetically by the
first letter of the first author's surname name. Book titles and names of
journals should be printed in italics. Please adopt the following style for
references :
Aauthor, A. (1998). Title of Book. XYZ Press, New York.
Bauthor, B. and Aauthor, A. (1999). Title of Paper. Journal vol. 3(2), 1-20.
Cauthor, C., Aauthor, A., Bauthor, B., and Jones, G. (1996). Title of
Paper, in Title of Book, (E. Editor, ed.). XYZ Press, New York, 47-82.
For multiple papers in the same year by the same author(s):
Bauthor, B. and Aauthor, A. (1995A). Title of PaperA. JournalA vol. 3(5),
1-20.
Bauthor, B. and Aauthor, A. (1995B). Title of PaperB. JournalB vol. 6(9),
56-80.
15. If material has been published elsewhere, authors must obtain the
consent of the earlier publisher. Authors wishing to use material from the
JASS should consult the Editor-in-Chief.
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III.A.4.
Fr: Gerry McKiernan <gerrymck@iastate.edu>
Re: News Items for _Journal of Internet Cataloging_
For my next "News from the Field" column for the _Journal of Internet
Cataloging: The International Quarterly of Digital Organization,
Classification, and Access_ (JIC), I would appreciate any and all news
items about current or planned efforts for organizing or providing enhanced
access to Internet or Web resources
BTW: The homepage for JIC is http://www.haworthpressinc.com/jic/
I am interested in relevant conferences, workshops, discussions,
institutes, presentations, and/or other programs. I am also interested in
current or completed digital/digitization projects, as well as noteworthy
articles, reports, journals, newsletters or other print or electronic
publications.
Thanks!
Gerry McKiernan
Curator, CyberStacks(sm)
and
Theoretical Librarian
Iowa State University
Ames IA 50011
gerrymck@iastate.edu
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III.B.1.
Fr: Stephane Bressan <steph@nus.edu.sg>
Re: I'MEDIAT '99
I'MEDIAT'99
(http://context.mit.edu/imediat99)
Call for Papers and Demonstrations
Second International Workshop on
Practical Information Mediation, Brokering,
and Commerce on the Internet.
Tokyo, Japan, September 3-5 1999
In Conjunction with
The Twelfth International Conference on Applications of Prolog (INAP'99)
Following the success of I'MEDIAT'98, we are happy to announce the second
international workshop on practical information mediation, brokering, and
commerce on the Internet. As Internet based interactions and commerce
continue to evolve very rapidly, new and exciting opportunities for
mediation applications are constantly created. We are witnessing a
tremendous growth in the number, types, and novelty of mediation services,
as well as an increased level of sophistication. I'MEDIAT is a forum of
discussion and presentation of new ideas and technologies for value adding
services in information mediation and brokering. The goal of the workshop
is to bring together practitioners, researchers, users and information
providers involved in the development and deployment of commercial,
industrial and practical applications. We solicit papers describing novel
information mediation approaches, applications, and systems. Papers
reporting on commercial or experimental applications as well as
demonstrations are strongly encouraged. The main topics for papers and
demonstrations include, but are not limited to:
* Mediation systems and intelligent access to heterogeneous and
distributed information
* Internet tools for information and knowledge sharing;
* Canonical metadata modeling for structured, semi-structured and
unstructured information collections;
* Wrapper development technique and data model mapping;
* Information extraction from unstructured or semi structured documents;
* Advanced information search and filtering;
* Information personalization and customization techniques;
* Information distribution protocols (channels, push/pull technologies,
etc.);
* Information visualization and user interfaces for mediation;
* Next generation commerce mediation (e.g. product comparison
technologies, price negotiation, bargain finders, electronic auctions)
* Next generation customer management technologies (e.g. sophisticated
profiling, direct marketing technologies, brand loyalty promotion
technologies).
* Trust, privacy, and security;
* Business models for the commerce of information: technological
implications;
* Policy (intellectual property, privacy, etc.): technological
implications;
* Information mediation applications.
