IR-L Digest, Vol.XVI, No.47, Issue 483

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

IRLIST Digest                                       ISSN 1064-6965
December 12, 1999
Volume XVI, Number 47
Issue 483

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III. NOTICES
     A. Publications
        1. ContentsDirect: Information Processing & Management,
           00244, 36:1
        2. Version 28, Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography
        3. JASIS 51:1: ToC
     B. Meetings
        1. Multi-Agent Information Systems: CFPapers
        2. LUMIS 2000: CFPapers
        3. CIA-2000: CFPapers
        4. SPIRE'2000: CFPapers
        5. ANLP/NAACL2000 Workshop: CFPapers
        6. Coling-2000: 2nd Announcement
 IV. PROJECTS
     C. Awards, Fellowships, Grants, & Scholarships
        1. NSF Biocomplexity [nsf0022]

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III. NOTICES

III.A.1.
Fr: cdmailer@elsevier.co.uk 
Re: ContentsDirect - Information Processing & Management, 00244, 36:1 

ContentsDirect from Elsevier Science 

URL: http://www.elsevier.nl/locate/jnlnr/00244
Journal: Information Processing and Management 
ISSN : 0306-4573 
Volume : 36 
Issue : 1 
Date : 09-Dec-1999

pp 1-2 
The sixth text REtrieval conference (TREC-6) 
EM Voorhees
pp 3-35 
Overview of the sixth text REtrieval conference (TREC-6) 
EM Voorhees, D Harman
pp 37-85 
Further reflections on TREC 
K Sparck Jones
pp 87-94 
TREC-6: personal highlights 
AF Smeaton
pp 95-108 
Experimentation as a way of life: Okapi at TREC 
SE Robertson, S Walker, M Beaulieu
pp 109-131 
Using clustering and SuperConcepts within SMART: TREC 6 
C Buckley, M Mitra, J Walz, C Cardie
pp 133-153 
Passage-based query refinement (MultiText experiments for TREC-6) 
GV Cormack, CLA Clarke, CR Palmer, SSL To
pp 155-178 
Natural language information retrieval: progress report 
J Perez-Carballo, T Strzalkowski
pp 179-186 
Query processing in TREC-6 
A Rao, A Lu, E Meier, S Ahmed, D Pliske
pp 187-204 
Verity at TREC-6: out-of-the-box and beyond 
J Pedersen, C Silverstein, CC Vogt
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III.A.2.
Fr: Charles W. Bailey, Jr. <cbailey@UH.EDU> 
Re: Version 28, Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography 

Version 28 of the Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography is now
available. This selective bibliography presents over 1,060 articles, books,
electronic documents, and other sources that are useful in understanding
scholarly electronic publishing efforts on the Internet and other networks.

HTML: <URL:http://info.lib.uh.edu/sepb/sepb.html> 
Acrobat: <URL:http://info.lib.uh.edu/sepb/sepb.pdf> 
Word 97: <URL:http://info.lib.uh.edu/sepb/sepb.doc>

The HTML document is designed for interactive use. Each major section is a
separate file. There are live links to sources available on the Internet. It
can be can be searched using Boolean operators.

The HTML document also includes Scholarly Electronic Publishing Resources, a
collection of links to related Web sites:
<URL:http://info.lib.uh.edu/sepb/sepr.htm>

The Acrobat and Word files are designed for printing. Each file is over 250
KB.
(Revised sections in this version are marked with an asterisk.)
Table of Contents
1 Economic Issues* 
2 Electronic Books and Texts 
2.1 Case Studies and History* 
2.2 General Works* 
2.3 Library Issues* 
3 Electronic Serials 
3.1 Case Studies and History* 
3.2 Critiques 
3.3 Electronic Distribution of Printed Journals 
3.4 General Works* 
3.5 Library Issues* 
3.6 Research* 
4 General Works* 
5 Legal Issues 
5.1 Intellectual Property Rights* 
5.2 License Agreements* 
5.3 Other Legal Issues* 
6 Library Issues 
6.1 Cataloging, Classification, and Metadata* 
6.2 Digital Libraries* 
6.3 General Works* 
6.4 Information Conversion, Integrity, and Preservation* 
7 New Publishing Models* 
8 Publisher Issues 
8.1 Electronic Commerce/Copyright Systems* 
Appendix A. Related Bibliographies by the Same Author 
Appendix B. About the Author

