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IR-L Digest, Vol.XVI, No.43, Issue 479
IRLIST Digest ISSN 1064-6965
November 15, 1999
Volume XVI, Number 43
Issue 479
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II. JOBS
1. Rutgers U.: MSIS: Tenure Track Positions
III. NOTICES
A. Publications
1. New Book: NLP Using Very Large Corpora
2. Medical Data Minding and Knowledge Discovery:
Last Call for Chapters
3. ContentsDirect: Information Processing & Management,
00244, 35:6: ToC
B. Meetings
1. IASSIST 2000: CFPapers
2. EUROGRAPHICS/IEEE TCVG Symposium on Visualization:
Final CFPapers
3. CIR-2000: 2nd CFPapers
4. LREC 2000: CFPapers
5. SLIS Talk: Advanced Indexing and Searching for Free Text
6. Graphics Interface 2000: CFPapers Deadline November 19
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II. JOBS
II.1.
Fr: Avigdor Gal <avigal@rci.rutgers.edu>
Re: Rutgers U.: MSIS: Tenure Track Positions
The Department of MSIS (Management Science and Information Systems) has tenure
track openings in information technology, broadly defined, at the junior and
senior levels for the Fall 2000 semester. The MSIS Department has research
strength in operations management, applied and theoretical operations
research,
statistics, and information technology. Candidates must have a strong
quantitative educational background, be active researchers, and have either a
proven record of scholarly excellence or a demonstrable potential for such
excellence. Candidates must have interest in information technology and a
demonstrated skill in at least one of its areas. Special consideration will be
given to candidates with skills in data mining, electronic commerce, and
telecommunications and their business applications. Affiliation with the
Rutgers Center for Operations Research (RUTCOR) is possible. Candidates are
expected to teach undergraduate, MBA, and Ph.D. courses in management
information systems, electronic commerce, operations management,
statistics, or
related topics. Applications received by January 31, 2000 are guaranteed full
consideration.
Applicants should send a resume and the names of at least four references to
Carol Gibson, MSIS Department
Secretary, 94 Rockafeller Road, Piscataway, NJ 08854; FAX: (732) 445-6329;
e-mail: gibson@rbs.rutgers.edu.
For more information about the Faculty of Management, visit the Web site at
http://business.rutgers.edu. For more information about the department, visit
the Web site at http://business.rutgers.edu/~msis. Rutgers is an affirmative
action equal opportunity employer.
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III. NOTICES
III.A.1.
Fr: Jean Veronis <Jean.Veronis@newsup.univ-mrs.fr>
Re: New Book: NLP Using Very Large Corpora
KLUWER ACADEMIC PUBLISHERS
TEXT, SPEECH AND LANGUAGE TECHNOLOGY
Volume 11
Series editors: Nancy Ide and Jean Véronis
Natural Language Processing Using Very Large Corpora
edited by
Susan Armstrong
Kenneth Ward Church
Pierre Isabelle
Sandra Manzi
Evelyne Tzoukermann
David Yarowsky
The 1990s have been an exciting time for researchers working with large
collections of text. Text is available like never before. It was not all that
long ago that researchers referred to the Brown Corpus as a `large' corpus.
The
Brown Corpus, a `mere' million words collected at Brown University in the
1960s, is about the same size as a dozen novels, the complete works of William
Shakespeare, the Bible, a collegiate dictionary or a week of a newswire
service. Today, one can easily surf the web and download millions of words in
no time at all.
What can we do with all this data? It is better to do something simple than
nothing at all. Researchers in large corpora are using basically brute force
methods to make progress on some of the hardest problems in natural language
processing, including part-of-speech tagging, word sense disambiguation,
parsing, machine translation, information retrieval, and discourse analysis.
They are overcoming the so-called knowledge-acquisition bottleneck by
processing vast quantities of data, more text than anyone could possibly read
in a lifetime, and estimating all sorts of `central and typical' facts that
any
speaker of the language would be expected to know (e.g., word frequencies,
word
associations and typical predicate-argument relations).
Much of this work has been reported at a series of annual meetings, known as
the Workshop on Very Large Corpora (WVLC) and related meetings sponsored by
ACL/SIGDAT (Association for Computational Linguistics' special interest group
on data). Subsequent meetings have been held in Asia (1994, 1997), America
(1995, 1996, 1997) and Europe (1995, 1996). The papers in this book represent
much of the best of the first three years of this workshop/conference as
selected by a competitive review process.
Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht
Hardbound
ISBN 0-7923-6055-9
November 1999
324 pp.
NLG 240.00 / USD 128.00 / GBP 79.00
Contents
Introduction.
