IR-L Digest, Vol.XVI, No.44, Issue 480

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

IRLIST Digest                                       ISSN 1064-6965
November 22, 1999
Volume XVI, Number 44
Issue 480

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  I. QUERIES
        1. Doubt about Metrics for Evaluation in IR
 II. JOBS
        1. Sharp Labs, Oxford, UK: Software Development: (Multimedia)
           Document Management Applications 
        2. Do your research projects need a graduate student? 
III. NOTICES
     A. Publications
        1. JASIS 50:14 TOC: Perspectives on Copyright
        2. New PADI Website and Discussion List
        3. FoCL (Foundations of Computational Linguistics)
        4. [WASHINGTON-UPDATE] CONGRESS WRAPS UP SESSION
     B. Meetings
        1. TSD 2000: Preliminary Announcement
        2. EvoIASP2000: Extended Deadline and Best Paper Award
        3. LREC2000: Deadline Extension
     C. Miscellaneous
        1. UW-SLIS ISI Lazerow Annual Lecture by Prof. E.D.Liddy

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I. QUERIES

I.1.
Fr: Franklin Ramalho <fsr@di.ufpe.br> 
Re: Doubt about Metrics for Evaluation in IR 

Hi people,

Can someone tell me where I can find research on the other metrics beyond
precision and recall, for evaluations about the performance in IR systems? 

By the way, in the book "Automatic Information Organization and Retrieval" by
Gerard Salton, I found something about Pnorm and Rnorm, that he says can be
used for systems where ranked document output is obtained. The reason to use
these metrics is to avoid many different recall-precision pairs that already
recall and precision calculations that are affected by the cutoff point chosen
to distinguish retrieved from nonretrieved material.

So I have a doubt: Why must I need some recall-precision pairs, if the
retrieved document number is finite, and thus I can calculate only one
recall-precision pair? 

In this same string of thought, I could consider the Pnorm and Rnorm as
metrics
that also need many pairs of recall-precision (Rnorm-Pnorm), considering the
retrieved relevant document number by the system like a "cutoff".

Best regards, 
Franklin Ramalho
Pos-graduacao em Ciencia da Computacao - DI/UFPE 
Recife - Brazil 
E-mail - fsr@di.ufpe.br 
URL : www.di.ufpe.br/~fsr

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II. JOBS

II.1.
Fr: Jan J IJdens <jan@sharp.co.uk> 
Re: Sharp Labs, Oxford, UK: Software Development: (Multimedia) Document
    Management Applications 

In the Information Technology Department at Sharp Labs in Oxford we are
currently looking for two software developers to work on implementing document
management and information retrieval applications. Below I have included the
job advertisement as it will appear in the newspapers. If you would like to
informally discuss these jobs, feel free to email me. If you would like to
apply, please contact Victoria Notley, our recruitment coordinator (details in
the ad).
Jan.

Jan J IJdens, Senior Research Scientist, Information Technology Department, 
Information Management Group, Sharp Laboratories of Europe, Oxford Science 
Park, Edmund Halley Road, Oxford OX4 4GB, UK. --- Email: jan@sharp.co.uk

(SENIOR) SOFTWARE DEVELOPERS
OXFORD
ATTRACTIVE PACKAGE

You will have seen SHARP products such as mini-disc players, electronic
organisers, office products and the world’s first LCD ViewCam, but do you know
where they came from? Sharp Laboratories of Europe, situated on the Oxford
Science Park, is one of Sharp’s global R&D centres creating the technological
advances to make such products possible. We are looking for the very best
people, and in return we offer a competitive salary, excellent research
environment, training and other benefits.

Two talented developers, one at senior level, are required to work in a
tightly
knit community with our existing researchers, building innovative applications
for the global consumer and small business markets. Both posts are initially
for two years.

The senior developer will lead a team building search and language
applications
as part of an international project. Both developers will be required to
communicate with our colleagues in America and Japan and should be prepared to
travel occasionally.

Applicants must have the following: 
* The ability to plan and organise your own time and work effectively in
  a team; 
* A good computer science degree or equivalent; 
* Experience of development for PCs in a commercial environment; 
* At least two years experience with C/C++ and MFC/Win32; candidates
  with some knowledge of Java will be preferred.

Additionally, the senior developer must have: 
* A track record of project and people management; 
* An ability to create high level and detailed project implementation 
  plans.