Committee
Oskar Bartenstein, IF Computer, Japan
Philippe Bonnet, Cornell University, USA
Stéphane Bressan, National University of Singapore, Singapore (Chairman)
Leonid Kalinichenko Russian Academy of Science Russia
Mauricio Lopez, G.I.E. Dyade (Bull/INRIA), France
Louiqa Raschid, University of Maryland, USA
R. Sadananda, Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand
Raphael Yahalom, MIT Sloan School of Management, USA
Paper format:
Authors are invited to submit research contributions representing ongoing
or completed work. All papers are subject to peer review. Papers and demo
descriptions should be between 3000 and 5000 words. Papers and demo
descriptions will be published in informal proceedings distributed during
the workshop. Both an electronic and printed version will be edited and
published after the workshop. Stricter formatting guidelines will be given
to the authors for the publication in the formal proceedings.
(Electronic) Submission:
Papers and demo descriptions must be submitted by e-mail to the addresses
below. Submissions can be either in HTML or Postscript formats. In
alternative, submission can by done by emailing a URL pointing to an HTML
version of the paper.
Contact: imediat99@context.mit.edu
Important Dates
* Submission deadline: June 18th 1999
* Acceptance notification: July 12th 1999
* Camera ready paper due: August 10th 1999
* Workshop dates: September 3rd-5th 1999
Home: (http://context.mit.edu/imediat99)
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III.B.2.
Fr: Ricardo Baeza-Yates <rbaeza@dcc.uchile.cl>
Re: SPIRE '99: String Processing & Information Retrieval
CALL FOR PAPERS
SPIRE'99 - String Processing and Information REtrieval
September 22 - 24, 1999
Cancun, Mexico
Sponsored by CYTED-AMYRI Research Project
WHAT IS SPIRE'99?
SPIRE'99 is a Symposium on String Processing and Information Retrieval
which is in its sixth edition. The first four editions focused primarily
on string processing and South America, and were called WSP (South American
Workshop on String Processing). They were held in Belo Horizonte, Brazil
(1993), Valparaíso, Chile (1995 and 1997), and Recife, Brazil (1996).
Starting in 1998, at Santa Cruz, Bolivia, the focus of the workshop was
broadened to include the area of information retrieval due to its
increasing relevance and its inter-relationship with the area of string
processing. SPIRE'99 will continue this trend to include also the area of
DNA computing and, as a result, we expect to have contributions from
several related communities. In addition, SPIRE'99 will be held together
with the Fifth International Workshop on Groupware (CRIWG'99), with a joint
session on Collaborative Retrieval.
The SPIRE'99 symposium aims at facilitating the potential benefits of
cross- fertilization between different fields. As such, it offers a
singular opportunity for researchers interested in working with problems
related to these areas. As in the past, the proceedings of SPIRE'99 will be
published by IEEE CS Press.
TOPICS
SPIRE'99 covers research in all aspects of string processing, information
retrieval, computational biology, pattern matching, DNA computing, and
related applications. Typical topics of interest include (but are not
limited to):
* String Processing: dictionary algorithms, text searching, pattern
matching, text compression, text mining, voice or natural language
processing, and automata based string processing.
* Information Retrieval (IR): IR modeling, indexing, ranking and filtering,
interface design, visualization, cross-lingual IR systems, multimedia IR,
digital libraries, collaborative retrieval, and Web related applications.
o Interaction of biology and computation: DNA sequencing and applications
in molecular biology, information encoding for DNA computing, evolution and
phylogenetics, recognition of genes and regulatory elements, and protein
structure prediction.
