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IR-L Digest, Vol.XVII, No.2, Issue 486
IRLIST Digest ISSN 1064-6965
January 10, 2000
Volume XVII, Number 2
Issue 486
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I. QUERIES
1. Embedded Multimedia Electronic Journal Candidates
III. NOTICES
A. Publications
1. JASIS ToC, 51:2
2. IP&M Special Issue: Interactivity and TREC: CFPapers
B. Meetings
1. Pervasive Computing 2000
2. Managing Knowledge to Manage Your Future: Workshop
3. CIR-2000: Final CFPapers
4. Communicating Agents: 3rd CFPapers
5. Symposium on Social Communication
6. Information Doors -- Where Information Search and Hypertext
Link: Workshop: CFPapers
7. ICEIS 2000: Final CFPapers
8. Four ANLP/NAACL-2000 Workshops: CFPapers
C. Miscellaneous
1. Information on the UK Resource Discovery Network
2. GreyNet Press Release: ALA'2000 Mid-Winter
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I. QUERIES
I.1.
Fr: Gerry Mckiernan <GMCKIERN@gwgate.lib.iastate.edu>
Re: Embedded Multimedia Electronic Journal Candidates
_Embedded Multimedia Electronic Journal Candidates_
I am greatly interested in learning of **other** electronic journals that have
integrated or incorporated a multimedia component within their issues for
listing in _M-Bed(sm)_, my Registry of Embedded Multimedia Electronic
Journals.
M-Bed(sm) is available at
http://www.public.iastate.edu/~CYBERSTACKS/M-Bed.htm
Currently, about three dozen embedded multimedia e-Journals are listed in
M-Bed(sm).
Common types of multimedia include audio and video files as well as
two-dimensional and 3-D models, and supplemental datasets.
As a adjunct to the registry, I have also compiled a General Bibliography of
key works on Web multimedia that include Web sites as well as recent and
forthcoming books and articles that I believe will be of interest to a wide
audience. I welcome citations to any other significant relevant publications
for inclusion in this bibliography.
NOTE: I am pleased to announce recent publication (November 1999) of my brief
review article "Embedded Multimedia in Electronic Journals" in _Multimedia
Information and Technology_ 25(4):338-343, the journal of the Multimedia Group
of Aslib and the Multimedia Information and Technology Group of the Library
Association (UK). [Pay-per-view copies are available directly from the
CatchWord site ( http://www.catchword.com/ ) or through _Just-in-Time_, my
clearinghouse devoted to 'as needed' access to e-journal articles
( http://www.public.iastate.edu/~CYBERSTACKS/Just.htm ) ]
As Always, Any and All contributions, comments, queries, critiques, questions,
etc. etc. regarding multimedia e-journals or candidate book titles about
multimedia on the Web are Most Welcome.
Regards,
/Gerry McKiernan
Theoretical Librarian
Iowa State University
Ames IA 50011
gerrymck@iastate.edu
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III. NOTICES
III.A.1.
Fr: Richard Hill <rhill@asis.org>
Re: JASIS ToC, 51:2
Journal of the American Society for Information Science
JASIS 51:2
[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.]
EDITORIAL
In This Issue
Bert R. Boyce
93
RESEARCH
Probabilistic Datalog: Implementing Logical Information Retrieval for
Advanced Applications
Norbert Fuhr
95
Interface Metaphors and Logical Analogues: A Question of Terminology
Anne Hamilton
111
Citation Ranking Versus Peer Evaluation of Senior Faculty Research
Performance: A Case Study of Kurdish Scholarship
Lokman I. Meho and Diane H. Sonnenwald
123
Publication Trends of Doctoral Students in Three Fields from 1965-1995
Wade M. Lee
139
Methods for Accrediting Publications to Authors or Countries: Consequences for
Evaluation Studies
Leo Egghe, Ronald Rousseau, and Guido Van Hooydonk
145
The Influence of Publication Delays on the Observed Aging Distribution of
Scientific Literature
Leo Egghe and Ronald Rousseau
158
Semantic Similarities Between a Keyword Database and a Controlled
Vocabulary Database: An Investigation in the Antibiotic Resistance Literature
Jian Qin
166
Readers, Authors, and Page Structure: A Discussion of Four Questions
Arising from a Content Analysis of Web Pages
Stephanie W. Haas and Erika S. Grams
181
Application of Dublin Core Metadata in the Description of Digital Primary
Sources in Elementary School Classrooms
Anne J. Gilliland-Swetland, Yasmin B. Kafai, and William E. Landis
193
BRIEF COMMUNICATION
Genres and the Web: Is the Personal Home Page the First Uniquely Digital
Genre?
Andrew Dillon and Barbara A. Gushrowski
202
BOOK REVIEWS
Facilitating the Development and Use of Interactive Learning Environments,
edited by Charles P. Bloom and R. Bowen Loftin
James J. Sempsey
206
Visualizing Subject Access for 21st Century Information Resources, edited by
Pauline Atherton Cochrane and Eric H. Johnson
Marc Lampson
206
LETTER TO THE EDITOR
Relevance Research: The Missing Perspective(s): "Non-Relevance" and
"Epistemological Relevance"
Birger Hj\orland
209
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.A.2.
Fr: William Hersh <hersh@ohsu.edu>
Re: IP&M Special Issue: Interactivity and TREC: CFPapers
CALL FOR PAPERS
Special Issue - Information Processing & Management
INTERACTIVITY AND THE TEXT RETRIEVAL CONFERENCE (TREC)
William Hersh, Oregon Health Sciences University, hersh@ohsu.edu
Paul Over, National Institute for Standards & Technology, over@nist.gov
Co-Editors
The goal of this issue is to bring together research focused on user
interaction with queries, collections, and tasks from the Text Retrieval
Conference (TREC). While many papers will emanate from the TREC Interactive
Track, we also invite submissions from other research groups who have
performed
experiments with real users in other TREC tasks or using TREC data. For
example, those who have employed users in the TREC manual ad hoc track are
encouraged to describe their results with a focus on user interaction.
Likewise, anyone who has done user experiments with TREC data outside the TREC
conference is also encouraged to submit.
The deadline for papers is March 1, 2000. The papers will be peer-reviewed in
the normal manner. Style and format instructions for the manuscripts can be
found in each issue of Information Processing & Management or at the journal's
Web site at:
http://www.elsevier.nl/locate/infoproman
Papers can be submitted in electronic or hard copy format (electronic
preferred). Electronic formats accepted include Postscript, PDF, Word, and
WordPerfect and should be mailed to William Hersh at hersh@ohsu.edu. For paper
submissions, three duplicate copies should be sent to:
William Hersh
Oregon Health Sciences University
3181 SW Sam Jackson Park Rd.
BICC
Portland, OR 97201
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III.B.1.
Fr: Pat Flanagan <patricia.flanagan@nist.gov>
Re: Pervasive Computing 2000
"PERVASIVE COMPUTING 2000"
January 25-26, 2000
National Institute of Standards and Technology
Gaithersburg, Maryland
For more information and for online registration for this conference, please
see our website at
http://www.nist.gov/pc2000
"Pervasive Computing" is the strongly emerging trend toward:
*Numerous, casually accessible, often invisible computing devices Mobile or
embedded in the environment.