To apply, please send your CV with the name of 2 referees to Victoria
Notley at
the address below (email preferred) quoting reference IT-SD-99-1:

Sharp Laboratories of Europe Ltd 
Edmund Halley Road 
Oxford Science Park 
Oxford 
OX4 4GB
Email: Vee.Notley@sharp.co.uk 
Tel: +44 (0) 1865 747711 
Fax: +44 (0) 1865 747717

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II.2.
Fr: gaoqingzhong <gaoqingzhong@hotmail.com> 
Re: Do your research projects need a graduate student? 
 
I'm very interested in Computing Language. I am eager to get an advanced
training and research in your projects, and I hope that you can evaluate me
and
make your decision. If you have any doubt on the following material, you can
contact with me <gaoqingzhong@online.sh.cn> or<gaoqingzhong@hotmail.com>,
or my
supervisor Yao tianfang <yao@dfki.de>. If you have any question on the project
of ACNLG(Applied Chinese Natural Language Generation), you can contact with
Uszkoreit <uszkoreit@dfki.de>, or Horacek <horacek@dfki.de>, or Huang Xiaorong
<xhuang@ca.ibm.com>. 

Don't hesitate to contact with me. I am eager to communicate with you. 

Thank you very much! 
Sincerely yours, 
Gao qingzhong 

Introduction about Myself

1.Current interest of Computing Language
Although almost every branch of Computer science attracts me, my current
interest primarily resides in Computing Language, especially in Natural
language Process/Generation. After my graduation in March 1999, I have worked
as a software engineer for half a year, and now I am eager to continue study
and research in it. 

2. My undergraduate education is excellent.
An Introduction to MEC
In 1992, high school, as a winner of First Class Prize of MOMHS (Mathematics
Competition of National High Schools), I was selected to MEC (Mathematics
Experiment Class) of NANKAI university, waived of admission test. MEC is
founded by great mathematician S.S.Chern, and its goal is to foster young
mathematician. It is so highly selective that almost every member of MEC is
First Class Prizewinner of MONHS, furthermore, in 1995, MEC representatives
won
NANKAI the collective First Class Prize of Mathematics Competition of National
Universities.

Excellent Performance in Courses
In MEC and excellent environment of NANKAI Mathematics Institute, I've taken
enormous advantage. My formal course involves many advanced mathematics
courses
specially set for MEC, and general physics, including ODE, PDE, Differential
Geometry, Topology, Functional Analysis, Abstract Algebra, Probability and
Statistics, etc. My formal training also includes many computer science
courses
such as FORTRAN/C/C++/Assembly Language, Data Structure and Algorithms,
Principle of Computer system, Computer Graphics, Logical Circuit and Single
Board Computer, etc. My satisfactory performance in these courses
distinguishes
myself in tough competition and exams. My good overall grades own me
consecutive scholarships, and in 1996, when I graduated, my GPA ranked 10th in
MEC (total 30 members), meanwhile above 10% in Mathematics Department (total
130 members).

3. My graduate study is very fruitful.
Seek for Best Research Direction
In 1996, in order to follow K.C. Chang, famous mathematician in nonlinear
analysis, I gave up the privilege to enter the Graduate program at NANKAI
University waived of admission test, and entered Shanghai Jiaotong University,
and so became Chang's student.

Wide Range Knowledge
I took many graduate computer science courses including: Artificial
Intelligence, Chinese Information Processing, Multimedium Technique and Its
Application, Information Management System, Advanced Database, Computer
Networks, Expert Systems and Tools, Modern Algebra, Introduction of Computing
language, Introduction of Natural Language Processing, etc. My overall grades
are good.

Research Work
Though still good at course study, I transferred my emphasis to research work
in the graduate study stage, owing to Advisor Yao's provident suggestion. My
Master's thesis was "The Design and Implementation of a Surface Generator for
the Multilingual Language Generation System", whose abstract English version
was published in Proceedings 5th Natural Language Processing Pacific Rim
Symposium 1999 "Closing the Milennium" (P239-244). In the process of
researching the project of ACNLG, we have developed two application systems:
MLWFA (Multilingual Weather Forecast Assistant System) and MLBSR (Multilingual
Bank Statistic Report System), and I was in charge of the development and
improvement of the surface generator -- one major module of the whole system
which consists of three modules: Macroplanner, Microplanner, and Surface
Generator. It is the research work that maneuvers my entire past computer
science and maths knowledge, steels my method to research, and enables me to
cooperate with different academic members.