IMPORTANT DATES:
Paper submission: April 16th, 1999
Authors notification: May 28th, 1999
Camera ready: June 25th, 1999
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Ricardo Baeza-Yates, Univ. of Chile, Santiago, Chile
Max Garzon, Univ. of Memphis, USA, Co-chair
Natasha Jonoska, Univ. of South Florida, Tampa, USA
Lila Kari, Univ. of Western Ontario, London, Canada
José Luis Marroquín, CIMAT, Guanajuato, Mexico
Ruy Milidiu, PUC-Rio, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Alistair Moffat, Univ. of Melbourne, Australia
Giri Narasimhan, Univ. of Memphis, USA
Doug Oard, Univ of Maryland, USA
Arlindo Oliveira, IST/INESC, Lisboa, Portugal, Chair
Berthier Ribeiro-Neto, UFMG, Belo Horizonte, Brazil
Marie-France Sagot, Pasteur Inst., Paris, France
João Setubal, Unicamp, Campinas, Brazil, Co-chair
Miguel Mira da Silva, INESC, Lisboa, Portugal
Esko Ukkonen, Univ. of Helsinki, Finland
Nivio Ziviani, UFMG, Belo Horizonte, Brazil
INVITED SPEAKERS
Max Garzon, Univ. of Memphis, USA
Lila Kari, Univ. of Western Ontario, Canada
Gary Marchionini, Univ. of North Carolina, USA
Pavel Pevzner, Univ. of Southern California, USA
SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS
Authors are requested to:
- prepare an extended abstract or full draft paper of at most 15 pages in
standard 11pt Latex article style or equivalent.
- send the paper in standard postscript via e-mail (see address below) no
later than April 16th, 1999 to the chair of the Program Committee as well
as a message containing the paper title, the names of all authors, an
indication of the author to be contacted, and the affiliation of such
author (including full address, phone/fax numbers, and e-mail address).
E-mail: spire99@algos.inesc.pt
- use the standard IEEE CS format for the final version of accepted papers,
which will have to be sent via ftp to the publisher either as postscript or
PDF.
LOCAL ORGANIZATION
The local organization committee is chaired by Edgar Chávez from Univ.
Michoacana and CIMAT, Mexico. For any questions about local matters
please send e-mail to elchavez@zeus.ccu.umich.mx.
WEB HOMEPAGE
http://algos.inesc.pt/spire99/
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III.B.3.
Fr: Julita Vassileva <jiv@cs.usask.ca>
Re: UM99 REGISTRATION DEADLINE !
YOU ARE CORDIALLY INVITED TO PARTICIPATE IN UM99!
7th International Conference on User Modeling
June 20 - 24, 1999
Banff Centre, Banff, Canada
http://www.cs.usask.ca/UM99
The DEADLINE FOR EARLY REGISTRATION: APRIL 15, 1999
User modeling has been found to enhance the effectiveness and/or usability
of software systems in a wide variety of situations. A system that
constructs and consults user models can adapt diverse aspects of its
performance to individual users. Techniques for user modelling have been
developed and evaluated by researchers in a number of fields, including
artificial intelligence, education, psychology, linguistics, human-computer
interaction, and information science.
The 7th International Conferences on User Modelling, UM99 will provide a
forum in which academic and industrial researchers from all of these fields
can exchange their complementary insights on user modelling issues. The
size and format of the meetings support intensive discussion, which often
continues long after the conference has ended.
Some of the HIGHLIGHTS of UM99 are:
Two pre-conference TUTORIALS on Sunday, 20 June:
-- Anthony Jameson: User Adaptive Systems: An Integrative Overview
-- David Chin: Evaluating the Effectiveness of User Models by
Experiments
INVITED SPEAKERS:
-- Alan Biermann (Duke University, USA)
-- Gerhard Weber (University of Freiburg, Germany)
-- Gerhard Fischer (University of Boulder, CA, USA)
-- Pat Langely (Institute for the Study of Learning and Expertise,
Palto Alto, CA, USA)
We have received 103 high quality submissions. The competition was intense,
with only 27 of the papers (26%) being accepted as full papers. Five
(4.5%) of these papers have been proposed for best paper awards, which
speaks for the high quality of the conference submissions! :
The BEST PAPER award nominees are:
-- Zukerman, Albrecht and Nicholson: Predicting Users' Requests on
the WWW
-- Encarnacao and Stoev: An Application-Independent Intelligent User
Support System Exploiting Action-Sequence Based On User Modelling
-- Petrelli, De Angeli and Convertino, A User Centered Approach to
User Modelling
-- Berthold and Jameson: Interpreting Symptoms of Mental Load and
Time Pressure in Speech Input
-- Winter and McCalla: The Emergence of Student Models from an
Analysis of Ethical Decision Making in a Scenario-Based Learning
Environment
To allow more authors present their promising ideas, the program of UM99
will provide for:
-- Eleven SHORT PAPER presentations
-- Twenty POSTERS.