Implementation and Evaluation of a German HMM for POS Disambiguation;
H. Feldweg.
Improvements in Part-of-Speech Tagging with an Application To German;
H. Schmid.
Unsupervised Learning of Disambiguation Rules for Part-of-Speech Tagging;
E. Brill, M. Pop.
Tagging French without Lexical Probabilities - Combining Linguistic
Knowledge and Statistical Learning;
E. Tzoukermann, et al.
Example-Based Sense Tagging of Running Chinese Text;
X. Tong, et al.
Disambiguating Noun Groupings with Respect to WordNet Senses;
P. Resnik.
A Comparison of Corpus-based Techniques for Restoring Accents in Spanish and
French Text;
D. Yarowsky.
Beyond Word N-Grams;
F. Pereira, et al.
Statistical Augmentation of a Chinese Machine-Readable Dictionary;
P. Fung, D. Wu.
Text Chunking Using Transformation-based Learning;
L. Ramshaw, M.P. Marcus.
Prepositional Phrase Attachment through a Backed-off Model;
M. Collins, J. Brooks.
On the Unsupervised Induction of Phrase-Structure Grammars;
C. de Marcken.
Robust Bilingual Word Alignment for Machine Aided Translation;
I. Dagan, et al.
Iterative Alignment of Syntactic Structures for a Bilingual Corpus;
R. Grishman.
Trainable Coarse Bilingual Grammars for Parallel Text Bracketing;
D. Wu.
Comparative Discourse Analysis of Parallel Texts;
P. van der Eijk.
Comparing the Retrieval Performance of English and Japanese Text Databases;
H. Fujii, W.B. Croft.
Inverse Document Frequency (IDF): A Measure of Deviations from Poisson;
K. Church, W. Gale.
List of Authors.
Subject Index.
PREVIOUS VOLUMES
Volume 1: Recent Advances in Parsing Technology
Harry Bunt, Masaru Tomita (Eds.)
Hardbound, ISBN 0-7923-4152-X, 1996
Volume 2: Corpus-Based Methods in Language and Speech Processing
Steve Young, Gerrit Bloothooft (Eds.)
Hardbound, ISBN 0-7923-4463-4, 1997
Volume 3: An introduction to text-to-speech synthesis
Thierry Dutoit
Hardbound, ISBN 0-7923-4498-7, 1997
Volume 4: Exploring textual data
Ludovic Lebart, André Salem and Lisette Berry
Hardbound, ISBN 0-7923-4840-0, December 1997
Volume 5: Time Map Phonology:
Finite State Models and Event Logics in Speech
Recognition
Julie Carson-Berndsen
Hardbound, ISBN 0-7923-4883-4, 1997
Volume 6: Predicative Forms in Natural Language and in
Lexical Knowledge Bases
Patrick Saint-Dizier (Ed.)
Hardbound, ISBN 0-7923-5499-0, December 1998
Volume 7: Natural Language Information Retrieval
Tomek Strzalkowski (Ed.)
Hardbound, ISBN 0-7923-5685-3, April 1999
Volume 8: Techniques in Speech Acoustics
Jonathan Harrington, Steve Cassidy
Hardbound, ISBN 0-7923-5731-0, July 1999
Volume 9: Syntactic Wordclass Tagging
Hans van Halteren (Ed.)
Hardbound, ISBN 0-7923-5896-1, August 1999
Check the series Web page for order information:
http://www.wkap.nl/series.htm/TLTB
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III.A.2.
Fr: Prof. Krzysztof Cios <kcios@eng.utoledo.edu>
Re: Medical Data Minding and Knowledge Discovery:
Last Call for Chapters
Two more chapters can be included in the being closed book on MEDICAL DATA
MINING AND KNOWLEDGE DISCOVERY to be published by Springer in early 2000.
If you happen to have a completed work on applications of data mining methods
for knowledge discovery in medicine you might be interested in submitting them
by the end of November 1999 for quick inclusion in the book.
The chapter must be written very clearly to appeal to a diverse audience of
medical doctors, computer scientists, and engineers. Of interest are
applications of any data mining methods to any type of medical data as long as
the size of the used database is substantial.
Krzysztof J. Cios
Professor and Interim Chair
Department of Bioengineering
University of Toledo
Toledo, OH 43606-3390, U.S.A.
phone: (419)530-8030
fax: (419)530-8076
email: kcios@eng.utoledo.edu
web: http://isl1.ni.utoledo.edu/cios/
http://www.wkap.nl/book.htm/0-7923-8252-8
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III.A.3.
