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IR-L Digest, Vol.XVI, No.20, Issue 456
IRLIST Digest ISSN 1064-6965
May 24, 1999
Volume XVI, Number 20
Issue 456
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I. QUERIES
1. Bug in Frakes' stemmer?
Response to I.1.,Issue 455
2. Ramifications of Embedded Multimedia in E-Journals
Response to I.2., Issue 455
III. NOTICES
A. Publications
1. New Book: Modern Information Retrieval
B. Meetings
1. IEEE Visualization 1999 - Hot Topics
2. EACL99 Workshop: Computer and Internet Supported
Education in Language and Speech Technology
3. TKE'99
4. 34th Colloquium of Linguistics
C. Miscellaneous
1. U. Glasgow: MSc AIS (high IR content) with Funding
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I. QUERIES
I.1.
Fr: David Eichmann <david-eichmann@uiowa.edu>
Re: Bug in Frakes' stemmer? I.1., Issue 455
-->Fr: Robert McArthur <mcarthur@dstc.edu.au>
-->Re: Bug in Frakes' stemmer?
-->
-->Frakes et al. have source code for the Porter stemmer written in C.
-->
-->I think there's a 'bug' in Frakes' stemmer, stem.c. I noticed that in the
-->function
--> EndWithCVC
-->the first two lines of code are
-->
--> if ( (length = strlen(word)) < 2 )
--> return( FALSE );
-->
-->Now, I think that it should instead be
--> if ( (length = strlen(word)) <= 2 )
-->
--> ^
--> |
--> '=' added --+
-->
-->If this is so, then I wonder how we can inform everyone since the code is
-->very well used in the IR community.
Robert,
My Java implementation of Porter's algorithm for endsWithCVC reads as
follows:
static private boolean endsWithCVC() {
if (word.length() < 3 )
return false;
else
return ("aeiouwxy".indexOf(word.charAt(word.length()-1)) == -1)
&& ("aeiouy".indexOf(word.charAt(word.length()-2)) > -1)
&& ("aeiou".indexOf(word.charAt(word.length()-3)) == -1 );
}
- Dave
-----------
David Eichmann
Asst. Professor of Information Science
School of Library and Information Science Phone: (319) 335-5715
3087 LIB fax: (319) 335-5374
University of Iowa Email: david-eichmann@uiowa.edu
Iowa City, IA 52242
http://mingo.info-science.uiowa.edu/eichmann/
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I.2.
Fr: Frank Norman <fnorman@nimr.mrc.ac.uk>
Re: Ramifications of Embedded Multimedia in E-Journals
Response to I.2., Issue 455
On Mon, 17 May 1999, Anthony Watkinson <anthony.watkinson@BTinternet.com>
wrote:
>
> It is very encouraging to learn that the opportunities represented by
> the extra functionalities available on the Internet are being taken
> up by some communities but there are still significant barriers to
> the use by authors of multimedia.
Yes, I do very much agree. I suspect that we will have to wait until
today's generation of (multimedia-literate) students become authors.
Perhaps we'll have to wait until they become the editors before multimedia
is really common in scholarly articles. The limits are set by the people
using the technology not the technology itself!
Frank Norman National Institute for Medical Research
Deputy Librarian The Ridgeway, Mill Hill
London NW7 1AA, UK
tel 0181 959 3666 ext 2380 email fnorman@nimr.mrc.ac.uk
fax 0181 913 8534 http://www.nimr.mrc.ac.uk/personal/Frank/
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III.A.1.
Fr: rbaeza@dcc.uchile.cl
Re: New Book: Modern Information Retrieval
The book "Modern Information Retrieval" by Ricardo Baeza-Yates and Berthier
Ribeiro-Neto has just been published by Addison-Wesley-Longman (May 1999),
including some chapters by leading researchers in the IR field.
