IR-L Digest, Vol.XVI, No.16, Issue 452

[Nancy Gusack Crawford <nancy.gusack@ucop.edu>]

IRLIST Digest                                       ISSN 1064-6965
April 27, 1999
Volume XVI, Number 16
Issue 452

******************************************************************
 II. JOBS
        1. Novator Systems, Toronto: MSc or PhD., Natural
           Language Understanding
III. NOTICES
     A. Publications
        1. EM -- Electronic Markets
        2. JASIS TOC, Volume 50, Number 8
        3. Free Access to New Library World Journal
        4. Book: Text, Speech and Language Technology, Vol.7
        5. J. of the American Medical Informations Association:
           Special Issue
     B. Meetings
        1. EACL'99 Conference/Tutorial
        2. 34th Colloquium of Linguistics
        3. GLDV ´99
        4. ACL'99
******************************************************************
II. JOBS
II.1.
Fr: Novator Systems <intelliserve@novator.com>
Re: Novator Systems, Toronto: MSc or PhD, Natural Language Understanding

Novator Systems (http://www.novator.com) is looking to hire an MSc or
PhD in Natural Language Understanding.

Novator is a web company based in Toronto that specializes in electronic
retail.  One of the areas in which we have developed software is in
automatically responding to customer inquiries over the web, using
artificial intelligence techniques.  We are currently beta-testing version
1 of our software on one of our customer's sites (http://www.ftd.com) - we
can automatically respond to about 55% of the comments we receive with
about 2.3% false positives.  Our next phase of R&D requires strong Natural
Language Understanding skills.

We are looking to hire an MSc or PhD in Natural Language Understanding for
this next phase. Please send applications to intelliserve@novator.com.
******************************************************************
III. NOTICES
III.A.1.
Fr: Brigette.Buchet@unisg.ch
Re: EM -- Electronic Markets

EM - Electronic Markets (formerly known as IJEM) is a key forum for
advancing the understanding and practice of electronic markets and commerce
(http://www.electronicmarkets.org).

We have 3 announcements to make:
1.)  Call for papers 99/4,
2.)  Call for review board, 99/4, and
3.)  Availability of 98/4 (Insurance/Convergence).

1.) Call for Papers, 99/4
Guest Editors: Professor Christopher Holland, University of Manchester and
Professor Pieter Ribbers, Tilburg University

Focus Issue: International Information Systems

Call for Papers focused on the emergence of international information
systems across different industrial sectors. In addition, EM is searching
for interesting and rigorous work in other subject domains with a
significant IS content.

The issue will adopt a sectoral view with particular interest in papers
written on those sectors in which industry collision figures prominently
(e.g. retailing and financial services). The approach is designed to ensure
empirical validity and encourages theoretical diversity. It will also
provide a valuable collection of papers in one source to illustrate
globalisation and IT for teaching and consultancy purposes.

A List of Possible Topics includes, but is not limited to:
1. Automotive
2. Retail
3. Financial services including banking and insurance
4. Pharmaceuticals
5. Chemicals
6. Travel and Leisure
7. Manufacturing
8. Education
9. Electronics
10. Textiles

EM accepts short papers up to 2500 words, or long papers up to 5000 words.
Please refer to the contributors section at
http://www.electronicmarkets.org for our templates and more specifications.

The deadline for submissions will be May 31, 1999.
The issue will be published in mid-September.

In 99/4, there will be a secondary focus on electronic commerce and
financial services.

Please do not hesitate to contact me, if you have any questions.  Regarding
the financial services topic, or EM - Electronic Markets in general, please
contact Brigette Buchet, Executive Editor at em.editors@netacademy.org.

Best regards,
Chris Holland
Guest Editor
c.holland@fs2.mbs.ac.uk

2.) Call for Ad Hoc Review Board, 99/4
Focus Issue: International Information Systems Other Electronic Commerce
Issues including Financial Services (Reviewers will be matched with paper
subjects.)

For the upcoming issue on international information systems, we are looking
for ad-hoc reviewers with proven competence in this field.  They should
contact our guest editor Christopher Holland <c.holland@fs2.mbs.ac.uk> or
our editorial offices at em.editors@netacademy.org.

If you have would be willing to serve as a reviewer in another area of
electronic commerce, please contact Brigette Buchet at
em.editors@netacademy.org.