*Connected to an increasingly ubiquitous network structure
*Failing to see and act upon this trend may be very costly to U. S.
*Information Technology companies; just as it was for mainframe companies to
ignore the emergence of personal computers; and for the PC companies to ignore
the infant World Wide Web.
*The innovative firms, which establish a critical mass relatively early in the
generation life cycle, are usually the ones with superior returns on
investment.
*For computer users, the underlying premise is compelling: simplicity of use,
ubiquitous access, minimal technical expertise, reliability and more intuitive
interaction methods. Through intelligent use of technologies,
*Pervasive Computing presents an unusual opportunity to better serve human
needs.
TOPICS: Human-computer interaction, pico-cellular wireless, multimedia
information access, service discovery, human-centered integration and
interoperability, programming pervasive computing applications, and innovative
pervasive computing devices
FEATURED SPEAKERS INCLUDE:
Keynote Address:
Bill Joy
Co-Founder, Chief Scientist
Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Craig Mundie
Senior Vice President, Consumer Strategy
Microsoft Corporation
Janet M. Baker, Ph.D.
Chairman
Dragon Systems, Inc.
Michael Bianchi
President
Foveal Systems, Inc.
Dr. Chatschik Bisdikian
Research Staff Member
T. J. Watson Research Center
IBM Corp.
Greg Bollella, Ph.D.
IBM Senior Architect, Real-Time Java Expert Group
Network Computing Software Division
IBM Corp.
Yaron Goland
Microsoft Corporation
Jim Keane
Senior Vice President: Corporate Strategy, Research and Development
Steelcase Corp.
James Kempf
Senior Staff Engineer
Sun Microsystems Laboratories
Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Frederick L. Kitson, Ph.D.
Director, Clients & Media Systems Lab
HP Labs
or
Mark T. Smith, Ph.D.
Manager, Appliance & Media Systems Department
HP Labs
Hewlett-Packard Co.
Dr. Toby Lehman
Almaden Laboratory
IBM Corp.
Dr. Peter A. Lucas
President, C.E.O.
MAYA Design Group, Inc.
Ben Manny
Intel Corp.
Dr. William (Bill) Mark
Vice President, Information and Computing Sciences
SRI International
Dr. Victor McCrary
Technical Manager - Information Storage and Interconnect Systems
NIST
David Nahamoo
Director, Human Language Technologies Group
T. J. Watson Research Center
IBM Corp.
Edward G. Newman
President, C.E.O.
Xybernaut Corp.
Ward Page
DARPA / ISO
Robert Pascoe
President
Salutation Consortium, Inc.
Alex (Sandy) Pentland
Academic Head, M.I.T. Media Laboratory
Co-Director, Center for Future Health, University of Rochester
Ivan Perez-Mendez, Ph.D.
President, C.E.O.
Syvox Corporation
Carl Sassenrath
C.E.O., Founder
REBOL Technologies
Tim Shepard, Ph.D.
M.I.T. Laboratory for Computer Science
Peter Sparago
Mirror Worlds Technologies, Inc.
Jim Waldo
Distinguished Engineer, Jini Architect
Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Dr. Lynn Wilcox
Manager, Smart Media Spaces,
Fuji Xerox Palo Alto Laboratory
John Wroclawski
Research Scientist
M.I.T. Laboratory for Computer Science
FOR MORE INFORMATION AND ON-LINE REGISTRATION, VISIT
http://www.nist.gov/pc2000 or contact Bill Young at wtyoung@nist.gov,
301-975-8701.
Patricia Flanagan
patricia.flanagan@nist.gov
(301)975-4495
NIST
Bldg. 225, Room B254
Stop 8940
Gaithersburg, MD 20899
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III.B.2.
Fr: Theodore Allan Morris <morrista@email.uc.edu>
Re: Managing Knowledge to Manage Your Future: Workshop
Managing Knowledge to Manage Your Future:
Views From the Experts
Thursday, February 3, 2000
Cincinnati State Technical and Community College
"We've looked at the future and it is us."
Deadline for registration: Thursday, January 27, 2000
SPEAKERS:
Charles A. Davis, Senior Fellow
Indiana University School of Library and Information Science
Tom Sanville, Executive Director
OhioLINK
Pamela P. Klein, Senior Information Scientist
Procter & Gamble
Kimber L. Fender, Director/Librarian
Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County
Danny Wallace, Special Advisor for New Media Programs
Kent State University
Richard Hulser, Market Segment Manager, Digital Libraries Technologies
IBM Corporation
PROGRAM:
You're going to spend the rest of your life in the future - what do you
need to
know to meet the technological challenges and take advantage of opportunities?
This combined meeting of SLA and SOASIS will celebrate where we have come with
technology, and examine where we might go.
Charles Davis Where Have We Been
PANEL DISCUSSION
The Changing Role of Information Professionals
Tom Sanville Academic
Pamela Klein Corporate
Kim Fender Public
Danny Wallace Library Education
Richard Hulser Where Are We Going?
SPONSORED BY:
American Society for Information Science, Southern Ohio Chapter (SOASIS)
Special Libraries Association, Cincinnati Chapter (SLA)
With special thanks to the Greater Cincinnati Library Consortium (GCLC)
FOR REGISTRATION INFORMATION:
GCLC, 2181Victory Parkway, Suite 214, Cincinnati, OH 45206-2855
Phone: (513)751-4422 - Fax: (513)751-0463 - E-mail: gclc@one.net
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III.B.3.
Fr: Margaret Graham <margaret.graham@unn.ac.uk>
Re: CIR-2000: Final CFPapers
FINAL 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 Los Angeles; Dr. Ruud Bolle, IBM
Thomas Watson Research Center; Dr. Richard Nicol, Head of Research, BT
Adastral
Park; and Professor Mark Overmars, 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.
FINAL 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 is 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 that 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. Submission can be accepted after the official closing date only by prior
agreement with the Programme Chair, Dr. Eakins (john.eakins@unn.ac.uk).
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.
PROGRAMME COMMITTEE:
* John Eakins (co-chair), University of Northumbria at Newcastle
* Peter Enser (co-chair), University of Brighton
* Margaret Graham, University of Northumbria at Newcastle
* David Harper, Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen
* Karina Holm, Getty Images
* Paul Lewis, University of Southampton
* Martin Nail, Library and Information Commission
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
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III.B.4.
Fr: Bernhard Schroeder <B.Schroeder@uni-bonn.de>
Re: Communicating Agents: 3rd CFPapers
Communicating Agents
Workshop of the GLDV special interest group on generation and parsing in
morphology, syntax and semantics, IKP, University of Bonn, Feb 15, 2000
http://www.gldv.org/Veranstaltungen/WS_Feb00/
In the focus of this workshop will be approaches to the formal description and
eventually to the implementation of communicating agents. We invite papers on
the following aspects:
1.incremental analysis / interpretation datastructure of the context (e.g.
dynamic semantics) computational reconstruction of reference correlation of
semantic and pragmatic interpretation
2.partner oriented generation intentionally directed generation partner
knowledge and attribution of belief
3.evolution of systems and strategies of communication concept evolution /
formation / construction evolution of linguistic norms repair strategies in
disturbed communication
Lectures should not be longer than 20 minutes. They will be followed by a
10-minute discussion each. Workshop languages are English and German.