Best Regards, 
Charles
Charles W. Bailey, Jr., Assistant Dean for Systems, 
University Libraries, University of Houston, Houston, TX 
77204-2091. E-mail: cbailey@uh.edu. Voice: (713) 743-9804. 
Fax: (713) 743-9811.
<URL:http://info.lib.uh.edu/cwb/bailey.htm> 
<URL:http://info.lib.uh.edu/sepb/sepb.html>

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III.A.3.
Fr: Richard Hill <rhill@asis.org> 
Re: JASIS 51:1: ToC 

Journal of the American Society for Information Science 
JASIS 
VOLUME 51, NUMBER 1

[Note: below are URLs for viewing contents of JASIS from past issues. Below
the
contents of Bert Boyce's "In This Issue" has been cut into the Table of
Contents as well as material from the introduction to the special section.]

CONTENTS
EDITORIAL
In This Issue 
Bert R. Boyce 
1
SPECIAL TOPIC ISSUE: WHEN MUSEUM INFORMATICS MEETS THE WORLD WIDE WEB 
Guest Editors: David Bearman and Jennifer Trant
Introduction: When Museum Informatics Meets the World Wide Web, It 
Generates Energy 
David Bearman and Jennifer Trant 
3 

Effective Levels of Adaptation to Different Types of Users in 
Interactive Museum Systems 
F. Paterno and C. Mancini 
5 

On Pattern-Directed Search of Archives and Collections 
Garett O. Dworman, Steven O. Kimbrough, and Chuck Patch 
14 

On-Line Exhibit Design: The Sociotechnological Impact of Building a 
Museum over the World Wide Web 
Paul F. Marty 
24 

Visiting a Museum Together: How to Share a Visit to a Virtual World 
Paolo Paolini, Thimoty Barbieri, Paolo Loiudice, Francesca Alonzo, Marco 
Zanti, and G. Gaia 
33 

The Neon Paintbrush: Seeing, Technology, and the Museum as Metaphor 
Peter Walsh 
39 

Designing Digital Environments for Art Education/Exploration 
Slavko Milekic 
49 
 
RESEARCH
Using the Internet for Survey Research: A Case Study 
Yin Zhang 
57 
 
Block Addressing Indices for Approximate Text Retrieval 
Ricardo Baeza-Yates and Gonzalo Navarro 
69 
 
Surname Plus Recallable Title Word Searches for Known Items by Scholars 
Frederick G. Kilgour and Barbara B. Moran 
83 
 
BOOK REVIEWS 
Communicating Research, by A. J. Meadows 
Christine L. Borgman 
90

Civic Space/Cyberspace: The American Public Library in the Information 
Age, by Redmond Kathleen Molz and Phyllis Dain 
Richard J. Cox 
91 

The ASIS home page <http://www.asis.org> contains the Table of Contents and
brief abstracts as above from January 1993 (Volume 44) to date.

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. We are still working on restoring access for
ASIS members as "registered users."
 
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III.B.1.
Fr: Geoff Staniford <g.staniford@livjm.ac.uk> 
Re: Multi-Agent Information Systems: CFPapers 
 
Call for Papers
Special Session on
Multi-Agent Information Systems
Monte Carlo Resort, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
June 26 - 29, 2000

In conjunction with IC-AI'2000 
The 2000 International Conference on Artificial Intelligence
For web version of this call see 
http://www.cms.livjm.ac.uk/cmsgstan/mais2000.html

Introduction 
The characteristics of software agents such as autonomy, goal-orientedness,
collaboration and mobility present new possibilities for the development of
future information systems. An agent-based information system may employ
information agents that pro-actively search for and combine relevant
information on behalf of users or other agents from various sources. In
e-commerce, agents automate various aspects of a business transaction such as
price comparison, negotiation, auction, and brokerages, to name a few. The
development of complex large-scale information systems such as
distributed/federated databases, heterogeneous databases and semi-structured
databases in the future are most likely to use agent technology in the design
and implementation of various aspects of the system. With the increasing
use of
such complex and large-scale information systems, new approaches to the design
and implementation of these systems merit significant investigation and
analysis. Multi-agent systems have been mooted as an important means with
which
to address the development of large and complex information systems, and
provide one such approach to the problem above. Agent technology and
multi-agent systems have arisen in an exciting and rapidly changing field
during the last ten years, emerging from distributed artificial intelligence.
In particular, the exponential growth of the internet as an enabling
technology
for distributed systems has provided an increasingly urgent need for research
into issues surrounding the research paradigms considered in this workshop.
Indeed, at this exciting interface between a number of fields of research,
there are many open questions to be answered, and many problems to be solved. 