3.) 98/4, which focuses on Insurance and Convergence
can be found at http://www.electronicmarkets.org.

Electronic Markets -
International Journal of Electronic Commerce & Business Media

Editorial Office:                   ¦  Editor-in-Chief:
                                    ¦  Professor Beat F. Schmid
mcm institute                       ¦  mcm institute for Media and
University of St.Gallen             ¦  Communications Management,
Mueller-Friedberg-Strasse 8         ¦  University of St.Gallen
CH-9000 St.Gallen                   ¦
Phone 0041/71/224 21 96             ¦  Dorian Selz - Editor-at-Large
Fax   0041/71/224 27 71             ¦  Brigette Buchet - Executive Ed.
eMail em.editors@netacademy.org     ¦  MCM Institute
http://www.electronicmarkets.org    ¦  University of St.Gallen
**********
III.A.2.
Fr: Richard Hill <rhill@asis.org>
Re: JASIS TOC, Volume 50, Number 8

Journal of the American Society for Information Science
JASIS
VOLUME 50, NUMBER 8

[Note: below are URLs for viewing contents of JASIS from past issues.
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
637

RESEARCH

Images of Similarity: A Visual Exploration of Optimal Similarity
Metrics and Scaling Properties of TREC Topic-Document Sets
Mark Rorvig
639
 
A Visual Exploration of the Orderliness of TREC Relevance Judgments
Mark Rorvig
652
 
Automatic Indexing of Documents from Journal Descriptors:  A
Preliminary Investigation
Susanne M. Humphrey
661
 
Bibliometric Overview of Library and Information Science Research in Spain
V. Cano
675
 
User Reactions as Access Mechanism: An Exploration Based on Captions for
Images
Brian C. O'Connor, Mary K. O'Connor, and June M. Abbas
681
 
Medical Students' Confidence Judgments Using a Factual Database and
Personal Memory: A Comparison
Karen M. O'Keefe, Barbara M. Wildemuth, and Charles P. Friedman
698
 
Employing Multiple Representations for Chinese Information Retrieval
K. L. Kwok
709
 
BOOK REVIEWS

Deep Information: The Role of Information Policy in Environmental
Sustainability, by John Felleman
Mike Steckel
724

Electronic Databases and Publishing, edited by Albert Henderson
Marianne Afifi
725

Localist Connectionist Approaches to Human Cognition, edited by
Jonathan Grainger and Arthur M. Jacobs
Chaomei Chen
726

Ethics, Information and Technology: Readings, edited by Richard N.
Stichler and Robert Hauptman
Thomas A. Peters
727

Indexing and Abstracting in Theory and Practice, by F. W. Lancaster
Jens-Erik Mai
729

Remediation: Understanding New Media, by Jay David Bolter and Richard
Grusin
Ronald Day
731

CALL FOR PAPERS
733 

The ASIS home page <http://www.asis.org> contains the Table of Contents and
brief abstracts as above 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.  We are
still working on restoring access for ASIS members as "registered users."
**********
III.A.3.
Fr: Claire Jones <cjones@mcb.co.uk>
Re: Free Access to New Library World Journal

Each week, you can have free online full text access to current and past
journal volumes in MCB University Press's 'Journal of the Week' campaign. A
different journal will be featured every week.

The 'Journal of the Week' for 19/04-26/04/99 is New Library World. New
Library World provides an international appraisal of current library trends
and emerging patterns for the future, encompassing subjects like
developments in the educational environment; the impact of electronic
publishing; new information technology; the service of future libraries;
the role of the library in its sale of knowledge; and the modern library -
news and views on what's to come.