Fr: cdmailer@elsevier.co.uk
Re: ContentsDirect: Information Processing & Management, 00244, 35:6
ContentsDirect from Elsevier Science
URL: http://www.elsevier.nl/locate/jnlnr/00244
Journal: Information Processing and Management
ISSN : 0306-4573
Volume : 35
Issue : 6
Date : 15-Nov-1999
Table of Contents
pp 723-725
Editorial: Information seeking in context (ISIC)
CC Kuhlthau, P Vakkari
pp 727-750
On studying information seeking methodologically: the implications of
connecting metatheory to method
B Dervin
pp 751-763
The production of "context" in information seeking research: a
metatheoretical view
S Talja, H Keso, T Pietilainen
pp 765-782
The role of the internet in information seeking. Putting the
networked services in context
R Savolainen
pp 783-799
Finding without seeking: the information encounter in the context of
reading for pleasure
CS Ross
pp 801-817
Waiting for chiropody: contextual results from an ethnographic study
of the information behaviour among attendees at community clinics
KE Pettigrew
pp 819-837
Task complexity, problem structure and information actions.
Integrating studies on information seeking and retrieval
P Vakkari
pp 839-849
Exploring models of information behaviour: the "uncertainty" project
T Wilson
pp 851-870
Back to our beginnings: information utilization, Bertram Brookes and
the fundamental equation of information science
RJ Todd
pp 871-890
Toward a reconceptualization of information seeking research: focus
on the exchange of meaning
K Yoon, MS Nilan
pp 899-899
Author Index
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No responsibility is assumed by the publisher for any injury and/or damage to
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Users should take note that information contained in ContentsDirect is derived
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revised or modified in future.
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III.B.1.
Fr: Joan K Lippincott <joan@cni.org>
Re: IASSIST 2000: CFPapers
IASSIST 2000
Call for Papers
Data in the Digital Library:
social, spatial, and government data services
The International Association for Social Science Information Services and
Technology (IASSIST) invites submissions for paper presentations, panel
discussions, poster/demonstration sessions, and workshops for its 26th annual
conference to be held in the Chicago metropolitan area at Northwestern
University, Evanston, Illinois on June 7-10, 2000.
IASSIST conferences bring together data professionals, data producers, and
data
analysts from around the world who are engaged in the creation, acquisition,
processing, maintenance, distribution, preservation, and use of numeric social
science data for research and instruction.
CONFERENCE THEMES
Over the last four decades, data archives and data libraries have managed,
preserved, and provided access to "digital collections" of numeric data. We
are
at a historic crossroad in the development of standards, technological
capability, and innovation in data delivery. This year's theme emphasizes this
rich past and looks at innovation in data services operations and current
digital library and archive initiatives that will shape access and services in
the 21st century. The conference is an opportunity to explore service models
for data, government information, and mapping.
Invited plenary speakers include Kenneth Prewitt, director, U.S. Bureau of the
Census; William Kruskal, emeritus professor of statistics, University of
Chicago; and a plenary panel organized by Diane Garner, Librarian for the
Social Sciences, Harvard University.
Proposals for papers and poster/demonstration sessions in the following areas
are particularly welcome:
Innovative Services and the Effective Use of Technology
Administering and providing data services in an academic library
Innovations in data delivery and access methods
Implications of Web-based data distribution and access models
Integrating GIS and spatial data in the digital library
Bringing numeric and spatial data into the classroom
Expanding and preserving multi-media resources
Developing support services for qualitative analysis
Promoting statistical literacy
Data warehousing
Promoting Preservation and Standards
Preserving our (numeric) digital heritage
Archival challenges of the digital government
Promoting metadata and documentation standards for data
Exploring XML, RDF, GILS, FGDC, and Dublin Core applications for data
Data quality and authentication
PROPOSALS DUE BY DECEMBER 24, 1999
The deadline for paper and poster/demonstration proposals is December 24,
1999.
The Conference Program Committee will send notifications of the acceptance of
proposals by February 1, 2000. Please send submissions, including proposed
title and abstract, to:ia2000@src.uchicago.edu
INTERNATIONAL OUTREACH
The IASSIST International Outreach Action Group provides support for data
professionals from developing economies to attend the annual IASSIST
conference. Full application information is available from the conference web
site.
CONFERENCE DETAILS
Three days of plenaries, concurrent sessions, poster/demonstration sessions,
and social events on June 7-9, 2000 will be followed by a full day of
workshops
on Saturday, June 10, 2000. The conference will be held at Northwestern
University in Evanston. Located north of Chicago along the shores of Lake
Michigan, Northwestern is one of the Midwest's most beautiful campuses.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Visit the IASSIST website at http://datalib.library.ualberta.ca/iassist/
For the most current information check the IASSIST 2000 conference
website at: http://www.src.uchicago.edu/DATALIB/ia2000 or contact:
Fay Booker, Data Librarian
Social Science Research Computing, University of Chicago
booke@src.uchicago.edu
(773) 834-0150/FAX (773) 702-2101
Diane Geraci, Data Services Librarian
University Libraries, Binghamton University
dgeraci@binghamton.edu
(607) 777-2181/FAX (607) 777-4848
Ann Janda, Data Consultant
University Library, Northwestern University
a-janda@nwu.edu
(847) 491-4090/FAX (847)491-8306
IMPORTANT DATES
December 24, 1999 Deadline for conference proposals
February 1, 2000 Notification of proposal acceptance
May 8, 2000 Registration deadline
June 7-10, 2000 IASSIST 2000
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III.B.2.