The design of systems based around multiple interacting agents requires
expertise from a number of different research areas. A key aim of this
interdisciplinary special session is to bring together active researchers from
the different fields to exchange ideas discuss the many open issues that arise
in the design, development and implementation of multi-agent information
systems.

Topics of Interest 
The special session will be concerned with a broad range of issues relating to
the design and implementation of agent-based systems. Topics of interest
include but are not limited to:
agents in Internet/E-Commerce systems and applications 
agents in database systems and applications 
agent coordination and integration of activities 
agent adaptation and learning 
information agents 
mobility and Security Issues 
middle agents 
network agents 
human-agent interaction, collaboration and communication 
industrial agent systems and applications 
agent theories and languages 
agent models and architectures

Submission 
Authors who wish to submit to the session should send either PostScript or PDF
versions of their paper by email to the session chair, or else provide a URL
for an online version of the paper. Hardcopy submission is possible if
arranged
in advance. Submissions should be no more than 4000 words length (approx. 10
printed pages). The first page of each submission should list the full contact
details (including full name, postal address, email address, phone and fax
number) of at least one author. 

All accepted papers will be published in the IC-AI'2000 proceedings,

Your paper should reach us no later than 6th March 2000.

Organisation 
Session Chair: 
Dr. Geof Staniford 
School of Computing and Mathematical Sciences 
Byrom Street 
Liverpool John Moores University 
Liverpool L3 3AF 
United Kingdom. 
g.staniford@livjm.ac.uk

Important Dates: 
March 6, 2000 (Monday): deadline for paper submission 
April 3, 2000 (Monday): notification of acceptance/rejection 
May 1, 2000 (Monday):   camera-Ready papers & Pre reg. due 
June 26 - 29, 2000:     IC-AI'2000 Conference

Note: 
For information regarding the IC-AI'2000 conference, contact: 
Prof. Hamid R. Arabnia, General Chair, IC-AI'2000 
The University of Georgia, Department of Computer Science 
415 Graduate Studies Research Center 
Athens, Georgia 30602-7404, USA 
Phone: (706) 542-3480 
Fax: (706) 542-2966 
Email: hra@cs.uga.edu

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III.B.2.
Fr: Fabio Crestani <fabioc@ICSI.Berkeley.EDU> 
Re: LUMIS 2000: CFPapers 

CALL FOR PAPERS
11th International Conference on Database and Expert Systems
Applications (DEXA 2000)
SECOND INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON LOGICAL AND UNCERTAINTY
MODELS FOR INFORMATION SYSTEMS (LUMIS 2000)
Greenwich, London, 6-8 September 2000

The advent of electronic tools for producing and storing information has
resulted in an avalanche of computer readable text. The access to all this
information has gone through a slow but steady process to adapt to the growth
of availability of electronically stored data, and a large number of tools
have
been developed to enable users to access and manage these large volumes of
information. But what has uncertainty and logic to do with accessing and
managing information stored in a computer?

Uncertainty plays a very important role in the representation, access, and
retrieval of information. The representation of information objects is often
uncertain. For example, the extraction of index terms from a document or a
query to represent the document or the query information content is a highly
uncertain process. The data describing the redness of a red object present
in a
picture stored in a multimedia database is subject to a certain degree of
uncertainty too. 

Logic plays a very important role in the representation, access, and retrieval
of information. Logic has proved over centuries to be a very powerful
modelling
and reasoning tool, providing a degree of formality and correctness that
can be
very useful for manipulating information objects. For the task of retrieving
information, logic has been used to build models that provide a rich and
uniform representation of information with the aim to improve retrieval
effectiveness. 