4. I have sufficient teaching experience.
In the 3rd and 4th semester, 1997-1998, I assisted my supervisor Yao in
teaching sophomore students in Department of computer science.

5. I have good language ability.
My scores in International English Test are as follows: GRE (Nov, 1998):
verbal
540 analysis 700 quantity 790 total 2030. TOEFL (Oct, 1999): 600-620
(estimated) GRE MATH SUB (Nov, 1999): 930-990 (estimated).

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III. NOTICES

III.A.1.
Fr: Richard Hill <rhill@asis.org> 
Re: JASIS 50:14 TOC: Perspectives on Copyright 

Journal of the American Society for Information Science 
JASIS 
VOLUME 50 NUMBER 14 DECEMBER 1999
CONTENTS

EDITORIAL
In This Issue 
Bert R. Boyce 
1263 

RESEARCH
Children's Relevance Criteria and Information Seeking on Electronic 
Resources 
Sandra G. Hirsh 
1265 

Indirect-Collective Referencing (ICR): Life Course, Nature, and 
Importance of a Special Kind of Scientific Referencing 
Endre Szava-Kovats 
1284 

Computer and Natural Language Texts--A Comparison Based on Long-Range 
Correlations 
Peter Kokol, Vili Podgorelec, Milan Zorman, Tatjana Kokol, and Tatjana Njivar 
1295 

PERSPECTIVES ON COPYRIGHT AND FAIR-USE 
GUIDELINES FOR EDUCATION AND LIBRARIES 
[From the acknowledgment: I also extend my thanks to Lois Lunin and her
colleagues at John Wiley & Sons, Inc. They expressed an early interest in
publishing these essays, continued to push us when the project needed
additional motivation, and they kindly cooperated in permitting the authors to
enter into a most extraordinary agreement for these essays. The fundamental
objective of these essays is to assist decision makers at libraries and
educational institutions throughout the country, who may be struggling with
the
question of whether the CONFU guidelines on fair use may be appropriate
standards for local policies and practices. We hope that these essays will
assist with those decisions, and promote discussion of these issues. To that
end, the agreement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc. allows the publisher to retain
the copyright to these works, but this published version includes the
statement
that they may be reproduced and distributed by nonprofit educational
institutions and libraries. We hope that this permission will allow the
articles to be widely shared at colleges and universities and at libraries to
increase awareness of copyright and to help those institutions make more
informed decisions with respect to fair use.]

Introduction and Overview 
Kenneth D. Crews 
1304 

CONFU-sed: Security, Safe Harbors, and Fair-Use Guidelines 
Dwayne K. Buttler 
1308 

What's Right About Fair-Use Guidelines for the Academic Community? 
Mary Levering 
1313 

What's Wrong With Fair-Use Guidelines for the Academic Community? 
Kenneth Frazier 
1320 

The Multimedia Guidelines 
Joann Stevens 
1324 

Testing the Limits: The CONFU Digital-Images and Multimedia Guidelines and
Their Consequences for Libraries and Educators 
Christine L. Sundt 
1328 

Guidelines for Distance Learning and Interlibrary Loan: Doomed and More 
Doomed 
Laura N. Gasaway 
1337 

Electronic Reserves and Fair Use: The Outer Limits of CONFU 
Kenneth D. Crews 
1342 

The Economics of Publishing: The Consequences of Library and Research 
Copying 
Colin Day 
1346 

The Immunity Dilemma: Are State Colleges and Universities Still Liable for
Copyright Infringements? 
Kenneth D. Crews and Georgia K. Harper 
1350 

Fair-Use Guidelines: A Selected Bibliography 
Noemi A. Rivera-Morales 
1353 

AUTHOR INDEX 
1361
SUBJECT INDEX 
1367
VOLUME CONTENTS 
I 

The ASIS home page <http://www.asis.org/Publications/JASIS/tocs.html> contains
the Table of Contents and brief abstracts as above from January 1993 (Volume
44) to date.n 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 working on restoring access for ASIS members in the near
future.

