IR-L Digest, Vol.XVI, No.45, Issue 481

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

IRLIST Digest                                       ISSN 1064-6965
November 30, 1999
Volume XVI, Number 45
Issue 481

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III. NOTICES
     A. Publications
        1. Special Issue of Computational Linguistics:
           Anaphora and Ellipsis Resolution: CFPapers
     B. Meetings
        1. One-day Workshop on Evaluation of Information Systems:
           CFPapers
        2. Linguistic Exploration Workshop
        3. IAAI Secial Interest in NLP/Spoken Language
        4. NSIO Z39.50 Training Tutorial
        5. SCI 2000: CFPapers
     C. Miscellaneous
        1. jake-0.3.1
 IV. PROJECTS
     D. Miscellaneous
        1. Request for ITR Panelist Volunteers

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III. NOTICES

III.A.1.
Fr: Ruslan Mitkov <R.Mitkov@wlv.ac.uk> 
Re: Special Issue of Computational Linguistics:
    Anaphora and Ellipsis Resolution: CFPapers 

Call for Papers
Special Issue of Computational Linguistics:
Anaphora and Ellipsis Resolution
Guest editors: Ruslan Mitkov, Branimir Boguraev, Shalom Lappin

Anaphora and ellipsis both account for cohesion in text and are phenomena of
active study in formal and computational linguistics alike. The correct
interpretation of anaphora and ellipsis, as well as the understanding of the
relationship between them, is vital for Natural Language Processing.

After considerable initial research, and after years of relative silence in
the
early eighties, these issues have attracted the attention of many researchers
in the last 10 years and much promising work on the topic has been reported.
Discourse-orientated theories and formalisms such as DRT and Centering have
inspired new research on the computational treatment of anaphora. The drive
towards corpus-based robust NLP solutions has further stimulated interest, for
alternative and/or data-enriched approaches. In addition, application-driven
research in areas such as automatic abstracting and information extraction,
has
independently identified the importance of (and boosted the research in)
anaphora and coreference resolution. Ellipsis resolution too, being of
particular importance to a number of Natural Language Understanding
applications such as dialogue and discourse processing, has received
increasing
attention. The growing interest in anaphora and ellipsis resolution has been
demonstrated clearly over the last 4--5 years through the MUC coreference task
projects and at a number of related fora (workshops, conferences, etc.).

Against this background of expanding research and growing interest, this
special issue offers the opportunity for a high quality, and timely,
collection
of papers on anaphora and ellipsis resolution.

Topics
The call for papers invites submissions of papers describing recent novel and
challenging work/results in anaphora and ellipsis resolution. 

The range of topics to be covered will include, but will not be limited to:
o new anaphora and ellipsis resolution algorithms, 
o factors in anaphora resolution: salience and interaction of factors, 
o techniques in ellipsis resolution, 
o use of theories and formalisms in anaphora resolution, 
o use of theories and formalisms in ellipsis resolution, 
o applications of anaphora/coreference resolution, 
o applications of ellipsis resolution, 
o multilingual anaphora resolution, 
o evaluation issues, 
o use/production of annotated corpora for anaphora and ellipsis.

In addition, we expect papers addressing various issues of debate related to
the resolution of anaphora and ellipsis, such as:
o Is it possible to propose a core set of factors used in anaphora
  resolution? 
o When dealing with real data, is it at all possible to posit
  "constraints", or should all factors be regarded as "preferences"? 
o What is the case for languages other than English? 
o What degree of preference (weight) should be given to "preferential"
  factors? How should weights best be determined? What empirical data
  can be brought to bear on this? 
o What would be an optimal order for the application of multiple
  factors? Would this affect the scoring strategies used in selecting
  the antecedent? 
o Is it realistic to expect high precision over unrestricted texts? 
o Is it realistic to determine anaphoric links in corpora automatically? 
o Are all CL applications 'equal' with respect to their requirements
  from an anaphora resolution module? What kind(s) of compromises might
  be possible, depending on the NLP task, and how would awareness of
  these affect the tuning of a resolution algorithm for particular
  type(s) of input text? 
o Should ellipsis resolution be handled by syntactic or semantic
  reconstruction? 
o Is it necessary to retrieve both syntactic and semantic properties of
  the antecedent in the reconstructed representation of the elided
  structure?