Fr: Robert van Liere <Robert.van.Liere@cwi.nl>
Re: EUROGRAPHICS/IEEE TCVG Symposium on Visualization: Final CFPapers
CALL FOR PAPERS
Joint EUROGRAPHICS/IEEE TCVG Symposium on Visualization
May 29-31, 2000
Amsterdam, the Netherlands
http://www.cwi.nl/vissym00
Aims and Scope
Following nine Eurographics workshops on Visualization in Scientific Computing
and the Eurographics - IEEE TCVG Symposium on Visualization in 1999, we invite
you to participate in the second Joint Eurographics - IEEE TCVG Symposium on
Visualization.
Papers and case studies will form the scientific content of the event. Papers
are invited that present research results from all areas of visualization.
Case
studies report on practical applications of visualization to data analysis.
Suggested topics for research papers include, but are not limited to :
- Flow visualization
- Information visualization
- Human factors in visualization
- Large data sets
- Volume rendering
- Internet-based visualization
- User interaction techniques
- Multi-Variate visualization
- Surface extraction
- Data base visualization
- Visualization systems
- Multi resolution techniques
Case studies are invited from any application area, including: Physics,
Aerospace, Automotive, Biomedicine, Chemistry, Molecular Biology, Finance,
Mathematics, Hypermedia Structures, Data Mining.
Accepted papers and case studies will be published in a book by
Springer-Verlag.
Important Dates
3 December 1999 Paper submission deadline
17 January 2000 Notification of acceptance
18 February 2000: Camera ready copies
29-31 May 2000: EG-IEEE VisSym'00
Paper Submission
Authors are requested to prepare their contribution as a full paper. Accepted
papers will be published in a book by Springer-Verlag. Accepted research and
case study papers are limited to 10 pages. In the book one additional page of
color plates per paper is available. Further instructions for the preparation
and uploading of papers are available via http://www.cwi.nl/vissym00. If
you are
not able to upload your paper electronically you alternatively can send two
copies of the full paper including figures and images by regular mail to
Conference co-chair Robert van Liere (see address below)
Symposium Venue and Format
The event will be held in Amsterdam at the Center for Mathematics and Computer
Science. The event is open to all those with an interest in visualization.
Students, in particular, are encouraged to participate. The three-day
symposium
will be organized as an assembly of plenary presentations. Invited
presentations will be included.
Related Events
VisSym'00 is followed by:
6th Eurographics Workshop on Virtual Environments. This workshop will be held
on June 1st and 2nd also at the Center for Mathematics and Computer Science.
Contact
Any questions concerning the goals, scope, and organization can
be addressed to: vissym00@cwi.nl
or to:
Robert van Liere
Symposium Co-Chair of VisSym '00
Center for Mathematics and Computer Science
Department of Software Engineering
Kruislaan 413
1098 SJ, Amsterdam
The Netherlands
email: robertl@cwi.nl
tel: +31 20 5924118
fax: +31 20 5924199
Robert van Liere
Department of Software Engineering
Center of Mathematics and Computer Science
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
<http://www.cwi.nl/~robertl>
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III.b.3.
Fr: Margaret Graham <margaret.graham@unn.ac.uk>
Re: CIR-2000: 2nd CFPapers
SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS
CIR-2000: The Challenge of Image Retrieval
Third UK Conference on Image Retrieval
May 4-5 2000
Brighton, United Kingdom
CIR moves to Brighton in 2000, with a new format - separate practitioner and
research tracks linked by common plenary sessions. As in previous years, it
aims to attract high- quality papers covering all aspects of image and video
retrieval from both the UK and overseas. The main themes of CIR-2000 are video
asset management, image indexing and metadata, and content-based image
retrieval. Our distinguished list of invited speakers includes:
Professor Howard Besser, University of California at Berkeley
Dr Ruud Bolle, IBM Thomas Watson Research Center
Dr Richard Nicol, Head of Research, BT Adastral Park
Professor Mark Overmaars, University of Utrecht
Image and video storage and retrieval continues to be one of the most exciting
and fastest-growing research areas in the field of multimedia technology.
However, opportunities within the UK for the exchange of ideas between
different groups of researchers, and between researchers and potential
users of
image retrieval systems, are still limited. The Challenge of Image Retrieval
series of conferences was set up specifically to bridge the gap between the
different communities with an interest in image retrieval. Successful
conferences were held in Newcastle upon Tyne in 1998 and 1999. The 2000 event
again aims to bring together researchers and practitioners in the area of
image
data management, to exchange information and gain some idea of the
significance
of developments in related disciplines. It should be of interest to
researchers
in fields as diverse as information retrieval, database, computer vision and
image processing, human visual perception and interface design, as well as
users and managers of image and video libraries.