We plan to publish workshop proceedings with the full papers.
System demonstrations will be possible on demand. Abstracts of no more than
600
words should be sent - preferably by E-Mail in ASCII, HTML, PS or PDF format -
to Bernhard Schroeder before Jan 10, 2000.
Timetable
Jan 10, 2000 Deadline for abstracts
Jan 24, 2000 Notification on acceptance
Feb 15, 2000 Workshop
Please register before Feb 8, 2000, if possible.
Organizing Committee
Roland Hausser, University of Erlangen
Hans-Christian Schmitz, University of Bonn
Bernhard Schroeder, University of Bonn
Contact
Bernhard Schroeder
Institut für Kommunikationsforschung und Phonetik
Universität Bonn
Poppelsdorfer Allee 47
D-53115 Bonn
Germany
B.Schroeder@uni-bonn.de
Phone +49 228 735621
Fax +49 228 735639
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III.B.5.
Fr: leonel@lingapli.ciges.inf.cu
Re: Symposium on Social Communication
SEVENTH INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM
ON SOCIAL COMMUNICATION
CENTER OF APPLIED LINGUISTICS
On its 30th Anniversary
SANTIAGO DE CUBA
JANUARY 23-26, 2001
The Center of Applied Linguistics of the Santiago de Cuba's branch of the
Ministry of Science, Technology and the Environment, is pleased to announce on
the occasion of its 30 Anniversary, the Seventh International Symposium on
Social Communication. The event will be held in Santiago de Cuba January 23rd
through the 26th, 2001. This interdisciplinary event will focus on social
communication processes from the points of view of Applied Linguistics,
Computational Linguistics, Medicine, Voice Processing, Mass Media, and
Ethnology and Folklore.
The Symposium will be also sponsored by:
.. University of Oriente, Cuba
.. Higher Institute for Medical Sciences, Santiago de Cuba
.. Pedagogical University 'Frank Pais', Santiago de Cuba
.. Information for Development Agency, Cuba
.. University of Twente, The Netherlands
.. National Council of Scientific Research, Italy
.. University of Leon, Spain
.. University of Malaga, Spain
.. University of Granada, Spain
.. Humboldt University, Germany
Authors will be allowed to present only one paper pertaining to the following
disciplines:
1. Applied Linguistics:
- Spanish and foreign language teaching
- Spanish as a second language
- Phonetics and Phonology
- Lexicology and Lexicography
- Morphology and Syntax
- Sociolinguistics
- Psycholinguistics
- Textual Linguistics and Pragmalinguistics
- Terminology
- Translations
2. Computational Linguistics:
- Software related to linguistic research
- Automated grammatical tagging of texts
- Automated dictionaries
- Software related to the teaching of mother tongues and foreign
languages
- Related issues
3. Voice Processing:
- Research related to Cry Analysis
- Applications of analysis, synthesis and voice-recognition
- Artificial intelligence and voice processing
4. Medical specialties related to speech and voice and with Social
Communication in general:
- Logopedy and Phoniatry
- Neurology
- Otorhinolaringology
- Stomatology
- Child Psychiatry
- Pediatrics
- Cronobiology
5. Mass Media:
- Linguistic research related to the speech of journalists, actors and
radio and television announcers.
- Textual Analysis of radio and television programs, and of print and
electronic media articles
6. Ethnology and Folklore:
- Research related to Social Communication Activities that will take
place within the event are:
- Pre-Symposium seminars
- Discussion of papers in commissions
- Master conferences
- Workshops
- Posters
PRE-SYMPOSIUM SEMINARS
The Symposium will be preceded by two seminars that will be taught by
prestigious specialists to be announced. The seminars will take place Monday,
January 22nd of 2001 and will focus on the following subjects:
- Spanish as a second language
- Latest trends in Computational Linguistics
Participants should say in advance what pre-symposium seminars they want to
take part in. An additional fee of 20.00 USD will be charged for each seminar.
Participation certificates will be available.
WORKSHOP
A workshop entitled 'Applied Linguistics in the Spanish-speaking World'
will be
held on the occasion of the 30th Anniversary of the Center of Applied
Linguistics.
MASTER LECTURES
During the symposium four master lectures will be delivered by:
- Prof. Dr. Anton Nijholt, Professor and Researcher, Twente University,
Enschede, Holland.
- Dr. Hiroto Ueda, Professor and Researcher, Department of Spanish,
Tokyo University, Japan.
- Dr. Mercedes Cathcart Roca, Professor and Researcher, Faculty of
Humanities, University of Oriente, Santiago de Cuba, Cuba.
- Dr. Manuel Vilares Ferro, Professor and Researcher, Vigo University,
Spain.
ABSTRACTS
The deadline of submission of paper abstracts is July 1st, 2000. They should
not exceed 250 words. Notification of acceptance of a paper by the Symposium's
Scientific Committee will be sent before July 30th, 2000.
PAPERS
To enable the Organizing Committee to include the Proceedings as part of the
Symposium's documentation, accepted papers must be sent before September 1st,
2000, with the following requirements:
1. The paper will not exceed 5 pages including graphics, footnotes and
bibliography.
2. It should be written using Word 6.0 or Word 7.0 for Windows and sent
to the Symposium's Executive Secretary either via e-mail (attachment)
or by mailing a 3½-inch diskette.
3. Each page must be written in an A4 (mail type) format with left,
right, top, and bottom margin of 2.5 cm.
4. The paper must be written in one of the event's official languages:
Spanish, English or French.
Instructions for paper submission:
1. Write down the authors' names, one under the other, at the left top of the
first page, all in Arial bold capital letters, 10 points (Word 6.0 or 7.0).
Under the authors' names should appear in bold (only initials capital letters)
the institution, city, country and e-mail address if available.
2. In a separate line, at the center, the title of the paper must be
written in
Arial bold, Italics, 11 points size letters.
3. The text will follow -not in bold- with the same Arial letter, 10 points
size and leaving one space between lines.
4. Paragraphs will have no indentation. Spaces between paragraphs will be of 3
points.
5. Section titles will be written in Arial bold, and sub-sections titles will
be written in Arial Italic.
6. Footnotes will appear at the end of each page in Arial 9 points size
letters.
Presentation time will be 15 minutes and 5 minutes for discussion.
Authors must advise in advance if they will need a tape recorder, video set,
computer or other kind of equipment for presentation.
POSTERS
Posters should be 1 meter wide and 1.2 meter high. Authors will be responsible
of displaying them in the morning of the presentation. Abstract submission
should include the word POSTERS. For proceedings, follow instructions above.
Notice: unlike full papers, posters will not exceed 3 pages.