Finally, we invite discussion on various open questions from both theoretical
and computational point of view such as whether we should construe ellipsis as
entirely distinct from anaphora.

Submissions and Reviewing
The submission deadline is 1 April 2000. Authors can submit either
electronically or send 6 hard copies of their paper (for format and style
details, see http://www.aclweb.org/cl) to:
Ruslan Mitkov (R.Mitkov@wlv.ac.uk) 
School of Humanities, Languages and Social Sciences 
University of Wolverhampton 
Stafford St. 
Wolverhampton WV1 1SB 
United Kingdom 

Please note that in addition to the submission, a 100-word abstract and
details
of the author (following the format given at
http://www.aclweb.org/cl/submit.txt) should be emailed to R.Mitkov.

Each submission will be reviewed both by experts appointed by the editor of
the
journal and by members of the guest editorial board of the special issue. 

In addition to the guest editors, Ruslan Mitkov (University of Wolverhampton),
Branimir Boguraev (IBM Research, Yorktown Heights) and Shalom Lappin
(University of London), the editorial board includes the following members:
Nicholas Asher (University of Texas), 
Amit Bagga (GE CRD), 
Claire Cardie (Cornell University), 
David Carter (Speech Machines, Malvern), 
Eugene Charniak (Brown University), 
Walter Daelemans (University of Antwerp), 
Mary Dalrymple (Xerox PARC), 
Dan Hardt (Villanova University), 
Graeme Hirst (University of Toronto), 
Jerry Hobbs (SRI International), 
Aravind Joshi (University of Pennsylvania), 
Lauri Karttunen (Xerox Research Center Europe), 
Andrew Kehler (SRI International), 
Christopher Kennedy (Northwestern University), 
Massimo Poesio (University of Edinburgh), 
Monique Rolbert (University of Marseille), 
Stuart Shieber (Harvard University), 
Candy Sidner (Lotus Research), 
Marilyn Walker (AT&T).

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III.B.1.
Fr: Jane Reid <jane@dcs.qmw.ac.uk> 
Re: One-day Workshop on Evaluation of Information Systems:
    CFPapers 

One-day workshop on Evaluation of Information Systems
Queen Mary and Westfield College
University of London
15 September 2000

With a growing amount of electronic, multi-media data being accessed by an
increasing number and variety of end-users, it is becoming ever more important
to design and build effective information systems which meet users' needs. An
essential part of this process is the identification of suitable techniques
and
systems for particular users, or groups of users, in particular
information-seeking situations.

Considerable research has already been carried out into methods of evaluating
the effectiveness, efficiency and usability of information systems. However,
there are still many theoretical and practical issues that remain unsolved.
Much more work is required in order to move towards the development of a
comprehensive framework for evaluation of information systems.

This workshop is open to anyone with an interest in information system
evaluation, including academic and industrial researchers and practitioners
working in the areas of information retrieval, library and information
science,
databases, artificial intelligence, digital libraries, the Web, and other
related areas.

Content of papers 
Papers discussing work in progress or completed work on evaluation of
information systems are invited. Topics include, but are not limited to: 
* Problem issues in evaluation 
* Application of existing or traditional evaluation techniques 
* Novel evaluation techniques and methodologies 
* System-centred or user-centred evaluation, or integration of these two
  approaches 
* Theoretical or empirical evaluation, or integration of these two
  approaches 
* Evaluation of quality of results or quality of interaction, or
  integration of these two approaches 
* Evaluation of multi-media information systems 
* Application of HCI principles and techniques to evaluation

Authors are invited to submit three copies of their paper, in English, to be
received by Friday 31 March 2000. Papers should be no more than 10 pages (of
A4) in length, and should be formatted according to Springer Verlag's
formatting guidelines for workshops in the electronic Workshops in Computing
(eWiC) series. The guidelines can be found at
http://www.ewic.org.uk/ewic/editors/submitting.cfm.

Papers will be refereed and, if accepted, will be published in the proceedings
of the workshop. There is also the possibility (currently under discussion) of
publishing the workshop proceedings as part of the eWiC series.