To access this journal and others FREE for a week go to the 'Journal of the
Week' homepage at http://www.mcb.co.uk/jotw/

Claire Jones                    +44 (0) 1274 785132
Internet Brand Executive        cjones@mcb.co.uk
MCB University Press            http://www.mcb.co.uk
**********
III.A.4.
Fr: Jean Veronis <Jean.Veronis@lpl.univ-aix.fr>
Re: Book: Text, Speech and Language Technology, Vol.7

**** NEW BOOK *** NEW BOOK *** NEW BOOK *** NEW BOOK *** NEW BOOK ****
KLUWER ACADEMIC PUBLISHERS
TEXT, SPEECH AND LANGUAGE TECHNOLOGY
Volume 7
Series editors: Nancy Ide and Jean Véronis
Natural Language Information Retrieval
edited by Tomek Strzalkowski
  
The last decade has been one of dramatic progress in the field of Natural
Language Processing (NLP). This hitherto largely academic discipline has
found itself at the center of an information revolution ushered in by the
Internet age, as demand for human-computer communication and information
access has exploded. Emerging applications in computer-assisted information
production and dissemination, automated understanding of news,
understanding of spoken language, and processing of foreign languages have
given impetus to research that has resulted in a new generation of robust
tools, systems, and commercial products. 

This volume focuses on the use of Natural Language Processing (NLP) in
Information Retrieval, the technology that grew out of library research to
become our best hope in dealing with today's information overload. The book
gives a broad overview of the work being done at the junction of these two
important fields, and suggests directions for future explorations. It is
organized into two loosely structured parts. The first part, consisting of
Chapters 1 through 7, discusses research systems and evaluations that
represent major avenues where the impact of NLP technologies in information
retrieval is being explored. The second part (Chapters 8 through 14)
describes specific implementations and prototypes of information systems
where NLP techniques are used or proposed to assist in accurate retrieval,
text categorization, question answering, and in organizing the results for
the user. 

Audience: This book will be a valuable reference to researchers and
practitioners in the fields of Natural Language Processing, Information
Retrieval, and Computational Linguistics. 

Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht 
Hardbound, ISBN 0-7923-5685-3
April 1999, 384 pp.
NLG 240.00 / USD 144.00 / GBP 84.00

Contents and Contributors

Preface

Contributing Authors

1. What is the Role of NLP in Text Retrieval? K.S. Jones. 
2. NLP for Term Variant Extraction: Synergy Between Morphology, Lexicon,
   and Syntax; C. Jacquemin, E. Tzoukermann. 
3. Combining Corpus Linguistics and Human Memory Models for Automatic
   Term Association; G. Ruge. 
4. Using NLP or NLP Resources for Information Retrieval Tasks; A.F.
   Smeaton. 
5. Evaluating Natural Language Processing Techniques in Information
   Retrieval; T. Strzalkowski, et al. 
6. Stylistic Experiments in Information Retrieval; J. Karlgren. 
7. Extraction-Based Text Categorization: Generating Domain-Specific Role
   Relationships Automatically; E. Riloff, J. Lorenzen. 
8. Lasie Jumps the Gat; Y. Wilks, R. Gaizauskas. 
9. Phrasal Terms in Real-World IR Applications; J. Zhou. 
10. Name Recognition and Retrieval Performance; P. Thompson, C. Dozier. 
11. Collage: An NLP Toolset to Support Boolean Retrieval; J. Cowie. 
12. Document Classification and Routing; L. Guthrie, et al. 
13. Murax: Finding and Organizing Answers from Text Search; J. Kupiec. 
14. The Use of Categories and Clusters for Organizing Retrieval Results;
    M. Hearst. 

Index
**********
III.A.5.
Fr: William Hersh <hersh@ohsu.edu>
Re: J. of the American Medical Informations Association: Special Issue

Call for Papers
Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association Special Issue
Electronic Publishing of Scholarly Communication
in the Biomedical Sciences

William Hersh, M.D. and Thomas Rindfleisch, M.S., Guest Editors

The main purpose of biomedical publishing is to convey the scientific basis
of health care among researchers, practitioners, and (increasingly)
consumers.  Published papers also serve as an archive of scientific
knowledge, documenting both successful and unsuccessful results.
Biomedical journals serve other roles as well, such as providing benchmarks
for academic promotion as well as serving as revenue sources for
professional societies and publishers.

While MEDLINE has become ubiquitous and an increasing number of journals
are available electronically, the fundamental model of publishing is
unchanged.  However, a number of challenges to that model are emerging.  In
some other scientific fields, electronic publishing is becoming more
pervasive.  And of course the World Wide Web allows anyone to become a
publisher, including in anonymous formats, threatening the traditional
model of peer review.

The Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association (JAMIA) will be
devoting a special issue to the topic of electronic publishing of scholarly
information in the biomedical sciences.  We seek a diverse set of original
research as well as perspective articles to highlight the issues and the
research they motivate.  The focus will be on how electronic publishing
affects the use of health and medical information by researchers,
clinicians, consumers, and publishers.