-- DEMOnStrations of software.
UM99 will feature also:
-- Doctoral Consortium where 8 Ph.D. students will have the chance to
present their work.
-- Four post-conference WORKSHOPS:
Workshop 1: Machine Learning for User Modelling
Workshop 2: Standards for Learner Modelling
Workshop 3: Attitude, Personality and Emotions in User-Adapted
Interaction
Workshop 4: Second Workshop on Adaptive Systems and User
Modeling on the WWW
The preliminary program of UM99 is available at:
http://www.cs.usask.ca/UM99/prog.shtml
The REGISTRATION FORM is available at:
http://www.cs.usask.ca/UM99/reg.shtml
Banff in June is one of the World's most desired travel destinations.
So, please, MAKE YOUR TRAVEL PLANS EARLY! Detailed travel information is
available at http://www.cs.usask.ca/UM99/get-there.shtml
We are looking forward to welcoming you in Banff!
JJJ
Judy Kay
Jim Greer
Julita Vassileva
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III.B.4.
Fr: Megumi Kiya <aamt0002@infotokyo.ne.jp
Re: MT Summit VII Workshop
Workshop on Machine Translation for Cross Language Information Retrieval
September 17,1999
Introduction
The goal of this workshop is to explore the role of MT in the context of
CLIR. Undoubtedly searching, extracting and summarising information from
the Web is a major challenge demanding multilingual solutions. Despite the
fact that currently much textual WWW information is in English, the
situation is radically changing. In addition, there is an increased amount
of users who would prefer to use sites and/or query in their native
language. There are different strategies for CLIR involving document
translation, query translation, use of dictionaries. The adoption of a
strategy depends on the user profile, the level of user interaction
intended in the search process, the targeted use of the documents retrieved
and the availability of linguistic resources, among others.
We invite papers on topics that link advances in Machine Translation or
related technologies to CLIR. Are existing MT solutions sufficient for the
information access demands of today? What type of MT linguistic analysis
would be useful for CLIR? How can we identify the proper translations of
query terms? How can we improve on existing techniques to improve precision
and recall? A non-exhaustive list, which should serve as a starting point,
follows:
* Issues in query translation and query expansion
* Alignment techniques for dictionary building
* Level and type of linguistic MT analysis for CLIR (shallow, chunking,
...)
* Type of multilingual resources (corpora, dictionaries, terminologies)
used in CLIR
* Role of terminology and ontologies in CLIR
* Translation Memories in CLIR
* Translation of index terms and descriptors
* CLIR involving Asian languages (problems and challenges)
Participation and Submission of Papers
Participation is limited to 30 persons. Participants will be selected by
the organizing committee, based on submitted papers. Participants will be
expected to contribute to the workshop by either presenting a talk or
taking part in the discussions.
Researchers interested in participating in the workshop are invited to
submit long abstracts (up to three pages) on the listed research topics.
Submissions may be sent by e-mail (PostScript files) or as hardcopies (in
triplicate) to the workshop organiser. In the case where you use non-Roman
fonts, hardcopies are preferred.
The submissions will be reviewed and the accepted papers will be published
in the workshop proceedings. Participants selected for giving a talk, will
have to submit a full paper (up to 8 pages) for the workshop proceedings.
For more information about the workshop, please contact the Workshop
Organiser.
Important Dates
Abstracts due by: May 31, 1999.
Notification of acceptance: June 30, 1999.
Camera-ready version of Final Paper due: August 2, 1999.
Main MT Summit: September 13-17, 1999.