Papers should be sent to: 
Jane Reid 
Department of Computer Science 
Queen Mary and Westfield College 
University of London 
London 
E1 4NS 
Tel: +44 (0)20 7882 5236 
Fax: +44 (0)20 8980 6533

Important dates 
Deadline for submission of papers:              Friday 31 March 2000 
Authors notified of program committee decision: Friday 9 June 2000 
Final submission of camera-ready copy:          Friday 21 July 2000

Organisers 
Workshop organisers: Mounia Lalmas, Jane Reid (QMW)
Program committee: Pia Borlund (Royal School of Library and Information 
Science, Denmark), Nathalie Denos (CLIPS IMAG, France), Mark Dunlop (Risoe
National Laboratory, Denmark), Theo Huibers (KPMG Consulting, The 
Netherlands), Frances Johnson (Manchester Metropolitan University, England),
Tony Rose (Canon Research Centre Europe, England)
Local organiser: Sue White (QMW)

Enquiries 
Informal enquiries regarding the workshop can be directed to the workshop
organisers: 
Jane Reid Mounia Lalmas 
Department of Computer Science Department of Computer Science 
Queen Mary and Westfield College Queen Mary and Westfield College 
University of London University of London 
London London 
E1 4NS E1 4NS 
Tel: +44 (0)20 7882 5236 Tel: +44 (0)20 7882 5200 
Fax: +44 (0)20 8980 6533 Fax: +44 (0)20 8980 6533 
e-mail: jane@dcs.qmw.ac.uk e-mail: mounia@dcs.qmw.ac.uk
A Web page with further information will be set up shortly.

This event in sponsored by the British Computer Society Information 
Retrieval Specialist Group, in association with the IEE Informatics
Professional Group A4 (Artificial intelligence).

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III.B.2.
Fr: Priscilla Rasmussen <rasmusse@cs.rutgers.edu> 
Re: Linguistic Exploration Workshop 

LINGUISTIC EXPLORATION
New Methods for
Creating, Exploring and Disseminating
Linguistic Field Data
Thursday 6 January 2000, 9am-6pm

Held in conjunction with the
Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America
Palmer House Hilton, Chicago

The new NSF TalkBank Project [www.talkbank.org] is sponsoring a workshop on
computational support for linguistic fieldwork. The workshop will bring
together linguists and computational linguists committed to empirical research
on large datasets, through the combination of traditional field methods and
new
technologies for exploring and visualizing complex datasets. The languages
under study may range from the undescribed to the well-studied, and the
fieldworker may operate in a village or a laboratory. The focus is the
exploratory mode of research, where elicitation, analysis and hypothesis
testing form a tight loop. The workshop will contribute to the evaluation and
evolution of methodologies that integrate traditional practices with new
technologies, leading to increased accessibility, accountability, and
stability
of empirical linguistic research.

Full details, including the provisional program, are available at
[http://www.talkbank.org/exploration.html].

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III.B.3.
Fr: Priscilla Rasmussen <rasmusse@cs.rutgers.edu> 
Re: IAAI Secial Interest in NLP/Spoken Language 

The Innovative Applications of AI (IAAI) conference is especially
interested in
encouraging the submission of papers on the emerging and deployed application
of techniques in Natural Language Processing or Spoken Language Understanding,
e.g. information retrieval or spoken dialogue systems. The deadline for paper
submissions is January 18th, 2000.

Please see the full call at:
http://aaai.org/Conferences/IAAI/2000/iaai2000-call.html

Marilyn Walker 
IAAI Program Committee

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III.B.4.
Fr: Clifford Lynch <cliff@cni.org> 
Re: NSIO Z39.50 Training Tutorial 

Z39.50 Training Tutorial
January 18, 2000
San Antonio, Texas

NISO is sponsoring a one-day introductory tutorial about Z39.50/ISO 23950 on
Tuesday, January 18, 2000 in San Antonio. The program is a basic introduction
to the standard's history, functionality, and services. Details on the agenda
and registration information are on the NISO website at this url:
http://www.niso.org/z39wkshp.html

Clifford Lynch 
Director, Coalition for Networked Information

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III.B.5.
Fr: Mark Sanderson <m.sanderson@sheffield.ac.uk> 
Re: SCI 2000: CFPapers

This conference may not seem immediately relevant to IR, but I'm told by the
conference chair that they want to encourage IR papers.