The purpose of this workshop is to promote discussion and interaction among
members of the Information Systems community; in particular among those
members
with research interests in logical and uncertainty models for the treatment of
semi-structured and unstructured information. We are particularly
interested in
experiences dealing with unstructured or poorly structured information. Papers
presented will deal with, but not limited to, the following areas:
Information Retrieval, Information Filtering, Multimedia Indexing and 
Retrieval, Hypermedia, Digital Libraries, Information agents, 
Ontologies, Formal evaluation where information is modelled and/or managed
using any of, but not limited to, the following approaches: 
Probabilistic Theory, Non-standard Logics, Default Reasoning, Fuzzy Methods,
Non-monotonic Logics, Knowledge Acquisition, Theory of Evidence, Meta Logics,
Knowledge Representation, Belief Networks, Situation Theory, Machine Learning,
Possibility Theory, Multivalued Logics, Inductive Methods, Rough Sets,
Description Logics, Abductive Methods, Approximate Reasoning, Belief Revision,
Relevance Theory. 

WORKSHOP CHAIRS:
Peter Bruza - Distributed Systems Technology Centre, Queensland, Australia 
Fabio Crestani - International Computer Science Institute, Berkeley, USA 
Mounia Lalmas - Queen Mary & Westfield College, London, England 

PROGRAM COMMITTEE: 
Gianni Amati - Fondazione Ugo Bordoni, Roma, Italy 
Anthony Hunter - University College London, England 
Jian-Yun Nie - University of Montreal, Canada 
Yukio Osawa - University of Tsukuba, Tokyo, Japan 
Iadh Ounis - University of Glasgow, Scotland 
Gabriella Pasi - ITIM-CNR, Milan, Italy 
Stefan Rueger - Imperial College, London, England 
Florence Sedes - IRIT-CNRS, Toulouse, France 
Ulrich Thiel - GMD-IPSI, Darmstadt, Germany 
Theo van der Weide - Katholieke Universiteit Nijmegen, The Netherlands

SUBMISSION DETAILS:
Authors are invited to submit research contributions representing original,
previously unpublished work. Submitted papers will be carefully evaluated
based
on originality, significance, and relevance to the workshop. Accepted papers
will be published by IEEE Computer Society Press as proceedings of the DEXA
2000 workshops. 

IMPORTANT DATES:
Deadline for submission of papers:              1 March 2000 
Authors notified of program committee decision: 1 April 2000 
Final submission of camera-ready copy:          1 May 2000

WEB SITE:
http://www.dcs.qmw.ac.uk/~mounia/LUMIS.html

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III.B.3.
Fr: Matthias Klusch <klusch@dfki.de> 
Re: CIA-2000: CFPapers 

SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS
Fourth International Workshop CIA-2000 on
COOPERATIVE INFORMATION AGENTS
July 7 - 9, 2000
Boston, USA
http://www.dfki.de/~klusch/cia2000.html

This workshop is co-sponsored by
- NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, USA. 
- Swiss Life AG, Switzerland. 
- IFMAS International Foundation for Multiagent Systems.
It is co-located with the ICMAS-2000 conference.

IMPORTANT DATES 
Deadline for Paper Submission:        JANUARY 24, 2000
Notification of Acceptance/Rejection: March 10, 2000 
Deadline for Camera-Ready Paper:      March 27, 2000

WORKSHOP THEME 
Information agent technology is one of the major key technologies for the
Internet and worldwide Web. It emerged as a response to the challenges of the
cyberspace from both, the technological and human user perspective. An
information agent is a computational software entity that has access to one or
multiple, heterogeneous and distributed information sources, pro-actively
searches for and maintains relevant information on behalf of users or other
agents preferably just-in-time. In other words, it is managing and overcoming
the difficulties associated with information overload. Although low-level
infrastructure has been developed to support interoperability between
heterogeneous databases and application programs, this is not sufficient when
dealing with higher-level object organizations such as vertical business
object
frameworks and workflows. Existing multi-database or federated database
systems
do not even support any kind of pro-active information discovery. One key
challenge of advanced information systems is to balance the autonomy of
databases and legacy systems with the potential payoff of leveraging them by
the use of information agents to perform collaborative work. 

Development of information agents requires expertise from different research
disciplines such as Artificial Intelligence (AI), advanced databases and
knowledge base systems, distributed information systems, information
retrieval,
and Human Computer Interaction (HCI).