Richard Hill 
American Society for Information Science 
8720 Georgia Avenue, Suite 501 
Silver Spring, MD 20910 
(301) 495-0900 
FAX: (301) 495-0810 
http://www.asis.org

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III.A.2.
Fr: Deborah Woodyard <Dwoodyar@nla.gov.au> 
Re: New PADI Website and Discussion List 

Are you concerned about the dangers of losing our fragile digital heritage?

The National Library of Australia invites all those with an interest in
ensuring continuing access to digital information to visit the PADI website: 
http://www.nla.gov.au/padi/.

In response to a growing recognition of the need to safeguard digital
heritage,
the National Library of Australia established its Preserving Access to Digital
Information (PADI) website in 1997. The Library has recently redeveloped this
site into a comprehensive 'subject gateway' with more powerful search
capabilities and efficient maintenance processes that will help the Library
keep it up-to-date.

Cooperation has played a crucial role in the PADI initiative that has been
carried out in partnership with Australian and international experts. Users
are
now invited to suggest resources for the PADI database using a new online
form.


A new discussion list, padiforum-l, has been set up for the exchange of news
and ideas about digital preservation issues. Subscribers are encouraged to
post
digital preservation news, including announcements of forthcoming events, to
padiforum-l. Discussion on all aspects of preserving access to digital
information is also welcome. 

To subscribe to padiforum-l: 
1. send an email to listproc@nla.gov.au; 
2. leave the subject line blank; 
3. type in the first line of the message: 'subscribe padiforum-l [your 
   name]'.
For further information about the PADI initiative, including padiforum-l,
please contact the PADI Coordinator, email: padi@nla.gov.au.

Deborah Woodyard 
PADI / Digital Preservation 
National Library of Australia 
Canberra ACT 2600 
AUSTRALIA 
mailto:dwoodyar@nla.gov.au 
ph: +61 2 6262 1366 
PADI: http://www.nla.gov.au/padi/

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III.A.3.
Fr: Edmund Schwabacher <edschwab@linguistik.uni-erlangen.de> 
Re: FoCL (Foundations of Computational Linguistics) 
 
The slides for

Foundations of Computational Linguistics man-machine communication in natural
language*
Roland Hausser
Springer-Verlag 1999, ISBN: 3540660151 
534pp.

are now available at
http://www.linguistik.uni-erlangen.de/~rrh/Slides.html

The slides for Hausser's NLPRS'99 paper (Beijing, China, Nov. 6, 1999) may be
found at
http://www.linguistik.uni-erlangen.de/~rrh/Schriftenverzeichnis.html

For comments, problems, etc., please contact me.

Best regards, 
Eduard Schwabacher <edschwab@linguistik.uni-erlangen.de>

* See also 
http://www.springer.de/cgi-bin/bag_generate.pl?ISBN=3-540-66015-1 
or 
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/3540660151/qid%3D939451185/sr%3D1-1/1
02-0913947-4074441

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III.A.4.
Fr: EDUCAUSE <EDUCAUSE@EDUCAUSE.EDU> 
Re: [WASHINGTON-UPDATE] CONGRESS WRAPS UP SESSION 

EDUCAUSE: Transforming Education Through Information Technologies 
http://www.educause.edu

EDUCAUSE WASHINGTON UPDATE --- NOVEMBER 22, 1999

IN THIS ISSUE

CONGRESS WRAPS UP SESSION WITH PASSAGE OF INTERNET LEGISLATION
-House and Senate Pass Electronic Signature Bills - Fight in Conference 
 Expected Next Session
-Anti-Cybersquatting Legislation Rides Controversial Satellite Bill
-Database Protection Bill Deferred Until Next Session - Library and Higher 
 Education Community Urged to Contact Congress
-Senate Would Pull the Plug on Most Internet Gambling

DEPLOYMENT OF ADVANCED NETWORKS
-FCC Directs Telephone Companies to Share Lines with Data Providers

E-RATE FILING WINDOW OPENS FOR FY 2000
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Written from EDUCAUSE'S Washington office, "The EDUCAUSE Washington Update" is
a free service of EDUCAUSE, an international nonprofit association
dedicated to
transforming higher education through information technologies.

Anyone may subscribe to the Update by sending e-mail to
listserv@listserv.educause.edu with "subscribe update firstname lastname" in
the body of the message. To unsubscribe, send a "signoff update" command to
the
same address. If you would like more information about the Update or would
like
to offer comments or suggestions, please contact Garret Sern at
gsern@educause.edu.

