IR-L Digest, Vol.XVII, No.5, Issue 489

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

IRLIST Digest                                       ISSN 1064-6965
January 31, 2000
Volume XVII, Number 5
Issue 489
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 II. JOBS
        1. Xigo, Inc., San Francisco: Search Engine Engineers/
           Text Analysis Engineers
III. NOTICES
     A. Publications
        1. Book Reviewers & Books Sought by Kluwer's
           "Information Retrieval"
     B. Meetings
        1. 5th IDAMAP-2000: CFPapers
        2. GMDS2000/MIE2000: CFPapers & Invitation: Extended Deadline
        3. TSD 2000: First Announcement & CFPapers
        4. NERCOMP / ITC 2000 Conference
     C. Miscellaneous
        1. Titanic 2020 Paper
        2. Report on Database Protection from National Academies
        3. Electronic Records Presentations

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II. JOBS

II.1.
Fr: Dan Rose <rose@xigo.com> 
Re: Xigo, Inc., San Francisco: Search Engine Engineers/
    Text Analysis Engineers 

Xigo, Inc. is a well-funded San Francisco startup developing services to
empower, inform and entertain involved investors with intelligent tools and
information that will improve investment performance. The Company is privately
held and financed by New Enterprise Associates, Angel Investors, L.P., and a
stellar group of private investors including John McKinley, Jr. (Merrill
Lynch's Chief Technology Officer), David Rice (former CFO of TIBCO), Greg
Gretsch (Chairman of Connectify).

Of the many positions we have open, two are particularly relevant to IRLIST
readers:

SEARCH ENGINE ENGINEERS 
Location -- San Francisco, CA
Xigo is looking for really smart programmers with experience in persistent
storage management to join us as search engine engineers. This is a mid-level
engineering position or the perfect spot for a super-talented, newer engineer.
You will be challenged with building, extending and maintaining external
textual data access systems including text indexing and retrieval systems.
Successful candidates will demonstrate professional programming experience in
traditional computer science data structures and knowledge of information
retrieval as well as object-oriented programming. A BS or equivalent is
required for this job. Interested? E-mail your resume to eng-jobs@xigo.com,
include the job title, and mention that you saw this on IRLIST -- thanks!

TEXT ANALYSIS ENGINEERS 
Location -- San Francisco, CA
As a text analysis engineer at Xigo you will be building, extending and
maintaining advanced text analysis systems, including text categorization,
routing and filtering. This is a mid-level engineering position or the perfect
spot for a super-talented, newer engineer. You should have experience with
text
indexing systems, traditional computer science data structures and
object-oriented programming. NLP or AI experience is a plus. You must have at
least one year of relevant professional programming experience and a BS or
equivalent. Interested? E-mail your resume to eng-jobs@xigo.com, include the
job title, and mention that you saw this on IRLIST -- thanks!

If you have questions or would like additional information about career
opportunities at Xigo, please visit the careers section of our web site at: 
http://www.xigo.com/careers.html or contact Kenan Rappuchi, Xigo Staffing, 
415-495-1073, kenan@xigo.com.

Dan Rose rose@xigo.com 
Xigo, Inc. Tel. 415-495-1068 
249 Shipley St., #4 Fax 415-896-5767 
San Francisco, CA 94107-1979

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III. NOTICES

III.A.1.
Fr: Efthimis Efthimiadis <efthimis@u.washington.edu> 
Re: Book Reviewers & Books Sought by Kluwer's "Information Retrieval"

Dear IR researchers:

The new journal "Information Retrieval" is an international forum for theory
and experiment in information retrieval and its application in the networked
information environment. The editors-in-chief are Paul Kantor and Stephen E.
Robertson. 

We are seeking book reviewers, as well as, we are soliciting books from
publishers.

Please take a look at the IR book review page: 
http://faculty.washington.edu/efthimis/kluwer_bks/IR_Books.html

Book reviewers if you are interested in a book that's not listed on the page
please contact me with full bibliographic information and I'll request it from
the publishers.

Publishers keep on sending your books in.