Like in the previous CIA workshops, all hot topics in the research area of
intelligent and collaborating information agents are covered by the CIA-2000
workshop.

TOPICS 
Topics are but not limited to:
* SYSTEMS and Applications of Information Agents
- Architectures, prototypes and fielded systems of collaborating information
agents for information discovery and management in the Internet and Web. 
- Issues of Programming Collaborative Information Agents for the Internet.
* ADAPTATION and Learning Applied to Information Agents
- Advanced methods for single and multiagent system learning. 
- Performance, relationship and application of multiagent learning for
collaborating information agents. 
- Self-emerging collaboration among information agents. 
- Computation and action under limited resources. 
- Methods for automated uncertain reasoning for knowledge based information
agents. 
- Distributed, adaptive Information Retrieval
* MOBILE Information Agents and Issues of Security in the Internet
- Applications of cooperating mobile information agents in wearable computers,
hand-held and/or satellite-based control devices (WAP-compliant Web handies,
communicators, etc.). 
- Architectures, environments and languages for mobile and secure performance
of information agents and servers.
* RATIONAL Information Agents and Electronic Commerce
- Virtual Agent-Based Marketplaces, Coalition Formation, Auctions. 
- Electronic Commerce with incomplete and uncertain informations. 
- Economic Models of cooperative problem solving among rational information
agents in open information environments. 
- Standards for privacy of communication, security, and jurisdiction for
agent-mediated deals.
* Advanced Database, Information System and Knowledge-Base Technology
- Application of techniques for Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery in open,
distributed and dynamically changing environments. 
- Management of uncertain and incomplete knowledge for information
gathering on
the Internet or large corporate Intranets.
* Construction and Reuse of Ontologies for Multiagent Information Gathering
* Human-Agent Interaction and Intelligent User Interfaces for Information
Agents
- Synthetic agents, believable avatars, and 3-D multimedia-based
representation
of user information spaces in the Internet. 
- Models and implementation of advanced interfaces for conversation and
dialogue among information Agents and Users. 
- Dynamic inspection of information agents' work by the user.

PROCEEDINGS 
The workshop proceedings including all accepted papers will be published by
Springer as a volume in the LNAI series (Lecture Notes in Artificial
Intelligence). The proceedings of the CIA-97, CIA-98, CIA-99 workshops
appeared
as LNAI Vol. 1202, 1435 and 1652 respectively.

PREPARATION & SUBMISSION OF PAPERS 
The length of each paper should not exceed 12 pages. All papers must be
written
in English. Submissions will be refereed for quality, correctness, originality
and relevance. Papers accepted or under review by other conferences, workshops
or journals are not acceptable. Papers not conforming to the above
requirements
may be rejected without review.

For preparation of camera-ready papers to be submitted please follow the
instructions for authors available at the Springer LNCS Web page: 
http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html

For those not using the Springer LNCS style files: The paper must be formatted
in A4 size using 10 point Times. (If Times is not available, please use one of
the similar typefaces widely used in phototypesetting.) Printing area
should be
12.2 x 19.3 cm, and the interline distance should be arranged in such a way
that some 42 to 45 lines occur on a full-text page.

Each submission includes the full paper (title, authors, abstract, text), and
in addition a separate title page with the title, a 300-400 word abstract, a
list of keywords, authors (names, addresses, email addresses, telephone and
fax
numbers). You may submit your paper by Electronic Mail or Postal Mail.
+ Submission by E-Mail: 
Please send your contribution in postscript format (preferably in A4)
printable, as compressed file to:
klusch@dfki.de
+ Submission by Postal Mail: 
Please send 4 hard-copies of your contribution to the following address.
(please do not tack the pages together.)
Dr. Matthias Klusch 
DFKI GmbH 
Stuhlsatzenhausweg 3 
66123 Saarbruecken 
Germany
 
CONTACT
For more information about the workshop please contact:
Matthias Klusch 
DFKI German AI Research Center Ltd. 
Stuhlsatzenhausweg 3 
66123 Saarbruecken, Germany 
Phone: +49-681-302-5297 
Fax: +49-681-302-2235 
EMail: klusch@dfki.de 
URL: http://www.dfki.de/~klusch