The chapters of the book are:
Introduction
Modeling
Retrieval Evaluation
Query Languages (with Gonzalo Navarro)
Query Operations
Text and Multimedia Languages and Properties
Text Operations (with Nivio Ziviani)
Indexing and Searching (with Gonzalo Navarro)
Parallel and Distributed IR (by Eric Brown)
User Interfaces and Visualization (by Marti Hearst)
Multimedia IR: Models and Languages
(by Elisa Bertino, Barbara Catania and Elena Ferrari)
Multimedia IR: Indexing and Searching (by Christos Faloutsos)
Searching the Web
Libraries and Bibliographic Systems (by Edie Rasmussen)
Digital Libraries (by Edward Fox and Ohm Sornil)
Appendix: Porter's Algorithm
Glossary
References (more than 800)
Index
More information can be found in:
Brazil: http://www.dcc.ufmg.br/irbook
Chile: http://sunsite.dcc.uchile.cl/irbook
USA: http://www.sims.berkeley.edu/~hearst/irbook
Regards,
Dr. Ricardo Baeza-Yates email: rbaeza@dcc.uchile.cl
Depto. de Ciencias de la Computacion rbaeza@acm.org,
r.baeza@ieee.org
Universidad de Chile http://www.dcc.uchile.cl/~rbaeza/
Blanco Encalada 2120 FAX: +56-2-689-5531, 671-2799
Santiago 6511224, Chile phone: +56-2-689-2736, 678-4365
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III. NOTICES
III.B.1.
Fr: bartz@gris.uni-tuebingen.de
Re: IEEE Visualization 1999 - Hot Topics
C A L L F O R P A R T I C I P A T I O N
Late Breaking Hot Topics Papers
Demonstration Proposals
Creative Application Lab
Vis99 IEEE Visualization 1999
Celebrating Ten Years
Call for Participation
October 24 - October 29, 1999
San Francisco Airport Hyatt
San Francisco, California
http://www.erc.msstate.edu/vis99
http://davinci.informatik.uni-kl.de/vis99/
THE INSTITUTE OF ELECTRICAL & ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS, INC.
IEEE COMPUTER SOCIETY
Sponsored by the
IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Visualization and Graphics
In Cooperation with ACM/SIGGRAPH
For further information on the conference or symposia contact:
Steve Bryson, Conference Co-Chair, NASA Ames Research Center -
+1-650-604-4524 - Fax: +1-650-604-3957 - bryson@nas.nasa.gov
Theresa-Marie Rhyne, Conference Co-Chair,
Lockheed Martin/US EPA Scientific Visualization Center -
+1-919-541-0207 - Fax: +1-919-541-0056 - trhyne@vislab.epa.gov
See the conference web page for complete up-to-date information and
submission details at http://www.erc.msstate.edu/vis99
Conference Topics:
Visualization Algorithms: Volume Rendering, Flow Visualization,
Isosurfaces, Compression, Vector and Tensor Visualization,
Sonification, etc.
Visualization Techniques: Information Visualization, Databases,
Human Perception, Human Factors, Multi-Variate Visualization, Virtual
Reality, etc.
Visualization Applications: Archaeology, Astrophysics, Aerospace,
Automotive, Biomedicine, Chemistry, Education, Electronics, Environment,
Finance, Mathematics, Mechanics, Molecular Biology,
Physics, Virtual Reality, WWW, Java, VRML, HTML, AVS, Data Explorer, Iris
Explorer, Khoros, etc.
IMPORTANT DATES
June 15: Conference Late Breaking Hot Topics and Demonstration
proposals due
July 1: InfoVis '99 Late Breaking Hot Topics papers due
July 15: Final Conference papers, final InfoVis '99 papers,
and PVG '99 papers due to publisher
August 1: Conference Late Breaking Hot Topics selections
announced
August 21: Conference Late Breaking Hot Topics final papers due to
publisher
August 31: Conference Late Breaking Hot Topics video submissions
due
September 25: Close of Early Registration
October 24: Conference Commences
October 25: InfoVis '99 and PVG '99 Commence
Late Breaking Hot Topics Papers (due June 15, 1999)
Submissions will be accepted on Late Breaking Hot Topics that pertain to
all areas of Visualization. These submissions must be original, may show
work in progress, and may not exceed 2500 words or a maximum of 4 pages
including images. Images and/or NTSC VHS video to accompany the paper are
recommended; the video will be included in the conference video
proceedings. Accepted papers will be published and distributed at the
conference. Authors of accepted papers will have an opportunity to submit a
revised paper. Submissions will be done electronically. Submission details
can be found at the conference web site or by contracting Craig Wittenbrink
at craig_wittenbrink@hpl.hp.com.Videotapes should be sent to Craig M.