Thanks,
Efthimis N. Efthimiadis 
Book Review editor 
Associate Professor 
School of Library & Information Science 
University of Washington tel.(off.) 206-616-6077 
Box 352930 tel.(schl) 206-543-1794 
Seattle, WA 98195-2930 fax. 206-616-3152 

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III.B.1.
Fr: Silvia Miksch <silvia@ifs.tuwien.ac.at> 
Re: 5th IDAMAP-2000: CFPapers 
 
5th International Workshop
INTELLIGENT DATA ANALYSIS IN MEDICINE AND PHARMACOLOGY
(IDAMAP-2000)
Berlin, Tuesday, August 22, 2000
http://www.ifs.tuwien.ac.at/~silvia/idamap-2000

A call for papers for the Workshop at ECAI-2000 14th European Conference on
Artificial Intelligence 
Co-Chairs: Nada Lavrac (J. Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia) Silvia
Miksch
(Vienna University of Technology)

Important dates:
- Paper submission deadline: April 20, 2000 
- Notification to Authors: May 18, 2000 
- Camera-ready papers: June 1, 2000

General information: 
IDAMAP-2000, an ECAI-2000 workshop, will be held in Berlin on August 22, 2000,
immediately before the main ECAI-2000 conference, August 23-25, 2000. The
workshop will last one full day. To encourage interaction, the workshop
will be
kept small, preferably under 30 active participants.

This is the fifth international workshop on Intelligent Data Analysis in
Medicine and Pharmacology (IDAMAP). The former IDAMAP Workshops were held in
1996 in Budapest, 1997 in Nagoya, 1998 in Brighton, and 1999 in Washington
DC. 

Workshop topics: 
The topics of the workshop are computational methods for intelligent data
analysis in medicine and pharmacology that are able to exploit the additional
expert knowledge of the problem domain. Expert physicians should be
involved in
the preparation of data for IDA processes (e.g., data representation,
modeling,
cleaning, selection, and transformation), as well as in the interpretation and
exploitation of results and their (potential) impact on medical practice.
* effective data mining techniques: inductive learning, clustering, etc. 
* temporal reasoning: applications of IDA in patient monitoring or bio-signal
processing, interpretation of time-ordered data (derivation and revision of
temporal trends and other forms of temporal data abstraction), 
* information visualization: visualization of medical data and
visualization of
IDA results, 
* case-based reasoning, 
* construction of decision models to support medical decision making, 
* discovery of new knowledge and trends, 
* pharmacodynamical modeling, 
* predicting drug activity, etc. 

Emphasis will also be given to solving of problems, which result from
automated
data collection in modern hospitals, such as analysis of computer-based
patient
records (CPR), data warehousing tools, intelligent alarming, effective and
efficient monitoring, etc.

The participants will be asked to address the following points:
- what kind of knowledge they have used and/or extracted; 
- why they need to exploit the available prior knowledge in their problem; 
- how they have represented the available knowledge; 
- how they plan to use / have used the derived knowledge.

Important dates: 
- Paper submission deadline: April 20, 2000 
- Notification to Authors:   May 18, 2000 
- Camera-ready papers:       June 1, 2000

Paper submission: 
We invite submission of long and short papers, to be sent to the workshop
chair
Nada Lavrac. The length of long papers is max. 5000 words (10 pages) and
length
of short papers is about 1500 words (3 pages). Papers will be published in
ECAI
workshop notes.

Electronic submissions are encouraged: 
- a gzip compressed PostScript 
- an electronic version of the title page in plain ASCII to be sent to 

Nada.Lavrac@ijs.si, cc: silvia@ifs.tuwien.ac.at, cc: 
Branko.Kavsek@ijs.si
Nada Lavrac 
J. Stefan Institute 
Jamova 39 
1000 Ljubljana 
Slovenia 
phone: +386-61-1773272 
fax: +386-61-1251038, 219385 
email: Nada.Lavrac@ijs.si, cc: Branko.Kavsek@ijs.si

Silvia Miksch 
Vienna University of Technology 
Institute of Software Technology (IFS) 
Favoritenstrasse 9-11 / 188 
A-1040 Vienna, Austria 
phone: +43-1-58801-18824 
phone-sec: +43-1-58801-18801 
fax: +43-1-58801-18899 
email: silvia@ifs.tuwien.ac.at 
 
Workshop registration: 
- Attendees at workshops must register also for the main ECAI conference.