Below is a non-exhaustive list of possible article topics:
- Does the electronic format allow for innovative presentation?  Or will
readers simply print off electronic copies?  Are there opportunities for
new types of content, e.g., systematic reviews linked to original content,
threaded discussions and commentary?
- Can advances in data sharing, analysis, and publication from the genome
community be brought to the clinical arena?
- What will be the impact on the business/legal side, e.g., intellectual
property rights, economics of electronic publishing, advertising?
- How will the roles of classical "players" change, e.g., authors,
professional societies, publishers, readers/users, libraries, etc.?  Will
there be opportunities for new players, e.g., information integrators?  How
will the peer review process fare in this new world?  How will academic
credit and promotion be handled?
- How can we control the quality of health information on the World Wide
Web?  Should there be standards?  Who would set them?  Can we build
"quality" filters?
- Do electronically published resources have any impact on clinician
behavior or performance? How might they impact medical education and
CME/life-long learning?
- What will be the meaning of an archival record under new models of
publishing, e.g., certifying content, origin, etc.; durable over time and
technologies; able to capture increasingly dynamic kinds of publications
(database-derived, simulations, etc.)?
- What standards will be necessary for markup and interchange, for
searching and linking, for access and retrieval, etc.?
- Where are the new informatics and technology challenges for digital
publishing?

Those interested in submitting an article are strongly encouraged to submit
a letter of intent to William Hersh by email (hersh@ohsu.edu) by July 1,
1999.  Any questions can be directed to Dr. Hersh as well.

Initial papers will be due August 15, 1999.  Authors should follow the
standard JAMIA Instructions for Authors which are published in every
January issue.  Electronic submissions are preferred.  A cover letter or
email should indicate the article is a submission for the special issue on
electronic publishing.  It is suggested that a copy of the paper also be
submitted directly to Dr. Hersh electronically (hersh@ohsu.edu) or by hard
copy to:
William Hersh, M.D.
Associate Professor and Chief
Division of Medical Informatics & Outcomes Research
School of Medicine
Oregon Health Sciences University
BICC
3181 SW Sam Jackson Park Rd.
Portland, OR   97201

Papers will first be reviewed by the guest editors, followed by the usual
JAMIA peer review process.  We anticipate publication of the issue in the
spring of 2000.
**********
III.B.1.
Fr: Priscilla Rasmussen <rasmusse@cs.rutgers.edu>
Re: EACL'99 Conference/Tutorial

EACL '99
9th Conf. of the European Chapter of the 
Association for Computational Linguistics
Bergen, June 8-12, 1999

TAKING REGISTRATIONS NOW !
http://www.hit.uib.no/eacl99

The EACL '99 conference is this year's biggest academic event in
Computational Linguistics taking place in Europe.  Programme overview:

June 7     Pre-conference excursion to the fjords
June 8     Tutorials
June 9-11  Main sessions, student sessions, posters&demos
           Invited speakers Bruce Croft & Wolfgang Wahlster
           Exhibit & Job Fair
           Social programme (reception & banquet)
June 12    Workshops

Please consult the website for the full programme, venue and local
information, registration and hotel accommodation:
http://www.hit.uib.no/eacl99

Welcome to Bergen !

Henry Thompson & Alex Lascarides, Programme Chairs
Koenraad de Smedt, Chair of the Local Organization Committee

Sponsors:
LINGSOFT, University of Bergen (Humanities Faculty), Bergen University
Fund, Norwegian Ministry of Education, Research and Church affairs

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
EACL'99 TUTORIALS PROGRAMME

The EACL '99 conference is this year's biggest academic event in
Computational Linguistics taking place in Europe.  There will be two
tutorial sessions on June 8th, 1999, with two tutorials each.