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III.B.4.
Fr: Mark Sanderson <m.sanderson@sheffield.ac.uk> 
Re: SPIRE'2000: CFPapers

CALL FOR PAPERS
SPIRE'2000 - String Processing and Information REtrieval
September 22 - 24, 2000
A Coruña, Spain
Sponsored by CYTED-AMYRI Research Project

WHAT IS SPIRE'2000?
SPIRE'2000 is a Symposium on String Processing and Information Retrieval,
which
is in its seventh edition. The first four editions focused primarily on string
processing and originated in South America, and were called WSP (South
American
Workshop on String Processing). They were held in Belo Horizonte, Brazil
(1993), Valparaíso, Chile (1995 and 1997), and Recife, Brazil (1996).

Starting in 1998, at Santa Cruz, Bolivia, the focus of the workshop was
broadened to include the area of information retrieval due to its increasing
relevance and its inter-relationship with the area of string processing.

SPIRE'99, at Cancun, Mexico has continued this trend including also the
area of
DNA computing and, as a result, there was several papers and three invited
talks on this topic. For SPIRE'2000 we expect to have contributions from
several related communities.

The SPIRE'2000 symposium aims at facilitating the potential benefits of
cross-fertilization between different fields. As such, it offers a singular
opportunity for researchers interested in working with problems related to
these areas. As in the past, the proceedings of SPIRE'2000 will be
published by
IEEE CS Press.

TOPICS
SPIRE'2000 covers research in all aspects of string processing, information
retrieval, computational biology, pattern matching, DNA computing, and related
applications. Typical topics of interest include (but are not limited to):
* String Processing: dictionary algorithms, text searching, pattern matching,
text compression, text mining, voice or natural language processing, and
automata based string processing.
* Information Retrieval (IR): IR modeling, indexing, ranking and filtering,
interface design, visualization, cross-lingual IR systems, multimedia IR,
digital libraries, collaborative retrieval, and Web related applications.
* Interaction of biology and computation: DNA sequencing and applications in
molecular biology, information encoding for DNA computing, evolution and
phylogenetics, recognition of genes and regulatory elements, and protein
structure prediction.

IMPORTANT DATES:
Paper submission:           April 20th, 2000 
Authors notification:       May 31th, 2000 
Camera ready:               June 26th, 2000

SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS
Authors are requested to:
- prepare an extended abstract or full draft paper of at most 15 pages in
standard 11pt Latex article style or equivalent.
- send the paper in standard postscript via e-mail (see address below) no
later
than April 20th, 2000 to the chair of the Program Committee as well as a
message containing the paper title, the names of all authors, an indication of
the author to be contacted, and the affiliation of such author (including full
address, phone/fax numbers, and e-mail address). E-mail:
spire2000@infor.uva.es
- use the standard IEEE CS format for the final version of accepted papers,
which will have to be sent via ftp to the publisher either as postscript or
PDF.

LOCAL ORGANIZATION
The local organization committee is chaired by Nieves R. Brisaboa from
Univ. of
A Coruña, Spain. For any questions about local matters please send e-mail to
spire00@udc.es.

WEB HOMEPAGE
http://rosalia.dc.fi.udc.es/spire2000/

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III.B.5.
Fr: Priscilla Rasmussen <rasmusse@cs.rutgers.edu> 
Re: ANLP/NAACL2000 Workshop: CFPapers

Call for Papers
Workshop on Automatic Summarization
(pre-conference workshop in conjunction with ANLP-NAACL2000)
website: http://www.isi.edu/~cyl/was-anlp2000

sponsored by
ACL (Association for Computational Linguistics)
MITRE Corporation
Sunday, April 30, 2000
Seattle, Washington, USA

I. OVERVIEW 
The problem of automatic summarization poses a variety of tough challenges in
both NL understanding and generation. A spate of recent papers and
tutorials on
this subject at conferences such as ACL/EACL, AAAI, ECAI, IJCAI, and SIGIR
point to a growing interest in research in this field. Several commercial
summarization products have also appeared. There have been several
workshops in
the past on this subject: Dagstuhl in 94, ACL/EACL in 97, and the AAAI Spring
Symposium in 98. All of these were extremely successful, and the field is now
enjoying a period of revival and is advancing at a much quicker pace than
before. ANLP/NAACL'2000 is an ideal occasion to host another workshop on this
problem.