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III.B.2.
Fr: Rolf Engelbrecht <engel@gsf.de> 
Re: GMDS2000/MIE2000: CFPapers & Invitation: Extended Deadline 

Update January 30, 2000
There were some technical problems to submitting a paper using www.mie2000.de 

They are solved and the site is open for submission until February 15, 2000. 

Please prepare your paper as a MS-Word paper and use DOS naming conventions.
Further hints you will find on the Web pages. This may also solve the problem
how and what to submit. See also section FAQ at the end. 

http://www.mie2000.de 
or 
http://www.hcc.de 

MIE2000 GMDS2000
Medical Infobahn for Europe
International Congress on
Medical Informatics, Biometry and Epidemiology
August 27 - September 1, 2000
Hannover Germany

I am pleased to invite you to our Congress during EXPO 2000 in 
Hannover, Germany. The Call for Paper has been mailed in paper form in big
numbers. Actually we are distributing the electronic version. Due to technical
problems we are a little late in our mailing. Therefore the deadline for paper
submission has been prolonged. We are expecting proposals for a sound
contribution from you and your colleagues. Instructions how to prepare
research
papers and application reports are enclosed. A description of the procedure to
submit proposals for tutorials and workshops is also given in the enclosed
material. Electronic registration of contributions is available on our
web-sites http://www.hcc.de and http://www.mie2000.de) Please have a look
at the
announcement and find those topics that describe your research area. Present
results of your activities in the framework of our international congress
during EXPO2000. Awards will be given to authors and best contributions (see
enclosure). Do not miss this event! Participation will be exciting and
affordable. Registration fees are lower than ever and include nearly all you
expect from a conference like that. Accommodation is available in various
categories but needs an early booking for receiving reasonable rates. MIE 2000
/GMDS 2000 addresses especially young scientists. We are preparing support for
presentation and travelling. Feel free to contact us. Looking forward to see
you in Hannover, one of the origins of medical informatics. 

Rolf Engelbrecht 
President EFMI 

The complete Call for Papers and Invitation can be downloaded as PDF file from
www.mie2000.de or www.hcc.de 

FAQs 
The conference language is English for MIE2000 (presentations Monday, 28
August
- Friday, 1 September), for GMDS2000 English and German (presentations
Thursday, 31 August and Friday, 1 September) 

For evaluation a paper with a maximum of 5 pages should be submitted until 15
February as a draft following the guideline for the final camera-ready paper. 

The final version (also maximum 5 pages) is requested until 5 May. 

The electronic submission forms will ask you for address details, topic
that is
covered, type of presentation etc. You will be guided through this section. 

The evaluation has been started. You will receive notification of acceptance
within 4 weeks after submission. 

The application for the awards should be sent seperately now or after
acceptance to mie2000pc@gsf.de with reference to the title of the paper and
reference number (is mailed after submission by internet) and all necessary
information 

The type of presentation can be indicated during online submission (oral long
or oral short with poster presentation and discussion). The programme
committee
will evaluate first the quality and then decide about the best suitable
presentation form. 

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III.B.3.
Fr: Robert Batusek <xbatusek@informatics.muni.cz> 
Re: TSD 2000: First Announcement & CFPapers 

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

The official TSD 2000 homepage is: http://www.fi.muni.cz/tsd2000/

TSD Series 
TSD series evolved as a prime forum for interaction between researchers in
both
spoken and written language processing from the former East Block countries
and
their Western colleagues.

Proceedings of TSD form a book (currently published by Springer-Verlag in
their
Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence series). 