Date of the Workshop: September 17,1999
Organising Committee
* Sophia Ananiadou, European Media Lab, Germany
* Christian Jacquemin, LIMSI, France
* Yoshihiko Hayashi, NTT Cyberspace Labs, Japan
* Mun Kew Leong, Kent Ridge Digital Labs, Singapore
* Sung Hyon Myaeng, Chungnam National University, Korea
* Hsin-Hsi Chen, National Taiwan University, Taiwan
Workshop Organiser
Please send abstracts / papers to:
Sophia Ananiadou
European Media Lab (EML)
Villa Bosch, Schloss-Wolfsbrunnenweg 33
D-69118 Heidelberg
Germany
Fax: +49-6221-533-298
Email: Sophia.Ananiadou@eml.villa-bosch.org
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III.B.5.
Fr: Mounir Khalil <MOUCC@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>
Re: LACUNY INSTITUTE'99
THE LIBRARY ASSOCIATION OF THE CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK
LACUNY INSTITUTE 1999
Presents
D I G I T A L L I B R A R I E S
Planning, Managing, and Adapting to Change
IBM HEADQUARTERS -- 590 MADISON AVE. AT 57TH ST. -- NEW YORK, NY 10022
FRIDAY MAY 21, 1999
P R O G R A M
8:15 - 9:15 REGISTRATION AND REFRESHMENTS (SPONSORED BY IBM)
9:15 - 9:45 Welcome and Introduction
9:45 - 10:00 OPENING REMARKS ON DIGITAL LIBRARIES BY DEAN MICHAEL
RIBAUDO, ACADEMIC COMPUTING, CUNY
10:00 - 10:45 "Electronic Publishing, Digital Documents, and the
Library of the 21st Century" by Clifford LYNCH,
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, CNI
10:45 - 11:00 B R E A K
11:00 - 11:45 "The Consortial Revolution and the Future of Digital
Libraries in the Academy" by Dean James Neal, Dean of
Libraries, JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY
12:00 - 2:00 L U N C H (Exhibits/Demonstrations)
2:00 - 3:45 Panel Discussion: "Racing Towards the Future"
(Q & A Session)
--"PAST IS PROLOGUE" BY JOHN BERRY III,
Editor-In-Chief, Library Journal.
--"DIGITIZING RESOURCES: TODAY,
Tomorrow, and How to Get There" by Richard Hulser,
IBM
--"ARCHIVING E-JOURNALS" BY CAROL
MacAdam, J-Stor
--"DIGITAL LIBRARIES AND YOUR FUTURE" BY DR. COLLEEN
COOL, QUEENS COLLEGE OF CUNY, GRADUATE SCHOOL OF
LIBRARY AND INFORMATION SCIENCE
PANEL MODERATOR: DR. DAN RUBE, CHIEF LIBRARIAN,
LEHMAN COLLEGE, CUNY
3:45 - 5:00 Vendors' Demonstrations
5:00 - 6:00 RECEPTION (SPONSORED BY JOHN WILEY & SON)
For further information contact:
Mounir Khalil
City College
(212) 650-8244
FAX: (212) 650-7626
E-MAIL: moucc@cunyvm.cuny.edu
O R
Raja Jayatilleke
College of Staten Island
(718) 982-4016
FAX: (718) 982-4015
E-MAIL: Jayatilleke@postbox.csi.cuny.edu
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III.B.6.
Fr: Joan K Lippincott <joan@cni.org>
Re: CIMI/CHIN Metadata Workshop
CIMI and CHIN are pleased to announce a 1-day workshop on the ABCs of
Metadata to be held in Ottawa, Canada May 3 1999.
This workshop is specially focused on metadata issues facing libraries,
archives, museums, digital library projects and other cultural information
organizations.
Topics to be covered include:
* Metadata: Promise and Problems
* The Dublin Core Initiative
* Expressing metadata in HTML,XML,& RDF
* Tools for creating and using metadata
* Metadata in musems, libraries, and archives
Presenters:
Carl Lagoze, Cornell University Digital Library Scientist
John Perkins, CIMI Executive Director
Lyn Elliot Sherwood, Director General CHIN
Stu Weibel, Director Dublin Core Initiative
The full program announcement and registration information can be found at:
http://www.cimi.org/cimi_institute
*** Space is limited ***
*** Simultaneous French/English translation is available ***
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