The Workshop on Automatic Summarization program committee invites papers
addressing (but not limited to):

Summarization Methods: use of linguistic representations, statistical models, 
NL generation for summarization, production of abstracts and extracts,
multi-document summarization, narrative techniques in summarization,
multilingual summarization, text compaction, multimodal summarization
(including summarization of audio), use of information extraction, studies and
modeling of human summarizers, improving summary coherence, concept fusion,
use
of thesauri and ontologies, trainable summarizers, applications of machine
learning, knowledge-rich methods.

Summarization Resources: development of corpora for training and evaluating
summarizers, annotation standards, shared summarization tools, document
segmentation, topic detection, and clustering related to summarization

Evaluation Methods: intrinsic and extrinsic measures, on-line and off-line
evaluations, standards for evaluation, task-based evaluation scenarios, user
studies, inter-judge agreement

Workshop Themes:
1. Multilingual Text Summarization 
2. Generation for Summarization 
3. Topic Identification for Summarization 
4. Multidocument Summarization 
5. Evaluation and Test/Training Corpora 
6. Integration with web and IR access

II. IMPORTANT DATES 
Paper submission deadline:             February 4, 2000 
Notification of acceptance for papers: March 1, 2000 
Camera ready papers due:               March 13, 2000 
Workshop date:                         April 30, 2000

III. FORMAT FOR SUBMISSION 
Submissions must use the ACL latex style 
(http://www.isi.edu/~cyl/was-anlp2000/latex/index.html) or Microsoft Word
style
WAS-submission.doc (both available from the Automatic Summarization workshop
web page). Paper submissions should consist of a full paper (5000 words or
less, including references). Please send submission questions to cyl@isi.edu

Submission Procedure:
Electronic submission only: send the pdf (preferred), postscript, or MS Word
form of your submission to: cyl@isi.edu. The Subject line should be
"ANLP-NAACL2000 WORKSHOP PAPER SUBMISSION". Because reviewing is blind, no
author information is included as part of the paper. An identification page
must be sent in a separate email with the subject line: "ANLP-NAACL2000
WORKSHOP ID PAGE" and must include title, all authors, theme area, keywords,
word count, and an abstract of no more than 5 lines. Late submissions will not
be accepted. Notification of receipt will be e-mailed to the first author
shortly after receipt.

IV. Organizing Committee: 
Udo Hahn University of Freiburg 
hahn@coling.uni-freiburg.de 
Chin-Yew Lin USC/Information Sciences Institute cyl@isi.edu 
Inderjeet Mani MITRE imani@mitre.org 
Dragomir Radev University of Michigan, Ann Arbor radev@umich.edu
V. Program Committee: 
Elisabeth Andre DFKI GmbH 
Branimir Boguraev IBM Research 
Chris Buckley SabIR Research 
Michael Elhadad Ben Gurion University 
Takahiro Fukushima Telecommunications Advancement Organization of Japan 
Eduard Hovy USC/Information Sciences Institute 
Hongyan Jing Columbia University 
Elizabeth Liddy Syracuse University 
Daniel Marcu USC/Information Sciences Institute 
Shigeru Masuyama Toyohashi University of Technology 
Mark Maybury MITRE 
Vibhu Mittal Just Research 
Sung Hyon Myaeng Chungnam University 
Akitoshi Okumura NEC 
Chris Paice Lancaster University 
Karen Sparck-Jones University of Cambridge 
Tomek Strzalkowski GE CRD 
Simone Teufel University of Edinburgh 
Benjamin Tsou City University of Hong Kong

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III.B.6.
Fr: Priscilla Rasmussen <rasmusse@cs.rutgers.edu> 
Re: Coling-2000: 2nd Announcement 

COLING 2000 - SECOND ANNOUNCEMENT
The International Conference on Computational Linguistics
(http://www.coling.org)

COLING 2000 will take place in three countries in the heart of Europe
- Nancy (Tutorials 29/30 July, 2000) 
- Saarbrücken (Conference 31 July - 4 August, 2000) 
- Luxembourg (Workshops 5/6 August 2000)

Transportation between the three almost neighboring sites will be provided.
COLING 2000 will be the ideal place to
- present your latest results at the conference and workshops 
- demo your systems to colleagues 
- study new trends and techniques in the tutorials 
- exhibit your language technologies for the 21st century 
- hire needed specialists before somebody else does

Check out the calls for
- papers (http://www.coling.org/call.html) 
- workshop proposals (http://www.coling.org/workshops.html) 
- tutorial proposals (http://www.coling.org/tutorials.html) 
- demos/exhibits (http://www.coling.org/exhibition.html)

At the conference, we will provide space for announcing job openings, as well
as a sign-up desk and rooms for job interviews

Check out our low conference fees: (http://www.coling.org/reg.html).