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III.B.1.
Fr: Robert Batusek <xbatusek@informatics.muni.cz> 
Re: TSD 2000: Preliminary Announcement 

The Third International Workshop on TEXT, SPEECH and DIALOGUE
(TSD 2000)
Brno, Czech Republic
13-16 September 2000

TSD Series 
TSD series evolved as a prime forum for interaction between researchers in
both
spoken and written language processing from the former East Block countries
and
their Western colleagues. Being held in Czech Republic, the cost of attending
is very reasonable. Proceedings of TSD form a book (currently published by
Springer-Verlag in their Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence series). 

TOPICS 
Topics of the TSD 2000 workshop will include (but are not limited to):
text corpora and tagging;
transcription problems in spoken corpora;
sense disambiguation;
links between text and speech oriented systems;
parsing issues, especially parsing problems in spoken texts;
multi-lingual issues, especially multi-lingual dialogue systems;
information retrieval and text/topic summarization;
speech modeling;
speech segmentation;
speech recognition;
text-to-speech synthesis;
dialogue systems;
development of dialogue strategies;
prosody in dialogues;
user modeling;
knowledge representation in relation to dialogue systems;
assistive technologies based on speech and dialogue;
applied systems and software. 

Papers on processing of languages other than English are strongly encouraged. 

FORMAT OF THE WORKSHOP 
TSD 2000 is an international workshop with a limited number of participants
and
priority given to the active participants. The workshop program will include
oral presentations and a poster/demonstration sessions with time for
discussions of the issues raised. Social events including a trip in the
vicinity of Brno will allow for additional informal interactions. 

SUBMISSION OF PAPERS 
Authors should submit extended abstracts not exceeding 1000 words by March 10,
2000 to the e-mail address: tsd2000@fi.muni.cz 

Submission must also include the author(s) name, affiliation, address,
telephone and fax numbers and e-mail address. Acceptance of the submissions
will be acknowledged by e-mail. Papers have to follow the Springer-Verlag
instructions for the authors for Lecture Notes in Computer Science series. The
instructions can be found at the www  address:
http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html 

IMPORTANT DATES 
Preliminary registration and deadline for
submission of extended abstracts:                March 10, 2000 
Notification of acceptance sent to the authors:  April 30, 2000 
Final papers (camera ready) and registration:    May 30, 2000 
Workshop date:                                   September 13-16, 2000 

The contributions to the workshop will be published in proceedings that
will be
made available to participants at the time of the workshop. The proceedings of
the last TSD workshop were published by Springer-Verlag in the series Lecture
Notes in Artificial Intelligence and we anticipate the same format for TSD
2000. 

OFFICIAL LANGUAGE 
The official language is English. 

ADDRESS 
All correspondence regarding the workshop should be addressed to: 
Dana Komarkova
TSD 2000 c/o Faculty of Informatics
Masaryk University
Botanická 68a
CZ-602 00 Brno
Czech Republic
telephone: ++420 5 41 512 359
fax: ++420 5 41 212 568
e-mail: tsd2000@fi.muni.cz
The official TSD 2000 homepage is: http://www.fi.muni.cz/tsd2000/ 

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III.B.2.
Fr: Stefano Cagnoni <cagnoni@CE.UniPR.IT> 
Re: EvoIASP2000: Extended Deadline and Best Paper Award 

EvoIASP 2000: 2nd European Workshop on Evolutionary Computation in 
Image Analysis and Signal Processing (April 17,2000)

EXTENDED DEADLINE (DECEMBER 1, 1999) 
AND 
BEST PAPER AWARD

We are pleased to notify you that:

A) we could extend the deadline for submissions to EvoIASP (for the full CALL
FOR PAPERS please consult the official Web page at 
http://www.ce.unipr.it/evoiasp2000 ) until DECEMBER 1, 1999

B) a Best Paper Award will be offered to the author(s) of the paper that the
Program Committee will judge as the most innovative and original submitted to
the Conference.

Authors who have already submitted papers will be allowed to submit a revised
version of their paper before the new deadline.