All mail or inquiries should be addressed to:
Dr. Eloina Miyares Bermudez
Secretaria Ejecutiva
Comite Organizador
VII Simposio Internacional
de Comunicacion Social
Centro de Linguistica Aplicada
Apartado Postal 4067, Vista Alegre
Santiago de Cuba 4, Cuba 90400
Telephones: (53-226) 42760 or
(53-226) 41081
Fax: (53-226) 41579
E-mail: leonel@lingapli.ciges.inf.cu
http://parlevink.cs.utwente.nl/Cuba/index.html
OFFICIAL LANGUAGES:
Spanish, English and French
IMPORTANT REMINDERS
- Abstract Submission deadline: July 1, 2000
- Notification on paper's approval by Scientific
Committee: July 30, 2000
- Delivery of papers either by e-mail or by mail
using 3½-inch diskette: Sept 1, 2000
- Pre-Symposium seminars: Jan 22, 2001
- 7th International Symposium on Social Communication: Jan 23 - 26, 2001
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III.B.6.
Fr: Einat Amitay <einat@ics.mq.edu.au>
Re: Information Doors -- Where Information Search and Hypertext Link:
Workshop: CFPapers
Information Doors -- Where Information Search and Hypertext Link
May 30th 2000
San Antonio, Texas, USA
http://www.ics.mq.edu.au/~einat/info_doors/
A workshop held in conjunction with the
ACM Hypertext conference (www.ht00.org/)
Introduction
The purpose of this workshop is to tackle the problem of creating new
hypertexts on-the-fly for representing other hypertext documents in the
context
of search results.
Online search results are, no doubt, a form of hypertext created on-the-fly.
Search results pages are also probably the most frequently seen hypertextform
of writing nowadays. However, the research community tends to identify the
presentation search results with Information Retrieval research. This workshop
will consider search results as a form of hypertext, encouraging discussion
about the nature of this dynamically created textual point-of-departure.
The task of reading from a screen is not a trivial one, nor is the task of
navigating between online texts. Even less trivial is creating a new text to
represent other texts that are interconnected. In the case of hypertext
representation of search results these tasks are combined to create a new
on-screen text that describes and links other texts or entities. The
purpose of
this workshop is to tackle the problem of creating new hypertexts on-the-fly
for representing other hypertext documents in the context of search results.
The workshop will focus on the textual aspects of the problem:
- How texts are read online?
- How previously unseen documents might be presented in text to people
who search for information?
- How people navigate through textual search results?
- What are the informative role and value of the newly created
intermediate page?
- Does it influence the reading of the documents followed by users?
- Does it change the focus and the meaning of the texts as they are
perceived by readers?
- Are there any emerging textual or language conventions of
presentation within hypertext systems and among hypertext authors
that can be used in order to facilitate navigation through search
results (e.g. naming of links conventions on the web, similarities in
annotation patterns in annotation systems, use of titles and
paragraph arrangements and positioning, use of lists and preferred
methods of list ordering, and authors' frequent vocabulary choices).
The workshop aims to bring together participants from many disciplines such as
Human-Computer-Interaction (HCI), Information Retrieval (IR), Natural Language
Processing (NLP), Digital Library (DL), applied psychology and
psycho-linguistics, to discuss the nature of one of the most frequently seen
hypertext presentation in recent years -- online search results. It will
address the problem of textual presentation and hypertext representations of
search results by looking at evaluations and studies of hypertext
representations, studies about interaction with texts, how text
representations
should be designed in terms of language coherence and on-screen/online reading
limitations, how to improve navigation with a smarter choice of textual
representation, etc.
The term 'textual representation' relates to how a document or a
group-of-documents is represented in text (short or long texts, coherently
summarised or organised by fixed fields like author, title, last updated,
citations, generating descriptions, extracting passages, and so on). We will
aim for gathering our knowledge to enhance and integrate our experience about
hypertext in order to improve the options users are presented with while
searching for information. The goal of the workshop is to create an
interdisciplinary community that is able to address issues concerning search
results presentation in the context of an online hypertext system.
The workshop will specifically focus on the textual representation of results.
It will not look at graphical representations of search results unless these
shed new light on a textual issue, such as a comparison between textual and
graphical representations of documents. The following list of suggested topics
is only a short one and authors are encouraged to add more related issues and
directions of investigations that are missing from it.
Topics
Issues of presentation
- Choosing what information to show about found entities (summaries,
titles, links, annotations, additional related information, etc.)
- Grouping of results
- Labelling Groups of documents
- Creating hierarchies of results
- Comparisons between textual & graphical representations of results
Issues of results refinement
- Similarities detected between results (represented in text)
- Query refinement (textual options)
Issues of evaluation
- How results are read
- Does presentation change users navigation experience
- Different users - different presentations?
- Large scale studies
- Task-specific studies
Issues of speed and efficiency
Commercial applications
Important Dates
Submission of papers - 5 April 2000
Notification of acceptance - 30 April 2000
Workshop - 30 May 2000
Submission
Papers are due on the 5th of April 2000. All papers should be submitted
electronically via email (sent to einat@ics.mq.edu.au). PDF submissions are
preferred (if this is not possible then try to send it as a .txt, .ps or
MSWord
file). Papers should be no longer than 6 pages.
Workshop Organiser:
Einat Amitay (Macquarie University & CSIRO)
einat@ics.mq.edu.au
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III.B.7.
Fr: Joaquim Filipe <jfilipe@est.ips.pt>
Re: ICEIS 2000: Final CFPapers
2nd International Conference on
Enterprise Information Systems (ICEIS 2000)
Stafford UK
4-7 July 2000
http://www.soc.staffs.ac.uk/iceis/
IMPORTANT:
Call for Papers Deadline: 31-Jan-2000
All accepted papers published in proceedings with ISBN (paper+cdrom)
BOOK: Selected papers will be published in a book by a world-wide publisher.
Main Topic Areas:
1. ENTERPRISE DATABASE TECHNOLOGY AND ITS APPLICATIONS
2. ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS
3. SYSTEMS ANALYSIS AND SPECIFICATION
4. INTERNET AND ELECTRONIC COMMERCE
This international conference is organised by the School of Computing at
Staffordshire University, UK and the Escola Superior de Tecnologia of the
Instituto Politecnico, Setubal, Portugal.
The purpose of this 2nd International Conference on Enterprise Information
Systems (ICEIS) is to bring together researchers, engineers and practitioners
interested in the advances and business applications of information systems.
Four simultaneous tracks will be held, covering different aspects of
Enterprise
Computing, including Enterprise Database Applications, Artificial Intelligence
Applications and Decision Support Systems, Systems Analysis and Specification,
and Internet and Electronic Commerce.
ICEIS focuses on real world applications therefore authors should highlight
the
benefits of Information Technology for industry and services. Ideas on how to
solve business problems, using IT, will arise from the conference. Papers
describing advanced prototypes, systems, tools and techniques and general
survey papers indicating future directions are also encouraged. Papers
describing original work are invited in any of the areas listed below.
Accepted
papers, presented at the conference by one of the authors, will be
published in
the Proceedings of ICEIS. Acceptance will be based on quality, relevance and
originality. There will be both oral and poster sessions.
Special sessions, dedicated to case-studies and commercial presentations, as
well as technical tutorials, dedicated to technical/scientific topics, are
also
envisaged: companies interested in presenting their products/methodologies or
researchers interested in holding a tutorial are invited to contact the
conference secretariat.
We are building on the success achieved by ICEIS'99 with more than 350
delegates, 8 VIPs and a book published by Kluwer Academic Publishers (in
press). Please check http://www.est.ips.pt/iceis where you will find more
information concerning ICEIS'99. We also still have a few units of proceedings
in CD-ROM to offer - if interested please email a request to iceis@est.ips.pt.