TIME TABLE
8:30    Registration
9:30    Start Morning Session (1 and 3 below)
11:00   Break
11:30   Morning Session continued
13:00   Lunch
14.00   Start Afternoon Session (2 and 4 below)
15:30   Break
16.00   Afternoon Session continued
17:30   End of Sessions

1. Practical Text Mining
   Lecturer: Ronen Feldman
2. Natural Language Learning with the Maximum Entropy Framework
   Lecturer: Adwait Ratnaparkhi 
3. Building Natural Language Generation Systems
   Lecturers: Robert Dale, Ehud Reiter
4. Lexicography for Computationalists
   Lecturers: Adam Kilgarriff, Michael Rundell

The URL for the tutorials programme (with abstracts and further
information) is http://ilk.kub.nl/~walter/eacl/prog.html

The URL for the EACL'99 homepage is http://www.hit.uib.no/eacl99
**********
III.B.2.
Fr: Reinhard Rapp  <rapp@usun1.fask.uni-mainz.de>
Re: 34th Colloquium of Linguistics

34th COLLOQUIUM OF LINGUISTICS
34. LINGUISTISCHES KOLLOQUIUM
34e COLLOQUE LINGUISTIQUE
September 7-10, 1999
University of Mainz, Germany
SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS

NEW NEW NEW NEW NEW NEW NEW NEW NEW NEW
Additional Tutorial - Sydney M. Lamb:
"The Neurocognitive Basis of Language"

Travel Support for Scientists from
Eastern Europe

We cordially invite you to participate in the 34th Colloquium of
Linguistics which will take place at the Johannes Gutenberg- Universitaet
Mainz, Faculty of Applied Linguistics and Cultural Studies in Germersheim,
from September 7 to September 10, 1999. The motto of this year's conference
will be "Linguistics on the Way into the New Millennium". Continuing the
tradition of the colloquium, there will be no restrictions regarding the
choice of topics. The conference languages are English, German, and French.
Presentations should not exceed 30  minutes which includes 10 minutes of
discussion. The deadline for abstracts is May 31, 1999. A volume of
abstracts will be available at the conference. The proceedings with the
full papers will be published after the conference with Peter Lang-Verlag.

In a break with tradition, this year's conference program will be
supplemented by a number of tutorials. Each tutorial comprises three hours
and is intended to give a concise introduction to a specific field for
audiences with a different focus of research.

We are particularly happy to offer you a bus excursion to the old city of
Heidelberg with a guided tour through the castle on Thursday, September 9.
On the way, we will stop in Speyer, whose Cathedral (Kaiserdom) is part of
the UNESCO's world cultural heritage.

Please do not hesitate to bring this announcement to the attention of
interested colleagues. More information can be found on our website at
http://www.fask.uni-mainz.de/lk/

Prof. Dr. Dieter Huber                    Dr. Reinhard Rapp

IMPORTANT DATES
May 31, 1999    - Submission of abstracts 
                  (confirmation within two weeks)
                - Conference registration (reduced rate)
                - Registration for tutorials & excursion
                - Hotel reservation
Nov. 30, 1999   - Submission of full papers for the proceedings

PRELIMINARY PROGRAM
                  Morning        Afternoon       Evening

 Tue, Sept. 7     Tutorials      Tutorials       Germersheim
                                                 Guided Tour

 Wed, Sept. 8     Opening &      Papers          Reception 
                   Papers                        (Town Hall)
  
 Thu, Sept. 9     Papers         Excursion to Heidelberg
                                        and Speyer

 Fri, Sept. 10    Papers &              (Departure)
                  Conference End  

The presentations will be organized in parallel sections.

TUTORIALS
Time                  Tutorial                  Language

 9.00-12.30    Prof. Peter Hellwig: Natural      English
               Language Parsing, Part 1        
                                               
 9.00-12.30    Christian Otto: Sprachtech-       German
               nologie fuer das Internet       

 14.00-17.30   Prof. Peter Hellwig: Natural      English
               Language Parsing, Part 2        
                                               
 14.00-17.30   Prof. Uta Seewald-Heeg:           German
               Maschinelle Uebersetzung        
                                               
 14.00-17.30   Prof. Sydney M. Lamb: The Neu-    English
               rocognitive Basis of Language    


The Tutorials take place during the first full day of the conference (Sept.
7, 1999). Therefore, the official opening is on the second day. For each
tutorial, a description can be found at http://www.fask.uni-mainz.de/lk/

FOR COMPLETE REGISTRATION INFORMATION: http://www.fask.uni-mainz.de/lk/

CONFERENCE ADDRESS
Please send all correspondence to the following address:

34th Colloquium of Linguistics   http://www.fask.uni-mainz.de/lk/
c/o Dr. Reinhard Rapp            rapp@usun2.fask.uni-mainz.de
Universitaet Mainz, FASK         Phone:  (+49) 7274 / 508-457
D-76711 Germersheim              Fax:    (+49) 7274 / 508-429
Germany
**********
III.B.3.
Fr: Bernhard Schroeder <B.Schroeder@uni-bonn.de>
Re: GLDV ´99

C A L L   F O R   P A P E R S
"Multilingual Corpora: Encoding, Structuring, Analysis"

The 11th Annual Meeting of the Society for Computational Linguistics
and Language Technology (GLDV) will take place in July 8-10, 1999.

Main topic: "Multilingual Corpora: Encoding, Structuring, Analysis".

The meeting will be hosted by the Institute of Comparative Linguistics
of Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universitaet, Frankfurt am Main (Germany).

Papers can be offered for plenary sessions as well as sessions of the
Special Interest Groups (Arbeitskreise) of GLDV. Papers that are NOT
related to the main topic (e.g. Computational Linguistics, Language
Technology, Linguistic Data Processing, etc.).  are  ALSO  welcome!

Extended abstracts must be sent in by April 30 via mail to

titus@em.uni-frankfurt.de

   * Size: 2-3 pages (2000 words maximum);
   * Format: RTF, HTML, ASCII.

The program committee will decide about acceptance of the papers on  May
28, 1999.

For details go to:   

http://titus.uni-frankfurt.de/curric/gldv99e.htm
**********
III.B.4.
Fr: Priscilla Rasmussen <rasmusse@cs.rutgers.edu>
Re: ACL'99

ACL '99
37th Annual Meeting of the
Association for Computational Linguistics
University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, USA
June 20-26, 1999

TAKING REGISTRATIONS NOW !
http://www.mri.mq.edu.au/conf/acl99
 
The ACL '99 conference this year will offer a larger and more diversified
program than ever before.  Below is a Program Overview. Detailed
information and the entire registration brochure may be found at the
website above.  The registration brochure has also been sent to all ACL
members in hardcopy on 19th April, 1999.  If you would like an emailed
version of the VERY LONG brochure, please contact Priscilla Rasmussen at
acl@aclweb.org.  We also plan to have the online registration working
(hopefully) by the end of April.
 
19 June         Registration and Tutorial Reception
20 June         Tutorials--3 morning and 3 afternoon 
21-22 June            Workshops--4 1-day and 2 2-day workshops
23-26 June            Technical, Thematic, and Student Sessions
                        (23rd and 26th Technical, 24th and 25th
                        Thematic and Student sessions); Invited
                        Speakers: Marti Hearst, Sadaoki Furui,
                        and George Miller. ACL Business Meeting
                        and Student Member Lunch Meeting.
                        Social program (Opening Reception, 22nd
                        June, and Banquet, 23rd June)
         
Please consult the website for the full program, venue and local
information, registration and hotel accommodation:
 http://www.mri.mq.edu.au/conf/acl99

                        We hope to see you there!
 
                Robert Dale and Kenneth Church, Program Chairs 
                    Bonnie Dorr, Local Arrangements Chair
******************************************************************
IRLIST Digest is distributed from the University of California, California
Digital Library, 1111 Franklin Street, Oakland, CA. 94607-5200.

Send subscription requests and submissions to: nancy.gusack@ucop.edu

Editorial Staff:
 Nancy Gusack nancy.gusack@ucop.edu
 Cliff Lynch (emeritus) cliff@cni.org

The IRLIST Archives is set up for anonymous FTP. Using anonymous FTP via
the host hibiscus.ucop.edu, the files will be found in the directory
/data/ftp/pub/irl, stored in subdirectories by year (e.g.,
data/ftp/pub/irl/1993).

Search or browse archived IR-L Digest issues on the Web at:
http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/idom/irlist/

These files are not to be sold or used for commercial purposes. Contact
Nancy Gusack for more information on IRLIST. THE OPINIONS EXPRESSED IN
IRLIST DO NOT REPRESENT THOSE OF THE EDITORS OR THE UNIVERSITY OF
CALIFORNIA. AUTHORS ASSUME FULL RESPONSIBILITY FOR THEIR MATERIAL.