Wittenbrink, Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, 1501 Page Mill Rd, MS3U-4, Palo
Alto, CA 94304-1126, USA - +1-650.857.2329 - Fax: +1.650.852.3791
Demonstration Proposals (due June 15, 1999)
Visualization '99 is a unique opportunity to present your products or
research to visualization experts from a wide variety of fields. We invite
demonstrations of commercial hardware, software, integrated systems,
peripherals, literature, as well as academic research. We encourage
demonstrators to have technical representatives in attendance. For more
information on participating in Visualization '99 demonstrations, contact
Upul Obeysekare at obey@ctc.com
Creative Applications Lab (due July 15, 1999)
The Creative Applications Lab (CAL) is designed to let Visualization
'99 attendees run their software to show off their latest work. CAL will
have a variety of computers available. For details on participating in the
CAL, see the conference web site or contact Kelly Gaither at
+1-601-325-2067 - kelly@erc.msstate.edu
Dirk Bartz
University of Tuebingen
Phone: +49-7071/29-76361
Email: bartz@gris.uni-tuebingen.de
Fax: +49-7071/29-5466
WWW: http://www.gris.uni-tuebingen.de/~bartz
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III.B.2.
Fr: Mike Rosner <mros@cs.um.edu.mt>
Re: EACL99 Workshop: Computer and Internet Supported
Education in Language and Speech Technology
POST CONFERENCE WORKSHOP ON
COMPUTER AND INTERNET SUPPORTED EDUCATION
IN LANGUAGE AND SPEECH TECHNOLOGY
EACL-99, University of Bergen
12th June 1999
Sponsored by ELSNET
Invited Speaker Dr. Jo Calder
(University of Edinburgh)
CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
The field of language and speech technology is such that curricula have
always been closely related to computational theories and related tools.
Yet tools that are available to support curricula are often no more than
unrefined versions of programs developed in research laboratories that
authors have generously made available to the public. The aims of this
workshop are:
- To present examples of computer/internet supported tools that
are in current use or under development.
- To establish a registry of computational tools that are currently
being used to support Education in Language and Speech Technology
(ELST).
- To consider the possibility of adopting a common framework
for the development of tools and environments specifically designed
with educational goals in mind.
- To establish a special interest group (e.g. under the
auspices of the learned associations and/or ELSNET) within which the
educational issues in our field could be given the time and attention
they deserve.
Full Programme: http://www.cs.um.edu.mt/~mros/celst/prog.html
Registration (via EACL99 Home Page): http://www.hit.uib.no/eacl99/
Further information from coordinator:
Workshop Committee
Michael Rosner (Malta - Coordinator) mros@cs.um.edu.mt
Doug Arnold (Essex)
Gerrit Bloothooft (Utrecht)
Chris Bowerman (Sunderland)
Anders Erikkson (Umea)
Steven Krauwer (Utrecht)
Mark Huckvale (London)
Fabio Pianesi (Trento)
Koenraad de Smedt (Bergen)
Mark Tatham (Essex)
Maria Wolters (Bonn)
Felisa Verdejo (Madrid)
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III.B.3.
Fr: Peter Sandrini <Peter.Sandrini@uibk.ac.at>
Re: TKE'99
5th International Conference on
'Terminology and Knowledge Engineering TKE'99'
Innsbruck, Austria
August 23-27, 1999
Registration:
PCO-Tyrol Congress
Rennweg 3, A-6020 Innsbruck, Austria
Phone +43 512 575600
Fax +43 512 575607
email: tyrol.congress@tirol.com
The conference is subdivided into 8 sections with about 80 speakers. Main
topics are Philosophy of Science and Terminology Studies, Knowledge
Resource Management and all aspects of interdisciplinary research regarding
knowledge engineering, information & documentation, classification theory,
hyper- and multimedia applications, computerised terminography, specialized
translation and culture-related aspects of the multilingual information
society.