To increase student participation, we have decided on very favorable
conference
fees for bona fide students. 

Students who would still not be able to attend for financial reasons, please
contact us at: org@coling.org

If you live and work in an economically disadvantaged country and have no
possibility of obtaining funding or if you are experiencing special personal
hardships, we will try to help.

All this information and more at: http://www.coling.org

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IV. PROJECTS
IV.C.1.
Fr: Maria Zemankova <mzemanko@nsf.gov> 
Re: NSF Biocomplexity [nsf0022] 

NSF 00-22
BIOCOMPLEXITY: SPECIAL COMPETITION
Integrated Research to Understand and Model Complexity Among
Biological, Physical, and Social Systems

DEADLINE DATES:
MESSAGE OF INTENT - JANUARY 31, 2000 
RESEARCH PROPOSALS - MARCH 1, 2000 
INCUBATION ACTIVITIES - MARCH 1, 2000

The following document (nsf0022, replaces nsf9960) is now available from the 
NSF Online Document System

Title: Biocomplexity: Special Competition 2000 
Type: Program Announcements & Information 
Subtype: Biology, Computer/Information Sciences, Crosscutting 
Programs, Engineering, Geosciences, Math/Physical Sciences, NSF-wide, Polar
Programs, Social/Behavioral Sciences 
It may be found at:
http://www.nsf.gov/cgi-bin/getpub?nsf0022

Short Description/Synopsis of Program:
This special competition will support integrated research to better understand
and model complexity that arises from the interaction of biological, physical,
and social systems. Biocomplexity arises from dynamics spanning several levels
within a system, between systems, and/or across multiple spatial (microns to
thousands of kilometers) and temporal (nanoseconds to eons) scales. This
special competition will specifically support Research Projects which directly
explore nonlinearities, chaotic behavior, emergent phenomena or feedbacks
within and between systems and/or integrate across multiple components or
scales of time and space in order to better understand and predict the dynamic
behavior of systems. The competition will also support Incubation Activities
that enable groups of researchers who have not historically collaborated on
biocomplexity research to develop projects via focused workshops, virtual
meetings, and other types of development and planning activities.

NOTE: The Biocomplexity initiative calls for interdisciplinary research. In
particular, CISE researchers are encouraged to collaborate with biologists and
researchers in other fields on solving biocomplexity problems while advancing
the CISE research fields. E.g. (from the announcement):

"Decades of fruitful research, following the reductionist paradigm,
generated a
vast wealth of knowledge about the living and non-living subcomponents of many
environmental systems. Now researchers from a broad spectrum of fields, armed
with burgeoning databases and a new array of computational, observational, and
analytical tools can undertake the integrative research necessary to tackle
biocomplexity. The study of biocomplexity offers many challenges to modeling
methods, including mathematical and computational ones. Descriptions of
aggregate behavior, nonlinear phenomena, networks with distributed or local
control, or combinations of continuous and discrete behavior as well as new
visualization methods can be applied to address biocomplexity. Genome
sequencing, DNA-chips, robotics, computer simulations, new sensors and
monitoring systems, along with satellite-based imaging of the land and seas,
all contribute to the flood of data relevant to the understanding of
biocomplexity. Knowledge discovery techniques (e.g., datamining,
visualization,
summarization, trend extraction, etc.) are being developed to convert the
volumes of data into new knowledge."

Cognizant Program Officer for Computer and Information Science and Engineering
(CISE): Y. T. Chien 
Phone: (703) 306-1980 
E-mail: ytchien@nsf.gov

You are encouraged to subscribe to the NSF Custom News Service 
http://www.nsf.gov/home/cns/start.htm and receive relevant information as soon
as it becomes available. 

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