IR-L Digest, Vol.XVI, No.17, Issue 453

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

IRLIST Digest                                       ISSN 1064-6965
May 3, 1999
Volume XVI, Number 17
Issue 453

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 II. JOBS
        1. U. Glasgow: CS: IR Lectureship
III. NOTICES
     A. Publications
        1. Efficiency Special Issue of Information Retrieval Journal
        2. Computers and the Humanities, Vol.33, Nos. 1-2, 1999
     B. Meetings
        1. GECCO-99 Call for Late-breaking Papers
        2. Natural Language Interfaces
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II. JOBS
II.1.
Fr: Keith van Rijsbergen <keith@dcs.gla.ac.uk>
Re: U. Glasgow: CS: IR Lectureship

UNIVERSITY of GLASGOW
DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTING SCIENCE
LECTURESHIP in INFORMATION RETRIEVAL
LECTURER A/B - £16,655-£29,048 PER ANNUM
REF 177/99AA

To strengthen an existing major research group within the Department.

Visit http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/.

Expected to contribute to the Department's undergraduate and postgraduate
teaching, and make a significant contribution to research.  In exceptional
circumstances an appointment may be made at a higher level than advertised.
Informal enquiries to Professor Keith van Rijsbergen, keith@dcs.gla.ac.uk.

For an application pack visit http://www.gla.ac.uk/ or write quoting Ref:
177/99AA to the Recruitment Section, Personnel Services, University of
Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8QQ.  Closing date: 21 May 1999.

The Post
The University invites applications for a lectureship in Information
Retrieval within the Department of Computing Science.  The Department has
demonstrated the highest standards in both teaching and research.  We are
actively developing new courses, at both undergraduate and postgraduate
levels, and have a thriving research community.  Applicants must possess
the enthusiasm and ability to fit into a dynamic academic environment,
together with appropriate experience in teaching and research.

The Department of Computing Science is seeking a lecturer in Information
Retrieval to join a strong existing research group led by Professor Keith
van Rijsbergen.  The successful applicant will be expected to contribute to
the Department's teaching at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels, in
addition to making a significant contribution to research.  In exceptional
circumstances an appointment may be made at a higher level than advertised.

Applicants should preferably have a strong research interest in one of the
following areas: theoretical development of probabilistic and logic-based
models for IR; design of multimedia IR systems based on Computer Vision and
Image Processing technology; evaluation and usability of IR systems in the
context of large scale experimentation.

The ideal candidate will have the following attributes:
* a PhD in Computing Science, preferably in one of the research areas
  identified above;
* the ability to teach some computing science topics outwith their
  specialist area;
* willing to undertake an active role in research student supervision
  within the IR group;
* keen to develop their own research by seeking external research
  funding from the Research Councils, the EU or industry.

For background about the Department's activities see
http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/.
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III. NOTICES
III.A.1.
Fr: Justin Zobel <jz@mds.rmit.edu.au>
Re: Efficiency Special Issue of Information Retrieval Journal

Call For Papers
"Compression and Efficiency in Information Retrieval"
A Special Issue of the
Kluwer International Journal of Information Retrieval

Guest editor: Justin Zobel
Department of Computer Science, RMIT University
GPO Box 2476V, Melbourne, Victoria 3001, Australia
Phone: +61 3 9925 4115, fax: +61 3 9925 4098
email: jz@cs.rmit.edu.au, web: www.cs.rmit.edu.au/~jz

In recent years there has been a range of proposals for improving the
efficiency of information retrieval search engines.  Many of these are
based on reducing costs through use of novel compression techniques, while
modelling techniques developed for compression have led to new indexing and
search strategies.  Other developments have been based on heuristics that
cut resource requirements such as disk traffic and on adaptations of
techniques developed for conventional databases.  At the same time new
demands are being imposed on search techniques by the rapid growth in the
use of search engines, in particular via the web and in corporate
intranets, and in the volume of data to be searched.

New developments in the field of efficient information retrieval continue
to appear.  This special issue will focus on recent developments in
efficient and novel algorithms for information overview of current work in
this area.