You will find the detailed congress programme at
http://gtw-org.uibk.ac.at/tke.html
Pre-conference workshops will be organized on Monday August 23 and Tuesday
August 24 with congress registration in the morning. The workshops offer an
application-oriented approach to key issues. The main conference with two
and three parallel sections begins on Wednesday August 25 and closes on
Friday August 27.
Venue of TKE'99:
University of Innsbruck
Innrain 52, A-6020 Innsbruck, Austria
http://www.uibk.ac.at
Organiser:
Association for Terminology and Knowledge Transfer (GTW)
Fischnalerstr. 4, A-6020 Innsbruck
http://gtw-org.uibk.ac.at
The exhibition in the lobby of the conference rooms provides an opportunity
for vendors or developers of software systems and publishing houses to show
their products to a specific world-wide audience. Please contact the
exhibition organiser (deadline is June
30, 199): TermNet
Simmeringer Hauptstr. 24
A-1110 Vienna, Austria
Phone +43 1 740 40 280
Fax +43 1 740 40 281
email termnet@termnet.at
Looking forward to an interesting and stimulating conference
Yours sincerely.
Peter Sandrini
(for the organising committee)
Peter Sandrini Institut fuer Uebersetzen und Dolmetschen
TEL +43 0512 507 4261 der Universitaet Innsbruck (Austria)
Fax " 2966 Fischnalerstr. 4, A-6020 Innsbruck
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III.B.4.
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
LAST CALL FOR ABSTRACTS
Deadline: May 31, 1999
Conference Location: Germersheim, Germany
Conference Topics: All Fields of Linguistics
Conference Languages: English, German, French
Submission of Abstracts: May 31, 1999
Submission of Papers: November 30, 1999
Publisher of Proceedings: Peter Lang-Verlag, Frankfurt
Bus Excursion: Heidelberg and Speyer
Tutorials
Peter Hellwig: Natural Language Parsing
Sydney M. Lamb: The Neurocognitive Basis of Language
Christian Otto: Sprachtechnologie fuer das Internet
Uta Seewald-Heeg: Maschinelle Uebersetzung
The complete call for papers can be found at:
http://www.fask.uni-mainz.de/lk/
Please send requests and correspondence to the following address:
34th Colloquium of Linguistics
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
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III.B.5.
Fr: J. Stephen Downie <jdownie@uiuc.edu>
Re: Music Information Retrieval Workshop
"The Exploratory Workshop on Music Information Retrieval"
An ACM SIGIR'99 Workshop
19 August 1999
University of California, Berkeley
Call for Participation
Call for Participation Deadline:
1 July 1999 for presentation proposals; 15 July 1999 for materials
Contact Information:
J. Stephen Downie, <jdownie@uiuc.edu>
Details Concerning Background Information and Types of Participation:
http://www.lis.uiuc.edu/~jdownie/cfp99.html
Brief Description:
We intend that this workshop will bring together Music Information
Retrieval (MIR) researchers, Information Retrieval (IR) researchers;
computer scientists; musicologists; music bibiliographers; music, digital,
and general librarians; and, music providers and industry members; in a
forum exlusively devoted to issues pertaining to Music IR. We present this
workshop in order achieve the following:
1.Foster the development of methods and technologies for content-based
Music Information Retrieval (MIR) systems by:
a. having those on the user side (i.e, musicologists, librarians,
etc) inform those on the research side (i.e., IR researchers,
computer scientists, etc.)about real-world problems, needs, and
opportunities
b. having those on the research side inform those on the user side
about the strengths and weaknesses of the various approaches to
content-based MIR (both extant and under research & development)
c. having those with a specific research interest in MIR
demonstrate to other IR researchers the interesting, unique, and
non-trivial research issues involved in the development of MIR
systems
2.Foster a framework for future fruitful research into MIR by:
a. having participants explore consensus opinion on the
establishment of research priorities, inter-disciplinary
collaborations, evaluation standards, test collections, resource
sharing, funding opportunities, communication channels, etc.
b. having participants begin work on the establishment of a formal
organization of those interested in MIR. Such an organization will
have as its mandate those items mentioned above.