CALL FOR PAPERS
THE 4TH WORLD MULTICONFERENCE ON
SYSTEMICS, CYBERNETICS AND INFORMATICS
SCI'2000
July, 23-26, 2000
Orlando, Florida(USA)
Sheraton World
http://www.iiis.org

Honorary Presidents: Bela Banathy, Stafford Beer and George Klir 
Program Committee Chair: William Lesso 
General Chair: Nagib Callaos 
Organizing Committee Chair: Belkis Sanchez

MAJOR THEMES
* Information Systems Development 
* Information Systems Management 
* Management Information Systems 
* Virtual Engineering 
* Mobile/Wireless Computing 
* Communication Systems and Networks 
* Emergent Computation 
* Image,Acoustic,Speech and Signal Processing 
* Computing Techniques 
* Human Information Systems 
* Education and Information Systems 
* Control Systems 
* Economic and Financial Systems 
* SCI in Biology and Medicine 
* SCI in Psychology, Cognition and Spirituality 
* Conceptual Infrastructure of SCI 
* Natural Resources 
* Human Resources 
* Globalization, Development and Emerging Economies 
* SCI in Art

ACADEMIC AND SCIENTIFIC CO-SPONSORS
· WOSC: World Organization on Systemics and Cybernetics (France) 
· The Centre for Systems Studies (UK) 
· Systems Society of Poland 
· Society Applied Systems Research (Canada) 
· Slovenian Artificial Intelligence Society 
· Simon Bolivar University (Venezuela) 
· Polish System Society (Poland) 
· Italian Society of Systemics 
· ISSS: International Society for the Systems Sciences (USA) 
· ISI: The International Systems Institute (USA) 
· IFSR: International Federation of Systems Research (Austria/USA) 
· IEEE / Latinamerica 
· Cybernetics and Human Knowing: A Journal of Second Order Cybernetics
  and Cybersemiotics (Denmark) 
· CUST, Engineer Science Institute of the Blaise Pascal University
 (France)

ORGANIZED BY THE IIIS
The International Institute of Informatics and Systemics.

ACTIVE PARTICIPATION
Those interested in participating in the: 
· Organization of Invited Session(s) 
· Organization of a Focus Symposium 
· Reviewing Process 
· Conference Promotion 
· Recommending Scholars/Researchers for Active Participation and/or for 
  Papers Submissions. 
· Proposing Organizations/Institutes/Universities as Academic/Scientific 
  Co-sponsors. 
Please contact the General Chair Professor Nagib Callaos:
ncallaos@callaos.com 
ncallaos@ aol.com 
nacallao@ 
telcel.net.ve

PARTICIPANTS
Participation of both researchers and practitioners is strongly encouraged.
Papers may be submitted on: research in science and engineering, case studies
drawn on professional practice and consulting, and position papers based on
large and rich experience gained through executive/managerial practices and
decision-making. For this reason, the Program Committee is conformed according
to the criteria given above.

TYPES OF SUBMISSION ACCEPTED
1.Papers 
  * Research 
  * Review 
  * Position 
  * Report 
2.Panel Presentation, Workshop and/or Round Table Proposals 
3.New Topics and Invited Sessions Proposal(which should include a
  minimum of 5 papers) 
4.Focus Sympsia(which should include a minimum of 15 papers)

EXTENDED ABSTRACTS AND PAPER DRAFTS SUBMISSION FORM
Extended abstracts or paper drafts should be sent according the following
format:
1. Major theme of the paper, according the major themes given above. 
2. Paper title. 
3. Extended abstract of 500 to 1500 words and/or paper drafts of 2000 to 
   5000 words, in English. 
4. Author or co-authors with names, addresses, telephone number, fax
   number and e-mail address.