TOPIC AREAS / CONFERENCE TRACKS
Each of these topic areas is expanded below but the list is not exhaustive.
Papers should address one or more of the listed topics, although authors
should
not feel limited by them. Unlisted but related topics are also acceptable.
1. ENTERPRISE DATABASE TECHNOLOGY AND ITS APPLICATIONS
2. ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS
3. SYSTEMS ANALYSIS AND SPECIFICATION
4. INTERNET AND ELECTRONIC COMMERCE
AREA 1: Enterprise Database Technology and its Applications
(a) Object-Oriented Database Systems
(b) Object-Oriented Database Systems
(c) Database Management
(d) Distributed Database Applications
(e) Performance Analysis
(f) Enterprise-Wide Client-Server Architecture
(g) Database Security and Transaction Support
(h) Internet-enabled Databases
(i) Query Processing and Optimisation
(j) Graphical User Interfaces
(k) Data Warehouses
(l) Statistical Applications and Data Mining
(m) Information Classification
(n) Multimedia Database Applications
AREA 2: Artificial Intelligence and Decision Support Systems
(a) Industrial and Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence
(b) Expert Systems
(c) Advanced Applications of Fuzzy Logic
(d) Applications of Neural Networks, Neural Networks or Genetic Algorithms
(e) Natural Language Interfaces to Intelligent Systems
(f) Intelligent User Interfaces
(g) Applications of Pattern Recognition to Robotics and Vision Systems
(h) Bayesian Networks
(i) Decision Support Systems in E-Commerce
(j) Artificial Intelligence Programming Languages
(k) Agent-Oriented Programming
(l) Intelligent Social Agents and Distributed Artificial Intelligence
Applications
(m) Testbeds and Development Environments
(n) Intelligent Tutoring Systems
AREA 3: Systems Analysis and Specification
(a) Systems Engineering Methodologies
(b) Information Engineering Methodologies
(c) Semiotics in Computing
(d) Requirements Analysis
(e) Modelling Formalisms, Languages, and Notations
(f) CASE Tools for System Development
(g) Modelling of Distributed Systems
(h) Systems Integration: Modelling Concepts and Information Integration
Tools
(i) Organisational Issues on Systems Integration
(j) Legacy Systems Integration
(k) Re-engineering
AREA 4: Internet and Electronic Commerce
(a) Languages and Protocols
(b) Internet/ Intranet Distributed Computing
(c) CASE Tools for Internet Computing Systems
(d) Interactive and Multimedia Web Applications
(e) Network Implementation Choices (e.g.. SGML/SML)
(f) Internet/Intranet Based Systems for Business Processes and E-
Commerce
(g) Object Orientation In Internet and Distributed Computing
(h) Internet and Collaborative Computing
(i) Software Agents: Agent-Based Modelling and Agent-Based Programming
(j) Agent-Based Systems for Business Applications and E-Commerce
(k) Process Design and Organisational Issues in E-Commerce
(l) Security, Privacy, Freedom of Information And Other Social and
Ethical Issues
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS INCLUDE
Professor A. Cheng, University of Houston, USA.
Professor T. Greene, MIT, USA.
Professor J. Mylopoulos, University of Toronto, Canada.
Professor Ian C. Ritchie, President of British Computer Society, UK.
Professor R. Stamper, University of Twente, Netherlands.
Professor C. J. Theaker, Terrafix Ltd, UK.
The papers will be reviewed by the International Programme Committee.
SUBMISSION OF PAPERS
Authors should submit a paper in English of up to 5,000 words, both by e-mail
(attached file in an accepted format - see below) and surface mail (2 printed
copies) to the conference secretariat (see address below). Papers received
after the deadline may be returned unopened. The programme committee will
review all papers and the first author of each paper will be notified of
acceptance, by email. Each paper should clearly indicate the nature of its
technical/scientific contribution, and the problems, domains or
environments to
which it is applicable. Authors must also indicate the topic area to which the
paper is submitted.
Due to space limitations in the Proceedings, the maximum number of pages for
each paper is limited to 5 (five). If absolutely needed, it is possible to
increase the total number of pages up to 8 pages. However, for each page in
excess of 5 the authors must pay an additional fee of £50 for each excess
page.
Format of the paper
Submitted papers should be formatted for A4 size paper, and must be written in
English, and carefully checked for correct grammar and spelling. Papers should
be submitted in a 2-column format; each column should be 7.5cm wide, with a
space of 0.8cm between the columns. The text should be in Times New Roman,
11pt, justified and single spaced. There should be no headers/footers and no
page numbers. Margins requirements are as follows: Top: 3.3 cm; Bottom: 4.2cm;
Left 2.6cm; Right: 2.6cm.
The title, author, affiliation(s), contact details, abstract and list of
keywords should be justified and single spaced in a single column across the
width of the printable area.
The paper should include:
(a) The title: 14 pt bold type, centered over two columns, and in upper
case.
(b) Authors and affiliations (incl. full address and e-mail) should all
be 11 pt, centered, under the title. Authors (bold) and
affiliation/contact details (italic) should be centered. For
multiple authors use a superscript to indicate affiliation/contact
details.
(c) Abstract: maximum 200 words, 11pt.
(d) Keywords: maximum of five, under abstract, separated by commas.
(e) Headings should be numbered and in mixed case 12 pt. bold text.
Generally two, and at most three levels of numbered headings should
be used.
(f) Figures should be numbered sequentially, with a 10 pt. Caption
centered immediately below. Figures should be placed in the main
text, as close as possible to their first reference, and centered in
a column or across the page if necessary.
(g) Bibliographical references should be listed alphabetically at the
end of the paper, before any appendices. Use 11 pt. single spaced
text. References within the text, should be in the Harvard
referencing style. Examples are given below:
White, R., 1988. Advertising: what it is and how to do it. 2nd ed.
London: McGraw Hill. Greco, A.J. and Swayne, L.D., 1992. Sales
response of elderly customers to point-of-purchase advertising.
Journal of Advertising Research, 32 (5), 43-63.
Silver, K., 1989. Electronic mail: the new way to communicate. In:
D.I. Raitt, ed. 9th international online information meeting, London
3-5 December 1988. Oxford: Learned Information, 323-330.
For email submission, the only accepted formats are RTF, Postscript or PDF.
Multiple submission
If a paper has been submitted to other conferences it may also be submitted to
ICEIS as long as (1) it is not published or presented at other conferences,
(2)
the author clearly indicates on the paper the other places where it has been
submitted, and (3) the author notifies the programme chair if he/she submits
the paper to other conferences during the ICEIS review process.
SUBMISSION OF TECHNICAL TUTORIALS, WORKSHOPS OR EXHIBITS
Any person interested in organising a tutorial, workshop, or exhibition should
submit a proposal to the secretariat by e-mail
(iceis-secretariat@staffs.ac.uk). These will be held on 3rd July 2000.
Proposals should specify the topic and scope of the tutorial, the background
knowledge expected of the participants, and a resumé of the instructor(s).
Companies interested in presenting their products, showing documentation about
them or demonstrating some application, are invited to contact the secretariat
and make a reservation for a booth at the conference site.