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

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

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE 
Bartek Ludek, Batusek Robert, Gaura Pavel, Horak Ales,
Komarkova Dana (secretary), Kopecek Ivan (co-chair), 
Matousek Vaclav, Nygryn Pavel, Pala Karel (co-chair),
Sedlacek Radek, Smrz Pavel, Sojka Petr, Staudek Jan,
Veber Marek, Zackova Eva, Zizka Jan 

FORMAT OF THE WORKSHOP 
TSD 2000 is an international workshop with a limited number of participants
and
priority given to the active participants. The workshop program will include
oral presentations and a poster/demonstration sessions with sufficient time
for
discussions of the issues raised. The program will also involve short
communications, reports about ongoing projects and industrial presentations.
The latter types of contributions will not appear in the proceedings and the
deadline for their submission will be announced later. 

Social events including a trip in the vicinity of Brno will allow for
additional informal interactions. 

TSD 2000 is supported by International Speech Communication Association
(ISCA).
The organizing committee is applying for a grant from the European Committee
(High Level Scientific Conference). If the application is successful the
organizing committee would subsidize young researchers and participants from
East Europe significantly. 

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

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

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

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

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

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III.B.4.
Fr: Joan K. Lippincott <joan@cni.org> 
Re: NERCOMP / ITC 2000 Conference

"Technology and Renewal: Creating and Supporting the Learning Place"
The New England Regional Computing Program (NERCOMP) (An EDUCAUSE Affiliate) 
http://www.educause.edu/nercomp/

NERCOMP is higher education's premier New England regional conference focusing
on information technology. The conference includes corporate partners and
product exhibits, and it takes place March 19-21, 2000, in Sturbridge,
Massachusetts.

New this year, the fourth annual University of Massachusetts Instructional
Technology Conference 2000 will be held on Tuesday, March 21, in conjunction
with the NERCOMP conference. ITC 2000 will feature more than 100 UMass
faculty,
staff, and students demonstrating uses of technology to enhance teaching and
learning. Best of all, participants can attend both UMass and NERCOMP sessions
for the price of a single conference. 

The NERCOMP / ITC 2000 conference brings together a national audience to meet
in one of New England's most charming locations to discuss the impact of
information technology on higher education. The program includes preconference
seminars, general session speakers, and dozens of presentations on today's
most
pressing information technology issues. To top it all off, corporate
representatives will be there to share their expertise on the latest hardware,
software, and services. Here's a sample of what you can expect:

GENERAL SESSION SPEAKERS
Richard Katz, Vice President, EDUCAUSE 
TOPIC: "Dancing with the Devil: Information Technology and the New 
Competition in Higher Education"
Mark C. Taylor, Cofounder of the Global Education Network and Professor of
Humanities, Williams College 
TOPIC: "Useful Devils"

PRECONFERENCE SEMINARS 
Both preconference seminars are Sunday, March 19, 1:00 p.m.- 4:30 p.m. 
(Separate registration and fee required for preconference seminars.)

Seminar 1 
"Evaluating Performance: Strategies for a Technology-Enhanced Learning 
Environment" 
Karen L. Smith, Director, Faculty Center for Teaching and Learning, University
of Central Florida

This workshop explores two issues associated with using technology
enhancements
to add value and opportunity to higher education. The first issue involves
strategies for using technology to help students employ their personal
learning
styles and learn to use new ones. The second issue involves strategies for
evaluating student performance in interactive learning environments. 

Seminar 2 
"IT Customer Service Skill and Competency Program" 
Catherine L. Lilly, Customer Services Manager, ITD ITCom 
University of Michigan-Ann Arbor

Explore how a customer service skill and competency development program can
increase job satisfaction for staff and managers in your organization. Learn
about what the University of Michigan is doing to train staff in customer
service interaction, process, systems, and teamwork skills, and how such a
program helps staff and managers cope with escalating demands in a diverse
service environment. 

CONCURRENT SESSIONS 
This part of the program continues to grow, but so far the lineup of topics
for
the 2000 conference includes:
-- Authentication/authorization issues 
-- Learning disabilities and the use of technology 
-- Historical material in the electronic environment 
-- Instructional technology 
-- Libraries and technologies 
-- Wireless network technology 
-- Evaluating Web courses 
-- Survey report of IT trends, literacy, and library trends 
-- Getting the most from your student service portal 
-- Teaching with technology from the student perspective 
-- Distance education and the law 
-- Distributed learning technologies 
-- Using the Web to enhance interactivity and communication
Visit the Web site for more information on these sessions and for program
updates. 