Extended abstracts or paper drafts should be sent via Internet, as attachments
to e-mails addressed to nacallao@telcel.net.ve and SCI2000@aol.com.
Exceptionally, three copies of extended abstracts or paper drafts might be
sent
to the following postal mail address and/or faxed to the following numbers:
IIIS 
SCI '2000 
7525 Karlov Avenue 
Skokie, Illinois 60076
Fax Numbers:
1-407-8566274 (Orlando, USA) 
58-2-9638852 (Caracas, Venezuela)

DEADLINES
December 16, 1999            Submission of extended abstracts (500-1500
                             words)or paper draft(2000-2500 words) 
Februray 29, 2000            Acceptance notifications 
April 20, 2000               Submission of camera/ready papers: hard
                             Copies and electronic versions

PAPERS REVIEWING AND PUBLICATION
Submitted papers will be refereed. Accepted papers, which should not exceed
six
single- spaced typed pages, will be published by means of paper and electronic
proceedings. The full paper should be sent via Internet and by means of
diskette and photo-ready hard copies of artwork, not later than April 20,
2000.

Best papers will be selected for awards and recommended for journal
publications.

Multiple author books will be published by iiis, based on best-invited
sessions, best focus symposia or best mini-conferences.

INVITED SESSIONS
To organize an invited session for SCI'2000, the following steps are
suggested:
1) Identify a special topic is in the scope of SCI'2000. You may contact
   the General chair,the Program Chair or other program committee
   members, on the suitability of the topic, if it is not included in
   the Conference Program. 
2) Contact the General Chair for the invited session acceptation 
3) Contact researchers or practitioners in your field to see if they can
   contribute a paper to your proposed session and attend SCI'2000. 
4) Collect the extended abstracts or the paper drafts from each
   perspective invitee. 
5) Write a summary (1-2 page) on the session's significance and
   coherence of the invited/selected papers.

Mail the invited session proposal including a summary and a copy of all
abstracts before February 29,2000 to Professor Nagib Callaos, the General
Chair.

PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Integrated by (210) prestigious scholars/researchers from 54 countries.
Details
can be found in the conference web (http://www.iiis.org/isas/) page or asking
for a detailed Call For Papers, via e-mail.

CONFERENCE CONTACTS
Prof. Nagib Callaos (General Chair) 
E -mails: ncallaos@ usb.ve(Academic) 
ncallaos@ aol.com(Personal) 
ncallaos@ Callaos.com(Business) 
ncallaos@ IIIS.com(IIIS)
USA Phone: +1 
USA Fax: +1 (407) 856-6274 
Venezuela Tel/Fax (office): +58 (2) 962-1519 
Venezuela Tel/Fax (home): +58 (2) 963-8852
Conference Secretariat 
SCI@ cantv.net

Other contacts and More details can be found at the Conference web page
(http://www.iiis.org/isas/). Answers to specific questions can be requested
also
by e-mail.

Mark Sanderson, Room 303 Tel : +44 (0) 114 22 22648 
Department of Information Studies Fax : +44 (0) 114 27 80300 
University of Sheffield, Western Bank mailto:m.sanderson@shef.ac.uk 
Sheffield, S10 2TN, UK http://dis.shef.ac.uk/mark/

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III.C.1.
Fr: Daniel Chudnov <daniel.chudnov@yale.edu> 
Re: jake-0.3.1 

jake-0.3.1 is now up and running; you can try it out at:
http://jake.med.yale.edu/

New features include:
* article/issuelist retrieval: type in the article information and jake will
formulate urls when it knows how (temporarily only in Yale view... but access
isn't limited to Yale)

* many more databases added including Gale Group and many Bell&Howell/Proquest
titles

* much faster response times: xsl transformations are now run through a java
servlet engine

* all search code, stylesheets, and jake data are now available through
anonymous cvs and browseable via cvsweb. for more info see:
http://jake.med.yale.edu/docs/about.html 

What's jake?
jake (Jointly Administered Knowledge Environment) seeks to make management of
and linking between online resources easier for library patrons and staff. It
does so by managing online resource metadata with a database union list, title
authority control, linking tools, and a local holdings layer. jake is free to
all to use, modify, or redistribute according to the terms of the GNU General
Public License. 

Enjoy,
-Dan

Daniel Chudnov 
Systems Architect 
Cushing/Whitney Medical Library 
Yale University School of Medicine 
(203) 785-4347 
<daniel.chudnov@yale.edu>

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IV. PROJECTS

IV.D.1.
Fr: Maria Zemankova <mzemanko@nsf.gov> 
Re: Request for ITR Panelist Volunteers 

Dear Colleague:

URGENT! WE NEED YOUR HELP!!
 
YOUR IMMEDIATE RESPONSE TO <http://www.itr.nsf.gov/panelist> IS REQUESTED!!! 