PROCEEDINGS AND BOOK PUBLICATION
All accepted papers whose authors confirm participation at the conference will
be published in the ICEIS 2000 proceedings. A number of papers will be
selected
for publication in book format.
IMPORTANT DEADLINES
Paper Submissions - 31st January 2000
Author Notification - 30th March 2000
Final Submissions - 30th April 2000
SECRETARIAT
ICEIS 2000 Secretariat
Staffordshire University
School of Computing
Beaconside, Stafford ST18 0AD, UK
Fax: +44 1785 353561
E-mail: iceis-secretariat@staffs.ac.uk
Web: http://www.soc.staffs.ac.uk/iceis/
**********
III.B.8.
Fr: Priscilla Rasmussen <rasmusse@cs.rutgers.edu>
Re: Four ANLP/NAACL-2000 Workshops: CFPapers
The following four Calls for Papers for workshops associated with the
ACL-sponsored ANLP/NAACL-2000 Conference are included below, separated by dash
lines:
1)Workshop on Conversational Systems
May 4, 2000, following ANLP/NAACL 2000
2)EMBEDDED MACHINE TRANSLATION SYSTEMS WORKSHOP II
Thursday, May 4, 2000
3)Workshop on Applied Interlinguas: Practical Applications of Interlingual
Approaches to NLP
Sunday, April 30, 2000
4)Workshop on Reading Comprehension Tests as Evaluation for
Computer-Based Language Understanding Systems
Thursday, May 4th, 2000, Seattle, Washington, USA
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Call for Papers
Workshop on Conversational Systems
May 4, 2000, following ANLP/NAACL 2000
The purpose of this workshop is to focus the discourse and dialogue community
on best practices as well as theory of conversational systems, both speech
based and text based. The workshop will also bring together creators of
working
conversational systems to discuss their efforts, both successes and
limitations.
In this workshop we encourage papers on either theoretical or applied research
with a focus on results in working systems. We also welcome papers on working
systems that provide a critical appraisal of their capabilities as well as
their limitations; we encourage such papers to provide the criteria of
critique
that the authors feel are most relevant to their work. This workshop will
consider in particular:
- How can systems be designed so that it is easier to build applications
in new domains?
- What significant features of dialogue are beyond current working
systems?
What proposals show the most promise for capturing these features?
- What knowledge does a system need to represent about a domain, tasks
and discourse to support intelligent conversational interaction?
- What can be learned from data and what should be learned from data?
Can robust systems be built for domains where there is not a large
Amount of data available?
- What is the role of natural language generation in conversational
systems?
- What aspects of discourse prosody are now feasible in conversational
systems?
- What aspects of nonverbal behavior are now feasible -- and worthwhile
implementing -- in conversational systems?
- How can the real-world performance of conversational systems be
measured and anticipated? How can the performance of different systems
be compared?
In addition to the presentation of papers and the discussions that will result
from them, we plan demonstration sessions and a panel session. The
demonstration sessions will be open to anyone who wishes to bring their
conversational systems for demonstration to other members of the workshop.
Presenters are asked to submit a paper that is specifically directed at a
demonstration of their current systems. These papers should cover the
following
topics as well as others the presenters think are relevant:
-a short system description,
-an example dialogue or dialogues, as space permits,
-discussion of the most important contribution of the work,
-discussion of the most significant limitation of the work.
These papers will be included in the workshop proceedings.
In the panel session we plan to bring together a set of experts to compare
various approaches (including frame-based, finite-state, plan-based and
statistical and logical reasoning-based) to dialogue in working conversational
systems.
A website which will provide additional information on the workshop as it
becomes available is located at:
http://www.cs.umd.edu/users/traum/ConvSys/.
I. 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: May 4, 2000
II. FORMAT FOR SUBMISSION
Submissions must use the ACL latex style or ACL Microsoft Word style, both of
which can be found at
http://www.gte.com/AboutGTE/gto/anlp-naacl2000/cfp_submission.html. Paper
submissions should consist of a full paper of 8 pages (including references).
Please send submission questions to Alex
Rudnicky,air@cs.cmu.edu, before, not after, January 31, 2000.
Submission Procedure:
Electronic submission only: send the pdf (preferred), postscript or MS Word
form of your submission to: Alex Rudnicky, air@cs.cmu.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.
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Call for Papers
Embedded Machine Translation Systems Workshop II
held in conjunction with NAACL/ANLP2000
Thursday, May 4, 2000
Seattle, Washington, USA
Embedded MT Systems homepage for this workshop
http://lamp.cfar.umd.edu/Embedded_MT_Systems
WHAT IS AN "EMBEDDED MACHINE TRANSLATION (MT) SYSTEM"?
An "embedded MT system" is a computational system with one or more MT engines
among its components. These systems accept multilingual, multimodal inputs and
create various outputs that enable the users to access the original
information
in their own language. An MT component embedded in an end-to-end system allows
users to perform their specific tasks on foreign language input that they
previously only had been able to perform in their native language. To date,
these tasks have included summarization, content extraction, filtering and
document retrieval.
BACKGROUND
The first workshop on Embedded MT Systems was held in conjunction with the
biennial meeting of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas
(AMTA), in October, 1998, in Langhorne, PA. The Embedded MT Systems
Workshop II
is a response to the growing community commitment to translingual information
research, e.g., the DARPA TIDES initiative. By holding the workshop at the
combined NAACL and ANLP conferences this year, there will be an opportunity
for
a multi-disciplinary mix of researchers and to attend, contribute and benefit
from the workshop.
WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION
The strengths and weaknesses of machine translation engines have become better
understood and accepted. There has been a marked increase in the
development of
a range of computer systems containing an MT component. This workshop will
focus on the system designs, the associated information access tasks of such
end-to-end systems, and the measures of system effectiveness. Of particular
interest are systems that accept one or another of various types of input
including hard-copy pages, online text files, and speech (natural or
transcribed). These inputs present real-world, noisy data that challenge MT
engine capabilities. We would like to know the degradation in performance that
these challenges present and the compensation strategies that system
developers
have tested or used. We also seek submissions describing possible
channel-specific feedback processes from other system components that help
correct the noisy input.
Papers describing multiple MT engines and algorithms for selecting among their
outputs are encouraged. It would be interesting to hear how these complex MT
components have been integrated into specific applications. For example, do
certain MT engines produce results better suited for summarization, retrieval,
or online foreign language tutoring?
The field of MT evaluation currently lacks an adequate methodology. There are
no widely used standards and few statisticians have been called upon to assess
the metrics that have been proposed. We will look for submissions that include
measures for the individual system components and end-to-end system
evaluation.
Also of interest are measures that evaluate user performance on specific
tasks.
We expect that the range of papers from both the first and this second
workshop
will provide sufficient material for us to pursue a special journal issue
dedicated to Embedded MT Systems.