CALL FOR PAPERS
Original papers are solicited for the conference describing research or
innovation in any area related to image or video storage and retrieval.
Accounts of work in progress are acceptable provided at least some results are
reported. Possible topics include, but are not limited to:
* Studies of information-seeking behaviour among image users
* HCI issues in image retrieval
* Evaluation of image retrieval systems
* Novel image data management systems and applications
* Query models, paradigms and languages for image retrieval
* Content-based indexing, search and retrieval of images
* Feature extraction and representation
* Visual perception and image retrieval
* Image search and browsing on the Web
* Semantic retrieval of images and video
* Neural network techniques for image classification and retrieval
* Database architectures for image retrieval
* Image data management for multimedia systems
The programme committee are aiming to ensure a balance between technical and
user orientation in the submitted papers presented at the conference. To
achieve this, we particularly welcome submissions which deal with user
issues.
SUBMISSION DETAILS:
Authors are asked to submit full papers (no longer than 5000 words), in
English, to the Programme Chair, Dr John Eakins. Electronic submission is
strongly encouraged. Authors wishing to submit electronically should consult
the CIR-2000 Web pages at http://www.unn.ac.uk/iidr/cir/cir00/cfp.html for
details of submission procedures and guidelines. Authors who do not wish to
submit electronically are asked to send three paper copies of their
submission,
together with a covering letter containing contact information, to:
Dr John P Eakins,
The Challenge of Image Retrieval,
Institute for Image Data Research,
University of Northumbria at Newcastle,
Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 8ST.
The closing date for both electronic and paper submissions is Friday 21
January
2000.
Authors whose contributions are accepted for presentation will be notified by
Friday 3 March 2000. They will be required to submit final versions of their
papers, for inclusion in the conference proceedings, by Friday, 7 April 2000.
It is intended that all accepted papers will be published in the BCS
electronic
Workshops in Computing series.
CONFERENCE SPONSORS (PROVISIONAL):
* Institute for Image Data Research, University of Northumbria at Newcastle
* The British Computer Society Information Retrieval Specialist Group
* The Library and Information Commission
* The Institute of Information Scientists
* Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen
* The British Machine Vision Association
IMPORTANT DATES:
Deadline for Submission: 21 January 2000
Notification of Acceptance: 3 March 2000
Final version due: 7 April 2000
Margaret Graham
Research and Development Manager
Institute for Image Data Research
University of Northumbria at Newcastle
Newcastle upon Tyne
NE1 8ST
UK
Tel: +44 (0191) 227 4646; Fax: +44 (0191) 227 4637
Email: margaret.graham@unn.ac.uk
URL: http://www.unn.ac.uk/iidr/
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III.B.4.
Fr: Priscilla Rasmussen <rasmusse@cs.rutgers.edu>
Re: LREC 2000: CFPapers
The European Language Resources Association (ELRA), the Institute for Language
and Speech Processing (ILSP, Athens, Greece), and the National Technical
University of Athens, Greece are pleased to announce:
The 2nd International Conference on
Language Resources and Evaluation
(LREC2000)
http://www.icp.grenet.fr/ELRA/lrec2000.html)
Athens, Greece
31 May - 2 June 2000
The Second International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation has
been initiated by ELRA and is organised in cooperation with other Associations
and Consortia, including ACL, ALLC, COCOSDA, ORIENTAL COCOSDA, EAFT, EAGLES,
EDR, ELSNET, ESCA, EURALEX, FRANCIL, LDC, PAROLE, TELRI, etc., and with major
national and international organisations, including the European Commission -
DG XIII, ARPA, NSF, the IC/863 HTRDP Project (China), the National Natural
Science Foundation of China, the ICSP Permanent Committee (Korea), The Natural
Language Technical committee of JEIDA (Japan), and the Japanese Project for
International Coordination in Corpora, Assessment and Labelling. Cooperation
and support from other institutions is currently being sought.
CONFERENCE AIMS
In the framework of the Information Society, the pervasive character of human
language technologies (HLT) and their relevance to all the fields of
Information Society Technologies (IST) has been widely recognised.
Two issues are currently considered to be particularly relevant:
1) the availability of language resources and
2) the methods for the evaluation of resources, technologies and products.
Substantial mutual benefits can be expected from addressing these issues
through international cooperation.
The term language resources (LR) refers to sets of language data and
descriptions in machine readable form, used specifically for building and
evaluating natural language and speech algorithms or systems, for software
localisation industries and language services, for language enabled
information
and communication services, for electronic commerce, electronic publishing,
language studies, subject-area specialists and end users.
Examples of language resources are written and spoken corpora, computational
lexica, grammars, terminology databases, and basic software tools for the
acquisition, preparation, collection, management, customisation and use of
these and other resources.