Looking forward to meeting you in Edinburgh

Riccardo Poli and Stefano Cagnoni 
EvoIASP2000 co-chairs

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III.B.3.
Fr: Jeff ALLEN <jeff@elda.fr> 
Re: LREC2000: Deadline Extension 

EXTENDED DEADLINE LREC2000
Please note that, due to the number of requests, the submission deadline
(abstracts for papers, posters or demos; proposals for panels or workshops)
for
the 2nd International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation
(LREC2000) to be held in ATHENS, GREECE, 31 MAY- 2 JUNE 2000 has been
postponed
until Saturday 27 November 1999 (instead of the original Saturday 20 November
1999 deadline).

All detailed submission information can be found at:
http://www.elda.fr/lrec2000.html

New Calendar of IMPORTANT DATES 
Submission of proposals for papers, posters,
referenced demos, panels and workshops:                27 NOVEMBER 1999 
Notification of acceptance of workshop and
panel proposals:                                       10 DECEMBER 1999 
Notification of acceptance of papers, posters,
referenced demos:                                       2 FEBRUARY 2000 
Final version of the articles for the proceedings:      2 APRIL 2000 
CONFERENCE DATES:                                      31 MAY - 2 JUNE 2000 

Jeff ALLEN - Technical Manager/Directeur Technique 
European Language Resources Association (ELRA) & 
European Language resources - Distribution Agency (ELDA) 
(Agence Europe'enne de Distribution des Ressources Linguistiques) 
55, rue Brillat-Savarin 
75013 Paris FRANCE 
Tel: (+33) 1.43.13.33.33 - Fax: (+33) 1.43.13.33.30 
mailto:jeff@elda.fr 
http://www.icp.grenet.fr/ELRA/home.html
*** See the Language Resources and Evaluation 
Conference (LREC) 2000 Web site: 
http://www.icp.grenet.fr/ELRA/lrec2000.html ***

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III.C.1.
Fr: Efthimis Efthimiadis <efthimis@u.washington.edu> 
Re: UW-SLIS ISI Lazerow Annual Lecture by Prof. E.D.Liddy 

The University of Washington School of Library and Information Science invites
you to the 1999 Samuel Lazerow Memorial Lecture. Professor Elizabeth D. Liddy,
Syracuse University, will deliver a lecture on "Text Mining for Decision
Making."
Date: Tuesday, November 30th, 1999 
Time: 4:00 pm 
Place: U.W. Odegaard Undergraduate Library, Room 220
 
Map available from: http://www.washington.edu/home/maps/northcentral.html

The lecture is free and will be followed by a reception for Dr. Liddy.

Abstract: 
Complex decisions involve, of necessity, large amounts of complex data
containing a broad range of variables - a situation that makes clarity in
decision-making a challenge. Coupled with this is the added complexity that
much of the information needed for making decisions lies in non-structured,
textual files. To resolve this situation, recent advances in Natural Language
Processing-based information access and analytic technologies have been
coupled
with clarifying visualization techniques to produce systems that can
facilitate
advanced text-mining capabilities - a specialized form of data mining. Along
with details of her recent NLP research, Dr. Liddy will describe her research
in information extraction and summarization, intelligent agent-based decision
support; semantically based tools for viewing, organizing, and retrieving
text,
and text mining of complex document types for knowledge management.

Biographical Information: 
Dr. Elizabeth D. Liddy earned her Masters of Library Science and PhD from the
School of Information Studies at Syracuse University. Her dissertation
research, which was one of the first successful attempts at using NLP for
Information Retrieval, was the recipient of three national/ international
awards. Dr. Liddy is the author of 70+ professional papers, the recipient of
30+ research grants, and a frequent speaker at professional conferences on the
leading-edge NLP technology she has developed as a professor of Information
Science at Syracuse University and as founder and former President of
TextWise,
LLC. She is the recently appointed Director of the new Center for Natural
Language Processing at Syracuse University. Additionally, Dr. Liddy teaches
graduate courses in Information Retrieval, Natural Language Processing, and
Data Mining.

Information on the Samuel Lazerow Lecture Series: 
The distinguished Samuel Lazerow Lecture, an annual event, is sponsored by the
Institute for Scientific Information's Corporate Awards Program
(http://www.isinet.com/). The Lecture Series was established by ISI in
1983, to
honor the memory of Samuel Lazerow, who was an outstanding librarian,
administrator, and pioneer in library automation.

For more information, call the School of Library and Information Science at
543-1749.

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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