IMPORTANT DATES
Intent to submit: Friday, Feb. 11, 2000
Paper submission deadline: Wednesday, Feb. 16, 2000
Notification of acceptance of papers: Friday, March 3, 2000
Camera-ready papers due: Monday, March 13, 2000
SUBMISSION PROCEDURE
Electronic submission of Intent to Submit should have the following subject
line: "NAACL-ANLP2000 WORKSHOP - Intent to submit" Body of message should
include Identification Page information:
- title of submission
- names of all authors
- primary author name and email address, phone and fax
- presentation type preference (select one or more per system: demo,
poster, or paper)
- keywords
Authors may submit short papers, full-length papers, poster presentations
and/or demos. For electronic submission, include the Identification Page
Information (see above) as a separate page from the paper itself. Reviewing
will be blind. No author information should be included with the main body of
the paper. Full paper submissions may be up to 5000 words in length, including
references. Submissions for poster presentations and short papers may be up to
2000 words in length, including references. Demo presentations are encouraged
in conjunction with papers or posters. For demo-only presentations,
submissions
up to two pages long should describe the system design and capabilities with
respect to (ii) above: an end-to-end process flow covering the system input,
any pre-MT processing, the MT component itself, any post-MT processing, and
the
system output.
FORMAT FOR SUBMISSION
Submissions must use the ACL latex style or Microsoft Word style. Both are
available from the ANLP-NAACL2000 Conference web page:
http://www.gte.com/AboutGTE/gto/anlp-naacl2000/ Please send submissions and
questions to: voss@arl.mil. Notification of receipt will be sent to the
primary
author.
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Call for Papers
Workshop on Applied Interlinguas:
Practical Applications of Interlingual Approaches to NLP (pre-conference
workshop in conjunction with ANLP-NAACL2000)
Sunday, April 30, 2000
Seattle, Washington, USA
The organizing committee wishes to invite submissions to the Workshop on the
Practical Applications of Interlingual Approaches to NLP which will be held on
Sunday, April 30, 2000, in conjunction with the ANLP-NAACL2000.
Interlingual approaches to NLP have been developed within the field of Machine
Translation. The central goal is to analyze natural language expressions in
terms of a representation language that will capture those aspects of a
communication which permit the generation of an equivalent expression in some
other language (that is, a representation of the communicative intent of the
utterance). An interlingual representation of some utterance should ideally
represent what was said by whom and to whom and relevant information about
where, when, why and how it was said. The representations are usually very
rich
and extremely knowledge intensive. Many aspects of such representation systems
are unknown or underdeveloped.
Often, though not invariably, the lexicon of an IL representation will be
drawn
from the names of nodes in an Ontology, representing classes, events, or
concepts. The syntax of the IL prescribes how these nodes are combined into an
utterance representation. An IL-based approach to Machine Translation then
specifies how a source language sentence can be analyzed into an IL
representation and how this representation can then generate a natural
language
output.
This workshop will focus on these latter two aspects of the IL approach: the
syntax of the IL and the techniques used to analyze and generate natural
language. The uses of an Ontology outside of Knowledge-based Machine
Translated
is a related, but slightly different subject.
To date, such approaches have been essentially theoretical (although a number
of limited applications exist). One of the criticisms of such approaches is
that they are impractical -- requiring too much hand-coding or too deep a
knowledge-representation to be useful. However, several examples of IL
specifications are available. For example, there is the Text Meaning
Representation of the Mikrokosmos Knowledge-based Machine Translation
system at
the Computing Research Laboratory
(http://crl.nmsu.edu/Research/Projects/mikro/index.html).
the IL used in ISI's GAZELLE MT project
(http://www.isi.edu/natural-language/mt/interlingua.html)
IL representations of a Spanish text produced by the KANT system at
the Language Technologies Institute
(http://www.lti.cs.cmu.edu/IRW/)
(http://www.lti.cs.cmu.edu/Research/Kant)
IL representation developed for a speech-to-speech system dealing with travel
planning by the Consortium for Speech Translation Advanced
Research (C-STAR) (http://www.c-star.org)
Interlingual approaches offer powerful semantics-based and pragmatics-based
solutions to any number of NLP problems (disambiguation, reference resolution,
interpretation of figurative speech to name a few). This workshop will
focus on
methods for making interlingual approaches tractable within specific,
well-defined tasks not only for machine translation but for a range of NLP
applications.
The goal of the workshop is to stimulate interest in more cognitive
research in
NLP while focusing such work on near term, practical applications. Papers are
invited on:
- methods for developing (or extending) underlying knowledge sources,
- techniques for processing in the face of knowledge-poor sources or
gaps in knowledge sources,
- interlingual approaches to particular NLP tasks (reference resolution,
disambiguation, interpretation of ellipsis, etc.),
- interlingual approaches to different NLP applications (MT--including
speech-to-speech translation, Information Extraction, Summarization,
NL generation, Intelligent Tutoring Systems, etc.).
Since there is limited work on the application of IL approaches to NLP
currently, concept design papers are encouraged. Preference will be given to
actual research projects focusing on actual processing problems and exploiting
extant sources, but any contribution should clearly focus on one of the topics
above.
The workshop will consist of 6 30-minute presentations, each followed by a
half-hour discussion, beginning with two informal 6-minute critical responses
from reviewers followed by a short rebuttal by the author and open discussion.
Ideally, the critical responses will also be available by the March 1
acceptance date, but in no case later than March 31. All critiques and
rebuttals received by March 13 will be included in the proceedings. The
remainder will be made available at the workshop itself.
The Journal of Machine Translation will consider the results of the workshop
for publication in a special issue in 2001. In addition, the contributions
will
be published as an NAACL workshop proceedings.
The workshop is sponsored in part by the Special Interest Group on
Interlinguas
of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas. For further
information about this series of workshops see:
http://crl.nmsu.edu/Events/FWOI/index.html.
Dates
Submission of papers: February 4, 2000
Notification of acceptance: March 1, 2000
Submission of Final Copies: March 13, 2000
Critiques of Accepted Papers: March 31, 2000
Author's Rebuttals: April 21, 2000
Workshop: April 30, 2000
The dates related to the preparation of a special issue of the Journal of
Machine Translation will be made public at the workshop.
Paper Requirements
Submissions must use the ACL latex style or Microsoft Word style (both
available from the ANLP-NAACL2000 Conference web page --
http://www.gte.com/AboutGTE/gto/anlp-naacl2000/). Paper submissions should
consist of a full paper (5000 words or less, including references). Please
send
papers and submission questions to shelmrei@crl.nmsu.edu.
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Call for Papers
Workshop on Reading Comprehension Tests as Evaluation for
Computer-Based Language Understanding Systems
Thursday, May 4th, 2000, Seattle, Washington, USA
(post-conference workshop in conjunction with ANLP-NAACL2000)
Reading Comprehension tests, such as the one below, are designed to help
evaluate a reader's understanding of a text passage.
How Maple Syrup is Made
Maple syrup comes from sugar maple trees. At one time, maple syrup was used to
make sugar. This is why the tree is called a "sugar" maple tree.
Sugar maple trees make sap. Farmers collect the sap. The best time to collect
sap is in February and March. The nights must be cold and the days warm.
The farmer drills a few small holes in each tree. He puts a spout in each
hole.
Then he hangs a bucket on the end of each spout. The bucket has a cover to
keep
rain and snow out. The sap drips into the bucket. About 10 gallons of sap come
from each hole.