The relevance of evaluation for Language Engineering is increasingly
recognised. This involves assessment of the state of the art for a given
technology, measuring the progress achieved within a programme, comparing
different approaches to a given problem and choosing the best solution,
knowing
its advantages and drawbacks, assessment of the availability of technologies
for a given application, product benchmarking, and assessment of user
satisfaction. Language engineering and R&D in language technologies have made
important advances in the recent past in various aspects of both written and
spoken language processing. Although the evaluation paradigm has been studied
and used in large national and international programmes, including the US ARPA
HLT programme, the EU LE programme Francophone Aupelf-Uref programme and
others, and in the localisation industry (LISA and LRC), it is still
subject to
substantial unresolved basic research problems.
The aim of this conference is to provide an overview of the state of the art,
to discuss problems and opportunities, and to exchange information regarding
ongoing and planned activities, language resources and their applications. We
also intend to discuss evaluation methodologies and demonstrate evaluation
tools, and explore possibilities and promote initiatives for international
cooperation in the areas mentioned above.
CONFERENCE TOPICS
The following non-exhaustive list gives some examples of topics that could be
addressed by papers submitted to LREC2000:
I. Issues in the design, construction and use of Languages Resources
(LR) (theoretical & best practice):
* Guidelines, standards, specifications, and models for LR
* Organisational issues in the construction, distribution, and use of
LR
* Methods, tools, procedures for the acquisition, creation, annotation,
management, access, distribution, and use of LR
* Legal aspects and problems in the construction, access, and use of LR
* Availability and use of generic vs. task/domain specific LR
* Methods for the extraction and acquisition of knowledge (e.g. terms,
lexical information, language modelling) from LR
* Monolingual and multilingual LR
* Multimodal and multimedia LR
* LR and the needs/opportunities of the emerging multimedia cultural
industry
* Industrial production and use of LR
* Integration of various modalities in LR (spoken, visual, gestual,
textual)
* Exploitation of LR in different types of applications (language
technology,
information retrieval, vocal interfaces, electronic commerce, etc.)
* Industrial LR requirements and the community's response
* Analysis of user needs for LR
* Mechanisms of LR distribution and marketing
* Economics of LR
* Customisation and use of LR
* Research issues relevant for LR
II. Issues in Human Language Technologies evaluation:
* Evaluation, validation, quality assurance of LR
* Benchmarking of systems and products; resources for benchmarking and
evaluation
* Evaluation in written language processing (text retrieval,
terminology extraction, message understanding, text alignment,
machine translation, morphosyntactic tagging, parsing, semantic
tagging, word sense disambiguation, text understanding,
summarisation, localisation, etc.)
* Evaluation in spoken language processing (speech recognition and
understanding, voice dictation, oral dialog, speech synthesis, speech
coding, speaker and language recognition, etc.)
* Evaluation of document processing (document recognition, on-line and
off-line machine and hand-written character recognition, etc.)
* Evaluation of (multimedia) document retrieval and search systems
* Evaluation of multimodal systems
* Qualitative and perceptive evaluation
* Evaluation of products and applications
* Blackbox, glassbox and diagnostic evaluation of systems
* Situated evaluation of applications
* Evaluation methodologies, protocols and measures
* From evaluation to standardisation of LR
* Research issues relevant to evaluation
III. General issues:
* National and international activities and projects
* LR and the needs/opportunities of the emerging multimedia cultural
industry
* Priorities, perspectives, strategies in the field of LR national and
international policies
* Needs, possibilities, forms, initiatives of/for international
cooperation
The Scientific Programme will include invited talks, presentations of accepted
papers, poster sessions, referenced demonstrations and panels. Pre-Conference
Workshops will be organized on the 29th and 30th of May and post-Conference
Workshops on the 3rd and 4th of June 2000. Please consult the conference Web
site (http://www.icp.grenet.fr/ELRA/lrec2000.html) for complete information
about submission guidelines, contact people, submission dates, various
conference committees and members, and other general information.
IMPORTANT DATES TO REMEMBER
* 20 NOVEMBER 1999:
Submission of proposals for papers, posters, referenced demos, panels
And workshops
* 10 DECEMBER 1999:
Notification of acceptance of workshop and panel proposals
* 2 FEBRUARY 2000:
Notification of acceptance of papers, posters, referenced demos
* 2 APRIL 2000:
Final version of the articles for the proceedings
* 31 MAY - 2 JUNE 2000:
Conference
For general information about the conference, please contact:
LREC Secretariat: Ms. Despina Scutari
Institute for Language and Speech Processing (ILSP)
6, Artemidos & Epidavrou Str.
15125 Marousi, Athens, GREECE
Tel: +301 6800959 ; Fax: +301 6854270
e-mail: LREC2000@ilsp.gr
LREC2000 website:
http://www.icp.grenet.fr/ELRA/lrec2000.html
For general information about ELRA, please contact:
Khalid CHOUKRI
55-57 Rue Brillat-Savarin
75013 Paris FRANCE
Tel. +33 1 43 13 33 33 - Fax. +33 1 43 13 33 30
e-mail: choukri@elda.fr
http://www.icp.grenet.fr/ELRA/home.html
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III.B.5.