CORPORATE PARTICIPATION 
Don't forget, the conference also has an exhibit area where you can meet with
corporate representatives to discuss problems, solutions, and techniques; and
learn about the latest hardware, software, and services. We have already sold
all of our exhibit space, which means you have the opportunity to meet with 40
of the top information technology companies. Details are available on the Web
site under Corporate Participation. 

WEB AND REGISTRATION INFORMATION 
The conference schedule, fee and hotel information, online registration, and
information on corporate participation can be found at: 
http://www.educause.edu/nercomp/

Registration forms are also available by either fax or mail. Please contact us
at: 
nercomp@educause.edu 
303-449-4430 (voice) 
303-440-0461 (fax)

We look forward to seeing you in Sturbridge, and we would appreciate it if you
would pass this information along to others who might be interested in the
conference. 

NERCOMP, an EDUCAUSE affiliate, is a regional association dedicated to
enhancing the dissemination of information on the use and management of
computers, networks, telecommunications, and information technology in
education, academic research, and administration.

EDUCAUSE is an international nonprofit association dedicated to helping shape
and enable transformational change in higher education through the
introduction, use, and management of information resources and technologies in
teaching, learning, scholarship, research, and institutional management.

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III.C.1.
Fr: Clifford Lynch <cliff@cni.org> 
Re: Titanic 2020 Paper  

This paper, which is described by the press release below (it also has a URL
for the PDF of the complete paper) contains some interesting numbers and
observations and may be of interest to those concerned with electronic records
and archiving. My thanks to Rodney Petersen of the University of Maryland for
bringing it to my attention. 

http://www.censa.org/html/Press-Releases/Titanic2020.htm

Clifford Lynch 
Director, CNI

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III.C.2.
Fr: Clifford Lynch <cliff@cni.org> 
Re: Report on Database Protection from National Academies 

Some readers may be interested in the recent report from the National Research
Council titled "A Question of Balance: Private Rights and the Public Interest
in Scientific And Technical Databases". This report, which builds on earlier
work such as the 1997 "Bits of Power" report from the NRC and complements the
study "The Digital Dilemma: Intellectual Property in the Information Age"
(which deals primarily with copyright). The report is, or shortly will be,
available at www.nap.edu, and is also available in hardcopy for purchase from
National Academies Press. The report is also supplemented by a separate report
of a workshop that was held as part of the development of "A Question of
Balance", and my understanding is that the workshop report will be available
ONLY online at <http://www.nap.edu/>. 

Clifford Lynch 
Director, CNI

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III.C.3.
Fr: Joan K. Lippincott <joan@cni.org> 
Re: Electronic Records Presentations 

Press Release 
For Immediate Release
Contact: Rob Spindler 
University Archivist 
Department of Archives and Manuscripts 
Arizona State University Libraries 
Tempe AZ 85287-1006 
(480-965-9277) fax (480-965-9277) 
Robert.Spindler@asu.edu

Electronic Records Conference Presentations Available

Tempe, AZ -- This week Arizona State University officials announced that
presentations from the "Preservation and Access for Electronic University
Records" conference are now available to the public on the internet. The
conference hosted by Arizona State in October featured presentations by
seventeen experts regarding management of electronic records, courseware and
research products created at colleges and universities. Experts included
archivists, technology professionals, attorneys, university registrars and
librarians from ten universities across the nation. Presentation notes or
resource lists from thirteen sessions are available for viewing and
downloading. The topics addressed include records management for electronic
courseware, metadata, collaborative enterprise system design issues and web
page preservation. "Since this was the first conference concentrating on
university electronic records issues and given the diverse professional
backgrounds of our speakers we felt it was important to make these
presentations widely available," said conference co-chair Rob Spindler. The
presentations are available at <http://www.asu.edu/it/events/ecure/>.

Conference officials at Arizona State are already planning for another
conference entitled ECURE 2000: Preservation and Access for Electronic College
and University Records, to be held in Tempe, Arizona on October 12-13, 2000.
Details for ECURE 2000 will also be made available at the website address
above.

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