You are invited to submit a paper on any topic of relevance to this special
issue.  Contributions can be either presentations of retrieval, including
compression techniques, and will provide an new research or comparative
reviews of recent developments, and experimental performance studies are
particularly encouraged. Submissions can be of any length -- brief papers
succinctly describing new contributions are as welcome as long articles.
 
The closing date for submissions is June 30.  All submissions will be fully
reviewed and it is intended that the special issue appear within twelve
months.  Submission can be either electronic (as postscript suitable for
printing on A4 or US letter paper), or as 5 hardcopies by mail.  All
submissions should be send to me at the address above.

More information about the Kluwer Journal of Information Retrieval can be
found at http://www.wkap.nl/journals/ir.
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III.A.2.
Fr: Nancy M. Ide <ide@cs.vassar.edu>
Re: Computers and the Humanities, Vol.33, Nos. 1-2, 1999

COMPUTERS AND THE HUMANITIES
Nancy Ide and Dan Greenstein, Editors-in-Chief
Volume 33 Nos. 1-2 1999
SPECIAL DOUBLE ISSUE
TENTH ANNIVERSARY OF THE TEXT ENCODING INITIATIVE

Table of Contents

ELLI MYLONAS, ALLEN RENEAR                     
The Text Encoding Initiative at 10: Not Just an Interchange
Format Anymore, But a New Research Community              
pp. 1-9

STEVEN DEROSE
XML and the TEI
pp. 11-30

LAURENT ROMARY, PATRICE BONHOMME, FLORENCE BRUNESEAUX,
JEAN-MARIE PIERREL        
Silfide: A System for Open Access and Distributed Delivery of TEI Encoded
Documents
pp. 31-38

LOU BURNARD, MICHAEL POPHAM    
Putting Our Headers together: A Report on the TEI Header
Meeting 12 September 1997  
pp. 39-47

DAVID J. BIRNBAUM, MAVIS COURNANE, PETER FLYNN
Using the TEI Writing System Declaration (WSD)
pp. 49-57

CHRISTOPHER WELTY, NANCY IDE
Using the Right Tools: Enhancing Retrieval from Marked-up
Documents
pp. 59-84

GARY F. SIMONS
Using Architectural Forms to Map TEI Data into an
Object-Oriented Database
pp. 85-101

DAVID SMITH
Textual Variation and Version Control in the TEI
pp. 103-112

SYD BAUMAN, TERRY CATAPANO
TEI and the Encoding of the Physical Structure of Books
pp. 113-127

PHILIP RESNIK, MARI BROMAN OLSEN, MONA DIAB                
The Bible as a Parallel Corpus: Annotating the Book of
2000 Tongues
pp. 129-153

DOMINIQUE ESTIVAL, NICK NICHOLAS
TEI Encoding and Syntactic Tagging of an Old French Text
pp. 155-174

JANET ERICKSON, MATTHEW STOEFFLER
An SGML/HTML Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Library
pp. 175-184

D. WALKER
Taking Snapshots of the Web with a TEI Camera
pp. 185-192

A. MORRISON
Delivering Electronic Texts Over the Web: The Current and
Planned Practices of the Oxford Text Archive               
pp. 193-198

JON BOSAK
XML Ubiquity and the Scholarly Community
pp. 199-206

COMPUTERS AND THE HUMANITIES
The Official Journal of The Association for Computers and the 
Humanities

Editors-in-Chief:
Nancy Ide, Dept. of Computer Science, Vassar College, USA
Daniel Greenstein, Arts and Humanities Data Services, King's College,
                   UK
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III.B.1.
Fr: Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference
    <gecco@illigal.ge.uiuc.edu>
Re: GECCO-99 Call for Late-breaking Papers

CALL FOR LATE-BREAKING PAPERS
for the
1999 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference
GECCO-99
July 13 - 17 (Tuesday - Saturday), 1999
Omni Rosen Hotel, Orlando, Florida USA
http://www-illligal.ge.uiuc.edu/gecco/
Deadline: Thursday, June 10, 1999

The Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO-99) is seeking
papers describing late-breaking developments in the field of genetic and
evolutionary computation for inclusion in a special paperbound book to be
distributed to all attendees of the GECCO-99 conference to be held on July
13 - 17 (Tuesday - Saturday), 1999 at the Omni Rosen Hotel, Orlando,
Florida.  This special book is distinct from the conference proceedings.
The purpose of late-breaking papers is to provide conference attendees with
information about research that was initiated, enhanced, improved, or
completed after the original paper submission deadline in January 1999.