Fr: Efthimis Efthimiadis <efthimis@u.washington.edu>
Re: SLIS Talk: Advanced Indexing and Searching for Free Text
The School of Library & Information Science, University of Washington, and the
student chapter of ASIS invite you to a talk on:
Advanced Indexing and Searching for Free Text
by Lance N. Otis, Thomas E. Bougan & Jonathan Ultis
Applied Technical Systems, Inc.
Tuesday November 23, 1999
2:30-4:30pm
Room 315 (Computer Classroom), Old Electrical Enginneering Blg;
School of Library & Information Science, University of Washingon.
206-543-1794
Advanced Indexing and Searching for Free Text
by
Lance N. Otis, Thomas E. Bougan & Jonathan Ultis
Natural searching in free text is a very difficult problem in information
retrieval. The complexities of natural language make such searches a
combination of luck, experience, and creativity. For example, analysts may
need
to search for all conjugations of a root (ship, shipped, shipping) in order to
find information. In addition, the analyst may have to think of synonyms
(ship,
boat, raft, canoe) in order to retrieve all the information required. In
short,
accurate information retrieval in free text is hit or miss. The seminar will
present an overview of advanced indexing and searching techniques for free
text, including discussions of advanced data structures that can be used to
represent text. A means for bottom-up thesaurus construction based on those
structures and techniques for using a thesaurus to aid in the synonym or
similar word selection in text searches will be discussed. In addition, the
investigators will address usability issues such as misspelled words in a
query
or data, or mismatches between root words and conjugated versions of the root
in the query or data. Data navigation techniques, query methods that can allow
more natural exploration of free text, user interface issues, and some areas
that bear further research will also be discussed. Following the theoretical
discussion on information retrieval in text, a demonstration of a text
searching and indexing engine that uses the advanced features will be
provided.
Brief Biographical Information of Speakers:
Lance N. Otis is Chief Scientist at Applied Technical Systems, Inc.,
Bremerton,
WA. He is responsible for design and development of CCM, a new object-oriented
multidimensional client/server database system for application to a broad set
of business problems too complex for traditional relational databases. CCM out
performs relational database query speed by a factor of 10 to 100. This
product
is presently in use for text mining, decision support, and multimedia data
management in various applications in the intelligence community,
bioinformatics, nuclear power plants, and digital image cataloging. He
received
his M.S. in Nuclear Engineering from the University of Washington and is a
co-holder of a patent for computer-based management of complex data
relationships and roles for text and data retrieval. Otis is a member of IEEE,
ACM, the American College of Forensic Examiners, the International Association
of Law Enforcement Intelligence Analysts, and the National Military
Intelligence Association. He is a former Deputy Director at Naval Sea Systems
Command, W. D.C.
Thomas E. Bougan is the Senior Project Manager for the Advanced Systems
Division of Applied Technical Systems, Inc., Bremerton, WA. He is responsible
for design and development of the University of Washington Pharmaceuticals
drug
interaction database and web site as well as numerous other projects. He has
developed advanced database and user-interface applications in fields as
diverse as government grants management to torpedo maintenance. He received
his
M.A. in Geography from the University of South Carolina and taught for three
years there. He is a former naval flight officer.
Jonathan Ultis is a Programmer/Systems Analyst in the Advanced Systems
Division
of Applied Technical Systems, Inc., Bremerton WA. He is researching advanced
knowledgebase systems for managing and indexing very large text corpora. He
recently co-developed a socket interface to the CCM engine. The socket
interface provides high-performance access to the CCM database system over a
network at a lower price than previous solutions. He was responsible for
development of a text mining system for Clinton Nuclear Power and developed a
tool for the U. S. Office of Personnel Management for ranking resumes by
comparing the number of like concepts in a job description using the CCM's
text
analysis features. He holds a B.Sc. in Computer Science from Harding
University
and is attending the University of Washington. He won World Finalist honors in
the 1998 ACM C++ Programming Competition.
Efthimis N. Efthimiadis <efthimis@u.washington.edu>
Associate Professor
School of Library & Information Science
University of Washington tel.(off.) 206-616-6077
Box 352930 tel.(schl) 206-543-1794
Seattle, WA 98195-2930 fax. 206-616-3152
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III.B.6.
Fr: Sidney Fels <ssfels@ece.ubc.ca>
Re: Graphics Interface 2000: CFPapers Deadline November 19
GRAPHICS INTERFACE 2000
Palais des Congrès
Montréal, Québec, Canada
15-17 May 2000
Call for Papers
GI 2000 is a unique event that presents the latest results in computer
graphics
and human-computer interaction. It offers three days of Invited Speakers,
Posters, and Submitted Papers. A Banquet and Electronic Theatre provide
additional opportunities to meet speakers and other attendees for informal
discussion in a social setting. This conference is sponsored by Canadian
Human-Computer Communications Society.