1. Who collects maple sap? (Farmers)
2. What does the farmer hang from a spout? (A bucket)
3. When is sap collected? (February and March)
4. Where does the maple sap come from? (Sugar maple trees)
5. Why is the bucket covered? (to keep rain and snow out)
Such tests exist in many languages, have human performance benchmarks
associated with them, and come in a variety of types (short-answer, multiple
choice) and levels of difficulty. In addition, they are generally written to
make each story and set of questions self-contained, in order to require as
little outside knowledge as possible to answer the questions.
The focus of the proposed workshop will be to explore the following questions:
- Can such exams be used to evaluate computer-based language understanding
effectively and efficiently?
- Would they provide an impetus and test bed for interesting and useful
research?
- Are they too hard for current technology?
- Or are they too easy, such that simple hacks can score high, although
there is clearly no understanding involved?
The most direct method of exploring these questions is to choose a set of
tests
and build a system that takes these tests. Some preliminary results indicate
that such tests are tractable, but not trivial and that linguistic processing
is helpful (Hirschman, et al. ACL-99). A test set, evaluation routines,
prototype system, and documentation are available upon request to
light@mitre.org.
We hope that a number of submissions will present results based on actual
reading comprehension systems. In addition, we encourage submissions that
report on other kinds of tests or similar tests in other languages, or that
address our list of questions by other means. Note that submissions are
encouraged that describe work in progress with preliminary empirical results.
Invited speaker:
Karen Kukich (Educational Testing Service)
"NLP Tools for Analyzing TOEFL Reading Comprehension Passages and
Items"
Format for Submission
Authors are asked to submit previously unpublished papers only; a workshop
proceedings will be published. Our target submission length is 2000 words but
both shorter and longer submissions will also be considered. Electronic
submission of postscript will be accepted. Hard copy submissions should
include
4 copies of the paper. Since the papers will be reviewed anonymously,
please do
not place the author name on the paper. Instead include a separate title page
with title, abstract, author, and e-mail address. Unless requested otherwise,
notification of acceptance will be sent electronically to the first author.
Parallel submission is unproblematic; however if your paper is accepted to
this
workshop and you decide to present it here, we will ask you to withdraw it
from
any other events.
Important Dates
Deadline for submission: February 11th, 2000
Notification of authors: March 1st, 2000
Final versions due: March 10th, 2000
Address for Submission and Further Information
Marc Light
The MITRE Corporation
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Phone: 1-781-271-5579
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III.C.1.
Fr: Clifford Lynch <cliff@cni.org>
Re: Information on the UK Resource Discovery Network
The Resource Discovery Network (RDN) http://www.rdn.ac.uk/ A major new network
of discipline-based gateways or "hubs" has been set up to provide students,
lecturers and researchers with better access to high quality resources on the
Internet. The Resource Discovery Network (RDN) catalogues and provides
links to
web sites containing a wide range of educational materials, whether they are
electronic journals, database records, bibliographies or teaching resources.
All the resources in the network have been selected by subject experts who
provide in-depth descriptions of their quality, utility, and reliability.
Users
can either access these resources via the individual hubs or, by taking
advantage of the RDN's sophisticated cross-searching software, run
interdisciplinary searches across the entire network. The RDN also offers
academics and lecturers the opportunity to forward their own resources
(including articles, databases and newsletters) to the relevant hubs, allowing
them to reach a wider audience. Funded by the UK's Joint Information Systems
Committee (JISC), the RDN is organised into five hubs, some of which already
existed as subject-based gateways. The RDN covers Medicine and the Life
Sciences; Engineering, Computing and Mathematics; the Humanities; the Physical
Sciences; and the Social Sciences, Business and Law. A hub for the Creative
Arts and Industries will be added at a later date.
Because of the variety of resources it catalogues, the RDN will be relevant to
non-academics working in related professional fields, such as medicine or
engineering. The RDN is expected to develop significant links beyond academia.
Many of the hubs have been developed in partnership with learned societies and
related professional and cultural institutions. The RDN will continue to
establish partnerships in both the public and private sectors in order to
expand, creating opportunities for content provision and funding.
The RDN hubs are based at various universities around the United Kingdom:
o BIOME (Medicine and Life Sciences) is led by the University of Nottingham
o Humbul (Humanities) is led by the University of Oxford
o EMC (Engineering, Mathematics and Computers) is led by
Heriot-WattUniversity
o PSIgate (Physical Sciences) is led by CALIM, the Consortium of Academic
Libraries In Manchester
o SOSIG (Social Sciences, Business and Law) is led by the University of
Bristol
The RDN is presently funded by the JISC, the Arts and Humanities Research
Board
(AHRB) and the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC).
The RDN is managed by the RDN Centre, based at King's College, London and The
University of Bath. For more information please contact
Justine Kitchen
Information and Training Officer
Resource Discovery Network Centre
King's College London
Strand
London WC2R 2LS
Tel: +44 (0)171 848 2935
Fax: +44 (0)171 848 2939
Email: justine.kitchen@rdn.ac.uk
Or visit our website at http://www.rdn.ac.uk/
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III.C.2.
Fr: GreyNet <Dominic.Farace@inter.nl.net>
Re: GreyNet Press Release: ALA'2000 Mid-Winter
PRESS RELEASE
First Time Offer at ALA'2000 Mid-Winter
G R E Y N E T M E M B E R S H I P
"From a Subscriber Base to Worldwide Membership in 2000"
In 1992, GreyNet commenced activities on a subscription only basis. Over the
past eight years, it has developed into the international Grey Literature
Network Service for which it was originally established. In 1998, GreyNet
sought and found an infrastructure in which it could further expand and
develop
to meet the needs and demands of an increasingly productive and conscious
global, grey literature community. And, in 2000, GreyNet seizes the moment to
move from a subscriber base and offer membership to those in the grey
literature community, who are and have been responsible for its success.
GreyNet realizes that the new decade brings with it as many innovations in the
information sector as in the past decade. Aware of this tremendous expansion,
GreyNet does not want to go it alone. Instead, you are invited to join in this
first time membership offer.
SOME OF THE BENEFITS OF GREYNET MEMBERSHIP INCLUDE:
* Full Subscription to IJGL
International Journal on Grey Literature
ISSN 1466-6189
http://www.mcb.co.uk/ijgl.htm
* Full Subscription to NewsBriefNews
GreyNet's Quarterly Newsletter
ISSN 1389-1804
http://www.konbib.nl/greynet/newsletters.htm
* Full Subscription to GL-Compendium
A Netbased Directory of Grey Literature Collections
ISSN 1469-1027
http://www.konbib.nl/greynet/GL-Compendium.htm
For those attending ALA'2000 Mid-Winter in San Antonio, Texas, we invite
you to
stop by GreyNet's Exhibit Stand No. 964 and pick-up a complimentary copy of
IJGL, vol.1, no.1, 2000 along with a GreyNet Membership Folder, which contains
fuller details and further benefits:
http://www.konbib.nl/infolev/greynet/membership.htm
GreyNet
Grey Literature Network Service
Koninginneweg 201, 1075 CR Amsterdam
The Netherlands
Tel/Fax : 31-20-671.1818
Email : greynet@inter.nl.net
URL : http://www.konbib.nl/infolev/greynet
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