Organizers:
--J. Stephen Downie (Workshop Chair), Information Retrieval Group,
Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois
at Urbana-Champaign.
--Craig Nevill-Manning, Computer Science, Rutgers University
--David Huron, School of Music, Ohio State University
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III.C.1.
Fr: Alison Mitchell <ali@dcs.gla.ac.uk> (by way of Mark Dunlop)
Re: U. Glasgow: MSc AIS (high IR content) with Funding
M.Sc. Advanced Information Systems
ADVANCED STUDY WITH FUNDING AVAILABLE
The M.Sc. in Advanced Information Systems is a challenging and powerful
postgraduate course that provides up-to-the-minute high-level expertise in
the range of complex computing systems at the heart of modern media and
enterprise.
Extremely marketable skills are developed through advanced postgraduate
study achieving a flexibility in thinking and technical expertise which is
welcomed in a rapidly changing industry as well as providing preparation
for future postgraduate study. AIS Graduates are very well qualified for
research or development work in industry, commerce, or the public sector.
The course is taught in a top-rated research environment by international
experts in their fields and overseen by an industrial board to ensure
sustained industrial relevance.
We are looking for recent Computing Science graduates with good degrees who
want to build on their first degree. For such students, EPSRC scholarships
are available. Progression to PhD is possible.
The course is organised into an initial 5 month modular taught component
followed by a 6 month project. Modules on offer for 1999-2000 academic year
will be:
* Technical foundations for creative media
* Information retrieval
* Building interactive information systems
* Persistent and distributed systems
Richard Cooper, Course Director, will answer questions regarding the
course. email: rich@dcs.gla.ac.uk
Background information is available at
http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/courses/MScPhD_AIS/.
Application packs are available by e-mailing ais@dcs.gla.ac.uk.
Here is a profile from one of our current students:
My first degree was a mixture of psychology and computing subjects.
My postgraduate study is a Master of Science degree in Advanced Information
Systems. The course is partly taught and partly research. The first six
months consists of lectures in Information Retrieval, Interactive Systems,
Persistent and Distributed Systems and Technical Foundations of Creative
Media.
This is followed by a project which can be chosen from one or more of these
areas. I have chosen to do my project in the area of Information Retrieval
and am looking at methods of improving the performance of Internet search
engines.
The first part of the course involved a lot of time spent in lectures, then
tracking down papers in the library and preparing presentations to be
delivered to the rest of the class. Now, most of my time is spent in the
AIS lab, where we have access to a mixture of Windows NT,Macintosh and Unix
machines.
I chose this course because of the reputation of the department for the
quality of its research (it is one of only 6 in the UK to achieve the
prestigious 5* rating for research of international standing). The Masters
course gave me the opportunity to get a wide view of the research being
done at Glasgow before I had to commit myself to doing research in a
specific area.
Choosing further study rather than going out to work was a difficult
decision. However, I feel the extra year will increase my long-term
prospects and studying the Masters has helped me get interviews with
several top companies. The course has a powerful supporting Industrial Board.
The Masters has also given me the chance to see if I would prefer an
academic career. IT has taught me a lot about what is involved and has put
me in a good position to continue to do further research. Several of the
final projects on offer give you the opportunity to produce papers of
sufficient merit to be published in academic journals.
The biggest change from undergraduate study is the fact that the course is
assessed solely on the basis of your project. You choose the project from a
wide range suggested by members of the department or you can suggest your
own. This means you can finally follow your own interests rather than
having to worry about what someone else wants you to learn for an exam.
I'd recommend the course to anyone who is interested in working in any of
the areas covered by the course.
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