Late-breaking papers will be presented during a poster session held during
the GECCO-99 conference.  The poster session is tentatively scheduled for
Thursday evening, July 15, 199.

Late-breaking papers will be briefly examined for relevance and minimum
standards of acceptability, but will not be peer reviewed in detail.
Authors will individually retain copyright (and all other rights) to their
late-breaking papers and should feel free to submit them (either before or
after the above deadline) for publication by other conferences or journals.

Late-breaking papers must be submitted in camera-ready form in accordance
with the final camera-ready GECCO-99 format specifications that can be
found at the GECCO-99 WWW site at

http://www-illigal.ge.uiuc.edu/gecco/

Late-breaking papers should be no more than 9 pages in length. Please send
TWO camera-ready copies (printed with very high quality by laser printer)
and the SIGNED "permission to publish" form (below) to

GECCO-99 Late-Breaking Papers
American Association for Artificial Intelligence
445 Burgess Drive
Menlo Park, CA 94025.USA
PHONE: 415-328-3123
E-MAIL: gecco@aaai.org

No FAX or E-mail submissions can be accepted.
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III.B.2.
Fr: Bernhard Schroeder <B.Schroeder@uni-bonn.de>
Re: Natural Language Interfaces

SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS
NATURAL LANGUAGE INTERFACES
DIALOGUE AND PARTNER MODELING
Workshop at the Fachtagung fuer Kuenstliche Intelligenz, Bonn
13.9.-14.9.1999
URL: http://www.ikp.uni-bonn.de/NDS99

Overview
* The Theme of the Workshop
* Abstract Submission
* Important Dates
* Committee

Theme of the Workshop
Natural language interfaces allow users to interact verbally with dialogue
systems. Users can ask a question via keyboard or microphone and receive an
answer in spoken or in written form. Such interfaces have been around for a
while; the challenge right now is to make them as robust and efficient as
possible without limiting syntax and vocabulary more than necessary.

How can new approaches to dialogue and partner modelling help to reach this
goal? To what extent can results from under specification theory, dynamic
semantics, rhetorical structure theory or centering theory be useful? We
are especially interested in approaches which have already been integrated
into existing system and whose implementation has been evaluated.

The workshop is intended as an opportunity for a lively dialogue between
linguists and computer scientists, between theory and practice. For this
reason,
*presentations are limited to 15 minutes, followed by 15 minutes discussion
*a final discussion of about one and a half hours is planned.

Abstract Submission
Participants who would like to give a talk are asked to submit an extended
abstract of max. 2 pages per e-mail to the organizers Bernhard Schroeder
(b.schroeder@uni-bonn.de) und Maria Wolters (wolters@ikp.uni bonn.de) in
.ps or .pdf format. Each received abstract is acknowledged.

The languages of the workshop are English and German. Authors are notified
of acceptance on 31 May. From mid June on, all extended abstracts will be
accessible from this web page. We will also create a mailing list for
participants and other interested researchers. We plan to publish the
proceedings of this workshop as a book.

Schedule
15.5.1999:     deadline for receipt of extended abstracts
31.5.1999:     notification of acceptance
14.6.1999:     deadline for revised extended abstracts
13./14.9.1999: Workshop in Bonn

Committees
Organizing Committee
Bernhard Schroeder, Maria Wolters
     Institut fuer Kommunikationsforschung und Phonetik
     Universitaet Bonn
     Poppelsdorfer Allee 47
     D-53115 Bonn
     Tel.: +49 228 735621 (Schroeder); +49 228 733081 (Wolters)
     Fax: +49 228 735639
     e-mail: b.schroeder@uni-bonn.de; wolters@ikp.uni-bonn.de

Programme Committee
* Elisabeth Andre, Saarbruecken
* Harry Bunt, Tilburg
* Paul Dekker, Amsterdam
* Roland Hausser, Erlangen
* Janet Hitzeman, Edinburgh
* Winfried Lenders, Bonn
* Paul McKevitt, Aalborg
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