This year will be the 26th annual Graphics Interface. It is the oldest
regularly scheduled computer graphics and human-computer interface conference
in the world. Graphics Interface has established a reputation for a
high-quality technical program, and the excellence of its invited speakers.
Full details are on the GI 2000 web site (http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~gi2000)
GI 2000 will be held at the Palais des Congrès, Montréal, Québec, Canada, in
conjunction with four other conferences: AI 2000 (Artificial Intelligence), VI
2000 (Vision Interface), 10th annual PRECARN-IRIS (Institute for Robotics and
Intelligent Systems), and ISR 2000 (31st International Symposium on Robotics).
This special joint event offers a unique opportunity to broaden dissemination
of the scientific results and to foster the exchange of expertise across
adjacent research fields. To promote these exchanges, all attendees will have
access to the presentations of these parallelconferences, as well as to the
following exhibitions: Robotics of Tomorrow Exhibition, the Montreal
Fabricating and Machine Tool Show, and the National Factory Automation Show.
Montréal is a lively Canadian city located on an island in the St. Lawrence
River. It is well connected by all major international airlines. Its four
universities, several research institutes, world class technologies industry,
theatres, and museums have contributed to its international reputation as a
dynamic business, scientific, and cultural center. With a population
representing 80 ethnic groups, Montréal is known for its "joie de vivre"!
Conference and Program Chairs
Sidney Fels, University of British Columbia
Pierre Poulin, Université de Montréal
Posters Chair
Wolfgang Stuerzlinger, York University
Videos Chair
Pierre Poulin, Université de Montréal
Invited Speakers
Henry Fuchs, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Hiroshi Ishii, MIT Media Lab
Demitri Terzopolous, University of Toronto
Important Dates
Papers due: 19 November 1999
Decision for Papers: 1 February 2000
Posters due: 7 March 2000
Videos due: 7 March 2000
Camera-ready papers due: 3 April 2000
Decision for Posters: 10 April 2000
Decision for Videos: 10 April 2000
Submissions
Contributions are solicited describing unpublished research results and
applications experience in all areas of computer graphics and human-computer
interaction, specifically including the following:
- Image synthesis & realism - User interfaces & modeling
- Image-based rendering techniques - Shading & rendering algorithms
- Windowing systems - Hardware techniques
- Geometric modeling & meshing - Computer cartography
- Computer supported cooperative work - Computer animation
- Image processing - Interaction techniques
- Medical graphics - Graphics for CAD/CAM
- Graphics in education - Computer-aided building design
- Graphics & the arts - Industrial & robotics applications
- Visualization - Graphics in business
- Graphics in simulation - Mobile computing
- Haptic interfaces - Human interface devices
Papers (20 double-spaced pages or fewer) must be received by 19 November 1999.
The submissions this year will be entirely electronic. Please visit the
Graphics Interface web site for the description of the submission process. In
exceptional cases, traditional submissions will be accepted by first
contacting
one of the conference co-chairs. Refereeing will be double blind. Only the
title, without any indication of authorship or author location, should appear
on the manuscript body. A separate file (sheet) should contain the manuscript
title, abstract, and the full names, postal addresses, phone numbers, fax
numbers, and email addresses for all authors. One author should be designated
the contact author for subsequent correspondence regarding the paper. Accepted
papers will be published in the Proceedings of Graphics Interface 2000.
Notification of acceptance or rejection will be mailed to the contact
author by
1 February 2000. Camera ready copy of accepted papers is due 3 April 2000.
Each
paper will be allotted up to eight (8) pages in the proceedings. Extra charges
will be made for papers exceeding the limit and for coloured photos. The GI
2000 proceedings will be available to SIGGRAPH Plus members. Exceptionally
good
papers will be considered for publication in journals. Arrangements exist for
the best graphics papers to be considered by Computer Graphics Forum and for
the best human-computer interface papers to be considered by Behaviour &
Information Technology.
Conference Co-Chair addresses:
Sidney Fels
Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering
The University of British Columbia
Vancouver, B.C., Canada V6T 1Z4
Phone: +1 604-822-5338
Fax: +1 604-822-5949
Email: ssfels@ece.ubc.ca
Pierre Poulin
Dép. I.R.O.
Université de Montréal
C.P. 6128, succ. Centre-ville
Montréal, Québec, Canada H3C 3J7
Phone: +1 514-343-6780
Fax: +1 514-343-5834
Email: poulin@iro.umontreal.ca
For the latest information on the Call for Papers, the submission process, and
the 2000 conference, visit the Graphics Interface web site at
http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~gi2000
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