PLEASE DO *NOT* RESPOND TO THIS MESSAGE.

NSF is preparing for the review of proposals submitted to the Information
Technology Research (ITR) initiative for FiscalYear 2000. The success of this
program depends critically on our ability to enlist the help of expert
reviewers such as you to help us identify the outstanding proposals. We are
building a pool of reviewers qualified in IT-related research areas. ITR is a
new $90M NSF initiative that aims to promote fundamental research in
information technology, encouraging in particular research spanning
information
technology and scientific applications, and in the area of social, ethical and
workforce issues. Specific areas include: 1) software; 2) information
technology education and workforce; 3) human-computer interface; 4)
information
management; 5) advanced computational science; 6) scalable information
infrastructure; 7) social and economic implications of information technology;
and 8) revolutionary computing. The ITR Program Solicitation can be found on
the NSF Web Page at <http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/1999/nsf99167/nsf99167.htm>

The Fiscal Year 2000 competition requires the submission of preproposals by
January 5, 2000 for all PIs who plan to submit full proposals requesting more
than $500K. The preproposals will be panel-reviewed during the week of
February
7, 2000 at three locations: 1) at NSF in Arlington, VA; 2) at a location in
Chicago, IL near O'Hare Airport; and 3) at a location to be determined in the
San Francisco area. Based on the results of the preproposal screening,
approximately 120 full proposals will be encouraged for submission by April
17,
2000. Full proposals will be panel reviewed at NSF on May 22, 
2000. 

A separate competition is being organized for those proposals requesting less
than $500K for the full duration of the award. For this category of proposal,
no preproposal is required. Proposals requesting less than $500K are due at
NSF
on February 14, 2000. They will be reviewed during the weeks of March 20 and
March 27, 2000.

We would like to consider you as a potential panelist for this activity. If
you
are involved in a proposal submitted to any area of ITR, as PI, co-PI or
otherwise as a participant, you are ineligible to serve as a panelist.
However,
persons who are submitting proposals only to the more than $500K competition
can serve as panelists to review proposals less than $500K and vice versa. We
welcome panelists from foreign countries, national laboratories, and industry.

******IF YOU ARE INTERESTED IN PARTICIPATING PLEASE ACT TODAY!******** 

Indicate your availability, and provide us with your information by completing
the ITR Panelist Entry Form at the following URL:
<http://www.itr.nsf.gov/panelist>. We urge you to fill out the form
immediately,
since we will start to select panelists for the February 7 panel meetings
within the next few days. NSF will pay all travel costs in addition to $130
per
travel day and $260 per panel day. If you have other questions related to
serving as a panelist, please refer to the FAQ section of the ITR Home page at
<http://www.itr.nsf.gov/it2-faq.html> . Finally, we would also appreciate
it if
you could forward this request to other well-qualified IT scientists who you
think may be interested. 

We look forward to your reply, 
Sincerely, The ITR Working Group 
E-mail: itr@nsf.gov

NOTE to the Information and Data Management (IDM) community:

I am responsible for reviewing proposals in the category 4) information
management, so I would like to especially encourage your volunteering to
review
proposals as well your submitting exciting proposals to this category.

The IDM Program has a proposal submission target date of February 15, 1999. In
case you'd like to submit a proposal around this date, please read carefully
the IDM Program Description <http://www.cise.nsf.gov/iis/idm > and the ITR
Program Solicitation <http://www.npf.gov/pubs/1999/nsf99167/nsf99167.htm> and
decide which program (IDM or ITR) would be more suitable for your work. If you
have any ITR questions, please contact Michael Lesk <mlesk@nsf.gov>, while
directing IDM inquiries to me <mzemanko@nsf.gov>. However, we will not be able
to give you odds on your proposal's success if submitted to ITR vs. IDM.

Best regards,
Maria 
Maria Zemankova, Ph.D. 
Program Director, Information and Data Management (IDM) 
Division of Information and Intelligent Systems (IIS) 
National Science Foundation 
4201 Wilson Blvd., Room 1115 
Arlington, VA 22230
email: mzemanko@nsf.gov Phone: 703-306-1926 Fax: 703-306-0599 
URL: http://www.cise.nsf.gov/iis/idm

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